Re: No more existing-TLP graduations (was: [PROPOSAL] Curator for the Apache Incubator)

[Niall Pemberton <ni...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
<ch...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> On 2/26/13 4:18 PM, "Dave Fisher" <da...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> This is exactly the scenario I have in mind. Most of the times,
>>> projects aim for being very successful and have their own healthy
>>> community, but that is not always the outcome, and exiting Incubator
>>> as an adopted project should be still be a possibility.
>>
>>I don't think we should exclude incubating projects from being
>>incorporated into other projects. It may be preferred to the attic or
>>github should a community fail to thrive. The incubator does not need to
>>be TLP or fail.
>>
>>Perhaps the assimilation of an incubating podling to another PMC should
>>not be called graduation. Maybe it should be handled piece by piece.
>>
>>(1) PPMC votes to approach a PMC with Mentor / IPMC approval like for a
>>release.
>
> Please name me a specific example scenario in which #1 has happened at the
> ASF without pre stated intent to join that TLP.

Sanselan graduated to Apache Commons is an example of this.

Niall

> I would be very surprised to see it happen b/c it would imply graduation
> into an existing TLP wasn't premeditated.
> That's the whole point of the "sponsoring PMC" portion of the Incubator
> proposal, from the beginning, to declare
> the intent to graduate into a existing TLP - otherwise that section
> wouldn't be needed and the answer would always
> be Incubator PMC. For the record, since the whole umbrella project thing,
> most of the sponsoring (I can name perhaps 1-5)
> incoming Incubator podlings are all Incubator PMC sponsored, for intent to
> graduate to TLP.
>
> On the graduating into existing TLP end, I don't think that makes sense -
> apparently at least 2 other people don't either judging by +1s and words.
> I would like to fix that. But, I don't think I've ever seen #1 where they
> haven't already declared that their intent from the beginning.
>
>>
>>(2) Receiving PMC votes to accept IP - if not cleared then it accepts
>>that responsibility.
>
> If PMCs can accept the type of "podling sized" IP contribution then I
> think that the Incubator is a pointless committee.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>
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