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Below is a self-assessment submitted by TSC Chair/Maintainers of the Project. Comments/questions/feedback is welcome either a) in the Comments at the bottom of the page or b) during the TAC call when information is presented

Stage 1: At Large Projects 

Stage 2 and Stage 3 Projects also requested to complete this section, as PLD acceptance criteria requires meeting current as well as prior stage requirements

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Stage 1 Projects, please skip to Additional Information Requested from All Projects

Stage 2: Growth Stage

Stage 3 Projects also requested to complete this section

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Stage 2 Projects, please skip to Additional Information Requested from All Projects

Stage 3: Impact Stage

Criteria

Meets / Needs Improvement / Missing / Not Applicable

Supporting Data (if needed, include links to specific examples)

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.

 Meets

The Akraino Project Community Guiding Principle is to operate transparently, openly, collaboratively, and ethically. All (Akraino) Project proposals, timelines, and status must not merely be open, but also easily visible to outsiders. The structure of the Akraino Technical Community consists of multiple projects and a Technical Steering Committee (TSC), with 20 members (with few new members elected in 2021), that spans across all projects and with representatives from variety of CSPs (Communication Service Providers) Companies. For detailed information on the Akraino TSC Members and the companies they represent, you may look at the: https://wiki.akraino.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4456453

Have a documented and publicly accessible description of the project's governance, decision-making, and release processes.

 Meets


Akraino Community Governance

The Akraino Community functions as an Open Source Project, with a set of rules and leaders elected and approved from within the participants of the project.

The following serve as the official sources for Akraino Governance.

Akraino Project Lifecycle States and Reviews

Akraino projects’ life cycles defines five (5) states that projects goes through. A project lifecycle may extend across multiple projects and Akraino releases. The procedure of moving from one state to the next one is independent from the Akraino Release lifecycle and the pace depends on each individual project. In order to effectively review Project progress, four (4) Reviews are built-in to the project life cycle, namely, Proposal, Incubation, Mature, Core (Archived Project state can be assigned for multiple reasons. Either project has successfully been completed and its artifacts provide business values, or project has been cancelled for unforeseen reasons (no value anymore, technical,  etc.). Project in any state can be Archived through a Termination Review.

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https://wiki.akraino.org/display/AK/Community+Governance

Akraino Technical Community Document - For detailed and/or additional insight information on the Akraino Technical Community Document description, you may look at: https://wiki.akraino.org/display/AK/Akraino+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.

 Meets

Please see below an example from LFX Insights Analytics tool about Akraino. Please note that the presented outcome of the selected categories may change depending on the selected period that the information is requested about.

Demonstrate evidence of interoperability, compatibility or extension to other LF Edge Projects. Examples may include demonstrating modularity (ability to swap in components between projects).

 Meets

As indicated previously (above), there are several initiatives for co-operation with other LF Edge Projects  as e.g. EVE (as an Operating System) and LF Edge Fledge (as a Platform) Projects by Akraino ELIOT as well as EdgeX Foundry Project. The initiated development for inter-operabiity is part of the respective Blueprints own internal Development Plan, allocated resources and defined Business objectives and priorities.

Adopt the Foundation Code of Conduct.

 Meets

Compliant: https://lfprojects.org/policies/code-of-conduct/

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.

 Meets

The information input on Akraino Poject Governance provided previously above.

Technical and release decisions for a project should be made by consensus of that project’s Committers.  If consensus cannot be reached, decisions are taken by majority vote of a project’s Committers.  Committers may, by majority vote, delegate (or revoke delegation) of any portion of such decisions to an alternate open, documented (wiki), and traceable decision making process.Committer Lifecycle. Initial Committers for a project will be specified at project creation. Committer rights for a project are earned via contribution and community trust. Committers for a project select and vote for new Committers for that project.. New Committers for a project should have a demonstrable established history of meritocratic contributions. In the event that a project has no active committers (e.g., due to resignations, etc.), the TSC may appoint an interim Committer from a project’s active Contributors. This term shall last until the next release date, after which time the Committer must stand for election from amongst other Committers on the project to maintain his or her status.  In this special case, approval requires a majority of committers who respond within two weeks. If no one responds by the deadline, then the committer status is approved. This provision allows a project to continue development following an unexpected change in personnel.

The method by which the TSC appoints an interim Committer is first by request to the Akraino-TSC email list indicating the request to appoint an interim Committer for a project.  After the reception of such an email, the normal TSC decision process applies.

https://wiki.akraino.org/display/AK/Akraino+Technical+Community+Document#AkrainoTechnicalCommunityDocument-3.2.2CommitterLifecycle

Have a public list of project adopters for at least the primary repo (e.g., ADOPTERS.md or logos on the project website).

 Meets

On a list of Project Adopters, please visit the LF Edge website related to Akraino that provides information on the Integration projects and involved adopters. The link to LF Edge website related to Akraino is: https://www.lfedge.org/projects/akraino/ and specifically, as part of the Akraino latest Release, namely R5, please visit thewebsite with the following link: https://www.lfedge.org/projects/akraino/release-5/

Additional Information Requested from All Projects

Additional Information Requested from All Projects

Supporting Data (if needed, include links to specific examples)

Intention for the upcoming year (Remain at current stage OR advance towards the next Stage)

Please see attached below summary of Akraino current releases R1-R5. The discussion outlining the priorities for R6 are set on the Agenda of the Akraino Spring 2022 Technical meeting scheduled for March 8th-10th, 2022. The scope for future work of Akraino API Sub-committee for Blueprints inter-operability and Akraino Security Sub-committe objective for automation between Akraino Security and Bluval (Blueprint Validation) process for 2022 is also part of the Akraino Spring 2022 Technical meeting.

Include a link to your project’s CommunityBridge Insights page. We will be looking for signs of consistent or increasing contribution activity. Please feel free to add commentary to add color to the numbers and graphs we will see on Insights.

https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/lfedge%2Fakraino-edge-stack/dashboard


How many maintainers do you have, and which organizations are they from? (Feel free to link to an existing MAINTAINERS file if appropriate.)

Maintainers are at Akraino Blueprint and Development project level and therein varies accordingly. You can monitor and follow through the LFX Insights - https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/lfedge%2Fakraino-edge-stack/dashboard
What do you know about adoption, and how has this changed since your last review / since you joined the current Stage? If you can list companies that are end users of your project, please do so. (Feel free to link to an existing ADOPTERS file if appropriate.)This again varies among Akraino Blueprints and Development projects. Please see at LFX Insights - https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/lfedge%2Fakraino-edge-stack/dashboard
How has the project performed against its goals since the last review? (We won't penalize you if your goals changed for good reasons.)The targets in terms of Blueprints evolvement/maturity via the above indicated 4 (four phases, "Archived" phase not included/counted) and adding new Blueprints/Development projects had been impacted by the Covid-19 in 2021 in terms that some of the Blueprints had not added any changes/development for R5 and stayed at the R4 level.
What are the current goals of the project? For example, are you working on major new features? Or are you concentrating on adoption or documentation?The focus is on the coming Akraino R6 and outlining the type and use of APIs by all the Akraino Blueprints and Development Projects for 2022 in order to outline a potential plan and scope for possible inter-operability among the Akraino Blueprints/Development Projects and enhanced automation between Akraino Security and Blueprint Validation processes.
How can LF Edge help you achieve your upcoming goals?LF Edge can provide an insight on synergy between existing Technology Architecture Specifications from various SDOs and Open Source Communities, e.g. 3GPP, , ETSI MEC, TM Forum ODA LF ONAP, LFN Anuket, ONAP, CNCF, O-RAN Alliance, Digital Twins Consortium, IoT, etc.,  and identify a Common Architecture Framework that  all LF Edge Projects can follow and through compliance to that Common Architecture Framework achieve and inter-operatibility and scalability among the LF Edge Projects.
Do you think that your project meets the criteria for the next Stage?Yes.
Please summarize Outreach Activities in which the Project has participated in (e.g. Participation in conferences, seminars, speaking engagements, meetups, etc.)Participation at various Conferences as ONES and Edge Computing World and varios guest speakers from various Companies and SDOs as ETSI MEC, ETSI NFV, Verizon, Google, HPE, Telefonica, CNCF TUG etc.,
Are you leveraging the Technical Project Getting Started Checklist? If yes, please provide link (if publicly available).

Akraino benefits from the following Getting started Project description.

  1. Getting started with Akraino

https://wiki.akraino.org/display/~TapioTallgren/Getting+started+with+Akraino

2. Getting started with Akraino Project: Process, Project Review, recommend and Documentation

Process, Project review and recommend sub-committee: Finalize request Templates for Blueprint and feature project, document to allow developers to get started. Develop and evolve the process by which blueprint and feature project proposals are reviewed, and ultimately approved with recommendation required documentation.Template 1 - Use case template, Template 2 - Blueprint family template, Template 3 - Blueprint species template

https://wiki.akraino.org/display/AK/Process%2C+Project+review+and+recommend%2C+documentation+sub-committee


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