On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I started a conversation within cloudstack-private@i.a.o about the > prospect of graduation from the incubator, and have received positive > reactions from everyone that replied. > > I wanted to kick off the discussion here on the public list, to see if > anyone has any concerns or objections to us starting down the path of > trying to graduate? > > My general impression is that we have come a long way as a community > since CloudStack entered the incubator. While there are still rough edges > for us to work through over time, we are dealing with our problems quite > well as a community. The simple reason that I believe we are in a > position to ask to graduate, is that we are no longer getting value from > the incubation process! That's a good thing, because it means that we > have managed to learn quite a bit about the ASF processes, rules, > methods and preferences. > > Thoughts, comments, discussion? > > > If the community is in general agreement, we have some work to get done: > > We need to go through the podling status file, and ensure that we have > completed everything that needs to be completed: > http://incubator.apache.org/projects/cloudstack.html > > The CloudStack trademark is currently owned by Citrix. We need to have > that transfered to ASF prior to graduation. David also suggested in the > private list that we probably need to execute the formal ASF name > search, for the purpose of providing the ASF with assurances that there > are no surprise conflicts. > > Once we get the final pre-graduation requirements completed, we need to > go through the process of attempting to graduate. I suggest that folks > take a minute to read through the Incubator's Guide to Successful > Graduation page [1]. > > The first step of the process seems to be to kick off a formal community > vote to propose graduation to the IPMC. If we vote to graduate, then we > have to draft a charter / graduation resolution. This is will be > proposed to the IPMC for their review, and if passed in an IPMC vote we > forward it to the ASF board for their vote during a monthly board > meeting. >
So I'd propose that instead of two votes for charter/resolution and whether or not to vote, that we determine the overall community feeling/consensus in this thread, and then vote to graduate with a specific resolution as a single vote. --David
