+1 Niall
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Carl Trieloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is with the support of our mentors and a community vote on our dev list > that Qpid > would like to graduate. In our last graduation vote the incubator PMC felt > that the > Qpid project should increase its diversity. Over the intervening months Qpid > has > added more independents to the project & PPMC, bringing the diversity to 7 > legally > independent parties (not counting those mentors who will stay on to help > advise), with > the PPMC diversity at 5 legally independent parties (also not counting > mentors). > > Qpid also continues to attract more contributors (both independents and > large corporates), > so the committer pool and diversity should continue to expand as > contributors are voted > in as committers. > > Qpid has also made an additional release since the last graduation attempt > and is currently > working through close down of the next release. Qpid was accepted into the > incubator > August 2006. > > Attached is the graduation resolution, Please consider your vote for our > graduation. > > many thanks. > Carl. > > > --------------------------- > > WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best > interests of the Foundation and consistent with the > Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management > Committee charged with the creation and maintenance > of open-source software related to distributed messaging, > for distribution at no charge to the public. > > NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management > Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Qpid Project", > be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the > Foundation; and be it further > > RESOLVED, that the Apache Qpid Project be and hereby is > responsible for the creation and maintenance of software > related to distributed messaging; a multiple language > implementation providing daemons and APIs for publish & > subscribe, eventing and a wide range of message distribution patterns > based on the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) and > related technologies such as (transaction management, federation, > security, management); and be it further > > RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Qpid" be and > hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at > the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the > Apache Qpid Project, and to have primary responsibility for > management of the projects within the scope of responsibility > of the Apache Qpid Project; and be it further > > RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and > hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the > Apache Qpid Project: > > * Aidan Skinner > * Alan Conway > * Arnaud Simon > * Carl Trieloff > * Craig Russell > * Gordon Sim > * Jonathan Robie > * John O'Hara > * Kim van der Riet > * Marnie McCormack > * Martin Ritchie > * Manuel Teira > * Paul Fremantle > * Nuno Santos > * Rafael Schloming > * Rajith Attapattu > * Robert Greig > * Robert Godfrey > * Steve Huston > * Ted Ross > * Yoav Shapira > > NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that > Carl Trieloff be appointed to the office of Vice President, > Qpid, to serve in accordance with and subject to the > direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the > Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or > disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it > further > > RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Qpid > encumbered upon the Apache Incubator be hereafter discharged. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
