+1 to graduate. As listed by Huxing, the Dubbo community has made great progress in many aspects (especially the number of active committers, PPMC employer diversity, mailing list activities, etc.), which are all good examples of the improvement of the community. All these signs have became an important basis for us to move to the next stage.
As a PMC, I have learned a lot about how the open source community works in Apache way. I think my growth in some level can also reflect the growth of the entire community. I remember it was me who started the first Apache release, trying to understand what should be included in an Apache release, the legal constraints, the whole release process, etc. At first, this is a tricky complex task for me and I believe also for many other maintainers. Now, we managed to record the whole release process into document, with this almost every contributor can self-prepare and self-check the release package. I was used to discussing with developers or users on IM channels or issues, and then start development work based on my own ideas, now I tend to use IMs as a way of collecting ideas and requirements and I would bring every valuable idea to the community first if possible, then see the feedbacks from the entire community before starting to work. Saying about mailing list, I was like the others in the community, not familiar with it, don't konw how to work with it. During the incubation, I believe I gradually find the benefits of the mailing lists in promoting officially, grined-thinking discussions (though I still sometimes cannot fully balance the usage of Github issues and Mailing list, sometimes bring to the discussion in Github to mailing-list just seems a bit duplicate). Among all those things, I think the most important lesson for me is I am starting to care more about the license of the third-party libraries, not only functionalities and documentations, which is key part for publishing an open source project. Jun > On Mar 30, 2019, at 6:00 PM, Huxing Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
