Folks,
we seriously need to graduate.
Now, we don't have to wait for 3.0 to be completely finished, we can
do a source-only release as well (which hopefully should invite people
to start participating), with no guarantees of the binaries actually
working.
The thing is, if I have to do all the necessary bits on my own, we
will never graduate. So all devs should really participate in this
effort, or we might as well just forget about the whole Apache thing
and pack our bags and go elsewhere. We've been in the incubator long
enough.
The instructions are here: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html
I've just spent a few hours trying to tweak our build scripts and
looking at our files so that RAT does not complain too much (http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html
). But there are quite a few other tidbits which need to be figured
out. The first thing we need is to create JIRA issues for all the
missing bits and pieces for our graduation (from the graduation
instructions). Volunteers needed. After that, we can each grab
whatever bits and pieces we can and start graduation.
I know it's nice to be tweaking the code, but I'm concerned that we've
become too comfortable in the incubation. All of the major changes we
were planning have been done, most of the unit tests run again, and
we're currently spending time cleaning the codebase and trying to make
it run. So we should really try to graduate now.
/Janne
