On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Sent: Sat, May 29, 2010 4:58:21 PM >> Subject: Re: Incubator proposal template >> >> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 08:08 -0700, Joe Schaefer wrote: >> I really don't see the upshot, because after a while >> people will mostly be "plagarizing" the earlier answers >> of others. > >> I'd prefer the questions were positively framed, rather than 'how are >> you going to avoid this pitfall', but I do get the fact that they're >> likely to soon enough be re-arrangements of previous attempts. > > Frankly the whole idea seems misdirected at incoming projects, > when it should be directed at incoming mentors. Projects aren't > expected to grok the Apache Way when they arrive here, they're > supposed to learn about it over their tenure in the incubator.
Very much agree on this! Turning proposals into open essays about the apache way is a waste of the potential project's time -- they either don't know anything, or the proposal is being written by their champion anyways. I would much rather focus on how we can improve the interaction, and number of active mentors with incubating projects, than to add another question to the proposal template. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
