It would be worth revisiting why labs was created and ask have any of the motivations changed?
Other hosting environments existed at that time. There are sound legal and resource reasons why non-ASF people and releases are not allowed. As VP ComDev I am -1 on encouraging GSoCers to do their work here. I'm strongly of the opinion that they should learn how open source works here at the ASF. That means submitting patches. Not all mentors agree with this and use different methods, some have an external repo. However, if we are to require CLAs from students, which presents an overhead for infra, then I see no benefit in having the students work outside the project community (possibly in a branch). Ross Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos) On 27 May 2011, at 08:01, Jochen Wiedmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:48 AM, ant elder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> - support git. I'm not up to speed on the current state of play with >> the ASF infrastructure git support but it sounded like it was starting >> to happen so labs could try to be one of the initial users > > That's a discussion, which is completely separated from the labs. > Infra will support Git or will not, but that's their choice and won't > be influenced by Labs. > > >> - provide access to non-existing ASF people. Perhaps something like >> as long as there is an ASF committer initially creating the lab then >> they can get non-asf people access to participate. > > Difficult. Violates a standard ASF policy. My guess is that the'd > need at least to sign the standard CLA, which is basically the same > hurdle than accepting them as committers. > > > >> - allow releases. Just need to make sure its all clearly identified >> as not an official ASF release. > > Any suggestions on how to "clearly identify as not"? > > >> - encourage the ASF GSoC students to do their projects here. There's >> some discussion right now on code-awards@ about where students do >> there work for the ASF projects and it sounds like currently most use >> github > > I think that GSoC students have it difficult enough to work with a new > environment even without the additional problems of the lab. Apart > from that, they are better off in the same environment than their > respective mentors. > > > Jochen > > > > -- > I Am What I Am And That's All What I Yam (Popeye) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
