Excellent summary Sravya! Thanks for putting it together and initiating the discussion.
+1 thanks Prasad On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Sravya Tirukkovalur <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The Sentry project and community has developed in leaps and bounds during > its time in Incubation. From fine grained access control to just Hive, the > project has evolved to enable storing/managing policies and enforcing the > rules for other Hadoop access methods like Solr, Impala, HDFS, MapReduce, > Sqoop, and soon Kafka. On the community front: > > - > > We have many new contributors (~20) who have contributed to the project > during the time of incubation, among which ~8 became committers for > their > long term contributions. > - > > We have made 5 Apache releases, which were driven by 5 different release > managers. > - > > We have a diverse set of PMCs from different organizations(~15) and we > also recently passed the vote to make all committers be PMCs[1]. To > simplify logistics, we propose this take effect at the time of > graduation. > - > > We have active mailing lists, JIRA tracking to facilitate communication > in the community. And we also have a monthly high bandwidth > communication > mechanism (hangouts) which facilitate the design discussions. > > > Given all that, I would like to open the discussion about Sentry’s > Graduation and if community thinks we should start voting to graduate > Sentry. Please find linked Apache model assessment document for Sentry, > contributed by the community [2], which can be used as a reference > checklist. Also see the incubation policy [3] and guidelines[4] > > Apache model assessment document: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENTRY/Sentry+maturity+assessment > > Thanks and looking forward for the discussion. > > References: > > > [1]: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-sentry-dev/201512.mbox/%3CCAGQc2gHZ7pSk5KDtEG7WSBmE0%3DaTirx3sreR6tA9Z1fGfYT-kQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E > > [2]: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-sentry-dev/201511.mbox/%3CCACMN7izrn4Edoy9s2E5d3ZGD_%2BkD3KNJ9Sz-Nee9LZrJh%3Dh%3DeA%40mail.gmail.com%3E > [3]: http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html > [4]: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html > > > -- > Sravya Tirukkovalur >
