On Nov 27, 2012, at 7:16 AM, ant elder wrote: > Unless there are compelling reason to stop, i.e continuing breaches of > basic ASF polices and principles, then where possible letting a poddling > continue incubation or just graduate seems better to me than making them go > elsewhere. Its not like a small slow problem is chewing up ASF resources, > but i understand not everyone here agrees with my views on that. Wink is an > example of poddling in similar circumstances and there we are about to have > decided that graduation is better than retirement. Perhaps thats a better > approach. I don't recall a graduation recommendation request from the > Incubator has ever been rejected by the board so perhaps the Incubator is > too conservative with graduation recommendations. > > Its interesting comparing Wink and Chukwa. From many perspectives Chukwa is > much more active than Wink but we're about to graduate Wink and talking > about retiring this one. I've not yet had a chance to go through all the > Chukwa archives but unless i'm misunderstanding something Chukwa isn't just > a lone coder, there have been several committers in the last months and > while one is doing the majority of the commits many of those are actually > applying patches from other people, so it looks like there are a bunch of > people out there working on the project and we need to find ways of better > integrating them into the poddling community.
This is an interesting line of reasoning worth pursuing, IMO. If Chukwa and Wink are actually on a par with each other we should see if it make sense to apply the same reasoning about Wink to Chukwa. Are we implicitly having a policy change with podlings, if so, should we make it explicit? Regards, Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
