On 7/5/2011 7:36 AM, Benson Margulies wrote:
Anyhow, what do other think? Should mentors be pushing early and often
on this subject, or is it reasonable wait for, oh, 18 months and a few
releases before getting pushy?
18 months and 'a few releases', with no obstacle but attracting more
I wasn't clear on the timing. They launched in Nov 2010 and have made
one release. It will be 18 months in June of 2012. the question I was
trying to explore was, 'how essential is it to have shown that they
can attract and integrate new people before hatching?' Your answer
seems to be 'not
I personally would say that bringing in new people is important. It is
an important part of showing your project to be viable, that it is
interesting enough to draw in new talent. Otherwise it is going to rely
permanently on the existing committers, which is not long term viable.
If a project,
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote:
...If a project, during an 18 month incubation, cannot draw in new blood,
how can we believe that it will do so as a TLP?
Marketing of the project, getting it known, getting people using it
enough so as to draw in new blood, is
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz
bdelacre...@apache.org wrote:
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote:
...If a project, during an 18 month incubation, cannot draw in new blood,
how can we believe that it will do so as a TLP?
Marketing of the
Given the context you explained then I have to say I agree with both
Bertrand and Upayavira. On the other hand, I don't see any harm not
graduating from the Incubator and the project staying there for longer
time till the criteria of having more new blood into the project is
satisfied, and
On 5 July 2011 14:07, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz
bdelacre...@apache.org wrote:
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote:
...If a project, during an 18 month incubation, cannot draw in new blood,
how
No secret here. It's OpenNLP.
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote:
On 5 July 2011 14:07, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz
bdelacre...@apache.org wrote:
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM,
On 7/5/2011 7:45 AM, Benson Margulies wrote:
I wasn't clear on the timing. They launched in Nov 2010 and have made
one release. It will be 18 months in June of 2012. the question I was
trying to explore was, 'how essential is it to have shown that they
can attract and integrate new people
