Hi! I think it would be fair to say that in the past month or so we've had a healthy amount of discussion around where to go next with IPMC/Incubator/Metors reform. A diverse set of view points has emerged that helped clarify things a great deal (at least for me it did!).
This is all goodness. What seems to be missing at this point, though, is coming up with a set of actionable steps and moving forward. Here's what I would like to propose: lets decouple IPMC/Incubator/Metors reform from a *complimentary* plan of pTLPs. It is clear that no drastic change is in the cards for Incubator for the next 6 months. Whatever we do on that side of things has to be very measured and incremental. And regardless of whether IPMC gets reformed of stays exactly the same, running a pTLP experiment and evaluating that as an eventual alternative to IPMC seems pretty non-controversial to me. Personally, I'm much more enthusiastic about pTLPs becoming THE way of how new projects get added to the foundation. This is what I'm going to focus all of my personal energy in the coming months, hoping to demonstrate pTLP to not only be a viable, but a superior alternative to bringing new projects into the foundation. Although I can NOT offer my time to champion a more incremental approach to evolving the classic Incubator, I think it is of paramount importance that somebody do it. It would be a great thing if whoever becomes a new Chair can get this done. My only observation here is that despite our efforts to evolve 3 of the wikified proposals, the way they stand right now is not actionable within the charter of a careful, incremental approach to improving IPMC. Or to put it another way: there are still dealbreakers (btw, thanks to those who took time to provide that feedback on the wiki!) and hence should any of these proposal come to a vote -- I don't think they can reach a consensus in their current form. Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
