we talked yesterday about creating a template for proposals. most applicants cut and paste one of the previous proposals so it probably makes sense for the incubator to host a standard template. an annotated version would be good so that we can explain what we're expecting.
here's a basic outltine. please dive in and post comments, annotations, corrections, enhancements. i'll pull together a document from the consensus --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROJECT PROPOSAL 0. Rationale 0.1 Criteria Meritocracy: Community: Core Developers: Alignment: 0.2 Warning signs Orphaned products: Inexperience with open source: Homogenous developers: Reliance on salaried developers: No ties to other Apache products: A fascination with the Apache brand: 1. Scope 2. Identify the initial source from which the subprojects are to be populated 2.1 External Dependencies of the project 3. Identify the ASF resources to be created 3.1 mailing list(s) 3.2 Subversion repository 3.3 Jira 4. Identify the initial set of committers: 5. Identify Apache sponsoring individual Champion: Mentors:
