Thanks for the good suggestion, Bertrand. I've included your paragraph in the background section of the proposal.
.. Owen On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Owen O'Malley <omal...@apache.org> wrote: > > ...To avoid forking communities, you need to either have: > > * the community wants to move to Apache > > * the community is dead or inactive > > > > There is a pretty compelling evidence that OpenSOC is currently > inactive... > > Ok, fair enough. > > I suggest that you add a more explicit statement about this to the > proposal, that can be useful for future similar cases. Maybe something > like > > "In general Apache accepts only voluntary contributions and avoids > hostile forks. In this case, given that the community is demonstrably > dead, it seems fair to fork the existing code at Apache to allow a new > community to work on it. Once incubation starts, we will send a > message pointing to the new home to the OpenSOC support group". > > Which might overlap with existing text but looks more reusable to me. > > -Bertrand > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
