It looks like the community is small (11 committers including 4
mentors), but they have been able to produce a release that was voted
and shipped. Not a small task considering everything.
I'd say it's time to see if there is enough diversity and an
interested enough community to graduate Imperius as a top level
project. I don't see another TLP that would be a good fit.
The diversity standard is three committers independent of each other.
From what I know, there are two major organizations, Sun(Oracle) and
IBM who are involved, and I know there are unaffiliated committers,
but I don't know the affiliations of most of the non-Sun(Oracle), non-
IBM folks.
Who is out there who is interested in continuing to be part of the
community? Please speak up now. Like by April 1.
I agree with Kevan that we should announce the result of this thread
in our April report to the incubator and make a decision by July on
whether to shut this down or graduate it.
Craig
On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Kevan Miller wrote:
Oops. Let this slip by without responding... Apologies.
On Mar 18, 2010, at 1:59 PM, David L Kaminsky wrote:
I think the lack of response to this e-mail kind of summarizes the
state pretty well.
:)
IMO, Imperius is an excellent implementation of a policy engine,
but either (a) it hasn't been well publicized, so only a small
number of groups are using it, or (b) there is currently only a
small group of potential users. Or some of both.
To be clear, my comments / questions have nothing to do with the
quality of the Imperius implementation nor with any of the
committers on the project.
That puts the project in an intermediate state -- a small user
base, perhaps growing very slowing, but with no immediate
expectation of accelerating growth.
If there were a substantial cost to keeping Imperius going, I think
it would make sense to shut it down. However, I don't think that's
true.
Unless there's a clear reason to shut it down -- and perhaps there
is one -- I'd suggest just seeing how it goes for awhile. I'd also
wonder if there are ways to better publicize the work.
Anyway, just my 2 cents ...
Apache is interested in fostering healthy, diverse, meritocratic
communities around open source projects. Incubation is not intended
to be a never-ending process. I think we should put a timeline for
making a community decision.
Our next board report is April. The subsequent report is July. I
propose we make the July Incubator board report a target for
reaching a decision about what we think should happen to the
Imperius community.
What do others think?
--kevan
Craig L Russell
Architect, Oracle
http://db.apache.org/jdo
408 276-5638 mailto:craig.russ...@oracle.com
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