[DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-17 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, Here's an attempt to summarize our recent discussions, and suggest some actions. Comments are welcome, of course. 1) We need better tools for Incubator PMC members to measure the community diversity of incubating projects, especially before graduation. Suggestion: -Require a "community diver

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-17 Thread Eelco Hillenius
> 3) Limit the number of new non-ASF initial committers for incubating projects > People who were not ASF committers but come in via a newly incubating > project do not get their commit rights via the normal ASF meritocracy > rules. > > We might want to limit the number of such commiters, to limit

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-17 Thread Lawrence Mandel
I'd like to echo Eelco's comments in their entirety replacing Wicket with Woden. And, I'd like to add that I think 3 would significantly limit the number of new projects entering the incubator. Lawrence "Eelco Hillenius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/17/2007 08:43 PM Please respond to general@inc

Re: Apache SW Grant in other languages?

2007-11-17 Thread Roland Weber
Hello Janne, > One of my contributors is asking if either the CLA or the Software Grant > are available in other languages than English (French, Dutch or German > preferred). That kind of question would better be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I cannot imagine that you will find any authoritative tra