On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Steve Holden wrote:
On Jul 24, 2012, at 12:27 AM, Sagara Gunathunga wrote:
+1 for "Messaging and Integration" track other than Apache Etch
project we have few more projects to submit proposals under this
category and it's hard to submit them under Camel track.
Is it really a good idea to start messing about with the tracks at this
stage? The CfP has been published. There was a discussion period. Won't
changing hte tracks just murky the waters?
I think we need to be very careful about changes, certainly. In some cases
we may be able to broaden slightly a track's scope, or perhaps add another
one (though we're a bit short on rooms to do much of that....), but we do
want to check that both communities are happy with the idea first!
This is valuable experience: I had thought the ASF was cohesive enough
that each project would have received a notice that alerted them to the
fact that tracks for ACEY were being discussed. Maybe that's not the way
it works.
received a notice != acted on a notice....
All TLPs and podlings were notified, but not all responded. I think some
projects had assumed that suitable tracks would appear without volunters,
while this time we've been a bit stricter about tracks needing to have at
least one volunteer as a track chair.
(We've been bitten in the past by "orphan" tracks, with good talks but not
enough community involement, and no-one to interface between the
planners and the projects, which is one of the reasons why the track chair
was promoted from recommended to required this time round)
Nick
