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Posted to general@incubator.apache.org by Suman Ray <ma...@gmail.com> on 2006/05/03 20:57:40 UTC
Fwd: Contributing and Starting A New Project With Apache
May be my last mail was misdirected. Request please go through my email
below and respond.
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From: Suman Ray <ma...@gmail.com>
Date: May 3, 2006 2:28 AM
Subject: Contributing and Starting A New Project With Apache
To: apache@apache.org
Hi,
Let me introduce myself. I am Suman Ray.Over a period of 11 years in IT
industry, I spend quiet a good amount of years in implementing solutions in
financial messaging, payments STP, anti-money laundering and investment
banking. Delivering, architecting and implementing projects involving
complex enterprise application integration is my core arena.
I recently came across an RFP from OMG (
http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?finance/2005-11-01) . I want to start an
open source project which may contribute towards solving the business
problem as stated in the RFP. Can you please share with me how I may start
a project with ASF.
To share,
1 > I am not an ASF member and had not contributed earlier in any projects
of ASF. I don't know any members of ASF so that they may invite me to open
the project or join in ASF.
2 > I will be favoured if you list down simple steps which would help me to
start this open source project. Is it so that I need to submit a working
code base before the projects start ?
In case my above statements does not sound good to answer my queries request
to please ask more informations you want.
Thanks for your time.
regards
Suman Ray
RE: Contributing and Starting A New Project With Apache
Posted by "Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>.
Mike Milinkovich wrote:
> So the content at
> http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#incubator
> which says in part that the "...basic requirements for incubation
> are...a working codebase..." needs to be refreshed?
Projects usually do come with some code, but the real key is the interest of
Members to Mentor the project.
--- Noel
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RE: Contributing and Starting A New Project With Apache
Posted by Mike Milinkovich <mi...@eclipse.org>.
Interesting. So the content at
http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#incubator which says in
part that the "...basic requirements for incubation are...a working
codebase..." needs to be refreshed?
I don't mean to be argumentative. Just trying to understand the rules at
Apache.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:noel@devtech.com]
>
> Andrus Adamchik wrote:
>
> > Fair enough. This is not the first time I am misinterpreting a
> > procedural issue. Things are confusing at times here...
>
> :) And there may even be something somewhere that says what
> you said, but when you cut through to the bottom line, it
> really is a simple approach. If we have Members who commit
> to Mentor something, we are pretty much going to do it, else we won't.
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RE: Contributing and Starting A New Project With Apache
Posted by "Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>.
Andrus Adamchik wrote:
> Fair enough. This is not the first time I am misinterpreting a
> procedural issue. Things are confusing at times here...
:) And there may even be something somewhere that says what you said, but
when you cut through to the bottom line, it really is a simple approach. If
we have Members who commit to Mentor something, we are pretty much going to
do it, else we won't.
--- Noel
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Re: Contributing and Starting A New Project With Apache
Posted by Andrus Adamchik <an...@objectstyle.org>.
Fair enough. This is not the first time I am misinterpreting a
procedural issue. Things are confusing at times here...
Andrus
On May 3, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>> My understanding is that the Apache incubator accepts outside
>> projects if they are already in a working shape and have a
>> developer and user community around them
>
> The Incubator accepts projects if our Members commit to helping to
> mentor
> them. No Member support, no project. Member support, project.
> Pretty much
> as basic as that, when it comes down to it.
>
> --- Noel
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RE: Contributing and Starting A New Project With Apache
Posted by "Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>.
> My understanding is that the Apache incubator accepts outside
> projects if they are already in a working shape and have a
> developer and user community around them
The Incubator accepts projects if our Members commit to helping to mentor
them. No Member support, no project. Member support, project. Pretty much
as basic as that, when it comes down to it.
--- Noel
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Re: Contributing and Starting A New Project With Apache
Posted by Andrus Adamchik <an...@objectstyle.org>.
Hi,
My understanding is that the Apache incubator accepts outside
projects if they are already in a working shape and have a developer
and user community around them (although I think the community part
is something that is not a condition for entering the incubator, but
is required for graduation, as is often the case with open sourced
commercial products).
For the list of criteria that the incubator looks at you may browse
through existing accepted proposals:
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/
As for how you can start, you may register a project on SourceForge
or a similar free open source dev site and start developing it there
using Apache license. This is the most straightforward way to learn
how the open source process works and to build a community around the
code.
Also I think you did the right thing posting your idea here, as this
way you may find supporters from within Apache.
Cheers,
Andrus
On May 3, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Suman Ray wrote:
> May be my last mail was misdirected. Request please go through my
> email
> below and respond.
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Suman Ray <ma...@gmail.com>
> Date: May 3, 2006 2:28 AM
> Subject: Contributing and Starting A New Project With Apache
> To: apache@apache.org
>
> Hi,
>
> Let me introduce myself. I am Suman Ray.Over a period of 11 years
> in IT
> industry, I spend quiet a good amount of years in implementing
> solutions in
> financial messaging, payments STP, anti-money laundering and
> investment
> banking. Delivering, architecting and implementing projects involving
> complex enterprise application integration is my core arena.
>
>
> I recently came across an RFP from OMG (
> http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?finance/2005-11-01) . I want to
> start an
> open source project which may contribute towards solving the
> business
> problem as stated in the RFP. Can you please share with me how I
> may start
> a project with ASF.
>
>
> To share,
>
> 1 > I am not an ASF member and had not contributed earlier in any
> projects
> of ASF. I don't know any members of ASF so that they may invite me
> to open
> the project or join in ASF.
>
> 2 > I will be favoured if you list down simple steps which would
> help me to
> start this open source project. Is it so that I need to submit a
> working
> code base before the projects start ?
>
> In case my above statements does not sound good to answer my
> queries request
> to please ask more informations you want.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> regards
> Suman Ray
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