I don't think you need to get rid of the earlier incarnation of the project. As per the ASF legal documentation, we need to make sure that the copyright holders sign either CLAs or software grants:
https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works/legal.html <https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works/legal.html> This incubator document also talks about the initial code import: https://incubator.apache.org/guides/transitioning_asf.html <https://incubator.apache.org/guides/transitioning_asf.html> Finally, as an example, we still have the zookeeper code in sourceforge from before Apache, and I don't that's wrong: https://sourceforge.net/p/zookeeper/code/ <https://sourceforge.net/p/zookeeper/code/> -Flavio > On 10 Dec 2019, at 16:50, Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I think we need to ask our mentors what is the generally accepted >> thing to do with the project's earlier incarnation. > > 100% agreed. We need guidance. > >