Sorry for asking,

but Dave, could you please explain that reply … admittedly I didn’t understand 
what you wanted to say
(Guess I would consider it advanced English and I simply didn’t understand it).

Chris

From: Dave Fisher <wave4d...@comcast.net>
Date: Monday, 12. December 2022 at 06:19
To: general@incubator.apache.org <general@incubator.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Apache Tuweni graduation
Thanks. I think you are onto an idea of community that could be somehow 
explicitly part of the incubator’s curriculum. That’s a separate discussion.

Best,
Dave

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> On Dec 11, 2022, at 7:17 PM, Willem Jiang <willem.ji...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree we don't need to hold the Tuweni graduation for the release checking.
> But if we want to build a sustainable Open Source project, we still
> need to pay lots of attention to community building.
>
>
> Willem Jiang
>
> Twitter: willemjiang
> Weibo: 姜宁willem
>
>> On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 9:24 AM Antoine Toulme <anto...@toulme.name> wrote:
>>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> Apache Tuweni had a much smaller community when it started its incubation at 
>> Apache. The path of this project has been impacted by the domain it applies 
>> to and the pandemic certainly hasn't helped. Still it has managed to create 
>> enough momentum to make regular releases and check off all incubation checks.
>> Community building is definitely still on the menu - right now and later as 
>> well. We will continue building and including folks. We have onboarded 
>> successfully multiple committers and have received contributions. I expect 
>> this trend to continue and mature.
>>
>> The question is whether the best place for us to continue growing is the 
>> incubator. The incubator adds additional checks on our releases and slows 
>> down our cycles, which has historically driven folks to fork and move away 
>> from the project.
>>
>> The incubator doesn't offer opportunities for community building, from what 
>> I know. We will need to continue to build our image and presence to attract 
>> contributors on our own.
>>
>> The project mentors have been nothing short of fantastic. They have been 
>> helpful in maturing the project. In my opinion, we are using their precious 
>> time when they should be engaged in helping other projects of the incubator.
>>
>> With this, I want to thank the incubator. We had a great experience building 
>> with you all. I personally believe we should free the incubator's time and 
>> attention to concentrate on other projects. I also believe the project is 
>> mature enough to function outside of the incubator.
>>
>> I vote +1 to graduate Tuweni from the incubator.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Antoine
>>
>>>> On Dec 7, 2022, at 3:37 PM, larry mccay <lmc...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> We have also recently seen long term incubating projects with considerable
>>> adoption falter.
>>> I consider the fact that they did not graduate early enough a contributing
>>> factor here.
>>>
>>> Nothing wrong with incubation but staying in the incubator and encountering
>>> attrition is different from TLP
>>> with some churn with new folks coming into an official TLP project while
>>> others can fall off in a healthy way.
>>>
>>> Again, having the community test and release 14 separate releases
>>> demonstrates contributors in the community
>>> even if they aren't all materially contributing code.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 3:45 AM Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> And in the last few months the ASF has sadly seen enough cases, in which
>>>> even big projects suffered from the lack of diversity.
>>>> So, I would also consider this to be a blocker.
>>>>
>>>> Community building isn’t something that happens or comes for free.
>>>> It’s actually hard work, but it needs to be done.
>>>>
>>>> Just my opinion on this topic.
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> From: Willem Jiang <willem.ji...@gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Wednesday, 7. December 2022 at 02:59
>>>> To: general@incubator.apache.org <general@incubator.apache.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Apache Tuweni graduation
>>>> It looks like we need a dedicated community leader[1] to build a
>>>> diverse community (just borrow a pattern from InnerSource Common[2]).
>>>>
>>>> " Communication takes up a significant percentage of a community
>>>> leader's daily work. At the same time, he or she will likely also have
>>>> to spearhead the initial development, too. In the face of limited
>>>> capacity, inexperienced leaders will tend to focus on development and
>>>> neglect communication. The barrier for potential contributors to make
>>>> their first contribution and to commit to the community will be much
>>>> higher if the community leader is hard to reach or is slow to respond
>>>> to feedback and questions for lack of time."
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/patterns/2-structured/dedicated-community-leader.md#forces
>>>> [2]https://innersourcecommons.org/
>>>>
>>>> Willem Jiang
>>>>
>>>> Twitter: willemjiang
>>>> Weibo: 姜宁willem
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 9:51 AM larry mccay <lmc...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not so sure that I see this as a blocker for graduation.
>>>>> There was enough consensus and testing to spin and publish 14 releases.
>>>>> There has been healthy conversation about this very topic among the
>>>> mentors
>>>>> and contributors on the private list.
>>>>>
>>>>> The nature of this project is that the consumption of these libraries are
>>>>> going to get less traction while in incubation and a community may grow
>>>>> larger as a TLP as confidence is instilled by that status.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Tuweni community has demonstrated the ability to publish releases
>>>>> within that Apache Way and guidelines, has welcomed new contributors,
>>>> etc.
>>>>> The long term success will require a larger active community but I don't
>>>>> think that needs to block graduation as the incubation goals have been
>>>> met.
>>>>>
>>>>> My 2 cents.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 7:41 PM Willem Jiang <willem.ji...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I agree with Gang Li. The Bus factor[1] of this project is relatively
>>>> high.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Willem Jiang
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Twitter: willemjiang
>>>>>> Weibo: 姜宁willem
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 11:06 PM li gang <lgcar...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I checked the contributions of the Tuweni project[1],the traffic of
>>>> the
>>>>>>> mail list d...@tuweni.apache.org[2] and the KEYS[3].
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It looks like the project is mainly maintained by Antoine Toulme
>>>> self,
>>>>>>> I have a concern this is not comply with the diversity.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [1]https://github.com/apache/incubator-tuweni/graphs/contributors
>>>>>>> [2]https://lists.apache.org/list?d...@tuweni.apache.org
>>>>>>> [3]https://downloads.apache.org/incubator/tuweni/KEYS
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Antoine Toulme <toulm...@apache.org> 于2022年12月5日周一 15:14写道:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Dear Apache Incubator Community and IPMC members,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We discussed the graduation for Tuweni in the Apache Incubator
>>>>>>>> Community [4], where no issues were raised and positive replies
>>>> were
>>>>>>>> received.
>>>>>>>> After having the graduation discussion in the Tuweni community
>>>> [1], we
>>>>>>>> have passed the vote within Tuweni community [2] and the vote
>>>> result
>>>>>>>> was published [3].
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I would like to start this voting thread to request graduating
>>>> Apache
>>>>>>>> Tuweni(incubating) from Apache Incubator as a Top Level Project.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Please provide your vote accordingly:
>>>>>>>> [ ] +1 Yes, I support Tuweni project to graduate from the Apache
>>>>>> Incubator.
>>>>>>>> [ ] +0 No opinion.
>>>>>>>> [ ] -1 No, the Tuweni project is not ready to graduate, because...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thank you for participating in the vote. This vote will stay open
>>>> for
>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>> least 72 hours.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Here is an overview of the Apache Tuweni(incubating) to help with
>>>> the
>>>>>>>> vote.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *Community*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ● The PPMC is active, with PMC members voting for graduation along
>>>> with
>>>>>>>> mentors.
>>>>>>>> ● 6 new committers were added, bringing the total number of
>>>> committers
>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> 14 from 12 different
>>>>>>>> organizations.
>>>>>>>> ● The number of contributors is now 25 and growing.
>>>>>>>> ● The dev@Tuweni mailing list currently has 33 subscribers [4].
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *Project*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ● Apache Tuweni (incubating) is a set of libraries and other tools
>>>> to
>>>>>> aid
>>>>>>>> development of blockchain and other  decentralized software in
>>>> Java and
>>>>>>>> other JVM languages. It includes a low-level bytes library,
>>>>>> serialization
>>>>>>>> and deserialization codecs (e.g. RLP), various cryptography
>>>> functions
>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> primitives, and lots of other helpful utilities. Tuweni is
>>>> developed
>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>> JDK 11 or higher.
>>>>>>>> ● Project maturity model and incubation status is detailed in [5]
>>>>>>>> ● Tuweni has been incubating [5] since 2019-02-25 for over 45
>>>>>>>> months.
>>>>>>>> ● Tuweni community released a total of 14 Apache releases [6].
>>>>>>>> ● 331 pull requests created closed [7].
>>>>>>>> ● 76 issues created, and 46 issues closed [8].
>>>>>>>> ● The release cadence is about 3 months.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *Brand, License, and Copyright*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ● We submitted an application for the brand [9] and it has been
>>>>>>>> reviewed and approved.
>>>>>>>> ● Tuweni community maintains project code on GitHub and all modules
>>>>>>>> code is under Apache 2.0 license. We have reviewed all the
>>>>>>>> dependencies and ensured they do not bring any license issues [10].
>>>>>>>> All the status files, license headers, and copyright are up to
>>>> date.
>>>>>>>> ● Tuweni official website [11] is compliant with Apache Foundation
>>>>>>>> requirements [12].
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [1]
>>>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/z3flpmqcss21xc8vmtwqqfs961p4g9t5
>>>>>>>> [2]
>>>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/c04cmvfwh1wt2mxmc9zo89o6bnhm2xqk
>>>>>>>> [3]
>>>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/8m4lq3k1v93m1k482syj7kn1ldb62665
>>>>>>>> [4] https://lists.apache.org/list.html?d...@tuweni.apache.org
>>>>>>>> [5] https://incubator.apache.org/projects/tuweni.html
>>>>>>>> [6] https://github.com/apache/incubator-tuweni/releases
>>>>>>>> [7] https://github.com/apache/incubator-tuweni/pulls
>>>>>>>> [8] https://github.com/apache/incubator-tuweni/issues
>>>>>>>> [9] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-167
>>>>>>>> [10] https://github.com/apache/incubator-tuweni/blob/main/LICENSE
>>>>>>>> [11] https://tuweni.apache.org
>>>>>>>> [12] https://whimsy.apache.org/pods/project/tuweni
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>>> Best Regards
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> DolphinScheduler PMC
>>>>>>> Gang Li 李岗
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> lgcar...@apache.org
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