Hi Mingcheng, Thank you for raising these concerns. Let me provide some context about the project history and the current community.
Maka is indeed a young project. Development started on May 20 as an initial prototype led by me, and the public GitHub repository was created on May 27. The unusually dense commit history between May 20 and May 23 came from this initial bootstrap period. Development was heavily AI-assisted and organized into many small implementation and integration tasks, with each task recorded as a separate commit. Those commits were submitted under my identity and responsibility. They should not be interpreted as contributions from a large number of independent developers or as evidence of community diversity. Public collaboration started after the repository was opened. The first GitHub pull request was submitted on June 7. Since then, several contributors have taken sustained responsibility for different areas of the project: - Jie Wen: project initiation and runtime architecture - Yuhan Lei: runtime, evaluation, benchmarking, and desktop development - Kun Li: event-log architecture, headless execution, and completion verification - Haoqing Wang: computer-use support - Other contributors have worked on the desktop UI, providers, documentation, release engineering, and related modules The community is now larger than the original single-developer bootstrap, but it is still young, and most development and review activity remains concentrated among the initial contributors. We recognize this as a current project risk and do not intend to present the raw commit, author, or contributor counts as evidence of an already mature or diverse community. Some Git author names in the repository also refer to the same person using different local Git identities, so the raw author count requires normalization. We will clarify this in the proposal. The initial committers and their affiliations are listed in the proposal. The provenance and ownership of the initial codebase and subsequent contributions will also be reviewed as part of the ASF code transfer and IP clearance process. Any code whose provenance cannot be established will not be included in an Apache release. We hope incubation can help the project move from this early, concentrated development model toward broader ownership, public decision-making, and a sustainable contributor and committer community. Thank you again for the careful review. Best, Jie On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 10:56 AM mingcheng <[email protected]> wrote: > -1, > > I do not accept Maka into the Apache Incubator. > > According to the commit history, this project began on May 20th, so it > is clearly quite new. > > The commit history and the variety of authors also perplex me. For > instance, @jackwener made about a hundred submissions on May 21 after > the initial submission on May 20, which is highly exceptional in such > a short time frame. We must take note of this. > > I have also noticed the very little and concentrated contributions > from other contributors. We need to look into the validity of these > commits and the background of the contributors to keep the project > healthy. > > Link references from the GitHub: > > - > https://github.com/maka-agent/maka-agent/commit/8fd91a43cc64cdde58cfbd046256effce0cfa6f8 > - > https://github.com/maka-agent/maka-agent/commits/main/?since=2026-05-15&until=2026-05-23&after=aea3be975f0a0ce400e98c5f1c428e0881bd6916+174 > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 2:21 AM tison <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Following the discussion thread [1], I call > > for a formal vote to accept Maka into the Apache Incubator. > > > > As a reminder, the Maka Proposal can be found at [2]. > > > > [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/0n79l7dbz9jm694rpnbrxtn8f6lmnw1j > > [2] > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/INCUBATOR/pages/446070971/Maka+Proposal > > > > Please cast your vote: > > > > [ ] +1, Accept Maka into the Apache Incubator > > [ ] 0, I don't care > > [ ] -1, Do not accept Maka into the Apache Incubator, because ... > > > > The vote will remain open for at least 72 hours, and only votes from the > > Incubator PMC members are binding. Votes from everyone are welcome. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Best, > > tison. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
