Hi YuniKorn community and mentors Based on the discussion thread [1], after 2 years time of incubating, it is considered that now is a good time to graduate YuniKorn from the ASF incubator and become a top-level Apache project. We have reviewed the ASF project maturity model [2] and provided some assessment of the project's maturity based on the guidelines. Details are included as the following. I have enough reasons to believe the project has done sustainable development successfully in the Apache way. Please read this and add your vote by replying to this email, your feedback will be much appreciated!!! Note, this vote is not just for committers or PPMC members, we welcome anyone in the community to vote, thanks!
*Code, License, and Copyright* All code is maintained on github, under Apache 2.0 license. We have reviewed all the dependencies and ensured they do not bring any license issues. All the status files, license headers, and copyright are up to date. *Release* The community has released 5 releases in the past 2 years, i.e v0.8, v0.9, v0.10, v0,11, and v0.12. These releases were done by 5 different release managers [3] and indicate the community can create releases independently. We have also a well-documented release process, automated tools to help new release managers with the process. *Quality* The community has developed a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline as a guard of the code quality. The pipeline runs per-commit license check, code-format check, code-coverage check, UT, and end-to-end tests. All these are built as automated github actions, new contributors can easily trigger and view results when submitting patches. *Community* The community has developed an easy-to-read homepage for the project [4], the website hosts all the materials related to the project including versioned documentation, user docs, developer docs, design docs, performance docs. It provides the top-level navigation to the software download page, where links to all our previous releases. It also has the pages for the new contributors on-boarding with the project, such as how to join community meetings, events links, etc. The community shows appreciation to all contributors and welcomes all kinds of contributions (not just for code). We have built an open, diverse community and gathered many people to work together. With that, we have 41 unique code contributors and some non-code contributors as well. Many of them have becoming to be committers and PPMC members while working with the community. There were 2 new mentors, 8 new committers, 4 new PPMC from 6 different organizations [5] added in the incubating phase. And in total, the project has 6 mentors, 23 PPMC, and 29 committers from at least 14 different organizations. All the info are generally available on the project website, including some guidelines to help people become committer/PPMC member [6]. Community collaboration was done in a wide-public, open manner, we leverage regular bi-weekly/weekly community meetings for 2 different timezones [7] and dev/user slack channels, mailing lists for offline discussions. *Independence* The project was initially donated by Cloudera, but with a diverse open source community, it has been operated as an independent project since it entered into ASF incubator. The committers and PPMC members are a group of passionate people from at least 14 different organizations, such as Alibaba, Apple, Cloudera, Databricks, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Snowflake, etc. The project's success is not depending on any single entity. [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/dno411y59g2pcy1d3kd7s3kdjz9jw65n [2] https://community.apache.org/apache-way/apache-project-maturity-model.html [3] https://yunikorn.apache.org/community/download [4] https://yunikorn.apache.org/ [5] https://incubator.apache.org/projects/yunikorn.html [6] https://yunikorn.apache.org/community/people [6] https://docs.google.com/document/d/165gzC7uhcKc5XDWiMYSRKBiPQBy2tDtXADUPuhGlUa0
