Formal and informal guidelines for getting the most out of the incubator...and exiting in a timely manner.
Previous advice:
- http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listId=140&msgNo=2618
- http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listId=140&msgNo=3277
GPG/PGP Key Signing:
Legal
(these should be done before code comes into the incubator, but I'm including them for completeness)
- All code ASL'ed
- No non ASL or ASL-compatible dependencies in the code base
- License grant complete
- CLAs on file
- Check of project name for trademark issues
Meritocracy / Community
- Demonstrate an active and diverse development community
- No single organization supplies more than 50% of the active committers (must be at least 3 independent committers)
- The above implies that new committers are admitted according to ASF practices
- ASF style voting has been adopted and is standard practice
- Demonstrate ability to tolerate and resolve conflict within the community.
- Release plans are developed and executed in public by the community. ** (requriment on minimum number of such releases?) ** Note: incubator projects are not permitted to issue an official Release. Test snapshots (however good the quality) and Release plans are OK.
- Engagement by the incubated community with the other ASF communities, particularly infrastructure@ (this reflects my personal bias that projects should pay an infrastructure "tax").
- Incubator PMC has voted for graduation
- Destination PMC, or ASF Board for a TLP, has voted for final acceptance
Alignment / Synergy
- Use of other ASF subprojects
- Develop synergistic relationship with other ASF subprojects
Infrastructure
- CVS or SVN module has been created
- Mailing list(s) have been created
- Mailing list(s) are being archived
- Bugzilla or JIRA project has been created
- Project website has been created
- Project is ready to comply with ASF mirroring guidlines
- Project is integrated with Gump if appropriate
- Releases are PGP-signed by a member of the community
- Developers are tied into the ASF PGP web of trust