On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:59 AM Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 9:38 AM Lars Francke <lars.fran...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > This is very much not thought through to the end. One question raised > for > > > example is whether projects would even want to become a TLP. > > > The mission states: "We do this by providing services and support for > > many > > > like-minded software project communities consisting of individuals who > > > choose to participate in ASF activities." > > > I don't see anything in there requiring anyone to "join" (I remember > the > > > recent discussions about that). If you sign up to Github you're not all > > of > > > a sudden a "Github project" but still benefit from its services. > > > > > > We could do something similar. > > > > Do I understand correctly that you're proposing a sort of "indefinite > > incubation" for projects which want to benefit from our infra but don't > > want to follow one or more of the principles we have deemed important to > > producing open source software? > > > ... > I don't see Lars suggesting allowing such projects. There would still be a > Proposal, and retirement is still an option.
Actually, I think that he quite literally did suggest what he called github++ where projects would be free to make releases based on whatever rules that they chose and to not all themselves apache projects for as long as they like. I am with Myrle. That isn't what we want. There has to be some ooomph toward becoming an Apache project.
