On 14 Jul 2004, at 16:58, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
One is an older one that
is not from a big company, and is seemingly and finally starting to get
squared away. The other one is a recent submission that more closely fits
your description, and concerns have been raised to the contributor about it.
This was a lovely discussion to read - unfortunately I wasn't able to participate due to intermittent, read-only mail access. Perhaps also a hint towards Brian's feelings about evolving discussion styles: could we name things here? I see reference to specific "projects" but cannot/don't want to name-guess.
For the record: I resonate with much of Brian's worries, unfortunately in real life all of this might boil down to case-by-case judgements by hopefully well-informed mentors or ASF peeps, rather than following a policy checklist that anyone can implement. And I think this is the gist of the Incubator: actual folks reasoning about case-by-case decisions as history unfolds.
And the fact that BigCo is discovering the need for an open source strategy, and regards the ASF as an ideal platform for this, will confront us with the need to have a good intersection of ASF folks dealing with incubation directly, rather than reasoning about incubation rules in general.
</Steven> -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source Java & XML An Orixo Member Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
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