On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 22:40, Thorsten Scherler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 16:16 -0400, Grant Ingersoll wrote: >> BTW, why do you need to go through incubation? > > http://labs.apache.org/bylaws.html > > "... > Lab Lifecycle > ... > Promoted > Lab started incubation. When a lab is promoted, the files are moved over > to the incubation area. > > >> All the code was >> developed in the ASF. It's ASL. You already have a home designated >> for it. Seems like incubation can be skipped.
No Lab can go into a project without going through the incubator. That's how I read "Guidelines Rationale" of the bylaws. This is certainly the case when a Labs wants to go TLP. If the very same incubation process is needed for full blown TLP candidates _and_ for small codebases going to be absorbed into existing projects, I don't know. There are no precursors for this process. > I quote above document: > "...The Apache Software Foundation is well known for its motto community > is more important than code and has designed its incubation facilities > accordingly." > > The idea of the incubator is to grow a healthy apache community that can > assure the long run health of the project. > > Droids does not have an active community around it yet. We have some > interest and some people providing patches but not an active community > yet. That is why I agree the best is to go to incubation to build a > community that share the ideas of droids. > >> Heck, if you want, we >> could make it a Lucene Java contrib project and make you a committer. >> Just create a patch and submit it to JIRA. Or, we could discuss w/ >> the Lucene PMC about making it a subproject. Or, just say the same >> thing to HttpComponents. I don't see why it needs to go into Incubator. > > As a sub-project you need to go as well through incubation. Solr, Nutch > and many more has been in incubation (see > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/) That's particulary true for projects going to TLP or coming from outside the ASF with a large codebase. I don't know what others think, but I could imaging small, dedicated labs going more or less directly to other projects as sub-projects. > The important thing right now for droids is to get people interested and > committed. Thanks for your feedback and your interest. If you think I > should announce Droids to the lucene lists because people are interested > I certainly can do this. +1, spread the word! Bernd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
