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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:05:46 +0200
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Subject: Re: Does an incubation proposal require a codebase?
From: Martijn Dashorst <martijn.dashorst@gmail.com>
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A code base is not required, but highly recommended. It is hard to
bootstrap a community from scratch. Having something readily available
makes a project more tangible, and can attract more contributors with
more ease. Conversely, a too mature codebase can be a hindrance to a
project as well, where no new features need to be developed, or the
code is too large to comprehend.

That said, I think there were a couple of projects that came to the
incubator without code, IIRC Photark is one of them.

Martijn

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Noah Slater<nslater@apache.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I am thinking about making an incubation proposal for a project I've been
> wanting to do for a while now. I have list of initial committers and a te=
chnical
> architecture proposal, but no actual code yet.
>
> =A0Moreover, in order to provide a seed to grow and ground discussions on
> =A0technical levels, the ASF incubation rules require the podlings to joi=
n the
> =A0incubation process with an established and working codebase.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0- http://labs.apache.org/bylaws.html
>
> I checked the incubation rules, but couldn't find any mention of this rul=
e. Our
> hopes were that we could start from scratch as a podling, and grow the co=
de
> along with the community. Is this going to be possible?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
>
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