On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:16 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: <snip>
> To be honest, I don't see why Apache can't continue using the existing > infrastructure on openoffice.org? incubator.apache.org sounds, to me, like > something which is in the early stages of development - which OOo certainly > isn't! I know the page at http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ > explains otherwise, but if I were not already familiar with OOo I probably > wouldn't even have read that far. > You can read more about Apache Incubation here: http://incubator.apache.org/ All projects that go through Incubation at Apache are already established open source projects. Incubation is not a place to start a new codebase. Apache Labs is where brand new ideas can start. So the point of Incubation for OOo is not that OOo is new, but that it is new to Apache and needs some extra attention to conform to the Apache license, integrate with Apache infrastructure and understand how Apache projects are run. I can't really answer your cosmic "why?" question. We must take it as a given fact that Oracle has contributed OOo to Apache and that Oracle will be shutting down their hosting of the website. Once those facts are acknowledged -- even if you disagree with those decisions or how they were made -- the rest of this, including Apache Incubation and list migration, follows naturally. > That page also states that "Incubation is required of all newly accepted > projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, > communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner > consistent with other successful ASF projects." > > Does this mean the infrastructure, mailing list addresses, etc. are going to > change *again* once they have stabilized? If that's the case, why not use > the existing infrastructure at openoffice.org until Apache are ready to roll > out whatever new infrastructure they want to put in place? > Once a project graduates from Incubation it becomes a "top level project" or TLP. At that point the mailing lists will change again, e.g. [email protected],org would become [email protected]. We can probably make that transition easy for subscribers, since it will be still within the same list infrastructure. -Rob > Mark. > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] > For additional commands send email to [email protected] > with Subject: help > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
