A little while ago I asked for input from everyone that wanted to make
points or provide quotes for our graduation press release. Thanks to all
those that did. Here is the draft that has been created. please let me
know if you want me to add any more points, or have corrections. I built
it from narrative quoting, as that style carries the most PR punch.
I will merge all the feedback and mail it out once more before sending
it off to apache PR.
Carl.
*The Apache Software Foundation Names Qpid a Top-Level Project*
/Open source messaging implementation built on the AMQP standard
promoted to self-governed position by community foundation/
*FOREST HILL, MD *--* January x, 2009* -- The Apache Software Foundation
(ASF) today announced the graduation of the Qpid project from an Apache
incubator project to a Top-Level Project (TLP). With its promotion to
TLP status, Qpid has been recognized for its maturity and vibrant
community, as well as for being well-governed and practicing the Apache
process and principles.
"On the heels of its recent graduation, Qpid has also reached the
completion of the major Qpid M4 release. We're thrilled to have been
recognized by the Apache Software Foundation for the growth and maturity
of the Qpid project," said Carl Trieloff, vice president, Qpid and
senior consulting software engineer at Red Hat. "With the promotion to
an Apache Top-Level Project, our project is recognized for outstanding
development based on our rapidly expanding community, infrastructure and
for collaborative development."
John O'Hara, Chairman of the AMQP Working Group and Executive Director
at JPMorgan, said "I am delighted that the Apache Software Foundation
has graduated the Qpid AMQP server. AMQP is an open infrastructure for
business messaging over the Internet. Apache Qpid developers have been
active participants in the AMQP Working Group working in partnership
with other AMQP solution developers and end-users. The ASF's provision
of Qpid as its AMQP implementation adds to the range of AMQP solutions
businesses can choose from to improve their efficiency."
Apache Qpid, a messaging implementation built on the Advanced Messaging
Queuing Protocol (AMQP) specification, provides transaction management,
queuing clustering, federation, security, management and multi-platform
support. Qpid was initially submitted to the ASF in December 2006 by
Trieloff, who worked the initial project submission and code donation.
Since then, Qpid has and continues to expand its committer base
diversity of organizations and individuals represented. Today, it runs
critical systems for many users and large organizations while continuing
to lead through innovation and implementation
"Since joining AMQP.org last year, we have seen how valuable the AMQP
specification is to the participating customers," said Sam Ramji, Senior
Director, Platform Strategy, Microsoft. "It is great to see the
Apache/Qpid project maturing as the community strives to address the
customer need for choice and improved enterprise-class messaging
interoperability."
The Qpid team believes that the graduation of the project is a fresh and
exciting addition to the Apache Software Foundation, as do many of those
that use the project.
"WSO2 believes that Apache Qpid is an important addition to addressing
the enterprise messaging demands of our customers, and we support
connecting both C and Java middleware to Apache Qpid for AMQP
messaging," said Paul Fremantle, CTO at WSO2 and member of the Apache
Qpid Project Management Committee.
To use, interact or contribute to Apache Qpid,
visit _http://qpid.apache.org <http://qpid.apache.org/>_.
