In the July board report (see http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/July2007), one of the comments presented directly in the summary was: "CXF should probably be starting to push for graduation, too, except for diversity being a concern"
Since the IPMC seems to think we're getting close, I definitely think we should start seriously talking about it. My thoughts: In the last year, the CXF community has made huge milestones towards acting like an Apache Community and following Apache guidelines. We've successfully released two milestone releases and one full release, and a patch release is pending. In all cases, we've done as much as possible of the work design work on this list, in the JIRA, and on the Wiki. We've tried hard to to respond to our users to make them successful with CXF. Several of them have submitted back patches and we've received a TON of good suggestions and reports. 2.0.1 is a testament to how well we were able to do that. The main concern, of course, is diversity. There are a bunch of IONA folks, however, we do meet the criteria of 3 or more independent commiters with IBM represented, obviously Envoi Solutions, a couple of independents. We also have a couple folks that have been submitting patches and are getting "close". That all said, despite having a lot of IONA folks, I think we've done a good job keeping the development open and in the community. That's the more important thing. Anyway, how do the rest of you feel? Are we there? -- J. Daniel Kulp Principal Engineer IONA P: 781-902-8727 C: 508-380-7194 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dankulp.com/blog
