27 messages in org.apache.commons.devRe: [feedparser] News / Status| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Niall Pemberton | Mar 2, 2006 3:10 am | |
| Henri Yandell | Mar 2, 2006 7:46 am | |
| Rahul Akolkar | Mar 2, 2006 9:06 am | |
| Rahul Akolkar | Mar 2, 2006 9:09 am | |
| James Carman | Mar 2, 2006 9:11 am | |
| Henri Yandell | Mar 2, 2006 9:13 am | |
| Henri Yandell | Mar 2, 2006 9:14 am | |
| James Carman | Mar 2, 2006 9:16 am | |
| Martin Cooper | Mar 2, 2006 9:35 am | |
| Martin Cooper | Mar 2, 2006 9:40 am | |
| Craig McClanahan | Mar 2, 2006 10:06 am | |
| Stephen Colebourne | Mar 2, 2006 11:14 am | |
| Simon Kitching | Mar 2, 2006 11:26 am | |
| robert burrell donkin | Mar 2, 2006 2:13 pm | |
| Rahul Akolkar | Mar 2, 2006 2:49 pm | |
| Rahul Akolkar | Mar 2, 2006 2:53 pm | |
| Rahul Akolkar | Mar 2, 2006 3:02 pm | |
| Simon Kitching | Mar 2, 2006 4:51 pm | |
| Simon Kitching | Mar 2, 2006 5:03 pm | |
| Noel J. Bergman | Mar 2, 2006 5:16 pm | |
| Henri Yandell | Mar 2, 2006 5:26 pm | |
| Sandy McArthur | Mar 2, 2006 5:54 pm | |
| James Carman | Mar 2, 2006 6:08 pm | |
| Rahul Akolkar | Mar 2, 2006 6:38 pm | |
| Rahul Akolkar | Mar 2, 2006 6:45 pm | |
| Rahul Akolkar | Mar 2, 2006 6:49 pm | |
| Martin Cooper | Mar 2, 2006 6:50 pm |
| Subject: | Re: [feedparser] News / Status | |
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| From: | Henri Yandell (flam...@gmail.com) | |
| Date: | Mar 2, 2006 5:26:41 pm | |
| List: | org.apache.commons.dev | |
On 3/2/06, Simon Kitching <skit...@apache.org> wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 18:02 -0500, Rahul Akolkar wrote:
On 3/2/06, Simon Kitching <skit...@apache.org> wrote: <snip/>
We should probably be more careful about what projects are accepted into commons.
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Agreed, but how do we do that?
On one hand, its too easy to start a project in Commons, and then have the project stall (for a plethora of reasons). OTOH, our charter says the sandbox is fairly "open". Needs some objective definition if we're going to be selective (such as saying something to the effect of your sentence below and then standing firm).
Well, maybe we just should emphasise that it's not a "failure" for a project to start in the sandbox then move to Sourceforge or similar.
We've done it in the past. We should even be going as far as to officially record that as a PMC we are giving Kevin our blessing to continue development at Foo, and we will add a pointer to our site with that etc. Commons Graph and Commons Messenger have both 'left'. Graph with more formality than Messenger, the latter was like this case - we found out after it had moved.
From this point of view, it was the promotion of FeedParser to proper without the necessary community support that was the only mistake made.
Yep. You make an important point above - there is more than one exit strategy for a project from Sandbox, it can goto Proper, it can go dormant, it can die, or we can give it a blessing to move to a more singular community.
Hen