Sanjiva, Yep. That is the role of a mentor to guide the new project and "build meaningful ties". Do you want to sign up? :)
thanks, dims On 5/23/05, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 20:05 +1000, Berin Lautenbach wrote: > > > - If yes, I am concerned having a permanent split is not the most > > > healthy thing for the Apache developer community. > > > > Is there anything intrinsically wrong with a different implementation of > > the same stuff in the ASF? > > At the core of that question, of course not. > > > One of the things that *might* be interesting, would be to look at each > > component and see where we can merge things together to come up with an > > even better whole. > > This is a tautological kind of position that I possibly cannot argue > against :-). > > However ... > > *If* there was some cross participation in the projects of the people > coming in, then I agree this would be the expected outcome. However, > when you take an existing, active, Apache project (area) and inject a > brand new parallel path with two committers who appear to be new to > Apache and have no experience in the Apache codebase(s) (of necessity as > they had to do a cleanroom impl for their org I'll bet), then IMO its > not a healthy thing for our community. > > I guess it depends on how you define community - to me its *first* the > current community and 2nd the people injecting some code into ASF. > > I would prefer to see us put a requirement that during incubation the > project must build meaningful ties into the other WS projects - via > cross committers and interdependency. That requires the marriage that > you envision (and which I, of course, agree with) to occur before the > project can be considered to have passed incubation. > > Sanjiva. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
