On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 10:40 +0200, Chapuis Bertil wrote: > I don't have experience at all with graduation but, in my opinion, if droids > community becomes stronger and more constant, the graduation will > automatically happened after a while.
Actually the graduation has to be driven by us. The incubator is not suitable to host long time projects. It is more to adapt the community to the apache way of doing this. However this never had been an issue for droids since it even started in labs, so from the beginning adopt the asf way have not been an issue. The graduation will as well attract more devs and possible committers. > Personally, I think the necessary > steps to increase the activity around Droids are: > > - having a release process > - improving the documentation > - cleaning the codebase > Besides the last point that can be done by anyone interested in the project, trying to say you do not have to have commit rights to do the task. The last point I agree is the most critical and hardest point to achieve. > We all have a difficulties to find time to perform these actions and it's > time consuming to describe a problem, wait two weeks for having few > feedbacks and then correcting the issue. Furthermore, cleaning the codebase > is difficult because it imply to move out of the trunk parts of the project > on which people worked hard. > > If there is a will to improve Droids I think we should block one or two days > to perform these steps together. We may even try to organize a barCamp and we hack together a cleaner version. Would that be from interest, or should we do a droid online hackathon? salu2 > > That's only my opinion but I hope it can helps. Best regards, > > Bertil > > > > On 12 May 2011 10:04, Thorsten Scherler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I just added a draft, please feel free to review and add if you see > > points I may have forgotten. > > > > BTW we have only one point open before we can graduate: > > * IP clearance > > > > How does we feel to graduate? I guess we would graduate to our TLP? > > > > salu2 > > > > On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 14:00 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > > > Dear Droids Developers, > > > > > > This email was sent by an automated system on behalf of the Apache > > Incubator PMC. > > > It is an initial reminder to give you plenty of time to prepare your > > quarterly > > > board report. > > > > > > The board meeting is scheduled for Thurs, 19 May 2011, 10 am Pacific. > > The report > > > for your podling will form a part of the Incubator PMC report. The > > Incubator PMC > > > requires your report to be submitted one week before the board meeting, > > to allow > > > sufficient time for review. > > > > > > Please submit your report with sufficient time to allow the incubator > > PMC, and > > > subsequently board members to review and digest. Again, the very latest > > you > > > should submit your report is one week prior to the board meeting. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > The Apache Incubator PMC > > > > > > Submitting your Report > > > ---------------------- > > > > > > Your report should contain the following: > > > > > > * Your project name > > > * A brief description of your project, which assumes no knowledge of the > > project > > > or necessarily of its field > > > * A list of the three most important issues to address in the move > > towards > > > graduation. > > > * Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be > > aware of > > > * How has the community developed since the last report > > > * How has the project developed since the last report. > > > > > > This should be appended to the Incubator Wiki page at: > > > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/May2011 > > > > > > Note: This manually populated. You may need to wait a little before this > > page is > > > created from a template. > > > > > > Mentors > > > ------- > > > Mentors should review reports for their project(s) and sign them off on > > the > > > Incubator wiki page. Signing off reports shows that you are following the > > > project - projects that are not signed may raise alarms for the Incubator > > PMC. > > > > > > Incubator PMC > > > > > > > -- > > Thorsten Scherler <thorsten.at.apache.org> > > codeBusters S.L. - web based systems > > <consulting, training and solutions> > > http://www.codebusters.es/ > > > > > > -- Thorsten Scherler <thorsten.at.apache.org> codeBusters S.L. - web based systems <consulting, training and solutions> http://www.codebusters.es/
