Software grants and other legal paperwork aren’t required until the project has been voted to join the Incubator.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 04:10 <zhangguoc...@chinatelecom.cn> wrote: > Hi, Wu Sheng, > > Thank you for your quick reply and kind help. > > The source code of the HBlock project all comes from the contributions of > regular employees of our company. > There has been no open source project and no community of us before. > > In addition, at what point do we have to open all the source code? When do > we need to sign any agreement with Apache / IPMC? > > Regards. > Guochen. > > -----邮件原件----- > 发件人: Sheng Wu <wu.sheng.841...@gmail.com> > 发送时间: 2020年3月4日 17:29 > 收件人: general@incubator.apache.org > 主题: Re: [Consultation]Some questions about incubation steps > > Hi Guochen > Answer inline. > > > <zhangguoc...@chinatelecom.cn> 于2020年3月4日周三 下午5:16写道: > > > Hi, all, > > > > I am a new man here. Nice to see you. > > > > We are China Telecom Corporation Limited Cloud Computing Branch > > Corporation. We hope to contribute one of our projects name 'HBlock' > > to Apache. > > Now we hope to get into the incubation steps. > > > > We have prepare a proposal for this project, and before we propose it > > to the this mailing list, would you please let me know: > > 1. How long usually it takes from we propose it to the vote step? > > > > Vote process usually started by your mentor or champion, which should be > an incubator PMC member. > > > > 2. During this process, do we need to provide any source code relate > > to the project? > > > > Usually yes, could you explain a little about the context of this question? > In the incubator, we usually expect at least a small community established > already. So if there is not open source yet, then all members should only > come from your company internal. The IPMC and potential mentors only could > read your proposal. > > > > 3. During this process, do we need to add more members of this project > > to this mail list to answer questions from the incubator professors or > > only an interface person is enough? > > > > Before the vote, that is up to you. But during the incubating(if vote > pass), discussion and decision should be made in the mail list, your > project ml mostly. > > > > > Sheng Wu 吴晟 > Twitter, wusheng1108 > > > > > > Best wishes. > > Guochen. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>