Hey Jim, welcome to the community. To the best of my knowledge we have not yet discussed/run a Maturity Model. My gut feel is that MXNet would come away a fairly bi-model result. My view of the project is that it's getting the Apache Way right in terms of Code, Releases, and Quality. I think the project is doing decently well with Licensing (although it's maybe a little more complex than other projects given the many required code dependencies). From my observations I would say the community often struggles with consensus building. My opinion is that the project is doing a lot right with community, especially in question answer, but is lacking in other areas such as community expansion and ownership.
Independence is an area where the project is clearly behind, with almost all active committers coming from Amazon. We've had some great contributions from Intel and NVIDIA, but so far have not been able to add the members from those organizations to the IPMC for various reasons. MXNet seems to not have had much support from other open-source communities (with a notable exception of Carin who did a great job with Clojure and was made a committer/ipmc member). My impression is that the community would love to improve in this area, so the lack of progress is not due to any lack of desire on the community's part. I'd love to see some more sustained contribution from other open source communities to help us out in this area (and am hopeful we can reach out to the Julia community as an example). -Kellen On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:24 PM Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > As a newly "minted" mentor, I'm getting my feet wet on determining where > the project is and where it needs to go in order to be ready for > graduation... > > Has the project run the Maturity Model against itself? How do we stack up? > What areas of improvement could we benefit from (this might be independent > of what the MatModel sez, btw. If you have ideas on where we could be > working and collaborating better, please bring them up!)? > > Cheers!
