You might want to broach your idea here first. If it is appropriate for commons than we would likely sponsor the proposal.
Ralph On Apr 1, 2012, at 8:09 AM, Tom Everett wrote: > ok, cool, thanks. Having looked at the incubator, I'm happy to jump in > there. > > > On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Luc Maisonobe <l...@spaceroots.org> wrote: > >> Le 01/04/2012 10:04, Luc Maisonobe a écrit : >>> Hi Tom, >>> >>> Le 01/04/2012 02:53, Tom Everett a écrit : >>>> Good afternoon everyone. >>>> >>>> Could someone point me to the process or documentation for proposing and >>>> contributing a new project to the Apache Commons? >>> >>> Well, I think simply discussing the project on the dev list is almost >>> enough. Projects usually start in our sandbox, then get promoted to >>> proper once they have reached some maturity and have some community >> around. >>> >>> Starting something in the sandbow is open to Apache Commons committers, >>> and needs some discussion on the list for non-committers. In the later >>> case, we can grant sandbox-only write access to new contributors by >>> voting them in. When the project is promoted to proper, chances are that >>> the sandbox-only committers will be promoted to commons committers too >> ;-) >> >> Some PMC pointed out to me that the former is incomplete. >> If the code and the people come from outside the foundation, then >> instead of our own Apache Commons Sandbox, the code should go through >> the general Apache Incubator <http://incubator.apache.org/>. >> >> Luc >> >>> >>> Luc >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 >> >> > > > -- > A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding - Douglas > MacArthur --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
