Dear all in the community, I am starting a vote to graduate Apache Sedona (incubating) as a Top Level Project.
After a community discussion [1], we gathered a lot of feedback that the community supported Sedona to graduate from the Apache incubator as a top-level Apache project. Sedona has been incubating since 07-19-2020. For almost 2 years, the Sedona community has made great progress and grown rapidly under the guidance of our mentors. We believe the Sedona project has met the conditions for graduation. Project maturity model is detailed in [2], and the summary on the state of the community are listed below. Sedona joined the Apache Incubator on July 19 2020. As of May 29 2022 ***Community statistics*** - number of contributions (commits) since incubation 265 Overall: 965 27% of the commits were added since incubation. - number of contributors (and growth since incubation) 40 Overall: 74 54% of the contributors joined since incubation - email discussions since incubation: 798 threads on [email protected] - releases: 5 - number of release managers: 2 (Jia Yu and Paweł Kociński) - affiliations of committers / PPMC members Paweł Kociński: GetInData (Poland) Netanel Malka: Sela Group (Israel) Jinxuan Wu: Bloomberg (US) Zongsi Zhang: Grab (Singapore) Jia Yu: Washington State University (US) Mohame Sarwat: Arizona State University (US) Yitao Li: SafeGraph (US) - new committers or PPMC members since incubation Yitao Li: SafeGraph - monthly downloads: over 500k from Maven Central, PyPi and CRAN. ***Code, License, and Copyright*** Sedona 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 [3]. All the status files, license headers, and copyright are up to date. ***Quality*** Sedona community created 5 GitHub Workflows [4], which cover compilation, unit testing, integration testing, etc. All code patches need to pass these pipelines first. In addition, Sedona has a matching Pull Request template and commit requirements to ensure that all commits have corresponding classification and traceability. ***Independence*** All of the 7 PPMC members are spread across 7 different organizations. For these reasons, we initiate this vote on whether to graduate Sedona from Apache Incubator, everyone from the Sedona community has the right to vote, please vote on graduating Sedona from Apache Incubator: [ ] +1 yes, I support Sedona to graduate from the Apache incubator and become a top-level Apache project. [ ] +0 no opinion [ ] -1 no, the Sedona project is not ready to graduate, because ... This vote will be open for at least 72 hours or until receive 3 +1 vote from PPMC. [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/svd06kp5dojvw7pyk731tbrzkqfhjzbs [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SEDONA-81 [3] https://github.com/apache/incubator-sedona/blob/master/LICENSE [4] https://github.com/apache/incubator-sedona/tree/master/.github/workflows
