Hi Patrick thanks for replying. Some comments and questions inline. ...ant
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been hesitant to push for graduation for the following reasons: > > 1) only one new committer has been added to the project since it's inception. Have there been contributors that you feel might have merited being made a committer but weren't? What we're looking for is that the podling is open to new people, from the Incubator policy page - "new committers are admitted according to ASF practices" - http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Graduating+from+the+Incubator. > 2) there have only been two releases. The second of which required 5 > release candidates. > Many podlings only do one release before graduating and that often requires a few RCs. Looking back in the archives at the S4 RC votes i think they will have learnt a lot about how to do releases from all the respins. Also, some of these haven't been helped but the vagaries of the Incubator release voting which will be avoided after graduation. How would you feel if the mentors were included in the graduated PMC to help ensure future releases are done well and any potential new committers get noticed, would that make graduation any easier? ...ant
