Hi Guochen, It is not a prerequisite if the project has already established a good open source community, but it is better usually.
A good open source community will help the project find champion and mentors more easier and may reduce the incubation duration. ------------------ Liang Zhang (John) Apache ShardingSphere & Dubbo Sheng Wu <wu.sheng.841...@gmail.com> 于2020年3月4日周三 下午5:29写道: > Hi Guochen > Answer inline. > > > <zhangguoc...@chinatelecom.cn> 于2020年3月4日周三 下午5:16写道: > > > Hi, all, > > > > I am a new man here. Nice to see you. > > > > We are China Telecom Corporation Limited Cloud Computing Branch > > Corporation. We hope to contribute one of our projects name 'HBlock' to > > Apache. > > Now we hope to get into the incubation steps. > > > > We have prepare a proposal for this project, and before we propose it to > > the this mailing list, would you please let me know: > > 1. How long usually it takes from we propose it to the vote step? > > > > Vote process usually started by your mentor or champion, which should be an > incubator PMC member. > > > > 2. During this process, do we need to provide any source code relate to > > the project? > > > > Usually yes, could you explain a little about the context of this question? > In the incubator, we usually expect at least a small community established > already. So if there is not open source yet, then all members should only > come from your company internal. The IPMC and potential mentors only could > read your proposal. > > > > 3. During this process, do we need to add more members of this project to > > this mail list to answer questions from the incubator professors or only > an > > interface person is enough? > > > > Before the vote, that is up to you. But during the incubating(if vote > pass), discussion and decision should be made in the mail list, your > project ml mostly. > > > > > Sheng Wu 吴晟 > Twitter, wusheng1108 > > > > > > Best wishes. > > Guochen. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > >