The diversity (so-called) requirement is often stated in terms of the risk of the project being stranded if a company changes course. From what I see around the Foundation, this is usually a risk much akin to the risk of all the air molecules congregating in one corner of the room at the board F2F, asphyxiating the board members.
A project can also fail because it loses critical mass with no commercial participation at all. In either case, 'so what'? The Foundation advances its mission by facilitating whatever good stuff projects do. The Attic is just part of the lifecycle. It seems to me that the real issue is community. TLP's wrestle with the complexities of the real commercial world all the time. Sometimes that gets noisy or ugly. But, as Roy writes, this is all a lot better than the alternative. In my opinion, this PMC has to be on the lookout for podlings which fail to build a real community and instead serve as a facade for a corporate effort. It's hard to see how a podling can demonstrate health in this respect without \some/ diversity in the community at some point in its career. But this does not translate into hard and fast rules about PMC membership. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
