Hi Dave, thank you for doing the Shepherd Check for our project.
Dave Fisher wrote on 2012-12-05: > Martin - You were granted karma yesterday to the Incubator Wiki. Sorry > that this was necessary but several month's ago this was required due > to anti- spam measures. No problem, I got the karma quiet fast. I will fill out the report today asap. > > In the September report Etch was considered to be ready to graduate, > but despite that there has been no effective progress towards graduation. > > I don't see more than two or three people active. This is not enough > people for a healthy PMC. At the moment we are discussing the graduation proposal and the members of the PMC on etch-private@. The special thing about the Etch project is that it is now in the Incubator for more then three years. Within these years the project has had good and hard times. The community has grown, but a lot of people in the list of committers are not active at the moment. Nevertheless the project is quiet mature and we have completed all the task to be ready for graduation. In discussion with our mentor Martijn Dashorst and Jukka Zitting [1] we have decided to try the graduation path and then discuss on the general@incubator list if Etch is allowed to become a TLP. On the community growing path we have submitted a talk for the ApacheCon NA 2013 where we would like to make Etch more known. >From a technical prospective there was quit a lot of stuff ongoing in the last >few months. We have commited a lot of new features, especially a new C++ >binding. > > I also see very little use of the users ML. > > Regards, > Dave Best regards, Martin [1] http://s.apache.org/LIF
