On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Marcus (OOo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 07/16/2012 08:57 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Christian Grobmeier >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> as a mentor of this project it is my impression that this podling is >>> ready to graduate. >>> >>> This is surely a project with much heat in it; but I also think it is >>> stable. The project made a release and constantly voted in new >>> committers/ppmc members. It is active and has proven that it can make >>> decisions by discussions. >>> >>> As mentors we have stepped into many discussions and told what we >>> think. But now it seems to me there is nothing we can bring to you. >>> The culture here is settled. You guys know whom to ask and where to go >>> if problems occur. >>> >>> Looking at this: >>> http://incubator.apache.org/projects/openofficeorg.html >>> it seems everything is done. >>> >>> My questions to you all as a project: >>> >>> Do you feel ready to graduate? >>> Are you able to vote a chair? >>> Do you think your project is ready? >>> >>> If you can answer all the questions above with "yes" I would love to >>> see graduation actions/discussions as mentioned here: >>> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html >>> >> >> We discussed this in a thread a month or so ago. I think the answer >> was yes, but with two concerns on the timing: >> >> 1) There was some category-b per-requisite components that we had in >> SVN. At least one project member thought this needed to be done >> before graduation. The plan was to move them to Apache Extras. But >> doing so would break the build in AOO 3.4 release. So we agreed to >> fix this in AOO 3.4.1. >> >> 2) Some of us wanted to avoid the distraction of a graduation vote at >> the same time as the 3.4.1 release, a time when we're really >> heads-down on the release end game.. Especially if this would lead to >> disruptive naming changes that would have an impact on product UI >> and/or release communications due to changing URL's and email >> addresses, etc. >> >> So the discussion at that time was to push for AOO 3.4.1 release by >> end of July and then start the graduation proceedings. >> >> Of course, I'm not saying this is set in stone. But that was the >> outcome of the prior discussion. > > > I also think that this would interfer the last phase of creating and > publishing 3.4.1 is not so good (even if graduation is of course a very > positive event ;-) ). So +1 to wait a few weeks more when the 3.4.1 release > is done and some dust has settled.
There is no hurry of course. In any case, I think it would be good to mention the plan on the next report. Cheers Christian > > Marcus -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de
