This is great. Based on my past experience we have to draft the resolution and that needs to be voted on within the dev@lens before taking it to general@incubator. I can most certainly help out with this.
Regards Srikanth Sundarrajan > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:50:59 +0530 > Subject: Graduation preparation > From: amareshw...@gmail.com > To: dev@lens.incubator.apache.org; jgho...@apache.org; cdoug...@apache.org; > j...@nanthrax.net; vino...@hortonworks.com > > Hi all, > > Now, latest report https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/July2015 said Lens is > ready to graduate, shall we take up next steps for required? > > Graduation policy and guides are available at > > http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Graduating+from+the+Incubator > . > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html. > > I recommend everyone to go through the docs to understand the policy and > process, if you have not read them before. > > Here is what i could gather going through the docs : > > The natural destination for Lens project is TLP and sponsor will be Apache > Board. > > Graduation to a top level project requires: > > - a charter for your project > - a positive community graduation VOTE > <http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html> > - a positive IPMC recommendation VOTE > <http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html> > - the acceptance of the resolution > <http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#tlp-resolution> by > the Board > > After looking at http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#toplevel, > here are the schedule and the tasks, I put down for the graduation process : > > *Community Vote :* > > (Sunday - 19-July-2015) : Send VOTE on dev mailing list - open for 72 > hours. > Send a mail to general@ incubator saying community vote has started. > (22-July-2015) Wednesday : Tally the vote > > *Charter preparation :* > > 26-July-2015 to 1- July-2015 : > Prepare tlp resolution: A suitable Board resolution should be drawn up by > the community advised by the Mentors. Template available at > https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/templates/podling-tlp-resolution.txt > . > Choose a PMC chair. > The resolution should be proposed on general@incubator before starting vote > on general@ > After consensus are reached on resolution, a VOTE should be started on the > same general incubator list by a member of the PPMC proposing that the IPMC > recommends the resolution to the Board. > > *IPMC vote on recommendation* start on 2- August- 2015 > > *Resolution to Board* : 9 - August - 2015 ( This is a hard deadline) > > *Next Board meeting* : 19 - August - 2015 > > Mentors and PPMC, please review the above and see if any thing more needs > to be included. > > Reply here if any one is willing to volunteer for any of the tasks put > above. We have two days for starting community vote as per schedule put > above. > > Thanks > Amareshwari
