Incubator PMC/Board report for September 2010 (rat-dev@incubator.apache.org)

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Dear RAT Developers,

This email was sent by an automated system on behalf of the Apache Incubator PMC.
It is an initial reminder to give you plenty of time to prepare your quarterly
board report.

The board meeting is scheduled for . The report 
for your podling will form a part of the Incubator PMC report. The Incubator PMC 
requires your report to be submitted one week before the board meeting, to allow 
sufficient time for review.

Please submit your report with sufficient time to allow the incubator PMC, and 
subsequently board members to review and digest. Again, the very latest you 
should submit your report is one week prior to the board meeting.

Thanks,

The Apache Incubator PMC

Submitting your Report
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Your report should contain the following:

 * Your project name
 * A brief description of your project, which assumes no knowledge of the project
   or necessarily of its field
 * A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards 
   graduation.
 * Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of
 * How has the community developed since the last report
 * How has the project developed since the last report.
 
This should be appended to the Incubator Wiki page at:

  http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/September2010

Note: This manually populated. You may need to wait a little before this page is
      created from a template.

Mentors
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Mentors should review reports for their project(s) and sign them off on the 
Incubator wiki page. Signing off reports shows that you are following the 
project - projects that are not signed may raise alarms for the Incubator PMC.

Incubator PMC

Re: Incubator PMC/Board report for September 2010 (rat-dev@incubator.apache.org)

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

On 02/09/2010 14:36, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> I've add a blurb at<http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/September2010>,
> here is what I've written:

That looks about right to me. The wiki seems to be down at the moment 
but I will add the following before signing it off:

>> After the release of RAT 0.7 a discussion of what a matching graduation
>> target for RAT could be started.  It seems that most users of RAT think
>> a TLP would be the best fit.

Other options considered and in receipt of a lower level of support were 
as a subproject (i.e. not a podling) of the Incubator, as a subproject 
of Commons and as a project under Infra.

Ross

Re: Incubator PMC/Board report for September 2010 (rat-dev@incubator.apache.org)

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

I've add a blurb at <http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/September2010>,
here is what I've written:

> RAT is a Java library that scans files for known licenses and reports
> files that lack any of them.  Three frontends to said library exist in
> form of a command line client, an Ant task and a Maven plugin.
> 
> RAT entered the Incubator in January 2008.
> 
> RAT 0.7 incubating has been released at June 30th.
> 
> After the release of RAT 0.7 a discussion of what a matching graduation
> target for RAT could be started.  It seems that most users of RAT think
> a TLP would be the best fit.
> 
> Development activity on RAT is very low, a total of six people have
> commited 59 changes in 2010 - only two people performed more than five
> commits.  At least twenty of the total commits were due to the release
> process of 0.7.
> 
> Hyrum Wright is working on a Python based reimplementation of RAT's
> ideas under the name Mouse inside a lab
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/labs/mouse/