Re: [VOTE] Graduation for Sanselan

2009-06-23 Thread Felix Meschberger
+1

Regards
Felix

Craig L Russell schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Sanselan has been in incubation since September 2007. Sanselan is a
> pure-java image library for reading and writing a variety of image formats.
> 
> Monthly and then quarterly reports can be found at
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/sanselan/board/
> The first official Apache Sanselan incubating release occurred on July
> 30th, 2008.
> A few months back we took a final look at Sanselan's status with regard
> to exiting the incubator. We concluded that while the code and the
> committer for Sanselan were ready to exit the incubator, community was
> an issue. We didn't see the prospect for getting enough of a community
> to graduate Sanselan as a TLP. But Apache Commons was eager to adopt
> Sanselan, and they voted to do so.
> Sanselan is now ready to graduate the incubator and assume its role as a
> subproject of Apache Commons.
> Please review the checklist at
> http://incubator.apache.org/projects/sanselan.html and verify that
> Sanselan is ready.
> 
> +1 graduate Sanselan into Apache Commons
> +-0 don't care
> -1 don't graduate because...
> 
> Voting will remain open until Thursday June 25.
> 
> Craig L Russell
> Incubator PMC, DB PMC, OpenJPA PMC
> c...@apache.org http://db.apache.org/jdo
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: [VOTE] Graduation for Sanselan

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Fremantle
+1. Congratulations.

Paul

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Felix Meschberger wrote:
> +1
>
> Regards
> Felix
>
> Craig L Russell schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sanselan has been in incubation since September 2007. Sanselan is a
>> pure-java image library for reading and writing a variety of image formats.
>>
>> Monthly and then quarterly reports can be found at
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/sanselan/board/
>> The first official Apache Sanselan incubating release occurred on July
>> 30th, 2008.
>> A few months back we took a final look at Sanselan's status with regard
>> to exiting the incubator. We concluded that while the code and the
>> committer for Sanselan were ready to exit the incubator, community was
>> an issue. We didn't see the prospect for getting enough of a community
>> to graduate Sanselan as a TLP. But Apache Commons was eager to adopt
>> Sanselan, and they voted to do so.
>> Sanselan is now ready to graduate the incubator and assume its role as a
>> subproject of Apache Commons.
>> Please review the checklist at
>> http://incubator.apache.org/projects/sanselan.html and verify that
>> Sanselan is ready.
>>
>> +1 graduate Sanselan into Apache Commons
>> +-0 don't care
>> -1 don't graduate because...
>>
>> Voting will remain open until Thursday June 25.
>>
>> Craig L Russell
>> Incubator PMC, DB PMC, OpenJPA PMC
>> c...@apache.org http://db.apache.org/jdo
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [VOTE] Graduation for Sanselan

2009-06-23 Thread Vamsavardhana Reddy
+1

++Vamsi

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Craig L Russell wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sanselan has been in incubation since September 2007. Sanselan is a
> pure-java image library for reading and writing a variety of image formats.
>
> Monthly and then quarterly reports can be found at
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/sanselan/board/
> The first official Apache Sanselan incubating release occurred on July
> 30th, 2008.
> A few months back we took a final look at Sanselan's status with regard to
> exiting the incubator. We concluded that while the code and the committer
> for Sanselan were ready to exit the incubator, community was an issue. We
> didn't see the prospect for getting enough of a community to graduate
> Sanselan as a TLP. But Apache Commons was eager to adopt Sanselan, and they
> voted to do so.
> Sanselan is now ready to graduate the incubator and assume its role as a
> subproject of Apache Commons.
> Please review the checklist at
> http://incubator.apache.org/projects/sanselan.html and verify that
> Sanselan is ready.
>
> +1 graduate Sanselan into Apache Commons
> +-0 don't care
> -1 don't graduate because...
>
> Voting will remain open until Thursday June 25.
>
> Craig L Russell
> Incubator PMC, DB PMC, OpenJPA PMC
> c...@apache.org http://db.apache.org/jdo
>
>
>
>
>


Community readiness-when does it show?

2009-06-23 Thread Martijn Dashorst
When is a community Apache Ready™? According to our exit criteria (iirc):

 - when the community has performed at least one Apache release
 - when the community has cleaned the code from all license issues
 - when the community is diverse and open

My current issue is with the definition of "open". Not necessarily as
documented (haven't looked at the text lately), but as a gut feeling:
when is a community open?

 - all (technical) discussions happen on publicly archived lists
 - conflicts are resolved in a civil and respectful manner

But also:
 - the podling is able to identify new, valuable contributors and add
them to the project

I would like to see that the community proposes a new committer,
because they actively monitor their contributors.

If a community meets all the criteria, but hasn't discovered a new
committer (or two) by itself, is the community ready for graduation?
If not, how can we—mentors— nudge the community to focus on this
thing, without it becoming an exercise in "checking the check marks"?

Martijn

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Re: Community readiness-when does it show?

2009-06-23 Thread J Aaron Farr

On Wed 24 Jun 2009 06:08, Martijn Dashorst  wrote:

> My current issue is with the definition of "open". Not necessarily as
> documented (haven't looked at the text lately), but as a gut feeling:
> when is a community open?
>
>  - all (technical) discussions happen on publicly archived lists
>  - conflicts are resolved in a civil and respectful manner
>
> But also:
>  - the podling is able to identify new, valuable contributors and add
> them to the project

>From http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html:

Apache projects are self-sustaining and self-governing
communities. Long term success and health requires that these
communities understand how to:

  - recruit users, developers, committers and PMCers
  - take responsible collective action
  - disagree in public on technical matters without destroying 
personal relationships
  - create an open, positive and inclusive atmosphere on the 
mailing lists

Often podlings have to add at least one new committer just to meet the
diversity requirement of at least 3 'independent' committers.  Adding at
least one committer has always been a litmus test for any podling I've
worked with.

As of a year or two ago when I last looked at the statistics, most
podlings only ever add one committer during incubation.

> If a community meets all the criteria, but hasn't discovered a new
> committer (or two) by itself, is the community ready for graduation?
> If not, how can we—mentors— nudge the community to focus on this
> thing, without it becoming an exercise in "checking the check marks"?

There are at least two scenarios:

  - The podling has attracted new contributors, but not made them
committers

  - The podling has not attracted any new contributors since starting
incubation

In the first case, it's simply a matter of helping the podling
committers be comfortable giving out commit bits.  Sometimes the barrier
to becoming a committer has been made too high.

The second case is much more difficult.  It might involve working with
PRC to get a bit of press or marketing.  It might involve making sure
one or more of the committers go to ApacheCon to meet other ASF
committers and potential users.  If there's a user community, but no
contributors, then the committers have to learn how to better engadge
the community: asking for bug fixes, encouraging users to work out a
patch themselves rather than just fixing it, putting together better
documentation, etc.

In either case, it *is* important for the project to learn how to add
committers.  If the podling leaves the incubator with the commit bit
barrier too high, they'll have problems down the road.  If they leave
the incubator with users but no contributors, they're also going to have
trouble.

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