Hi all, I started a conversation within cloudstack-private@i.a.o about the prospect of graduation from the incubator, and have received positive reactions from everyone that replied.
I wanted to kick off the discussion here on the public list, to see if anyone has any concerns or objections to us starting down the path of trying to graduate? My general impression is that we have come a long way as a community since CloudStack entered the incubator. While there are still rough edges for us to work through over time, we are dealing with our problems quite well as a community. The simple reason that I believe we are in a position to ask to graduate, is that we are no longer getting value from the incubation process! That's a good thing, because it means that we have managed to learn quite a bit about the ASF processes, rules, methods and preferences. Thoughts, comments, discussion? If the community is in general agreement, we have some work to get done: We need to go through the podling status file, and ensure that we have completed everything that needs to be completed: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/cloudstack.html The CloudStack trademark is currently owned by Citrix. We need to have that transfered to ASF prior to graduation. David also suggested in the private list that we probably need to execute the formal ASF name search, for the purpose of providing the ASF with assurances that there are no surprise conflicts. Once we get the final pre-graduation requirements completed, we need to go through the process of attempting to graduate. I suggest that folks take a minute to read through the Incubator's Guide to Successful Graduation page [1]. The first step of the process seems to be to kick off a formal community vote to propose graduation to the IPMC. If we vote to graduate, then we have to draft a charter / graduation resolution. This is will be proposed to the IPMC for their review, and if passed in an IPMC vote we forward it to the ASF board for their vote during a monthly board meeting. So that's the high level process... As I asked above, any thoughts? -chip [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html
