Hello Incubator,
Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13 (originally ‘SensSoft’ [1]). During our incubation, the Flagon project developed steadily, developing viable open-source capability and doing so with democratized governance and commitment to productization, maintenance, and experimentation. Throughout our long incubation, our close and consistent community followed the Apache Way. Our community and our mentors believe that Flagon has met the Incubator’s maturity model[2]. We believe that we are ready to graduate from the Incubator as a self-governing, Top-Level Project. Specifically, 1. Our code is well curated, maintained, documented and released through Apache processes and with the Apache (v2) License. 2. Our code is broadly disseminated—through official Apache distribution, NPM, GitHub (and soon PyPI). 3. We maintain an Apache-Compliant Website[3] to link users to official release mirrors [4] 4. The community changed its name from 'SensSoft' to 'Flagon' to remove corporate entanglement with the organization that originally initiated the project, and has completed IP Clearance processes for ‘Flagon’ [5] 5. In total, we have produced 7 Apache releases with 4 different release managers. 6. In the past year, we have onboarded 4 new committers, 1 new PPMC, and accepted a major software grant from the University of Maryland; our community is small, but active in VOTEs, Releases, and DISCUSSions. 7. Governance is conducted and documented through Apache lists Our last Graduation discussion was 10/2020, at which point the Incubator identified issues related to deprecated sub-projects and some committers that were not subscribed to @private lists [6]. Since then we have resolved these issues and continued to develop our products, grow our community, and operate the Apache Way. Our community has discussed graduation [7], VOTE’d in favor of it [8,9], and the PPMC has reviewed our Graduation Resolution [10] (below). ----------------------------------------- BEGIN DRAFT RESOLUTION ----------------------------------------- Establish the Apache Flagon 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 behavioral logging capability useful for business analytics, usage analytics, usability and user testing. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Flagon Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Flagon Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to thin-client behavioral logging capability useful for business analytics, usage analytics, usability and user testing, and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Flagon" 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 Flagon Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Flagon 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 Flagon Project: * Joshua Poore <poor...@apache.org> * Lewis John McGibbney <le...@apache.org> * David Meikle <dmei...@apache.org> * Tim Allison <talli...@apache.org> * Furkan Kamaci <kam...@apache.org> * Steve York <pyk...@apache.org> * Michelle Beard <msbe...@apache.org> * Robert Foley <r...@apache.org> * Austin Bennett <aus...@apache.org> * Gedd Johnson <uncleg...@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Joshua Poore be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Flagon, 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 Flagon 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 Flagon Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Flagon Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Flagon podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Flagon podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. -------------------------------------- END DRAFT RESOLUTION -------------------------------------- We look forward to the Incubator’s feedback and taking the next step with Flagon. This discussion will be open for 72 or more hours. Respectfully, Joshua Poore (Flagon PPMC) [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/SensSoftProposal [2] https://community.apache.org/apache-way/apache-project-maturity-model.html [3] https://incubator.apache.org/projects/flagon.html [4] https://flagon.incubator.apache.org/releases/ [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-154 [6] https://lists.apache.org/thread/svf7ckpohmt4s9cflf35m12n3w0sz46z [7] https://lists.apache.org/thread/nx3ctj2p2gtljp1nz4pclj7rnnyvfpxb [8] https://lists.apache.org/thread/9fvnpbpwfrvm23zljjlnfmqvq4n4nss9 [9] https://lists.apache.org/thread/1vk3qkfr5vx6zxyq5gr3kqxrkr2oh206 [10] https://lists.apache.org/thread/668091c70rgd1orb4zq915oqsf845s86
