>> That's all and great but this falls down as soon as Marvin (for >> whatever reason) would be gone. > > I wholly disagree with you.
Right. So then there would be just no one committing? Please explain how that should work from your POV. >> Frankly - I don't understand the rush. > > What rush? I raised this issue months ago, and we actually had some > discussions > about it. Most folks in the community agreed that the remaining item to check > off > was the licensing issues. Unfortunately in terms of diversity not that much seems to have changed since. > http://s.apache.org/a08 ...even with the new committer on board. > Months is not a rush. You are pushing for it - and I don't get why. > Go read the Lucy reports: the project has been in Incubation > since July 2010: so it's been about 1 year, 3 months. Every project has a > different > amount of time in Incubation Exactly. So let's give it the time it needs. What's so bad if it takes 3 years? Just bringing this up every other month does not bring it any closer to a successful graduation. > and every project has a checklist of things to get done > before graduating. I think we've met that checklist. Quoting from the incubator guide at http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html "The project is considered to have a diverse community when it is not highly dependent on any single contributor (there are at least 3 legally independent committers and there is no single company or entity that is vital to the success of the project)" That's just not the case yet. cheers, Torsten
