Incubation GuidesThe Incubation Guides linked below are descriptive and at times discursive documents. They describe established practices. These guides are informational. They are something to start from and improve on.
Unlike the Policy,
the guides are not normative. You MAY diverge
from a guide whenever it makes sense for your project. Only the
Policy
is normative and MUST be followed by all projects.
For more information, see these notes.
Entry Guides
Podling Guides
General Incubator Guides
Notes
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Within all Incubator documentation, the terms
MAY,MUSTandSHOULDare used as defined by RFC2119. -
Documentation is considered a secondary source. It records experiences and codifying consensus
formed on the mailing lists and in particular on
general.AT.incubator.apache.org. Please feel free to subscribe to this list and ask any questions not covered adequately by the documentation. -
The Incubator documentation is intended to be read as a superset of the documentation
for full Apache projects. See
- the Apache Software Foundation documentation , especially:
- the Apache development documentation which includes information for contributors, committers and PMCs
- the Apache legal group documentation
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Questions
MAYbe expected on deviations from the established practices documented in these guides. The aim of this process is to improve quality by ensuring that decisions are fully considered and to allow established practices to evolve. Subjective quality is one factor taken to account by IPMC members during votes.