Hi! I've committed the first cut and updated the website. I'm also adding a special section to the incubator report calling out projects where we would require a readout from the mentors.
I would really appreciate if others can help with making the docs crisper, etc. Thanks, Roman. On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 Aug 2014, at 10:14, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >> >> With this in mind, I would remove almost everything from the "What is >> retirement" section and keep just >> >> **** >> A retired project is a project which has been closed down for various >> reasons, instead of graduating as an Apache project. It is no longer >> developed in the Apache Incubator and does not have any other duties. >> >> The project's code might stay available on Apache servers, if all the >> required IP clearance requirements have been met. >> >> Retirement is a decision of the Incubator PMC, which usually delegates >> it to the incubating project's mentors. The opinion of the incubating >> project's community should of course be taken into account, but in the >> end it's the Incubator PMC which makes the decision. >> **** > > > Interesting and I think this is really good (writes a guy who discussed the > rules a lot). > > The problem we wanted to solve (i think) was: how can we keep our incubator > list > clean and be pro-active when it comes to housekeeping? > > If the IPMC would look at the reporting podlings each month and check if > retirement is needed, then the above phrase might make perfect sense. > > Some might consider it "unfair" to be retired. In example, some projects as > Wave look inactive but there is some life left. Retire or not? It's > subjective. > There is a good chance we keep some long-term running projects, but on the > other hand... > what would it matter? > > That being said, I would love if the other docs would get such an haircut as > well. > > Cheers, > Christian > > > > > > >> >> And also keep the "steps to retirement" section. >> >> -Bertrand >> >> [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/retirement.html >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > --- > http://www.grobmeier.de > The Zen Programmer: http://bit.ly/12lC6DL > @grobmeier > GPG: 0xA5CC90DB > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
