Agree to go through the incubator as a first step and move to TLP pretty fast (if all ok).
Regards JB On 03/06/2018 17:33, Romain Manni-Bucau wrote: > Wow, sounds very exciting to have graphviz here. > > Incubator being mainly about validating there is a community@asf I think it > makes sense to go through incubator first. Also it will let Graphviz time > to handle the license switch. That said the promotion to a TLP can be quite > fast since most of the community is already here and I don't see it being > that far from ASF requirements so I think going through incubator is a good > path. > > Romain Manni-Bucau > @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau> | Blog > <https://rmannibucau.metawerx.net/> | Old Blog > <http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com> | Github <https://github.com/rmannibucau> | > LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau> | Book > <https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/java-ee-8-high-performance> > > > Le dim. 3 juin 2018 à 17:29, <sha...@apache.org> a écrit : > >> Hi All >> >> I received this request from Stephen so am forwarding to the general >> incubator mailing list for discussion and any suggestions for options. >> >> Thanks >> Sharan >> >> >> -------- Forwarded Message -------- >> Subject: graphviz as a potential apache project >> Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 17:51:04 -0400 >> From: Stephen North <scno...@gmail.com> >> Reply-To: Stephen North <scno...@gmail.com> >> To: sha...@apache.org >> >> >> >> Hi, Sharan. I hope you’re the right person for this. (Your org. just >> sent an invitation >> to an Apache roadshow event under your name.) >> >> I’m one of the founders of Graphviz, 20+ years ago, and it’s useful >> infrastructure >> software with new and old applications in bioinformatics, machine >> learning, software >> engineering and other fields, including plugins for R, python, Haskell, >> transpiled >> into javascript, who knows what else. I think for example clang, llvm, >> maybe Go >> use it for debug output. See www.graphviz.org >> >> We started this in AT&T Labs but AT&T discontinued all support for the >> work, >> eliminated some of our jobs or encouraged us to leave, has disclaimed the >> project, >> so we’re on our own. We maintain the software and the website, that we >> moved to gitlab. >> >> We are looking for a more stable institutional home for Graphviz. Apache >> seems like >> a great match. Is this possible? How is a decision like that made? I’m >> not sure a mature >> project like this fits the incubator model. Are there other ways? >> >> Sorry if this has gone long (I could say a lot more, too, for example how >> we could put >> focus effort on new features, or providing better resources to people that >> need >> network visualization as a service). I’m hoping you’re the right person to >> start the conversation. >> >> Thank you for your time, and for your consideration. >> >> Stephen North >> >> >> > -- Jean-Baptiste Onofré jbono...@apache.org http://blog.nanthrax.net Talend - http://www.talend.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
