Re: [External] : Re: Apache AGE (Incubating) - Community Graduation Vote

[DongHu Kim <do...@oracle.com>]

+1
I have been following the project for me and one of my clients, I hope to see Graph database as a service with AGE on PostgreSQL, something  similar to Neo4j Aura. Well done, AGE community!

> 2021. 12. 2. 오후 9:20, Muhammad Shoaib <mu...@gmail.com> 작성:
> 
> +1
> 
> In my opinion, the AGE project team has achieved a lot and they are trying
> to make their product better for end users by adding more features into it.
> The AGE community is also growing with the passage of time and its members
> are now spread over five continents from Europe to Asia. Team is also
> working on a new AGE viewer and taking more community level initiatives to
> provide more open source tools to the Graph and Network science community.
> Therefore, I believe that this project has achieved a level that it now
> deserves a community level graduation vote.
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 1:05 PM Jim Jagielski <ji...@apache.org> wrote:
>> 
>> +1
>> 
>>> On 2021/12/02 02:10:05 Andrew Ko wrote:
>>> First off, thanks to our mentors for guidance and support.
>>> Secondly, thanks to committers and contributors for ideas, suggestions,
>>> advice, pull requests and commits .. .and bug reports.
>>> 
>>> Graph technology is now one of the most popular methods for performing
>>> data analysis.
>>> The idea of implementing a graph query processing engine as an extension
>>> (plug-in) for one of the most popular and advanced open-source databases,
>>> PostgreSQL, is wild. :)
>>> 
>>> It is wonderful to know the project has achieved so much and becoming a
>> TLP
>>> will generate more interests and contributions especially from PostgreSQL
>>> and Graph database communities.
>>> 
>>> +1
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2021년 12월 2일 (목) 오전 10:57, Josh Innis <jo...@apache.org>님이 작성:
>>> 
>>>> lol, forgot to vote.
>>>> 
>>>> +1
>>>> 
>>>> On 2021/12/02 01:39:41 Josh Innis wrote:
>>>>> This project has seen incredible growth from when it was originally
>>>> donated to Apache. The community continues to grow as more people see
>> the
>>>> opportunities in what the project could be. Now that we are nearly done
>>>> with our original goal of implementing the openCypher specification in
>>>> Postgres as an extension, we can now begin to pursue some of these
>> powerful
>>>> features that the community is requesting in the Github repository. The
>>>> team is continuing to grow at an accelerated pace, with most of the new
>>>> committers being accepted in the last six months. I personally think
>> the
>>>> future of AGE is bright, especially with all the new features that
>> will be
>>>> coming out in v0.7.0.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 2021/12/01 02:42:22 Eya Badal wrote:
>>>>>> Thank you mentors for your valuable feedback. The feedback is
>>>> addressed below.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regarding GitHub issues and pull requests:
>>>>>>  It is true that in the earlier months we were sluggish in
>> responding
>>>> to and closing out issues. In
>>>>>>  April we created SLA to categorise (label), assign, and respond
>> to
>>>> issues. Since April, 95% are
>>>>>>  responded within 72 hours (80% of issues are responded to within
>> 24
>>>> hrs). In the last month we
>>>>>>  have closed 8 issues across the project. Regarding pull requests
>> we
>>>> are behind our internal
>>>>>>  SLA but have addressed that in the last 48 hrs.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regarding committer and contributor diversity:
>>>>>>  The committers and contributors act on their own initiative
>> without
>>>> representing a corporation
>>>>>>  or organization. Core contributors are indeed employees of a
>> single
>>>> company (Bitnine Global,
>>>>>>  the project donator) who has interest in the success of AGE but
>>>> there are many entirely
>>>>>>  independent contributors and committers. Contributions span more
>>>> than 20 countries across
>>>>>>  the globe including Australia, Belarus, Belgium, China, France,
>>>> Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy,
>>>>>>  Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Nigeria, The Philippines, Russia,
>> South
>>>> Korea, Thailand, UK,
>>>>>>  Ukraine, USA and Vietnam.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regarding the breakdown of the PPMC membership on affiliation
>>>> (companies) and PPMC growth:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The PPMC representation, excluding mentors is as follows:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  Bitnine Global: Eya Badal, Josh Innis, John Gemignani, Dehowe
>>>> Feng(in voting process).
>>>>>>  Liberation Data: Jasper Blues
>>>>>>  Immuta: Mason Sharp
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The project has added five new committers taking the total to 10
>>>> (excluding mentors).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  Bitnine Global: Dehowe Feng
>>>>>>  Kroger: Nick Sorrell
>>>>>>  Ghent University: Pieterjan De Potter
>>>>>>  Agedb: Andrew Ko, Alex Kwak
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> RE CS10 “The project maintains a public list of its contributors
>> who
>>>> have decision power”:
>>>>>> We now have the list of community members (committer and PPMC) at
>>>> age.apache.org
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regarding how incubator-age-viewer is released:
>>>>>>  Age-viewer has been released 8 times. The age-viewer developers
>> are
>>>> looking to release in the
>>>>>>  Apache way soon. The age team is coaching the age-viewer
>> developers
>>>> to encourage future
>>>>>>  releases to comply with Apache guiding principles.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The documentation link at incubator.apache.org/projects/age.html
>> is
>>>> corrected.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regarding project name search and approval:
>>>>>>  We have completed name search and approval. PPMC is actively
>>>> checking Apache AGE brand
>>>>>>  use.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The licensing issue regarding 0.6.0 has been resolved. We’re happy
>> to
>>>> announce Apache AGE 0.6.0 is officially out today.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you for your feedback and recognition that after 6 releases
>>>> including 4 Apache releases, we have demonstrated that this community
>> is
>>>> able to run independently outside incubation.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> We look forward to a positive vote on graduation to a Top Level
>>>> Project.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>> Eya
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 2021/11/09 04:31:33 Eya Badal wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi AGE community and Mentors,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Since entering incubation 18 months ago in April 2020 and with
>> five
>>>>>>> versions of AGE released, and 0.6.0 imminent, it's fair to say
>> the
>>>> AGE
>>>>>>> community has demonstrated its ability to build software
>> releases the
>>>>>>> Apache Way.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> We have prepared an assessment of the Apache AGE podling’s
>> maturity,
>>>> meant
>>>>>>> to help inform the decision (of the mentors, community, Incubator
>>>> PMC, and
>>>>>>> ASF Board of Directors) to graduate it as a top-level Apache
>>>> project. We
>>>>>>> used the ASF project maturity model
>>>>>>> <
>>>> 
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://community.apache.org/apache-way/apache-project-maturity-model.html__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!avv2iq9ZNovYXqxFsfa79DgVY4p0GY5DEmSvbMlvC7VHdA4PqumD3gnUktPJjGS9$ 
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> to evaluate the Apache AGE project and assess itself as having no
>>>> major
>>>>>>> areas for concern. The assessment can be found at the Apache AGE
>>>> website
>>>>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://age.apache.org/*__;Iw!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!avv2iq9ZNovYXqxFsfa79DgVY4p0GY5DEmSvbMlvC7VHdA4PqumD3gnUknPryNtw$ > under the COMMUNITY menu.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> In addition to building and releasing software, the community has
>>>> grown the
>>>>>>> Apache AGE project in other areas.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>   -
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>   There have been 64 unique contributors across the AGE and the
>>>> subproject
>>>>>>>   AGE Viewer. These Contributors have raised >170 issues or pull
>>>> requests.
>>>>>>>   -
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>   We have been addressing Github issues since the start but
>>>> timeliness was
>>>>>>>   an issue. In April we created our internal SLA to categorise
>>>> (label),
>>>>>>>   assign, and respond to issue and pull requests. Since April,
>> 95%
>>>> are
>>>>>>>   responded within 72 hours (80% of issues are responded to
>> within
>>>> 24 hrs).
>>>>>>>   -
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>   Contributions span more than 20 countries across the globe -
>>>> Belarus,
>>>>>>>   Belgium, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy,
>>>> Luxembourg,
>>>>>>>   Netherlands, Russia, South Korea, Thailand, UK, Ukraine, USA,
>> and
>>>> Vietnam.
>>>>>>>   -
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>   We have amassed positive comments throughout and gathered >470
>>>> stars.
>>>>>>>   -
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>   We have committers from 4 different companies.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> AGE mentors, what is your opinion on this?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Do you agree that we are ready to graduate?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Are there any remaining issues that we can improve on?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> If we can capture your issues of concern we can then work those
>>>> issues to
>>>>>>> resolution.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Your feedback would be very much appreciated!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Eya
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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> 
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> Muhammad *Shoaib, PhD*
> Data Scientist, Bioinformatician and AI Engineer
> PhD (Biomedical Engineering)
> Email: muhemmed.shoaib@gmail.com