Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
Stephen McConnell wrote:
Why are we discussing/considering the possibility of anything other than a TLP incubation? If a project is comming in as part of another project than an existing PMC is bringing it it in and doing so in accordance with the policies, procedures and due-diligence that have been granted under their respective charters. We may well be making a wopping big blunder here in that much of what we are discussing undermines the responsibilities already discharged to existing PMCs.
Instead, I propose that we re-focus our attention to role of the Incubator PMC as the adjunct to the board in dealing with new TLP candidates.
Read this [1] and you will have all the answers.
[1] http://incubator.apache.org/resolution.html
Nicola:
I'll draw your attention to the first paragraph of said charter:
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with accepting new products into the Foundation, providing guidance and support to help each new product engender their own collaborative community, educating new developers in the philosophy and guidelines for collaborative development as defined by the members of the Foundation, and proposing to the board the promotion of such products to independent PMC status once their community has reached maturity.
The phrase "independent PMC status" is pertinent. Reading on in the charter you will find wording that expands the above core, however the expansion is hard to rationalize beyond incorporation of "full projects" within umbrella PMCs. I think it is totally reasonable to assume project assimilation in not within the scope of the incubator. The difference between assimilation and what is describe in the charter is clear. The charter is dealing with the incorporation and development of identifiable communities that are expected to take on a role of autonomous decision making. Actions of assimilation do not lead to a new group identities or supplementary decision making groups.
What this means is that we are concerned with:
(a) TLP style exit (b) sub-project exit via an umbrella project
However - the word on the street is that (b) is bad thing. Which leaves (a).
Stephen.
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