I think we are there. This community seems very healthy to me. The lists are active, you have decent representation, and the inter-project communication with other Apache projects is excellent. I would love to see CXF graduated.
Jeff Daniel Kulp wrote: > 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? >
