There's been some good discussion here. I'd like to make an observation
- most of the best "let's fix this" discussion has come from people who
are not on the PMC, while the PMC members have been largely silent.
This seems important to me. I would suggest that it indicates that there
are a number of people who should be on the PMC who are not yet.
On 10/02/2015 09:08 AM, David Nalley wrote:
Hi folks,
A number of the mentors (Daniel, Rich, and I), along with several
other IPMC members were in Budapest for ApacheCon; while there we
discussed the state of
Tinkerpop, it's incubation, and a number of other topics. I wanted to
bring one of those topics here to foster a larger discussion, and
perhaps for the community to decide on a way forward.
After a lot of deliberation and thinking both together and
individually, I think we reached an inflection point for ourselves.
While I don't want to speak for the others,
I will state my opinion. I think it's become apparent that Tinkerpop
as a project and a community is not a fit for the Apache Software
Foundation, and I see little potential for that to change.
This is not a statement that Tinkerpop is bad or evil. The ASF isn't
the only place projects live to be successful, nor is the Apache Way
the only method that successful projects adopt.
That said, the ASF cares deeply about it's existing culture and that
the communities that are here adopt "the Apache Way"; that's actually
a core tenant to accomplish during incubation. That leads
me (speaking only for myself) to believe that you would thrive better
elsewhere, rather than chafing and being unhappy, and eventually
failing to graduate.
--David
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