On Wednesday, March 16, 2005 8:05 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > If an existing TLP, such as Lucene, wants to develop a port, such > > as a Ruby port of the Lucene library, can the Lucene PMC invite > > that port and its developers under its wings directly > > > this port is not an existing external project, but a brand new port > > that would be developed under Lucene from scratch by a group of 4-5 > > developers. > > If you are developing this within the TLP in ASF resources (our > mailing lists, source control, etc.), you do not come through the > Incubator. And if you are just talking about adding new Committers > to an existing community, you don't need to come through the > Incubator. One can see that grey areas could exist. It seems to me > that it depends on whether you are creating a new community or are > integrating new people into an existing one.
I agree with everything Noel said, but I'll take a shot at further defining the grey area. If the port is being written by an entirely new set of committers, without whom the port could not developed/maintained, I would think the subproject should come through the incubator. Cliff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
