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ShardingSphere

20 Nov 2024 [Liang Zhang / Willem]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Project Status:
Current project status: OK
Issues for the board: No

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (5 years ago)
There are currently 63 committers and 23 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Longtao Jiang on 2024-03-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Chenyang Ma on 2024-05-27.

## Project Activity:
- Project Status:
  - Released version 5.5.1
  - Developing for version 5.5.2
  - Archiving stale UI project
- Publish the Chinese translation of the book
 "A Definitive Guide to Apache ShardingSphere"

## Community Health:
After years of development, ShardingSphere has reached a state of stability
both in its community and codebase,
with the focus of coding efforts gradually shifting towards automated testing.
The community has more usage issues than feature requests,
and future efforts will be concentrated on enhancing usability,
documentation, and related areas.

21 Aug 2024 [Liang Zhang / Shane]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: none

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (4 years ago)
There are currently 63 committers and 23 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Longtao Jiang on 2024-03-28.
- Cong Hu was added as committer on 2024-05-21
- Chenyang Ma was added as committer on 2024-05-27

## Project Activity:
Since the new version was released in April,
the activity of code submissions remains high.
Currently, there are no plans to release a new version.
For now, the focus is on implementing new features and refactoring.

## Community Health:
With the support for an increasing variety of databases
and the expansion of pluggable functionalities,
the project's code activity remains high.
The transformation of the project from a data sharding middleware
to a Database Plus is gaining more and more
recognition and attention from users.

15 May 2024 [Liang Zhang / JB]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Project Status:
Current project status: Good
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (4 years ago)
There are currently 61 committers and 23 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Longtao Jiang was added to the PMC on 2024-03-28
- Chuxin Chen was added to the PMC on 2024-03-28
- Jinchao Zhao was added to the PMC on 2024-03-28
- Maolin Jiang was added as committer on 2024-03-26

## Project Activity:
- Release 5.5.0,
this is a major version release that includes numerous updates to features.
- Participating in GSOC (Google Summer of Code),
the community submitted 2 tasks, and both were selected.

## Community Health:

The community's activity has remained consistently stable,
and the contributors are very accustomed to remote collaboration.
ShardingSphere has been proceeding in an orderly fashion,
both in terms of version releases and issue processing.

21 Feb 2024 [Liang Zhang / Bertrand]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Project Status:
Current project status: Good
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (4 years ago)
There are currently 60 committers and 20 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 3:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Guangyuan Wang on 2023-08-23.
- Zihao Niu was added as committer on 2023-11-21

## Project Activity:
Preparing for the release of version 5.5.0,
with milestone adjustments to the encrypt API
and enhanced pluggable architecture capabilities.
There has also been a significant improvement in theoperability of DistSQL.

Books on ShardingSphere are currently in the publishing proofreading process,
and it is hoped that they can be released as soon as possible
in the next quarter.

## Community Health:
With the stability of the project's functionality and community,
there are fewer and fewer modifications and disruptive changes
to product features.
More and more users are using ShardingSphere stably,
and there is a decreasing trend in PRs and issues on GitHub.
The activity of the project tends to be inversely proportional
to the increase in maturity.
With the connection of more types of databases in the future,
it is hoped that the activity of the community can be increased again.

15 Nov 2023 [Liang Zhang / Sharan]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Project Status:
Current project status: Good
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (4 years ago)
There are currently 59 committers and 20 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Guangyuan Wang was added to the PMC on 2023-08-23
- No new committers. Last addition was Jiahao Chen on 2023-07-29.

## Project Activity:
Releases:

- Release ShardingSphere 5.4.1
- Release ShardingSphere-ElasticJob 3.0.4

MeetUp and Conferences:

- 2023.10.28 COSCon'23
(https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/fIgbZHgcZCZtgzffl4zuCA)
- 2023.10.24 OpenSource MeetUp 1024
(https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/oUwQTrACmCAqtE8vCRj6lQ)
- 2023.06.28 AWS Tech OpenSource MeetUp
(https://blog.csdn.net/SphereEX/article/details/131372971)
- 2023.08.20 CommunityOverCode Asia:
 ShardingSphere on Cloud: A developer's perspective
(https://www.baidu.com/link?url=7hU867SSuD5x9Bymkhw2wEX6GIo_
RELw3NJH2qAnfgiSagpuFDCmcZsmdZuBBQ5qHaFouaLF-qERQWHS18QX8a&wd=&eqid=a6a4a7ff0077d0980000000565467212)
- 2023.06.17 ShardingSphere MeetUp
(https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/7f127_3WBeVy5OPCd_M5Gg)

## Community Health:
The issues that arise are completely submitted and resolved by GitHub,
the community has formed a self running and good state.
New versions are released steadily every quarter,
and security vulnerabilities are fixed relatively promptly.
In general, the community has matured and all indicators are very stable.

16 Aug 2023 [Liang Zhang / Christofer]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Project Status:
Current project status: Good
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (3 years ago)
There are currently 59 committers and 19 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Hongsheng Zhong on 2023-01-28.
- Jiahao Chen was added as committer on 2023-07-29

## Project Activity:

Software development activity:

Released Apache ShardingSphere 5.4.0 (Jul. 8, 2023).
Released ShardingSphere-on-Cloud sub-project version 0.3.0 (Jul. 15, 2023).
Released ElasticJob sub-project version 3.0.3 (Mar. 31, 2023).
Attended the following activities to give talks on
 Apache ShardingSphere:

Meetups:
Apache ShardingSphere Meetups on May 27; Jun. 17; Jul. 1; Aug. 18.

Conferences:
DataOps Day 2023
Conf42: Quantum Computing 2023
P99 CONF 2023
Grace Hopper Celebration 23 Open Source Day
Linux Foundation Open Source Summit EU 2023

Other Activities:
2023 Open Source Summer Offline Event (Beijing) supporting community
2023 Open Source Summer College Tour Event (Nanjing)
 (Open Source Summer) supporting community
Google Summer of Code supporting community
 (​https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/about)

## Community Health:

The community's well-being is thriving, marked by its dynamic growth.
We consistently arrange frequent meetups to champion
Apache ShardingSphere and open-source initiatives.
Notably, we have seen a significant rise in contributors
and enterprise users joining our ranks, fueling the community's progress.

17 May 2023 [Liang Zhang / Craig]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Issues:
None

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (3 years ago)
There are currently 58 committers and 19 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Hongsheng Zhong on 2023-01-28.
- Cheng Zhang was added as committer on 2023-04-22
- Qiheng He was added as committer on 2023-03-28
- Gaoxiang Xiong was added as committer on 2023-03-14
- Zichao Wang was added as committer on 2023-03-14

## Project Activity:
Software development activity:
- Released Apache ShardingSphere 5.3.2 (Mar 30, 2023).
- Kicked off ShardingSphere-on-Cloud Sub-project and released
version 0.2.0 (Feb 23, 2023).

Attended the following activities to give talks on Apache ShardingSphere:
Meetups:
- Apache ShardingSphere Meetups on Feb. 18; Mar.
 4 & 18; Apr. 1 & 15; May. 13 & 27.

Conferences:
- Java Devs'23 Online Summit
(https://events.geekle.us/java23/)
- DevDays Europe 2023
(https://devdays.lt/#)
- Conf42 Cloud Native 2023
(https://www.conf42.com/cloud2023)
- Warsaw IT Days 2023
(https://warszawskiedniinformatyki.pl/en/)
- OpenInfra + CloudNative Days Asia
(https://2022.openinfra.asia)
- Women in Tech Global Conference
(https://www.womentech.net/speaker/Trista/Pan/77175)
- Conf42: Golang 2023
(https://www.conf42.com/golang2023)
- Conf42: Site Reliability Engineering
 (SRE) 2023 (https://www.conf42.com/sre2023)
- Big Data Days 2023
(https://events.bigdataframework.org/
BigDataDays2023?lang=en#/speakers?lang=en)
- Big Data Conference
(https://
datascience-machinelearning.averconferences.com)

Other Activities:
- 2023 Open Source Summer Offline Event
 (Beijing) supporting community
- 2023 Open Source Summer College Tour Event
 (Nanjing) (Open Source Summer) supporting community
- Fireside Chat | Data Security Edition: How to use
Apache ShardingSphere to take "data security"
 to the next level? (https://www.iflytek.com/index.html)
- Google Summer of Code supporting community
(https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/about)
- The Global OpenSource Technology Conference
 (Shanghai) (https://gotc.oschina.net/)

## Community Health:
The overall community health is thriving.
We consistently organize frequent meetups to promote
Apache ShardingSphere and open source initiatives.
The community has experienced significant growth,
with an increasing number of contributors and
enterprise users joining our ranks.

15 Feb 2023 [Liang Zhang / Sander]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Issues:
No

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (3 years ago)
There are currently 53 committers and 19 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Hongsheng Zhong was added to the PMC on 2023-01-28
- Xinze Guo was added as committer on 2022-11-29
- Everly Precia Suresh was added as committer on 2022-12-03

## Project Activity:

- Released Apache ShardingSphere 5.1.2 (Jun 17, 2022) ;
 5.2.0 (Sep 8, 2022); 5.2.1 (Oct 18, 2022);
  5.3.0 (Dec 6, 2022); 5.3.1 (Jan. 9, 2023).
- Kicked off ShardingSphere-on_Cloud Sub-project
and released versions 0.1.0 (Oct 27, 2022);
 0.1.1 (Dec. 6, 2022); 0.1.2 (Jan. 11, 2023).

Attended the following activities to give talks on Apache ShardingSphere:

Meetups:

- Apache ShardingSphere Meetups on May 25, Jun. 6 & 22;
 Jul. 6 & 20 & 27; Aug. 3 & 17 & 22; Oct. 12 & 26; Dec. 21; Jan. 5, 2023

Conferences:

- PGcon (https://www.pgcon.org/2022/)
- Big Data Days 2022 (bigdataframework.org)
- cdCon (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cdcon/)
- OpenInfra + CloudNative Days Asia (https://2022.openinfra.asia)
- OpenInfra + CloudNative Days Asia (https://2022.openinfra.asia)
- ApacheCon Asia (https://www.apachecon.com/acasia2022/)
- OSSummit Latin America
 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-latin-america/)
- J-CON International Java Community Conference
 (https://jcononline2022.sched.com/grid/)
- Cloud Container Sec Summit Container Cloud Sec Summit (techstrongevents.com)
- Conf42: Kube Native  (https://www.conf42.com/kubenative2022)
- Localhost Conference 2022 (https://www.joinlocalhost.com/)
- UXDX Live Online  (https://uxdx.com/)
- Big Data EU 2022  (https://bigdataconference.eu/)
- Data Science Global Summit’22.2
 (https://events.geekle.us/data-science2/)
- SODACON 2022  (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sodacon-japan)
- Java Devs'23 Online Summit (https://events.geekle.us/java23/)
- DevDays Europe 2023 (https://devdays.lt/#)
- Conf42 DevOps 2023 (conf42.com/devops2023)

Other Activities:

- Hacktoberfest 2022 (https://hacktoberfest.com)
- Anita B.org Grace Hopper Celebration - Open Source Day
 (https://ghc.anitab.org/programs-and-awards/open-source-day/)
- Apache ShardingSphere book published globally.
 "A Definitive Guide to Apache ShardingSphere"
  was published worldwide by Packt Publishing.

## Community Health:

The overall community health is good.
We continue to hold regular meetups,
and evangelize Apache ShardingSphere and open source.
More contributors have been included in the community,
as well as enterprise users.

16 Nov 2022 [Liang Zhang / Sander]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Issues:
No. It is all right for now.

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (3 years ago)
There are currently 51 committers and 18 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Zhengqiang Duan on 2022-07-19.
- Ting Huang was added as committer on 2022-09-20
- Nianjun Sun was added as committer on 2022-09-29
- Swastika Gupta was added as committer on 2022-08-03
- Yacine Si Tayeb was added as committer on 2022-09-15
- Junjie Zhang was added as committer on 2022-07-30

## Project Activity:
Software development activity:
- Released 2 versions with 5.2.0 and 5.2.1
- Established a new sub-project named ShardingSphere on Cloud
(https://github.com/apache/shardingsphere-on-cloud) for cloud-native
 environments.

Attended the following activities to give talks on Apache ShardingSphere:

Meetups:
- Apache ShardingSphere Meetups on Apr 11, 2022, May 07, 2022, and May 12,
  2022.

Conferences:
- PgCon (https://www.pgcon.org/2022/)
- cdCon (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cdcon/)
- J-CON International Java Community Conference
 (https://jcononline2022.sched.com/grid/)
- ApacheCon Asia (https://www.apachecon.com/acasia2022/)
- OpenInfra + CloudNative Days Asia (https://2022.openinfra.asia)
- The Linux Foundation OSSummit Latin America
 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-latin-america/)
- Cloud Container Sec Summit Container Cloud Sec Summit (techstrongevents.com)
- Localhost Conference 2022 (https://www.joinlocalhost.com/)
- Conf42: Kube Native (https://www.conf42.com/kubenative2022)
- Grace Hopper Celebration OpenSource Day 2022
 (https://ghc.anitab.org/programs-and-awards/open-source-day/)
- Hacktoberfest 2022 (https://hacktoberfest.com)

Other Activities:
- Published an educational book internationally titled <A Definitive Guide to
  Apache ShardingSphere: Transform any DBMS into a distributed database with
  sharding, scaling, encryption features, and more> with Packt Publishing UK
  (https://tinyurl.com/2vw9yxts).
- Published contribution articles to evangelize Apache ShardingSphere in
  high-level publications such as InfoQ and others
  (https://www.infoq.com/articles/secure-distributed-database-cluster/).

## Community Health:
Presentations, meetups, and programming activities
have attracted lots of new followers interested in the project.

There are more discussions on the project,
which has decreased the number of pull requests.
Nevertheless, the project’s maturity has significantly
improved thanks to more discussions.

19 Oct 2022 [Liang Zhang / Sander]

No report was submitted.

@Sander: pursue a report for ShardingSphere

21 Sep 2022 [Liang Zhang / Sander]

No report was submitted.

17 Aug 2022 [Liang Zhang / Christofer]

No report was submitted.

18 May 2022 [Liang Zhang / Willem]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Issues:
None. There are no Apache ShardingSphere related issues.

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (2 years ago)
There are currently 43 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Weijie Wu was added to the PMC on 2022-04-06
- Liangda Wang was added as committer on 2022-02-19
- Guoping Li was added as committer on 2022-02-19
- Chuxin Chen was added as committer on 2022-02-19
- Weihong Yin was added as committer on 2022-05-10
- Jinchao Zhao was added as committer on 2022-02-23

## Project Activity:
Software development activity:
 - Released Apache ShardingSphere 5.1.0 and 5.1.1.
 - Preparing for Apache ShardingSphere 5.1.2.


Attended the following activities to give talks
on Apache ShardingSphere:

Meetups:
- Apache ShardingSphere Meetups on Apr 11 2022,
May 07 2022 and May 12 2022.

Conferences:
- Devcon 2022
- Big Data Days 2022
- FOSDEM 2022
- Conf42: Cloud Native 2022
- FOSS Backstage 2022
- Subsurface LIVE Winter 2022
- FOSSASIA Summit 2022

Other Activities:
- OpenForce 2022
- Published academic paper <Apache ShardingSphere:
A Holistic and Pluggable Platform for Data Sharding> in ICDE 2022
- Stack Overflow Podcast

## Community Health:
The overall community health is good.
We started to hold meetups by ourself every 2 weeks.
More contributors have been included in the community.

16 Feb 2022 [Liang Zhang / Craig]

## Description:
Apache ShardingSphere’s mission is the creation and maintenance of database
clustering system software providing data sharding, distributed transactions,
and distributed database management.


## Issues:
None. There are no Apache ShardingSphere related issues.

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (2 years ago) There are currently
38 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio
is roughly 5:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Haoran Meng on 2021-10-18.
- Chengxiang Lan was added as committer on 2022-01-19
- Thanoshan MV was added as committer on 2021-11-17
- Guocheng Tang was added as committer on 2022-01-25
- Xiao Yang was added as committer on 2022-01-19

## Project Activity:
Software development activity:
 - Released Apache ShardingSphere 5.0.0.
 - Voting for Apache ShardingSphere 5.1.0 release.
 - Released ElasticJob UI 3.0.1.

Meetups and Conferences:

Attended the following conferences to give talks on Apache ShardingSphere:
- Apache ShardingSphere Dev Meetup on December 11, 2021.
- PGConf Asia, to deliver two talks on “Empowering PGSQL” and
“Building a Distributed Database with PGSQL” on December 14-17, 2021.
- Apache ShardingSphere, Apache SkyWalking and Apache APISIX co-meetup on
 January 15, 2022.
- Apache ShardingSphere and Silicon Valley Tech Club meetup on January 21,
 2022.
- FOSDEM 2022 on February 6, 2022. Gave a talk titled
“PostgreSQL Distributed & Secure Database Ecosystem Building”.

## Community Health:
The overall community health is good. More meetups, conference participations,
podcast participations and blog articles have allowed us to attract more
contributors to enhance our community building efforts and speed.

17 Nov 2021 [Liang Zhang / Roy]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Issues:
No. There is no related issue about Apache ShardingSphere.

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (2 years ago)
There are currently 34 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Haoran Meng was added to the PMC on 2021-10-18
- Longtao Jiang was added as committer on 2021-09-18
- Hongsheng Zhong was added as committer on 2021-08-25

## Project Activity:
Software development activity:
  - Released Apache ShardingSphere-ElasticJob 3.0.1.
  - Voting for Apache ShardingSphere 5.0.0 release.

Meetups and Conferences:

Attended the following conferences to give talks on Apache ShardingSphere:
 - ApacheCon Asia 2021;
 - COSCon 2021 (2021 China Open Source Conference);
 - DTCC (Database Technical Conference China).
Preparing Apache ShardingSphere Dev Meetup on 2021.11.13.

## Community Health:
The overall community health is good, more contributors join the community.
The mailing-list and code activities are increased continuously.

18 Aug 2021 [Liang Zhang / Craig]

## Description:
Apache ShardingSphere set out on a mission to create
and maintain software for a database clustering system
providing data sharding, distributed transactions,
and distributed database management capabilities.

## Issues:
No. There is no related issue about Apache ShardingSphere.

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (a year ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Kimm King on 2020-06-26.
- No new committers. Last addition was Lu Qiu on 2021-01-02.

## Project Activity:
Software development activity:
  - Released Apache ShardingSphere 5.0.0-beta and ElasticJob 3.0.0.

Meetups and Conferences:

Attended the following conferences to give talks on Apache ShardingSphere:
 - AWS Cloud Summit China 2021.
 - GOTC (The Global Open Source Technology Conference).
 - GIAC (Global Internet Architecture Conference).

Currently working on:
 - Preparing a presentation for ApacheCon Asia 2021
about Apache ShardingSphere,
as well as serving as two tracks’ chair (Middleware and Incubator)
at the conference.
 - Partner project of the Open Source Day hackathon
 (https://ghc.anitab.org/programs-and-awards/open-source-day/).

## Community Health:
The overall community health is good, things are proceeding smoothly.
The mailing-list and code activities are increased continuously.

19 May 2021 [Liang Zhang / Sheng]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Issues:
No

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (a year ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Kimm King on 2020-06-26.
- No new committers. Last addition was Lu Qiu on 2021-01-02.

## Project Activity:
Software development activity:

 - We prepared to release 5.0.0-beta version.
 - We worked with the OpenGauss community to help them
adopt the 5.0.0-alpha version version.

Meetups and Conferences:

 - One PMC member attended DataFun Summit 2021,
giving one talks on Apache ShardingSphere.
 - One PMC member had an interview with OpenTecr
which talking about how to grow open source community.
 - Two committers submmit CFP for ApacheCon Asia 2021
about Apache ShardingSphere.

## Community Health:
Overall community health is good. The version of 5.x is more and more stable.
We are prepare to release soon after the API minor changes.

17 Feb 2021 [Liang Zhang / Craig]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Issues:
No

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (10 months ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Kimm King on 2020-06-26.
- Lu Qiu was added as committer on 2021-01-02
- Weijie Wu was added as committer on 2020-12-01

## Project Activity:
Software development activity:
 - We have released ShardingSphere-ElasticJob-3.0.0-RC1 on 19 Dec 2020.
 - We are preparing to making release beta version for 5.0.0 in next month.
 - We added agent to collection metric and tracing info.
 - We have added new integration test engine in our master branch.

Meetups and Conferences:
 - Two PMC members attended DTCC and China SoftCon 2020,
giving two talks on Apache ShardingSphere.
 - Two students pick up ShardingSphere missions
which published on GSoC 2021, the mentors began to guide students.

## Community Health:

Commit activity has held pretty steady over the winter.
The reason of email and commits decreased is we are preparing
to release 5.0.0-beta, which do lots works for test.

18 Nov 2020 [Liang Zhang / Shane]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Issues:
None.

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (7 months ago)
There are currently 30 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 2:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Kimm King on 2020-06-26.
- Zhengqiang Duan was added as committer on 2020-09-24
- Guo Jiwei was added as committer on 2020-08-18

## Project Activity:
Software development activity:

 - We are releasing new milestone version 5.0.0-alpha of ShardingSphere.
 - We have released new version 3.0.0-beta
of ShardingSphere-ElasticJob and ShardingSphere-ElasticJob-UI.
 - 2 committers joined us on this quarter.

Meetups and Conferences:
- In September, a live talk that Tencent Cloud University
held was given by one of our PMC member Apache ShardingSphere.
- Two PMC members attended ApacheCon@Home 2020,
giving two talks on ShardingSphere and participated in a group talk.
- In October, two of our PMC members attended
COSCon’20&Apache Roadshow – China giving two talks
on ElasticJob and Apache ShardingSphere.
- In November, one PMC member joined ISCAS open source
summit meeting 2020 and giving a talk on
Apache ShardingSphere distributed database.

## Community Health:
Overall community health is good.
The statistics is trending to stable.
Contributors perter use GitHub issues than mailing list to discuss.

19 Aug 2020 [Liang Zhang / Sam]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Issues:
None

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (4 months ago)
There are currently 28 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Kimm King was added to the PMC on 2020-06-26
- Lu Jingshang was added as committer on 2020-07-26
- Haoran Meng was added as committer on 2020-07-03
- Xiao Yu was added as committer on 2020-07-03

## Project Activity:
Software development activity:

 - We have released new milestone version 3.0.0-alpha of
   ShardingSphere-ElasticJob.
 - We have nearly finished the new version 5.x and testing them. The
   orchestration modules need to be adjust before release.
 - One new PMC member and 3 committers joined us on this quarter.

## Community Health:
Overall community health is good.
More commits and less issues because the version to be released is stable and
contributors add more unit tests.

15 Jul 2020 [Liang Zhang / Roy]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management.

## Issues:
No.

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (3 months ago)
There are currently 25 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Kimm King was added to the PMC on 2020-06-26
- Haoran Meng was added as committer on 2020-07-03
- Xiao Yu was added as committer on 2020-07-03

## Project Activity:
 - We have released the bug fix release 4.1.1.
 - We have finished the new API for version 5.x and
testing them now.
 - We have accepted donation from ElasticJob as subproject.
 - We began to maintain ElasticJob community for license and
copyright issues and start to discuss new features.
 - One new PMC member and two committers joined us on this month,
we have finished the vote.

## Community Health:
Overall community health is good.
The reason of GitHub statistics decreased because of
we sharing energy to the subproject ElasticJob for the first Apache release.

17 Jun 2020 [Liang Zhang / Patricia]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Issues:
No.

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (2 months ago)
There are currently 25 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members (project graduated recently).
- No new committers were added.

## Project Activity:
Software development activity:

 - We are preparing to release the bug fix release 4.1.1.
 - We have added support for pluggable architecture in our master branch.
 - We are designing the new API for version 5.x.
 - We have voted for accepting donation from ElasticJob
 (a distribute scheduler framework) as a new scheduler solution and passed.
 The IP clearance has been sent to the incubator.

## Community Health:
Overall community health is good.
The reason of mailing list decreased 29% is after graduation,
more contributors focus development tasks on GitHub,
issues, pull requests and contributors are still increasing rapidly.

20 May 2020 [Liang Zhang / Sander]

## Description:
The mission of Apache ShardingSphere is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a database clustering system providing data sharding,
distributed transactions, and distributed database management

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (22 days ago)
There are currently 25 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members (project graduated recently).
- No new committers were added.

## Project Activity:
Apache ShardingSphere just completed the release process for 4.0.1 and 4.1.0.
4.0.1 carrying a number of bug fixes; 4.1.0 contained a few new features.

At this time, we are focusing on the big release of 5.x,
this version contains some major shifts in thinking about the project
 - specifically, 5.x looks to achieve these goals:

- Provide a micro and pluggable kernel to load features by java SPI.
- Redesign API to adaptor new kernel.
- Provide an independent SQL parser SDK.


## Community Health:
Apache ShardingSphere still in the rapid develop mode,
there are explosive growth for issues and pull requests
because of Apache ShardingSphere become TLP.

15 Apr 2020

Establish the Apache ShardingSphere 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 a database clustering system providing data
 sharding, distributed transactions, and distributed database
 management;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
 (PMC), to be known as the "Apache ShardingSphere Project", be and
 hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it
 further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache ShardingSphere Project be and hereby is
 responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a
 database clustering system providing data sharding, distributed
 transactions, and distributed database management; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache ShardingSphere" 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
 ShardingSphere Project, and to have primary responsibility for
 management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the
 Apache ShardingSphere 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 ShardingSphere
 Project:

 * Hao Cao <caohao@apache.org>
 * QingYang Chen <chenqingyang@apache.org>
 * Hongjun Du <codefairy@apache.org>
 * Hongtao Gao <hanahmily@apache.org>
 * Von Gosling <vongosling@apache.org>
 * Willem Ning Jiang <ningjiang@apache.org>
 * Xiaoguang Ma <maxiaoguang@apache.org>
 * Juan Pan <panjuan@apache.org>
 * Craig L Russell <clr@apache.org>
 * Sheng Wu <wusheng@apache.org>
 * Yang Yi <yangyi@apache.org>
 * Liang Zhang <zhangliang@apache.org>
 * Yonglun Zhang <zhangyonglun@apache.org>
 * Jun Zhao <zhaojun@apache.org>

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Liang Zhang be appointed
 to the office of Vice President, Apache ShardingSphere, 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 ShardingSphere Project be and hereby
 is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
 Incubator ShardingSphere podling; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache
 Incubator ShardingSphere podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
 PMC are hereafter discharged.

 Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache ShardingSphere Project,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

18 Mar 2020

ShardingSphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database
middleware, focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and database
orchestration.

ShardingSphere has been incubating since 2018-11-10.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Doing podling name search now, the JIRA ticket here[1]
 2. Clear issues which indicate by incubator status page[2]
 3. Finished discussion about graduation and start to vote to TLP[3]

 [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-178

 [2] https://incubator.apache.org/clutch/shardingsphere.html

 [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2272e5fb70044e07f8ff21e282d84ab88a
 30eac6709a9d0981f6b2c1%40%3Cdev.shardingsphere.apache.org%3E

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

 There is a user wall page[4] to show all user lists. The URL of page may
 generate confusion with apache powered by policy. We have already change
 the page url to [5].

 [4] https://shardingsphere.apache.org/community/en/poweredby/

 [5] https://shardingsphere.apache.org/community/en/users/

### How has the community developed since the last report?

 Wen Ouyang, ZongLei Dong, Xiaofeng Jiang have been voted and joined as
 committer.
 There are 115 people to contribute codes to the main repo, there are 26
 new contributors during last report. We are happy to see the community
 are growing up.
 Prepare for graduation, finished discussion mail list is [6]. The main
 resolved issues are:
 1. Major contributors sign ICLA
 2. Confirm PMC and committer list
 3. IP Clearance for OpenSharding GitHub repo[7]
 4. Remove author information in java code
 5. Update incubator status site[8]

 [6] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r885653f36d76c9d842b52f0ba2576dd962
 efd2e9a24acc03515c9e24%40%3Cdev.shardingsphere.apache.org%3E

 [7] https://github.com/OpenSharding

 [8] https://incubator.apache.org/clutch/shardingsphere.html

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 Release 4.0.0 last month, it is the stable version of 4.0.0-RC1,
 4.0.0-RC2 and 4.0.0-RC3.
 Releasing and voting version 4.0.1 now.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [ ] Initial setup
 - [ ] Working towards first release
 - [ ] Community building
 - [X] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 2020-01-13

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 2020-01-08

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, the mentors have been helpful and responsive.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

 Yes. There are no 3rd parties incorrectly using the podling‘s name and
 brand for now.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (shardingsphere) Craig L Russell
    Comments:  Graduation vote is underway on the dev list.
    I believe the project is ready to graduate.
 - [x] (shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments:  It's good to see the project is ready to graduate.
 - [x] (shardingsphere) Von Gosling
    Comments: Glad to see all necessary graducation affairs have been
    resolved.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
 Dave Fisher: The VP, Brand approved your name search on February 20.

18 Dec 2019

ShardingSphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database
middleware,
focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and database
orchestration.

ShardingSphere has been incubating since 2018-11-10.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Clear Brand issues with other ecosystem projects.
 2. Further ASF culture and processes.
 3. Make more apache releases.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

 No. Right now, the brand issues are under control, so we think board or
 IPMC may do not need do any actions for now.

 There are still several related project on GitHub org in ShardingSphere
 ecosystem, before or during project joined the ASF incubator, such as
 extension modules, extension module examples and acceptance test are not
 in Apache repo.
 We have already moved some extension modules into Apache repo,
 and plan to transfer all of them soon.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

 1. Ya Li, Zhiyi Yan have been voted and joined as committer.
 2. There are 89 people to contribute codes to the main repo, there are 15
    new contributors during last report.
    We are happy to see the community are growing up.
 3. Over 100 companies have confirmed they are using ShardingSphere
    through issue report, and show at powered-by page[1].
    Individuals from different companies and communities have provided
    some patches to feed back ShardingSphere community.
 4. Share a topic for Apache way and how to join ShardingSphere community
    in Apache meetup at Tsinghua University.
 5. Finish Podling Maturity Assessment for ShardingSphere[2].
 6. Plan to establish a co-meetup with Apache DolphinScheduler(incubator)
    in Beijing at Dec 8th.

 [1]https://shardingsphere.apache.org/community/en/poweredby/

 [2]https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SHARDINGSPHERE/Podling
 +Maturity+Assessment+for+ShardingSphere


### How has the project developed since the last report?

 1. Release 4.0.0-RC3 last month, main features are UI and SQL92 supported.
 2. Accept donated sharding-scaling project and will merge to trunk before
 next release.
 3. Plan to release 4.0.0 stable version soon.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [X] Initial setup
 - [X] Working towards first release
 - [X] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 2019-11-22

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 2019-11-13

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Mentors are responsive and helpful. Things tend to be on the right way.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

 Yes. We don't find any 3rd parties incorrectly using the podling‘s name
 and brand for now.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [x] (shardingsphere) Craig L Russell
    Comments:
 - [ ] (shardingsphere) Benjamin Hindman
    Comments:
 - [X] (shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments: Shardingsphere made a very good progress of growing the
    community, I think it's time to consider the graduation.
 - [X] (shardingsphere) Von Gosling
    Comments: developer community is very active in github issues and pr.
    IMO, if we could take brand / trademarks well in the next, it would
    be nice to call for graduation.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

16 Oct 2019

Sharding-Sphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database
middleware,
focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and database
orchestration.

ShardingSphere has been incubating since 2018-11-10.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Clear Brand issues with other ecosystem projects.
 2. Further ASF culture and processes.
 3. Make more apache releases.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

 1. Have two Apache releases already. There are 4.0.0-RC1 and 4.0.0-RC2.
    All licenses and checklist are fine.
 2. There are other several related project on GitHub org in ShardingSphere
    ecosystem, before or during project joined the ASF incubator, such as
    extension modules, UI, benchmark and acceptance test, they were using
    ShardingSphere-* prefix in project name, which may cause brand issue.
    We are trying to fix these. All ShardingSphere-* have been renamed to
    OpenSharding-*, and all old releases with ShardingSphere- are declared
    for not apache release.
    We have already transfer benchmark and UI project to apache repo and
    plan to merge extension modules and acceptance test into Apache repo.
 3. Another brand related issue is ShardingSphere in DockerHub, including
    some binary releases, which have been moved apache release versions
    to ASF Infra
    - https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/sharding-proxy

    All of these are only including the approved releases.

    Right now, the brand issues are under control, so we think board or
    IPMC may do not need do any actions for now.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

 1. Yanan Zhao, Haisheng Sun, Guangyuan Wang and Qi Wang have been voted
 and joined as committer.
 2. There are 74 people to contribute codes to the main repo, it increase
 pretty quickly.
    More and more people starting to provide pull requests for new
    features, minor enhancement, bug fix, example, documentation and answer
    questions. We are happy to see the community are growing up.
 3. Over 100 companies have confirmed they are using ShardingSphere
    through issue report, our powered-by page
    Some companies has already provided some patches to feedback the
    community.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 1. Release 4.0.0-RC2 last month, main feature is data encryption.
 2. Setup benchmark report which can generate data every day to show
 performance status of ShardingSphere's changes.
 3. Manage contributions for squash merge pull requests, forbidden push
 dev branch directly and setup code review procedure.
 4. Merge donated Sharding-UI project to dev branch and planning to
 release it at 4.0.0-RC3.
 5. Process donated auto scale up tool from community, processing
 dependencies and licenses now.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [X] Initial setup
 - [X] Working towards first release
 - [X] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 2019-08-24

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 2019-09-23

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Mentors are responsive and helpful. Things tend to be on the right way.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [x] (shardingsphere) Craig L Russell
    Comments: Good progress on promoting contributors to committers.
 - [ ] (shardingsphere) Benjamin Hindman
    Comments:
 - [X] (shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments:  Shardingsphere ppmc did a good job to bring more active
    contributors to the committer list and I saw they were trying hard
    to growing the community.
 - [ ] (shardingsphere) Von Gosling

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

18 Sep 2019

Sharding-Sphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database
middleware, focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and database
orchestration.

ShardingSphere has been incubating since 2018-11-10.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Continuing to grow the community
 2. Make several candidate releases
 3. Make a GA release to make user API stable

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

 No

### How has the community developed since the last report?

 The community has been growing. We have more contributors during those 3
 months.
 A UI project has already donate to ShardingSphere. We have finished the
 second apache release on 24 August.
 The count of GitHub issues are 1800+, the count GitHub pull requests are
 1000+.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 We are merging new UI project to dev branch. The new features data mask
 and distribute transaction have finished.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [X] Initial setup
 - [X] Working towards first release
 - [X] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 2019-08-24

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 2019-01-21, but there are some active potential committers may prompt
 soon.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Mentors are responsive and helpful. Things tend to be on the right way.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [x] (shardingsphere) Craig L Russell
    Comments:  The project is reviewing the "committer bar" which may
 be set too high. There is plenty of activity, mainly focused on Github
 dialog.
 - [ ] (shardingsphere) Benjamin Hindman
    Comments:
 - [x] (shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments: It's good to see that shardingsphere PPMC put lot efforts on
    building community, and making a good release.
 - [x] (shardingsphere) Von Gosling
    Comments: well in commuity activities, especially in Github Issues and
    PRs

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

 Justin Mclean: The stats show don't mean much to people outside your
 project, please drop them from future reports and include commentary
 on how you project is growing instead.
 Given there lots of activity I would expect this report to have a lot more
 detail.
 A quick look at that stats, without explanation, suggests to me that this
 project is in trouble,. You have a large number of contributors, and
 outstanding pull request, but are not voting committers in.
 Please discuss with your mentors what the committer bar should be and
 what it means to be a committer.

19 Jun 2019

Sharding-Sphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database
middleware, focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and database
orchestration.

ShardingSphere has been incubating since 2018-11-10.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Continuing to grow the community
 2. Make several releases

### Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

 No

### How has the community developed since the last report?

 The community has been growing. Some volunteers take the issues and some
 contributors want to donate UI to ShardingSphere.
 We have finished the first apache release on 21 Apr.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 There have a new landscape v0.1 release for ShardingSphere, to split core
 features and technical layers.
 Technical layers consist of Interface Layer, SQL Layer, Transaction
 Layer, Storage Layer and Orchestration Layer, each layer can combine lots
 3rd party components.
 We just try to develop ShardingSphere as a platform which can integrate
 more and more products.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [X] Initial setup
 - [X] Working towards first release
 - [X] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 2019-04-21

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 2019-01-21

### Have your mentors been helpful?

 Mentors are responsive and helpful.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [x] (shardingsphere) Craig L Russell
    Comments:
 - [ ] (shardingsphere) Benjamin Hindman
    Comments:
 - [x] (shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments: Could you share information about the mailing list traffic
    and potential committers?
 - [ ] (shardingsphere) Von Gosling
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

20 Mar 2019

Sharding-Sphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database
middleware, focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and database
orchestration.

ShardingSphere has been incubating since 2018-11-10.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. Prepare for the first ASF release.
 2. Fix bugs and develop new features.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

 None.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 Not bad.
 Two committers and PPMC members have been officially invited to the
 project.
 The community participation has been active, with multiple problems
 brought out and solved.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 Two members have been officially invited to the PPMC.
 We are closer to the first Apache release.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 [X] Initial setup
 [X] Working towards first release
 [ ] Community building
 [ ] Nearing graduation
 [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

 Not finished for the 1st apache release yet.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 28 Jan 2019

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

 [x](shardingsphere) Craig L Russell
    Comments:
 [ ](shardingsphere) Benjamin Hindman
    Comments:
 [X](shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments: ShardingSphere already made a first step to get new
    committer onboard, it's now working its first Apache release.
 [X](shardingsphere) Von Gosling
    Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

20 Feb 2019

Sharding-Sphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database
middleware, focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and database
orchestration.

ShardingSphere has been incubating since 2018-11-10.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. Prepare for the first ASF release.
 2. Fix bugs and develop new features.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

 Remove unapproved legacy release before repo transfer. Add release
 description of legacy releases. The details of email is [1].

 [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/879089eb1dba43f6f159f8c3fde96c2a56d03ed
c9804f70dd7b94b6b@%3Cdev.shardingsphere.apache.org%3E

How has the community developed since the last report?

 Good. There are more and more contributors actually participating in
 project development.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 The github repository has been transferred to Apache.
 The official website has been deployed to asf-site and add Apache brand.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 [X] Initial setup
 [X] Working towards first release
 [ ] Community building
 [ ] Nearing graduation
 [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

 Not finished for the 1st apache release yet.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 28 Jan 2019

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

 [x](shardingsphere) Craig L Russell
    Comments:
 [ ](shardingsphere) Benjamin Hindman
    Comments:
 [X](shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments:
 [ ](shardingsphere) Von Gosling
    Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:
 Justin Mclean: Thanks for resolving the unapproved release issue quickly.

16 Jan 2019

Sharding-Sphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database
middleware, focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and database
orchestration.

ShardingSphere has been incubating since 2018-11-10.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. Move codebase to Apache after last not apache release version for 3.x.
 2. Upload website.
 3. First ASF release.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

 None.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 1. Invite new mentor: Von Gosling(vongosling.apache.org)
 2. Meetup for ShardingSphere with mentors and PPMC at 12.21

How has the project developed since the last report?

 Released 3.1.0.M1, contributors are from different companies. In 3.1.0.M1
 release milestones, there are 148 issues and pull requests solved. This
is
 a legacy release not for Apache.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 [X] Initial setup
 [X] Working towards first release
 [ ] Community building
 [ ] Nearing graduation
 [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

 3.1.0-M1  20 Dec 2018

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 None.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

 [x](shardingsphere) Craig L Russell
    Comments:
 [ ](shardingsphere) Benjamin Hindman
    Comments:
 [X](shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments:
 [X](shardingsphere) Von Gosling
    Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

19 Dec 2018

Sharding-Sphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database
middleware, focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and database
orchestration.

ShardingSphere has been incubating since 2018-11-10.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. Move codebase to Apache.
 2. Upload website.
 3. First ASF release.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

 None.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 N/A(This is the first report.)

How has the project developed since the last report?

 N/A(This is the first report.)

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 [X] Initial setup
 [ ] Working towards first release
 [ ] Community building
 [ ] Nearing graduation
 [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

 2018-10-23 (before joining Apache Incubator.)

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

 [x](shardingsphere) Craig L Russell
    Comments:
 [ ](shardingsphere) Benjamin Hindman
    Comments:
 [X](shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments: shardingsphere is in the middle of moving the repo to Apache.

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

The migration of the repository has been deferred for a final release
outside Apache.