On 12/29/05, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/28/05, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Folks, > > > > I was browsing the ip-clearance documents > > (http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/public/trunk/site-author/ip-clearance/). > > IMNSHO, I don't like what's happening. It *SHOULD* be incubator PMC's > > call whether an incoming donation can take "IP Clearance" route or > > whether it needs undergo full incubation. A sponsoring PMC should not > > call the shots on which mechanism is to be used. I don't remember > > how/who decided on some of the ip clearance things that happened so > > far. > > > > Does anyone agree/disagree? > > does IP clearence require some sort of vote from the incubator pmc? > > if not then the process seems a little wrong to me > > if so then 'needs full incubation' would be a valid reason for a -1
>From the sponsoring PMC point of view, they are two options that I see: 1) Write up a proposal, submit it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], get told that it doesn't need incubation. 2) Inform Incubator that code ABC is software granted and they plan to commit it within T time period. I'm in favour of the latter. Took me 3 months to get to a point where I grokked that :) Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
