On 5/6/08, Roland Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the Roller option makes more sense. I doubt that > a podling without three committers would even be accepted.
Not true, it is even one of the options on the table when starting a new project. Start without any committer, and grow the community through meritocracy. Everybody starts anew in this scenario. This scenario just doesn't work well for established open source projects joining the ASF as they typically already have folks with a lot of merit in their team. However, starting without committers is a really hard thing. You have to publicize the heck out of it. > Since there are interested people at Roller, you have a chance > to grow the community there. I think that one of the goals of the incubator is to grow podlings to the point that they can manage themselves. If the goal of this podling is to become a subproject of roller, then it can join the incubator, sponsored by the Roller PMC (if the Roller PMC is willing). Basically I see three options for becoming part of the ASF for this proposal: 1. become part of the Roller community directly (through the usual meritocratic process, i.e. help out in the Roller community, provide patches, etc) and attract more developers there 2. become a sub project of Roller, but grow the community here 3. become a top level project, and grow the community here For 1 you'll need to contact the Roller community and make them enthousiastic about your project so they'll accept the code (and yourself). For 2 and 3 you'll need to find a Sponsor and a Champion (the Sponsor is the Roller PMC in #2, and the Incubator PMC in #3), the Champion can be any Member of the ASF. Martijn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
