Re: monitoring the sandbox [WAS Re: License and copyright issues]

2002-10-22 Thread Steve Downey
Depends what the problem is. And, apparently, the 'problem' wasn't in commons, or commons-sandbox, but in avalon. However, I gathered that part of the problem was code hosted by Apache that wasn't formally adopted by Apache. If that's the case, leaving projects in sandbox for long periods of ti

Re: monitoring the sandbox [WAS Re: License and copyright issues]

2002-10-22 Thread Michael A. Smith
Steve Downey wrote: What about an automatic sunset on sandbox code? 3 months after initial commit it's either voted in as a project somewhere, or removed? 3 months of inactivity maybe, not 3 months from initial commit. Some code bases may require a long time to generate the necessary communit

Re: monitoring the sandbox [WAS Re: License and copyright issues]

2002-10-22 Thread Stephen Colebourne
> i think that we in the commons needs to take the supervision of the > sandbox more seriously. since it's part of our subproject, we need to take > responsibility for the contents of the sandbox and ensure that this > facility is used correctly. > > (if we could get the volunteers) one way we coul

RE: monitoring the sandbox [WAS Re: License and copyright issues]

2002-10-22 Thread Scott Sanders
> > Big +1. Until the members to committers ratio can improve, > the only > > way > > to pick up the slack is for EVERYONE to be watching out for > this type of > > thing. > > +1 > > i think that we in the commons needs to take the supervision of the > sandbox more seriously. since it's par