+1 The community if doing very well and behaving very Apache On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Etienne Chauchot <[email protected]> wrote:
> A big +1 of course, very excited to go forward > > Etienne > > > > Le 22/11/2016 à 19:19, Davor Bonaci a écrit : > >> 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/ >> >> >
