Am Freitag, 17. August 2012 um 17:55 schrieb Rob Weir: > We've had several prods from our mentors suggesting that we are ready > to graduate. But I think there was general recognition that with > graduation comes a little hump in extra work, both for the project as > well as the IPMC and Infra, especially related to mailing list and > website changes [1]. We wanted to avoid piling that on top of the > already considerable work required to get AOO 3.4.1 released. > > The AOO 3.4.1 release is now being voted on. So I think it is a good > time for us to start this process. > > I'd recommend everyone take a look at this timeline [2] for what the > graduation process looks like. You can see it is three steps: > > 1) Optional Community vote [3] > > 2) Preparation of a Charter and Resolution [4] > > 3) Vote by the IPMC to recommend the Charter/Resolution to the ASF Board. > > 4) Approval by the ASF Board. > > As I understand it the ASF Board meeting on the 3rd Wednesday of each > month. So the next meeting should be September 19th. If we start > now, we should have plenty of time to work through this process in > time for that meeting. > > I'd like to start the first step, with the optional, but highly > recommended, community vote, stating our belief that we are ready to > graduate. > >
I agree and yes let us start with the process. Juergen > > Regards, > > -Rob > > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#project-first-steps > > [2] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#process > > [3] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#tlp-community-vote > > [4] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#tlp-resolution
