Le 11 févr. 2011 à 17:13, Benson Margulies a écrit : > Let's say that I have an idea for some new open source initiative. How > would I proceed? > > Well, I *won't* proceed by asking for an ASF lab. Why? Because an ASF > lab precludes me from collaboration with anyone except ASF committers, > and that's a completely arbitrary distinction. > > So, these days, my likely trajectory would be to go create a repo on > github. If, over time, the thing grows some legs, I might then bring > it to the incubator. > > In the mean time, I have to come up with Java package IDs and maven > group IDs, and I have to assert the copyright myself, yada yada, and > if it makes it into the incubator all that gets changed around. > > Seems pretty wasteful. Leaving aside the git versus svn issue, where I > have bright hopes that something good is coming, why can't we have a > sort of light-duty incubation that would cover this case? I'm > imagining a procedure roughly as follows: > > There has to be an iPMC member as part of the starting team. Thus, > this is open to any member, or any committer who can persuade the iPMC > that they have enough experience on other Apache projects to be > trustworthy. > > The seed person would have to talk two other iPMC members into serving > as supervisors.
What would be the difference of theses persons with one champion and two mentors in the current incubator sense ? Nicolas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
