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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:25:18 +1000
From: David Crossley <crossley@apache.org>
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: initial incubation steps for new podlings
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Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> David Crossley wrote:
> > Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> >>
> >> I suggest that the podling use Jira for tracking the start of a project... See
> >>
> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACE-1
> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-1
> >>
> >> for a reasonable template on what is needed.
> >
> > However please move sub-task #6 on those lists
> > to be the first task,
> > i.e. "Add project to Reporting Schedule"
> >
> > This is in line with the docs:
> > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html#Overview
> > http://incubator.apache.org/clutch.html#steps
> 
> Well, when I created those, there was no inherent order in the list,
> just the order they came to my mind. And at any given point in time, I
> would look at the list and say "What do I have energy and time for
> doing now?" and pick one. IMHO, forcing a particular order will only
> slow the overall progress down. (Not really the case for your
> suggestion since it is one of the 'quick' ones.)

There are two important steps that need to happen early:
1) Add project to Reporting Schedule
2) Add project to Incubation Table

(The latter is documented as part of the "Status page" task.
Perhaps we should separate it - just add an entry to the
site-author/projects/index.xml source, and do the Status page
later sometime.)

These two enable IPMC members to know which project
is due to report, and who are their mentors.
Without this information, the IPMC has been losing track.
These are the two very simple tasks that enable Clutch
to start helping.

The order for the rest of the tasks does not matter.

> Anyway, I have made
> the change suggested.

Thanks, if those get quoted as templates, then this order helps.

-David

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