Hi Justin, > In short, this seems to me (and I could be wrong) like a project mostly from > a single vendor, but the proposal has been made to make it look like more > people are involved. It may well be that these people will be involved, but > I’d prefer if the project was upfront about this and added committers the > usual way during incubation.
When and where should a “single vendor” collaborate on a common code project? If we block “single vendor” projects from Incubation then it’s time to start one of our periodic the Incubator is broken discussions. The Incubator has many retired podlings that failed to form a community. That went from 3 or 4 to 1 or 0 community members. One example was ODFToolkit which came in at the same time as OpenOffice.org. ODFToolkit lingered for about 7 or 8 years. OpenOffice.org had an unusual anyone can signup to be an Initial Committer which brought the number to 73! As the current VP, OpenOffice I would not be wrong to say that the project would be in the Attic if that approach were not taken. > In short, the initial commit list looks problematic to me. Podlings and PMCs are not one size fits all. > > P.S. The repo landing page/readme has some ASF trademark issues that would be > good to address. That is part of Incubation. Best, Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
