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 2016-04-04 Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist. Please follow the guide to ensure a suitable project/product name. (See PODLINGNAMESEARCH-47.) 2014-04-29 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 2014-04-30 Ask infrastructure to create source repository modules and grant the committers karma. 2014-05-01 Ask infrastructure to set up and archive mailing lists. 2014-05-02 Ask infrastructure to set up issue tracker (JIRA, Bugzilla). 2014-05-01 Ask infrastructure to set up site(svnpubsub). 2014-05-20 Ask infrastructure to set up wiki (Confluence). 2014-05-20 Ask infrastructure to set up git repo 2014-06-16 set up Jenkins builds/tests 2014-05-01 Migrate the project to our infrastructure.

Mentor-related responsibility/oversight

date item ....-..-.. Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists. 2014-04-30 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/slider.html' 2014-05-20 allow issues@ apache and jenkins to email the dev mailing list

Copyright

date item 2018-05-24 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. 2014-05-27 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 2014-05-27 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. 2014-05-27 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 2014-04-29 Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors agreement. 2014-05-02 Add all active committers in the STATUS file. 2014-04-29 Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts on people.apache.org.

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