Perhaps the biggest question is who she's taking to the prom... On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Matthieu Riou <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > -- Viktor Klang Rogue Scala-head Blog: klangism.blogspot.com Twttr: viktorklang
