[ogb-discuss] Proposal for HA Clusters Community

[Stephen Lau]

Simon Phipps wrote:
> 
> On Jun 4, 2007, at 18:12, Stephen Lau wrote:
> 
>> 1) Is it necessary that you have the community group setup before your 
>> source code is available/published?  I only ask because I'm not 
>> entirely comfortable with the idea of giving governance representation 
>> and voting grants to a community that doesn't yet have open code or 
>> open development.
> 
> Surely this is something of a Catch 22 situation? The only alternative 
> is to create an "incubator" process like Apache have, where projects can 
> be introduced with minimal process overhead and gradually come up to 
> speed with the expected bureaucracy.

Indeed it is (a Catch-22); I like the idea of organic growth from 
projects into communities, and the idea of incubator is an interesting 
one that's been raised a couple of times now.  I'm not sure it's 
entirely compatible with the idea of having existing communities endorse 
new projects though (i.e.: what community endorses a project which 
doesn't fall within the realms of any existing community?).

I admit this isn't something I've finalised my thoughts on, so I 
apologise if my thoughts aren't fully baked.  ;)

cheers,
steve

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