Action: Investigate exiting Incubation

[John Kaputin <KA...@uk.ibm.com>]

Here's some discussion points on my Action for today's Woden telecon to 
investigate requirements for graduation from Incubation.

Excerpt from the Incubation policy document at:
http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Exiting+the+Incubator

Prior to escalation to the ASF, a Podling needs to show that : 
it is a worthy and healthy project; 
it truly fits within the ASF framework;and 
it "gets" the Apache Way.



The minimum requirements that a Podling SHALL meet prior to being 
successfully escalated to the ASF are : 
Legal 
All code ASL'ed 
The code base must contain only ASL or ASL-compatible dependencies 
License grant complete 
CLAs on file. 
Check of project name for trademark issues 
Meritocracy / Community 
Demonstrate an active and diverse development community 
The project is not highly dependent on any single contributor (there are 
at least 3 legally independent committers and there is no single company 
or entity that is vital to the success of the project) 
The above implies that new committers are admitted according to ASF 
practices 
ASF style voting has been adopted and is standard practice 
Demonstrate ability to tolerate and resolve conflict within the community. 

Release plans are developed and excuted in public by the community. 
(requirement on minimum number of such releases?) 
Note: incubator projects are not permitted to issue an official Release. 
Test snapshots (however good the quality) and Release plans are OK. 
Engagement by the incubated community with the other ASF communities, 
particularly infrastructure@ (this reflects my personal bias that projects 
should pay an nfrastructure "tax"). 
Incubator PMC has voted for graduation 
Destination PMC, or ASF Board for a TLP, has voted for final acceptance 
Alignment / Synergy 
Use of other ASF subprojects 
Develop synergistic relationship with other ASF subprojects 
Infrastructure 
SVN module has been created 
Mailing list(s) have been created 
Mailing lists are being archived 
Issue tracker has been created 
Project website has been created 
Project ready to comply with ASF mirroring guidelines 
Project is integrated with GUMP if appropriate 
Releases are PGP signed by a member of the community 
Developers tied into ASF PGP web of trust 


regards,
John Kaputin





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