Removed discursive material repeated elsewhere from policy
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Key: INCUBATOR-36
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-36
Project: Incubator
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: site
Reporter: Robert Burrell Donkin
Assigned To: Robert Burrell Donkin
This patch remove quite a quantity of discursive material from policy which is
already covered in roles.
Index: site-author/incubation/Incubation_Policy.xml
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--- site-author/incubation/Incubation_Policy.xml (revision 423542)
+++ site-author/incubation/Incubation_Policy.xml (working copy)
@@ -225,23 +225,13 @@
<li>be nominated for incubation by a member of the Apache Software
Foundation ("The Champion"); and
</li>
- <li>be approved by a Sponsor.
+ <li>be approved by a <a href='#Sponsor'>Sponsor</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<p>Approval by a Sponsor will generally occur only after a vote within
the Entity, and will require that the Entity be convinced that the
-Candidate is appropriate for Incubation. A Sponsor may be one of:
+Candidate is appropriate for Incubation.
</p>
- <ul>
- <li>the Board of the Apache Software Foundation;
-</li>
- <li>a Top Level Project (TLP) within the Apache Software Foundation
-(where the TLP considers the Candidate to be a suitable sub-project);
-or
-</li>
- <li>the Incubator PMC.
-</li>
- </ul>
<p>To start this process, a Candidate SHOULD submit a proposal to a
Sponsor. The Proposal SHOULD, at minimum, detail the following areas :
</p>
@@ -891,33 +881,23 @@
<section id="Sponsor">
<title>Sponsor
</title>
- <p>The Sponsor is the entity within the ASF that makes the
determination
-that a candidate would make a worthy addition to the ASF, and agrees
-to take on the candidate in question (or in the case of the Incubator
-PMC, assist it in finding a home) should it complete the incubation
-process.
+<p>
+A Sponsor SHALL be either:
</p>
- <p>A Sponsor will be one of:
-</p>
<ul>
- <li>The Board of the Apache Software Foundation. In this case, it is
-expected that the candidate would become a TLP on successful
-completion of Incubation.
+ <li>the Board of the Apache Software Foundation;
</li>
- <li>A Top Level Project within the ASF. In this case, the project in
-question has agreed that the candidate is a good fit for their
-project, and will take on the candidate as a sub-project upon
-successful completion of Incubation.
+ <li>a Top Level Project (TLP) within the Apache Software Foundation
+(where the TLP considers the Candidate to be a suitable sub-project);
+or
</li>
- <li>The Incubator PMC. In this case, the Incubator PMC agrees that
the
-project in question will make a good addition to the ASF, but there
-is no clear "owner" of the candidate should it successfully complete
-incubation. An incubation exit requirement for such candidates will
-be the identification (and successfuly lobbying) of an "owner" entity
-- either the board (and the candidate will be a TLP) or another
-project.
+ <li>the Incubator PMC.
</li>
</ul>
+ <p>
+This role and it's responsibilities are discussed
+<a href='/incubator/Roles_and_Responsibilities.html#Sponsor'>here</a>.
+ </p>
</section>
<section id="Mentor">
<title>Mentor
Index: site-author/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.xml
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--- site-author/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.xml (revision
423542)
+++ site-author/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.xml (working copy)
@@ -151,7 +151,8 @@
<section id="Sponsor">
<title>Sponsor
</title>
- <p>The Sponsor is the entity within the ASF that makes the
determination
+ <p>The Sponsor [<a
href='/incubation/Incubator_Policy.html#Sponsor'>definition</a>]
+is the entity within the ASF that makes the determination
that a candidate would make a worthy addition to the ASF, and agrees
to take on the candidate in question (or in the case of the Incubator
PMC, assist it in finding a home) should it complete the incubation
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