I'd be very curious to hear if anyone has used it and what impressions are on it's value. I've only heard some businessy talking points about it, and am hopefully understandably skeptical. If someone not from McKinsey had used it, I'd love to hear impressions.
Unlike similar projects kedro is just a python framework. It lets me build, deploy, and orchestrate however works best for my team.
Donation is the normal term for proejcts joining the foundation - in doing so you establish a steering committee where members are entitled to voting rights. To graduate as an incubation project, 5 organisations need to join your board and the project is thus the priorities of the project will no longer be driven by just one organisation.
In the short term there is still a full time internal team staffed and maintaining the project, but excitingly we now have a mechanism for new collaborators to properly come onboard.
As far as impressions of it as a tool go it’s really just an opinionated way to build a pipeline and structure a project. Which is pretty useful when you have many. If you’re doing something that you know will be one off it is a bit overkill. Like using airflow when a makefile will do. There are some pretty nice plug-ins though if you want to try and have an opinionated ecosystem.
E.g. if your default might be a series of Python files connected by a master script and some config files, Kedro organizes them into an explicit Pipeline object. Think loading, cleaning, feature gen, model training, mode predictions, etc.