+1, and thanks for finding a way to light a candle rather than curse the darkness, Sanjiva.
Usergrid may have been on Github and under the ALv2 for the last couple years, but as far as I know, it has not been under an open governance model until now. Releasing a project into open governance is not easy. To attract sustained contributions and investment from top talent, contributors need to be given a true, meaningful governance stake. The inevitable consequence is that at least some of the time, the project will go in a different direction the founder might have chosen. There is no project founder that does not find that uncomfortable and that does not experience some degree of regret when it happens. Should the Usergrid proposal be resubmitted, I hope that the Incubator community will be tolerant as the project's existing community acclimates itself to the new environment and deals with an issue which comes up eventually for nearly all podlings. Usergrid might receive somewhat elevated scrutiny with regards to electing new committers and PMC members, but "creating an open and diverse meritocratic community" is an exit criteria and we should plan to help them succeed in that area as we would in any other. Marvin Humphrey On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanj...@wso2.com> wrote: > I think there's just a lot of misunderstanding and overreaction over > nothing .. all based on presumed negative intent. > > Time to get past this and get the project going! I will not offer to mentor > nor will WSO2 commit our folks to it at this point (yes Alex as CEO I will > decide whether we commit work time to this) but that's fine - there's > plenty of other mentors and this project can easily get a community going > without our help. > > Sanjiva. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
