On Sep 6, 2011, at 10:22 AM, James O'Dell wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 9/4/2011 4:55 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: >> >> On Sep 4, 2011, at 7:07 AM, Kevan Miller wrote: >> >>> It's been a while since we've had a graduation discussion. >>> >>> I've seen good progress in the community. Would be interested in hearing >>> the thoughts of others. Do we feel the community is ready for graduation? >>> Or is additional work required? If there are requirements to be met, what >>> is being done to address these requirements? "incubation" is not a >>> permanent process. If we're lacking aspects required for graduation and not >>> making progressing on addressing these issues, we need to consider the >>> alternative of ending the graduation process… >> >> I think that the community activity on this group is pretty good. I wish >> there were some diversity. This project has most of it's members being NCSU >> employees and I'l worried that if NCSU "pulled the plug" on their efforts >> the project would not survive. >> >> As it stands the project would not have my support for graduation. I'm not >> intransigent on this and am willing to discuss other viewpoints, if there >> are any. >> >> >> Regards, >> Alan >> > > I certainly see NCSU as the leader in VCL, and I do see their > continued support as key to the success of the project. > I'm just wondering if the project were to graduate(It certainly > seems stable enough to), if that wouldn't generate more diversity > via greater exposure.
Unfortunately the diversity must be there before it graduates. We can't graduate the polling and hope for the best, this is what the Incubator is all about. > As a point, our vice president of information technology is > scheduled to give a presentation at EduCause this October. > VCL is his the topic. I'm hoping this will generate some buzz. I'm happy to wait until October to see if the rest of the project does as well. However, I think we face the fact that this project has been around for quite a long time and has not attracted new committers. Maybe the project could park at GitHub, or somewhere, and if and when the it becomes diverse enough it could come back; if it still wanted to. Regards, Alan
