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From: Dain Sundstrom <dain@iq80.com>
Subject: Re: BPEL contribution from Sybase
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:18:13 -0800
To: general@incubator.apache.org

On Feb 13, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Greg Stein wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 05:40:47PM -0800, Dain Sundstrom wrote:
>> On Feb 13, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>>> I've heard nothing to provide a reason for not bringing in the
>>> contribution
>>> as a standalone podling, which ServiceMix and others can consume.
>>> This would be in accord with Ken and Mads.
>>
>> I really detest it when people try to flip the burden of proof.  The
>> donator wants to put the code into ServiceMix and ServiceMix wants to
>> work on it.  I think the burden of proof is on you.  Unless you come
>> up with a BIG reason that this donation must be stopped, otherwise I
>> see no reason to not proceed with the IP checklist.
>
> The IP checklist is the same either way. There is no "burden of proof"
> with respect to that. The "proof" is actually more about "expected
> outcome" and around how we believe the ASF community will end up
> managing the resulting codebase.
>
> IMO, what is happening here is that a number of people are observing,
> for all intents and purposes, a turf battle over a codebase. That is
> the antithesis of the ASF community model. This implies there are two
> problems: the battle, and the people (who see "defending turf" as okay
> behavior).
>
> The solution to erasing those turf lines is to put *everybody* into
> the same pool (the BPEL podling) and to put *all* projects outside of
> that pool (no special consideration for Geronimo, WS, or whoever).
>
> The more people play turf battles ("go into the service-mix turf"),
> the worse the whole BPEL situation looks, and the more important it is
> to stamp it out right here and now. And that is what the Incubator is
> all about. Erase the lines and create a community that can work on
> something with a cooperative atmosphere.

Good point.

-dain

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