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Answer

20 Mar 2024 ¶

 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:

20 Dec 2023 ¶

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: