All, The PPMC of the Apache Harmony incubator podling has voted to ask for graduation from the Apache Incubator. We have enjoyed our time here with you, but feel that we don't want to overstay our welcome. We want to do our part to help make sure the ASF has more projects than the Incubator :)
I believe the active mentors (myself, Stefano, Leo and Dims) will assert that the community is healthy and very active. While we do have the required level of legal diversity in our committers (diversity factor = 5), we are very motivated to continue to diversify, a feeling shared by all on the PPMC, and we see this as a very healthy thing. We have been very lucky to receive significant donations of code from several sources to help bootstrap the project, but it's clear that the community is building on and improving the code very actively, almost frenetically. As an example, our dev list - which is only development discussion - had over 1900 messages in Sept 2006. Right now, we have 1500 messages for October, and we are only halfway through the month. Our commit list, which also adds JIRA traffic, had 2851 messages in Sept 2006. Clearly the community is working together and doing development in the project. There are many examples of collaboration and "sharing of ownership" - a mutual feeling of stewardship over the whole project, even though most contributors tend to be specialized in one area, due to the complexity of the project. In terms of technical progress, we have a working, modern virtual machine with JIT (dynamic compilation of bytecode at runtime), a working GC and a next-gen GC in progress, and all the other required elements such as thread manager, execution manager, basic bytecode verifier, etc. On the classlibrary side, we have about 94% of the Java SE 5 library complete, an amazing feat. Together they form a JRE that we have been providing snapshots of via the website, and this JRE is capable of running significantly complex software like Tomcat, Ant, Eclipse, etc (not without bugs, of course...). We also have the basic JDK tools underway, such as javac, javah, javap, rmic, keytool, etc. While still far from done, we feel that we've come a long way in the 11 months that we have had actual code in the project. We won't have a release of this software until we are finished with Java SE 5. We may have milestone release late this quarter or in Q1 of next year, but we wish to avoid hyping the capability of what we have, and get our software stabilized and useful for general use. Users are very important to us, but we realize that there's a minimum amount of functionality and stability required before it's interesting to the casual user, and we're just reaching that point. We'd like to help make this as efficient a process as possible - please let us know if there are any issues that will prevent a successful vote by the PMC on our graduation. If there are no un-addressed issues in the next 3 days, I'd like to call a vote late on Thursday, October 19th, so we can possibly be finished in time for the next Board meeting, October 25th. Thanks, and we look forward to your comments. To avoid cross-post confusion, I will forward this message to the harmony-dev list rather than CC. geir Champion and Mentor, Apache Harmony podling --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
