Re: Steps to graduate from incubator

[Allen Gilliland <Al...@Sun.COM>]

I actually took Anil's comment to mean what features/fixes do we want 
present in the code before we feel that we are finished with the 
incubator.  That's what I meant when I said I had a list of remaining items.

-- Allen


Dave Johnson wrote:

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> On Jul 8, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Anil Gangolli wrote:
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>> I'd like to understand the plans for 1.x and 2.x a bit better than I do.
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>> (1) Are we expecting to put out any further 1.x releases (other than 
>> bug fixes)?   I have one bug fix 
>> (http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/browse/ROL-754) that 
>> should be in a 1.3 release.
>> This is due to our numbering conventions and the expectation that 
>> MySQL 5.0 may come out before Roller 2.0.
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> I think Allen covered this well.
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>> (2) Do we have a list of tasks we need to do to the codebase 
>> prerequisite to graduating from the incubator, and are we planning to 
>> do that work be done on trunk or the 2.0 branch?
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> I believe that the next step is to create a STATUS file to track the 
> status of our incubation and to set out all of the exit criteria -- 
> that's our list of tasks.
>
> See: http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html
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> Here's what I think we might have on that list of tasks (not meant to 
> imply ordering of tasks). Regarding the timeline and branching: I 
> might want to delay some of these until after 2.0 is merged back in.
>
> * Deal with licensing issues
>    - Roller requires Hibernate, which is LGPL
>    - Roller also has a JSPWiki plugin, we it requires the JSPWiki jars 
> (LGPL)
>    - Can we keep the LGPL jars in Apache Subversion?
>    - If not, what are the alternatives for source and binary releases?
>
> * Setup project website
>    - A roller/jspwiki driven site like rollerweblogger.org?
>    - Or just a static site generated by build process?
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> * Make a release through website
>    - To learn the Apache release process
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> * Apply Apache license
>    - In every source file
>    - Other places?
>
> * What else?
>
> Sam or Henri: is there a standard "graduation checklist" somewhere? I 
> couldn't find one on the Apache site.
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> - Dave
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