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The JA-SIG Incubation Working Group will delegate the oversight of the execution of the processes related to project specific contrib and sandbox to the relevant project Steering Committees.
Process
This process describes how a candidate project or contribution would progress from submission to full acceptance as a JA-SIG Project.
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A Candidate submission for Preincubation, Incubation, or Non-Project Specific Contrib is proposed to the Incubation WG via a proposal sent to incubation@ja-sig.org which contains basic information, described below. A Candidate submission for Sandbox or Project Specific Contrib is proposed directly to the relevant Project Steering Committee.
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- Preincubation proposals are accepted if all required information is provided. The IWG or JA-SIG Board may veto a proposal only if the project does not match with the JA-SIG mission.
- Incubation proposals are reviewed by the IWG, which discusses the project and votes on its acceptability. An affirmative IWG vote qualifies project as incubated.
- Decisions regarding the acceptance of contrib our are made by the appropriate Project String Steering Committee. If no such committee exists, the IWG reviews the proposal.
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- SVN: It is expected that new portlet projects will begin in the sandbox area of the JA-SIG SVN and move to the portlets SVN when promoted to sponsored status. Other new projects begin a new project under the JA-SIG SVN.
- JIRA: Each project receives its own JIRA project.
- WIKI: Each project receives its own WIKI space on the JA-SIG wiki server. Incubating portlets will use the exisitng existing portlet space.
- Lists: Incubating portlets will use the existing portlet mailing lists while each regular project will have its own mailing list.
- Web Presence: Each project receives its own webspace, supporting URLs of the form
http://www.ja-sig.org/products/casourprojectandhttp://www.ourproject.org.
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- All code properly licensed.
- No non-licensed or license-incompatible dependencies in the code base.
- Software license grant complete.
- Contributor License Agreements on file (both individual and corporate agreement).
- Copyright agreement in all source files.
- Check of project name for trademark issues. JA-SIG will assist in trademark registration for project name.
Pending the JA-SIG licensing policy, the IWG will accept projects with similar licensing status to existing projects.
Community
- Demonstrate an active and diverse development community. Preferably the list of original committers will have grown beyond the original set (and institution) in the proposal, but this is not a requirement.
- Demonstrate that the project has a reasonable expectation for support in the future, for example, if any single contributor leaves the project continued support will exist.
- The above implies that new committers are admitted according to JA-SIG practices.
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