On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Brian W. Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Upayavira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not to be picky, but I don't yet see much that counts as progress > > towards graduation - not that that is a bad thing, at this point. > > I'd have to disagree. > > > I see a _huge_ amount of traffic, clearly a lot of development work. > But > > that does not count on iota towards graduation, in itself. > > With my apache hat on, I disagree. It counts, but not in a big way. > Running a productive project is important. > > > * Are folks collaborating according to the Apache way? > > From what I can see, it looks pretty good so far. I spoke with all of > the Google devs who are working on Shindig before it even entered the > Incubator, and I'm reasonably sure that they get it and understand the > importance of doing things the Apache way. > > > * Has the strong bias towards Google amongst committers been reduced? > > This is something that needs work. > > > * Has all IP been checked and cleared? > > > > * Has the project made a suitable incubator based release? (for IP > > vetting purposes, not necessarily for public consumption) > > As far as I can tell, the IP has been completely vetted and contributed. We do have a few static snapshots of code from other projects (mostly because there was no way to pull them in from maven or another simple mechanism). Off the top of my head I know of jquery and caja being used. Do we need to do anything special here, or are we ok as long as the licenses are compatible? > > > These are a few of the issues that occur to me immediately that would > > help towards graduation, with the second likely being the most > > significant, and hardest to resolve. > > It always is on projects that spring out of a single company :-) > > that said, if you have any specific concerns with examples, I think it > would be useful to discuss them here. > > -Fitz > -- ~Kevin If you received this email by mistake, please delete it, cancel your mail account, destroy your hard drive, silence any witnesses, and burn down the building that you're in.

