2009-05 Incubator VCL Report

May 2009 VCL Incubator status report

VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a framework for doing cloud management of physical and virtual machines.

Discussion about using the name VCL has continued but the issue has not been resolved.
A question was posed on the legal discussion list regarding the use of the VCL name. A response was givin indicating that NCSU should make it obvious that both the VCL name and code are donated to the ASF.
NCSU is working to make it obvious on its website that VCL is developed at the ASF.
The development community is working to remove references to NCSU from the VCL code.
More guidance is required from the project mentors or others from ASF in order to resolve this issue.

Code development has continued and many commits have been made to the ASF VCL repository.
The vcl-dev list is actively being used to discuss development issues.
The Jira issue system is being used for tracking and to plan the first release.

The community decided to use a Confluence wiki for the project documentation.
Work has been done to organize project documentation.
Documentation is actively being contributed to wiki.
Questions were asked of the mentors regarding the rules governing wiki contributions from individuals who have not signed the CLA. It is the community’s understanding that a separate wiki will be needed – one for official documentation included with releases and one containing contributions from individual who have not signed the CLA.
A request has been made to one of the mentors who had offered to create a 2nd wiki instance.