Ok, well, that's a procedural response, similar to the one available on the incubator site, and is helpful as such, but I was also hoping to understand the process in practice. That is, what are the criteria by which the incubator PMC determines whether or not a project is ready for "graduation"? Are there prerequisites outside of the formal voting and the identification of a "mentor"? What's to stop us from, say, calling for a vote on "graduation" right now?
A couple of specific questions: 1) Given that (a) Axion was specifically mentioned as one of the seed projects in the Apache DB proposal approved by the ASF board, (b) Axion was founded by and remains largely composed of existing and often long-standing ASF members, committers, contributors and PMC members, and (c) Axion is a well established project that has been operating under guidelines and a license derived from and essentially equivalent to those of various ASF projects since it's inception, several members of the Apache DB PMC (myself included) have expressed the opinion that "incubation" of Axion is essentially a formality. There seems to be little to gain from a protracted "incubation" process here. Can the DB PMC recommend Axion for immediate "graduation"? If not, what specific criteria and or prerequisites will need to be met? 2) Since Axion already has an established, publicly accessible infrastructure and is under active development, having to move the project twice in quick succession will be inconvenient at best. Is it possible to "incubate" a project (whatever that means) from its current location--i.e., without moving the source repository, mailing lists, web site, etc.? Nicola wrote: > The incubation process, WRT responsibilities, is as follows: > > 1 - Any Apache PMC (project management commitee) or the Apache board > approves the entrance of a project at Apache. They are the Sponsoring > Entity. > 2 - The Incubator is from that moment on responsible for the project, > which will remain so till the Incubator votes for it to be "graduated" > to the PMC that asked for it. If the PMC was the Incubator itself or the > board, the project will have its own PMC. > > 3 - Incubation complete. > > > The Axion team would like to understand precisely what the incubation > > requirements and process, if any, is necessary for a move to the Apache DB > > project. > > Ok. > > So, since you would like to have a place under the DB Project, ask there > to vote for acceptance. After that vote, you will automatically be under > the Incubator, and incubation will take place. > > You will then need a Mentor, that has to be an Apache member, that will > be responsible for your project and become part of this PMC for all the > incubation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
