All,
Voting is now closed. There were 19 +1's, 5 +1's that are binding. No
0 or -1's were received.
I look forward to helping ECharts and thank you again for your time and
attention.
I am working through the process at
https://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html
Regards,
KAM
On 1/12/2018 8:09 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
Hi All,
I would like to start a VOTE & I vote +1 to bring the ECharts project
in as an Apache incubator podling.
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This vote will run for at least 72 hours. Please VOTE as follows
[ ] +1 Accept ECharts into the Apache Incubator
[ ] +0 Abstain.
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The proposal is listed below, but you can also access it on the wiki:
https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/EChartsProposal
Regards,
KAM
ECharts Proposal
Abstract
ECharts is a charting and data visualization library written in
JavaScript.
Proposal
ECharts provides a powerful, interactive charting and data
visualization library and framework for web browser, mobile App and
backend usage.
Background
A primary goal of data visualization is to communicate information
clearly and efficiently via statistical graphics, plots and other
graphics.
Numerical data may be presented in dots, lines, or bars, to visually
communicate a quantitative message. Effective visualization helps
users to analyze data .It makes complex data more readable,
understandable.[1]
Now data visualization concerns mainly about presentation and
propagation in web, ECharts uses JavaScript as its basic programing
language. It brings great compatibility across multiple platforms, not
only in web browsers, but also in mobile Apps via embedded web engine
or in backend environment via the techniques of headless browser.
Rationale
ECharts encapsulates the underlying data transformation, control flow,
visual encoding and rendering, receiving the visualization
requirements with declarative language, and produces interactive
charts and components. We will highlight the features below to
illustrate the power that ECharts already has, and our concerns and
our visions:
User Diversity:
ECharts expects that its users are not only web developers, but also
people with lesser programing skills. So ECharts enables users to
describe data and settings with declarative language, which lowers the
barrier but without losing the power, and benefit to transfer and store.
Configurable Interactions:
ECharts has provided plenty of interactions and aims at providing
more. Both human interactions and the interactions with upper program
are supported and can be configurable.
Large Data:
Although the browser environment and JavaScript bring some performance
limits in visualizing large data or performing animations, ECharts
have been adopting various optimization techniques to rise the upper
limit of the amount of data that it can process, and keep improving
the fluency of interactions and animations.
Cross-Platform:
The underlying render engine of ECharts can be switched between
HTMLCanvas, SVG, or VML, which provides good compatibility and brings
opportunities to optimize performance according to different platform
and usage scenarios. Besides, ECharts can also works in backend
environment via headless techniques.
ECharts can be created using headless browsers to pregenerate reports
on more powerful machines for better performance on resource-limited
devices
Extension and Customization:
ECharts provides extension mechanisms to make new types of chart and
components, adopt other layout algorithms, or even adopt other render
techniques. Various developers have contributed different types of
extensions based on ECharts.[2]
Current Status
ECharts has been an open source project on GitHub[3] since 2013.
Currently it has more than 20k stars, more than 50k monthly
downloads[4] in NPM, and is one of the most popular repositories in
topic of data visualization category in GitHub.[5] And it has been
used in many products of Baidu and other companies such as Alibaba,
Tencent, Netease, XinHua News Agency,National Bureau of Statistics of
China, Sina, State Grid Corporation of China, Lenovo, Ctrip etc.
Meritocracy
The ECharts project already operates on meritocratic principles. It
was originally created by Lin Zhifeng in 2013,adding developers
worldwide and has accepted multiple major patches from a diverse set
of contributors.
We will follow ASF meritocratic principles to encourage more
developers to contribute in this project. We know that only active and
committed developers from a diverse set of backgrounds can make
ECharts a successful project. We are also improving the project
documentation and code to help new developers to get started quickly.
Community
ECharts has been building an active community for the last four years.
Currently, the community includes over 50 contributors . The core
developers of our project are listed below.
Core Developers
Su Shuang (https://github.com/100pah sushuang0...@gmail.com )
Shen Yi (https://github.com/pissang shenyi....@gmail.com )
Zhang Wenli (https://github.com/Ovilia m...@zhangwenli.com )
Li Deqing (https://github.com/deqingli annong...@gmail.com)
Dong Rui (https://github.com/erik168 error...@gmail.com)
Alignment
ECharts is popular in data visualization and charting on web projects.
And ASF has many famous web projects and big data related projects. We
believe that ASF is a perfect choice to help ECharts project to
attract more developers and have more cooperation with existing projects.
Known Risks
Orphaned products
Given the current level of investment in ECharts and the stakeholders
using it - the risk of the project being abandoned is minimal. Baidu,
for example, is in active development to use ECharts in many of its
services and many large corporations including Alibaba, Tencent,
Huawei, Sina, Lenovo use it in their production applications.
Inexperience with Open Source
ECharts has been an active open source project for more than 4 years.
During that time, the project has attracted 50+ contributors.
Homogenous Developers
The most of core developers are from Baidu, but after ECharts was open
sourced, ECharts received a lot of bug fixes and enhancements from
other developers not working at Baidu. And the founder of ECharts,Lin
Zhifeng still contributes a lot after he left Baidu.
Reliance on Salaried Developers
Although some of the developers are salaried, the project is
personally initiated from the beginning. The core developers have been
dedicated to this project for four years and have kept the project
independent with developers around the world involved.
Relationships with Other Apache Products
There are several existing Apache projects that using ECharts already,
including:
Apache Eagle
Apache Griffin (Incubating)
Apache Kylin
Apache SkyWalking (Incubating)
A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand
Our interests and motivations are based on the factors mentioned in
the Rationale section rather than the publicity. Furthermore, the
brand of ECharts has been successful in the past years on their own
and we would be happy to keep on this path. We are honored at getting
the opportunity to join the ASF, with the understanding to ensure its
brand policies are respected.Also we expect that Apache brand will
help to attract more contributors.
Documentation
[1] Data Visualization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_visualization
[2] ECharts Extensions: https://github.com/ecomfe/ECharts#resources
[3] ECharts Information: https://github.com/ecomfe/ECharts
https://ecomfe.github.io/echarts-doc/public/en/index.html
[4] ECharts in NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/echarts
[5] GitHub Data Visualization Topic:
https://github.com/topics/data-visualization
Initial Source
ECharts has been developed since 2013. It currently has an active
developer and user community with a codebase in JavaScript. We
currently use Github to maintain our source code and track issues at
https://github.com/ecomfe/ECharts We need to move our respository to
Apache infrastructure.
Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan
ECharts source code is available under BSD-3 license and owned by
Baidu. We will work with the committers to get ICLAs signed. We will
provide a Software Grant Agreement from an authorized signer per
https://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant-template.pdf
External Dependencies
All The dependencies are released under Apache compatible licenses,
including BSD and MIT.
Required Resources
Mailing List:
There are currently no mailing lists. The usual mailing lists are
expected to be set up when entering incubation:
priv...@echarts.incubator.apache.org
d...@echarts.incubator.apache.org
comm...@echarts.incubator.apache.org
Git Repositories:
Upon entering incubation: https://github.com/apache/incubator-echarts
After incubation, we want to move the existing repo from
github/ecomfe/echarts to Apache infrastructure.
Issue Tracking:
ECharts currently uses GitHub to track issues. there are more than 7k
issues. Would like to continue to do so while we discuss migration
possibilities with the ASF Infra committee.
URL:
Currently the website url is
https://ecomfe.github.io/echarts-doc/public/en/index.html. It will be
moved to http://echarts.incubator.apache.org/ to follow incubator
conventions.
Initial Committers
Lin Zhifeng (https://github.com/kener kener.linf...@gmail.com)
Su Shuang (https://github.com/100pah sushuang0...@gmail.com)
Shen Yi (https://github.com/pissang shenyi....@gmail.com)
Zhang Wenli (https://github.com/Ovilia m...@zhangwenli.com)
Li Deqing (https://github.com/deqingli annong...@gmail.com)
Wang Junting
Dong Rui (https://github.com/erik168 error...@gmail.com)
Huang Houjin (https://github.com/chriswong w...@foxmail.com)
Sponsors:
Champion:
Kevin A. McGrail
Mentors:
Daniel Gruno
Kevin A. McGrail
Dave Fisher
John D. Ament
Sponsoring Entity
We are requesting the Incubator to sponsor this project.
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Kevin A. McGrail
Asst. Treasurer & VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation
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