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On Tue, Jun 10, 2014, at 01:07 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On 06/09/2014 11:11 AM, John D. Ament wrote: > > All, > > > > Please find the draft board report which includes all podlings that > > have submitted reports thus far below. > > Revised draft with summary, release info, etc. > > = Incubator PMC report for June 2014 = > === Timeline === > ||Wed June 04 ||Podling reports due by end of day || > ||Sun June 08 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day || > ||Sun June 08 ||Summary due by end of day || > ||Tue June 10 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day || > ||Wed June 11 ||Report submitted to Board || > ||Wed June 18 ||Board meeting || > > > === Shepherd Assignments === > ||Alan D. Cabrera ||Brooklyn || > ||Andrei Savu ||Slider || > ||Andrei Savu ||Streams || > ||Dave Fisher ||S4 || > ||John Ament ||Storm || > ||Justin Mclean ||Kalumet || > ||Matthew Franklin ||Falcon || > ||Konstantin Boudnik ||Flink || > ||Matthew Franklin ||MRQL || > ||Raphael Bircher ||Wave || > ||Konstantin Boudnik ||Drill || > ||Ross Gardler ||DeviceMap || > ||Suresh Marru ||Sentry || > ||Suresh Marru ||log4cxx2 || > > > === Report content === > {{{ > Incubator PMC report for June 2014 > > The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and > codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. > > There are currently 35 podlings under incubation. Two new podlings joined > the Apache Incubator in May, two podlings graduated. > > * Community > > New IPMC members: > John D. Ament > > People who left the IPMC: > (none) > > > * New Podlings > Optiq > Parquet > > > * Graduations > > Phoenix > Stratos > > The board has motions for the following: > > (none) > > * Releases > > The following releases were made since the last Incubator report: > > metamodel-4.1.0-RC1-incubating > odftoolkit-0.6.1-incubating > sentry-1.3.0-incubating > slider-0.30-incubating > spark-0.8.1-incubating > > * IP Clearance > > Cray donated a set of libraries called Hadoop RDF Tools, and a VOTE > to accept the tools was called by Rob Vesse. The vote passed by lazy > consensus after 72 hours. No objections or points of discussion were > raised during the VOTE. > > > * Legal / Trademarks > > New name for Stratosphere, now Flink. > > * Infrastructure > > Apache Podlings affected by ASF mail outage from May 7th through > May 10th, and extended recovery period to deliver backlog. > > * Miscellaneous > > S4 failed to report this month, and has been generally inactive. It > is likely that S4 will be retired, though the PPMC has not voted yet > to do so. > > -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- > > * Still getting started at the Incubator > > Brooklyn > > * Not yet ready to graduate > > No release: > > NPanday > Samza > Wave > > Community growth: > > > * Ready to graduate > > The Board has motions for the following: > > > * Did not report, expected next month > > Kalumet > S4 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Table of Contents > Brooklyn > DeviceMap > Drill > Falcon > Flink (formerly Stratosphere) > Kalumet > log4cxx2 > MRQL > Parquet > S4 > Sentry > Slider > Storm > Streams > Wave > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------- > Brooklyn > > Brooklyn is a framework for modeling, monitoring, and managing > applications > through autonomic blueprints. > > Brooklyn has been incubating since 2014-05-01. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Migrating fully to Apache infrastructure (mainly concerning open > pull requests and issue tracker) > 2. Forming a diverse community and PPMC > 3. Learning and following "the Apache way" > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > No. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > This is our first report; our community remains very similar to the > point where we joined the Incubator. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > This is our first report; our community remains very similar to the > point where we joined the Incubator. > > Date of last release: > > No releases yet under the Incubator. > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > No new committers since we joined the Incubator. > > -------------------- > DeviceMap > > Apache DeviceMap is a data repository containing device information, > images > and other relevant information for all sorts of mobile devices, e.g. > smartphones and tablets. While the focus is initially on that data, APIs > will also be created to use and manage it. > > DeviceMap has been incubating since 2012-01-03. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Grow community. > 2. Generate a release. > 3. Explore options to allow contributions through a Web based > interface/API to add new device specs. > 4. Improved support for additional languages/platform (.NET, PHP,...) > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > (None) > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > Tangentially, there have been presentations at conferences like > JavaLand > raised awareness. A Mobile Development MeetUp group in Germany is > looking > into the code, and where they might contribute. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Syncing device data with OpenDDR in regular intervals when relevant > changes occur. Update of the Java DDR Simple API and other libraries. > > Date of last release: > > N/A > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > N/A > > -------------------- > Drill > > Description: > > Apache Drill is a distributed system for interactive analysis of > large-scale > datasets that is based on Google's Dremel. Its goal is to efficiently > process nested data, scale to 10,000 servers or more and to be able to > process petabyes of data and trillions of records in seconds. > > Drill has been incubating since 2012-08-11. > > Three Issues to Address in Move to Graduation: > > 1. Complete the 1.0 feature set (team targets next release and > graduation > in the month of July) > 2. Continue to attract new developers/contributors with a variety of > skills and viewpoints > 3. Continue the outreach activities to build the early user community > for > the technology > > Issues to Call to Attention of PMC or ASF Board: > > None > > How community has developed since last report: > > Community awareness and outreach were strengthened in multiple forums > as > below > > * First Apache Drill Hackathon was organized on 4/24. Over 40 > participants > including members from Visa, Linkedin, Cisco, Hortonworks worked to > harden/enhance Drill project. Several new features have been added to > Drill product Array reference functions, enhanced Optiq support, > Kafka > storage plugin, robust testing framework etc > > * Hive big data think tank meet up on 5/14- Talk by MC Srivas, with > ~200 > member participation > * Open Source Cloud meet up on 4/23 - Talk by Keys Botzum > * Apache Conference session on 4/8 - Talk by Neeraja Rentachintala, > with > ~100 members participation > > Apache Drill is also showcased at the Hadoop Summit 6/3-6/5 > > Mailing list discussions: > > Activity summary for the user mailing list: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-drill-user/ > > * June to date 6/10: 28 > * May 2014, 82 > * March 2013, 15 > > Activity summary for the dev mailing list: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-drill-dev/ > > * June to date 6/10: 87 (jira focussed discussions were removed from > this thread recently) > * May 2014, 1183(jira, focused discussions) > * April 2014, 772 (jira; focused discussions) > > For details of code commits, see > https://github.com/apache/incubator-drill/graphs/commit-activity (about > 300 commits in the past 3 months) > > 26 contributors have participated in GitHUB code activity; there have > been > 142 forks. > > Community Interactions > > Weekly Drill hangout continues, conducted remotely through Google > hangouts > Tuesday mornings 10am Pacific Time to keep core developers in contact > in > realtime despite geographical separation. > > Community stays in touch through @ApacheDrill Twitter ID, and by > postings > on various blogs including Apache Drill User http://drill-user.org/ > which > has had several updates and through international presentations at > conferences. > > Articles > > Examples of articles or reports on Apache Drill since last report > include: > > * Drill Hackathon summary blog post by Jacques Nadeau > * Drill milestone roadmap blog post by Neeraja Rentachintala > * Drill code samples by Nitin Bandugula > > Social Networking > > @ApacheDrill Twitter entity is active and has grown substantially by > 19%, > to 887 followers. > > How project has developed since last report > > Significant progress is being made on the performance and distributed > optimization > > C++ client API and ODBC driver leveraging the C++ API was built for > Drill > by a group led by George Chow in Vancouver. The initial drops for the > driver are available > > New functionality has been added to the product namely distributed > optimization, join order optimization, Table/view creation, repeated > map > support, HBase support, expanded SQL support, Text readers, new data > types > and functions, Session options for query tuning and lot more > > Nearly ~500 bugs files and ~400 bugs resolved > > Significant progress on running ANSI standard queries such as TPC-H > > Significant code drops have been checked in from a number of > contributors > and committers > > New docs have been published on Drill wiki (Apache Drill in 10 mins, > Working with various data sources and Installing and Running Apache > Drill > on a cluster) > > Work toward a Beta milestone is progressing substantially. > > Signed-off-by: > > [x](drill) Ted Dunning > [x](drill) Grant Ingersoll > [ ](drill) Isabel Drost-Fromm > [x](drill) Sebastian Schelter > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > Project's dev@ list is very active both with the JIRA traffic and > otherwise. > June report to the board hasn't been sent on time. > > -------------------- > Falcon > > Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed > for > data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and > data > discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data and > its associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters. > > Falcon has been incubating since 2013-03-27. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Continue to build a broader community > 2. Add more committers to the project > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > * No > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > * More users & contributors have joined the falcon project and the > community continues to grow rapidly > * We have had 2 Birds of Feather for Falcon at Hadoop Summit, Europe > and > USA. There were quite a few registered users > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * 0.5-incubating release candidate is available for vote > * Project now has diverse user & contributor base > * It appears to be time for the community to start thinking about > graduation > > Date of last release: > > * 2014-02-03 (0.4-incubating) > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > * Two new committers have joined the project on 2014-03-07 > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](falcon) Alan Gates > [X](falcon) Chris Douglas > [ ](falcon) Devaraj Das > [ ](falcon) Owen O'Malley > > -------------------- > Flink > > Flink is an open source system for expressive, declarative, fast, and > efficient data analysis. Flink combines the scalability and programming > flexibility of distributed MapReduce-like platforms with the efficiency, > out- of-core execution, and query optimization capabilities found in > parallel databases. > > Flink has been incubating since 2014-04-14. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Infrastructure setup (git, JIRA, mailing list renaming) > 2. Release > 3. Build an ASF community > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > None. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > The community still "lives" outside the ASF since the infrastructure is > not ready. > > Two new contributors opened pull requests since the last report. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > The community has voted for a new name, so the project is moving away > from > its old name "Stratosphere" to the new one: "Flink". > > We are still waiting for Infra to rename the mailing list, to create a > JIRA (blocked by the mailing list) and create a Git repository (blocked > by > the SGA (which we already provided)). > > We released a new major release (0.5) outside the ASF. > > Date of last release: > > 2014-05-31 (no incubator release yet) > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > Only initial committers. > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](flink) Sean Owen > [X](flink) Ted Dunning > [ ](flink) Owen O'Malley > [X](flink) Henry Saputra > [ ](flink) Ashutosh Chauhan > [X](flink) Alan Gates > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > Project dev@ list has healthy traffic. > Some of the mentors are active on the list and helping community. No > visible issues. > > -------------------- > Kalumet > > Kalumet a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE > environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and > resources. > > Kalumet has been incubating since 2011-09-20. > > No report submitted this month. > -------------------- > log4cxx2 > > Logging for C++ > > log4cxx2 has been incubating since 2013-12-09. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. We probably need to decide what's an acceptable platform/compiler > list, > sort out any remaining hiccups, and then move towards a release. > 2. We need to release 0.11.0 as maintenance release. > 3. We need to make a broader use of the ASF infrastructure > (notably the CI, as well as improved management of the Jira > site - notably with triaging), and establish a roadmap for > the next releases. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > N/A > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > No changes in team. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > We are actively supporting the project. Mails suggest that there's work > going on in the background by some committers especially regarding the > build process, but there hasn't been any notable commit in the last > weeks. > The current trunk now fixes most of the important outstanding bugs. > > Date of last release: > > 2008-04-03 was the official, pre-incubation 0.10.0 > > Many post-0.10.0 commits exist on trunk which we intend to get out as > 0.11.x. > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > N/A > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](log4cxx2) Christian Grobmeier > [ ](log4cxx2) Scott Deboy > > -------------------- > MRQL > > MRQL is a query processing and optimization system for large-scale, > distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop, Hama, and > Spark. > > MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. increase adoption, expand user community, and increase user list > activity > 2. have at least one more incubator release > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > none > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > A new PMC member was elected, Moon Soo Lee. The company DataSayer and > the > project Zeppelin (zeppelin-project.org) are now using MRQL. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > We have switched to Junit for query testing, instead of evaluating > queries > from files using plain Java code. New tests were introduced and some > bugs > were corrected based on these tests. > > Date of last release: > > 2013-10-31 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2014-04-17 > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](mrql) Alan Cabrera > [ ](mrql) Anthony Elder > [ ](mrql) Alex Karasulu > [ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din > > -------------------- > Parquet > > Parquet is a columnar storage format for Hadoop. > > Parquet has been incubating since 2014-05-20 . > > Three most important issues > > - Finish bootstrapping project, IP clearance, initial website > - Expanding the community and adding new committers > - 1st release > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > - None at this time > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > - All initial committers have submitted ICLAs and the accounts have > been > created. The mailing lists have been setup and we are starting to use > them for communication. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > - We have setup the incubator status page and are waiting on the final > SGA to be sent in to start the code import (INFRA-7782) > > Date of last release > > - No releases as of yet. Working through initial IP clearance. > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > - N/A, still bootstrapping the project. > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](parquet) Todd Lipcon > [X](parquet) Jake Farrell > [ ](parquet) Chris Mattmann > [X](parquet) Roman Shaposhnik > [X](parquet) Tom White > > -------------------- > S4 > > S4 (Simple Scalable Streaming System) is a general-purpose, distributed, > scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows > programmers > to easily develop applications for processing continuous, unbounded > streams of > data. > > S4 has been incubating since 2011-09-26. > > No report submitted this month. There have been discussions about > retiring the > podling from the Apache Incubator. > > -------------------- > Sentry > > Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role based > authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop > cluster. > > Sentry has been incubating since 2013-08-08. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Grow the Sentry community > 2. Add new committers that diversify the project > 3. Continue to release at regular intervals > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware > of? > > None > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > The community is growing. A number of new members have started actively > contributing to the project. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > The project did its 2nd release from incubation. Thanks to lot of hard > work from the release manage Karthik Ramchandran and other community > members, version 1.3 was released earlier this month. The db backed > policy > store feature branch is merged into master. The community is working > towards improving that functionality and stabilization. > > Date of last release: > > 2014-05-15 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > Vamsee Yarlagadda has been added as a committer as announced on Feb 28, > 2014. No new PPMC members have been added since the project has entered > the incubator. > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](sentry) Arvind Prabhakar > [X](sentry) Joe Brockmeier > [ ](sentry) David Nalley > [ ](sentry) Olivier Lamy > [ ](sentry) Patrick Hunt > [X](sentry) Thomas White > > -------------------- > Slider > > Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and > manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters. > > Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Podling name search > 2. Growing user community > 3. Growing and increasing diversity of developer community > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > None. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > We're only getting started, and do not have any diversity yet. Our > first > goal will be to get users, bug reporters and developers. The dev list > is > up and running -and we do not have any separate user list, so we hope > to > pull users into coding. > > The initial release will help to gain awareness, and should bring in > users. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Our main activity has been setting up the incubator-hosted project, > JIRA, > site, mailing list. etc. The Infra team have been very helpful here. > > - Making and publishing our site has educated us on site publishing > - The initial release has taught us of the release process for > incubating > projects, and where we need to improve it. > > We're still trying to get Jenkins building, but that's a matter of > handling protobuf-versions on the build machines, rather than infra > involvement. > > We have made our first ASF-hosted release on June 2. This was a source > only release; some of the reviewers have made suggestions which will > need > to be incorporated into the next. We plan to do another release in a > few > weeks time, and so evolve the project rapidly. > > Date of last release: > > 2014-06-02 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > We have only just set up and so the committer and PMC membership is > as covered in the incubator proposal. > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](slider) Arun C Murthy > [ ](slider) Devaraj Das > [ ](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré > [X](slider) Mahadev Konar > > -------------------- > Storm > > Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime > computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of > data. > > Storm has been incubating since 2013-09-18. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Community growth > 2. Next release > 3. Documentation improvements > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > None. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > We have added on additional committer and community activity in the > mailing > lists continues to grow. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > We have held a logo contest and completed the first of two rounds of > voting. Final logo selection will take place shortly. We have also > established a feature branch for incorporating all the security work > done > by the engineering team at Yahoo!. Having the option for secure Storm > deployments will play a big role in increasing enterprise adoption. > > We plan on initiating our next release next week in addition to > completing > the logo contest. Once these two tasks are complete we would like to > consider beginning the graduation process. > > Date of last release: > > 2014-02-22 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2014-03-26 (Michael G. Noll) > > Signed-off-by: > > [x](storm) Ted Dunning > [X](storm) Arvind Prabhakar > [ ](storm) Devaraj Das > [ ](storm) Matt Franklin > [ ](storm) Benjamin Hindman > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Storm is showing a lot of progress and growth. They have a lot of > activity > on JIRA and mailing lists, and are generally in good shape. > > -------------------- > Streams > > Apache Streams is a lightweight server for ActivityStreams. > > Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Growing the community > 2. Consolidate codebase and produce a release > 3. Continue to implement the Apache way and community decision making > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > None > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > There are contributions from new individuals and an increase in new > faces > on the dev list. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > There has been a significant increase in development and communication > on > the dev list; but, the community still needs to grow in size and > adoption > of the Apache Way. > > Date of last release: > > 2013-01-09 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2014-01-14 (Carol Hansen) > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](streams) Matt Franklin > [x](streams) Ate Douma > [ ](streams) Craig McClanahan > > -------------------- > Wave > > A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich > communication. > It can be used like email, chat, or a document. > > Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Make a release > 2. Expand the community > 3. Decide on a future path (whether we are continuing?) > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > None. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > There has been no major development. A new user reported a regression > on > master compared to the last release candidate, but overall the project > has > been very quiet this last quarter. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Some maintenance work has been committed from new developers, this > replaced Socket.IO with Atmosphere. A few other minor fixes for > different > aspects (gadgets, build system) have been committed. > > Date of last release: > > N/A > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 30th June 2013. > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](wave) Christian Grobmeier > [ ](wave) Upayavira > }}} > > > -- > Joe Brockmeier > j...@zonker.net > Twitter: @jzb > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org