On 8/31/05, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 11:01 -0700, Cliff Schmidt wrote: > > BTW, the XMLBeans PMC just voted to add a single member to the PMC, > > and even that required a 72-hour wait after getting Board > > acknowledgement (which is fine with me)....why should there be > > fewer checks to get an entire project approved? > > You're missing a key point: Incubation is supposed to be the *starting > point* for getting a project into the ASF. Graduation is the process for > getting it approved, not starting incubation. Are you seriously > suggesting that we change that?? If not IMO the checks need to be *while > incubating* and not prior to incubation, but YMMV.
My point is that the approval of a project for incubation has been proven many times to have PR impact and other ramifications (whether the ASF drafts or approves a press release or not). And if there are any concerns about a project that can be known before accepting it for incubation, I think the concerns should be considered at that time, not after what is typically a 6-12 month graduation period. I continue to stand behind out incubator branding guidelines, but I also think we have to recognize that simply accepting a project for incubation is perceived as a statement by the ASF. This is why I think we need to add more consideration to the acceptance of projects for incubation. Cliff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
