Hi Justin, Thanks for your thoughtful review and feedback.
We've reviewed all the concerns you raised and taken the following steps: - Third-party branding: IBM has revised their website to fix wrong brand usage. Please re-visit [1]. We have reviewed the other websites listed in public and no other significant third-party branding violations were observed on the sites reviewed including Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, ByteDance, ...and more. - Decision-making channels: We've used dev mailing list for formal decisions including committer voting, important features discussion and will continue to ensure that the dev mailing list remains the primary channel for decision making in accordance with the Apache Way. - PPMC composition: We've published the draft charter and added a clear list of proposed PMC members along with their affiliations across 14 companies[2] for transparency. - PR backlog: We've shared a breakdown of PR triage and closure practices, including the explanation, pulse summary, and merge ratio as references. Please let me know if this addresses all of your concerns. Thanks, Weiting [1] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonxdata/aws?topic=engine-introduction-gluten-accelerated-spark [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/0l6bcb2t23fmcj6gms3d8mtl28nc9t2z On 2025/12/24 15:26:52 Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > Apache Gluten seems nearly ready to graduate. Before we move forward, there > are a few final checks I think the PPMC should confirm: > - Third-party branding: Some vendor materials refer to “Gluten accelerated > Spark” or similar [1] as named product features. This is not in line with the > ASF branding policy, and the PPMC needs to address this. > - Decision-making channels: The project uses GitHub Discussions and regular > sync meetings. Please confirm that decisions are made on the dev mailing > list, or at least summarised there. > - PPMC composition: Please share one clear link to the draft project charter > and include the proposed initial PMC members and Chair, along with their > affiliations. > - PR backlog: The large gap between PRs opened and merged over 12 months may > reflect a vendor-driven shared roadmap. It would be helpful for the project > to briefly explain how PR triage and closure are handled, and why this has > occurred, especially given the short time to close most PRs. > > Note that this is from a very quick look; there may be other issues that need > to be addressed. Addressing these points will help the IPMC finish the > graduation discussion. > > Thanks, > Justin > > 1. > https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonxdata/aws?topic=engine-introduction-gluten-accelerated-spark > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
