Hi, Apache Cloudberry (Incubating) files a short quarterly report with the Incubator. That report goes to the ASF Board. The November one is filed. It says a graduation discussion would start. This thread is that start, on dev@ only. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/November2026
The report named general@incubator as well. The Incubator graduation guide suggests telling general@incubator when a community vote starts, and asks that the vote itself not be copied there. So a note to general@incubator comes later, if and when we start a community vote. It will point to this thread. It will not carry the vote. https://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html The November report lists two unfinished items before graduating: grow the contributor community, and publish a few more Apache releases. I ran the Incubator graduation self-assessment on 9 November 2026. It compares those unfinished items to our releases and our roster. It assesses the project as near ready. It does not say we are ready. The release item is met. The community item is partly addressed, which is why this thread asks whether any one company is still vital to the project. https://github.com/apache/incubator/blob/master/tools/skills/graduation-self-assessment/skills/graduation-self-assessment/SKILL.md Here is what is behind each item, releases first. We have shipped 2.0.0, 2.1.0, and 2.2.0. The vote calls for the candidates that passed were: 14 August 2025, Ed Espino, 2.0.0-rc3 26 March 2026, Dianjin Wang, 2.1.0-rc2 20 October 2026, Leonid Borchuk, 2.2.0-rc3 2.2.0 was announced on 6 November 2026. https://cloudberry.apache.org/blog/announce-apache-cloudberry-2.2.0 For the community item, the guide asks for a project that is not highly dependent on any single contributor, with at least three legally independent committers and no single company or entity that is vital to the success of the project. https://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#creating_an_open_and_diverse_community I checked our team page on 10 November 2026. It lists people at more than one organization. On that page I am at Synx Data Labs, Dianjin is at HashData, and Leonid is at Yandex Cloud, so those three vote calls came from three organizations. Leonid also joined the PPMC during incubation. The status page announces him as a new PPMC member on 7 April 2026. https://cloudberry.apache.org/team/ https://incubator.apache.org/projects/cloudberry.html >From that, I do not think a release depends on one company. That does not settle whether any one company is vital to the project. HashData is still the largest group on the team page. In the end that is the Incubator's opinion to form, and I would like us to look at it here first. Is any one company still vital to the project? If I have read the releases wrong, please say that too. So I am asking everyone here, committer or not: Are we ready to graduate? Is a top-level project the right destination? What is still missing? Nothing is decided by this mail. I will leave this thread open long enough for people outside any one organization to reply. -=e -- Ed Espino Apache Cloudberry (Incubating)
