On Jun 30, 2012, at 5:23 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > For those not following board@, the board is proposing the creation > of a new TLP (tentatively called Apache Steve) which will serve as > the project behind our STV and voting tools. > > The impetus behind this was when I suggested to the OpenStack > people to use STV for their voting system, which kind of re-kicked > the idea in my head that our voting tools were too good to not > provide as releasable code to the world at large. > > Since all code was developed w/i the ASF, by ASF people, and > is under the ALv2 (either implied/confirmed by the authors or > explicit in the code itself), there is some debate on whether > or not Incubation is even required... The board would like to > recommend to the Incubator that the board simply proceed with > the creation of this project at the next board meeting.
While I agree that it does not make sense to vet the initial set of project members and I'm sure that the code provenance is clean, I had always thought that a big part of the incubation process was to make sure that there's a vibrant community behind it. I feel that I as a mentor I am placed in an awkward place as I put pressure on those podlings that do not have much community activity and now a bunch of board members expedite their project to a TLP. I hope that someone can help me understand the current thinking about the vibrant community aspect that seems to be a requirement for incubation/TLP admission. With that said, I am against accelerating this project directly into a TLP. Regards, Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
