On Feb 3, 2012, at 10:24 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 2/3/2012 8:07 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: >>> >>> [...snippage...] >>> >>> 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. > > I'm actually thinking the thru-process test might be more useful. Take > the next two incubating projects 'accepted', put Chris and I each on one > of them with another few mentors each as usual, give them the board > resolutions to create them as "Project, Incubating" "accountable to the > policies proscribed by the VP, Incubator", and see how the process flows. > Chris and I have each incubated a few projects all the way through, so > it should be easy for us to note obstacles and roadblocks that need to > be corrected through docs and policy revisions.
Yep, that's fine with me and we have some already being discussed potential "podlings" in the old model that would fit this. Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
