I would expect to see proof of qpid's ability to grow their committership and build a user community before leaving the incubator. There's no track record of either at the moment.
According to incubator-general mail archives, qpid voted in 4 committers since April of 2007. Additionally, those folks don't appear active on the qpid developer list. The 'diversity' question was partially answered, but it's still a concern for me. I imagine it'll be hard to attract new folks to qpid when they're mostly corporate-sponsored, and some of those sponsorships -can't- be transparent to the ASF. They'll probably be able to attract committers, but the new committers will probably come from other corporate sponsors. Scott Deboy COMOTIV SYSTEMS 111 SW Columbia Street Ste. 950 Portland, OR 97201 Telephone: 503.224.7496 Cell: 503.997.1367 Fax: 503.222.0185 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.comotivsystems.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Yoav Shapira Sent: Fri 3/21/2008 4:52 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Statements from Qpid mentors would help me decide... [WAS Re: [VOTE] Apache Qpid Graduation as TLP] On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Carl Trieloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At this point the Apache Qpid community with support from its mentors > feels that > > it is ready to graduate to an official top level project at Apache > > but another voice asks: are they really ready today? has the IPMC > fully equipped them for the chanlleges ahead? do they really > understand how to mentor new independent developers into committers > and PMCers? is the diversity sufficient to have learnt how to have > disagreements on technical matters whilst retaining community spirit? It's a hard call for me as well. The technical bits are all there, processes followed, paperwork filed, etc. More importantly, the qpid community has been open, receptive to feedback from everyone inside and outside their group, welcoming to new opinions from new people, and respectful of ASF spirit, not just its letter. There are disagreements and debates on various technical matters without hurting the community. That's why I support their graduation. It would have been really nice if one or two more committers from new organizations had been added during the previous few months, but that didn't happen. But I don't think the fact the committers come from a small set of organizations necessarily means there's no diversity. And I don't want to introduce artificial requirements. The "are they really ready" question is subjective by definition, and it's a good one, but I still vote +1 ;) Yoav --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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