Greg Stein wrote: ...
Just read the first part of the Board resolution which established the Incubator:
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
It says we must help each new product. It seems to me that it talks about each new software artifact, ie each new distribution.
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.
It does not talk about putting in an existing PMC.
But wait, here is more:
RESOLVED, that the Apache Incubator PMC is responsible for
regularly evaluating products under its purview and making the
determination in each case of whether the product should be
abandoned, continue to receive guidance and support, or
proposed to the board for promotion to full project status as
part of an existing or new Foundation PMC; aIn particular:
"full project status as part of an existing ... PMC"
This seems to mean that also "subprojects" should be incubated, contrary to what is porposed with this vote.
Individual PMCs should be *very* wary about bringing in code to the ASF. There is a grey area between "a hunk of code" and a new "product" (that term was used to differentiate between "project" as in PMC). If a PMC brings in a product without going through the Incubator, then they are not abiding by the wishes of the Board [defined by the construction of the Incubator project].
Ok, then the PPMCs should be established also for "subprojects" that will be in an existing PMC.
Question: doesn't this go contrary to wanting 1Project == 1PMC?
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