Thanks for starting this discussion Luciano. I think it's a good point in
time to graduate SystemML as we have shown readiness by creating an open
and positive community, and it would send a great signal to potential new
users and developers. From my perspective, we should aim for a top-level
project.

Regards,
Matthias

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1975@gmail.com>
wrote:

> It has been an exciting 16 months so far, and the project has accomplished
> 4 official Apache Releases and is currently requesting the IPMC to approve
> the 5th release. We have voted 3 new committers and PPMC members and
> welcomed a new Mentor. The community continues to evangelize the project at
> universities, blog posts, public webcasts, and in multiple conferences
> which culminate in the project being awarded 'Best Paper' at VLDB 2016. And
> last, but not least, the Incubator has asked us to evaluate and possibly
> start the graduation process [1].
>
> For now, I would like to get the community to take a quick look at the
> 'Graduation Guide' [2] and use this thread to discuss your opinion about
> SystemML graduation.
>
> In parallel, I will start working on updating the project page [3] with
> milestones, and other details.
>
> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/general@incubator.apache.org/msg58614.html
> [2] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html
> [3] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/systemml.html
>
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