>-----Original Message----- >From: Marvin Humphrey [mailto:mar...@rectangular.com] >Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 12:25 PM >To: general@incubator.apache.org >Cc: Grant Ingersoll; Isabel Drost >Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Drill for the Apache Incubator > >On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> Initial Source >> ============== >> There is no initial source code. All source code will be developed within >> the Apache Incubator. > >Coming in without any source code is going to pose a challenge to this >podling. > > http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#incubator > > The incubator filters projects on the basis of the likeliness of >them becoming > successful meritocratic communities. The basic requirements for incubation > are: > > * a working codebase -- over the years and after several failures, the > foundation came to understand that without an initial working > codebase, it is generally hard to bootstrap a community. This is > because merit is not well recognized by developers without a working > codebase. Also, the friction that is developed during the initial > design stage is likely to fragment the community.
It seems like there could be flexibility in this requirement, based on a few factors. In this case, a design discussion has been ongoing; but I would also think that any community coming in with enough people who know the Apache way may also not need as much of a solid starting point code wise. > >That last line in particular seems like something to watch out for. > >Marvin Humphrey > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
