[openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

Julien Danjou julien at danjou.info
Wed Dec 18 16:37:18 UTC 2013


On Wed, Dec 18 2013, Thierry Carrez wrote:

> 1. Require diversity for incubation, but find ways to bless or recommend
> projects pre-incubation so that this diversity can actually be achieved
>
> 2. Do not require diversity for incubation, but require it for
> graduation, and remove projects from incubation if they fail to attract
> a diverse community
>
> 3. Do not require diversity at incubation time, but at least judge the
> interest of other companies: are they signed up to join in the future ?
> Be ready to drop the project from incubation if that was a fake support
> and the project fails to attract a diverse community
>
> Personally I'm leaning towards (3) at the moment. Thoughts ?

Option 2 is definitely the way to go IMHO. As it has already been
stated, companies may not get on board until the project is incubated,
so adding such a requirement is not going to help.

-- 
Julien Danjou
;; Free Software hacker ; independent consultant
;; http://julien.danjou.info
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