Incubation BOF May 2011

How hard is it anyway?

• Mostly mechanical, most steps can be viewed on the jira ticket

• Developing community, getting adoption, can be difficult

Incubation committee is more for prodding the submitters, instead of helping build community itself

Email list - for announcing Incubation changes (newly submitted projects, graduated projects)

• and/or twitter feed?

• newsletter (e.g., these projects need a new committer)

• use existing jasig-announce email list, use existing jasig twitter account

dont want projects to wait 3 months to start incubation

• but projects COULD wait up to 3 months to EXIT incubation

• what alternative to meeting could be employed to accept projects into incubation?

"spotlight" up to 3 incubating projects per Jasig newsletter

Currently there is no link from www.jasig.org to the Incubation Jira project, so it's hard to know what's incubating

• no link from process page either

Jasig as a 'repository' of portlets that could be run in other portal containers, not just uPortal

What's the status of the Jasig newsletter? If it's dead, should we create a monthly incubation email to jasig-announce?

• give project leads some way to request their project be in the next 'spotlight' mention