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Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 11:43:22 -0500
From: Geir Magnusson Jr <geir@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [policy] bring in full code history on incubated project?
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Jules Gosnell wrote:
> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> 
>> Sorry to change the subject...
>>
>> Can someone make a definitive statement on whether or not code  
>> history is brought into our repo from elsewhere when a podling brings  
>> code over?
>>
>>
> 
> I don't see how the incubator can hold a single position on this one.
>
> There are good reasons both for and against, depending on your project.
>

We certainly can have a position, and then deal with exceptions.


> Rather than making a decision which is bound to fly in the face of some 
> potential incubatees, why can it not simply be left to individual 
> projects to decide for themselves?

Because IMO the primary purpose of the incubator is to protect and 
promote the ASFs interests, not of the candidate individual projects. 
That's SourceForge.

> 
> My understanding of the incubator's role, was that issues like this did 
> not have to be resolved until a project sought promotion up out of the 
> incubator.

Well, things have to be complete by then, but this is a case of where if 
you don't do it from the beginning, you can't fix it later, unless 
you've made no changes to the code.

> 
> At this point, I might reasonably expect to have to shed a project 
> history - if its acceptance into a first-level ASF repo caused problems 
> - and live with a history divided between two repos.
> 
> Why, though, a passage to this point, via the incubator, should further 
> fragment a project, and leave me with my history in three places, I do 
> not understand.
> 
> Isn't the incubator meant to lower the bar for projects wishing to 
> migrate into ASF ?

Where would the three places be?  I can see two if we don't take history 
and only one if we do - here, at the ASF.

geir

> 
> 
> Jules (WADI)
> 
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