Martin, As an ASF member, it is my (perhaps mistaken) belief that bringing more useful resources under the ASF umbrella is a good thing.
So, here I am. The place I work has this resource, I/we would like to contribute it to ASF, but for that to work there has to be someplace to put it. After determining a lack of fit with Mahout, I described the situation on the ASF members list, and several people piped up and said, 'labs.' Upon reading up on labs, I was disquieted by the same issues you raise, which I why I sent a query instead of just asking for a lab to be created. In general, committers commit other people's work constantly. That's how new people become committers, after all. And I'd imagine that most corporate code contributions are committed by people who didn't write all, or any of them. I can see how this would be inappropriate for the lab, and, again, that's howcome I asked. --benson On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Martin Cooper <mart...@apache.org> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Dear labs, >> >> I have some code that I would like to publish at ASF. > > This first sentence bothers me. Why do you want to do this, in > preference to, for example, creating a project at Google Code? And > what does it mean to you to "publish" at the ASF given that Labs > cannot have releases? In short, what would be the real motivation in > bringing the code to the ASF, and bringing it here now? > > <snip/> > >> 2) Jethran is not a committer anywhere, and so while he is the author, >> I'd be the person requesting the lab and committing. If that's not >> appropriate, then I shouldn't do it. > > That does not sound appropriate to me. If the code is not yours, and > you would just be committing someone else's code and changes for them, > then the ASF as a whole is not appropriate, let alone Labs. > >> So, the question is, would you think it reasonable for me to request >> an NLP lab, or should we just plop it on Google Code? > > Honestly, Google Code seems like a better fit from what you have > described. Neither the ASF in general, nor Labs in particular, seem > appropriate. > > -- > Martin Cooper > > >> Thanks, >> >> benson margulies >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: labs-unsubscr...@labs.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: labs-h...@labs.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: labs-unsubscr...@labs.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: labs-h...@labs.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: labs-unsubscr...@labs.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: labs-h...@labs.apache.org
