Re: Project reboot proposals - any guidance?

2013-10-26 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Nick, I did a somewhat cursory review of the 10 years of emails in the XML Beans archives and have some definite ideas about governance. I don't think that they are for discussion yet - it will be up to the podling community. Regards, Dave On Oct 24, 2013, at 8:26 AM, Nick Burch wrote:

Project reboot proposals - any guidance?

2013-10-24 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All I'm currently helping the XMLBeans community put together a proposal to reboot their project, which is otherwise destined for the attic. However, while I've helped a few new projects enter the incubator in the past, I've never tried helping with a reboot. As such, I'm not quite sure if

Re: Project reboot proposals - any guidance?

2013-10-24 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hey Nick I spoke with Tammo about this while we had a virtual coffee recently. However I don't know about similar cases so much. Basically I don't see lot of risk from a legal standpoint and would give my +1 quickly. But of course it would be interesting for me about the motivations. I mean,

Re: Project reboot proposals - any guidance?

2013-10-24 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Christian Grobmeier wrote: But of course it would be interesting for me about the motivations. I mean, the project was almost dead and now a few people want it to be revived. Why? Was the problem in the previous project to less interest? Problems in the community? The

Re: Project reboot proposals - any guidance?

2013-10-24 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Nick Burch apa...@gagravarr.org wrote: Do we have any guidance on what a reboot proposal should and shouldn't contain? Lucy was a reboot. It had withered as a subproject under the Lucene umbrella before coming to the Incubator. The parallels aren't exact, but