Completed by:  Joe Pearson, IBM

Submitted to TAC Mail List:  2023/04/12

Presented on TAC Weekly Call:  2023/04/19 (Meeting Recording)



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

Stage 1 Criteria (from the PLD)

Meets / Needs Improvement / Missing / Not Applicable

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

2 TAC Sponsors, if identified (Sponsors help mentor projects) - See full definition on Project Stages: Definitions and Expectations

Meets

Anil Vishnoi, Red Hat

Erik Nordmark, Zededa

Jim White, EdgeX Foundry

Joe Pearson, IBM

The typical IP Policy for Projects under the LF Edge Foundation is Apache 2.0 for Code Contributions, Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) for new inbound contributions, and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License for Documentation. Projects under outside licenses may still submit for consideration, subject to review/approval of the TAC and Board.

Meets

Upon acceptance, At Large projects must list their status prominently on website/readme

Meets


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

Stage 2 Criteria (from the PLD)

Meets / Needs Improvement / Missing / Not Applicable

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

Development of a growth plan (to include both roadmap of projected feature sets as well as overall community growth/project maturity), to be done in conjunction with their project mentor(s) at the TAC.

Demonstrate that the current level of community participation is sufficient to meet the goals outlined in the growth plan.

Meets

Features are released iteratively as testable units are completed.
Agent releases happen every Thursday.

Upcoming work:

Project maturity:

  • All Working Group Chairs will identify backup/replacement and begin training
  • All WG repos will list MAINTAINERS and keep updated
  • Add two or more project Partners this year (which will also dilute IBM's influence on the TSC)
  • Add/recruit more non-IBM Contributors to all WGs

Community growth:

  • Develop ties with Eclipse SDV, contribute code demonstrating CD/CD pipeline for workload placement decisions
  • Work with AgStack Foundation (LF Ag) on open vision models for crop ID
  • Grow ORRA by adding edge networking and security features, new use cases

Document that it is being used in POCs.

Meets

Demonstrate a substantial ongoing flow of commits and merged contributions.

Meets

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

Meets


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).

Needs Improvement

Link to TSC page on wiki.  Current composition is:

  • IBM - 5 (71%)
  • AccuKnox - 1  (14%)
  • mimik Technologies - 1 (14%)

I am concerned about over-representation by IBM, and thus want to ensure that the project will mature to reach a state where it could continue to thrive even without IBM's active participation.

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

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

  • Governance - high level description of goals
  • Community - organizational structure, roles, process
  • Contributions - feature requests & lifecycle process
  • Release - feature releases & roadmap
    see Growth Plan above

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

See Insights links above.

NOTE: Current Insights organization report not accurate.

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

See interoperability section above.

Adopt the Foundation Code of Conduct.

Meets

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

Meets

Mainsail, Turnium, IBM, Intel, Samsung, DLR (Rhineland-Palatinate), AgriRegio Projekt, AccuKnox, mimik, Scale Computing, Boston Dynamics, Promare, Intensivate, expeer

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)

We intend to advance to Stage Three when the project and our TAC Sponsors feel we're ready.  Hopefully we will be in that position 2H2023.

Include a link to your project’s LFX 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.

Insights Link

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

We feature a MAINTAINERS file in each repo, ex: 

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.)

The most recent adoptions are:

How has the project performed against its goals since the last review? (We won't penalize you if your goals changed for good reasons.)

Previous Goals:

  • Add non-IBM voting members to the TSC (at least 30%)
    See above.  Non-IBM TSC membership at 28%
  • Add 20 or more active volunteer contributors
  • Add three project partners contributing value
    We now have two official Partners and at least ten Adopters
  • Bring two new members to LF Edge
  • Create a project web site
    In progress, see dev sandbox
  • Mentor twelve new candidates
  • Establish ties with at least one university
    Rensselaer Polytechnic through RCOS
  • Publish the beta release of the Open Retail Reference Architecture
    Release v1 was completed.  Gearing up for v2
  • Launch the Open Edge Services Catalog
    Launched as the open-horizon-services GitHub
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?See the Stage Two Growth Plan above.
How can LF Edge help you achieve your upcoming goals?We need some assistance with fundraising so we can offer LFX Mentorships and run hackathon events.
Do you think that your project meets the criteria for the next Stage?Not quite yet.  We need to diversify our TSC company representation.
Please summarize Outreach Activities in which the Project has participated in (e.g. Participation in conferences, seminars, speaking engagements, meetups, etc.)

Intel InnovatiON

  • 15-minute segment in talk about ORRA and demo

ONE Summit

  • Five talks related to Open Horizon 

MWC 2023

  • Talk included DLR and Resilient Edge Computing in Agriculture with Open Horizon

  • Booth showed DLR work and featured our logo

Edge Expo

Open Source Summit in Vancouver

IBM THINK

Are you leveraging the Technical Project Getting Started Checklist? If yes, please provide link (if publicly available).No

Please review, and update if needed, your Project entry on the Existing Project Taxonomy page, modifying the Last Updated / Reviewed date in the header.

No changes needed.

Please share a LFX security report for your project in the last 30 days