14 people from one organisation on the initial committer list looks to me like a daunting incubation. To get some level of independence from Cisco, that will mean recruiting at least 14 new committers. That is a major task.
I see Shindig having the same issue - it is moving fast, and developing well, but still with a strong Google contingent, and it will take quite some time before that changes significantly. So, with 14 initial committers from one org, I'd expect incubation to be very slow. Upayavira On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 11:29 +0200, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: > You adressed the two concerns that I have, too, thanks. > > - The name. "Debian Etch" is a deeply engrained meme with the "Etch" > short cut. > > - Office disussions. Projects where a large number of committers are > from the same organization and that also have this company being > invested in the project might fall into the "watercooler discussion" > trap. Or into the "this is a patch for <foo>, I discussed and reviewed > it with <few other committers> and they think it is fine" problem, where > the review and discussion happened off the mailing list. > > It is definitely painful if you have the large majority of committers > and contributors in the office to still send out stuff to the mailing > lists, wait for people in other time zones to catch up and then go > ahead. In fast moving projects (I'm talking about you, Shindig > people. ;-) ), the aspect of a global distributed community sometimes > gets forgotten if you have all the relevant people in the next room. So > this is something that should be watched during incubation. > > Apart from that: Wow, cool product. +1 for incubation. > > Ciao > Henning > > > On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 11:28 +0800, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > On Friday 01 August 2008 00:16, James Dixson wrote: > > > This a proposal to enter Etch in to the incubator. > > > > > > See http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/EtchProposal for updates. > > > > > > In particular, we are looking for an interested Champion. > > > > Well, you are expected to have found a Champion prior to submitting the > > proposal, but that is not a blocker. > > > > "Etch" --> Not so sure. "Debian Etch vs Apache Etch, which one is better?" > > Doh... I would seek another name. > > > > I like this proposal a lot, probably because of too many fingers burned on > > SOAP. The challenge will be community building, and I have two fears; > > 1. Codebase might be "too good". > > 2. "At office" discussions on progress. > > > > Well, I am willing to be a Mentor on this podling if accepted. List me as > > Champion if you don't get anyone else. And you are effectively requesting > > the > > Incubator PMC to be the Sponsor. > > > > > > My +1 for Incubation. > > > > > > Cheers > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
