altrmi
AltRMI Project Incubation status
This page tracks the project status, incubator-wise. Items marked
DONE
have been completed.
The AltRMI project retired on 2007-01-18
News
2007-01-18
Project closed down. Activity moved to
JRemoting.
2003-10-30
Still "refuses" 1.0 release. Currently at 0.98-SNAPSHOT. Major work
recently included Mavenization. Reports of commercial usage. Team
happy with remaining in the incubator for time being.
Identify the project to be incubated
- 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.
DONE
- If request from an existing Apache project to adopt an external
package, then ask the Apache project for the cvs module and mail
address names.
DONE
- If request from outside Apache to enter an existing Apache project,
then post a message to that project for them to decide on acceptance.
DONE
- 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.
DONE
Interim responsibility
-
DONE
Who has been identified as the shepherd for the incubation?
Nicola Ken Barozzi
- Are they tracking progress in the file
incubator/projects/{project_name}/STATUS?
Copyright
-
DONE
Have 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.
(project originated at the ASF)
-
DONE
Have the files been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright?
(project originated at the ASF)
Verify distribution rights:
-
DONE
For all code included with the distribution that is not under the
Apache license, do we have the right to combine with Apache-licensed
code and redistribute?
- jUnit (not distributed; but IBM CPL)
- qdox (ASF-based)
-
DONE
Is all source code distributed by the project 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?
(everything is ASF-licensed)
Establish a list of active committers
- Are all active committers in the STATUS file?
-
DONE
Do they have accounts on cvs.apache.org?
- Have they submitted a contributors agreement?
Infrastructure
-
DONE
CVS modules created and committers added to avail file?
- Mailing lists set up and archived?
- Problem tracking system (Bugzilla)?
- Has the project migrated to our infrastructure?
Collaborative Development
-
DONE
Have all of the active long-term volunteers been identified and
acknowledged as committers on the project?
-
DONE
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.)
- Paul Hammant
- Vinay Chandran
- (there are more committers but they are not active)
- Are project decisions being made in public by the committers?
-
DONE
Are the decision-making guidelines published and agreed to by all of
the committers?
Following the "Standard" apache process
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?