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     <h1>Guide :: Transferring Resources out of the Incubator</h1>
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 <p><div id="toc" class="toc">
 <div id="toctitle">Table of Contents</div>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
 <li><a href="#life_after_graduation">Life After Graduation</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel2">
 <li><a href="#handover">Handover</a></li>
 <li><a href="#first_steps_outside_the_incubator">First Steps Outside the Incubator</a></li>
 <li><a href="#final_revision_of_podling_incubation_records">Final Revision of Podling Incubation Records</a></li>
 <li><a href="#new_responsibilities">New Responsibilities</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="life_after_graduation">Life After Graduation</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Once a project has been established by the board, or a sub-project consumed by a TLP, this guide should be followed to migrate
 the podling from the Incubator to their own TLP.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
 <h3 id="handover">Handover</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>This is the transfer of virtual resources from the care of
 the <a href="/guides/roles_and_responsibilities.html#incubator_project_management_committee_ipmc">IPMC</a>
 to the care of either the new or existing top
 level project taking charge of the graduating community.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
 <h4 id="graduating_as_subproject">Graduating as Subproject</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>This is the simple case. The
 <a href="/guides/roles_and_responsibilities.html#chair_of_the_incubator_pmc">IPMC Chair</a> and the Chair of the project accepting the
 graduating community organize the handover between
 themselves.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>You do need to update the Incubator&#8217;s podlings file. See <a href="/cookbook/podlings-xml.html#graduated_into_the_pmc_that_sponsored_it">Podling XML Examples</a>.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
 <h4 id="graduating_as_new_top_level_project">Graduating as New Top Level Project</h4>
 <div class="sect4">
 <h5 id="board_resolution_and_roster_appointment">Board resolution and roster appointment</h5>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>When graduating to a new project, the process is more
 complex. Creating a new project requires a
 <a href="graduation.html#preparing_a_charter">resolution</a>
 to be passed by the <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/">Board</a>.
 You may look at older minutes from the <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">calendar</a> and check for "Establish ProjectName".
 <a href="https://whimsy.apache.org/board/agenda/">Board Agenda Tool</a> has an "Add Item" button that can be used to add the Graduation Resolution to the Board Agenda.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>The Board votes on graduation resolutions at their monthly meeting.  If the Board votes to pass the resolution, that then appoints
 the listed Project Management Committee including:</p>
 </div>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>a Chair for the new project aka PMC Chair. The Chair will also be appointed an
   <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/">Officer</a>
   of the Apache Software Foundation. This allows them
 access to official resources of the foundation as well
 as granting power to act on behalf of Apache within the scope of their project&#8217;s activities.</p>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 <div class="admonitionblock warning">
 <table>
 <tr>
 <td class="icon">
 <i class="fa icon-warning" title="Warning"></i>
 </td>
 <td class="content">
 Usually once this happens, the secretary will
 inform the new chair.
 Occasionally, this will be missed: if more than 72
 hours has passed since the Board meeting, it may be
 worth pinging the board to request confirmation.
 </td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 </div>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>the initial members of Project Management Committee aka PMC members.</p>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect4">
 <h5 id="pmc_chair_todo_list">PMC Chair Todo List</h5>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Once appointed, the new Chair needs to:</p>
 </div>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>Subscribe to the <strong>board</strong> mailing list</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Ensure that they have been added to
 <a href="https://people.apache.org/phonebook.html?service=pmc-chairs">the PMC chairs group (pmc-chairs) in LDAP</a>.</p>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 <div class="admonitionblock warning">
 <table>
 <tr>
 <td class="icon">
 <i class="fa icon-warning" title="Warning"></i>
 </td>
 <td class="content">
 The ASF Secretary should do this without any action on the part
 of the new chair. As with above, if it has not happened within
 72 hours of the resolution passing, contact the secretary to remind them.
 </td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 </div>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>Check out the <a href="https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/foundation/officers"><strong>foundation/officers</strong></a> folder from the private repository.
 Users with member or pmc-chairs karma can do this.</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Add yourself to the <mark>foundation/officers/affiliations.txt</mark> file with the appropriate information.</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Add your details to the foundation web site Officer list at <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/index.html">http://www.apache.org/foundation/index.html</a>
 (in SVN at <a href="https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site/trunk/content/foundation/">https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site/trunk/content/foundation/</a>)</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Review appropriate documentation:</p>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p><a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#chair">PMC Chair Duties</a></p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>PMC <a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/#pmc">documentation</a></p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Incubator <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/guides/chair.html">Chair guide</a></p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Reporting <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">calendar</a></p>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Understand the reporting schedule with the <a href="/guides/roles_and_responsibilities.html#board">Board</a>. For
 the first three months after graduation this will
 be monthly. After that, the project should slot
 into a quarterly reporting schedule. Now is a good time to remove
 the project from the Incubator reporting schedule by updating the podlings.xml file. See <a href="/cookbook/podlings-xml.html#graduated_as_an_apache_tlp">Podling XML Examples</a>.</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Ensure the PMC is added to the committee-info.txt file at <a href="https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/committee-info.txt" class="bare">https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/committee-info.txt</a>
 There are 3 sections which need to be updated; see instructions in the file, otherwise update it in <a href="https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/">Whimsy&#8217;s Roster Tool</a>
 You may need to get a member to help with this, such as your mentors.</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>They should then be able to start assembling the new
 <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#structure">PMC</a>.
 The starting membership is listed in the
 <a href="graduation.html#preparing_a_charter">resolution</a>. However, the Chair of the new project
 needs to ensure that private list is created and the
 membership subscribed.</p>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect4">
 <h5 id="pmc_todo_list">PMC Todo List</h5>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Once appointed, Members of the new PMC need to:</p>
 </div>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>Subscribe to the private mailing list for the project, if they aren&#8217;t already subscribed from their PPMC membership.</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Review appropriate documentation:</p>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>Apache <a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html">PMC Guide</a></p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Related <a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/#pmc">documentation</a></p>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Once all this is in place, resources can start to be
 handed over to the new project. See next section.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="admonitionblock important">
 <table>
 <tr>
 <td class="icon">
 <i class="fa icon-important" title="Important"></i>
 </td>
 <td class="content">
 Please continue to hang around the Incubator and help
 new podlings have an easier time than you did!
 </td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
 <h3 id="first_steps_outside_the_incubator">First Steps Outside the Incubator</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Graduation is the first step in what is hopefully a long road.
 There are some issues which incubation may not cover.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
 <h4 id="transferring_resources">Transferring Resources</h4>
 <div class="admonitionblock important">
 <table>
 <tr>
 <td class="icon">
 <i class="fa icon-important" title="Important"></i>
 </td>
 <td class="content">
 Starting the following steps require that the resolution was passed by the board.
 </td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>When a project graduates, then the infrastructure
 resources (mailing lists, websites, source, etc.) need to
 be transferred from the Incubator to a project&#8217;s new home.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Although the below checklist is still generally useful, <strong>the infrastructure process has been streamlined</strong>, see
 <a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/infra-contact#requesting-graduation">requesting graduation</a>.
 You might also want to check JIRA checklist tickets for projects that graduated in the last month or two.  This process is known as "TLP Parent Request"</p>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Checklist:</p>
 </div>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>Update the Incubator status records</p>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>Like the rest of incubation, graduation is a process. Updating your status records as you progress will enable others to assist.</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Update the podling status page.  All sections should now be filled in
 including <strong>EXIT</strong>. Take some
 time to read carefully since this page
 forms the final public record for
 graduation.</p>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Source</p>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>Git repositories will be renamed to drop the <code>incubator-</code> prefix, please ensure that developers change their remotes.
 After you&#8217;ve created the TLP request, request the rename.</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>SVN repositories will be moved from the incubator to other locations, if you need the move done please raise an infra ticket after the TLP Parent Request.</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Post an announcement to the development list telling everyone that the repository is about to be moved</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Post an announcement containing instructions for developers describing how to <mark>svn switch</mark> their workspaces</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Update site, jenkins, wikis, <strong>pom.xml</strong> and other resources to point to the new repository location.</p>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Websites</p>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>Since podlings receive standard domains, no changes are required</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Once graduated, your website will automatically redirect to remove the <strong>incubator</strong> subdomain</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>If you have any fully qualified links to your <strong>podling.incubator.apache.org</strong> on your website change them</p>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Mailing lists</p>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>Mailing lists no longer need to get moved, since podlings are given standard domains.</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>If you use <strong>podling.incubator.apache.org</strong> format email addresses, please start using <strong>podling.apache.org</strong></p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>When using Maven: update <strong>pom.xml</strong> for
 the new mailing list address(es). Also update any
 documents on your website that show how to
 subscribe to the lists and/or find archives.</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Check project-private mailing list membership.  Mentors should be allowed to remain if they wish to do so.
 The subscriber list should otherwise match that on the resolution. See <a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html#mail-moderate">this</a> and the <a href="http://www.ezmlm.org/">EZMLM</a> "Moderator&#8217;s and Administrator&#8217;s Manual".</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Update mail addresses including:</p>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>confluence commit messages (see adminstration documentation)</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>issue tracking messages (see administration documentation)</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>The chair should have karma to perform these tasks.</p>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Double-check that all of your lists have sufficient active <a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html#mailing-list-moderators">moderators</a>.</p>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Issue Tracking</p>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>Ask infra to move the podling to its own top level category in JIRA, if using JIRA</p>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Distribution mirrors</p>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>Dist area (dist.apache.org) <strong>release/${project}</strong> and <strong>dev/${project}</strong> folders can be created by PMC members.</p>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>Do not forget to copy KEYS file from <strong>release/incubator/${project}</strong> location.</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>You have two major options then:</p>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>you can <strong>keep</strong> incubating released artifacts at <strong>release/incubator/${project}</strong> and remove artifacts once your TLP project does their first release.</p>
 <div class="admonitionblock note">
 <table>
 <tr>
 <td class="icon">
 <i class="fa icon-note" title="Note"></i>
 </td>
 <td class="content">
 File a JIRA under your newly JIRA <strong>${project}</strong> space to remind to remove <strong>/dist/incubator/${project}/</strong> after the first release in <strong>/dist/${project}/</strong>
 </td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 </div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>you can <strong>move</strong> the last incubating released artifacts to your <strong>release/${project}</strong>, taking care that incubating stay in path (you will need to
 change website and mail for the new location)</p>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
 <h3 id="final_revision_of_podling_incubation_records">Final Revision of Podling Incubation Records</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>When a project has finished its graduation steps, then the incubator resources
 need to be updated to indicate that the project is no
 longer incubating. Here are a few of the items that need
 to be done:</p>
 </div>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>Update the svn <strong>incubator/trunk/content/projects/${project}.xml</strong> file to show the project&#8217;s status.</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Update the podling summary metadata file, <strong>incubator/trunk/content/podlings.xml</strong> svn file.  See the content/podlings.dtd and follow
 <a href="/cookbook/podlings-xml.html#graduated_as_an_apache_tlp">Podling XML Examples</a>:</p>
 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <p>Change the podling status to "graduated"; (The only acceptable status are "current", "graduated", and "retired". "graduating" will make your podling disappear from several incubator pages.)</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>add the "enddate" attribute to document when the project graduated;</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>add the "resolution" element (see other project examples);</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>remove the "reporting" element.</p>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>After your project has finished reporting to the Incubator, then remove the "reporting" element from that <strong>podlings.xml</strong> file.</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Ensure that other svn resources for your project have moved to your new home.</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>Review this whole graduation guide.</p>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p><strong>NOTE: Please edit this guide to add missing steps and clarifications.</strong></p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
 <h3 id="new_responsibilities">New Responsibilities</h3>
 <div class="sect3">
 <h4 id="oversight">Oversight</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>During the stay in the Incubator, the
 <a href="/guides/roles_and_responsibilities.html#incubator_project_management_committee_ipmc">Incubator PMC (IPMC)</a>
 was responsible to the
 <a href="/guides/roles_and_responsibilities.html#the_board">Board</a>
 for oversight. A graduated project must now take
 responsibility for its own oversight.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>A project needs to ensure that its code base is
 clean from an IP perspective. New committers need to
 recruited, educated and mentored. Quality releases
 need to be cut. Community spirit needs to be maintained
 and conflicts resolved positively. Board reports need
 to be accurate and prompt.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Help is still available but the
 appropriate bodies (infrastructure, community, legal
 and so on) should now be approached directly.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
 <h4 id="security">Security</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Each project needs to be able to manage security issues
 discovered in their code. By their nature, these issues
 need to be dealt with in private. These issues may either
 be dealt with on a separate security list or on the
 private list. Which list is suitable for security issues
 should be noted.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Volunteers need to be found from the
 <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#structure">PMC</a>
 to work with the <a href="https://www.apache.org/security/committers.html">Apache security team</a> and act as
 first contacts on security matters. The new project
 should make contact with the team soon after graduation
 and not wait for the first issue to be raised.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Projects should adopt a positive attitude towards
 security issues. It is easy to gain a poor reputation
 by mishandling of these issues. There are many people
 at Apache with considerable experience in this area
 so ask first.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
 <h4 id="stay_in_touch">Stay In Touch</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Passing through the incubation process gives a very
 valuable perspective. Please help to improve the process
 by guiding new podlings and by developing improved policy
 and documentation on the <a href="lists.html#general+at+incubator.apache.org">general</a> list.</p>
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