Buildr Incubation Status - Apache Incubator

Buildr is a build system for Java applications written in Ruby. We wanted something that’s simple and intuitive to use, so we only need to tell it what to do, and it takes care of the rest. But also something we can easily extend for those one-off tasks, with a language that’s a joy to use. And of course, we wanted it to be fast, reliable and have outstanding dependency management.

News

2008-10-16 Buildr 1.3.3 release.
2008-08-20 Antoine Contal has been voted in the Buildr PPMC.
2008-08-20 Antoine Contal has been accepted as a new committer.
2008-07-24 Buildr 1.3.2 release.
2008-05-28 Buildr 1.3.1 release.
2008-04-30 Buildr 1.3 release.
2008-04-25 Victor Hugo Borja has been accepted in the Buildr PPMC.
2008-01-30 Victor Hugo Borja is a new committer.
2007-11-01 Buildr enters the Incubator.

Project info

Web site: http://incubator.apache.org/buildr

User mailing-list: buildr-user@incubator.apache.org

Dev mailing-list: buildr-dev@incubator.apache.org

Jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BUILDR

item	type	reference
Website	www	http://incubator.apache.org/buildr/
Mailing List	dev	buildr-dev@incubator.apache.org
.	commits	buildr-commits@incubator.apache.org
Bug tracking	Jira	https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BUILDR
Source code	svn	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/buildr/
Mentors	jim	Jim Jagielski
.	yoavs	Yoav Shapira
.	mriou	Matthieu Riou
Committers	assaf	Assaf Arkin
.	boisvert	Alex Boisvert
.	lacton	Antoine Contal
.	mriou	Matthieu Riou
.	vborja	Victor Hugo Borja

Incubation status reports

Incubation work items

Project Setup

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).

Identify the project to be incubated

date	item
2007-11-15	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.
N/A	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.
N/A	If request from outside Apache to enter an existing Apache project, then post a message to that project for them to decide on acceptance.
N/A	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.

Interim responsibility

date	item
2007-11-01	Identify all the Mentors for the incubation, by asking all that can be Mentors.
2007-11-13	Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists.
2007-11-13	Give all Mentors access to the incubator SVN repository. (to be done by the Incubator PMC chair or an Incubator PMC Member wih karma for the authorizations file)
2007-11-13	Tell Mentors to track progress in the file 'incubator/projects/{project.name}.html'

Copyright

date	item
2007-11-10	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.
2008-10-17	Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright.

Verify distribution rights

date	item
2008-04	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.
2008-04	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.

Establish a list of active committers

date	item
2007-11-01	Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors agreement.
2007-11-01	Add all active committers in the STATUS file.
2007-11-01	Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts on people.apache.org.

Infrastructure

date	item
2007-11-02	Ask infrastructure to create source repository modules and grant the committers karma.
2007-11-01	Ask infrastructure to set up and archive Mailing lists.
2007-11-01	Decide about and then ask infrastructure to setup an issuetracking system (Bugzilla, Scarab, Jira).
2007-11-13	Migrate the project to our infrastructure.

Project specific

date	item
2008-03-22	Clarify policy regarding Gem dependencies and the Ruby license.

Incubation

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.

Collaborative Development

Have all of the active long-term volunteers been identified and acknowledged as committers on the project?
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.)
Are project decisions being made in public by the committers?
Are the decision-making guidelines published and agreed to by all of the committers?

Licensing awareness

Are all licensing, trademark, credit issues being taken care of and acknowleged by all committers?

Exit

Things to check for before voting the project out.

Organizational acceptance of responsibility for the project

If graduating to a new PMC, has the board voted to accept it? Yes.

Incubator sign-off

Has the Incubator decided that the project has accomplished all of the above tasks?
Yes. The resolution to make Buildr a TLP has been approved in Dec. 2008.