Noel J. Bergman wrote on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 8:54 PM: > Cliff, > >>> Please cast your vote for the release of xmlbeans v 1.0.2, >>> as it currently exists on http://apache.org/dist/xml/xmlbeans/. > > You should not be staging releases in www.apache.org/dist. Nothing > should be put there until AFTER it is a an approved, signed, release. > As soon as files are located under dist/, they are archived and > migrated out to 100s of mirror servers. [ref: > http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html] > > Please use cvs.apache.org/dist for interim builds.
That's good to know. We'll do that in the future -- it's a little late for the 1.0.2 release since the vote of the PPMC has already passed. The thought was that it was okay to stage the candidate release on www.apache.org/dist while voting on it, but not link to it from any web page until the vote passed. However, I guess there might be people browsing around the www.apache.org/dist site who could find it during the vote, before it was official. So the cvs.apache.org server makes a lot of sense. We should get that into some docs on doing releases in the incubator -- forgive me if it's already written somewhere; I wasn't aware of it if it is. > Other than that, it appears that you've gone about doing things > appropriately. How close do you feel XMLBeans is to graduation? We've actually been discussing that topic on the xmlbeans-dev list in the last 24 hours. We've completed every item on our exit criteria (http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/incubator/site/projects/xmlbeans.cwiki?rev=1.9&view=markup), which includes the requirement of three or more independent committers. However, the current Incubator Policies document more specifically requires that the project also have no more than 50% of its committers from any one organization. This is the final requirement that the project would need to meet before graduating. I expect that we will meet this criterion prior to the next incubator status report (due mid-July?). Robert Burrell Donkin also recently brought up the point that XMLBeans may want to determine if it should follow the majority of the sizeable subprojects within the XML project by becoming a TLP within the "XML federation". (See http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=1051.) He suggests that if we were to decide on this, we might want to work out those details before leaving the Incubator, which I agree with. I assume this would include further using our PPMC (which we set up in February) and establishing a proposed charter for the new TLP. In summary, the XMLBeans project needs to finish balancing its committer diversity ratio and work out the details for a new TLP. I am confident we can do both of these items in the next two months. Any feedback/guidance about this plan would be appreciated. Cliff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
