Thanks a lot for preparing this, Dave! I do hope we can advance the whole schedule a week or two by kicking off the 0.7.0 vote this week, but this is a good conservative schedule to make the target date.
-=Bill On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Dave Lester <d...@davelester.org> wrote: > 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 >
