On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 09:59:39AM -0500, David Nalley wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Chip Childers > <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > > 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 I'd propose that instead of two votes for charter/resolution and > whether or not to vote, that we determine the overall community > feeling/consensus in this thread, and then vote to graduate with a > specific resolution as a single vote. > > --David >
Many other podlings seem to have done it that way, and I'm in agreement to that approach. -chip
