Roy T. Fielding wrote:
With my Incubator PMC/Mentor hat on, I believe that the Jackrabbit
podling has accomplished all of the tasks and created the community
necessary to stand on its own as an Apache top-level project (TLP).
I am therefore calling a vote of the Jackrabbit committers to
determine if the project as a whole agrees.
Please send your +1 if you think we should request graduation now,
-1 if you think we should wait, or something in between if you want
to abstain. Anyone can vote, but only committer votes are binding.
This vote will end on Saturday, 11 March 2006 at 5pm PST, or earlier
if all committers have voted. If it passes, I will submit the
request for graduation to the Incubator PMC and to the ASF Board
on the same day.
While JackRabbit is strongly endorsed by Day Software and the majority
of the committers are paid by that company, my perception is that the
project has reached enough community acceptance in terms of usage and
development that it would survive if Day (for whatever reason) would
pull the plug on the development effort.
Moreover, several open source project depend on JackRabbit and the
original committers were always more than happy to open up to new
developers and patches, and frictions were dissipated internally and
with a friendly attitude.
To me, JackRabbit pretty much represents the poster child of how an open
development project should be incubated.
My vote is a happy and proud +1.
--
Stefano.
