Two quick comments, haven't read the context: Marvin Humphrey wrote on Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:26:57 -0700: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:55:01PM +0100, Jukka Zitting wrote: > > To me this suggests that our current three state transitions [1] from > > the podling phase -- termination, continuation and graduation -- may > > need some adjustment. That could mean introducing new exit strategies > > or relaxing the existing ones. > > How about adding another Incubation end state: "migration"? > > * The project migrates to a new home at Github or wherever, leaving behind > the Foundation's infrastructure, administrative oversight, and legal > umbrella. A name change would be required (unfortunately) to avoid > trademark complications. However, the project would pledge to continue > operating according to the Apache Way in its new home: meritocracy, PMCs, > hats, votes, quarterly reports entered into a record, etc.
If the community has consensus to move, won't it make sense to pursue a solution that keeps the trademark with the community? > Lastly, drawing up some guidelines for how projects not at Apache can operate > according to an approximation of the Apache Way might be a worthy task for its > own sake, providing the ASF a channel to spread its values without incurring > more administrative overhead. > Yep, sounds like stuff for $otherlist though. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
