>> Changing this would mean changing the whole purpose of labs, it would no >> longer be labs.
> "It would be worth revisiting why labs was created and ask have any of the > motivations changed?" >From the labs website - the bullet point i found most important: "Apache Labs is a place for innovation where committers of the foundation can experiment with new ideas. The aim is to provide the necessary resource to promote and maintain the innovative power within the Apache community without the burden of community building." " Unfortunately, it has been duly noted that incubation and innovation can hardly coexist at the same time and that the foundation didn't contain a place were its own committers can get together and bootstrap new ideas and were forced to go to external locations." "Apache Labs was established to provide a place were trusted individuals can innovate without the burden of community building, with the comfort of the apache infrastructure and remaining close to their peers, making it easier to get feedback and seeding new potential incubator podlings." "...to avoid that committers use labs as their personal 'dumping' grounds and that labs remain topic-specific." (regarding why to vote before enabling a lab) More compact: - experiment with new ideas without the burden of community building - let work committers (aka trusted people) together without pain - labs should not be a personal dumping ground Any more? Cheers, Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
