At least two of the developers (myself and Brian McCallister) for the port of the Java Lucene to Ruby are already official Apache committers. Brian is new to the Lucene development community, but a seasoned Apache guy.

My preference would be to get the other developers as committers to a /ruby tree under lucene.apache.org and start the project there rather than come through incubation. Are there any reasons why we should come through the incubator in this case?

        Erik


On Mar 16, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Cliff Schmidt wrote:

On Wednesday, March 16, 2005 8:05 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote:

If an existing TLP, such as Lucene, wants to develop a port, such
as a Ruby port of the Lucene library, can the Lucene PMC invite
that port and its developers under its wings directly

this port is not an existing external project, but a brand new port
that would be developed under Lucene from scratch by a group of 4-5
developers.

If you are developing this within the TLP in ASF resources (our mailing lists, source control, etc.), you do not come through the Incubator. And if you are just talking about adding new Committers to an existing community, you don't need to come through the Incubator. One can see that grey areas could exist. It seems to me that it depends on whether you are creating a new community or are integrating new people into an existing one.

I agree with everything Noel said, but I'll take a shot at further
defining the grey area. If the port is being written by an entirely new
set of committers, without whom the port could not developed/maintained,
I would think the subproject should come through the incubator.


Cliff

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