Re: Is the incubator full?

2016-09-06 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Andy Seaborne wrote: > ...Is the incubator full? No, but it needs to be careful about the nature > of the set of mentors... I fully agree with that, we should aim for podlings which are "self-sustaining" in the sense that their mentors take care

Re: Is the incubator full?

2016-09-06 Thread Andy Seaborne
On 25/08/16 07:34, Sergio Fernández wrote: > I think you may be seeing signs of self-throttling. Basically if the > new proposal > comes in and there's nobody interested in mentoring it -- well the project > won't > go in. Well, that just 1% of the work. Every body could easily volunteer for

Re: Is the incubator full?

2016-08-25 Thread Ted Dunning
I like the slider metaphor. When I mentor, I like to start with the slider hard over by active, especially during champion phase, but moving toward passive after the first clean release and report or two. I don't think that inactive projects actually require all that much thought or action. The

Re: Is the incubator full?

2016-08-25 Thread P. Taylor Goetz
> On Aug 24, 2016, at 5:41 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 7:26 AM, John D. Ament wrote: >> All, >> >> I'm wondering if the Apache Incubator is full right now? > > It seems that this question gets asked about once a year.

Re: Is the incubator full?

2016-08-25 Thread Sergio Fernández
Hi, On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:41 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 7:26 AM, John D. Ament > wrote: > > I'm wondering if the Apache Incubator is full right now? > Very interesting question I wouldn't say full, because

Re: Is the incubator full?

2016-08-24 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 7:26 AM, John D. Ament wrote: > All, > > I'm wondering if the Apache Incubator is full right now? It seems that this question gets asked about once a year. The consensus always seems to be that this may not be the right question to ask. It is sort

Re: Is the incubator full?

2016-08-23 Thread Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Hi John, Fair question. I think we accepted lot of projects in the incubator recently. IMHO, the first action to do is to check with the current podlings the ones ready to graduate. I think we have at least 2 or 3 podlings ready. On the other hand, we can also double check the global