toc/reviews/incubation-dragonfly.md

Dragonfly Incubating Stage Review

Dragonfly is currently a CNCF sandbox project. Please refer to Dragonfly's initial sandbox proposal for discussion on Dragonfly's alignment with the CNCF and details on sandbox requirements.

In the time since being accepted as a sandbox project, Dragonfly has demonstrated healthy growth and progress.

• v0.4.3 is the latest releases, shipped on August 5th, 2019. New features include:

  • Support Prometheus for monitoring
  • Support image preheat with Harbor
  • Support HTTPS private image distribution
  • Optimize efficiency on scheduling and disk IO
  • refactoring the whole Dragonfly with Golang

• A formalized governance policy has been approved and instituted for the project

Incubating Stage Criteria

In addition to sandbox requirements, a project must meet the following criteria to become an incubation-stage project.

• Document that it is being used successfully in production by at least three independent end users which, in the TOC’s judgement, are of adequate quality and scope.

  • Dragonfly has a list for https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly/blob/master/adopters.md in varies of industries. Some are listed in the following:
    • telecom industry: ChinaMobile, ChinaUnicom, Huawei, ZTE;
    • e-commerce industry: Taobao, JD.com, Shopee, Lazada;
    • cloud providers: Alibaba Cloud, wise2c, Caicloud, DaoCloud;
    • live streaming industry: Huya.com, bilibili;
    • public life service industry: Meituan, ele.me;
    • artificial intelligence industry: iFLYTEK.

• Have a healthy number of committers. A committer is defined as someone with the commit bit; i.e., someone who can accept contributions to some or all of the project.

  • Maintainers of the project are listed in https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly/blob/master/MAINTAINERS.md.
  • There are 7 maintainers from 4 different companies (Alibaba Group, ByteDance, eBay and Meitu).
  • Maintainers are added and removed from the project as per the policies outlined in the project governance: https://github.com/dragonflyoss/community/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md.

• Demonstrate a substantial ongoing flow of commits and merged contributions.

  • Releases: 11 major releases (https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly/releases)
  • Roadmap: https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly/blob/master/ROADMAP.md
  • Contributors: 51 contributors https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly/graphs/contributors
  • Commit activity: https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly/graphs/commit-activity
  • CNCF DevStats: https://dragonfly.devstats.cncf.io/
    • Last 30 days activity on GitHub
    • Community Stats