+1. I agree with other committers. SystemML is ready for graduation and becoming a top level Apache project :) - 5 releases as of today. - The community has grown significantly since incubation. - There is healthy discussion on PR, JIRA and the mailing list regarding technical issues, features, releases, etc. - SystemML has been presented in several public venues and has received positive response.
Thanks, Niketan Pansare IBM Almaden Research Center E-mail: npansar At us.ibm.com http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-npansar From: Glenn Weidner/Silicon Valley/IBM@IBMUS To: dev@systemml.incubator.apache.org Date: 03/03/2017 05:01 PM Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] SystemML Graduation +1 Thank you Luciano for starting the discussion and for all the guidance you've provided from the beginning of the project. I agree that the Apache SystemML community has grown and achieved many exciting things during incubation. For example, today we completed our fifth release of Apache SystemML after releasing previous version in February. Graduating to a top-level project will be another important accomplishment and help continue momentum with developers and users. Regards, Glenn Deron Eriksson ---03/03/2017 12:02:35 PM---+1 Thank you for starting this important discussion Luciano, and thank you for From: Deron Eriksson <deroneriks...@gmail.com> To: dev@systemml.incubator.apache.org Date: 03/03/2017 12:02 PM Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] SystemML Graduation +1 Thank you for starting this important discussion Luciano, and thank you for all the guidance that you have provided us regarding the Apache Incubator, the Apache Software Foundation, and open-source software development! I'd also like to thank Henry for all the great assistance and hard work since becoming an additional mentor for the project. I believe that we may indeed be ready to graduate to a top level project due both to our technical efforts and our community efforts. Since we became an incubator project, in terms of code we have consistently demonstrated a high level of excellent activity from a wide range of contributors. We have 1,065 commits since we became an incubator project and have closed 391 pull requests in that time. Additionally, over time, we have all learned many best practices and Apache guidelines, for example how to properly validate our source releases in terms of content and licenses. We have also learned the processes involved with topics such as JIRA, GitHub, Git, Subversion, and software releases, and how to interact with groups such as Apache infrastructure to effectively develop open-source software following the Apache way. I think everyone on the SystemML project has also worked hard to build an open community around the project. We have open discussions on technical matters, especially in the area of pull requests, and these discussions demonstrate a consistent ability to reach consensus while allowing respectful disagreement. I believe our mailing list could be used more frequently, since it offers a more centralized location for discussions (compared to pull request discussions), which could be an addition way to help the community. However, we do have important discussions on the mailing list, for example in regards to questions from users, and communication on the mailing list is positive and encouraging to community growth. Deron On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> wrote: > It has been an exciting 16 months so far, and the project has accomplished > 4 official Apache Releases and is currently requesting the IPMC to approve > the 5th release. We have voted 3 new committers and PPMC members and > welcomed a new Mentor. The community continues to evangelize the project at > universities, blog posts, public webcasts, and in multiple conferences > which culminate in the project being awarded 'Best Paper' at VLDB 2016. And > last, but not least, the Incubator has asked us to evaluate and possibly > start the graduation process [1]. > > For now, I would like to get the community to take a quick look at the > 'Graduation Guide' [2] and use this thread to discuss your opinion about > SystemML graduation. > > In parallel, I will start working on updating the project page [3] with > milestones, and other details. > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/general@incubator.apache.org/msg58614.html > [2] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html > [3] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/systemml.html > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > -- Deron Eriksson Spark Technology Center http://www.spark.tc/
