The real point is to find the most efficient and effective way for a
small set of (often) Apache newbies to build a healthy community that
has clean code.
From that perspective, is there some way to break up this action item
into smaller steps for the benefit of that *community*? I.e. a way to
show with some concrete step that they are making progress, even if the
final review is not yet complete?
- List the code submitted or added to the podling that must have a grant.
- All original code authors have been contacted to submit a grant or iCLA.
- All original committers have been contacted to submit an iCLA.
- All code remaining in repository is covered by grant/iCLA/etc.
I think 3 months is often too short, but I agree that we need to see
better progress towards the final goal by podlings.
- Shane
On 8/2/2011 12:48 AM, Henri Yandell wrote:
As can be seen elsewhere, I'm on a self-given mission to clean up the
history of podlings by getting them to sign off on the following
checklist item:
"Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to the ASF
been received. It is only necessary to transfer rights for the
package, the core code, and any new code produced by the project. "
I view this as the first item that a podling should be dealing with,
along with setting up the committers and getting that first codebase
in. By comparison, a website is a nice to have and community is just
icing.
Proposal time.
In parallel to cleaning up history, I'd like to stop the rot going
forward. I'd like to propose that each new podling has 3 months (or
another calendar length if that feels too short/too long) to get the
checklist item signed off. I'm partial to 3 months as we would make
them report monthly until they have the item signed off, perhaps with
6 months as a 'do we retire the podling?' checkpoint.
Thoughts?
Hen
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