+1 I'm quite enthusiastic about the growth of the community and the open discussions!
On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 at 19:51 Jason Kuster <jasonkus...@google.com.invalid> wrote: > 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 <amitsel...@gmail.com> 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 <taki...@google.com.invalid> > > 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 <j...@nanthrax.net > > > > > 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 > > > > jbono...@apache.org > > > > http://blog.nanthrax.net > > > > Talend - http://www.talend.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > ------- > Jason Kuster > Apache Beam (Incubating) / Google Cloud Dataflow >
