We cannot use both the incubation start and the code donation date as landmarks.
Anyhow, I guess I made my point, I'll leave the soap box for other people too. --emi On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > To Apache, the people in the project, i.e., the community, is more > important than the code. The project constitutes people plus code. The > project as a whole has been in incubation, even without the code. > > Gj > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 at 16:39, Emilian Bold <emilian.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This makes sense to me if we view it as Oracle amending the NetBeans >> donation proposal (https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/NetBeansProposal >> ) and adding some more individuals from their side. >> >> Because, you know, what have we been incubating until now without any >> source code? >> >> --emi >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz >> <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: >> > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 5:59 AM, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >> ...Normally, a committer would have to prove themselves worthy of the >> >> 'commit bit', but I think we can be more relaxed about this at the very >> >> beginning?.. >> > >> > I agree with that, and considering the donated code has just landed we >> > are in that phase. >> > >> > As Daniel says, individual votes on the private@ list is the way to go. >> > >> > -Bertrand >>