Hopefully most of the Initial Committers have subscribed to our
mailing lists. So welcome!
This project has 4 mentors: Dims, Guillaume, Bertrand, and myself.
It's our job to see you through a successful Incubation. "Success"
will be graduation as either a Top-Level project or as a SubProject of
an existing project. We'll be helping the project to get started.
We'll be participating in the project to varying degrees on a
technical basis. However, it's also our responsibility to help and
guide you to become a successful Apache community. This is not a
cookie cutter process. There are ASF and Incubator policies and
guidelines to follow -- we'll help you with these. However, the vast
majority of this process will be determined by you as a community.
The most important step in creating a successful community is clear
and open communication. That's what our project mailing lists are for.
There will always be forms of off-list communication to a varying
degree -- water cooler, IRC, meetings, phone calls, etc. That's fine,
but remember emails to the project mailing lists are where real
project communication occurs. That's where you'll be building community.
Guillaume has done a lot of the initial project setup -- Thanks
Guillaume! All of the Initial Committers for the project are also
members of the Podling PMC. All Initial Committers should subscribe to [email protected]
. A few notes about private mailing lists:
1) Private mailing lists are meant to be private. You should treat
them that way. Don't forward or discuss with people who aren't members
of the PPMC.
2) Very few discussions should occur on a private mailing list. Most
discussions will be about personnel (e.g. discussing/voting in new
committers or PPMC members). Other topics: security vulnerabilities,
pre-agreement discussions (e.g. a company would like to donate code to
the community, but doesn't want the information to be public, yet).
Besides creating kick-ass code, building an open community, etc, there
are several issues which this community will need to address during
the incubation process:
1) Project Scope -- Several -1 votes were registered during the
Incubation vote regarding project scope. You will need to address
these concerns prior to Graduation.
2) Committers -- This project is starting out with an unusually large
list of Initial Committers. This is great and is no doubt an
indication of the amount of interest regarding the project. However,
it's likely that not all of the people on this list will be active
community participants. People who are not actively participating in
the project should not expect to be included in the project, when it
graduates from the Incubator. Your mentors are expecting this
community to develop guidelines to help evaluate project membership
when the project graduates from the Incubator.
There are a number of additional steps to take -- creating Apache
accounts (for those people who don't already have one), granting SVN
access, creating project website, etc. Will save those for other
emails...
--kevan
