Sqoop Incubation Status - Apache Incubator

2012-03-21 Apache Sqoop graduates from the Incubator.
2012-02-24 Sqoop PPMC voted in Kathleen Ting as a new committer.
2012-02-18 Sqoop PPMC voted in Jarek Jarcec Cecho (Jarsolav Cecho) as PPMC member.
2012-02-16 Sqoop releases it's second incubator release - version 1.4.1-incubating.
2011-12-08 Sqoop PPMC voted in Bilung Lee as PPMC member.
2011-11-29 Sqoop releases it's first incubator release - version 1.4.0-incubating.
2011-10-21 Sqoop PPMC voted in Jarek Jarcec Cecho (Jaroslav Cecho) as a new committer.
2011-10-12 Sqoop PPMC voted in Alex Newman as a new committer.
2011-10-04 Sqoop web site created.
2011-08-30 Sqoop PPMC voted in Bilung Lee as a new committer.
2011-07-23 Transition from Cloudera complete.
2011-07-22 Code transfer to Apache SVN completed.
2011-07-14 Code transfer rights document received by ASF.
2011-06-21 Wiki space created.
2011-06-14 JIRA, mailing lists, SVN space created.
2011-06-13 Project enters incubation.

Project info

item	type	reference
Website	www	http://incubator.apache.org/sqoop/
.	wiki	https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SQOOP
Mailing list	dev	`sqoop-dev@incubator.apache.org` (How to subscribe)
.	user	`sqoop-user@incubator.apache.org` (How to subscribe)
.	commits	`sqoop-commits@incubator.apache.org` (How to subscribe)
Bug tracking	JIRA	https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP
Source code	SVN	https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/sqoop/
Mentors	phunt	Patrick Hunt
.	olamy	Olivier Lamy
.	mnour	Mohammad Nour El-Din
.	tomwhite	Tom White
Committers	arvind	Arvind Prabhakar
.	ahmed	Ahmed Radwan
.	jmhsieh	Jonathan Hsieh
.	kimballa	Aaron Kimball
.	gcottman	Greg Cottman
.	guylemar	Guy le Mar
.	rvs	Roman Shaposhnik
.	abayer	Andrew Bayer
.	pzimdars	Paul Zimdars
.	blee	Bilung Lee
.	posix4e	Alex Newman
.	jarcec	Jaroslav Cecho
.	kathleen	Kathleen Ting

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
2011-08-08	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.
2011-08-08	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.
2011-08-08	If request from outside Apache to enter an existing Apache project, then post a message to that project for them to decide on acceptance.
2011-08-08	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
2011-06-14	Ask infrastructure to create source repository modules and grant the committers karma.
2011-06-14	Ask infrastructure to set up and archive mailing lists.
2011-06-14	Ask infrastructure to set up issue tracker (JIRA, Bugzilla).
2011-06-21	Ask infrastructure to set up wiki (Confluence, Moin).
2011-08-01	Migrate the project to our infrastructure.

Mentor-related responsibility/oversight

date	item
2011-06-13	Identify all the Mentors for the incubation, by asking all that can be Mentors.
2011-06-13	Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists.
2011-06-17	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)
2011-06-13	Tell Mentors to track progress in the file 'incubator/projects/sqoop.html'

Copyright

date	item
2011-07-14	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.
2011-10-07	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
2011-11-05	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.
2011-11-06	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
2011-08-08	Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors agreement.
2011-08-01	Add all active committers in the STATUS file.
2011-07-06	Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts on people.apache.org.

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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? - YES
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.) - YES
Are project decisions being made in public by the committers? - YES
Are the decision-making guidelines published and agreed to by all of the committers? - YES

Licensing awareness

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

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? - YES

Incubator sign-off

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