Re: There's a missing state in the state diagram for the incubator

2019-06-05 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Given the code is under ALv2 anyone can that fork the code and go elsewhere at anytime. Whoever does that would need to respect the name however and wouldn’t be allowed to call it the same name of the Apache project. For a podling to formally leave they would need to do ask the IPMC to

Re: There's a missing state in the state diagram for the incubator

2019-06-05 Thread Greg Stein
This has happened before. We just say "thanks, and good luck". Most recent was odftoolkit, I believe. They moved to The Document Foundation. We transferred a related domain over TDF, for that community to use. Note that we've also stated that if a trademark is transferred to us *during*

There's a missing state in the state diagram for the incubator

2019-06-05 Thread Adrian Cole
Hi, all I just noticed that all states in the diagram are under the assumption that the only way a project stops is by the IPMC making a decision for the project, saying they have no community etc. https://incubator.apache.org/policy/process.html#termination_or_retirement A route not listed is