On Mar 18, 2007, at 4:08 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote:
>
> Irregardless of that, the IPMC could stipulate that releases are
> "final
> stepping stones" towards graduation, and require an active and diverse
> community to allow for releases. After all, it is the Incubator
> that does the
> release (legally) and not the podling.
>
> Personally, I think it makes sense. I could also see good argument
> to allow
> for one or two 'early releases' which don't require this. SO the
> setup is a
> huge deterrent to "get cozy in the Incubator", not too different
> from the
> human incubator, where the baby will try to stay on, and the
> mother's body
> will starve it of the resources to force a birth.... ;o)
Those 'early' releases could perhaps be source-only with some
latitude for existing open source projects.
That's a deterrent for commercial entities but supports the goal of
building the podling's developer community.
--
Jeremy
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