As an external person who has been following the podling very closely from the very beginning, I definetelly think you are ready for graduation :-)
On Nov 22, 2016 19:19, "Davor Bonaci" <da...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > With all the progress we’ve had recently in Apache Beam, I think it is time > we start the discussion about graduation as a new top-level project at the > Apache Software Foundation. > > Graduation means we are a self-sustaining and self-governing community, and > ready to be a full participant in the Apache Software Foundation. It does > not imply that our community growth is complete or that a particular level > of technical maturity has been reached, rather that we are on a solid > trajectory in those areas. After graduation, we will still periodically > report to, and be overseen by, the ASF Board to ensure continued growth of > a healthy community. > > Graduation is an important milestone for the project. It is also key to > further grow the user community: many users (incorrectly) see incubation as > a sign of instability and are much less likely to consider us for a > production use. > > A way to think about graduation readiness is through the Apache Maturity > Model [1]. I think we clearly satisfy all the requirements [2]. It is > probably worth emphasizing the recent community growth: over each of the > past three months, no single organization contributing to Beam has had more > than ~50% of the unique contributors per month [2, see assumptions]. That’s > a great statistic that shows how much we’ve grown our diversity! > > Process-wise, graduation consists of drafting a board resolution, which > needs to identify the full Project Management Committee, and getting it > approved by the community, the Incubator, and the Board. Within the Beam > community, most of these discussions and votes have to be on the private@ > mailing list, but, as usual, we’ll try to keep dev@ updated as much as > possible. > > With that in mind, let’s use this discussion on dev@ for two things: > * Collect additional data points on our progress that we may want to > present to the Incubator as a part of the proposal to accept our > graduation. > * Determine whether the community supports graduation. Please reply +1/-1 > with any additional comments, as appropriate. I’d encourage everyone to > participate -- regardless whether you are an occasional visitor or have a > specific role in the project -- we’d love to hear your perspective. > > Data points so far: > * Project’s maturity self-assessment [2]. > * 1500 pull requests in incubation, which makes us one of the most active > project across all of ASF on this metric. > * 3 releases, each driven by a different release manager. > * 120+ individual contributors. > * 3 new committers added, 2 of which aren’t from the largest organization. > * 1027 issues created, 515 resolved. > * 442 dev@ emails in October alone, sent by 51 individuals. > * 50 user@ emails in the last 30 days, sent by 22 individuals. > > Thanks! > > Davor > > [1] http://community.apache.org/apache-way/apache-project- > maturity-model.html > [2] http://beam.incubator.apache.org/contribute/maturity-model/ >
