I will refrain from voting either way for now as I wanted to raise something.
As a PMC member of another project (Apache Jena) that recently graduated from the Incubator I would raise one issue that the Lucene.Net PMC should consider which is whether the community meets the following requirement: "Demonstrate an active and diverse development community" While this partly refers to the PMC/commiter base it also refers to community involvement e.g. mailing list traffic Certainly the user list seems to suffer from sporadic and low traffic which might be considered as a bad sign by the Incubator PMC. I don't subscribe to the developers list so maybe that has the majority of the traffic (which looking at the archives looks to be the case) but you should consider how else you can demonstrate viable community activity e.g. questions asked and answered on StackOverflow, blog posts from non-PMC members - if the Incubator PMC should raise this as a barrier to graduation It may be that this is no barrier to graduation but it is worth thinking about now and checking with your Incubator mentors to avoid wasting your effort. I believe the Incubator PMC has previously said you are ready to graduate so maybe this is a non-issue in this projects case especially since I presume you would graduate as a Lucene sub-project rather than a new TLP and thus benefit from the wider Lucene community? Rob ---------------------------------------- From: "zoolette" <[email protected]> Sent: 08 July 2012 11:19 To: [email protected] Subject: SPAM-HIGH: Re: [VOTE] Apache Lucene.Net ready for graduation? For me you get a +1 2012/7/8 Prescott Nasser <[email protected]> > > Hey All, > > This is the first step for graduation for the Apache Lucene.Net project > (incubating of course..). We're taking a vote for the Lucene.Net community > to see if the community is ready to govern itself as a top level project. > > > Here is a short list of our accomplishments which I believe make us ready > for graduation: > - Released 2.9.4 > > - Released 2.9.4g (Generics version) > > - created a new website, with a new logo (a 99designs contest gracious > supported by stackoverflow) > > - Added two new committers bringing our total to 9. > > - Preparing for 3.0.3 Release within the next couple of weeks > > - Started work on 3.5 release. > > This is the process we will follow: > - Community vote (this email). All votes count, there is no non-binding / > binding status for this > - We will propose a resolution for review ( > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/LUCENENET/Graduation+-+Resolutio n+Template > ) > - We will call a vote on the resolution in general @ incubator > - A Board resolution will be submitted. > > > > > > As a community, if you would please vote: > > > > [1] Ready for graduation > > [-1] Not ready because... > > > > > I know I speak for all the developers on this project, we appreciate (and > will continue to appreciate) everyone's contributions via the mailing list > and jira. > > > > > ~Prescott
