Re: How to evangelize Apache Lab across ASF communities

On 29 Sep 2011, at 2:25 PM, ant elder wrote:

> IIRC that has been discussed and explained already, but there are
> now far to
> many threads and emails on the subject to make that easy to find
> without
> hunting about for ages in all the emails. But to summarize - the
> Incubator
> is about learning how to build communities whereas labs is about
> innovating/experimenting without the burden of community building.
> What some
> of us are suggesting is that while innovating/experimenting you may
> want to
> do a release.

And in turn, a release requires 3 +1's from a community[1], and
therefore without a community a release is impossible.

This is fundamental to how the ASF works.

[1] Most strictly, a PMC drawn from the community.

Regards,
Graham
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