yeah +1 on this idea. Tom, you've grown a diverse community with users and contributions coming from different legal entities. Good job!
-a On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Lars George <[email protected]> wrote: > I think has that already and then some. Given the background of the > committers and their involvement in various other ASF projects I think Whirr > to be very mature and well positioned. > > > On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:28, Tom White <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 Looks great to me. > >> > >> Question - at what point is whirr ready to graduate? Seems community > >> growth is our last remaining graduation issue, any insight into at > >> what point we're large enough? > > > > I think it's more about diversity than size. This page on the > > incubator website has some useful information on this topic: > > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community. > > > > Cheers, > > Tom > > > >> > >> Patrick > >> > >> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Tom White <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> I've added the following report to the wiki at > >>> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/February2011. Please let me know if > >>> there are any changes that you'd like to see - have I missed anything? > >>> The report is due by 9 February. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Tom > >>> > >>> ---- > >>> > >>> Whirr is a library for running services in the cloud. > >>> > >>> Whirr was accepted into the incubator on 11 May 2010. Status > >>> information is available at > >>> http://incubator.apache.org/projects/whirr.html. > >>> > >>> Progress since the last report (November 2010): We have made the third > >>> incubator release (0.3.0-incubating). We continue to get contributions > >>> from outside the initial committer base, and have added two committers > >>> (Andrei Savu and Lars George). Whirr is being covered at meetups (e.g. > >>> at the jclouds meetup in January). We have added a new service (HBase) > >>> bringing the number of supported services to four: Hadoop, HBase, > >>> Cassandra, ZooKeeper. > >>> > >>> Plans for the next period: > >>> * Encourage community growth. > >>> * Do a fourth release. > >>> * Enhance the existing services, and add more services and cloud > providers. > >>> > >>> Top three items to resolve before graduation: > >>> * Increase community involvement in the project > >>> * Make several incubating releases (Done) > >>> * Support at least three services on Whirr (Done) > >>> > >> >
