On December 9, 2021, Apache SeaTunnel(Incubating) entered the Apache Incubator, and after nearly four months of endeavor by the community contributors, we passed the first Apache version control in one go and released it on March 18, 2022. This means that version 2.1.0 is an official release that is safe for corporate and individual users to use, which has been voted on by the Apache SeaTunnel(Incubating) community and the Apache Incubator.
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Before and after entering the incubator, we spent a lot of time sorting through the external dependencies of the entire project to ensure compliance. It is important to note that the choice of License for open source software does not necessarily mean that the project itself is compliant. While the stringent version control process of ASF ensures compliance and legal distribution of the software license maximumly.
We bring the following key featuresto this release:
Thanks to the following contributors who participated in this version release (GitHub IDs, in no particular order).
Al-assad, BenJFan, CalvinKirs, JNSimba, JiangTChen, Rianico, TyrantLucifer, Yves-yuan, ZhangchengHu0923, agendazhang, an-shi-chi-fan, asdf2014, bigdataf, chaozwn, choucmei, dailidong, dongzl, felix-thinkingdata, fengyuceNv, garyelephant, kalencaya, kezhenxu94, legendtkl, leo65535, liujinhui1994, mans2singh, marklightning, mosence, nielifeng, ououtt, ruanwenjun, simon824, totalo, wntp, wolfboys, wuchunfu, xbkaishui, xtr1993, yx91490, zhangbutao, zhaomin1423, zhongjiajie, zhuangchong, zixi0825.
Also sincere gratitude to our Mentors: Zhenxu Ke, Willem Jiang, William Guo, LiDong Dai, Ted Liu, Kevin, JB for their help!
We need your attention and contributions:)
Since entering the Apache incubator, the contributor group has grown from 13 to 55 and continues to grow, with the average weekly community commits remaining at 20+.
Three contributors from different companies (Lei Xie, HuaJie Wang, Chunfu Wu) have been invited to become Committers on account of their contributions to the community.
We held two Meetups, where instructors from Bilibili, OPPO, Vipshop, and other companies shared their large-scale production practices based on SeaTunnel in their companies (we will hold one meetup monthly in the future, and welcome SeaTunnel users or contributors to come and share their stories about SeaTunnel).
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LiFeng Nie, PPMC of Apache SeaTunnel(Incubating), commented on the first Apache version release.
From the first day entering Apache Incubating, we have been working hard to learn the Apache Way and various Apache policies. Although the first release took a lot of time (mainly for compliance), we think it was well worth it, and that's one of the reasons we chose to enter Apache. We need to give our users peace of mind, and Apache is certainly the best choice, with its almost demanding license control that allows users to avoid compliance issues as much as possible and ensure that the software is circulating reasonably and legally. In addition, its practice of the Apache Way, such as public service mission, pragmatism, community over code, openness and consensus decision-making, and meritocracy, can drive the Apache SeaTunnel(Incubating) community to become more open, transparent, and diverse.