On Dec 13, 2007 4:40 AM, Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 12 December 2007 19:45, Niall Pemberton wrote: > > > Have they met the exit criteria? > > > > I couldn't see a STATUS file in svn - but the website[1] doesn't have > > a date against "Check and make sure that the papers that transfer > > rights to the ASF been received. It is only necessary to transfer > > rights for the package, the core code, and any new code produced by > > the project." in the Copyright section. > > > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/ftpserver.html > > I'll update the ftpserver.xml to reflect what has happened (AFAIK), but > roughly; > > FtpServer is probably now the oldest incubating project, and come here at the > very beginning (IIRC) of Incubator existence. The project originated in > Avalon, but didn't really belong there, hence moved here. > So, there has never been any software grants and such to deal with. > > The project was dormant (incl no active Mentor, no PPMC) for a long time, > until Niklas Gustavsson and Sergey Vladimirov started to revive the codebase > and community. The codebase was moved to use the high-performant MINA network > layer, and that created the "natural home" aspect. > > I came in as a Mentor about 6 months ago, and try to fill in the missing gaps; > establish a PPMC, grow the community to 3 committers and official secure a > new home. > > So, IMHO FtpServer has met graduation criteria. More importantly, we have a > PMC willing to take over the responsibility of a encumberance-free codebase.
Thanks for the info, [X] +1 Graduate FtpServer to MINA Project. Niall > Cheers > -- > > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > > I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er > I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc > I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
