On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Sean Owen <sro...@apache.org> wrote: > I was going to ask the same. I've seen ~5 proposals now, and was > surprised to see how they all copied and pasted the same boilerplate > to answer several points, including this stanza about risk of > excessive fascination with the brand.
I see no problem with that per se. IOW, a poddling that enters incubation with only vague ideas of what to expect is completely and totally ok, as long as mentors are doing their job. > But concretely: what about just asking proposers to not copy and paste > past proposals? Surely it's not so much to ask the proposed project to > address, individually and from scratch, the issues raised by the > proposal process. Or, explicitly ask the proposal to address why the > project should be part of the ASF, now -- that is, what *else* besides > becoming "Apache Foo" is the motivation? I really don't think it would serve any purpose. Just IMO. Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
