On 16 December 2011 21:12, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Suresh, > > On Dec 16, 2011, at 9:17 AM, Suresh Marru wrote: > >> Any one has experience with Apache Extras? Poking around I have few >> questions. > > I watched it created, and followed the conversation but don't have direct > experience. > That being said...
Well I'm chair of the committee that "owns" apache-extras (that's community development if you care) and your responses are almost entirely accurate - just one minor clarification below... >> 2) Are there any requirements on when and how the community should be >> notified of an extras project? (during creation, releases, periodically)? > > It's up to the community, on both sides. From my read, Extras was created as > a forum to have an "association" with the ASF stronger than simply > putting something at Google Code or Github. These are projects that may not > be compatible with the ALv2, but that involve PMC members or > community members from their parent ASF projects. I don't think there are > requirements beyond that, per se. In fact there are even less requirements than that. We don't actively police apache-extras at all. We examine any reports of misuse (i.e. projects should be directly related to an Apache project in some way) but that is all. More details at http://community.apache.org/apache-extras/guidelines.html and http://community.apache.org/apache-extras/faq.html >> 3) Is there any minimum number or commiter/PMC members from the community be >> involved in the extras project to show affiliation? As from the FAQ's I see >> that any project uses the affiliated apache project software can be >> qualified as a extras project but I did not see any requirements of >> community members per say. > > See above, I don't think there are any minimums. There is a minimum of 0 ;-) Ross
