Title: Roller Project Incubation Status
The Apache Roller project has completed incubation (2007-02-21). Please go to the main project site :
The Roller project graduated on 2007-02-21
Roller is the open source blog server that drives Sun Microsystem‘s blogs.sun.com employee blogging site, the Javalobby’s JRoller Java community site, and hundreds of other sites. If you want to set up a blog server for yourself or for several thousand of your closest friends, then Roller is the perfect choice..
| item | type | reference |
|---|---|---|
| Website | www | http://incubator.apache.org/roller/ |
| . | wiki | http://cwiki.apache.org/ROLLER/ |
| Mailing list | dev | roller-dev@incubator.apache.org |
| . | user | roller-user@incubator.apache.org |
| . | commits | roller-commits@roller.apache.org |
| Bug tracking | jira | http://opensource2.atlassian.com/projects/roller/ |
| Source code | SVN | incubator/roller |
| Mentors | rubys | Sam Ruby |
| . | bayard | Henri Yandell |
| Committers | . | . |
| . | agilliland | Allen Gilliland |
| . | gangolli | Anil Gangolli |
| . | snoopdave | David Johnson |
| . | bayard | Henri Yandell |
| . | eliast | Elias Torres |
| . | lance | Lance Lavandowska |
| . | mraible | Matt Raible |
| . | mattschmidt | Matthew Schmidt |
| Extra | . | . |
| 2005Q4 |
Developed minor Roller 1.3 release and voted to release it
Developed major Roller 2.0 release with group blogging an new UI
Added new committer Elias Torres
Added status page on incubator site 2006Q1
JDO implementation started by Craig Russell ( svn:link ). When finished, should be able to replace Hibernate.
1.3, 2.0, 2.0.1 released at rollerweblogger.org
New committer added: Matt Schmidt
FindBugs dependency removed (LGPL)
This is the first phase on incubation, needed to start the project at Apache.
Item assignment is shown by the Apache id. Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (YYYY-MM-dd).
| date | item | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 2006-05-16 | 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. | We believe the Roller Weblogger name to be free of trademark issues. |
| skip | If request from an existing Apache project to adopt an external package, then ask the Apache project for the SVN module and mail address names. | |
| skip | If request from outside Apache to enter an existing Apache project, then post a message to that project for them to decide on acceptance. | |
| 2006-01-18 | 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. |
| date | item | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 2006-01-18 | Identify all the Mentors for the incubation, by asking all that can be Mentors. | |
| 2006-01-18 | Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists. | |
| 2006-01-18 | Give all Mentors access to all incubator CVS modules. (to be done by PMC chair) | |
| 2006-01-18 | Tell Mentors to track progress in the file ‘incubator/projects/{project.name}.html’ |
| date | item | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 2005-05-31 | 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. | |
| 2007-01-07 | Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright. |
| date | item | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 2006-11-10 | Check and make sure that for all code included with the distribution that is not under the Apache license has the right to combine with Apache-licensed code and redistribute. | LGPL + BCL must be downloaded separately |
| 2006-11-10 | 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. |
| date | item | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 2006-01-18 | Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors agreement. | |
| 2006-01-18 | Add all active committers in the STATUS file. | Taking ‘STATUS file’ to imply this page |
| 2006-01-18 | Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts on people.apache.org. |
| date | item | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 2006-01-18 | Ask infrastructure to create source repository modules and grant the committers karma. | |
| 2006-01-18 | Ask infrastructure to set up and archive Mailing lists. | |
| skip | Decide about and then ask infrastructure to setup an issuetracking system (Bugzilla, Scarab, Jira). | Jira will be migrated later |
| 2007-01-30 | Migrate the project to our infrastructure. | Website and wiki have been created, key pages have been migrated. |
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These action items have to be checked for during the whole incubation process.
These items are not to be signed as done during incubation, as they may change during incubation. They are to be looked into and described in the status reports and completed in the request for incubation signoff.
Have all of the active long-term volunteers been identified and acknowledged as committers on the project? Yes
Are there 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.) Yes
Are project decisions being made in public by the committers?
Are the decision-making guidelines published and agreed to by all of the committers?
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Things to check for before voting the project out.
If graduating to an existing PMC, has the PMC voted to accept it?
If graduating to a new PMC, has the board voted to accept it?