OW2 Technology Council minutes Date: 20 March 2008 Participants : Gaël Blondelle Cedric Thomas Laurent Laudinet François Exertier * Update of Chinese contribution to the code base : - PKU contributes to JONAS - Chinese members (and especially NUDT) plan to propose the Trustee project. * Discussions about the project lifecycle - Criterias for project acceptation in the incubator - Is it middleware (at large)? * Project demonstrators are acceptable projects - Does the team show goodwill to synergize with other OW2 projects? - Is the licence compatible with the IPR policy - Project competing with other projects * Should be accepted in the incubator * Should be invited to interoperate - Criterias for project upgrade (from incubator to mature) - Quantitive criterias (in absolute value and in trend) * Source repository activity * Team size * Mailing list (or forum) activity * Consistent download activity - Qualitative criterias (proposed by Petr Tuma) * Does it work - Is there a user outside the project leader organization * Does it meet technical standards we want to uphold -based on a consensus at the TC * About continous integration, integration tests, etc ... * About technology standards like OMG, JCP, W3C, ... * About a comparison with other similar open source projects * Is there a commercial support offer - Criterias for project migration to archive - No more development activity? - Project officially moved by project leader to another place? - The project leader is not a member of OW2? - No binary, source, documentation available on OW2 * Other issues * Project status should be tagged in the URL, or a logo indicating the status should mandatory in the OW2 forge. * Project business Readiness will be evaluated in a prrallel process to be launched. * Next TC meeting at 10AM (Paris Time) on the 2nd of April. Number +33 172 807 597