A thread on the subject of EasyAnt highlighted some perplexity for me, and I think that it deserves a thread of its own.
Once upon a time, the Foundation had a set of 'Umbrella projects'. These were PMCs that managed a collection of 'sub-projects', each considered a relatively independent community. A few years ago, the board concluded that this wasn't working, and asked the umbrella projects to fission. At this time, that process is pretty nearly complete. It seems to me that the concept of 'project sponsorship' of podlings is left over from the days of umbrellas -- a podling sponsored by an umbrella would graduate as a subproject of the umbrella. If this logic is correct, then it would seem that project sponsorship is no longer relevant, and we could remove it from documentation. Either a podling is going to become a TLP, in which case project sponsorship is irrelevant, or it's going to merge into some existing TLP, in which case I claim that the TLP could handle the process without the overhead of a podling at all. We have an IP clearance process, and TLP's are free to create sandboxes in source control and grant commit karma to them as a means of integrating an incoming group. Thoughts? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
