An enthusiastic +1! In particular it's been really great to see the commitment and interest of the community in different kinds of testing. Between what we currently have on Jenkins and Travis and the in-progress work on IO integration tests and performance tests (plus, I'm sure, other things I'm not aware of) we're in a really good place.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Amit Sela <[email protected]> wrote: > +1, super exciting! > > Thanks to JB, Davor and the whole team for creating this community. I think > we've achieved a lot in a short time. > > Amit. > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 20:36 Tyler Akidau <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > +1, thanks to everyone who's invested time getting us to this point. :-) > > > > -Tyler > > > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:33 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > First of all, I would like to thank the whole team, and especially > Davor > > > for the great work and commitment to Apache and the community. > > > > > > Of course, a big +1 to move forward on graduation ! > > > > > > Regards > > > JB > > > > > > On 11/22/2016 07:19 PM, Davor Bonaci wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > With all the progress we’ve had recently in Apache Beam, I think it > is > > > time > > > > we start the discussion about graduation as a new top-level project > at > > > the > > > > Apache Software Foundation. > > > > > > > > Graduation means we are a self-sustaining and self-governing > community, > > > and > > > > ready to be a full participant in the Apache Software Foundation. It > > does > > > > not imply that our community growth is complete or that a particular > > > level > > > > of technical maturity has been reached, rather that we are on a solid > > > > trajectory in those areas. After graduation, we will still > periodically > > > > report to, and be overseen by, the ASF Board to ensure continued > growth > > > of > > > > a healthy community. > > > > > > > > Graduation is an important milestone for the project. It is also key > to > > > > further grow the user community: many users (incorrectly) see > > incubation > > > as > > > > a sign of instability and are much less likely to consider us for a > > > > production use. > > > > > > > > A way to think about graduation readiness is through the Apache > > Maturity > > > > Model [1]. I think we clearly satisfy all the requirements [2]. It is > > > > probably worth emphasizing the recent community growth: over each of > > the > > > > past three months, no single organization contributing to Beam has > had > > > more > > > > than ~50% of the unique contributors per month [2, see assumptions]. > > > That’s > > > > a great statistic that shows how much we’ve grown our diversity! > > > > > > > > Process-wise, graduation consists of drafting a board resolution, > which > > > > needs to identify the full Project Management Committee, and getting > it > > > > approved by the community, the Incubator, and the Board. Within the > > Beam > > > > community, most of these discussions and votes have to be on the > > private@ > > > > mailing list, but, as usual, we’ll try to keep dev@ updated as much > as > > > > possible. > > > > > > > > With that in mind, let’s use this discussion on dev@ for two things: > > > > * Collect additional data points on our progress that we may want to > > > > present to the Incubator as a part of the proposal to accept our > > > graduation. > > > > * Determine whether the community supports graduation. Please reply > > +1/-1 > > > > with any additional comments, as appropriate. I’d encourage everyone > to > > > > participate -- regardless whether you are an occasional visitor or > > have a > > > > specific role in the project -- we’d love to hear your perspective. > > > > > > > > Data points so far: > > > > * Project’s maturity self-assessment [2]. > > > > * 1500 pull requests in incubation, which makes us one of the most > > active > > > > project across all of ASF on this metric. > > > > * 3 releases, each driven by a different release manager. > > > > * 120+ individual contributors. > > > > * 3 new committers added, 2 of which aren’t from the largest > > > organization. > > > > * 1027 issues created, 515 resolved. > > > > * 442 dev@ emails in October alone, sent by 51 individuals. > > > > * 50 user@ emails in the last 30 days, sent by 22 individuals. > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > Davor > > > > > > > > [1] http://community.apache.org/apache-way/apache-project- > > > > maturity-model.html > > > > [2] http://beam.incubator.apache.org/contribute/maturity-model/ > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > > > [email protected] > > > http://blog.nanthrax.net > > > Talend - http://www.talend.com > > > > > > -- ------- Jason Kuster Apache Beam (Incubating) / Google Cloud Dataflow
