On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems to me that the proposed new scheme will take quite a bit of > setting up. There is some writing to do. More to the point, if I were > the board, I would want to pilot the new scheme for some time before > tearing down the existing incubator. All of this looks to me like more > than 2 months. > > A trial balloon: the board appoints Chris to run a PMC to set this up > and try it out -- with the intention of being a short-lived > phenomenon. Meanwhile, Noel or I or some other nominee continue to > make the best of the incubator as we have it, including the gradual > modifications pushed by Sam and Joe. If the board eventually decides > that the ipmc is entirely obviated by the membership and comdev, we'll > hire a bagpiper for the closing ceremony. If it turns out that a small > IPMC providing support and assistance to 'probationary projects' is > desired, we'll go on a diet. > > I just don't think it is realistic to imagine that in 60 days from > some near-term board meeting, we can set up this new plan, debug it, > and transition the existing clutch. While this can't avoid ending up > as electioneering, I don't think it a good idea to simply appoint an > IPMC chairman who is focussed like a laser beam on this restructuring > to the exclusion of making the best of what we're currently doing.
This makes sense to me. Podlings are an obvious granularity to try out this. Over a period of years we dissolved Jakarta. We started by graduating Ant and Tomcat to be TLPs. This was once a new concept. Over time, less and less remained under the umbrella. Selecting individual podlings that seem best equipped to try out the new experiment would be a reasonable way to proceed. - Sam Ruby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
