Greetings PMC.
Most of the EE4J projects are still in incubation. I believe that all of them have already engaged in successful releases and that the project teams are getting their legs with regard to the process.
Incubation is essentially a label that says that either the project content is unstable and/or that the project team is still learning the ropes. I don't believe that either of these things is true anymore.
I should probably take this opportunity to admit that I haven't been particularly assertive with regard to incubation branding requirements and what-not (incubating projects are required to indicate their status on their products), so most people probably have no idea what incubation is or why they should care.
With your approval, I'd like to just automatically add a graduation review to all of the forthcoming release reviews on the basis that all of the projects have mature content and their development teams know how to be successful with Eclipse Foundation processes.
Since these projects have been acting mature for some time, this change will have no real impact on the project teams. The primary difference will be that the incubation logo will be removed from the various PMI pages.
There's a bit more in the handbook.
As with everything, the PMC has a say in what constitutes preparedness for graduation. The PMC may choose, for example, to add a requirement that the contributed specification document be fully converted (I don't know the actual state of this). I am happy to help you work out your own graduation criteria.
Wayne
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Wayne Beaton
Director of Open Source Projects | Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
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