On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Eric Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
> <snip> > > o License grant complete > > o CLAs on file. > > o Check of project name for trademark issues > > Not sure how to verify these. > Trademark seems okay. License grant has been filed by Facebook when the incubation started so that's good. > > > o The project is not highly dependent on any single > > contributor (there are at least 3 legally independent committers and > > there is no single company or entity that is vital to the success of > > the project) > > According to the status page there are 8 committers, representing (I > think ) 6 different organizations (or themselves). Some are more active > than others though, so I'm not sure how you'd score this. > Good if you ask me. A 'who we are' page on your website listing the committers and eventually linking to whatever they want to link to would be cool I think. It's always nice to see when you come to a project and the IPMC will probably be looking for something like this as well to assess diversity. Two folks were just recently added. > > > o ASF style voting has been adopted and is standard practice > > We've struggled with when, where and how to use this, but I think we are > basically OK here. There are 2 times where voting is "a must". For releases and for new committers nominations. For the rest, voting is more like a tool that can be very useful for taking group decisions. > > o Engagement by the incubated community with the other ASF > > communities, particularly infrastructure@ (this reflects my personal > > bias that projects should pay an nfrastructure "tax"). > > Not sure here. Could you explain this one? It's a nice to have, I wouldn't overly worry about this. It's just good for the project to know who to ask, even after graduation, if you have a problem. > > > * Alignment / Synergy > > o Use of other ASF subprojects > > o Develop synergistic relationship with other ASF > > subprojects > > We use quite a bit of ASF software (several of the commons libraries for > example), but the most prominent example is probably Thrift. There is > some overlap between project participants, and countless Thrift issues > have been filed by members of the Cassandra community (often accompanied > by patches). > Yeah, this is a "nice to have" too. Your "contribution" to Thrift (or at least the attempt to fix some of it) is a good sign. Cheers, Matthieu
