Speaking as a member of the Commons PMC, though not for the ENTIRE PMC:  given 
the comparisons between robust-task and [chain], maybe this could be a seed for 
a [chain] rewrite/2.0 .  Then you'd still have the question of sandbox grant 
vs. incubation; the problem with the sandbox grant AIUI is that as a 
non-ASF-committer Min would be "reduced" to the status of a community member, 
no longer able to make commits directly on the code.  Further, this would 
require that some existing Apache committer(s) be willing to take 
responsibility for the sandbox component and commit (Min's or others') 
submitted patches.  With the incubation route, Min would become a podling 
committer.  While I would think there would be a fair chance that Commons would 
be willing to sign on as sponsoring PMC, I am unaware of any previous podlings 
that have graduated to Commons.  Commons being a bit of a special case as TLPs 
go, the exit criteria for a podling into Commons are less than
 clear.  With this in mind myself and Henri Yandell quite some time ago worked 
up a proposal for a Commons mini-incubator but received little (actually "no" 
IIRC) feedback.

Food for thought anyway.

-Matt

--- On Sat, 3/21/09, Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org> wrote:

> From: Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org>
> Subject: Re: Robust-Task introduction
> To: gene...@incubator.apache.org
> Cc: dev@commons.apache.org
> Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 4:23 AM
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Min
> Cha <minslo...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I wonder whether I am understanding a message from
> you.
> > Do you think this project should or can be a component
> in Commons?
> 
> Could become...
> 
> > If so,  I would like to know how to be a component in
> Commons.
> 
> Well, it depends. The Commons community could either go
> for
> Incubation, in which case it is about getting a community
> built up
> with the codebase. I suspect that the codebase is too small
> for
> Incubation, and Commons should do a "Software Grant" and
> import the
> codebase into their existing community. Now, it is up to
> 'them' how
> they want to proceed. I am skeptical to incubation to grow
> community,
> but no problem to see a them take the library in via a
> Software Grant.
> 
> Cheers
> Niclas
> -- 
> http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java
> 
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