Hi, On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > My point above was the Board, at least in the past(*), has *not* been > happy about the average duration.
The way I see it, there are three main things we could do to shorten the average duration of incubation: 1) Relax the exit criteria: Especially the diversity requirement is a major barrier for many projects. There have been various calls to relax the diversity requirements, but so far I see no consensus on that. 2) Tighten the entry criteria: Many of the podlings that end up failing or taking a long time here are new projects that start from scratch or from previously closed codebases with weak or no existing project communities. We could significantly improve the average duration of incubation if we only accepted mature open source projects. 3) Increase the amount of mentoring: The lack of mentor time and better (not necessarily more) supporting documentation gives unnecessary administrational and procedural headaches (failed release votes, etc.) to many podlings. Without more volunteers there's not much we can do about 3, which leaves the entry and exit criteria as the variables we can control. I personally think that the exit criteria are good as they are (in hindsight, Abdera is a good example of a project that graduated with barely enough diversity of active committers), so if we do want to make the Incubator "work faster" my suggestion would be to start by raising our entry criteria. One way to do that would be to start requiring the three mentors to show higher levels of personal commitment than what we currently ask for. BR, Jukka Zitting --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
