Ups 2 souls one thought, seems gabriela and I wrote in parallel. just a few clarifications below:
On 12 June 2014 18:26, Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the thoughts. Comments inline. > Cheers, > Hadrian > > On Thursday 12 June 2014 12:08:47 Gabriela Gibson wrote: > > Hi Hadrian, > > > > Apache Labs offers you a way of directly reaching other Apache > Committers. > I (anybody) can use mailing lists (individual, committers@ or id@) for > that. > > > > > I for one would be reluctant to use github because of it's more public > > nature. > *More* public? Does the ASF want to be less public than anything else. I > have > to assume you meant something else than what I understood. > "public" is not a good wording. But we have seen several github project have severe license problems when entering incubator, due to the fact the pull requests can be done publicly, and the project leader might (depending on setup) need to contact every single individual to secure our ALv2 license. With LABS thats given. > > > > > But why have one or the other, if you can one, the other and both? :-) > Because its a distraction and as we painfully notice, (almost) nobody uses > labs. I wish I knew the reason or how to change that. > I could tell you the reason, but prefer to look at the future, and during the last month a lot has happened: - bylaws changed so its easy to make a lab (no need for long votes) - PMC group changed to active member - VM added for test - New homepage being prepared. - Choice between svn or git for repo structure. I hope that is a good start. If you come to ApacheCon Budapest, use the barChamp to give a 10 minute presentaion of your ideas, and you will be surprised by the response. I did the same in Denver, and a lot of the LABS changes originates from that talk. > > > > > On a more serious note, it would be nice if we had a official way of > > beating the drum across the Apache universe to attract members for our > > labs. > The irony is that magnet's goal was exactly that. It started with some > chats I > had with Ross and others after my "Memories" presentation at acna in > Vancouver. > Now I get it, (the doap description did not show me the light). Sounds like a real good idea to me. Why not beat the drum manually for your lab, instead of just let it die. rgds jan I. > > > > > > regards, > > > > Gabriela > > > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Please remove the magnet [1] lab. I failed to create any community or > > > generate > > > any interest around it. There were no commits in a long time and none > > > other than mine ever, I think. At this point I don't see any value in > it > > > and I doubt > > > anybody else ever will. > > > > > > On a separate note, I personally don't see what value the Apache labs > > > bring over something like github for instance. I wonder if anybody has > an > > > answer to > > > that, just for my education. > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Hadrian > > > > > > [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/labs/magnet/ > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 > >
