Hi, all opendal community members Following the community discussion [1], we start the vote call for OpenDAL to graduate from the Apache incubator as a top-level Apache project. OpenDAL has been incubating since February 27, 2023. For over 9 months, the community has developed rapidly under the guidance of mentors and the Apache way. We believe the OpenDAL project has met the conditions for graduation. The project maturity model is detailed in [2] and the summary of the state of the community is listed below.
**Code, License, and Copyright** OpenDAL community maintains project code on GitHub and all modules code is under Apache 2.0 license. We have reviewed all the dependencies and ensured they do not bring any license issues [3]. All the status files, license headers, and copyright are up to date. OpenDAL' official website [4] is compliant with Apache Foundation requirements [5]. **Release** OpenDAL community released a total of 9 Apache versions by 7 different release managers. 2300+ pull requests created[6], and 1100+ issues created[7]. The release cadence is about 1 months, with about 200 pull requests per release. **Community** 4 new PPMC members were added, bringing the total number of PPMC members to 14 from at least 12 different organizations. 9 new committers were added(including the new PPMC members) , the total number of committers is now 19, and from at least 17 different organizations. 124 new contributors. The number of contributors is now 161 and growing. We think it's a diverse and influential community now. **Quality** OpenDAL community created 248 GitHub checks, which cover code style, compiling, unit & integration tests, license checks, and so on. All code patches need to pass these pipelines first. **Independence** All of the 14 PPMC members are spread across more than 10 different organizations. For these reasons, we initiate this vote on whether to graduate OpenDAL from Apache Incubator, everyone from the OpenDAL community has the right to vote, please vote on graduating OpenDAL from Apache Incubator: [ ] +1 yes, I support OpenDAL to graduate from the Apache incubator and become a top-level Apache project. [ ] +0 no opinion [ ] -1 no, the OpenDAL project is not ready to graduate, because ... This vote will be open for at least 72 hours. [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/kq00ynqtbbwsh2n7485s5vypzjropck6 [2] https://opendal.apache.org/community/maturity [3] https://github.com/apache/incubator-opendal/blob/main/DEPENDENCIES.md [4] https://opendal.apache.org/ [5] https://whimsy.apache.org/pods/project/opendal [6] https://github.com/apache/incubator-opendal/pulls?q=is%3Apr [7] https://github.com/apache/incubator-opendal/issues?q=is%3Aissue+ Xuanwo
