Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact general-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list general@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 92849 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2003 07:51:44 -0000 Received: from kurgan.lyra.org (198.144.203.198) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 12 Mar 2003 07:51:44 -0000 Received: (from gstein@localhost) by kurgan.lyra.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h2C7s2o23433 for general@incubator.apache.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:54:02 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: kurgan.lyra.org: gstein set sender to gstein@lyra.org using -f Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:54:02 -0800 From: Greg Stein To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator DOA (Re: [STATUS] Tapestry [LACK-OF] Progress) Message-ID: <20030311235402.A23383@lyra.org> References: <200303121207.12360.conor@cortexebusiness.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200303121207.12360.conor@cortexebusiness.com.au>; from conor@cortexebusiness.com.au on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:07:12PM +1100 X-URL: http://www.lyra.org/greg/ X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:07:12PM +1100, Conor MacNeill wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:33 am, dion@multitask.com.au wrote: > > The Incubator project needs to take a proactive role in ensuring that new > > projects are brought to Apache the right way, not just be an extra helper. > > This means documentation, processes to be followed etc. > > I have to agree. AFAICT, accepting subprojects in the raison d'etre of the > Incubator. I was surprised by the statement that the incubator does not want > subprojects. IIRC, the board has said that all subprojects must come through > the incubator. If it's just a cork, what's the point of it? We have had *numerous* problems in the past with code arriving in the CVS repository *without* the proper legal footwork. In my mind, that is the primary reason for the Incubator -- to ensure that the ASF has right and title to all arriving code.