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1. Projects that have publicly documented release cycles and plans for LTS.
   1. Akraino has very established process for the release cycle. Akraino community delivers release every six months. Each release could have multiple blueprint addressing different Edge use case. Community continued to support the delivered Blueprints for multiple releases. 
   2. Akraino community delivered  R1 Release on June 2019 with a second release under development to be delivered on November 30, 2019. 
   3. Akraino community has well established process to graduate the Projects from Incubation → Mature → Core.  See Graduation Review Criteria. 
2. Projects that have themselves become platforms for other projects.
   1. Akraino Blueprints supplies fundamental edge stack needed by any type of Edge applications. Akraino R1 delivered 10 Blueprints for everyone use.
   2. Akraino also hosts multiple Feature projects which supplies fundamental building blocks for Blueprints.
   3. Multiple upstream projects uses Akriano BPs as a platform. e.g., ONF SEBA, O-RAN RIC, Starlingx integration with EdgexFoundry
3. Projects that are able to attract a healthy number of committers on the basis of its production usefulness (not simply 'developer popularity').
1. To date, Akraino has over 65 contributors; 30 active contributors in the month of September 2019 alone
2. Since Nov 1, 2018, there were almost 1131 commits.  Last month (August 2019), there were 110 commits
3. 70% of the premier LF Edge members are actively involved and contributing code to the Akraino community e.g., AT&T, Arm, Baidu, Dell EMC, Ericsson, HP, Huawei, Intel, InwinStack, Juniper, Mobiledgex, Netsia, Nokia, NTT, Qualcomm, Radisys, Redhat, Seagate, Tencent, Windriver
4. Committers details can be found at https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/admin/repos

4. Projects that have several, publicly known, end-user deployments.

a. The Akraino user community is globally diverse with contributions in September coming from the US, China, India, and Europe. 

b.  Blueprints such as Provider Access Edge from RedHat, StarlingX Far Edge Distributed Cloud have been deployed by end-user community. AT&T's Blueprints such as Unicycle-SRIOV are being used internally. AT&T's Radio Edge Cloud Blueprint have plans to be deployed in production.Akraino R1 Blueprints are being used for POC and relevant Production deployments. For example -  Radio Edge Cloud (REC) Blueprint used by AT&T for Production trail. StarlingX Far Edge Distributed Cloud is used by multiple companies, similarly Provider Access Edge BP is production deployed by RedHat. 

1.     c. In addition to the commercial and open source products cited above, companies Tencent, Baidu, Intel and others have products or deployments under way or being developed.

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• Have a defined governing body of at least 5 or more members (owners and core maintainers), of which no more than 1/3 is affiliated with the same employer. In the case there are 5 governing members, 2 may be from the same employer.
  • The Akraino Technical Steering Committee (TSC) is currently made up of 15 members. The TSC Chair and Vice-Chair are elected by the TSC. Akraino Community is working on the election for the period of 2019-2020 which will have full 20 TSC members elected.
  • 7 Sub-Committee Chairs, 22 Blueprint Project Team Leads (PTLs) and 8 Feature Project PTLs operate under the guidance of TSC
    

     

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• Following is the composition of current TSC ( Pre 2019-2020 election)

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• Have a documented and publicly accessible description of the project's governance, decision-making, and release processes.
  • See various areas of the project's wiki to include
    • Charter
    • Technical Community Document
• Have a healthy number of committers from at least two organizations. A committer is defined as someone with the commit bit; i.e., someone who can accept contributions to some or all of the project.
  • To date, Akraino has over 65 contributors; 30 active contributors in the month of September 2019 alone
  • In the month of September 2019, there were almost 26 commits.   These commits were made by contributors from many companies to include
  • 70% of the premier LF Edge members are actively involved and contributing code to the Akraino community e.g., AT&T, Arm, Enea, LF, NokiaBaidu, Dell EMC, Ericsson, HP, Huawei, Intel, InwinStack, Juniper, Mobiledgex, Netsia, Nokia, NTT, Qualcomm, Radisys, Redhat, Seagate, Tencent, Windriver
• Demonstrate evidence of interoperability, compatibility or extension to other LF Edge Projects. Examples may include demonstrating modularity (ability to swap in components between projects).
  • Akraino supplies fully integrated ETE Blueprints for LF Edge projects. All LF Edge projects are welcome to make use of Akriano Blueprints and provide requirements to develop new ones.
  • Akraino Blueprints uses several upstream projects such as O-RAN, OpenStack, K8, ONAP, Linux, etc., 
  • Upstream Project subcommittee of Akraino primary focus in building Liaison with other OpenSource communities.
  • Akraino can interoperate with EdgeX Foundry, which is the current level 3 project.
  • Akraino can also fit within other LF Edge Projects
• Adopt the Foundation Code of Conduct.
  • Yes - see https://lfprojects.org/policies/code-of-conduct/

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• Explicitly define a project governance and committer process. This is preferably laid out in a GOVERNANCE.md file and references a CONTRIBUTING.md and OWNERS.md file showing the current and emeritus committers.Receive a supermajority vote from the TAC and a majority vote of the Governing Board to move to Impact stage. Projects can move directly from At Large to Impact, if they can demonstrate sufficient maturity and have met all requirements.
  • See governance and committer process at
  • Significantly large contributions must go through the Contributors Process defined here: 
• Have a public list of project adopters for at least the primary repo (e.g., ADOPTERS.md or logos on the project website)
• Other metrics as defined by the applying Project during the application process in cooperation with the TAC.
• • above supplied Akraino community document

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