As a general comment Wookie reports tend to be a bit wordy. Bullets
are usually sufficient. That being said, I think having the detail is
good, even if only for our own records.

Perhaps  move the bullets from the end to a summary section at the
start and have the wordy version in a details section for interested
folk.

I've added your text (with my presumably non-controversial changes) to
the wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/May2012

Other edits should be done there.

On 30 April 2012 11:21, Scott Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> How's this look?
>
> --------------------
> Wookie
>
> Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy
> widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets
> specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs
> such as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial.
>
> Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009.
>
> In our last report we identified our target for this period was to identify 
> ways to
> improve the diversity of the Wookie community.
>
> Since our last report we added a new committer (Tien) and we are now diverse
> enough to graduate (6 committers from 4 organisations), although we are still 
> a small
> community.
>
> We feel that graduation of the project will also help attract new 
> contributors, and
> we will seek approval to graduate during the next quarter, after the 0.10 
> release
> which is imminent.
>
> As well as graduation, we have agreed that having more frequent scheduled
> releases, coordinated with Apache Rave may also help with community 
> development.
>
> Matt Franklin has joined Wookie as a mentor and is active in helping with 
> this process.
>
> We've also created a lot of detailed documentation on the release process
> and are encouraging more committers take a turn at being release manager
> to both test the documentation and to spread the experience of doing this more
> widely.
>
> Our first release under the new schedule will be 15th May.
>
> Another approach we're (still) looking at is how we can use Wookie to deploy 
> widgets
> that relate to ASF processes and activities as a way of raising awareness and 
> interest;
> we've done some experiments with Widgets using the Jira API as a starting 
> point for a
> demonstrator and we may want to explore this further.
>
> We also have a GSoC student project with Wookie this year.
>
> Since February 2012:
>
>  - 0.9.2 release
>  - Hoang Minh Tien added as Committer
>  - Matt Franklin added as Mentor
>  - Improved release documentation
>  - GSoC student project
>
> Next steps:
>
>  - implement new release schedule
>  - 0.10.0 release using new release process
>  - start graduation process after release
>  - ASF Widgets demo
>
> Issues before graduation:
>
>  - none
>
> Signed off by mentor:
>
>



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