On Tuesday October 17 2006 12:44 am, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > 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 :)
---- snip ---- > 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. I don't have a binding vote, but my thought is Harmony has the same "issue" as Felix: namely they haven't done a release or provided even a "test release" to the IPMC so the IPMC can be sure the podling knows the proper way to do a release and understands and can correct all the issues such as proper apache licensing, etc... Basically, make sure the podling can get all their "Apache Legal Ducks in a Row." Looking at the latest snapshot downloaded from the website, there definitely are some things missing. (mainly, stuff missing from the META-INF of all the jars) Anyway, I think Harmony should first go through the process of preparing a release and get it OK'd by the IPMC. There is a LOT a podling can learn while going through that process. Since Felix was "asked" to create a sample release, I would expect Harmony should do the same. Anyway, those are my (non-binding) thoughts. Dan > 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] -- J. Daniel Kulp Principal Engineer IONA P: 781-902-8727 C: 508-380-7194 F:781-902-8001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
