[HEALTH]: Pravega

[mrbobbytables]

Project name

Pravega

Concern

https://github.com/pravega

There has been minimal activity in the pravega project, looking like it went down significantly earlier this year.

There have also been issues with their aws account going unmonitored.

Activity Details:

90 day activity details:

Prior engagement

No response

Additional Information

No response

Archiving Checklist

• TOC vote to archive passed

PRs

• Move project (logo) to archived in the artwork repo Move Pravega to archive artwork#591
• Move project to archived on landscape Move Pravega to Archive landscape#4527
• Remove maintainer list from project-maintainers.csv Remove Pravega Project foundation#1133
• Archive DevStats data (open issue in devstats repo)
• Remove from CLOMonitor data Remove Pravega Project clomonitor#1794

Mailing lists

• Remove from staff list of maintainer emails list
• Archive (lock) maintainers mailing list (groups.io)
• Remove mailing list from maintainers@ mailing group
• Remove from cncf-maturity-level -projects@cncf.io (google groups)

Send emails

• Remove project (logo) from all slide decks (contact pr@cncf.io)
• Remove project (logo) from event sites (contact events@cncf.io)
• Remove from CNCF store (reach out to staff or email store@cncf.io)
• Archive project in LFX Insights (move to archive in PCC - Email Formation team)

Other:

• Notify DevEx team to remove from event Maintainer Project Opportunities
• Remove from maintainers & project from service desk

[angellk]

The primary sponsoring organization pivoted priorities from this project. The current maintainers would like time to grow their community. Have asked @RaulGracia for an update in 3 months and to engage with TAG Contributor Strategy for ideas in growing their community.

xref: pravega/pravega#7436

[linsun]

Has not been 3 months yet, @angellk will reach out in Jan to follow up.

[RaulGracia]

FYI @angellk @linsun I have reached out TAG Contributor Strategy to define a plan to open and grow both the maintainer and committer groups in the project: cncf/tag-contributor-strategy#747

[dims]

@RaulGracia Any updates?

[RaulGracia]

Hi @dims,

Thanks for you interest. I provided an update a couple of months back in this issue, but I can repost the update here and add additional elements:

1. Pravega is a core technology of two EU projects (https://neardata.eu/, https://cloudskin.eu/). In this context, we are working with health-related institutions building PoCs that solve data management problems thank to Pravega tiered data streams. In addition to (National Center for Tumor Diseases, Germany) PoC we built and we are extending, we are now working with UKHSA as well for building a Pravega-based PoC for managing and processing genomic data. The work with use cases can be found also in their respective GitHub repos (https://github.com/neardata-eu, https://github.com/cloudskin-eu). We have showcased this work in conferences like HiPEAC'25.
2. We have used Pravega in two new research publications: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3700824.3701099 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3700824.3701097 (and one more that is under submission). Hopefully, this will attract some attention from the scientific community to join the project.
3. We have added two new committers outside the main original sponsoring company to the project (@cheleb, @gfinol) that have demonstrated interest and willingness to contribute. I worked closely with @gfinol to merged a few PRs recently in Pravega, one of them fixing and updating the build script that is not fully working.
4. We have contacted TAG Contributor Strategy via an issue to get feedback on growing our community (without much traction so far): [Contributor Growth]: Pravega tag-contributor-strategy#747. We would be really interested in adding to the community people interested in Kubernetes and Operators, to lead the Operator projects (including the Zookeeper and Bookkeeper Operators in the Pravega project that are useful to other open-source projects).

In summary, we are working towards making the project self-sustainable. To this end, I would appreciate if you could give us i) more time to see the outcomes of some of these activities, and ii) specific CNCF resources/guidance to help us in this task.

Thanks a lot,
Raúl.