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Apache Annotator Project Incubation Status
This page tracks the project status, incubator-wise. For more general
project status, look on the project website.
Description
The Apache Annotator Project is a wonderful project that does things and goes places.
News
2016-08-30 Project enters incubation.
2025-08-11 Project retired from Apache Incubator.
Project info
item
type
reference
Website
www
wiki
Confluence (ANNO)
Mailing list
dev
dev
annotator.incubator.apache.org
commits
commits
annotator.incubator.apache.org
Bug tracking
Jira (ANNO)
Source code
git
Champion
humbedooh
Daniel Gruno
Mentors
niq
Nick Kew
jim
Jim Jagielski
brianm
Brian McCallister
Committers
bigbluehat
Benjamin Young
tilgovi
Randall Leeds
...other committer accounts still in the works...
Incubation status reports
2017 January
2016 December
2016 October
Incubation work items
Project Setup
This is the first phase on incubation, needed to start the project at Apache.
Item assignment is shown by the Apache id.
Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (YYYY-MM-dd).
Identify the project to be incubated
date
item
2016-08-30
Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist.
Please follow
the guide to ensure a suitable project/product name.
N/A
If request from an existing Apache project to adopt an external
package, then ask the Apache project for the SVN module and mail
address names.
N/A
If request from outside Apache to enter an existing Apache project,
then post a message to that project for them to decide on acceptance.
....-..-..
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.
Infrastructure
date
item
....-..-..
Migrate the project to our infrastructure.
2016-12-06
Ask infrastructure to set up issue tracker (JIRA, Bugzilla).
INFRA-13042
2016-12-06
Ask infrastructure to set up wiki (Confluence, Moin).
INFRA-13041
2016-12-05
Ask infrastructure to create source repository modules
and grant the committers karma.
INFRA-13040
2016-09-09
Ask infrastructure to set up and archive mailing lists.
Mentor-related responsibility/oversight
date
item
....-..-..
Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists.
....-..-..
Give all Mentors access to the incubator SVN repository.
(to be done by the Incubator PMC chair or an Incubator PMC
Member wih karma for the authorizations file)
....-..-..
Tell Mentors to track progress in the file
'incubator/projects/{project.name}.html'
date
item
....-..-..
Check and make sure that 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.
....-..-..
Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been
updated to reflect the new ASF copyright.
Verify distribution rights
date
item
....-..-..
Check and make sure that for all code included with the distribution
that is not under the Apache license, we have the right to combine
with Apache-licensed code and redistribute.
....-..-..
Check and make sure that all source code distributed by the project
is 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.
Establish a list of active committers
date
item
....-..-..
Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors
agreement.
....-..-..
Add all active committers in the STATUS file.
....-..-..
Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts on
people.apache.org.
Project specific
Add project specific tasks here.
Incubation
These action items have to be checked for during the whole incubation process.
These items are not to be signed as done during incubation, as they
may change during incubation.
They are to be looked into and described in the status reports and
completed in the request for incubation signoff.
Collaborative Development
Have all of the active long-term volunteers been identified and
acknowledged as committers on the project?
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.)
Are project decisions being made in public by the committers?
Are the decision-making guidelines published and agreed to by all of
the committers?
Licensing awareness
Are all licensing, trademark, credit issues being taken care of and
acknowleged by all committers?
Project Specific
Add project specific tasks here.
Exit
Things to check for before voting the project out.
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?
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