On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 07:42 +0200, Bernd Fondermann wrote: > 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.
Yeah, this how I understand them as well. > 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. Actually not having to go through incubation will save quite a lot of time and energies. I see your and Grant point however we would need to specify our bylaws. ... > >> 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. Yeah, I would like to hear the opinion of Stefano especially and the people that created the bylaws to start with. > > 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! Doing some marketing of droids to get some fresh blood is the most important thing ATM independent from incubation or not. Thanks for your feedback. salu2 -- Thorsten Scherler thorsten.at.apache.org Open Source Java consulting, training and solutions --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
