Title: 2009-05 Incubator VCL Report

# May 2009 VCL Incubator status report

VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a framework for
doing cloud management of physical and virtual machines.

### Project Name
* Discussion about using the name VCL has continued but the issue has not
been resolved.
* A question was posed on the legal discussion list regarding the use of
the VCL name. A response was givin indicating that NCSU should
make it obvious that both the VCL name and code are donated to the ASF.
* NCSU is working to make it obvious on its website that VCL is developed
at the ASF.
* The development community is working to remove references to NCSU from
the VCL code.
* More guidance is required from the project mentors or others from ASF in
order to resolve this issue.

### Development
* Code development has continued and many commits have been made to the ASF
VCL repository.
* The vcl-dev list is actively being used to discuss development issues.
* The Jira issue system is being used for tracking and to plan the first
release.

### Release Preparation
* The development community is researching the ASF release process.
* Work is being done to complete a few Jira issues before
creating release.

### Documentation
* The community decided to use a Confluence wiki for the
project documentation.
* Work has been done to organize project documentation.
* Documentation is actively being contributed to wiki.
* Questions were asked of the mentors regarding the rules governing wiki
contributions from individuals who have not signed the CLA. It is the
community's understanding that a separate wiki will be needed -- one for
official documentation included with releases and one containing
contributions from individual who have not signed the CLA.
* A request has been made to one of the mentors who had
offered to create a 2nd wiki instance.