+1; this is a pragmatic proposal. -C On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <r...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi! > > I think it would be fair to say that in the > past month or so we've had a healthy amount > of discussion around where to go next with > IPMC/Incubator/Metors reform. A diverse > set of view points has emerged that helped > clarify things a great deal (at least for me it did!). > > This is all goodness. What seems to be missing > at this point, though, is coming up with a set of > actionable steps and moving forward. > > Here's what I would like to propose: lets decouple > IPMC/Incubator/Metors reform from a *complimentary* > plan of pTLPs. It is clear that no drastic change is > in the cards for Incubator for the next 6 months. Whatever > we do on that side of things has to be very measured and > incremental. And regardless of whether IPMC gets reformed > of stays exactly the same, running a pTLP experiment and > evaluating that as an eventual alternative to IPMC seems > pretty non-controversial to me. > > Personally, I'm much more enthusiastic about pTLPs > becoming THE way of how new projects get added to > the foundation. This is what I'm going to focus all of > my personal energy in the coming months, hoping to > demonstrate pTLP to not only be a viable, but a superior > alternative to bringing new projects into the foundation. > > Although I can NOT offer my time to champion a more > incremental approach to evolving the classic Incubator, > I think it is of paramount importance that somebody > do it. It would be a great thing if whoever becomes a new > Chair can get this done. My only observation here is that > despite our efforts to evolve 3 of the wikified proposals, > the way they stand right now is not actionable within the > charter of a careful, incremental approach to improving IPMC. > Or to put it another way: there are still dealbreakers (btw, > thanks to those who took time to provide that feedback > on the wiki!) and hence should any of these proposal > come to a vote -- I don't think they can reach a consensus > in their current form. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >
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