Hi All, It has been more than 1 year since Dubbo joins the ASF incubator(2018-02-16). During incubation I think Dubbo community has been growing in a fast and healthy way, and also learned a lot about how to collaborate in Apache way.
I think it is time to discuss the graduation as a Top level project for Dubbo. Until now, what we've achieved: ### Releases Totally 10 release since incubation - Dubbo: 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.6.6, 2.7.0, 2.7.1 - Dubbo spring boot starter: 0.2.1 & 0.1.2, 2.7.0 - Dubbo ops: 0.1 The release process has been well-documented and there are 6 different release managers: Jun Liu, Yong Zhu, Victory Cao, Huxing Zhang, Mercy Ma, Ian Luo. ### Community building: - PPMC 19(+8 since incubation, excluding mentors) - committers 35(+18 since incubation) The committers varies from Alibaba, Weidian, Jingdong, Qunar, Youzan, Netease, Meituan-Dianping, Rongguan, Handuyishe, Didi, NetsUnion, Caocaokeji, Huawei, GomeFinance, Asiainfo-sec, iFlytek, Keep and etc. - The number of contributors has grown from 70+ to 186, the number of stars has grown from ~16k to 25k+, the number of forks are grown from 12k+ to 16k+ since incubation. One thing that worthing mentioning is that there are 92 contributors for the website project. - 1401 issues and 1168 pull requests are closed since incubation. - 140+ companies are using Dubbo in production since incubation. - Discussion are happening on the mailing list. 376 subscriber for the dev@ mailing list. Below is some stats in recent few months: * March 2019: 375 emails sent by 52 people, divided into 75 topics * Feb 2019: 260 emails sent by 45 people, divided into 61 topics * Jan 2019: 448 emails sent by 62 people, divided into 83 topics * Dec 2018: 427 emails sent by 48 people, divided into 78 topics * Nov 2018: 235 emails sent by 38 people, divided into 44 topics * Oct 2018: 154 emails sent by 31 people, divided into 32 topics We are happy to see that more and more users joined the discussion. ### IP clearance - The IP clearance is completed for Dubbo, dubbo-spring-boot-starter, and dubbo-ops project. - The transfer plan for external Dubbo group has been discussed[1], and progress has been made steadily. - Podling website check complete [2] - Podling name search completed [3] - Promote the ASF download link in the official website[4] - A list of committers is shown in the official website[5] - The Dubbo incubation status page[6] has been kept up-to-date Based on the data above, I think Dubbo is ready for graduation. How do you folks think? [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-dubbo/wiki/Apache-Dubbo-external-ecosystem-status [2] https://whimsy.apache.org/pods/project/dubbo [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-152 [4] http://dubbo.apache.org/en-us/blog/download.html [5] http://dubbo.apache.org/en-us/docs/developers/developers_dev.html [6] https://incubator.apache.org/projects/dubbo.html -- Best Regards！ Huxing
