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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:40:10 +0000
From: "Niall Pemberton" <niall.pemberton@gmail.com>
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Qpid Graduation - for top level
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+1

Niall

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Carl Trieloff <cctrieloff@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> It is with the support of our mentors and a community vote on our dev list
> that Qpid
> would like to graduate. In our last graduation vote the incubator PMC felt
> that the
> Qpid project should increase its diversity. Over the intervening months Qpid
> has
> added more independents to the project & PPMC, bringing the diversity to 7
> legally
> independent parties (not counting those mentors who will stay on to help
> advise), with
> the PPMC diversity at 5 legally independent parties (also not counting
> mentors).
>
> Qpid also continues to attract more contributors (both independents and
> large corporates),
> so the committer pool and diversity should continue to expand as
> contributors are voted
> in as committers.
>
> Qpid has also made an additional release since the last graduation attempt
> and is currently
> working through close down of the next release. Qpid was accepted into the
> incubator
> August 2006.
>
> Attached is the graduation resolution, Please consider your vote for our
> graduation.
>
> many thanks.
> Carl.
>
>
> ---------------------------
>
> WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
> interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
> Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
> Committee charged with the creation and maintenance
> of open-source software related to distributed messaging,
> for distribution at no charge to the public.
>
> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
> Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Qpid Project",
> be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
> Foundation; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the Apache Qpid Project be and hereby is
> responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
> related to distributed messaging; a multiple language
> implementation providing daemons and APIs for publish &
> subscribe, eventing and a wide range of message distribution patterns
> based on the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) and
> related technologies such as (transaction management, federation,
> security, management); and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Qpid" be and
> hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at
> the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the
> Apache Qpid Project, and to have primary responsibility for
> management of the projects within the scope of responsibility
> of the Apache Qpid Project; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
> hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
> Apache Qpid Project:
>
>   * Aidan Skinner
>   * Alan Conway
>   * Arnaud Simon
>   * Carl Trieloff
>   * Craig Russell
>   * Gordon Sim
>   * Jonathan Robie
>   * John O'Hara
>   * Kim van der Riet
>   * Marnie McCormack
>   * Martin Ritchie
>   * Manuel Teira
>   * Paul Fremantle
>   * Nuno Santos
>   * Rafael Schloming
>   * Rajith Attapattu
>   * Robert Greig
>   * Robert Godfrey
>   * Steve Huston
>   * Ted Ross
>   * Yoav Shapira
>
> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that
> Carl Trieloff be appointed to the office of Vice President,
> Qpid, to serve in accordance with and subject to the
> direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the
> Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or
> disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it
> further
>
> RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Qpid
> encumbered upon the Apache Incubator be hereafter discharged.
>
>
>

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