Having the original author on board and an SGA from them would basically lift any concerns I had.
So I'm wondering, are you guys ready to vote? John On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:47 PM P. Taylor Goetz <ptgo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Apr 25, 2016, at 4:41 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> > wrote: > > I would recommend documenting whatever decisions you make and having > them ratified by the Incubator PMC to make them acts of the ASF. > > The best might be to add a section to the podling proposal describing > how the incoming code will be handled in terms of SGA (or not, and if > not why) so that the podling creation vote includes accepting those > decisions. > > -Bertrand > > > Thanks for the suggestion Bertrand. I added a statement to that effect in > the proposal. > > We contacted both original authors informing them of our intentions and > inviting them to join the project. We have since heard back from the > original author, who responded positively and has been added as an initial > committer. We would like to have SGAs from both authors, but given the > second author hasn’t touched the code in 6 years, we’re not sure we’ll hear > from him. > > Our intention is to proceed with the Incubator IP Clearance process > regardless of whether or not we hear back from the second author. Given > that we now have the first, original author on board, I feel we are in > decent shape. > > -Taylor >
