We have an Attic fer Christ-sakes, and in it lies the carcass of Apache Harmony, which died because IBM pulled out. BFD, that was not a failing of the org, nor the IPMC, when it considered Harmony for graduation. Shit happens.
Our license does not promise that a project will live forever. Neither does our brand. Let's please stop pretending it does. +1 to Roy's and Benson's remarks ----- Original Message ----- > From: Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 8:24 PM > Subject: Re: diversity > >T he 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
