Dear Apache Incubator Community,
Apache Sedona has been incubating since 07-19-2020. For over 2 years, the
Sedona community has made great progress and grown rapidly under the
guidance of our mentors. We believe the Sedona project has met the
conditions for graduation.
We then discussed the graduation of Sedona in the Apache Incubator
community [13]. The discussion received positive feedback and found no
issues.
I would like to start this voting thread to request graduating Apache
Sedona (incubating) from Apache Incubator as a Top Level Project.
Please provide your vote accordingly:
[ ] +1 Yes, I support Sedona project to graduate from the Apache Incubator.
[ ] +0 No opinion.
[ ] -1 No, the Sedona project is not ready to graduate, because...
Thank you for participating in the vote. This vote will stay open for at
least 72 hours or until at least 3 +1 binding votes are received.
Thanks,
Jia
Here is an overview of the Apache Sedona to help with the vote.
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The incubation status of Sedona can be found in [1]. The Apache Sedona
community has a discussion thread of graduating Sedona to a TLP [2], passed
the community vote [3]. The vote result was announced [4]. The PPMC also
passed a vote [5] to nominate Jia as the chair of Sedona TLP, and the
result was also announced [6]. We had a discussion about Sedona graduation
in the incubator this September [12] and all issues have been fixed.
The summary on the state of the community is listed below and the self
assessment (Apache Project Maturity Model) is in [7].
Sedona joined the Apache Incubator on July 19 2020. As of Dec 2 2022:
** Community **:
* number of contributions (commits) since incubation: 394
- Overall: 1083
- 36% of the commits were added since incubation.
* number of contributors (and growth since incubation): 51
- Overall: 86
- 59% of the contributors joined since incubation
* email discussions since incubation: 1214 threads on d...@sedona.apache.org
* Number of monthly downloads: grow from 200K per month to 800K per month.
* Marked as critical project on PyPi as Sedona ranks among top 1% most
downloaded Python projects on PyPi.
** Project **
* releases: 7
* number of release managers: 3 (Jia Yu, Paweł Kociński, Kanchan Chowdhury)
* Apache Sedona website (sedona.apache.org) is compliant with ASF
requirement [8]. The GitHub.com used in external resources are compliant
with ASF privacy requirement [9]
** Brands ,License, and Copyright **
* We submitted an application for the brand [10] and it has been
reviewed and approved.
* Apache Sedona community maintains project code on GitHub, and all
modules
code is under Apache 2.0 license. We have reviewed all the
dependencies and ensured they do not bring any license issues [11]. All
the status files, license headers, and copyright are up to date.
** PPMC members
* Please see the proposed board resolution below and let us know what you
think. The initial PMC members were passed by the vote [5] and the result
was also announced [6].
* affiliations of the current PPMC members of Sedona: 11 PPMC from 10
different organizations
Adam Binford: Maxar
Kanchan Chowdhury: Arizona State University
Paweł Kociński: GetInData
Yitao Li: SafeGraph
Netanel Malka: Upstream Security
Mohamed Sarwat: Wherobots Inc.
Kengo Seki: NTT Data
Sachio Wakai: KDDI
Jinxuan Wu: Bloomberg LP
Jia Yu: Wherobots Inc.
Zongsi Zhang: Grab
* new PPMC members since incubation: 5
Adam Binford: Maxar
Kanchan Chowdhury: Arizona State University
Yitao Li: SafeGraph
Sachio Wakai: KDDI
Kengo Seki: NTT Data
* Pending new PPMC members (due to pending CCLAs): 1
Magdalena Wójciak: Billennium
** Graduation Resolution **
Establish the Apache Sedona Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of
the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish
a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance
of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public,
related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy
to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process
geospatial data.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache Sedona Project", be and hereby is
established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Sedona Project be and hereby is responsible
for the creation and maintenance of software related to a big geospatial
data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data
scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data; and be it
further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Sedona" be and
hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the
direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Sedona
Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the
projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Sedona
Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are
appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Sedona Project:
* Adam Binford <kimahri...@apache.org>
* Felix Cheung <felixche...@apache.org>
* George Percivall <perciv...@apache.org>
* Jean-Baptiste Onofré <jbono...@apache.org>
* Jia Yu <ji...@apache.org>
* Jinxuan Wu <jinxu...@apache.org>
* Kanchan Chowdhury <kanchan...@apache.org>
* Kengo Seki <sek...@apache.org>
* Mo Sarwat <mosar...@apache.org>
* Netanel Malka <ma...@apache.org>
* Paweł Kociński <imbru...@apache.org>
* Sachio Wakai <swa...@apache.org>
* Sunil G <sun...@apache.org>
* Von Gosling <vongosl...@apache.org>
* Yitao Li <yita...@apache.org>
* Zongsi Zhang <zongsizh...@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jia Yu be appointed to the
office of Vice President, Apache Sedona, to serve in accordance with and
subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the
Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or
disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Sedona Project be and hereby is tasked with
the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Sedona
podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator
Sedona podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter
discharged.
[1] Sedona incubation status:
https://incubator.apache.org/projects/sedona.html
[2] Sedona community graduation discussion:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/fspvqmp0lwqrq0j8kb63jxwh1c00o0wf
[3] Sedona community graduation vote:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/xwvx1txhstsbxojoqfthm609yt6ncyjp
[4] Sedona community graduation vote result:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/6ggb9pkhcb5h8k4bsgx754kt2jlnns1z
[5] Sedona community PMC confirmation and chair nomination vote:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/qp8y7drhqq7dy91dc90lrw3cxd95nk66
[6] Sedona community PMC confirmation and chair nomination vote result:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/blwgor0yp73ozgkbgzlk1959o599sxff
[7] Sedona community self assessment in terms of Apache Project Maturity
Model: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SEDONA-81
[8] Sedona project website check:
https://whimsy.apache.org/pods/project/sedona
[9] Apache Software Foundation privacy policy:
https://privacy.apache.org/policies/privacy-policy-public.html
[10] Establish Whether "Apache Sedona" is a suitable name:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-200
[11] Sedona license:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-sedona/blob/master/LICENSE
[12] Sedona Graduation discussion in the incubator mailing list Sept 2022:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/4s7cmt9b2ld0z62ghr8ykrr1conwlvk1
[13] Sedona Graduation discussion in the incubator mailing list Dec 2022:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/lj4n6nmqz5qowv6oqlzz06d6h87l7592
