This is a call for vote to graduate the Isis podling from Apache Incubator.
Isis entered the Incubator in Sept of 2010. Since then it has added one new committer, picked up a number of new contributors, and made two significant releases following the ASF policies and guidelines. The community of Isis, though small, is active, healthy and growing and has demonstrated the ability to self-govern using accepted Apache practices. The Isis community has voted to proceed with graduation [1] and the result can be found at [2]. Please cast your votes: [ ] +1 Graduate Isis podling from Apache Incubator [ ] +0 Indifferent to the graduation status of Isis podling [ ] -1 Reject graduation of Isis podling from Apache Incubator because ... This vote will be open for at least 72 hours. Please find the proposed board resolution below. [1] http://s.apache.org/xt [2] http://s.apache.org/blt Regards, Dan Haywood Establish the Apache Isis Top-Level Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, to enable the creation of software using domain-driven design principles, and the realization of this through the naked objects architectural pattern, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Isis Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Isis Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to and inspired by the naked objects architectural pattern; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Isis" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Isis Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Isis Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Isis Project: Dan Haywood <danhayw...@apache.org> Robert Matthews <rmatth...@apache.org> Kevin Meyer <ke...@apache.org> Alexander Krasnukhin <themalk...@apache.org> Dave Slaughter <dslaugh...@apache.org> Jeroen van der Wal <jcvander...@apache.org> Mohammad Nour El-Din <mn...@apache.org> Mark Struberg <strub...@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Dan Haywood be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Isis, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Isis PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Isis Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Isis Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Isis podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Isis podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged.
