[INCUBATOR-36] Removed discursive material repeated elsewhere from policy

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: site
• Assignee: Robert Burrell Donkin
• Reporter: Robert Burrell Donkin
• Created: 20/Jul/06 20:33
• Updated: 25/Jul/06 20:35
• Resolved: 25/Jul/06 20:35

Description

This patch remove quite a quantity of discursive material from policy which is already covered in roles.

Index: site-author/incubation/Incubation_Policy.xml
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— site-author/incubation/Incubation_Policy.xml (revision 423542)
+++ site-author/incubation/Incubation_Policy.xml (working copy)
@@ -225,23 +225,13 @@
<li>be nominated for incubation by a member of the Apache Software
Foundation ("The Champion"); and
</li>

• <li>be approved by a Sponsor.
  + <li>be approved by a <a href='#Sponsor'>Sponsor</a>.
  </li>
  </ul>
  <p>Approval by a Sponsor will generally occur only after a vote within
  the Entity, and will require that the Entity be convinced that the
  -Candidate is appropriate for Incubation. A Sponsor may be one of:
  +Candidate is appropriate for Incubation.
  </p>
• <ul>
• <li>the Board of the Apache Software Foundation;
  -</li>
• <li>a Top Level Project (TLP) within the Apache Software Foundation
  -(where the TLP considers the Candidate to be a suitable sub-project);
  -or
  -</li>
• <li>the Incubator PMC.
  -</li>
• </ul>
  <p>To start this process, a Candidate SHOULD submit a proposal to a
  Sponsor. The Proposal SHOULD, at minimum, detail the following areas :
  </p>
  @@ -891,33 +881,23 @@
  <section id="Sponsor">
  <title>Sponsor
  </title>
• <p>The Sponsor is the entity within the ASF that makes the determination
  -that a candidate would make a worthy addition to the ASF, and agrees
  -to take on the candidate in question (or in the case of the Incubator
  -PMC, assist it in finding a home) should it complete the incubation
  -process.
  +<p>
  +A Sponsor SHALL be either:
  </p>
• <p>A Sponsor will be one of:
  -</p>
  <ul>
• <li>The Board of the Apache Software Foundation. In this case, it is
  -expected that the candidate would become a TLP on successful
  -completion of Incubation.
  + <li>the Board of the Apache Software Foundation;
  </li>
• <li>A Top Level Project within the ASF. In this case, the project in
  -question has agreed that the candidate is a good fit for their
  -project, and will take on the candidate as a sub-project upon
  -successful completion of Incubation.
  + <li>a Top Level Project (TLP) within the Apache Software Foundation
  +(where the TLP considers the Candidate to be a suitable sub-project);
  +or
  </li>
• <li>The Incubator PMC. In this case, the Incubator PMC agrees that the
  -project in question will make a good addition to the ASF, but there
  -is no clear "owner" of the candidate should it successfully complete
  -incubation. An incubation exit requirement for such candidates will
  -be the identification (and successfuly lobbying) of an "owner" entity
  • either the board (and the candidate will be a TLP) or another
    -project.
    + <li>the Incubator PMC.
    </li>
    </ul>
    + <p>
    +This role and it's responsibilities are discussed
    +<a href='/incubator/Roles_and_Responsibilities.html#Sponsor'>here</a>.
    + </p>
    </section>
    <section id="Mentor">
    <title>Mentor
    Index: site-author/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.xml
    ===================================================================
    • site-author/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.xml (revision 423542)
      +++ site-author/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.xml (working copy)
      @@ -151,7 +151,8 @@
      <section id="Sponsor">
      <title>Sponsor
      </title>
• <p>The Sponsor is the entity within the ASF that makes the determination
  + <p>The Sponsor <a href='/incubation/Incubator_Policy.html#Sponsor'>definition</a>
  +is the entity within the ASF that makes the determination
  that a candidate would make a worthy addition to the ASF, and agrees
  to take on the candidate in question (or in the case of the Incubator
  PMC, assist it in finding a home) should it complete the incubation