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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 Q-and-A platform software for teams at any scales. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Answer Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Answer be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to A Q-and-A platform software for teams at any scales; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Answer" 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 Answer Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Answer 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 Answer Project: * Zili Chen <tison@apache.org> * Feng Dong <fenbox@apache.org> * Christofer Dutz <cdutz@apache.org> * Nadia Jiang <nadia@apache.org> * Willem Ning Jiang <ningjiang@apache.org> * Shuailing Li <shuai@apache.org> * Luffy <lufei@apache.org> * Fengjun Lv <mingcheng@apache.org> * Justin Mclean <jmclean@apache.org> * Ning Qi <joyqi@apache.org> * Yubin Ren <robin0716@apache.org> * Enxin Xie <linkinstar@apache.org> * Guangfu Yang <kumfo@apache.org> * Anne Zhu <annezhu@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ning Qi be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Answer, 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. RESOLVED, that the Apache Answer Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Answer podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Answer podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache Answer Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
A Q-and-A platform software for teams at any scales.
Answer has been incubating since 2023-10-09.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Release more ASF-compliant versions.
2. Build and grow a diverse community, attracting more committers and
PPMC members.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
We hope more IPMC members can actively take part in the voting process.
We called for the vote on v1.3.0-RC1 on 29th March, and we finally received
the third binding vote on April 18th. The process takes longer than usual.
The vote thread:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/lh3nvmr0gr1qh869zg76q6gcjj4ll3w0
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- We went to the FOSSASIA summit, and introduced the project to more
people.
- We were selected for OSPP (China's GSoC)
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- We packed 3 new features, 4 improvements and 12 fixed bugs in the
latest version v1.3.0.
- We were listed on different platforms, such as open-source alternatives
websites, open-source projects websites, etc.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
18 April, 2024
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
There was no new committer or PPMC members elected.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
No answer.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There are no known brand and naming issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (answer) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: It's good to see the project promotion in FOSSAsia.
- [X] (answer) tison
Comments:
- [X] (answer) Justin Mclean
Comments:
- [ ] (answer) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
A Q-and-A platform software for teams at any scale.
Answer has been incubating since 2023-10-09.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Release more ASF-compliant versions.
2. Build and grow a diverse community, attracting more committers and PPMC
members.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
Currently no.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- 1 new contributor have joined the community (52 in total).
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- The third ASF-compliant version (v1.2.5) was released.
- 2 new features, 5 bug fixes, 5 improvements.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
18 Feb, 2024
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
There was no new committer or PPMC members elected.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, all the mentors are helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There are no known brand and naming issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (answer) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: The project is in the good track.
- [X] (answer) tison
Comments: Running well. I saw a few users starting to use this
software. The releases are smooth. PPMC may try to extend the community
with more developers.
- [X] (answer) Justin Mclean
Comments:
- [X] (answer) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
A Q-and-A platform software for teams at any scale.
Answer has been incubating since 2023-10-09.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Release more ASF-compliant versions.
2. Build and grow a diverse community, attracting more committers and PPMC
members.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
Currently no
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- 6 new contributors have joined the community (48 in total).
- We have launched the contributors' documentation on our official website
and will keep it regularly updated, aiming to guide users in quickly
getting involved with contributions.
https://answer.apache.org/community/contributing
- We have preliminarily set out our community event plan for 2024, which
includes participating in events such as GSoC and OSPP to increase external
contributions, as well as organizing cross-community events in Q1 and Q4 to
motivate external developers to contribute.
- We plan to initiate open bi-weekly community meetings after the Chinese
Lunar New Year in 2024, to which we will invite all external contributors
and anyone interested in the development of the Answer community.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- The first ASF-compliant version (v1.2.0) was released.
- 1 new feature, 7 bug fixes, 2 improvements.
- answer.dev has been redirected to answer.apache.org
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
29 Nov, 2023
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
It was in October since Apache Answer was accepted into the Apache
Incubator.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, all the mentors are helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There are no known brand and naming issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (answer) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
- [ ] (answer) tison
Comments:
- [ ] (answer) Justin Mclean
Comments:
- [ ] (answer) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes: