Hi, It seems to be a very interesting project, which is very close to kong's positioning. I personally feel that future support for asynchrony may be a direction that this project may need to consider. In addition, I am interested in helping the project podling in apache.
Best Regards, Von Gosling > On Sep 27, 2019, at 10:59 AM, Willem Jiang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi， > > I had a good talk with Ming Wen and Yuansheng Wang last weekend, I > think they already know the meaning of donate the project into Apache > and they already did lots of work to grow the community for the last > three month. > API gateway is a quite important services in Micro Services Archeture, > current we don't have this kind of project in Apache, so I'd like to > be the Champion of this project. > Currently we just have two mentors, please join us as mentor if you like. > > Thanks, > > Willem Jiang > > Twitter: willemjiang > Weibo: 姜宁willem > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 8:37 AM Ming <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Incubator >> >> I am Ming Wen, we have open-sourced a microservices API gateway called >> APISIX (https://github.com/iresty/apisix), which delivering the ultimate >> performance, security, open source and scalable platform for APIs and >> microservices. >> >> To better build up the whole ecosystem, we decide to donate APISIX project >> to Apache Software Foundation. Therefore, we’d like to propose our project >> to go through the incubation process. >> >> we have already invited Willem Ning Jiang as Champion, Justin Mclean as >> mentor, and welcome other experienced IPMC members to mentor this project. >> >> Attached is our incubation proposal for open discussion, and I added this >> proposal to list ( >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/APISIXProposal). >> Thank you. >> >> Best, >> Ming Wen >> >> ------ >> = APISIX Proposal = >> >> == Abstract == >> >> APISIX is a cloud-native microservices API gateway, delivering the ultimate >> performance, security, >> open source and scalable platform for all your APIs and microservices. >> >> APISIX is based on OpenResty and etcd, and has dynamic routing and plug-in >> hot loading, >> which is especially suitable for API management under micro-service system. >> >> == Proposal == >> >> The goal of this proposal is to bring the existing APISIX >> <https://github.com/iresty/apisix> codebase and existing developers and >> community >> into the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) in order to build a global, >> diverse and self-governed open source community in API gateway field. >> >> Zhiliu is submitting this proposal to donate the APISIX sources code and >> associated artifacts >> (documentation, web site content, wiki, etc.) to the Apache Software >> Foundation Incubator under the Apache License, Version 2.0. >> >> These artifacts are currently available on GitHub at >> https://github.com/iresty/apisix and include: >> - APISIX: The Cloud-Native Microservices API gateway. >> - APISIX-dashboard: The dashboard for APISIX API gateway. >> >> == Background == >> >> Mircro-service and Cloud Native architecture are becoming more and more >> popular, >> traditional monolithic applications are being replaced by microservices. >> This also brings more challenges for API gateways, not only handling >> north-south traffic, >> but also handling east-west traffic between microservices, >> and need to ensure high concurrency and very low latency at the same time. >> >> APISIX was open sourced on Github in in June 2019. >> At first, APISIX needs to interact directly with etcd to modify the >> configuration of routes and plugins. >> After we opened on the GitHub, the community gives the feedbacks about high >> level API and built-in dashboard. >> So in 0.6 version, APISIX provided REST admin API and dashboard to control >> the API gateway. >> Since then more and more contributors have joined in, and more plugins and >> features provided. >> >> == Rationale == >> >> APISIX acts as an entry point for business traffic and plays an important >> role in the current system. >> Making traffic more secure and faster to process is the ultimate goal of >> APISIX. >> >> APISIX includes these primary parts: >> - Provide the core of the API gateway, including various processing of >> requests and responses, dynamic upstream and dynamic SSL certificates, >> upstream active and passive health checks, etc. The core does not bind >> APISIX, other projects can be used directly. >> - Provide the plug-in hot plugging mechanism based on the core, to >> support gRPC transcoding, >> identity authentication, rate limiting, OpenTracing etc. And provide a >> plugin development library, >> users can easily write their own plugins. >> - Provide the admin API and dashboard to operate the API gateway, >> and also support updating with the yaml configuration file, which is >> friendly for Kubernetes. >> >> There is a strong need for an open, easy-to-use microservice API gateway to >> help developers >> reduce duplication of code development and better manage APIs. >> We believe that by moving to Apache it will help us work in a more global >> and open way. >> Under Apache’s strong governance and existing processes, hope is also to >> make APISIX more reliable and encourage more developers to participate, >> as is crucial for API gateway. >> >> == Current Status == >> >> === Meritocracy === >> >> APISIX was created in April 2019 and opened on github on June 6, 2019. >> The project now has contributors and users from a dozen companies; >> we have set up the PMC Team and Committer Team. New contributors are guided >> and reviewed by existed PMC members. >> When they are ready, PMC will start a vote to promote him/her to become a >> member of PMC or Committer Team, >> see the votes for Committer: >> https://github.com/iresty/apisix/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=label%3Avote. >> Contributions are always welcomed and highly valued. >> A lot of energy is allocated to ensure help to all wishing to contribute. >> >> === Community === >> >> APISIX has been building an active community since its open source, and >> hosted meetup in 5 different cities in China. >> Currently, the community includes over 22 contributors, and we already have >> a user group of more than 500 people. >> >> APISIX’s contributors, who can provide employer information, are from >> iresty.com, meizu.com, weibo.com, ke.com, fansup.mobi, >> which also provide many important feedbacks from their actual scenarios. >> >> We hope to grow the base of contributors by inviting all those who offer >> contributions through The Apache Way. >> Right now, we make use of github as code hosting as well as gitter for >> community communication. >> >> APISIX will seek more developers and user communities during incubation. >> >> === Core Developers === >> >> The core developers, including experienced open source developers and team >> leaders, have formed a group full of diversity. >> - Committer Team members: >> https://github.com/iresty/Organization/blob/master/README.md#committer-team >> >> == Known Risks == >> >> === Orphaned products === >> >> The contributors and community cooperation brings the project from a small >> concept into a real microservices API gateway, >> and APISIX is widely adopted in China by some companies and organizations >> <https://github.com/iresty/apisix/issues/487>. >> The core developers of APISIX team already work full time on this project. >> There is very little risk of APISIX getting orphaned as at least one large >> company (ke.com) is widely using it in their production, handling more than >> 100 million user requests per day. >> >> APISIX has four major releases, 22 contributors, been forked nearly 150 >> times, >> and received 380 pull requests from contributors, which further >> demonstrates APISIX as a very active project. >> We also plan to extend and diversify this community further through Apache. >> >> Thus, it is very unlikely that APISIX becomes orphaned. >> >> === Inexperience with Open Source === >> >> The members of PMC are the founders of the OpenResty community, a >> nd already have experience working with open source communities, >> they are also active in OpenResty <https://github.com/openresty>, Kong < >> https://github.com/Kong> and other projects. >> At the same time, we will learn more open source experiences by following >> the Apache way in our incubator journey. >> >> Therefore, we believe we have enough experience to deal with open source. >> >> === Homogenous Developers === >> >> The current core developers work across a variety of organizations >> including Meizu, >> ke.com, dasouche.com, Weibo and fansup.mobi; some individual developers are >> accepted as core developers >> of APISIX as well. Considering that qianxin.com and aispeech.com have shown >> great interest in APISIX, >> we plan to encourage them to contribute and invite them as contributors to >> work together. >> >> === Reliance on Salaried Developers === >> >> Most members of the PMC and Committer Team, are paid by their employers to >> contribute to this project. >> APISIX itself and the API gateway are very attractive and important for >> every company the contributors work in, >> and they have no reason to stop them. Contributions and new committers are >> expected. >> And we will make efforts to increase the diversity of the contributors. >> >> === Relationships with Other Apache Products === >> >> APISIX already support Apache Skywalking as one of the APM services, >> and will proxy for Apache dubbo and Apache brpc. Also we are considering >> integrates Apache Zookeeper as one of the >> service registration/discovery mechanisms. >> >> === A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand === >> >> We acknowledge the value and reputation that the Apache brand will bring to >> APISIX. >> However, we prefer that the community provided by the Apache Software >> Foundation will enable the project >> to achieve long-term stable development. >> So APISIX is proposing to enter incubation at Apache in order to help >> efforts to diversify the community, >> not so much to capitalize on the Apache brand. >> >> == Documentation == >> >> A complete set of APISIX documentations is provided on github in both >> English and Simplified Chinese. >> >> - English <https://github.com/iresty/apisix/blob/master/README.md> >> - Chinese <https://github.com/iresty/apisix/blob/master/README_CN.md> >> >> == Initial Source == >> >> The project consists of two distinct codebases: the server and the >> dashboard. >> These have existed as separate git repositories. >> >> - https://github.com/iresty/apisix >> - https://github.com/iresty/apisix_dashboard >> >> == Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan == >> >> As soon as APISIX is approved to join Apache Incubator, zhiliu will provide >> the Software Grant Agreement(SGA) >> and initial committers will submit ICLA(s). >> The code is already licensed under the Apache Software License, version 2.0. >> >> == External Dependencies == >> >> As all backend code dependencies are managed using Luarocks >> < >> https://github.com/iresty/apisix/blob/master/rockspec/apisix-dev-1.0-0.rockspec >>> , >> none of the external libraries need to be packaged in a source distribution. >> >> All of dependencies have Apache compatible licenses，and the detail as >> follows: >> >> Dependency License Comments >> >> lua-resty-session BSD 2-clause >> lua-resty-http BSD 2-clause >> lua-resty-balancer BSD 2-clause >> lua-resty-template BSD 3-clause >> lua-resty-cookie BSD 3-clause >> lua-resty-etcd Apache-2.0 >> lua-resty-ngxvar Apache-2.0 >> lua-resty-openidc Apache-2.0 >> lua-resty-healthcheck-iresty Apache-2.0 >> lua-resty-jwt Apache-2.0 >> opentracing-openresty Apache-2.0 >> lua-resty-radixtree Apache-2.0 >> lua-resty-iputils MIT >> lua-protobuf MIT >> lua-resty-jit-uuid MIT >> lua-tinyyaml MIT >> lua-rapidjson MIT >> luafilesystem MIT >> iresty-nginx-lua-prometheus MIT >> >> As all front-end dashboard dependencies are managed using NPM >> <https://github.com/iresty/apisix_dashboard/blob/master/package.json>, >> none of the external libraries need to be packaged in a source distribution. >> >> All of dependencies have Apache compatible licenses，and the detail as >> follows: >> >> Dependency License Comments >> >> vue-image-crop-upload ISC >> tinymce/tinymce-vue Apache-2.0 >> echarts Apache-2.0 >> fuse.js Apache-2.0 >> xlsx Apache-2.0 >> jszip MIT >> vue-typescript-admin-template MIT >> vue-element-admin MIT >> types/http-proxy-middleware MIT >> axios MIT >> clipboard MIT >> codemirror MIT >> cors MIT >> driver.js MIT >> element-ui MIT >> faker MIT >> file-saver MIT >> http-proxy-middleware MIT >> js-cookie MIT >> jsonlint MIT >> lodash MIT >> morgan MIT >> normalize.css MIT >> nprogress MIT >> path-to-regexp MIT >> register-service-worker MIT >> screenfull MIT >> script-loader MIT >> sortablejs MIT >> tui-editor MIT >> uuid MIT >> vue MIT >> vue-class-component MIT >> vue-count-to MIT >> vue-i18n MIT >> vue-property-decorator MIT >> vue-router MIT >> vue-splitpane MIT >> vue-svgicon MIT >> vue2-dropzone MIT >> vuedraggable MIT >> vuex MIT >> vuex-class MIT >> vuex-module-decorators MIT >> yamljs MIT >> >> == Required Resources == >> >> === Git Repositories === >> >> - https://github.com/iresty/apisix.git >> - https://github.com/iresty/apisix_dashboard.git >> >> === Issue Tracking === >> >> The community would like to continue using GitHub Issues. >> >> === Continuous Integration tool === >> >> Travis CI >> >> === Mailing Lists === >> >> - APISIX-dev: for development discussions >> - APISIX-private: for PPMC discussions >> - APISIX-notifications: for users notifications >> >> == Initial Committers == >> >> - Ming Wen([email protected]) >> - Yuansheng Wang([email protected]) >> - Zhiyuan Ju([email protected]) >> - Junxu Chen([email protected]) >> - Yong Li([email protected]) >> - Suo Zhang([email protected]) >> - Ke Tang([email protected]) >> - Chunlin Wu([email protected]) >> - Lang Wang([email protected]) >> - Hui Li([email protected]) >> - Zhiyong Li([email protected]) >> >> == Affiliations == >> >> - zhiliu: Ming Wen, Yuansheng Wang >> - Meizu: Junxu Chen >> - Dasouche: Yong Li >> - Individuals: Zhiyuan Ju >> - Yanhuang Online: Suo Zhang >> - GangRong Tech: Ke Tang >> - Axinfu: Chunlin Wu >> - Learnta: Lang Wang >> - Tencent: Hui Li >> - Zero tone Tech: Zhiyong Li >> >> == Sponsors == >> >> === Champion === >> >> - Willem Ning Jiang, [email protected] >> >> === Mentors === >> >> - Willem Ning Jiang, [email protected] >> - Justin Mclean, [email protected] >> >> === Sponsoring Entity === >> >> We are expecting the Apache Incubator could sponsor this project. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
