Hi Dan, On 2/26/13 5:36 PM, "Daniel Kulp" <dk...@apache.org> wrote:
> >On Feb 26, 2013, at 5:21 PM, "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" ><chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > >> Hi Dave, >> >> On 2/26/13 4:18 PM, "Dave Fisher" <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >>>> >>>> This is exactly the scenario I have in mind. Most of the times, >>>> projects aim for being very successful and have their own healthy >>>> community, but that is not always the outcome, and exiting Incubator >>>> as an adopted project should be still be a possibility. >>> >>> I don't think we should exclude incubating projects from being >>> incorporated into other projects. It may be preferred to the attic or >>> github should a community fail to thrive. The incubator does not need >>>to >>> be TLP or fail. >>> >>> Perhaps the assimilation of an incubating podling to another PMC should >>> not be called graduation. Maybe it should be handled piece by piece. >>> >>> (1) PPMC votes to approach a PMC with Mentor / IPMC approval like for a >>> release. >> >> Please name me a specific example scenario in which #1 has happened at >>the >> ASF without pre stated intent to join that TLP. > >I'm going to date myself an make myself feel old, but: Yoko I don't think you're dating yourself by mentioning a project that was proposed in 2006: :) http://incubator.apache.org/projects/yoko.html > >Originally, Yoko was planning to be a TLP. However, the entire CORBA >space kind of died and the original company involved with donating the >code more or less withdrew support. However, by then Geronimo had taken >it as an important dependency and a few of the Geronimo folks had started >contributing fixes and stuff to it. Some CXF users were using the web >service parts of it. However, the community itself really couldn't get >enough traction. (partially because it was a split community between the >ORB folks and the WS folks). Thus, instead of graduating to TLP, it kind >of split with the ORB going to Geromino and the WS bits being assimilated >into CXF's main build. So, the project description from the Incubator page from 2006 states: The Yoko project is a robust and high performance CORBA server which is integrated into Apache Geronimo but also be usable from inside any JVM. It is hoped that it will provide the ORB implementation for the Harmony project. That *doesn't* look to me like an example of #1, which I was asking for. Per that description that was intent to graduate to Geronimo, and parts of it did. Per the proposal in fact, too: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/CorbaProposal > >So, it the community didn't completely die. Incubation wasn't really a >failure. The incubation efforts really showed that it should have been >parts of the existing TLPs. No one is talking about failures. They're talking about Incubation flow diagrams, and exit states. I wouldn't consider it a failure if a project tried to graduate to an existing TLP -- I would just consider it (a) unlikely per recent stats; and (b) not the thing we should be encouraging or supporting within the Incubator. Cheers, Chris > >Dan > > >> I would be very surprised to see it happen b/c it would imply graduation >> into an existing TLP wasn't premeditated. >> That's the whole point of the "sponsoring PMC" portion of the Incubator >> proposal, from the beginning, to declare >> the intent to graduate into a existing TLP - otherwise that section >> wouldn't be needed and the answer would always >> be Incubator PMC. For the record, since the whole umbrella project >>thing, >> most of the sponsoring (I can name perhaps 1-5) >> incoming Incubator podlings are all Incubator PMC sponsored, for intent >>to >> graduate to TLP. >> >> On the graduating into existing TLP end, I don't think that makes sense >>- >> apparently at least 2 other people don't either judging by +1s and >>words. >> I would like to fix that. But, I don't think I've ever seen #1 where >>they >> haven't already declared that their intent from the beginning. >> >>> >>> (2) Receiving PMC votes to accept IP - if not cleared then it accepts >>> that responsibility. >> >> If PMCs can accept the type of "podling sized" IP contribution then I >> think that the Incubator is a pointless committee. >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> > >-- >Daniel Kulp >dk...@apache.org - http://dankulp.com/blog >Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
