+1 from me for Graduation. Do we all get to wear mortar boards ?? ;-)
Yours, Mike. ant elder wrote:
We've done a lot of work since last October. We now have a diverse community of contributors and have demonstrated the ability to attract new committers to create an even more diverse community, we have shown we can do releases based on Apache guidelines, and we have shown we conduct our discussions in public within full view of the community and can resolve disagreements on the lists. I think we're ready, so please vote on the proposal below to graduate Tuscany to a TLP. +1 from me. ...ant X. Establish the Apache Tuscany 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 that simplifies the development and deployment of service oriented applications and provides a managed service-oriented runtime based on the standards defined by the OASIS OpenCSA group, for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Tuscany Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Tuscany Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache Tuscany; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Tuscany" 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 Tuscany Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Tuscany 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 Tuscany Project: - Adriano Crestani <adrianocrestani at apache dot org> - ant elder <antelder at apache dot org> - Brady Johnson <bjohnson at apache dot org> - Frank Budinsky <frankb at apache dot org> - Ignacio Silva-Lepe <isilval at apache dot org> - Jean-Sebastien Delfino <jsdelfino at apache dot org> - kelvin goodson <kelvingoodson at apache dot org> - Luciano Resende <lresende at apache dot org> - Mark Combellack <mcombellack at apache dot org> - Matthieu Riou <mriou at apache dot org> - Mike Edwards <edwardsmj at apache dot org> - Paul Fremantle <pzf at apache dot org> - Pete Robbins <robbinspg at apache dot org> - Raymond Feng <rfeng at apache dot org> - Simon Laws <slaws at apache dot org> - Simon Nash <nash at apache dot org> - Venkata Krishnan <svkrish at apache dot org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ant Elder be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Tuscany, 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 Apache Tuscany Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Tuscany podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Tuscany podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged.