In terms of graduation, if we go the top-level route, I'd like to propose Craig as the PMC chair. I think that he'd be a good fit since he's quite active in the OpenJPA community, and also has a good deal of knowledge about and experience within Apache. I think that he would do a great job of continuing to represent Apache-isms to the OpenJPA community and vice-versa.
-Patrick -- Patrick Linskey BEA Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________________________________ Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 2:50 PM > To: open-jpa-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: [DISCUSS] OpenJPA Graduation > > OpenJPA has done a great job of forming a diverse community > around a great code base whose IP has been reviewed and > approved for release, and we're now a well-functioning, > project in the incubator. So we are now at the stage when we > should think about when and how to leave the incubator and > graduate to the larger Apache community. The document at [1] > describes readiness to graduate. > > There are two courses for graduating projects: to become an > independent Apache TLP or to join an existing TLP as a > sub-project. I believe that OpenJPA should become its own TLP > for a few reasons: the community is already very diverse and > has established a good working style; and there is no > existing TLP upon which OpenJPA depends. There is some > synergy with the DB project but no dependency relationship. > > As a TLP, OpenJPA would operate independent from other TLPs > and be responsible to the Apache board. As a TLP, the OpenJPA > community would decide on offering committerships to the > project, and what and when to release, subject to the > regulations of the ASF. > > So what does everyone think? > > Craig > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/ > Process_Description.html#Graduation > > Craig Russell > Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo > 408 276-5638 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp! > > Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it.
