On Aug 10, 2009, at 1:06 PM, Upayavira wrote:
The creation of a podling is heavyweight. Very heavy compared to
registering a project with Sourceforge, GitHub or GoogleCode.
Because of
the effort involved in the creation of a podling, it is natural that
the
Incubator PMC wants some reasonable chance of success.
There are two reasons why it is more heavyweight: because we haven't
spent huge amounts of time/money automating our infrastructure and
putting it behind a pretty web UI, but more importantly because we pay
more attention to the legals, ensuring we have grants, CLAs etc, and
that we know precicely what piece of code came from where.
This latter requirement can be stifling for a very young/nascent
project
that is still trying to work out whether it has a life or not. For
something a little more established, perhaps the effort can more
easily
be absorbed.
Actually, I should think that for a project that has no code base the
second item would be a non-issue. Since there is no code it would all
originate at Apache.
Ralph
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