On Apr 14, 2009, at 13:41, Chris J. Davis wrote:
> > There was more discussion on IRC today about becoming an ASF incubator > project. ... > Anyone like to comment? Naturally, I'm biased, being an ASF member for going on 8 years now, and a member of both the Apache Web Server PMC and the ApacheCon PMC. The advantages are many, although, in all honesty, one hopes to never have to take advantage of many of them (the legal protection ones). The ticket tracking solution is a different kind of annoying than the one we have - all ticket trackers suck. The choice would be JIRA and Bugzilla. The incubator process should be relatively easy. There are two requirements of incubation. 1) Unencumbered code and 2) Diverse community. 1) Unencumbered code means that the entire code base can be licensed under ASL2.0 without violating anybody's IP. We've been careful with this, and resisted non-ASL code being introduced. We can clear this one very quickly. 2) Diverse community is defined as "not more than a third of the committers work at any one company." I'm not aware that any two committers are at the same company. When we started, two of us worked for Asbury College, which was half. Neither one of us does any more, and the committer pool has grown. We're good here, too. Someone (an ASF member) would need to be the sponsor of the project. That would most obviously be me. -- "Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them." -- Arnold Lobel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
