Lewis, SOLD. Have spoken to some of our committers about this. A few were nervous about this, but some of those felt better when they looked through the portfolio and realized that Top Level projects aren't just monsters like Open Office, Kafka, Solr, and Tika.
Let's get the process started. Now is the right time--we have some funding to push some major upgrades to our back-end, and do some much needed house keeping on our website. We're also about ready to clean up our UserALE.js branches, and believe it or not, we're a few tickets away from a releasable 1.1., which features our browser plugin packaging. The road map after that is going to be... very exciting. We have a few million behind us for some really great stuff. Josh -----Original Message----- From: lewis john mcgibbney <lewi...@apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 2:07 PM To: dev@senssoft.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Drafting Graduation Template Hi Josh, Replies inline On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 5:27 PM, < dev-digest-h...@senssoft.incubator.apache.org> wrote: > > From: "Poore, Joshua C." <jpo...@draper.com> > To: "dev@senssoft.incubator.apache.org" > <dev@senssoft.incubator.apache.org > > > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 02:14:04 +0000 > Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Drafting Graduation Template @lewismc > > I think this is really cool. Leading with userale and some offerings > for back end configs, I think this makes sense. Distill and TAP aren't > far behind. > > Quick run through of materials (will do more thorough scrub this > weekend) and I have two questions: > > 1. Beyond the basics of project management, product ownership, and > documentation/marketing, what additional administrative or > organizational duties (beyond Quarterly reports, etc.) can we expect > to take on after graduating? > Honestly, not a lot. We would elect a PMC Chair. I would most likely nominate yourself. The PMC Chair would deal with the above. It is a minimal responsibility. > 2. Will you show us how to use all the cool Apache bots for licensing, > checksums, etc., etc., :) > Absolutely, I will be around for quite a while post graduation. I am always available to answer questions. > 3. Big question: Given that there aren't many (if any) projects like > ours in the big data portfolio, do you see us as graduating to top > level project, or a child of which project? > Top-level project without a doubt. > 4. Do you think we have the support from the ASF Board to graduate? > Yes I think we have demonstrated the ability to 1) release software, 2) grow community through election and VOTE'ing of committers and a project management committee, and 3) use VOTE'ing as a mechanism for driving progress e.g. releases, addition to committer-base, etc. > > Besides these questions (and maybe a lot more follow-ups), I'm ready > to commit to this. > Great, I am glad. I'm pretty busy right now so I will come back to this as soon as a I can. Thanks for the continued support from you all. Driving towards another release of any components within the SensSoft stack would be the primary goal moving forward. Lewis ________________________________ Notice: This email and any attachments may contain proprietary (Draper non-public) and/or export-controlled information of Draper. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this email and immediately destroy all copies of this email. ________________________________
