Hello, Jochen, On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Jochen Theodorou
> community equals committers? No. The community is more than the team of committers. I'm sure you understand. OTOH, the set of committers can be considered a representation of the community. I am quite certain, most Incubator members would accept a project to have a "vibrant community", if the project could show, for example, * several writers of documentation (without committer privileges) * one or two creators of graphics (icons, or whatever, without committer privileges) * one or more organizations providing hosting services, and the like assuming them to be independent of each other. However, that would be most unusual for an Apache project: In most cases, the committers are the active project contributors. Groovy might very well be a case to set a precedent here, as it already has an impressive community. Don't bother thinking too much about that point. > Anyway... how many committers would you guys find appropriate to exit > incubation - whenever that will be? 5 seems not to be enough. Not asking for > an exact number here of course. I'd bet that there are projects who left the Incubator without more than 5 committers, or at least, without 5 really active committers. Again, don't waste your time thinking about that. The Groovy community is already quite impressive - and very unusually so for an Incubator project. Jochen -- Any world that can produce the Taj Mahal, William Shakespeare, and Stripe toothpaste can't be all bad. (C.R. MacNamara, One Two Three) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
