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Overview

This is an assessment of the maturity of Eagle podling, 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.

It is based on the ASF project maturity model at https://community.apache.org/apache-way/apache-project-maturity-model.html.

 

Status of this document

All open items are updated with the latest status.

 

Overall assessment

Most of the below items are marked as OK, except for CD20 (ON GOING), RE40 (NOT APPLY) and QU30 (ON GOING), which are explained as below:

  • JIRA ticket EAGLE-380 is open for resolving item CD20, will be updated once the ticket is closed.
  • The requirement of RE40 doesn't seem to fit for the project, so I mark it as "NOT APPLY" with giving the reason next to the mark. Considering, the requirement of RE40 mentioned "they are just a convenience provided with no guarantee", that's why I guess it doesn't fit for the project. Please mentors help decide whether this assumption is correct or not.
  • The document for QU30 is on the way to be generated as I wrote this wiki page. 

 

 

Maturity model assessment

Mentors and community members are encouraged to contribute to this page and comment on it.

 

Code

CD10

The project produces Open Source software, for distribution to the public at no charge.

OK  Of course, as it should be.

CD20

The project’s code is easily discoverable and publicly accessible.

ON GOING  Currently "Fork Eagle on Github" banner is riding on the pages' top-right corner, see https://eagle.incubator.apache.org/docs/. According to IPMC's advices, we are working on ticket EAGLE-380 to revise the document and make How-to-Contribute page contain all instructions for discovering the code and contribute.

CD30

The code can be built in a reproducible way using widely available standard tools.

OK  The build uses maven and continuous integration is used.

CD40

The full history of the project’s code is available via a source code control system, in a way that allows any released version to be recreated.

OK  Using Git, main repository at https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-eagle.git, releases are cut from that repository.

CD50

The provenance of each line of code is established via the source code control system, in a reliable way based on strong authentication of the committer. When third-party contributions are committed, commit messages provide reliable information about the code provenance.

OK  See CD40.

 

Licenses and Copyright

LC10

The code is released under the Apache License, version 2._0.

OK  LICENSE file has been accepted in release votes.

LC20

Libraries that are mandatory dependencies of the project’s code do not create more restrictions than the Apache License does.

OK  The list of dependencies at https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/EagleProposal has been verified when entering incubation. The current dependency licenses (including build, runtime and optional dependencies) are found at https://github.com/apache/incubator-eagle/blob/master/LICENSERelease reviews have not shown any incompatible licenses.

LC30

The libraries mentioned in LC20 are available as Open Source software.

OK  See LC20.

LC40

Committers are bound by an Individual Contributor Agreement (the "Apache iCLA") that defines which code they are allowed to commit and how they need to identify code that is not their own.

OK  All committers have iCLAs on file.

LC50

The copyright ownership of everything that the project produces is clearly defined and documented.

OK  Obvious for an ASF project.

 

Releases

RE10

Releases consist of source code, distributed using standard and open archive formats that are expected to stay readable in the long term.

OK  Verified in release votes.

RE20

Releases are approved by the project’s PMC (see CS10), in order to make them an act of the Foundation.

OK  Releases have been voted pass by the Incubator PMC.

RE30

Releases are signed and/or distributed along with digests that can be reliably used to validate the downloaded archives.

OK  Verified in release votes.

RE40

Convenience binaries can be distributed alongside source code but they are not Apache Releases — they are just a convenience provided with no guarantee.

NOT APPLY  The size of Eagle's binaries is too large (larger than 300MB) for either servers to hold or customers to download. So we make releases with only source-code packages.

 

Quality

QU10

The project is open and honest about the quality of its code. Various levels of quality and maturity for various modules are natural and acceptable as long as they are clearly communicated.

OK  Eagle has a long history of being a good citizen about quality.

QU20

The project puts a very high priority on producing secure software.

OK  See QU10.

QU30

The project provides a well-documented channel to report security issues, along with a documented way of responding to them.

ON GOING  We are on the way of creating a security page on eagle site, this item will be updated soon with the published url of the affected pages.

QU40

The project puts a high priority on backwards compatibility and aims to document any incompatible changes and provide tools and documentation to help users transition to new features.

OK  See QU10.

QU50

The project strives to respond to documented bug reports in a timely manner.

OK  Responses on the users list, dev list and jira comes timely and effectively.

 

Community

CO10

The project has a well-known homepage that points to all the information required to operate according to this maturity model.

OK  So far, https://eagle.incubator.apache.org/docs/ renders the latest knowledge of the Eagle to visitors, including how but not limited to how-to-contribute, how-to-deploy, and how-to-communicate, etc. It's continuously kept updated by committers as any new content comes up.

CO20

The community welcomes contributions from anyone who acts in good faith and in a respectful manner and adds value to the project.

OK  The community is working well in this respect, we are always giving warm welcome to contributions.

CO30

Contributions include not only source code, but also documentation, constructive bug reports, constructive discussions, marketing and generally anything that adds value to the project.

OK  Eagle has elected some non-coding committers.

CO40

The community is meritocratic and over time aims to give more rights and responsibilities to contributors who add value to the project.

OK  Eagle has elected a few committers during incubation.

CO50

The way in which contributors can be granted more rights such as commit access or decision power is clearly documented and is the same for all contributors.

OK  Based on the standard ASF docs and policies.

CO60

The community operates based on consensus of its members (see CS10) who have decision power. Dictators, benevolent or not, are not welcome in Apache projects.

OK  Well demonstrated during incubation.

CO70

The project strives to answer user questions in a timely manner.

OK  See QU50.

 

Consensus Building

CS10

The project maintains a public list of its contributors who have decision power — the project’s PMC (Project Management Committee) consists of those contributors.

OK  Will be at http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#eagle once the project graduates.

CS20

Decisions are made by consensus among PMC members and are documented on the project’s main communications channel. Community opinions are taken into account but the PMC has the final word if needed.

OK  The Eagle community has been making and documenting decisions on its dev list during incubation.

CS30

Documented voting rules are used to build consensus when discussion is not sufficient.

OK  Using the standard ASF voting process, referring to http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html. So far, the manipulations on voting process for 0.3.0-incubating and 0.4.0-incubating releases have helped the team accumulate valuable experiences, and will be kept going in future releases.

CS40

In Apache projects, vetoes are only valid for code commits and are justified by a technical explanation, as per the Apache voting rules defined in CS30.

OK  Vetoes haven’t been abused during incubation.

CS50

All "important" discussions happen asynchronously in written form on the project’s main communications channel. Offline, face-to-face or private discussions that affect the project are also documented on that channel.

OK  See CS20.

 

Independence

IN10

The project is independent from any corporate or organizational influence.

OK  No such influence has been detected during incubation.

IN20

Contributors act as themselves as opposed to representatives of a corporation or organization.

OK  No worrying signals here during incubation.

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