Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > > Eh. I think community doesn't matter at all when the Incubator is > simply performing accountable legal oversight. If a TLP says they want > a codebase from the outside, and we have determined that there are no > legal impediments to that codebase from entering the ASF, then that > should be that...
but that's *not* all it's supposed to be doing. that's the stuff it *must* do for the legal well-being of the asf. for the social well-being, it also is supposed to ensure that people coming in with a new codebase understand how the asf works, how the voting model functions, the release process, peer review, et cetera. one of the reasons the incubator came into existence was because apparently a *lot* of people had become committers withoug any of that ever being made clear. ref the 'why the hell should i want to be an asf member' discussion last year.
If I understand correctly, the idea is to have a committee be responsible for the "education" of the newcomers, instead of the people who specifically volunteered to do this work. I wish I had more time to deal with this bureaucracy.
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