On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM PJ Fanning <fannin...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > This has been discussed on the private mailing list and ASF members > can view the main discussion here [1]. > > Mark Thomas, VP of Brand Management, has suggested a willingness to do > the Podling Name Search at the start of the onboarding process. > > Can I suggest that we trial out having the Champions for new podlings > submit the Podling Name approval application before we commence the > vote for new podlings? > > The main advantage of the early name check is that it is less > disruptive for podling name changes when the podling resources have > not yet been set up and announcements and PR has not yet been done. > > We have a few applications in the early stages. We can try the process > change out for a few months and discuss making it a permanent change > to the process at that point? > > Discussion is welcome but let's not discuss specific cases on this public > forum. > > Thanks, > PJ > > [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/y94f70sfzf2d959k6kl1bkbhmkklk260 I don't know how much effort, time, and cost it takes to perform the podling name search so with that in mind... I think it's a good idea to perform the name search *before* setting up the podling and sending announcements etc... ...But... I would suggest to do it late in the process, perhaps *after* a successful vote to accept the podling but before setting anything up. It would be an additional step to acceptance that gets inserted into the sequence of events. Hopefully this balances the desire not to perform extraneous name searches with the desire to avoid renaming podlings. Cheers, Nathan <https://lists.apache.org/thread/y94f70sfzf2d959k6kl1bkbhmkklk260>
