Thanks, my insight on incubation is know clearer. I'm motivated for the hackathon. I can move for a barcamp but an online one has clearly the advantage to be cheaper and simpler to organise :-). Everyone else interested?
On 12 May 2011 11:23, Thorsten Scherler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 10:40 +0200, Chapuis Bertil wrote: > > I don't have experience at all with graduation but, in my opinion, if > droids > > community becomes stronger and more constant, the graduation will > > automatically happened after a while. > > Actually the graduation has to be driven by us. The incubator is not > suitable to host long time projects. It is more to adapt the community > to the apache way of doing this. However this never had been an issue > for droids since it even started in labs, so from the beginning adopt > the asf way have not been an issue. > > The graduation will as well attract more devs and possible committers. > > > Personally, I think the necessary > > steps to increase the activity around Droids are: > > > > - having a release process > > - improving the documentation > > - cleaning the codebase > > > > Besides the last point that can be done by anyone interested in the > project, trying to say you do not have to have commit rights to do the > task. The last point I agree is the most critical and hardest point to > achieve. > > > We all have a difficulties to find time to perform these actions and it's > > time consuming to describe a problem, wait two weeks for having few > > feedbacks and then correcting the issue. Furthermore, cleaning the > codebase > > is difficult because it imply to move out of the trunk parts of the > project > > on which people worked hard. > > > > If there is a will to improve Droids I think we should block one or two > days > > to perform these steps together. > > We may even try to organize a barCamp and we hack together a cleaner > version. Would that be from interest, or should we do a droid online > hackathon? > > salu2 > > > > > That's only my opinion but I hope it can helps. Best regards, > > > > Bertil > > > > > > > > On 12 May 2011 10:04, Thorsten Scherler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I just added a draft, please feel free to review and add if you see > > > points I may have forgotten. > > > > > > BTW we have only one point open before we can graduate: > > > * IP clearance > > > > > > How does we feel to graduate? I guess we would graduate to our TLP? > > > > > > salu2 > > > > > > On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 14:00 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > > > > Dear Droids Developers, > > > > > > > > This email was sent by an automated system on behalf of the Apache > > > Incubator PMC. > > > > It is an initial reminder to give you plenty of time to prepare your > > > quarterly > > > > board report. > > > > > > > > The board meeting is scheduled for Thurs, 19 May 2011, 10 am > Pacific. > > > The report > > > > for your podling will form a part of the Incubator PMC report. The > > > Incubator PMC > > > > requires your report to be submitted one week before the board > meeting, > > > to allow > > > > sufficient time for review. > > > > > > > > Please submit your report with sufficient time to allow the incubator > > > PMC, and > > > > subsequently board members to review and digest. Again, the very > latest > > > you > > > > should submit your report is one week prior to the board meeting. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > The Apache Incubator PMC > > > > > > > > Submitting your Report > > > > ---------------------- > > > > > > > > Your report should contain the following: > > > > > > > > * Your project name > > > > * A brief description of your project, which assumes no knowledge of > the > > > project > > > > or necessarily of its field > > > > * A list of the three most important issues to address in the move > > > towards > > > > graduation. > > > > * Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to > be > > > aware of > > > > * How has the community developed since the last report > > > > * How has the project developed since the last report. > > > > > > > > This should be appended to the Incubator Wiki page at: > > > > > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/May2011 > > > > > > > > Note: This manually populated. You may need to wait a little before > this > > > page is > > > > created from a template. > > > > > > > > Mentors > > > > ------- > > > > Mentors should review reports for their project(s) and sign them off > on > > > the > > > > Incubator wiki page. Signing off reports shows that you are following > the > > > > project - projects that are not signed may raise alarms for the > Incubator > > > PMC. > > > > > > > > Incubator PMC > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Thorsten Scherler <thorsten.at.apache.org> > > > codeBusters S.L. - web based systems > > > <consulting, training and solutions> > > > http://www.codebusters.es/ > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Thorsten Scherler <thorsten.at.apache.org> > codeBusters S.L. - web based systems > <consulting, training and solutions> > http://www.codebusters.es/ > > -- Bertil Chapuis Agimem Sàrl http://www.agimem.com
