Am Donnerstag, den 03.10.2013, 17:57 +0200 schrieb Sergio Fernández:
> Hi,
>
> although not yet official announced (awaiting to be mirrored), we could
> say we've fulfilled the milestone of releasing a new version of
> Marmotta. Not because the release itself, but for all those things we
> have learned as project in the way. Since we joined Incubation in
> December (although we actually started in February after we got LMF 2.6)
> we have evolved a lot as team, and that can be noticed in how the
> quality of the software has improved in these months. Thanks all of you
> for such effort!
>
> Therefore I think now we are finally ready to graduate Marmotta as a
> Apache Top Level Project, so it's the time to seriously talk about it.
> And I'd like to hear what you, all the team, do think about such
> important step.
I agree that we should finally move forward. Can we quickly summarize
the steps that are remaining (by checking against the graduation guide
you mentioned)?
For quick reference, here is our status page:
* http://incubator.apache.org/projects/marmotta.html
>
> Personally I think the graduation would bring some clear benefits (more
> self governance, more visibility, faster releases, etc) that we
> currently don't have as a podling. But we still need to continue growing
> as project, don't forget that.
>
> BTW, there is a good guide about the graduation process [1]. Get the
> name approved [2] would be one of the first things to push forward.
>
> Cheers,
>
> [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html
> [2] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-39
>
Greetings,
Sebastian
