Hello Franklin, For a project to live at the ASF it needs to have a Project Management Committee (PMC) -- or initially during its time in the Incubator, a Podling Project Management Committee (PPMC) -- that actively develops and supports the project and makes releases. Specifically, to make releases (or vote on other issues) there need to be at least three members of such a committee. If there aren't, then the project can't govern itself properly and will be asked to find more people or be terminated. Three is the minimum and it is a good idea to always be on the lookout for interested contributors or else the project has a tendency to gradually shrink over time.
Hope this helps, Nathan On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 10:43 AM Franklin Joshua <frank.j.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks PJ for the clarification. > > However I didn't find (or don't know if I missed) an explicit statement > that says that a project should already be supported by a community in its > current state for it to qualify to be donated to ASF. I was of the > understanding that a new community would be formed to take it forward after > donating to ASF. > > If that is not the case, is there any possibility for considerations > taking into account how this can help the development community at large. > > Also thank you for the suggested alternative which is good for > consideration if donating to ASF does not work out. > > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 5:07 PM PJ Fanning <fannin...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Thanks Franklin for the details. > > > > This is just my opinion but there does not appear to be a community > > behind this project. The Apache Incubator is about taking a project > > with an active community and bringing it through the process for that > > project to become an Apache Top Level Project. Apache Podlings and > > Projects are self managing and require multiple project members to > > ensure proper governance. > > > > I don't think your project meets the requirements yet. If you could > > try to get some extra people involved and get them committing and > > reviewing PRs in your GitHub projects, then maybe you could come back > > in a few months and apply again. > > > > Other Incubator PMC members might have different opinions to me. > > > > May I suggest that you could look at the Commonhaus Foundation? They > > have different requirements to the ASF. > > https://www.commonhaus.org/ > > > > > > On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 at 12:02, Franklin Joshua <frank.j.j...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > Oh ok - got it. > > > > > > The project is about object-2-object conversion in Java and here is the > > > link to the project - https://otcframework.org wherein I have provided > > all > > > the details and the documentations.. > > > > > > Frank > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 4:26 PM Xuanwo <xua...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > So would you be my champion / mentor ? > > > > > > > > Hello, each mentor has their own unique style and areas of expertise. > > > > Therefore, I can't provide a simple YES/NO answer without first > > > > understanding your project. > > > > > > > > I encourage you to introduce your project here so that potential > > mentors > > > > who are interested can step forward and decide whether or not to join > > the > > > > community. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024, at 18:35, Franklin Joshua wrote: > > > > > HI Xuanwo, > > > > > > > > > > Thank you for your reply. > > > > > > > > > > Infact I was following the same page for a couple of days and under > > the > > > > > steps, it says "Find a champion and Incubation mentors..." and the > > > > request > > > > > mail which I sent. > > > > > > > > > > So would you be my champion / mentor ? > > > > > > > > > > Frank > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 3:18 PM Xuanwo <xua...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> Hi, Franklin > > > > >> > > > > >> Thank you very much for considering donating your project to the ASF > > > > first. > > > > >> > > > > >> To donate a project to the ASF incubator, the best choice is to > > start by > > > > >> reading our incubator cookbook at > > > > https://incubator.apache.org/cookbook/. > > > > >> > > > > >> The Cookbook contains a wealth of information and answers to > > frequently > > > > >> asked questions. Feel free to directly ask any additional questions > > via > > > > >> this mailing list. I'm willing to provide help. > > > > >> > > > > >> On Fri, Aug 2, 2024, at 17:39, Franklin Joshua wrote: > > > > >> > Dear team, > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > I need help to donate an open source project to ASF > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > Though I have used many apache projects in my career, I'm very > > new to > > > > >> this > > > > >> > aspect of donating a project to ASF on which I need guidance / > > help.. > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > Can someone help me please ? > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > Best Regards > > > > >> > > > > > >> > Frank > > > > >> > > > > >> -- > > > > >> Xuanwo > > > > >> > > > > >> https://xuanwo.io/ > > > > >> > > > > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Xuanwo > > > > > > > > https://xuanwo.io/ > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
