Today we SourceForge (SF) folks had a skype call including Rich (now at RedHat) about graduation process, timeline etc. Our goal was to make sure we all knew what the process was, and discuss our status a bit. I wanted to share what we talked about and continue the conversation here.
It seems that the #1 issue towards graduation is getting a release or few out. Cory's been working on getting that all lined up this week. And we expect we'll get feedback from the Incubator PMC on the first release (at least), which will require followup work to get everything corrected. Another issue is to get our tickets, wiki, etc on ASF hardware instead of SF. This will also give us clearer separation of what is SF internal and what is Allura proper. Rich thinks this isn't strictly necessary for graduation. Status: pending a few INFRA tickets, then work on our part to move content over. Last but not least, we talked about diversity. We have many non-SF employees on the PMC, which is good, and have had many contributions from them, but the majority of commit *volume* is from SF employees. We think we've shown openness in accepting and working with contributors of any origin. We do need to make sure we get large contributions (e.g. Stefano's "organizations") merged in - this sometimes is a challenge since big contributions take a while to review, and if it's not immediately useful to us, we may not have time to review it and give feedback for quite a while. Cloudera's an example of another company that's a large player in Apache Hadoop projects - would be interesting to look at those projects and see how things work there. The next Apache Board meeting is in Sept, so going for a graduation vote before then is ambition - a good bit of work to do first. Next meeting is in December, so that's a more likely opportunity to graduate. We can try to keep moving towards graduation as best we can though, perhaps we'll get lucky and be able to make Sept. After graduation we discussed opportunities to promote Allura more and get more committers. A big opportunity is to get other Apache projects to use Allura and then to contribute. One nice feature is that it supports git forking, so that may be very interesting to the foundation & its member projects. We also talked a bit about the desire to lay out SF's roadmap more publicly and incorporate it with the general Allura development directions. -- Dave Brondsema Principal Software Engineer - sourceforge.net Dice Holdings, Inc.
