This page tracks the project status, incubator-wise. For more general project status, look on the project website.
Ossie Project Incubation Status
Description
Apache Ossie comes from Open Semantic Interchange. It is an open specification that defines a vendor-neutral format for expressing business metrics, dimensions, and their relationships. It enables any tool to consume and produce semantic definitions without loss of meaning.
News
- 2026-06-22 Project enters incubation.
Project info
| item | type | reference |
|---|---|---|
| Website | www | http://ossie.apache.org/ |
| Mailing list | dev | dev@polaris.apache.org |
| . | private | private@polaris.apache.org |
| . | commits | commits@polaris.apache.org |
| . | issues | issues@polaris.apache.org |
| Bug tracking | GitHub Issues | https://github.com/apache/ossie/issues |
| Source code | ossie | https://github.com/apache/ossie.git |
| Roster | people.apache | Ossie Roster |
| Roster Login | people.apache | Ossie Roster Login |
| Champion | jbonofre | JB Onofre |
| Mentors | jbonofre | JB Onofré |
| . | holden | Holden Karau |
| . | tison | Zili Chen |
| . | russellspitzer | Russell Spitzer |
| Committers | JB Onofré, Khushboo Bhatia, Lior Ebel, Quigley Malcolm, Russell Spitzer, Will Pugh, Dianne Wood, Jochen Christ, Nechama Deutsch, Kurt Stirewalt, Tian Gao, Celeste Hogan, Josh Klahr, Markus Weimer |
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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-22 | Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist. Please follow the guide to ensure a suitable project/product name. |
| 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. |
Infrastructure
| date | item |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-23 | Request DNS (first step after creating podling status page) |
| 2026-06-26 | Request Mailing Lists |
| 2026-06-26 | Move git repositories |
| 2026-06-26 | Successfully set up issue tracker |
Mentor-related responsibility/oversight
| date | item |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-29 | Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists. |
| 2026-06-29 | Give all Mentors access to the incubator Git repository. (to be done by the Incubator PMC chair or an Incubator PMC Member wih karma for the authorizations file) |
| 2026-06-29 | Tell Mentors to track progress in the file 'incubator/projects/polaris.html' |
Copyright
| date | item |
|---|---|
| - | 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. |
| - | 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 |
|---|---|
| - | Check and make sure that for all code included with the distribution that is not under the Apache license, we have the right to combine with Apache-licensed code and redistribute. |
| - | 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 |
|---|---|
| - | Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors agreement. |
| - | Add all active committers in the relevant section above. |
| - | Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts in LDAP. |
Project specific
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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
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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?