Sling Status Template - Apache Incubator

item	type	reference
Website	www	http://incubator.apache.org/sling/
	wiki	http://cwiki.apache.org/SLING/
Mailing list	dev	`sling-dev@incubator.apache.org`
	private (PPMC)	`sling-private@incubator.apache.org`
	commits	`sling-commits@incubator.apache.org`
Bug tracking	jira	http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING
Source code	SVN	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/sling/
Sponsor		Jackrabbit PMC
Mentors	jukka	Jukka Zitting
	gianugo	Gianugo Rabellino
	farra	J Aaron Farr
Committers		See up to date list on the Sling website

Incubation status reports

May 2009: New Committer Vidar S. Ramdal; Second Sling release
February 2009: OpenID contribution, preparing next release.
November 2008: Sling presented at openexpo.ch and ApacheCon US.
August 2008: First Sling release
May 2008: Sling won the 5th prize at the JAX Innovation Award
February 2008: New Committer Padraic Hannon; Sling API finalized
November 2007: Migration of Component API to Sling API
October 2007: Site is up; Discussion on replacing Component API by Sling API
September 2007: Project started and setting up infrastructure

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
2007-06	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.
2007-09-02	If request from outside Apache to enter an existing Apache project, then post a message to that project for them to decide on acceptance.
2007-09	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
2007-08-07	Identify all the Mentors for the incubation, by asking all that can be Mentors.
2007-08	Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists.
2007-08	Give all Mentors access to the incubator SVN repository. (to be done by PMC chair)
2007-08	Tell Mentors to track progress in the file 'incubator/projects/{project.name}.html'

Copyright

date	item
2007-08-31	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.
2007-08-31	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
2008-06	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.
2008-06	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
2007-09-09	Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors agreement.
2007-09-10	Add all active committers in the STATUS file.
2007-09-09	Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts on people.apache.org.

Infrastructure

date	item
2007-09-09	Ask infrastructure to create source repository modules and grant the committers karma.
2007-09-09	Ask infrastructure to set up and archive Mailing lists.
2007-09-09	Decide about and then ask infrastructure to setup an issuetracking system (Bugzilla, Scarab, Jira).
2007-09-10	Migrate the project to our infrastructure.

Project specific

date	item
2007-09-11	Setup basic site.
2008-01	Care for nightly builds.
2007-09-10	Ask infrastrucure for SLING space on Confluence.
2007-11	Migrate existing documentation from Jackrabbit Wiki to own space.
2008-02-11	Move Site Source to new Confluence Space and create open Confluence Wiki Space

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?

Project Specific

Add project specific tasks here.

Exit

Things to check for before voting the project out.

Organizational acceptance of responsibility for the project

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?

Incubator sign-off

Has the Incubator decided that the project has accomplished all of the above tasks?