On 2/3/2012 9:01 PM, Franklin, Matthew B. wrote: > > Personally, I feel that walking in the door as a full PMC with authority > could be just as problematic in the long run as not granting it once the > community has demonstrated viability.
I think that everyone here agrees. These would not be 'full PMC's... the ASF has a general 'set your own policies, hands off until it's broke' policy towards projects. Nobody is suggesting that an incoming 'project under incubation' would be free of such rules, policies or oversight. Where usual TLP's are free to set the most flexible policies that suit their participants, any project under incubation has a more stringent set of ComDev defined 'best practices' that they must and will follow. If as a full TLP they decide a tweak here or there help their community, it's up to the board to permit that. And generally, the board is flexibly permissive. But with one Champion not of the project itself, but of the ASF, and several additional mentors/overseers/ombudsmen, no incubating effort is going to enjoy the free reign that TLP's have. If only all projects had that sort of supervision, the foundation would be quite secure in knowing that all projects are running as non-factional, non-partisan and non-commercial efforts to create software for the public good. Good concerns to raise, but i think they are unfounded in light of the current proposal[s]. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
