On May 23, 2012, at 8:14 PM, Jay Kreps wrote: > 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.
I would support graduation. It's customary that a mentor stick around for just a little bit, as a PMC member, to make sure the transition goes smoothly and to provide advice and guidance. I won't have time to fill this roll. Would any other mentors be interested? Also, we should update the status page to fill missing info. Regards, Alan
