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 2013-10-20 Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist and check www.nameprotect.com to be sure that the name is not already trademarked for an existing software product.

Infrastructure

date item 2013-10-20 Ask infrastructure to create source repository modules and grant the committers karma. 2011-10-18 Ask infrastructure to set up and archive mailing lists. 2011-10-18 Ask infrastructure to set up issue tracker (JIRA, Bugzilla). ? Ask infrastructure to set up wiki (Confluence, Moin).

Mentor-related responsibility/oversight

date item 2013-10-10 Identify all the Mentors for the incubation, by asking all that can be Mentors. 2013-10-20 Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists. 2013-11-05 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)

Copyright

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Verify distribution rights

date item 2013-10-20 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. 2013-10-20 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 2013-10-20 Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors agreement.

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