There was a short discussion on the private list about graduation but this is a general topic for the community so I'm starting this thread in dev.
VCL has been cooking for a little over a year and although we're not really ready to graduate its timely to start considering what people will be looking for to support a movement from Incubator to a Top Level Project (TLP). - Community Diversity This is a really significant area that will receive some attention. Apache wants the communities to thrive independent of the contribution of any single entity. In this case, the bulk of the commits and community are from NC State. There seems to be a lot of interest in consuming VCL by universities ... are there universities that students at other universities, companies or hobbyists that would be interested in contributing? How can we reach them? - Releases There is one release that was voted on. I think a few more would be good. Perhaps a release a quarter or six months ? Also, we should probably update the Wiki so people have a link on how to find the release. Those are the two big things off the top of my head. Perhaps one way to get other people interested in VCL would be to think about offering some of the internal components of VCL as consumable units in other projects. A lot of projects are looking at how to do reservations, package images and things like that. Perhaps some increased granularity would pull in more developers and contributors. Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org A Day Without Nuclear Fusion Is a Day Without Sunshine
