Hi All,
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Alexander Broekhuis <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > Now that we are in the final steps of a new release (I am waiting a bit on > the addition of the Shared Memory RSA), I'd like to discuss graduation. > > Looking over the past couple of years, I feel that the Celix project has > shown enough to be able to graduate. Looking at [1] we did the following: > * Create a release > * Create an open and diverse community > * Show that we understand the Apache Way > > At the moment we have 2 active committers, but a third is underway (waiting > on addition to the incubator group). This gives us the 3 needed committers. > On thing that concerns me a bit is that at the moment these committers come > from 2 companies, a bit more diversity here would be nice to have. But in > my opinion this doesn't have to be an issue for graduation. > > Why I'd like to graduate now is for multiple reasons: > * Shows more maturity to the users of Celix > * Makes it easier to handle code donations > * Makes it easier to add new committers > (in both cases because we don't have to rely on our mentors anymore) > > So I'd like to hear what others think of this. Please note, this isn't a > vote yet, merely a discussion to see if we should start the graduation > process or not. > I also would like to graduate, especially to make it easier to handle code donations, but if I read the graduation guide [1] correct I think were are not yet ready. See snippet below: "The project is considered to have a diverse community when it 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). Basically this means that when a project mostly consists of contributors from one company, this is a sign of not being diverse enough. You can mitigate this requirement by admitting more external contributors to your project that have no tie to the single entity." We - almost - have three committers, but two from one company. So I think we should have to wait till we get some additional commiters(s), hopefully from the Native OSGi effort. That being said, I hope somebody, with good arguments, disagrees on this. Because graduation would be very welcome. > > > [1]: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html > > -- > Met vriendelijke groet, > > Alexander Broekhuis >
