On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> First of all, we are in the process of deciding and clearly documenting
> that only TLPs are to be incubated. Why? Because in Apache there are
> only TLPs. Thus, Ruper is incubated on the premises that it wants to
> become a TLP for artifact handling.
Are you "in the process of deciding", or is this a decision? Where is the
decision being made?
I don't feel strongly pro or con, but if this is the case, then don't be
surprised if the amount of confusion about "when should some non-trivial
amount of code coming into the ASF go through the incubator?" increases.
Many of the edge cases I've seen discussed (such as Wagon) have been
natural extensions of or adjuncts to products released by an existing TLP.
Often it'll even be a proposal for a next-dot-oh of an existing release.
Or another module for Apache httpd written by a company interested in
donating it to the httpd project for inclusion into the core or as part of
a contrib-modules release by the httpd project. So this could have a
chilling effect on existing TLPs when confronted with the question,
"has this contribution surpassed a threshold and should be sent through
the incubator?".
I don't think you're going to see the board mandate that each TLP have
only one product. A single "community" can easily manage/oversee the
release of multiple products.
Brian
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