On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Mick Semb Wever <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's correct, as long as we don't collide with apache's distaste of > umbrella projects. ref > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.tiles.devel/180/focus=182
Sorry, I haven't had time to follow this closely. But I wanted to make a couple of points about the umbrella issue AIUI. * I don't think we're in any danger of that. I also don't think we need to be pushing too hard at the moment to get the subprojects pushed out. We are in the middle of a rebuild of our own community right now and I don't think we need to try too hard to start new ones :-) * The problem with the umbrella project is one of oversight. When you have a large community where most of the people only care about small portions of the code you end up with one of two situations: either lots of folks are voting for releases they didn't have anything to do with and don't plan to support, or you have releases being held up because they can't get enough of the PMC to vote on them. It also tends to hide when a portion of the project is not getting adequate oversight. The PMC as a whole is large and diverse enough to make it appear there is adequate oversight, but there may be a subproject that's not getting any love. I think our approach should be to keep an eye on things and see if communities develop around these subprojects. As they do we may spin them off as their own TLPs. Greg
