Re: Graduation

2012-05-15 Thread Larry Burton
Josh has a good point about not having to apply patches on an individual basis. I take this discussion as a sign of project maturity; people really do care about the project and its utility to their particular needs, and we are starting to hear from "lurkers" like me. Larry Josh Thompson wrote

Re: Graduation

2012-05-15 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry brought up some good points related to "lurking" in the community. By "lurking", I mean using VCL without anyone else in the community knowing it. There are other open source projects where you are really expected to be a lurker for a while

Re: Graduation

2012-05-08 Thread Aaron Peeler
Hi Dmitri, No apologies necessary. This is a good and important question. The graduation is the process in which a incubator project becomes a Top Level Project (TLP). The graduation means that a project has shown that it (as a community) understands the Apache Software Foundation's core principl

Re: Graduation

2012-05-07 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Hi, May I ask what are the benefits of "graduation" for VCL? How does graduation change the way the VCL is used? I apologize if these are trivial questions. Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5