great job :) hope this will bring more commiters to DS.
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:37:17 +0100 > From: [email protected] > Subject: [ANNOUNCE] DeltaSpike is now an Apache Top Level Project > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > > Dear Lords and Ladies! > > From yesterdays ASF board report > > The following resolutions were passed unaminously: > > > D. Establish the Apache DeltaSpike Project (Mark Struberg, VP) > > > Congratulations to all of you and thanks for the input and hard work! > > > What does this mean for DeltaSpike and the community? > > > We are now basically mature as community and on our own feet. From a Project > API point of view there is not yet a substantial change. All versions below > 1.0 are still subject to API changes, but - as usual - we will take care to > hold those as minimal as possible! > We will need to establish rules for deprecation and maintenance releases once > we reach 1.0, but that's a standard thingy. > > > We will now move on with the LP transition and put some more pressure on > releasing more often. > I hope we get the 0.4 release done this month even! > > > By becoming a TLP we now also have a PMC (Project Management Council) which > form the initial committers (see the graduation proposal). > If you're not on this list then you are still more than welcome to provide > patches and feedback! The standard contribution rules for ASF projects apply > and maybe you even get invited to become a committer soon! > > > As for the PMC-Chair (VP, DeltaSpike): > The voice of the PMC-Chair of a project has no more value than any other PMC > member! This role is just the official speaker and the despot if it comes to > doing all the paper work ;) > > I'd suggest to establish the same internal rules which already work fine in a > few other ASF projects I'm serving. Means to annually re-vote the PMC-chair > inside the PMC. > > txs and LieGrue, > strub
