I share your concerns with the depth of the community discussions. I will look at compiling some statistics on it, but my feeling is you're right, it's not entirely positive outside the lucene-net-dev mailing list.
Graduating as a Sub project under Lucene makes sense to be me as well, I'll look into the differences in the process for that ~P ---------------------------------------- > From: rve...@dotnetrdf.org > To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Apache Lucene.Net ready for graduation? > Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 11:47:01 -0700 > > 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" <gaufre...@gmail.com> > > Sent: 08 July 2012 11:19 > > To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org > > Subject: SPAM-HIGH: Re: [VOTE] Apache Lucene.Net ready for graduation? > > > For me you get a +1 > > > 2012/7/8 Prescott Nasser <geobmx...@hotmail.com> > > > > > > > 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 > >
