I’ve witnessed how the community and project has grown myself, and I’d like to see it continue and hope for its continuous success
+1 On 2021/12/01 02:42:22 Eya Badal wrote: > Thank you mentors for your valuable feedback. The feedback is addressed > below. > > Regarding GitHub issues and pull requests: > It is true that in the earlier months we were sluggish in responding to and > closing out issues. In > April we created SLA to categorise (label), assign, and respond to issues. > Since April, 95% are > responded within 72 hours (80% of issues are responded to within 24 hrs). > In the last month we > have closed 8 issues across the project. Regarding pull requests we are > behind our internal > SLA but have addressed that in the last 48 hrs. > > Regarding committer and contributor diversity: > The committers and contributors act on their own initiative without > representing a corporation > or organization. Core contributors are indeed employees of a single company > (Bitnine Global, > the project donator) who has interest in the success of AGE but there are > many entirely > independent contributors and committers. Contributions span more than 20 > countries across > the globe including Australia, Belarus, Belgium, China, France, Germany, > Ireland, Israel, Italy, > Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Nigeria, The Philippines, Russia, South Korea, > Thailand, UK, > Ukraine, USA and Vietnam. > > Regarding the breakdown of the PPMC membership on affiliation (companies) and > PPMC growth: > > The PPMC representation, excluding mentors is as follows: > > Bitnine Global: Eya Badal, Josh Innis, John Gemignani, Dehowe Feng(in > voting process). > Liberation Data: Jasper Blues > Immuta: Mason Sharp > > The project has added five new committers taking the total to 10 (excluding > mentors). > > Bitnine Global: Dehowe Feng > Kroger: Nick Sorrell > Ghent University: Pieterjan De Potter > Agedb: Andrew Ko, Alex Kwak > > RE CS10 “The project maintains a public list of its contributors who have > decision power”: > We now have the list of community members (committer and PPMC) at > age.apache.org > > Regarding how incubator-age-viewer is released: > Age-viewer has been released 8 times. The age-viewer developers are looking > to release in the > Apache way soon. The age team is coaching the age-viewer developers to > encourage future > releases to comply with Apache guiding principles. > > The documentation link at incubator.apache.org/projects/age.html is corrected. > > Regarding project name search and approval: > We have completed name search and approval. PPMC is actively checking > Apache AGE brand > use. > > The licensing issue regarding 0.6.0 has been resolved. We’re happy to > announce Apache AGE 0.6.0 is officially out today. > > Thank you for your feedback and recognition that after 6 releases including 4 > Apache releases, we have demonstrated that this community is able to run > independently outside incubation. > > We look forward to a positive vote on graduation to a Top Level Project. > > Thank you > Eya > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2021/11/09 04:31:33 Eya Badal wrote: > > Hi AGE community and Mentors, > > > > Since entering incubation 18 months ago in April 2020 and with five > > versions of AGE released, and 0.6.0 imminent, it's fair to say the AGE > > community has demonstrated its ability to build software releases the > > Apache Way. > > > > We have prepared an assessment of the Apache AGE podling’s maturity, meant > > to help inform the decision (of the mentors, community, Incubator PMC, and > > ASF Board of Directors) to graduate it as a top-level Apache project. We > > used the ASF project maturity model > > <https://community.apache.org/apache-way/apache-project-maturity-model.html> > > to evaluate the Apache AGE project and assess itself as having no major > > areas for concern. The assessment can be found at the Apache AGE website > > <https://age.apache.org/#> under the COMMUNITY menu. > > > > In addition to building and releasing software, the community has grown the > > Apache AGE project in other areas. > > > > > > - > > > > There have been 64 unique contributors across the AGE and the subproject > > AGE Viewer. These Contributors have raised >170 issues or pull requests. > > - > > > > We have been addressing Github issues since the start but timeliness was > > an issue. In April we created our internal SLA to categorise (label), > > assign, and respond to issue and pull requests. Since April, 95% are > > responded within 72 hours (80% of issues are responded to within 24 hrs). > > - > > > > Contributions span more than 20 countries across the globe - Belarus, > > Belgium, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, > > Netherlands, Russia, South Korea, Thailand, UK, Ukraine, USA, and > > Vietnam. > > - > > > > We have amassed positive comments throughout and gathered >470 stars. > > - > > > > We have committers from 4 different companies. > > > > > > AGE mentors, what is your opinion on this? > > > > Do you agree that we are ready to graduate? > > > > Are there any remaining issues that we can improve on? > > > > If we can capture your issues of concern we can then work those issues to > > resolution. > > > > Your feedback would be very much appreciated! > > > > Regards, > > > > Eya > > >