[openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Dec 18 14:07:10 UTC 2013


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 02:57:27PM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:40:21AM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> >> I guess there are 3 options:
> >>
> >> 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
> > 
> > 2 and 3 don't look all that different to me. Are you saying that 3
> > does not have any 'diversity' requirement for graduation ?
> 
> They are very similar. In (3) we'd require that several independent
> parties have at least expressed interest in joining the project in the
> future, while in (2) we'd completely ignore diversity as a criteria for
> incubation and only evaluate it at graduation.

Ok, in that case I'd be fine with either 2 or 3.

Daniel
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