On 04/28/2016 12:45 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> 2) I like the idea, but an example project might help illustrate here.
>
> Agreed, though I have some of my own ideas.
>
>> 3) What are the criteria for "graduating"? Who are the mentors in this
>> example? (Mentors are a key part of the incubator for Apache.)
>
> Do projects have to graduate? I don't want this to be viewed as a
> competition between initiatives, and promotion/relegaion/graduation
> seem to set a competitive tone. As soon as you start talking about
> graduation or promotion, you start getting into resource allocation
> issues, etc.
>
> I'd personally be fine if a project joined the incubator and stayed
> there. If they wanted to somehow because an Objective, we already
> have paths for that.
I can think of at least one Atomic effort (the OSTree continuous
integration) which might stay in Incubator permanently.
Given that, are you sure you want to call it "Incubator"? That name
does imply maturation at some point, even without the Apache precendent.
What about "Fedora Innovator" or "Fedora Labs"?
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Josh Berkus
Project Atomic