Re: [DISCUSS] Podlings with existing releases and community

2008-07-03 Thread Martijn Dashorst
BTW: this is not just cover our ass, but also promotes the idea that the podling is in incubation, destined to become an Apache project. It may attract more folks, it will also show that the project is supportive of old releases, making it feel like a more mature community. Martijn On Thu, Jul 3,

Re: [DISCUSS] Podlings with existing releases and community

2008-07-03 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Martijn Dashorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...There is just one extra thing we did and that > was add a disclaimer to the release notes that the project was > currently incubating at apache and that the release was not endorsed > by, nor associated in any way with

Re: [DISCUSS] Podlings with existing releases and community

2008-07-03 Thread Martijn Dashorst
This is the practice established during Wicket's incubation and it helped us considerably. There is just one extra thing we did and that was add a disclaimer to the release notes that the project was currently incubating at apache and that the release was not endorsed by, nor associated in any way

Re: [DISCUSS] Podlings with existing releases and community

2008-07-03 Thread Janne Jalkanen
+1 I think this is good, as it codifies an existing practice. /Janne On 3 Jul 2008, at 20:42, Craig L Russell wrote: Hi, Many projects that come to Apache already have existing releases. Some are still beta but others have already shipped a few production versions. This raises the iss

[DISCUSS] Podlings with existing releases and community

2008-07-03 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi, Many projects that come to Apache already have existing releases. Some are still beta but others have already shipped a few production versions. This raises the issue of how to build on their existing communities while they work on doing project management the Apache way, changing p