Given the context you explained then I have to say I agree with both Bertrand and Upayavira. On the other hand, I don't see any harm not graduating from the Incubator and the project staying there for longer time till the criteria of having more new blood into the project is satisfied, and specifically in your context new blood should also come from out side the context of graduate students, maybe some other research schools/institutes or even commercial companies seeing some benefit in what has been produced by this project.
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: >>> ...If a project, during an 18 month incubation, cannot draw in new blood, >>> how can we believe that it will do so as a TLP? >>> >>> Marketing of the project, getting it known, getting people using it >>> enough so as to draw in new blood, is clearly a part of the incubation >>> process.... >> >> I tend to agree, and maybe also lowering the bar for new committers (I >> have no idea if that's a problem in your podling). > > At the risk of getting shoes thrown at my by my fellow mentors ... > > I know something about the field of endeavour of this podling -- > that's why I volunteered. I think that it is a very interesting > question as to how many qualified, interested, potential committers > are out there. Much of the work in the field is academic, and > professors tend to keep their <del>slave labor</del> graduate students > otherwise occupied. I'd be happy to be proved wrong, but, in a sense, > that's the question posed by this podling: who's out there? > Ironically, I might be writing a proposal this week for funding to > assign people of mine to work on it, but there's no telling where that > will go. > > > >> >> -Bertrand >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Author of (WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.0 User Guide) http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247585.html - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mnour - Blog: http://tadabborat.blogspot.com ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein "Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best." - Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship "Stay hungry, stay foolish." - Steve Jobs --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
