## OpenWhisk

Distributed Serverless computing platform.

OpenWhisk has been incubating since 2016-11-23.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. None.  The PPMC has engaged the community in initiating the
     graduation process.


### Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

No. 


### How has the community developed since the last report?

   1. Strong dev-list activity with good mix of technical discussion, 
      project direction, highlighting of significant PRs, and release 
      coordination. For last 3 months, we are averaging over >150 messages
      per month sent by >28 individuals.
   2. incubator-openwhisk Github stars: 4,032 (+207 since last report)
   3. incubator-openwhisk GitHub forks: 779 (+41 since last report)
   4. Slack community 1,243 members (+84 from last report) and >12,000
      messages since the last report. Actively used by users for support.
   5. Received 6 new ICLAs since the last report.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

   1. Have now released multiple versions of virtually all OpenWhisk
      software components.  Nearing completion of project's 
      first "unified release" wave.
   2. Active experimentation with KNative and OpenWhisk combinations
      to understand how best to leverage both technologies to support
      Serverless computing for our user community.
   3. Formal legal transfer of the OpenWhisk trademark from
      IBM to ASF has been completed. 

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ X ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2019-05-13 (released second versions of 9 OpenWhisk runtime components)

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Dominic Kim was elected as committer and PPMC member on 4/12/2019

### Have your mentors been helpful?

Yes.  Mentors have been helpful.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ X ] (openwhisk) Bertrand Delacretaz
     Comments: Expecting graduation soon indeed!
  - [ X ] (openwhisk) Matt Sicker
     Comments:
  - [ ] (openwhisk) Krzysztof Sobkowiak
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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