Re: [ANN] Cayenne Becomes a Top Level Apache Project

From: Eric Lazarus (ericllazaru..ahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2007 - 10:53:58 EST

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    Congrats to everyone who made this happen. I am very
    grateful that cayenne is such a powerful product.

    Eric
    --- Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:

    > /A bit of a late announcement and old news to
    > cayenne-dev
    > subscribers, but here is goes..../
    >
    > I am glad to announce that during its December
    > meeting, Apache Board
    > accepted a resolution officially establishing
    > Cayenne as a top level
    > Apache project. This is great (if not unexpected)
    > news for us. ASF is
    > built on principles of meritocracy, inclusiveness
    > and self-governance
    > - same principles that we were following along the
    > road. I am
    > delighted to see ASF as a permanent home for Cayenne
    > (and I am sure I
    > am not alone in that feeling).
    >
    > When we decided to dive into the incubation process,
    > we had a vague
    > idea that joining ASF would be good for growing
    > Cayenne community.
    > What I came to realize now is that the Apache brand
    > is not the only
    > reason why this happens. The other important factor,
    > collaboration
    > within the foundation, is real. We are now a part of
    > a much bigger
    > open source club where new ideas will have a much
    > better chance of
    > finding a receptive audience. It is up to us now to
    > participate and
    > take advantage of that.
    >
    > I'd like to thank the Incubator community and
    > especially our mentors
    > (Jean, Jim, Bill and Brian) for helping us with
    > accommodation at the
    > ASF. And also pat ourselves (Cayenne committers) on
    > the back - we've
    > done a huge amount of work to make the graduation
    > happen.
    >
    > Finally, a note about immediate Cayenne plans:
    >
    > * We will be migrating the site and the mailing
    > lists to the new
    > locations.
    > * We are working on the site facelift.
    > * 2.0.2 (and 1.2.2) releases are almost ready to go.
    > * The first 3.0 milestone (alpha) will follow
    > immediately after that.
    >
    > Cheers,
    > Andrus
    >
    >
    >

    Eric
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