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On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Alexander Broekhuis <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > I am resurrecting this thread since we now have an additional committer who > isn't from any of the existing companies, and we did our 1.0.0 release. > > So I'd like to hear what people are now thinking of graduation. In my > original post I mentioned several argument for graduation: > * 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) > > I still think these are valid reasons, combined with the fact that we now > have 4 (:D) committers I think we are good to go! > The committers we have are: > * Alexander Broekhuis (Luminis) > * Pepijn Noltes (Thales) > * Bjoern Petri (Thales) > * Erik Jansman (Student researcher) > > As mentioned before, this is a discussion, not yet a vote. Please speak up > and lets discuss this! > I agree we are good to go with respect to the committers/community. Looking at the graduation checklist [1], I think step 1 of preparations is not finished yet, but maybe i'm reading it incorrect ... Also for step 5 of the preparations, ensure Mentors and IPMC have no remaining issues, do we need to post a message for this on the incubator list? @Mentors: Could we have your input on this discussion, are there still remaining issues in your opinion? Thanks. Greetings, Pepijn [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#checklist > > > 2014-01-06 20:32 GMT+01:00 Pepijn Noltes <[email protected]>: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > -- > Met vriendelijke groet, > > Alexander Broekhuis >
