Hey All, Our little project is going pretty well: we have good discussion and questions on the mailing lists, very active development, and a good set of production usage. What do people think about pursuing graduation to be a top-level project?
The criteria for this are documented here: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html By my reading the main requirements on an incubator for graduation are: - Successfully create an apache release. - Develop a diverse community (described in more detail here: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community). It boils down to being an open community that fosters discussion and is not dependent on a single company for success. - Fulfill various technical requirements: project naming, etc. I think we have met these requirements. We struggled a bit with licensing and packaging issues but we got those issues resolved and did a release and this should be pretty easy going forward. This started as a LinkedIn project, and there are a still a number of us at LinkedIn, but the discussion, JIRAs, patches, etc seems to be much more well dispersed over a broad community of users and contributors. It would be good to here from anyone following the list what they think. Are there other things we should do either before (or in parallel to) pursuing graduation? I would also appreciate help from anyone with Apache experience navigating the process. Cheers, -Jay
