Hi All, I'm psyched to hear that there's agreement [1] within the Aurora community that we're getting close to graduation!
I reviewed the Apache Incubator graduation guide this afternoon [2] including the set of steps we'd need to take if we'd like to see Aurora voted as a TLP at March's Apache board meeting. These have been captured in a set of JIRA tickets. [3] Adding a buffer of time between each of the necessary steps, the process of graduating will take approximately four weeks. Since the Apache board meeting is the 3rd Wednesday of each month, we'll unfortunately miss February's meeting. Instead, I'd suggest we aim for graduation at the March 18th board meeting. With the March board meeting in mind, we'd need to complete the following steps no later than these dates (many could be done earlier which I'd encourage): Now and mid-February: vote on 0.7.0 release, and name search AURORA-1035 Feb 15, Aurora community vote begins, AURORA-1037 Feb 18, Tally Aurora community vote for Aurora Feb 23-27, prepare the Aurora charter, AURORA-1036 March 1, IPMC graduation vote begins March 4, Tally IPMC vote vote for Aurora, AURORA-1038 March 8, graduation resolution sent to Apache board, AURORA-1040 March 15, agenda for Apache board is frozen March 18, Apache board meeting Late March, throw a party of some kind (obviously) Feedback along with your help reviewing my draft schedule is welcome, this is just my interpretation of Apache's guidelines and I'd like to see that carefully follow each step to make this a reality. If folks are happy with this schedule, I'll add the associated dates to related JIRA tickets. Dave [1] http://markmail.org/message/b4t6uxhcz6i5ikap [2] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#toplevel [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AURORA-1034
