I recently saw a note on podling graduation requirements and it occurred to me that there has never been a lot of discussion about what that means. I'm including a link to the graduation requirements page so folks will have a sense of what the Incubator PMC is looking for in terms of graduating a podling.
Overall the community has been doing well. Releases are happening, the user community is using the code and asking questions / filing JIRAs, etc. Take a look at this link to get a sense of some of the other areas that people will look at to determine if a podling is ready to graduate. http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Minimum+Graduation+Requirements