On 9 January 2012 04:41, Kalle Korhonen <kalle.o.korho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> This has been the subject of prior conversations, but I'm opening a >> thread in some hope of reaching a definitive resolution. >> Some of our non-graduating podlings have a common problem. They look >> good in all ways except growth. This inhibits graduation from 2.5 >> standpoints: >> 1) they are dubiously large enough to sustain as a TLP. >> 2) they don't have much (or any) track record in incorporating new >> contributors. >> 2.5) they might not be very diverse. I list this as a .5 because I >> think that we've established that diversity is a lower priority. >> There are some possible responses to this situation. >> a) toss them out of the incubator. >> b) keep them in the incubator indefinitely. >> c) graduate them, but with some conditions. > > Should smaller incubator projects be encouraged to graduate as > sub-projects of existing projects or is that not an option anymore? > Specifically, I was thinking about Amber, which might just work as a > sub-project of Apache Shiro if they are too small to make it on their > own. However, we (the Shiro PMC) haven't suggested this to them and > they haven't contacted us. Since Jakarta, my understanding is that the > incubator would rather see the projects graduating as TLPs, not > sub-projects, is that correct?
I don't think so. It's just umbrella TLPs are discouraged. If the podling fits well with an existing TLP, and that TLP agrees to take it on, then it can graduate as a sub-project of that TLP. For example, Sanselan graduated into Commons, because it fits well with the Commons scope. > Kalle > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
