Hi, On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Martijn Dashorst <martijn.dasho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Etch is a slow moving community. AFAICT the code is mostly done, but > actively maintained. The space Etch operates in is quite crowded, so > community raising efforts are difficult.
Thanks for the extra background! Given the situation, I wonder how much more value the Incubator can give to Etch. It sounds like all the currently active people already understand the Apache Way and our policies, and that the only problem is that there aren't enough of those people to guarantee that the potential Etch PMC will be able to pass release votes or avoid being overly dependent on any single committer or company behind them. There was some related discussion last year about small but stable podlings [1]. One of the discussed ideas was that as long as the community is otherwise healthy and some of the mentors are willing to stick around to ensure that the project stays on track and remains able to make releases, there's no compelling reason why the project should remain indefinitely within the Incubator. Perhaps this is a way for Etch to graduate unless the community can be expected to grow within the next quarter or two? [1] http://markmail.org/message/baforz67nyzwvzaj BR, Jukka Zitting --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
