+1 I'm excited to see the engagement of the community here. S
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 1:22 PM Ismaël Mejía <ieme...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 > Excellent and congratulations everyone for the great work ! > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Sergio Fernández <wik...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > As an external person who has been following the podling very closely > from > > the very beginning, I definetelly think you are ready for graduation :-) > > > > On Nov 22, 2016 19:19, "Davor Bonaci" <da...@apache.org> 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/ > > > > > >
