Yes. Good reference. And glad to see that this statement is very close to what I have (in much less succinct form).
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Please help me refine a statement of what the Incubator does. > > It seems to me that for a succinct mission statement we can go back to the > 2002 Board resolution which established the Incubator: > > http://incubator.apache.org/official/resolution.html > > [...] accepting new products into the Foundation, providing guidance > and > support to help each new product engender their own collaborative > community, educating new developers in the philosophy and guidelines > for > collaborative development as defined by the members of the Foundation, > and > proposing to the board the promotion of such products to independent > PMC > status once their community has reached maturity. > > I've argued recently that the Incubator is doing its job well: > > The Incubator is a stable platform, and it has been functioning well by > historical terms, and with blessedly low drama compared to a few years > ago. My impression is that frustration with the institutional > resistance > of Incubator to change is skewing impressions of how well it is doing > its > job of incubating podlings. > > When I refer to the Incubator's job as "incubating podlings", I mean > everything in that excerpt from the resolution above. > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
