Hi， Dear IPMC members，
Apache bRPC has been incubating since 2018-11-13. Within this time, the bRPC community has made great progress, has adopted the Apache way and grown with the help of our mentors. The bRPC community believes that we have met the conditions for graduation and have discussed [1] and voted [2] for graduation with the result at [3]. So, we'd like to start the discussion and would appreciate any feedback toward graduation! We are happy to answer any questions - below are some facts and project highlights from the incubation phase as well as the draft resolution. This is also an excellent opportunity to say a big thank you to our mentors. I really appreciated the prompt help at any time during incubation for the many questions we had. Thanks a lot, Von, JB and PanJuan! Cheers Jerry Tan ----------- Project Updates since incubation: ----------- 1. We release 1.0.0,1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 4 apache releases, and 0.9.6, 0.9.7, 2 disclaim releases; by different release managers (including Jerry Tan, Zhu Jiashun, Lorin Lee, Wang Weibing, Liu Shuai, Hu Xiguo) (see it at [4]) 2. We add 5 new PPMC members including Jiashun Zhu, Wang Weibing, Cai Daojin, He Lei, and Lorin Lee. see it at [4]. Now we have 10 PPMC members altogether, they are from different companies, Including ByteDance(Ge Jun, He Lei), Baidu(Wang Yao, Wang Weibing),Google(Zhu Jiashun), 4Paradigm(Tan Zhongyi), Shopee( Cai Daojin), Momenta.AI (Chen Zhangyi), Ant Group(Jiang Rujie),Lorin Lee(Freelancer) 3. We add 9 new committers, including Cai Daojin, He Lei, Mou Guiding, Lorin Lee, Wang Wei, Liu Shuai, Wang Xiaofeng, and Xiguo Hu. Chen Guangming. see it at [4] 4. We have 17 members subscribed to the private email list and 61 engineers subscribed to the dev mail list. The discussion on the dev mail list is active, including release, roadmap, committer related topics. see it at [5] 5. Branding issues have been solved and name searching has been completed. See it at [6] 6. Assessment of the maturity model is available at [7] All answers to these check items are 'Yes'. 7. brpc has been widely adopted outside Baidu since incubating, including iqiyi，bytedance，bilibili，Bigo，Didi，weibo，vivo，4padradigm，xiaohongshu，ishumei，doris，amap，etc. And we plan to move on, such as RDMA support has been integrated into the trunk and will be included in the next release, and extend brpc with service mesh features. Let me express a big ***THANK YOU*** to everyone for helping make this possible! ----------- Draft resolution ----------- Establish the Apache brpc 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 an industrial-grade RPC framework for building reliable and high-performance services. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache brpc Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache brpc Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to an industrial-grade RPC framework for building reliable and high-performance services; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache brpc" 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 brpc Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache brpc 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 brpc Project: * Bear Jiang <jrjb...@apache.org> * Cai Daojin <ca...@apache.org> * He Lei <lean...@apache.org> * James Ge <jame...@apache.org> * Jean-Baptiste Onofré <jbono...@apache.org> * Jerry Tan <jerry...@apache.org> * Jiashun Zhu <jiashun...@apache.org> * Juan Pan <panj...@apache.org> * Lorin Lee <lorin...@apache.org> * Von Gosling <vongosl...@apache.org> * Wang Weibing <wwb...@apache.org> * Yao Wang <fisher...@apache.org> * Zhangyi Chen <zyc...@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that James Ge be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache brpc, 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 Apache brpc Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator brpc podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator brpc podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged. [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/gd1cdmj527vndl6x7zvztywgby22r52b [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/rv2ddqgcd9nj8ps7wmjotqqo7wxplym9 [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/shq1xo88hqlpmlwyzozbmz49511vc1qp [4] https://incubator.apache.org/projects/brpc.html [5] https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/ppmc/brpc [6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-202 [7] https://github.com/apache/incubator-brpc/wiki/Maturity-Assessment-for-bRPC
