Great news!!!! I've been on the road for the last three days (leaving
like 0.5 hour before the email from Jim arrived), so I only read it
today.
I consider this to be one of the most important milestones for
Cayenne and certainly not the last one. ;-) ASF is a great community
of computer geeks and the Incubation process was a two-way road.
Judging by the board vote, we were successful in demonstrating to the
foundation that Cayenne is a viable project that understands how
community development works. On our end we've learned a lot how the
ASF operates and (at least I'll speak for myself), started to
appreciate why certain things are done in a certain way. Having 1000+
open source developers (or what was the latest ASF committer count?)
as allies has to count for something as well. And now we will have
more chance to contribute to the ASF progress and find more synergies
with other community members.
Thanks everybody for contributing to the project and for all the work
needed for our integration with Apache.
I am still recovering from the trip, also a number of folks are off
for Christmas. So let's discuss the concrete future steps in a few
days (like making a broader announcement, and updating the
infrastructure).
Happy holidays to those who celebrates them :-)
Andrus
On Dec 21, 2006, at 5:59 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote:
Just a quick notice that at yesterday's board meeting,
we approved the Cayenne Graduation proposal. Congrats!
I also volunteered to help with the process for
you (one small concern that the board had was
that no Cayenne PMC member was, as of yet,
an ASF member, so we thought having one of
us made available to you to help you along
made sense [but not as a PMC member]).
