On 07.06.2005, at 22:48, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
Demo? Technology preview? Milestone? Happy Meal?Look, maybe this is hard to understand, especially if people are coming from an enviroment focused on code quality first, but this isn't about the state of the code. It is about the state of the community. We had a lot of long discussions regarding allowing any releases at all from the Incubator, and it is entirely intentional and deliberate that projects in the Incubator are not permitted to make anything that smells like an official release. The fact that they can make any release at all is out of recognition that some limited releases may help with community growth, but it also remains that we do not want users to depend on projects that are still in the Incubator. Now that may seem a self-contradictory statement, but the community we wantfocused on are other developers, not users.Nor we we want projects to be overly comfortable with a nice long stay. We want projects to be serious about getting out of the Incubator from the time that they get into it. If this were to mean that projects would start to put more emphasis on commmunity development than on their code "just" sothat they can get out of the Incubator and make releases ... EXACTLY!Again, our emphasis is on a healthy developer communities that can be reliedupon to be self-sustaining and follow ASF practices for many years.
Amen - can someone with karma for the incubator site please add this to the relevant section? I think this sums it up pretty nicely.
Just my 2c... Cheers, Erik
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