Although I hope it does not come to that, if you feel that going some other route is more meaningful for the project, you can definitely start a discussion around retirement. See this page: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/retirement.html
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Jordan Zimmerman < [email protected]> wrote: > I am quickly coming to the conclusion that it was a mistake to put Curator > into Apache. I was cautioned by many colleagues that I shouldn't do it and > I now understand why they were correct. I'm not interested in another 3 > months of incubation. > > What is the process for failing out of incubation so that Curator can > continue outside of Apache? > > ==================== > Jordan Zimmerman > > On Jul 24, 2013, at 6:38 PM, Luciano Resende <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Jordan Zimmerman < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> The Apache Curator project entered the Incubator in March of 2013. Since > >> then we have added two new committers/PPMC members from diverse > >> organizations. The codebase has steadily grown and we have made three > >> releases following the ASF policies and guidelines. Thanks to the > excellent > >> mentorship we have received through this period we have learned to > >> self-govern and grow our community using accepted Apache practices. > Curator > >> continues to attract interest from contributors and users across the > world. > >> Given these milestones, I strongly feel that Curator is ready to > graduate > >> from the Incubator. > >> > >> The first step towards graduation is to vote as a community that Curator > >> is ready to graduate. If the vote is successful, we will draft a board > >> resolution proposal and call a vote on the general Incubator list. The > >> complete graduation process is described below [1]. > >> > >> Please cast your votes: > >> > >> [ ] +1 Graduate Curator from Incubator > >> [ ] +0 Indifferent to graduation status of Curator > >> [ ] -1 Reject graduation of Curator from Incubator > >> > >> This vote will remain open for at least 72 hours from now. > >> > >> [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html > >> > >> Thank you, > >> > >> Jordan (this email serves as a +1 from me) > > > > Curator has done a tremendous progress in just a few months in > Incubation, > > multiple releases, multiple committers, etc. Also, having a TLP with 3 > > active committers (I haven't seen Jay really active) is very risky, as if > > any is MIA, the TLP will not be able to vote for releases, new members, > > etc. Also, it worries me a bit that the project is still largely > dependent > > on Jordan, particularly now that he has expressed that he is going to be > > transitioning jobs, and having passed through this experience recently, I > > know that your schedule and responsibilities change, and I want to make > > sure that is not going to affect the project. > > > > As for next tasks, I would encourage having releases handled by different > > committers, having new committers mentored and proposed by the new > > committers, that would show signs that the project does not rely only on > > Jordan. > > > > Based on that, I'm voting -1, and would like to propose that we review > this > > matter in 3 months from now (close to our next report to the IPMC) > > > > -- > > Luciano Resende > > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ >
