On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) <ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > I don't see how this is any different from any other project. The initial > contributors will work on it to > satisfy their needs. If organization X wants to use it they can contribute > code to generalize the > software and make it useful to their use case. As long as it doesn't break > things for other > users we would expect such a contribution to be accepted.
It is different in the likelihood of applicability. *In my opinion*, the likelihood of the following statement being true "organization X wants to use it" (where X != ASF) is small enough for me to bother with asking the question. That said, we're discussing hypotheticals here. Both viewpoints are pure opinions. You offered yours, I offered mine. In case you're curious -- I'd ask the same question, for example, about a community that decided to produce software that is be only applicable as an add-on for a small market share commercial offering. > There are plenty such potential contributors. Whether any of them will care > we don't know, but > making it a TLP increases the chances. Isn't that what we do here? No. We will make Whimsy a TLP because we feel like it is a useful community for us. Same way that IPMC or ComDev are, strictly speaking, TLPs. It would make no sense for ComDev to go through the incubation. Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
