On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote:
> > Graduation does not require diversity of the PMC. It requires that the > project be run according to > > the Apache Way which includes being open to any viewpoint brought to the > project, regardless > > of the source. Furthermore, the initial set of committers covers a wide > range of contributing > > orgs (although we are all doing this with ASF hats). > > It is actually neither. It is viability of the community outside of > requirements > of a very particular organization. IOW, the only way for me to make sure > that community is not joined at the hip with ASF INFRA would be to see > other foundations adopt the tools and joining the community. > Frankly, I can easily see that other aspects of the ASF could make good use of this same sort of capability. Generating the draft incubator report is an example of a task that currently requires a command line program to be run in a partially documented environment with partially documented inputs. A stable web application environment would make this much, much simpler, especially for new chairs like me. I can see that there might be a wish to keep missions separate, but it isn't implausible to broaden the mission here to support inward facing capabilities. This would provide an opportunity to grow the community as well.
