FYI.

Craig

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> From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <geirm@apache.org>
> Date: November 18, 2005 8:11:44 AM PST
> To: general@incubator.apache.org
> Cc: pmc@db.apache.org
> Subject: [discussion] JDO out of incubation
> Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org
>
> I'd like to propose that the JDO podling graduate from incubation.
> I'll call for a vote if this discussion is positive.
>
> They are about to do a release, and figure they'd like to do that
> in their new home at DB rather than in incubator.
>
> The active committer community is small, with a "legal diversity
> factor" of 4 or 5, if you count me.
>
> Committers
> -----------
> Craig, Michelle, Martin Zaun - from Sun
> Matthew Adams, Eric Bendston - independents
> Michael Watzek, Michael Bouschen - Techspree
>
> (and if you count me, I have no legal relationship to any
> organization above...)
>
> They also have two very active contributors, who could easily
> become committers (and probably will at some point after
> graduation)  who are independent as well.
>
> They have reasonable dev list traffic,  378 messages in Oct, 473 in
> sept, 290 in Aug... with decisions made in public, and with no
> rancor that I can see.
>
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/db-jdo-dev/
>
> They hold conference calls once a week (not ideal IMO) but so far
> that doesn't seem to disenfranchise anyone, and they publish the
> minutes to the dev list immediately after the calls.  As far as I
> can tell, there have been no complaints.
>
> The status page : http://incubator.apache.org/projects/jdo.html
>
> Anyway, I've notified the DB PMC before I posted this, and CC-ed
> them on this mail.  If there are no complaints, I'll call for a
> vote to both graduate JDO and be accepted by the DB PMC>
>
> geir
>
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> Geir Magnusson Jr                                  +1-203-665-6437
> geirm@apache.org
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Craig Russell
Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo
408 276-5638 mailto:Craig.Russell@sun.com
P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!

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