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Re: Graduating.....
by jgenender
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I think we are there. This community seems very healthy to me. The
lists are active, you have decent representation, and the inter-project
communication with other Apache projects is excellent. I would love to
see CXF graduated.
Jeff
Daniel Kulp wrote:
> In the July board report (see http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/July2007),
> one of the comments presented directly in the summary was:
> "CXF should probably be starting to push for graduation, too, except for
> diversity being a concern"
>
> Since the IPMC seems to think we're getting close, I definitely think we
> should start seriously talking about it.
>
>
> My thoughts:
> In the last year, the CXF community has made huge milestones towards
> acting like an Apache Community and following Apache guidelines.
> We've successfully released two milestone releases and one full release,
> and a patch release is pending. In all cases, we've done as much as
> possible of the work design work on this list, in the JIRA, and on the
> Wiki.
>
> We've tried hard to to respond to our users to make them successful with
> CXF. Several of them have submitted back patches and we've received a
> TON of good suggestions and reports. 2.0.1 is a testament to how well
> we were able to do that.
>
>
> The main concern, of course, is diversity. There are a bunch of IONA
> folks, however, we do meet the criteria of 3 or more independent
> commiters with IBM represented, obviously Envoi Solutions, a couple of
> independents. We also have a couple folks that have been submitting
> patches and are getting "close". That all said, despite having a
> lot of IONA folks, I think we've done a good job keeping the development
> open and in the community. That's the more important thing.
>
>
> Anyway, how do the rest of you feel? Are we there?
>
lists are active, you have decent representation, and the inter-project
communication with other Apache projects is excellent. I would love to
see CXF graduated.
Jeff
Daniel Kulp wrote:
> In the July board report (see http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/July2007),
> one of the comments presented directly in the summary was:
> "CXF should probably be starting to push for graduation, too, except for
> diversity being a concern"
>
> Since the IPMC seems to think we're getting close, I definitely think we
> should start seriously talking about it.
>
>
> My thoughts:
> In the last year, the CXF community has made huge milestones towards
> acting like an Apache Community and following Apache guidelines.
> We've successfully released two milestone releases and one full release,
> and a patch release is pending. In all cases, we've done as much as
> possible of the work design work on this list, in the JIRA, and on the
> Wiki.
>
> We've tried hard to to respond to our users to make them successful with
> CXF. Several of them have submitted back patches and we've received a
> TON of good suggestions and reports. 2.0.1 is a testament to how well
> we were able to do that.
>
>
> The main concern, of course, is diversity. There are a bunch of IONA
> folks, however, we do meet the criteria of 3 or more independent
> commiters with IBM represented, obviously Envoi Solutions, a couple of
> independents. We also have a couple folks that have been submitting
> patches and are getting "close". That all said, despite having a
> lot of IONA folks, I think we've done a good job keeping the development
> open and in the community. That's the more important thing.
>
>
> Anyway, how do the rest of you feel? Are we there?
>
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