Josh, Thank you for volunteering to be out mentor.
> As specified in the proposal, I'm happy to volunteer as a mentor > (currently a member, haven't officially requested to join IPMC). > > <snip> > > >> === Inexperience with Open Source === >> >> The initial committers have various degrees of experience with open source >> projects - from very new to experienced. This project was open source >> within government from the beginning. We do not expect to have >> difficulties >> in operating under Apache's development process. >> > > This statement struck me as a little odd. While I understand that you > tried to operate as an open source project, it seems impossible by > definition to be open source. My biggest concern would just be that you are > aware that you will have difficulties transitioning to a real open codebase > and growing a community in the open. We are aware that it will be different and more difficult functioning in a real open source environment, but we are enthusiastic and committed to making it work. With the help of our mentors, we hope to be successful. > > == Initial Source == >> >> The code is currently available in a private Github repository. >> https://github.com/LAS-NCSU/rya >> > > What's the plan to make this a non-private repo? > We are working on it right now. Initially we though that the code will be made publicly available by bringing it to ASF, but we are working to make the current repository public. Thank you, Adina -- Dr. Adina Crainiceanu http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/adina/
