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               <td>&lt;&lt;will be handled at later point by avalon pmc&gt;&gt;
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	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Mailing list
	</td>
	<td>dev
	</td>
	<td>dev@avalon.apache.org
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>.
	</td>
	<td>cvs
	</td>
	<td>cvs@avalon.apache.org
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Bug tracking
	</td>
	<td>.
	</td>
	<td>.
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Source code
	</td>
	<td>CVS
	</td>
	<td>avalon-sandbox
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Mentors
	</td>
	<td>leosimons
	</td>
	<td>Leo Simons
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>.
	</td>
	<td>noel
	</td>
	<td>Noel J Bergman
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Committers
	</td>
	<td>n/a
	</td>
	<td>Andreas Oberhack
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>.
	</td>
	<td>n/a
	</td>
	<td>all avalon committers
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Extra
	</td>
	<td>.
	</td>
	<td>.
	</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	</div>
	<h3 id='Incubation+status+report'>Incubation status report
	</h3>
	<div class="section-content">
	<h4 id='STATUS+file'>STATUS file
	</h4>
	<div class="section-content">
	<p>The status file reflects current project status up to the point of
	graduation. The project graduated on January 18 2003. There was much
	rejoicing :D
	</p>
	</div>
	<h4 id='Collaborative+Development'>Collaborative Development
	</h4>
	<div class="section-content">
	<ul>
	<li>all of the active long-term volunteers been identified and
	acknowledged as committers on the project.
	</li>
	<li>there are three or more independent committers? (The legal definition
	of independent is long and boring, but basically it means that there
	is no binding relationship between the individuals, such as a shared
	employer, that is capable of overriding their free will as
	individuals, directly or indirectly.)
	</li>
	<li>project decisions are being made in public by the committers.
	</li>
	<li>the decision-making guidelines are published and agreed to by all of
	the committers.
	</li>
	</ul>
	</div>
	<h4 id='Licensing+awareness'>Licensing awareness
	</h4>
	<div class="section-content">
	<ul>
	<li>all licensing, trademark, credit issues are being taken care of and
	acknowleged by all committers.
	</li>
	</ul>
	</div>
	<h4 id='Project+Specific'>Project Specific
	</h4>
	<div class="section-content">
	<p>N/A
	</p>
	</div>
	</div>
	<h3 id='Exit'>Exit
	</h3>
	<div class="section-content">
	<h4 id='Organizational+acceptance+of+responsibility+for+the+project'>Organizational acceptance of responsibility for the project
	</h4>
	<div class="section-content">
	<ul>
	<li>the avalon PMC has voted to accept the project.
	</li>
	</ul>
	</div>
	<h4 id='Incubator+sign-off'>Incubator sign-off
	</h4>
	<div class="section-content">
	<ul>
	<li>the incubator has signed off on the project.
	</li>
	</ul>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	<h2 id='Incubation+work+items'><img src="../images/redarrow.gif" />Incubation work items
	</h2>
	<div class="section-content">
	<h3 id='Project+Setup'>Project Setup
	</h3>
	<div class="section-content">
	<p>This is the first phase on incubation, needed to start the project at
	Apache.
	</p>
	<p>
	<em>All steps completed by Leo Simons between january 1 and january 14
	2004.
	</em>
	<em>Completed tasks are marked "DONE".
	</em>
	</p>
	<h4 id='Identify+the+project+to+be+incubated'>Identify the project to be incubated
	</h4>
	<div class="section-content">
	<p>Merlin-Developer by Andreas Oberhack.
	</p>
	<table class="colortable" width="100%">
	<tr>
	<th>date
	</th>
	<th>item
	</th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>DONE
	</td>
	<td>Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist and
	check www.nameprotect.com to be sure that the name is not already
	trademarked for an existing software product.
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>DONE
	</td>
	<td>If request from an existing Apache project to adopt an external
	package, then ask the Apache project for the cvs module and mail
	address names.
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>DONE
	</td>
	<td>If request from outside Apache to enter an existing Apache project,
	then post a message to that project for them to decide on acceptance.
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>n/a
	</td>
	<td>If request from anywhere to become a stand-alone PMC, then assess the
	fit with the ASF, and create the lists and modules under the
	incubator address/module names if accepted.
	</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	</div>
	<h4 id='Interim+responsibility'>Interim responsibility
	</h4>
	<div class="section-content">
	<table class="colortable" width="100%">
	<tr>
	<th>date
	</th>
	<th>item
	</th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>DONE
	</td>
	<td>Identify all the Mentors for the incubation, by asking all that can
	be Mentors.
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>DONE
	</td>
	<td>Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists.
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>DONE
	</td>
	<td>Give all Mentors access to all incubator CVS modules. (to be done by
	PMC chair)
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>DONE
	</td>
	<td>Tell Mentors to track progress in the file
	'incubator/projects/{project.name}.cwiki'
	</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	</div>
	<h4 id='Copyright'>Copyright
	</h4>
	<div class="section-content">
	<table class="colortable" width="100%">
	<tr>
	<th>date
	</th>
	<th>item
	</th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>DONE
	</td>
	<td>Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to the ASF
	been received. It is only necessary to transfer rights for the
	package, the core code, and any new code produced by the project.
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>DONE
	</td>
	<td>Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been
	updated to reflect the new ASF copyright.
	</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	</div>
	<h4 id='Verify+distribution+rights'>Verify distribution rights
	</h4>
	<div class="section-content">
	<table class="colortable" width="100%">
	<tr>
	<th>date
	</th>
	<th>item
	</th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>DONE
	</td>
	<td>Check and make sure that for all code included with the distribution
	that is not under the Apache license, e have the right to combine
	with Apache-licensed code and redistribute.
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>DONE
	</td>
	<td>Check and make sure that all source code distributed by the project
	is covered by one or more of the following approved licenses: Apache,
	BSD, Artistic, MIT/X, MIT/W3C, MPL 1.1, or something with essentially
	the same terms.
	</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	</div>
	<h4 id='Establish+a+list+of+active+committers'>Establish a list of active committers
	</h4>
	<div class="section-content">
	<table class="colortable" width="100%">
	<tr>
	<th>date
	</th>
	<th>item
	</th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>DONE
	</td>
	<td>Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors
	agreement.
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>DONE
	</td>
	<td>Add all active committers in the STATUS file.
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td><<will be handled at later point by avalon pmc>>
	</td>
	<td>Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts on cvs.apache.org.
	</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	</div>
	<h4 id='Infrastructure'>Infrastructure
	</h4>
	<div class="section-content">
	<table class="colortable" width="100%">
	<tr>
	<th>date
	</th>
	<th>item
	</th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>n/a
	</td>
	<td>Ask infrastructure to create source repository modules and grant the
	committers karma.
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>n/a
	</td>
	<td>Ask infrastructure to set up and archive Mailing lists.
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>n/a
	</td>
	<td>Decide about and then ask infrastructure to setup an issuetracking
	system (Bugzilla, Scarab, Jira).
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td><<will be handled at later point by avalon pmc>>
	</td>
	<td>Migrate the project to our infrastructure.
	</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	</div>
	<h4 id='Project+specific'>Project specific
	</h4>
	<div class="section-content">
	<p>N/A
	</p>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
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