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Inspired by Apache, via Globus
Nomenclature
Process | The JA-SIG Incubation Process is wholistically the activities and mechanism whereby open source software projects are proposed, incubated, evaluated, progressed, and |
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become full-fledged JA-SIG sponsored projects | |
Incubation WG | The Incubation Working Group ( |
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Incubation WG) are the people who oversee this process | |
Mentor | The |
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Mentor is a particular person assigned by the Incubation Working Group to shepherd |
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a candidate project through incubation |
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Board | The JA-SIG Board leads JA-SIG, overseeing and supporting the Working Group and the process they execute |
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Projects |
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Software to incubated, progressing from Candidate Project status through in-incubation Incubated Project status and ideally emerging as a fully-fledged Sponsored Project. |
The JA-SIG Incubation Working Group
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Projects in incubation will undergo periodic reviews (at least quarterly) which may have one of four outcomes:
- The project will be promoted into a fully sponsored JA-SIG project
- The project will remain in Incubation
- The project will be asked to hibernate after a period of little activity (it may move out of hibernation at a later date)
- The project will be asked to retire due to lack of progressThe project will be promoted into a fully sponsored JA-SIG project
5. Promotion to full-fledged product
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