That's right Greg. And since we are filling in gaps for people... I was originally against the pTLP concept (though I supported the experiments) or any of the derivatives that came from it. I think I have changed my position. Largely based on the fact that every single project I've discussed the ASF with in the last 3-5 years has had a very inaccurate perception of how the ASF works. I believe a large part of this is due, in part, to the issues being discussed in this thread.
I do not understand how a foundation which prides itself in having very little bureaucratic red tape can be seen as having so much red tape. The projects I talk to just want to build software. It used to be that the ASF focused on running the legal and operational aspects of the foundation projects and developers on projects wrote code. I'm not sure that's true anymore. We need to fix it. I look forward to hearing how the IPMC will seek to strip down the bureaucracy and get back to mentoring the incoming projects on how the ASF is structured so they can get (relatively) quick and clear answers to their questions. Ross ________________________________________ From: Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, March 3, 2019 10:19 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Responsibilities and Improvements (was: Re: Whimsy general@ subs check (was: .... introduce "[DISCUSS]" threads for podling ... release candidates)) On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 10:37 PM Ross Gardler <r...@gardler.me> wrote: > If a podling is a committee in its own right then it can be empowered to > act on behalf of the board and this its releases can be an act of the > foundation. > >... > Podlings would only become full TLPs once they have demonstrated their > ability to do formal releases. > The above pair of concepts was offered in $priorCycle as "provisional TLPs" (pTLP). I believe the idea ended when Sam pointed out that if a pTLP is trusted, then why not just call it a TLP and trust it to label its releases appropriately? Thus, just create TLPs immediately for a "podling" [ I know Ross knows this; but for $others who may want to look at historical proposals, and compare/contrast to current discussion ... search for "pTLP" ] Cheers, -g --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
