Recently there has been a lot of discussions about issues seen in releases and tagging as well as concerns raised about podlings learning the ASF ways. As we continue to progress towards the first Apache Usergrid release and eventually graduation I want to make sure that everyone is on the same page and aware of the ASF requirements and necessary procedures that are in place.
Looking at the Usergrid website and docs we have some items that will need to be addressed before the next report is due and the status for each of these items should be added to the report. 1. The website has a recent releases section and download links. No votes have taken place so far for Apache UserGrid and therefore no release have occurred. The links point to github for the available downloads. Releases must be voted on and then accepted be the IPMC as the project is still in incubation and the releases must be distributed using the ASF mirror system . These must be removed. Everyone please familiarize yourself with the guide for releases [1][2]. If you have any questions on this please ask, everyone needs to be aware of these requirements as they are not optional. 2. There is no documentation about the github workflow the project opted to go with. Going to the website and clicking on contributing guidelines send you to [3] where it references submitting pull requests to apigee/usergrid-stack. The workflow that has been selected is different than Apache JClouds and any other project in the incubator or any TLP. JClouds is using Github for reviews only and no source is committed to their Github repository [4]. This process needs to be documented throughly to ensure that the committers are following all required ASF legal obligations for any contributions. 3. The website does not meet the required ASF branding guidelines [5]. This was initially brought up in the beginning of January and still is an issue. There is a lot of hard work going on and I appreciate everyone working to help address these items to ensure that all ASF requirements and policies are being adhered to. If anyone has any questions on these please do not hesitate to ask -Jake [1]: http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html [2]: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html [3]: https://github.com/usergrid/usergrid/tree/master/stack#contributing [4]: http://wiki.apache.org/jclouds/Committers%20Guide [5]: http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs.html#websites
