Good news! I support InLong to graduate from the Apache incubator and become a top-level Apache project.
---Original--- From: "Charles Zhang"<[email protected]> Date: Wed, May 11, 2022 10:50 AM To: "dev"<[email protected]>; Subject: [VOTE] Graduate InLong from Apache Incubator Hi, InLong community After community discussions [1], we got enough feedback that community support InLong to graduate from the Apache incubator and become a top-level Apache project. InLong has been incubating since 2019-11-03. In the past two and a half years, the InLong project developed stably and sustainably with the Apache Way. We used the ASF project maturity model to evaluate the InLong project, by self-checking the InLong maturity model [2] and the pre-graduation Check List [3], we believe that the InLong project is ready to graduate from Apache Incubator. We make a brief summary of several aspects to show the status of InLong: *Code, License, and Copyright* InLong community maintains project code on GitHub, and all modules code is under Apache 2.0 license. We have reviewed all the dependencies and ensured they do not bring any license issues [4]. All the status files, license headers, and copyright are up to date. *Release* InLong community released a total of 11 versions by 6 different release managers, of which 5 versions are the original TubeMQ, and 6 versions are after the name was changed to InLong. The release cadence is about 2 months. All versions closed more than 2100 issues, with an average of 200 issues per version [5]. *Quality* InLong community created more than 7 GitHub Workflows, which cover compilation, unit testing, integration testing, license checking, Docker image creation, Helm Charts testing, etc. All code patches need to pass these pipelines first. In addition, InLong has a matching Pull Request template and commit requirements to ensure that all commits have corresponding classification and traceability. *Community* InLong community 5 Mentors, 18 PPMCs, 8 Committers, and more than 99 unique Contributors [6]. All PPMCs and Committers are spread across more than 8 different organizations, and some of them focus on document management, tools building, and official website support. The community also has created channels like Email, Slack, Twitter, WeChat, and GitHub Discussions to communicate, with more than 650 subscribers, and actively participated in or held more than 15 online or offline meetups to increase community influence. we think it's a diverse and Influential community now. *Independence* InLong community added 10 Committers, 3 PPMCs started from incubating, they are from 4 different organizations, and all PPMCs and Committers are spread across 8 different organizations. For these reasons, we initiate this vote on whether to graduate InLong from Apache Incubator, everyone from the InLong community has the right to vote, please vote on graduating InLong from Apache Incubator: [ ] +1 yes, I support InLong to graduate from the Apache incubator and become a top-level Apache project. [ ] +0 no opinion [ ] -1 no, the InLong project is not ready to graduate, because ... [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/pzqk3z4pbbh3qx0cl1hmpzo1305p2lro [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=INLONG&title=Maturity+Assessment+for+InLong [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INLONG/Graduation+Check+List [4] https://github.com/apache/incubator-inlong/tree/master/licenses [5] https://github.com/apache/incubator-inlong/issues [6] https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/ppmc/inlong -- Best wishes, Charles Zhang
