Ryan McKinley wrote:
= Droids planning to move out =
Lab Droids (est. 2007-02, PI: Thorsten Scherler) is considering moving
on to the Incubator. Currently, the lab is preparing incubation,
including drafting a proposal at the Incubator Wiki and looking for a
champion and mentors. We are very excited about that, since providing an
ecosystem for projects on the way from the first line of code until
incubation is one of the goals of the Labs project, and Droids - if
successful - would be the first lab to follow this path ultimately. Some
discussion came up, here and on the Incubator's general list, about the
process how to proceed with labs aiming to become a project's
subproject, instead of going TLP. According to our bylaws, going through
the Incubator is inevitable. And the Incubator surely is the right place
to determine how to properly deal with that.
I'm reading over the previous thread and the bylaws, and trying to get
my head around the most effective next steps for Droids.
The key messages are:
http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-To-incubate-or-start-subproject-directly--(was-Re%3A-Looking-for-a%09Champion)-p19396492.html
http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-To-incubate-or-start-subproject-directly--(was-Re%3A-Looking-for-a%09Champion)-p19440800.html
http://labs.apache.org/bylaws.html
Assuming an existing PMC agrees they want labs code to start a
subproject, that PMC is responsible to make sure the code is kosher.
The responsibility is with the receiving PMC, *not* Labs. As far as the
Labs bylaws, can't we just change the droids status to "Completed"?
You can only do that by _Labs_ PMC vote. And my guess would be that the
PMC would /promote/ (to the Incubator) rather than /complete/ the labling.
Consider the example where solr may want to add JSON parsing. The path
to include noggit in a solr release surely does not require going
through incubation!
I don't think so. The lab was conceived with the clear intention that it
should not be a way around the Incubator.
But on the other hand, as far as Droids is concerned, from what I see I
get the impression that the labling is preparing a proper Incubation
anywa. And you never know what might come out of that - some projects
entered incubation to become a subproject and went out as TLP :-)
I'm really impressed with the community support Droids is attracting
right now.
Bernd
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