On 12/19/11 12:52 AM, Phil Steitz wrote: > On 12/19/11 12:35 AM, Simone Tripodi wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Luc Maisonobe <luc.maison...@free.fr> wrote: >>> Le 18/12/2011 23:10, James Carman a écrit : >>>> My concern is that the momentum dies off after we get it in proper and then >>>> we have to demote it later. >>> I don't see any problem with this. For now the component seems to have a >>> community, hence it is worht promoting it (this is a +1 from me). If >>> later on the community fades away, then the component will move away, >>> it's OK. >>> >> Indeed, thanks Luc, I don't see either what the issue is on managing >> components lifecycle - if people lost interest on it, just open a new >> vote to move it back to dormant. > Technically, I don't think we ever agreed to change the lifecycle to > allow components to go from proper to dormant. Dead proper > components go to the Attic. We talked about extending the dormant > category to include the various zombies that we still have listed as > proper, but did not agree on it [1]. As of now, dormant only > applies to sandbox components and we should not promote things that > are likely to go dormant. The sandbox exists to allow us to > experiment with things and try to grow a community around ideas. > When we graduate something, we should be confident that it is going > to become an active Commons component; otherwise it should stay in > the sandbox. I don't buy the argument that being in the sandbox > somehow limits "visibility." The sandbox is actually easier for > non-Commons committers to get access to and has just as much > "visibility" as proper among the Commons community. The only > constraint is that you can't cut releases from the sandbox; but that > is not an issue in this case. > > Phil
Oops, forgot the link: [1] http://markmail.org/message/anjdpx2s2cyojc65 >> we can bee conservative but dynamic at the same time. >> >> http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ >> http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ >> http://twitter.com/simonetripodi >> http://www.99soft.org/ >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
