Hi Everyone, The incubating Apache Metron community believes it is time to graduate to TLP.
Apache Metron entered incubation in December of 2015. Since then, we've overcome technical challenges to remove Category X dependencies, and made 3 releases. Our most recent release contains binary convenience artifacts. We are a very helpful and engaged community, ready to answer all questions and feedback directed to us via the user list. Through our time in incubation we've added a number of committers and promoted some of them to PPMC membership. We are actively pursuing others. While we do still have issues to address raised by means of the maturity model, all projects are ongoing processes, and we believe we no longer need the incubator to continue addressing these issues. To inform the discussion, here is some basic project information: Project status: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/metron.html Project website: https://metron.incubator.apache.org/ Project documentation: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/METRON/Documentation Maturity assessment: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/METRON/Apache+Project+Maturity+Model Community Vote to Graduate: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/540378e2773b1b2ce2af498e56a6435e547c04948a6b496b9a4ffc71@%3Cdev.metron.apache.org%3E DRAFT of the board resolution is at the bottom of this email Proposed PMC size: 24 members Total number of committers: 6 members 516 commits on develop 34 contributors across all branches dev list averaged ~650 msgs/month for the last 3 months Resolution: Establish the Apache Metron Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to a security analytics platform for big data use cases. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Metron Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Metron Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to: (a) A mechanism to capture, store, and normalize any type of security telemetry at extremely high rates. (b) Real time processing and application of enrichments (c) Efficient information storage (d) An interface that gives a security investigator a centralized view of data and alerts passed through the system. RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Metron" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Metron Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Metron Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Metron Project: PPMC: Mark Bittmann (mbittmann) Sheetal Dolas (sheetal_dolas) Debo Dutta (ddutta) Discovery Gerdes (discovery) Andrew Hartnett (dev_warlord) Dave Hirko (dbhirko) Paul Kehrer (reaperhulk) Brad Kolarov (bjkolly) Kiran Komaravolu (kirankom) Larry McCay (lmccay) P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz) Ryan Merriman (rmerriman) Michael Perez (mperez) Charles Porter (cporter) Phillip Rhodes (prhodes) Sean Schulte (sirsean) James Sirota (jsirota) Casey Stella (cstella) Ray Urciuoli(rurcioli) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli (vinodkv) George Vetticaden (gvetticaden) Oskar Zabik (smogg) David Lyle (lyle) Nick Allen (nickallen) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Casey Stella be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Metron, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Metron PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Metron Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Metron Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Metron podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Metron podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged.
