[adoptium-pmc] Creating the Adoptium Incubator project

[Tim Ellison <t.p.ellison@xxxxxxxxx>]

In the Adoptium Working Group meeting last week [1], the group agreed to 
support the Adoptium TLP PMC in creating a dedicated project as a place 
to try out new runtime, build, test, and infrastructure ideas.  This 
fulfils an aspect of the TLP charter's scope to support such activities [2].

The working title for the new project is "Eclipse Adoptium Incubator".

The driver for creating the project now is that Alibaba and others would 
like a shared location to collaborate on ideas currently being 
discussed.  Using the established governance model of Eclipse Adoptium 
for such collaboration ensures the work is open and vendor-neutral.

The intent of the proposed Eclipse Adoptium Incubator is to foster 
collaboration, and hopefully results in work proceeding to contribution 
by their original authors into upstream projects, including OpenJDK, or 
moving the work into a new Eclipse Adoptium project.  The Adoptium 
Incubator would not make any releases itself.

The Eclipse Foundation Development Process has explicit provision for 
such permanent incubator projects [3].  Thanks to Wayne Beaton for 
pointing us to this method for structuring the Adoptium project.

Creating such an incubator project does not require a formal project 
proposal as was done for Temurin etc., rather the PMC can simply request 
one and the to the Eclipse Management Office will create it.

At this point I'm just opening it up to the PMC to discuss the idea, 
decide how the incubator will be defined, and pick a suitable name. 
When we are happy we'll put in the request.

[1] The minutes needs to be approved before publishing publicly.
[2] https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/adoptium/charter
[3] https://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/#4_9_Incubators

Regards,
Tim