On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > > If existing committers are willing to take on the project, and > maintain it and really own it (so, more than just being a proxy for > external committers), I'd be on board accepting it as a sub-project. > > However, if its just going to be an orphaned project, or we're just > going to have to act as a proxy for external developers who've hosted > their code in our project as a notional parent, but aren't committers > themselves, I'm opposed to importing it and assuming ownership of it > as a sub-project, and think it would be better served hosted where the > originating developers can maintain it. > > In either case, I think it's a great related project to serve both the > R and Accumulo communities, and we should link to it, provide > feedback, and help make it better if we can. I'm just concerned about > setting a precedent for accepting/hosting everything related to > Accumulo, causing us to either be spread too thin or to cause projects > to die because of lack of care.
+1, orphaned code does no one any good.
