> As already noted, that can be done via the user home directory on people. > > As I already wrote, having formal releases of Labs code will > effectively turn it into an umbrella TLP, with absolutely no common > theme between projects. > Is that really what we want to create? > If so, let's restart Jakarta and give it a wider scope.
What is labs now? An umbrella without releases. Or is an umbrella project defined because many components can create releases? Then we need to think about Commons. Honestly, experimental releases - do you really give them the same importance as standard releases? Anyway, people-releases are possible at least.... >> There are some signs that some Labs PMC people are starting to think >> this might be ok, i think its just going to take some time. > > I think it's a bad idea, unless we really want an umbrella PMC. > Unfortunately time sometimes favours bad ideas. Labs is a place for innovation: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/labs/?sortby=date#dirlist magma and jaxmas have had commits in the past 6 or 8 weeks, then comes the site. Most projects have commits older than 1 year, several of them idled out. Either we are not doing much innovation or people are innovating at googlecode or github. I think it is the latter one. I can only bring experiments to the labs and cannot make releases. It is much easier to develop outside the ASF and in case come back through the incubator. And this is what Mladen did (assuming he did from his mails, not knowing) and what I have done the past weeks. Labs should become at least more of a "global sandbox" character to become useful. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: labs-unsubscr...@labs.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: labs-h...@labs.apache.org
