> On Oct 13, 2015, at 3:59 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Andrew Bayer <andrew.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ...Can we think of some examples in recent years of potential podlings >> getting >> to the point of a serious DISCUSS thread but not making it to a vote?.. > > I don't have such an example, but it might also just be because we say > no earlier. > >> ...Is it culturally acceptable for IPMC members to vote no?... > > Definitely. > >> ...and what criteria would make it acceptable to vote no?... > > Off the top of my head I'd say: > 1) Not enough experienced mentors > 2) Projected Infrastructure costs too high > 3) Project needs more time outside of the ASF to start building a community > 4) Project doesn't have a concrete enough codebase to get started > 5) Incomplete proposal, or something in it that makes us think the > project will never graduate > > We usually detect 3) and 4) in the discussion stages, and 4) is not > absolute, there can be interesting exceptions.
6) License incompatibility... ie, they want to use LGPL instead of ALv2 for example. 7) Governance incompatibility... want to remain a BDFL, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
