If you send a note to [email protected] asking for permissions to their wiki so you can enter a report, they will give you permissions.
And a reminder, it is a good idea for all PPMC members to follow the incubator mailing list. There is a lot of good information relevant to podlings there. You subscribe by sending a note to [email protected]. I see that you've mentioned that we've discussed the Apache Attic option. This is good. -Rob On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Ian C <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I took the last report I could find and added some comments, see below. > > Feel free to edit it, and can someone submit the final version? > > --------------------------------------- > > > > ODF ToolkitJava modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and > manipulation ofOpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documentsODF > Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.Three most important > issues to address in the move towards graduation:1. Grow the community > in terms of committers2. Have regular releases3. Decide if we would > like to be a top level project or join an existing projectAny issues > that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to beaware of? > We've been discussing moving the project to the attic. What little > discussion > there has been on this was generally against the idea. Disussions are > ongoing. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > We have made a release but there has been little activity since then. > We need to attract more members and publising the project in the ODF > Plugfest > was suggested as a means of doing so. > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > We released version 0.6.1 via the alternate release process in > June.Date of last release: 2014-06-02When were the last committers > or PMC members elected? 2012-10-29 > > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:52 AM, John D. Ament <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Great! Now about that board report... >> >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 3:47 PM, John D. Ament <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > > Rob, >> > > >> > > Just curious, you have three mentors listed: >> > > >> > > Sam Ruby >> > > Nick Burch >> > > Yegor Kozlov >> > > >> > > However, it looks like you were the one who signed off on the last >> board >> > > report. Do we perhaps need to shuffle around mentors a bit? >> > > >> > >> > I certainly needed to add myself, which I did here: >> > >> > http://incubator.apache.org/projects/odftoolkit.html >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > -Rob >> > >> > > John >> > > >> > > >> > > On Tue Oct 28 2014 at 9:03:25 PM Ian C <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > >> Hi Rob, >> > >> >> > >> you have a volunteer. Don't know what to do, don't have check access, >> > but >> > >> I'm will to learn and help. >> > >> >> > >> Cheers, >> > >> >> > >> Ian >> > >> >> > >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> > >> > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > I think it is time to have a candid discussion about this project >> > and >> > >> > > what we want to do with it. >> > >> > > >> > >> > > On the positive side, we did have a release back in July. Also, >> we >> > do >> > >> > > seem to have users, as evident from the questions on the users >> list. >> > >> > > >> > >> > > But as a Mentor, I'm noting that we're in the habit of being late >> > for >> > >> > > IPMC reports, and appear to have not had any list discussions or >> > code >> > >> > > commits in a few months. We don't seem to be making progress >> > towards >> > >> > > graduation or growing the community. >> > >> > > >> > >> > > You can read more about the Attic here: >> > >> > > >> > >> > > http://attic.apache.org/ >> > >> > > >> > >> > > Anyone have thoughts on this? >> > >> > > >> > >> > > Note: moving to the Attic does not prevent us from then putting >> the >> > >> > > codebase onto Github and maintaining it that way. This might >> make >> > >> > > more sense for a project that has only 2 or 3 developers >> > sporadically >> > >> > > working on it. >> > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > Hello All ! >> > >> > >> > >> > A quick follow up. Responses to this idea show that there was no >> > >> > support for moving to the Attic. That's fine. I'd like this to >> be a >> > >> > community decision. However, if we don't start showing a real >> > >> > heartbeat in this project, including timely submission of our >> podling >> > >> > reports to the IPMC, and progress towards graduating from the >> > >> > Incubator, we may be forced into that position. >> > >> > >> > >> > Maybe it would help if someone volunteers to be Release Manager for >> > >> > the next release and suggest a date for that release? >> > >> > >> > >> > Also, since we missed the podling report for October we need to get >> > >> > one in for November, We need a volunteer to draft that. >> > >> > >> > >> > -Rob >> > >> > >> > >> > > Regards, >> > >> > > >> > >> > > -Rob >> > >> > >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> -- >> > >> Cheers, >> > >> >> > >> Ian C >> > >> >> > >> > > > > -- > Cheers, > > Ian C
