Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > > 2) Suppose I write 50K lines of code and it lives on sourceforge for a > > year. Maven takes a liking to it and I contribute it (and in the > > process am made a committer). Clearly a software grant is required, but > > is a PPMC needed or does the incubator need to be involved?
> If the code will go in a subproject of Maven with mostly existing > committers, a PPMC is not needed. > In essence, a PPMC is needed for new communities made of new committers, > not for new codebases per se. I had to re-read your message a few times to see why I thought I disagreed with you, but I think I see it, and we don't disagree. You are not saying that the Incubator doesn't have an obligation with respect to the codebase, just that there isn't a community to incubate. As I understand it, any externally developed codebase needs to go through the Incubator, although if the situation is as you describe, hopefully it would exit quickly, too. There would be a software grant, but we need to make sure that (for example) it doesn't have IP issues related to code that it uses. That seems to be the same as your comment: > My first guess is that we should simply set up a page for code grants as > we do for incubating projects, and a directory to store the grant stuff. > PMC chairs would simply track the status of the donation there. I don't believe that we need a special case of this situation. If there is no new community, the PPMC would simply be the two PMCs. The community issues are considered finished, and only the codebase issues need to be resolved. I feel that we do need to more clearly identify a list of ourstanding issues needing to be cleared for each project to exit. The new STATUS page should help. I've no clue what issues are outstanding for Lenya, even looking at the current STATUS page for Lenya (http://incubator.apache.org/projects/lenya.html). --- Noel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
