Yeah, graduation is the key point. I suspect the confusion lay in another recent proposal in which a concern was voiced about too many people from one company *and* all mentors being from the same company - that was an unusual case.
That being said, I’m not sure that I agree with “the project would be unable to graduate with just this list of committers”. What a project needs to do in order to graduate is demonstrate that it is operating in a meritocratic way. That communities can be non-meritocratic with 10 people all from the same company as well as with 10 people all from different companies. There are no statistics that say a podling can or can’t graduate, only behaviours. Ross Sent from Windows Mail *From:* Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> *Sent:* 19 February 2013 16:13 *To:* Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com> *CC:* general@incubator.apache.org *Subject:* Re: [PROPOSAL] Tez to join Apache Incubator Sorry... I was clear on the need for real diversity on graduation, but was unclear on the need for diversity at the start. And, of course, the project would be unable to graduate with just this list of committers. But that is really just what you said in the first sentence. Incubation is the time when the project will need to demonstrate that it is more than just a one company (plus a few) project. On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com>wrote: If the podling doesn’t respect this then it won’t graduate. I suspect everyone on that committer list knows this very well. Do you have any reason to believe the project will not be able to graduate with this list of committers?
