On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 15:25, Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de> wrote: > Hi! > > Maybe I need to catch up with the current status: is RAT still mainly targeted > to ASF projects, or is it a general Release Audit Tool and as such also useful > for releasing GPLed or BSL style projects? > > If it is still ASF centric, then to me it sounds much more as a subproject of > infrastructure or legal than an own TLP. > Of course there is no minimum size for becoming a TLP, but let's be honest: if > this is not a general technical project but more like a business project then > there will not be enough community around it. Or better said: the main focus > is > not the tool itself but the modelled business. That's the reason why I would > move it to this 'business unit' rather than creating a new one.
But we're looking for a direct match between the PMC, its community, and the cared-for code. Infra and Legal (and Commons and Maven) have very different alignments between those three things. A TLP constructed just for RAT will align all elements, and will (hopefully) provide us with a long-term community to care for the codebase. Placing it under the stewardship of a PMC or a VP Infra/Legal who has many other concerns pretty much asks for it to become ignored over the long haul. It is *very* true that Infra, Legal, and (all?) ASF PMCs will be clients/users of the tool. But are they interested in its development? Cheers, -g --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
