On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Erik-Berndt Scheper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before starting a vote thread, wouldn't it be better to clear some > outstanding issues: > > -Is it still intended to graduate as an ant subproject? (I seem to > remember that I read this some time ago)
It really is up to the Ivy developer community. Graduating as an Ant subproject doesn't preclude going TLP sometime later. As a mentor and Ant PMC member I'd love to welcome Ivy to Ant and I'm willing to start the vote in Ant land as soon as Ivy feels like it. > -What are the requirements for graduation as (sub)project? Xavier already pointed to the graduation page. > -Wouldn't it be better to wait until an incubating release (better > than alpha-2) is complete? It's the community that's graduating, not the code. 8-) > I've been following the cxf incubating project (merge of xfire and > celtix), and they're mostly concerned about diversity (see > http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Graduating.....-p12042463.html). > -How about diversity in the ivy project. I feel inclined that it's > greater than in cxf (mostly iona people), but is it enough? Not a problem here. I'm rather a bit concerned about the number of committers than their diversity. Three is the lower limit. But then again I've seen how quickly Gilles was absorbed, so I have no doubt that the community will grow. Also, we've seen a few Ant committers being involved with bug reports and discussions here. Who knows, maybe graduating to Ant will make those bonds even stronger and we'll end up with a few Ant committers becoming Ivy committers as well. Stefan
