On 24 Jun 2014, at 21:27, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: >>> On 24 Jun 2014, at 7:24, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >>> That said, reminding people of the "release often and early" thing is >>> good to do, >>> but also have in mind that incubator releases are very difficult to >>> make. >> >> Unlike Christian (another Wave mentor :-) ), I am generally in support >> of this proposal. If a project cannot get a release out, then it >> suggests insufficient weight behind it. Releasing software is what the >> ASF is about. It is acceptable that a mature ASF project, one that is >> code-complete, doesn't release regularly, but an incubator project would >> not fall into that camp, therefore being able to say "we can muster the >> resources to make a 'legally valid release' within a year seems >> eminently reasonable to me. >> > > https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/an_apache_openoffice_timeline > > In total, from entering incubation to first release was 11 months and > a week. So this confirms that a year, for most projects should be > sufficient. But there could be exceptions, due to factors similar to > those I listed above. But such exceptions should be rare.
Indeed the OOo was an impressive amount of work. Reading comments from Upayavira and Rob, I am willing to support the "relaxed" proposal of Roman. I would prefer mine, but we can always do modifications as we see fit. As it seems i was the only sceptic, we can try to formulate a patch for our policies. Thanks! Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
