Entering the Apache Incubator is only the beginning of an open-source project’s journey. The real challenge lies in what comes next: building a sustainable, diverse, and self-governing community that can thrive beyond its original creators.

In this talk, we share practical lessons from Apache Cloudberry’s journey after incubation began—focusing on how we moved from a vendor-driven project to a community-driven ecosystem. Rather than revisiting the incubation process itself, this session dives into the often-overlooked challenges of scaling an Apache project in the real world.

We will cover key aspects, including:

• Community scaling: growing beyond the initial team and fostering multi-organization contributions
• Governance in practice: applying the Apache Way in day-to-day decisions, from consensus building to handling disagreements
• Engineering and release discipline: evolving from ad-hoc processes to community-driven, repeatable release cycles
• Contributor growth: enabling contributors to become committers and future community leaders

Speakers:

Dianjin Wang: ALC Beijing Member, Track Chair of ApacheCon Asia 2021-2024, Head of Open Source at HashData

ALC Beijing Member, Track Chair of ApacheCon Asia 2021-2024, Head of Open Source at HashData.