The Axion Database project [1] has voted to become a part of the Apache DB project [2] and submitted a proposal [3] to the DB PMC to this effect.
The Apache DB project has accepted this proposal [4] and Morgan Delegrange, an ASF member and Axion committer, has volunteered [5] to act as the incubation "mentor". Following the Incubator's "Incubation Policy" documentation [6], the Apache DB project is now requesting that the Incubator PMC take on Axion as a new "podling". According to the Incubator guidelines, "The Incubator PMC MAY immediately accept the Candidate, or may (at the discretion of the Incubator PMC) require a successful VOTE by the Incubator PMC." So as I understand it, the ball is now in your (or soon to be "our") court. For your convenience, the Axion proposal is included below. Note in particular section 3, which enumerates the resources to be created in order to move forward with the transition to Apache. Non-normatively, there is working plan for the migration at <http://axion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=698>. [1] See <http://axion.tigris.org/> [2] See <http://axion.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=124802> and <http://axion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=697> for the VOTE thread and RESULT) [3] See <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, or see below. [4] See <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [5] See <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <http://axion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=720> [6] See <http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Acceptance+of+Proposal+by+Sponsor%0D%0A> to read the proposal, or see below. - Rod <http://radio.weblogs.com/0122027/> copy of proposal follows ========================================= Proposal for Creating an Axion sub-project within the Apache DB Project (0) Rationale and Consideration of Sub-Project Criteria Axion is a relational database engine currently developed and released under an Apache/BSD-like license. While it has not yet had a formal 1.0 release, Axion is not a new project. Axion has had three binary "milestone" releases, the first of which was released over a year ago (9 July 2002) [1]. The project has been under active development since early 2002 [2] and has shown regular and diverse growth in both the development and user communities. The Axion team has operated under meritocratic guidelines [3] similar to and derived from those of the ASF since its inception. The Axion project has strong personal ties to the Apache community. Many members of the Axion community are contributors or committers to one or more ASF projects, serve on one or more ASF PMCs or are ASF members. [4] The Axion project has strong technical ties to the Apache community. Axion uses several ASF libraries [5], and as a project, has contributed code back to those libraries where appropriate [6]. Some existing ASF projects use or support Axion currently, others have expressed an interest in doing so (notably the Apache Directory Project). Similarly, many current ASF projects could advantage of a robust, ASF-licensed Java database engine and there several projects with which Axion could collaborate on infrastructural components. (1) Scope The project will create and maintain a (primarily relational) database engine and related utilities, to be distributed under an ASF-license. (2) Initial Source The initial source of the project will be the material currently available from <http://axion.tigris.org/>. This source is currently available under an ASF-style license, and the community has elected to migrate to an ASF license. [7] (3) Apache DB Resources to be Created (3.1) Mailing Lists * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (perhaps others as needed) (3.2) Version Control Repository * cvs/db-axion on cvs.apache.org (3.3) Web Site * http://db.apache.org/axion/ (3.4) Other Issue tracking (bugzilla), email archive (eyebrowse), etc. entries as appropriate. (4) Initial Set of Committers The following is the current set of committers to Axion at Tigris. * Ahimanikya Satapathy (tigris id: ahimanikya) * Chuck Burdick (tigris id: cburdick) * David Pekarek Krohn (tigris id: dkrohn) * Daniel Rall (tigris id: dlr, apache id: dlr) * Doug Sale (tigris id: dsale, apache id: dsale) * Geir Magnusson Jr. (tigris id: geir, apache id: geirm) * James Burke (tigris id: jburke) * James Strachan (tigris id: jstrachan, apache id: jstrachan) * Jason van Zyl (tigris id: jvanzyl, apache id: jvanzyl) * Morgan Delagrange (tigris id: morgand, apache id: morgand) * Martin Poeschl (tigris id: mpoeschl, apache id: mpoeschl) * Rodney Waldhoff (tigris id: rwald, apache id: rwaldhoff) * Steve Polyak (tigris id: spolyak) Each of these folks an "inactive" or "emeritus" committer to Axion at Apache DB. An "inactive" committer may become "active" by (1) submitting a signed CLA (<http://incubator.apache.org/forms/ASF_Contributor_License_2_form.pdf>) to the ASF, if they haven't already and (2) notifying the Axion dev list of their intention to become active. (A) End Notes and Links [1] <http://axion.tigris.org/releases/index.html> [2] <http://axion.tigris.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=cvs> [3] <http://axion.tigris.org/guidelines.html> [4] Compare those with the "Developer" role or stronger at <http://axion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectMemberList> with <http://www.apache.org/~jim/committers.html> [5] Currently Axion uses 8 external libraries when you include required and optional build, test and run-time dependencies. Of these, 6 are ASF libraries (Ant, Jakarta-Commons-Codec, Jakarta-Commons-Collections, Jakarta-Commons-Logging, Jakarta-Regexp, Maven). [6] Most notably, the commons-primitives component, which was initially developed within Axion then contributed to Jakarta-Commons, although there have been other less substantial enhancements and contributions. [7] See <http://axion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=697>, <http://axion.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=131142> and others. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
