On May 28, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Greg Reddin wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> >> Greg, do you think donations like these need to have a goal of being >> integrated with Apache Flex or becoming its own project? Personally, I'd >> be ok with Apache Flex being a warehouse of all kinds of Flex-related code >> even if there is no active development for it.
Donations should go through an announcement / vote process in the incubator to accept IP. > > > There's a couple of things to consider here: > > 1) The board does not favor "umbrella" projects. Jakarta was an umbrella > project and it contained (at one time) Struts, Tomcat, Commons, JMeter, and > a whole bunch of Java-related projects. It became clear that the Jakarta > community was too fragmented to get consensus so it spun off all those > projects into TLPs. That could easily start to happen here. Apache Commons looks like Jakarta junior already. The Incubator has decided to only incubate TLPs. > > 2) This mailing list is already too high-traffic to follow. Practically, we > could probably already split up the Flex project into multiple projects. It > seems to me that folks are starting to gel around different efforts, like > getting new releases of the SDK, vs. compilers, etc. It could be that we > need to form new PMCs or it could be that we just need to enact > sub-projects. But we have to be careful with sub-projects to avoid point 1 > above. > > It's hard to know where the breaking point is. Probably it has to do with > whether the community is having a hard time pushing out releases or just > whether it "feels" fragmented. I'm not proposing that we break up now, but > we should probably be thinking about whether the Falcon project, for > example, has its own distinct community from the SDK. Which has an interesting point as there is now a podling called Falcon in the Incubator. This means that the name Apache Falcon is currently taken. Regards, Dave > > Greg
