> > Prospective podlings are well-advised to consider that if things don't work > out, a project which might have been perfectly viable elsewhere for years to > come will have to deal with both the disruption of a name change and the > stigma of having a big red termination stamp applied by the Incubator PMC.
I have one additional thought here. If the foundation really doesn't want a 5-person stable project, I think that the incubator should state objective criteria: you get X years and you have to show Y people. In the case of Empire, I have a special sympathy for them because they have been permitted to exist in the incubator for such a long time. The negative impact of being sent out into the cold, cruel, world of github and no foundation-al legal cover strikes me as getting larger the longer you operate as a podling. Even so, my basic view is that these folks are viable as a TLP, and if someone really disagrees, I might feel strongly enough to ask the board to shoot my head off for asking it to weigh in. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
