On 8/31/05, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 11:43 -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > > The Incubator's charter from the board says: > > <http://incubator.apache.org/resolution.html> > > > > RESOLVED, that the Apache Incubator PMC be and hereby is > > responsible for the acceptance and oversight of new products > > submitted or proposed to become part of the Foundation; and be > > it further > > > > Previously, the board had to deal with this directly. The board delegated > > this to the Incubator PMC. > > Whoa. I had understood this as "incoming external projects" instead of > any in-bred ones. > > So by your (and Jim's) interpretation, we did Axis2 wrong?? We started > that with people who were Axis committers and started with no external > code contrib from anyone. We didn't go thru the incubator - just created > an SVN tree and started hacking. > > Are you guys saying that that was wrong and that the incubator had to > get involved to teach us the Apache way? Huh? > > Can we get board clarification on this please? Reading the above > resolution that is by no means clear, at least to me.
I can tell you how I've always advocated where the line is, and I always *thought* most folks agreed with this, but I could be wrong: The Incubator is responsible for incubating code for legal issues and committers for community issues. Any large base of incoming code (such as would require a software grant) should be "incubated" to the extent that the Incubator PMC is satisfied that there are no obvious licensing issues -- if this is the only issue it can be a very quick process. Any brand new community should also be "incubated"; in other words, if a new subproject gets started at a PMC and that subproject is primarily composed of new committers with a new or non-existent community, then the project should live under the supervision of the Incubator PMC prior to graduating. So, it sounds like this wouldn't have applied to Axis2. Cliff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
