On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:31PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On 06/12/2014 07:56 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > > This is one of the questions, I'd like to explore in greater details: are > > we comfortable with having "professional student" projects in the > > incubator? > > In response to the general question, it seems that "professional > student" podlings are inconsistent with the idea that the Incubator is a > process that should result in graduation or termination. > > > In the case of Wave, it really strikes me as odd that the community is not > > capable of even a single release in more than 3.5 years: > > http://incubator.apache.org/wave/downloads.html > > > > This suggests that ASF is being used as a GitHub of sorts. Are we > > comfortable > > with this? > > Speaking for myself, no. I'd be uncomfortable having a specific deadline > for graduation, but a podling that's not making progress towards > graduation (in general, not pointing a finger specifically at Wave here) > should be terminated.
For what it worth, I think you're right: a permanent incubator project doesn't make sense. For once, there's a lot of people mechanics involved into podlings' mentoring, reporting, etc. And it doesn't feel exactly right to forever handhold something that doesn't have an intention to evolve. Cos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
