Good luck guys :) On Friday, November 29, 2013, Jakob Frank wrote:
> Dear Incubator, dear Marmotta community, > > about one week ago, the Board has decided to establish Marmotta as a new > TLP. An interesting and challenging journey has come to its end. > > When we started out from the Linked Media Framework towards Apache in > December 2012 we already had invested several years of development into > the project, but we were a rather small and focused group of developers. > > During incubation, this situation changed dramatically: The community > opened up, grew and broadened in skills, ideas but also geographically. > New users, contributors and committers joined and are helping out with > pointers to documentation deficits, bug reports, and of course with > documentation and code. > > After the code was transferred to the Apache infrastructure, we cleaned > and improved the source code under the sharp eyes of the Apache > community. During the last year, the addition of new features has slowed > down but on the other side the codebase has stabilized and the system is > working more stable than ever before. Now, with the growing community > and hopefully soon more committers, I'm sure we will soon start adding > further improvements and new features. > > One of more challenging tasks was the thorough analysis and cleanup of > licenses and dependencies. Getting LICENSE & NOTICE correct - well, > rather "acceptable" - for the first release was long and tiresome work. > But not for void, in return you, and all downstream projects and users, > get the legal protection and warrant of the Apache Software Foundation. > At this point, I'd like to thank all who contributed to the N&L by > picking the pieces together, nagging here and there and pointing to the > bits that are missing. > > This is the place to express our thanks and gratitude to our mentors > during incubation: > Andy Seaborne, Fabian Christ, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, thank you so > much for your help and guidance during the last year! We are glad you > stay with us after graduation, be it in the PMC or on the mailing lists! > > Our thanks also go the incubator community for all the advices we got, > often indirect via the general discussion on the list. Marmotta might > leave the incubator, but I'm sure most of us will stick around. > > A journey has come to its end? Well, not an end at all, we rather passed > an important milestone and the journey already goes on: We are currently > working on our first release as a Top-Level Project and hope to finally > have it ready before Christmas. What a nice present ;-) > > Best, > Jakob Frank (Marmotta PMC Chair) > on behalf of the Marmotta PMC > > TL;DR: A big THANK YOU to our mentors Andy Seaborne, Fabian Christ and > Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, and to the general Incubator for seeing us > through the incubation process. > > >
