First off congratulations on a successful release! I know it's been a long time coming, and people worked hard to make it reality. Way to go.
The main thing to do at this point: let people know what you've done. Fix the dowload page on the website so it points at the mirrored release (and only the release), make an announcement email and send it to [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (why not?- be sure to use your apache address in the From hdr) Probably should include the incubator disclaimer in the message. Some things to do for future releases: Todd should try to document everything he has done and add that info to trunk/RELEASE so other RM's know the process (and may be able to improve upon it). People who vote on a release should provide details on what went into their vote, as a means of educating one another on the meaning of one's vote. And decisions like whether to release from a branch or from trunk should be made on the dev@ list. It is important to keep in mind that the dev@ list is where all project decisions (other than personnel issues) need to be made. If it didn't happen here, it didn't happen. Best of luck in the future. Once the download page is addressed I'll be able to back off on the push to release, and ask that you continue to educate your community that subversion is for development, not end-user distribution (someone should tell the python maintainer that you've got a release now, and to use that instead of svn, and maybe mention to them that the version is 0.2.0 not 1.0). Know that I've gotten to know some of you a bit, I would like to suggest that sometime in early-mid January you start a discussion about your graduation plans: if you wish to complete incubation, do you go TLP or graduate into a subproject of Lucene or Hadoop? I will continue reading this list to see what you eventually decide to do, and answer any other questions you may have about Apache policy (apparently I'm part of a small minority of people on the IPMC that actually knows the rationale behind things, so don't hesitate to ask here if there's something you don't understand).
