Hello,
On 6-3-2014 09:11, Pepijn Noltes wrote:
Hi,
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?
When looking at the graduation checklist I found the following point
which might be an issue:
* Not all committers are added to the status file. (only Alexander at
the moment)
And I agree with step 5 but we will have to wait for the mentors to
respond on it.
Greetings,
Erik
@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
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Met vriendelijke groet,
Alexander Broekhuis
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Met vriendelijke groet,
Alexander Broekhuis
