On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Subhasis Gorai <subhasis.go...@gmail.com> wrote: > Basically, I felt, before coming up with the > proposal I need to get a champion who will guide me. > Now I didn't know how to find a champion and that's the reason I had shared > the idea, anticipating if someone is interested helping me out.
The Incubator and the ASF are primarily here to support communities which have formed around software projects. For the most part, we don't gate on technical concerns -- an idea could be really great but it has to get a community in order to become part of the ASF. Proposing an idea directly on general@incubator is not necessarily the most effective way to start a community around an idea because the subscribers here would only be in the target audience for a software product by chance. Or to look at things from another angle, the response on general@incubator to a technical proposal is not a good measure of its potential, since we are more set up to assess the potential of communities. So if this cold start on general@incubator doesn't yield the desired result, perhaps consider other means of drawing contributors to your project -- blog posts, conference speaking, helpful mailing-list contributions on related projects, etc. Then, if that initiative is successful, perhaps return to the Incubator with your new collaborators. HTH, Marvin Humphrey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
