Steven Noels wrote:
and see to bring XMLBeans where people can actually help them out. Apart from Nicola's apparent efforts in keeping the Incubator alive, most of the real action is done by infrastructure peeps, and the dispersed shepherds of incubating projects, most of them assumably under the umbrella of the XML/Jakarta PMC. Let's keep it that way, and keep the incubating projects close to an active PMC.
But being careful not to throw the baby out with the bath water. I would have said there is real value in the Incubator defining and fleshing out a process that is used by the various PMCs for incubation.
Totally agree with that, of course, although I find this hard to find back in what Nicola has been up to this far (sorry to say so). I'm willing to help out since I firmly believe in the need for a good acceptance/incubation process and tangible help for fledgling new Apache projects (and growth of new ASF projects is unavoidable, necessary, even healthy IMHO) - OTOH I feel a certain tendency towards overregulation and protectionism which I don't find inspiring.
But maybe it is my persistent lack of time preventing me to fully jump in the waters, causing me to seek false argumentation not being able to cooperate on policy making - oh well.
After spending considerable time off-list with Cliff preparing his proposal, I'm getting a bit weary with all this rules stuff - which doesn't mean rules are not important. But they shouldn't mess up the spirit, which is the real difference between Apache and the outside open source world.
</Steven> -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
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