On Wednesday, August 31, 2011, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 August 2011 17:44, Mladen Turk <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 08/30/2011 05:52 PM, Graham Leggett wrote: >>> >>> On 30 Aug 2011, at 5:49 PM, Mladen Turk wrote: >>> >>>> Make sure lab projects can make releases. >>>> The reason for no releases policy is a mystery to me and >>>> it actually forced me to move one of my projects from >>>> labs to sourceforge. >>> >>> The reason for "no releases" is that if you want to make releases, you >>> should be in the incubator. >>> >> >> And for the incubator you need a community > > No you don't. You need mentors and a champion (shouldn't be hard for > anyone who is already an ASF committer). You need a desire to build > community. You do not need a community, the incubator is there to > incubate community, not code: > > "The Apache Incubator has two primary goals: > > Ensure all donations are in accordance with the ASF legal standards > Develop new communities that adhere to our guiding principles" >
Although, to be honest, no-community proposals have been turned down in the past. Bernd
