I concur with Andrzej. Let's see that VOTE Ted! Otis ---- Performance Monitoring for Solr / ElasticSearch / HBase - http://sematext.com/spm
>________________________________ > From: Andrzej Bialecki <a...@getopt.org> >To: general@incubator.apache.org >Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2012 5:51 PM >Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Drill for the Apache Incubator > >On 07/08/2012 21:14, Franklin, Matthew B. wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Marvin Humphrey [mailto:mar...@rectangular.com] >>> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 12:25 PM >>> To: general@incubator.apache.org >>> Cc: Grant Ingersoll; Isabel Drost >>> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Drill for the Apache Incubator >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Initial Source >>>> ============== >>>> There is no initial source code. All source code will be developed within >>>> the Apache Incubator. >>> >>> Coming in without any source code is going to pose a challenge to this >>> podling. >>> >>> http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#incubator >>> >>> The incubator filters projects on the basis of the likeliness of >>> them becoming >>> successful meritocratic communities. The basic requirements for >>>incubation >>> are: >>> >>> * a working codebase -- over the years and after several failures, >>>the >>> foundation came to understand that without an initial working >>> codebase, it is generally hard to bootstrap a community. This is >>> because merit is not well recognized by developers without a >>>working >>> codebase. Also, the friction that is developed during the initial >>> design stage is likely to fragment the community. >> >> It seems like there could be flexibility in this requirement, based on a few >> factors. In this case, a design discussion has been ongoing; but I would >> also think that any community coming in with enough people who know the >> Apache way may also not need as much of a solid starting point code wise. > >+1. Given the credentials and the experience of proposed committers and >mentors, and the fact that the initial design is already done, I don't >think this is a serious risk. And it's an exciting proposal with a >potentially big impact. > >-- >Best regards, >Andrzej Bialecki >http://www.sigram.com, blog http://www.sigram.com/blog > ___.,___,___,___,_._. __________________<><____________________ >[___||.__|__/|__||\/|: Information Retrieval, System Integration >___|||__||..\|..||..|: Contact: info at sigram dot com > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > >
