Dear IPMC Members,

Following the graduation discussion [1], which concluded with positive
feedback and no objections, the Apache Teaclave (Incubating) PPMC is now
calling a formal vote to graduate Apache Teaclave as a Top-Level Project
(TLP).

The vote will be open for at least 72 hours. We kindly request your
participation in this vote.

Voting options:

[ ] +1 Graduate as Top-Level Project

[ ] +0 No opinion

[ ] -1 Do not graduate (please provide rationale)

Apache Teaclave (Incubating) [2] entered the Apache Incubator on August 20,
2019. Over the past years, Teaclave has built a robust and diverse
open-source community focused on enabling memory-safe Trusted Execution
Environment (TEE) applications. The project provides a family of SDKs [3,
4] supporting a wide range of confidential computing platforms, including
Arm TrustZone and Intel SGX.

During incubation, the project has achieved the following:

- Grown to 29 committers, including 13 PPMC members (9 original, 4 added
during incubation), 7 new committers added during incubation, and 9 mentors
over time (including 3 currently inactive).

- Built a community with 79 unique contributors from over 15 organizations
across academia and industry.

- Completed 9 Apache releases managed by 5 different release managers.

- Established a strong and transparent development process via mailing
lists and GitHub.

- Cleared trademark, IP, and licensing reviews with no issues reported [6,
7].

Graduation Readiness:

- Maturity Validation: The community has completed a full Podling Maturity
Assessment [5].

- Community Consensus: The community has held discussion and a successful
vote [8] to proceed with graduation.

- Community Governance: The PPMC has confirmed the proposed initial PMC and
nominated a Chair via the private list [1]. The initial PMC includes

* He Sun, [email protected]
* Mingshen Sun, [email protected]
* Pei Wang, [email protected]
* Ran Duan, [email protected]
* Rundong Zhou, [email protected]
* Shaojun Wang, [email protected]
* Tao Wei, [email protected]
* Tongxin Li, [email protected]
* Yiming Jing, [email protected]
* Yu Ding, [email protected]
* Yuan Zhuang, [email protected]
* Yulong Zhang, [email protected]
* Zhaofeng Chen, [email protected]   (Nominated PMC Chair)
+ Gordon King, [email protected]
+ Furkan Kamaci, [email protected]
+ Xuanwo, [email protected]
+ Tison, [email protected]
+ Willem jiang, [email protected]

* Existing PPMC Members (recognized for historical merit)
+ Mentors who is currently active and committed to future contribution

We sincerely thank the IPMC members for taking part in this vote and our
mentors for their invaluable guidance throughout the Teaclave incubation
journey.

Best regards,

Zhaofeng Chen

[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/92o123lqw87qqf5o6tqof6wlkp4vtnn4

[2] https://teaclave.apache.org/overview

[3] https://github.com/apache/incubator-teaclave-trustzone-sdk

[4] https://github.com/apache/incubator-teaclave-sgx-sdk

[5] https://teaclave.apache.org/maturity

[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-175

[7] https://whimsy.apache.org/pods/project/teaclave

[8] https://lists.apache.org/thread/rxpzc95vfkm8482mzf71c60qgvrc6v51

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