[sakai-pmc] Incubation questions

[Steve Swinsburg]

It's not about timing, its about being confident that new additions are
well designed, developed and supported and aren't going to cause a major
burden to the few people who end up being responsible for code that is no
longer actively developed.

The incubation process is designed to assist developers in ensuring that
licensing, accessibility and internationalisation is squared away, that
builds are standardised, that the development and support model is
sustainable and to answer any questions. This is not an intrusive process.
The developers get one on one assistance and at the end the project will be
a sponsored by Apereo.

If all of that WAS sorted, then it would take very little time to run
through that and be satisfied. There are questions about both JSF and
licensing for the newer tools. These queries can be addressed and fixed
where possible.

We don't have an endless pool of resources to accept more and more code,
and people are increasingly being pulled in different directions. We need
to ensure that whatever code goes into core is sustainable.

For the tools that I proposed, Roster2 has been around for a while, has
tight integrations, is well supported and from my past experience in the
incubation working group, ticks all of the boxes already. Simple RSS
Portlet went through the Jasig incubation process and also ticks all of the
boxes.

I think it is prudent to be ensuring that any other tools also tick the
boxes.

regards,
Steve



On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Berg, Alan <A.M.Berg at uva.nl> wrote:

>  Isn't this simply a question of timing in the cycle and being as even
> handed with all tools as possible? Or are we going to raise the bar for the
> incoming late in 2.10 release process.
>
> I would set a moment to start after the 2.10 feature set decision with
> very clear and equal rules of engagement.
>
>
> Regards,
>            Alan
>
>
> Alan Berg
>
> Innovation working group
> On the use of ICT in Education & Research
> University of Amsterdam
>      ------------------------------
> *From:* sakai-pmc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [
> sakai-pmc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] on behalf of Steve Swinsburg [
> steve.swinsburg at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 17 December 2013 00:10
> *To:* sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org
> *Subject:* [sakai-pmc] Incubation questions
>
>    All,
>
> Is it the view of people in this group that no existing Sakai tools (in
> contrib or elsewhere) that are to be promoted to core go through any form
> of lightweight incubation?
>
> If so, what do you feel the incubation process is for?
>
>  It would be good to get that feedback back to the incubation group.
>
>  thanks,
> Steve
>
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