The project looks to be ready to graduate. The traffic on the dev list shows a community that is in good shape. Thanks for completing the maturity assessment — it helped me assess the state of the project.
Julian > On Dec 2, 2016, at 11:36 AM, Davor Bonaci <da...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > Apache Beam entered incubation in early February. Over the past 10 months, > the podling has made great progress across various areas: refactoring the > project to remove any special treatment given to a runner or a vendor, > building processes that encourage open development, evangelizing the > project, and growing the community. > > Now, with the support of our mentors and overwhelming support from the > wider Beam community [1], I’d like start a discussion on the progress we > have made and a possible graduation recommendation as a new top-level > project. > > To prepare for the discussion, we have published our self-assessment [2] > against the Apache Maturity Model. We tried to include links and evidence > whenever applicable. I’ll summarize the commonly asked questions here, but > please see the self-assessment for additional information, various details, > graphs, evidence, etc. > >> Releases? > > Three -- all unanimously approved, all driven by different release > managers, across different organizations. A detailed release guide is > available on the website. > >> Community growth? > > There has been a clear growth month-over-month. We have had 1500+ pull > requests on GitHub and 110+ individual code contributors. In terms of > mailing list activity, over the past 30 days, we have had 50+ individual > participants on dev@ and 35+ on user@. > >> Organizational influence? > > We have worked hard to remove any special treatment given to any > organization. The bulk of the initial code donation came from Google, but > now both the project’s code and branding have a clean separation between > the project and Google Cloud Dataflow (which has become just one of many > runners that can be used within Beam). > > While it is true that Googlers continue to provide the majority of commits, > over the last three months no single organization has had more than ~50% of > unique monthly contributors. (Please see the graph in the self-assessment.) > Diverse influences are also particularly clear when you look across modules > within the project. Beam has about ~22 large modules in the codebase, at > least 10 modules have been developed with little to no contribution from > Googlers. > > Now, if we were to graduate, the Beam PPMC recommends the following > information for the Board resolution: > * Project name: Apache Beam > * Project description and scope: a unified programming model for both > batch and streaming data processing, enabling efficient execution across > diverse distributed execution engines and providing extensibility points > for connecting to different technologies and user communities. > * PMC composition: > * Tyler Akidau <taki...@apache.org> > * Davor Bonaci <da...@apache.org> > * Robert Bradshaw <rober...@apache.org> > * Ben Chambers <bchamb...@apache.org> > * Luke Cwik <lc...@apache.org> > * Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> > * Dan Halperin <dhalp...@apache.org> > * Kenneth Knowles <k...@apache.org> > * Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org> > * Maximilian Michels <m...@apache.org> > * Jean-Baptiste Onofré <jbono...@apache.org> > * Frances Perry <fran...@apache.org> > * Amit Sela <amits...@apache.org> > * Josh Wills <jwi...@apache.org> > (The ratification of the full text of the draft resolution is nearing > completion.) > > While we have made great progress across the board (thanks to so many of > you in this community), I’m sure there’s still plenty to do. We continue to > be focused on community growth, and processes that encourage open > development. Regardless of the outcome of this discussion, we’d love to get > specific feedback on what can be improved going forward. > > Any thoughts, comments, questions or concerns? Thank you. > > Davor > > [1] > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f133fb6bf2d1851d1bd5880c772e4b050700154fa178fdb00a5b66bf@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E > [2] http://beam.incubator.apache.org/contribute/maturity-model/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
