On Fri 20 Feb 2009 20:01, Robert Burrell Donkin <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> Honestly, I'm not sure if there's a good solution for something that's
>> bigger than labs, but likely never large enough to escape the
>> incubator. Of course, some TLPs are pretty small, so really as long as
>> there were three committers / members interested in taking something
>> from labs to TLP, incubation should be pretty straight forward.
>
> Incubation relies in a credible exit strategy. Projects which are tiny
> cannot graduate without a suitable TLP to act as a home.
>
> For example, RAT had a useful codebase, enthusiastic mentors and was
> staffed by all old Apache hands. Incubation has just about killed the
> project since the code is mature but there's no suitable TLP for
> graduation into.
Why not take RAT to a TLP then?
If it's big enough to need "releases" then it's big enough for a TLP.
If you can't find three committers willing to help out, then it's not
big enough to need releases. If people complain about no releases,
invite them as committers to an incubator project. You only need three
people and if those three are already apache committers then incubation
should be short and effectively a mere formality while the TLP is setup.
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