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Re: [technology-pmc] Asking for Approval of Jubula 1.0.0 Graduation/Release review

Hi All,

It seems that we are in the middle of a great discussion. I love to see
such an amount of activity on our list.

Frankly, I think there are many things to consider for making a
decision. Converting an existing commercial project into an open source
project is a tough but the right thing to do. From my experience it's a
tremendous amount of effort (if not impossible) to also convert an
existing community.

Judging project openness from the traffic on a dev list and newsgroups
isn't the right approach in this case. Eclipse is about community. But
Eclipse is also about commercial adoption. IMHO is just natural that any
user base which uses commercial support won't post to any open
forum/newsgroup but call/mail their support contact. Thus, I think it's
fair to say that the forum/newsgroup will likely represent only those
users which use the open source project (either converted from a
commercial version or really new users).

The dev list could likely need some love by sending regular meeting
minutes. I'm not sure that this has to be on a daily base. There are
many major Eclipse projects which don't publish regular meeting minutes.

BTW, there is a great article on community development here:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Community_Development_for_Eclipse_Projects

Am 10.05.2011 14:01, schrieb Achim Lörke:
> we are planning to release the 1.0.0 of Jubula (...) as part of
> the Indigo release train. With this release we also want to
> leave the Incubation state.

Reading through the article referenced above I don't think that Jubula
is in such a bad shape that it justifies a negative vote. Over time the
Jubula team has demonstrated some very good progress in understanding
and adopting the Eclipse processes. The amount of
information/documentation they have on the website, wiki and in Bugzilla
is quite good (IMHO).

Their code base definitely deserves a 1.0 release. The rules are that
this also requires graduation. Graduation does not, however, mean
project mentors are gone. Especially for graduating projects staying in
Technology we will be their to answer questions.

Oh and we'll also do project reviews. If in a year from now the silence
on the dev list still exists, then we can reconsider our options.

Thoughts?

-Gunnar



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Gunnar Wagenknecht
gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://wagenknecht.org/


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