IMHO Graduation should be done pretty soon since the major technical details have been clarified within the incubator phase and the topics turn more and more usecase specific or are cause by the common sideeffects of new features/changes. >From a developers point of view the incubator state doesn't reflect the maturity of Sling which is more and more used in real projects.
I know I might not be in the position to complain about documentation since I yet didn't find time by myself to get involved in this obviously not so famous part of the framework. But in my opinion for this step some people should help Mike with his try to lower the barrier for "first-timers". Graduation could be used to get some attention and therefore enlarge the usergroup as welll as the contributors and commiters. BTW. at this point a users-mailinglist would really make sense since this mailinglist might be really confusing for a sling-rookie;) Is this user-mailinglist part of the graduationprocess? Best regards, Dominik On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Felix Meschberger <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > After the second release and an ever growing community, I think we are > ready to graduate from the Incubator. > > At the beginning we entered the Incubator sponsored by the Apache > Jackrabbit project with the potential goal of graduating as a subproject > to Jackrabbit. Over time, it showed, that Sling will have a life on its > own and that the communities of Jackrabbit and Sling are sufficiently > different. > > As a consequence the common opinion of the PPMC is that Sling might best > graduate as an Apache Top Level Project. > > Therefore, I hereby launch a discussion about our graduation. Everyone > is invited to state her or his opinion. > > I also drafted a board resolution [1], which we will have to provide to > the Incubator PMC as the basis for the graduation discussion on the > Incubator general list. > > Next steps are then: > > * vote here about graduation > * discuss graduation on the Incubator general list > * have the Incubator PMC hold a recommendation vote > * submit the board resolution > > If all goes well, we might be able to submit the resolution for the June > board meeting. > > Regards > Felix > > [1] http://cwiki.apache.org/SLING/graduation-resolution-draft.html >
