Tim’s changes seem to be victim of an edit conflict. In fact there are 3 edit conflicts in the report currently.
On Jan 14, 2015, at 10:36 AM, Timothy Chen <tnac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Roman, > > I just added my shepherd notes last night and I don't think it appeared. > > Not sure it's a big deal but if you can please pull the latest change. > > Thanks, > > Tim > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <r...@apache.org> wrote: >> The following will be submitted to the board at midnight: >> >> 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 36 podlings undergoing incubation. One podling >> joined us this month (Corinthia). One member joined and two members >> left the IPMC. >> >> IPMC has recognized the need for tightening up mentorship requirements >> and overall structure of the incubation process. Active discussions >> on how to this in the best possible way are on going and the recommendation >> is expected to be available in a few weeks. >> >> * Community >> >> New IPMC members: >> >> Hyunsik Choi >> >> >> People who left the IPMC: >> >> Sean Owen >> Marvin Humphrey >> >> Mentors who didn't sign off on the reports: >> >> Alan Gates >> Alex Karasulu >> Andrei Savu >> Andrew Purtell >> Arun Murthy >> Ashutosh Chauhan >> Benjamin Hindman >> Daniel Gruno >> David Blevins >> Devaraj Das >> Drew Farris >> Enis Soztutar >> Gerhard Petracek >> Henri Gomez >> Henry Saputra >> Lewis John Mcgibbney >> Luciano Resende >> Marcel Offermans >> Matt Hogstrom >> Nick Burch >> Olivier Lamy >> Sam Ruby >> Sergio Fernandez >> Suresh Marru >> Suresh Srinivas >> Todd Lipcon >> Tom White >> Yegor Kozlov >> >> * New Podlings >> >> Corinthia >> >> * Graduations >> >> The board has motions for the following: >> >> Samza >> >> >> >> * Releases >> >> The following releases were made since the last Incubator report: >> >> Dec 05 2014 Apache Falcon 0.6-incubating >> Dec 08 2014 Apache Samza 0.8.0-incubating >> Dec 22 2014 Apache Brooklyn 0.7.0-M2-incubating >> >> * IP Clearance >> >> * Corinthia initial source grant >> >> * Legal / Trademarks >> >> >> >> * Infrastructure >> >> >> >> * Miscellaneous >> >> * NPanday community seems to be in agreement that retirement is the best >> option at this point. The only outstanding issue before formally >> recommending graduation VOTE is to decide whether there's enough cycles >> available for one last release before retirement. >> >> -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- >> >> * Still getting started at the Incubator >> >> SAMOA >> Corinthia >> Kylin >> NiFi >> Taverna (delayed software grant) >> Zeppelin >> >> * Not yet ready to graduate >> >> No release: >> >> DataFu >> HTrace >> Ignite >> Kalumet >> Lens >> Tamaya >> >> Community growth: >> >> Aurora >> Brooklyn >> Calcite >> MRQL >> ODF Toolkit >> Parquet >> Ranger >> Usergrid >> >> * Ready to graduate >> >> The Board has motions for the following: >> >> Samza >> >> * Did not report, expected next month >> >> NPanday >> Ripple >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Table of Contents >> Aurora >> Brooklyn >> Calcite >> Corinthia >> DataFu >> HTrace >> Ignite >> Kalumet >> Kylin >> Lens >> MRQL >> NiFi >> NPanday >> ODF Toolkit >> Parquet >> Ranger >> SAMOA >> Samza >> Tamaya >> Taverna >> Usergrid >> Zeppelin >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> -------------------- >> Aurora >> >> Aurora is a service scheduler used to schedule jobs onto Apache Mesos. >> >> Aurora has been incubating since 2013-10-01. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Expanding the community's diversity and adding new committers. >> 2. Third Apache release, progress being tracked in ticket AURORA-872 >> 3. >> >> 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? >> >> Latest Additions: >> >> * PMC addition: >> * David McLaughlin, 2014-08-20 >> * Contributor additions: No additional contributors had code committed >> since the last report, however three new contributors currently have >> code under review that was submitted within the past 6 weeks. At least >> one of these contributions is a large feature addition, which is >> promising. >> >> Issue backlog status since last report (Oct 1, 2014): >> >> * Created: 212 >> * Resolved: 177 >> >> Mailing list activity since last report: >> >> * @dev 480 messages >> * @issues 1085 messages >> * @reviews 2235 messages >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> * Increased participation from new contributors within the Aurora core and >> ecosystem, for example a Chef cookbook and Docker support under >> development. >> * Continued to hold weekly IRC meetings, digests sent to dev@ list >> * Large improvements to project documentation and website. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> * Apache Aurora 0.6.0 (incubating) - 2014-11-21 >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> * David McLaughlin, 2014-08-20 >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [X](aurora) Jake Farrell >> [ ](aurora) Benjamin Hindman >> [X](aurora) Chris Mattmann >> [X](aurora) Henry Saputra >> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes: >> >> P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz): >> >> Podling looks very healthy. 3 of 4 mentors engaged since last report. >> >> -------------------- >> Brooklyn >> >> Brooklyn is a framework for modelling, 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. Grow the community >> 2. More diversity of the committers/PPMC (currently biased towards >> employees of a single organization) >> 3. Following up our first release with further, regular, releases >> >> 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? >> >> Our community continues to grow slowly but surely, and has received >> interest and contributions from new community members. >> >> We had the opportunity to talk about our project at ApacheCon Europe >> recently, which has introduced Brooklyn to a wider audience within >> Apache. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> Code continues to be proposed and merged at a high rate. We are >> satisfied with our technical velocity. >> >> We recently completed our first release as an Apache project, and >> look forward to following this up with regular releases from now on. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> 2014-12-23 (apache-brooklyn-0.7.0-M2-incubating) >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> No change since 2014-07-02. >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [ ](brooklyn) Matt Hogstrom >> [ ](brooklyn) Alex Karasulu >> [X](brooklyn) David Nalley >> [ ](brooklyn) Marcel Offermans >> [X](brooklyn) Jean-Baptiste Onofré >> [ ](brooklyn) Olivier Lamy >> [X](brooklyn) Chip Childers >> [ ](brooklyn) Andrei Savu >> [X](brooklyn) Joe Brockmeier >> [X](brooklyn) Jim Jagielski >> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes: >> >> Chip Childers (chipchilders): >> >> The Brooklyn community is doing very well in learning the rules / >> policies / nuances of working at the ASF. It still needs a bit more time >> to build up a diverse community IMO, but things are looking good. >> >> David Nalley (ke4qqq): >> >> The Brooklyn folks kicked out their first release during this reporting >> cycle, which is an important milestone. Work still remains in terms of >> building a diverse community. >> >> -------------------- >> Calcite >> >> Calcite is a highly customizable engine for parsing and planning queries on >> data in a wide variety of formats. It allows database-like access, and in >> particular a SQL interface and advanced query optimization, for data not >> residing in a traditional database. (Renamed from Optiq on 2014-09-30.) >> >> Calcite has been incubating since 2014-05-19. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Continue to build community >> 2. Add more committers and PPMC members >> 3. Demonstrate community robustness by rotating project tasks among >> multiple project members >> >> 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? >> >> In December, there were 84 messages on dev@, 45 commits, 50 issues >> created, 27 issues resolved by 7 contributors. >> >> Julian Hyde gave a talk "SQL on everything, in memory" about Calcite >> at the Strata + Hadoop World conference in October, and held an >> "office hour" with interested community members. He also spoke at >> a Hive meet-up in New York and a Kylin meet-up in San Jose about >> how those projects integrate with Calcite. >> >> Collaborations are under way with other Apache projects: with Drill >> to make implementation convention more neutral; with Hive for join >> algorithm selection, and leveraging sorted data; and with Phoenix >> to create a Calcite adapter for Phoenix. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> We have completed the rename from Optiq to Calcite. We have also >> re-organized the code into the org.apache.calcite namespace. We are >> planning to make a 1.0 release in January with the re-organized >> code. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> 2014-11-05 (0.9.2) >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> PPMC member elected in December (but has not yet accepted). >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [X](calcite) Ted Dunning >> [X](calcite) Alan Gates >> [X](calcite) Steven Noels >> >> -------------------- >> Corinthia >> >> Corinthia is a toolkit/application for converting between and editing common >> office file formats, with an initial focus on word processing. It is >> designed to cater for multiple classes of platforms - desktop, web, and >> mobile - and relies heavily on web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and >> JavaScript for representing and manipulating documents. The toolkit is >> small, portable, and flexible, with minimal dependencies. The target >> audience is developers wishing to include office viewing, conversion, and >> editing functionality into their applications. >> >> Corinthia has been incubating since 2014-12-08. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. complete the move to ASF infrastructure >> 2. Discuss and decide on a medium-term roadmap >> 3. Grow the 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? >> >> This is our first podling report. >> >> We have spend a lot of mail on getting acquainted and finding the strength >> of each other. >> >> Now discussion are flowing freely. We have consensus on PPMC == Committer >> as long as we are in incubator. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> This is our first podling report. >> >> We are at work making a stable kernel so we can more easily add more >> developers. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> There have been no releases. >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> Andrea Pescetti 2014-12-31 added as committer/PPMC >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [X](corinthia) Daniel Gruno >> [X](corinthia) Jan Iversen >> >> -------------------- >> DataFu >> >> >> DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in higher >> level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides functions >> for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream >> sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop jobs >> for incremental data processing in MapReduce. >> >> DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Grow user and contributor base. >> 2. Make first release. >> 3. Increase activity for initial committers. >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >> aware of? >> >> 1. Has not yet made a release, but is in process of preparing first. >> 2. Need to dramatically grow the contributor base. >> >> How has the community developed since the last report? >> >> New committer and PMC member. Several JIRAs filed by new users. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> 1. 16 issues created, several from new contributors. >> 2. 8 issues closed. >> 3. Reasonable amount of mailing list traffic. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> None yet. Currently preparing release: DATAFU-53. >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> Nov 2014, Russell Jurney, both committer and PPMC. >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan >> [X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik >> [X](datafu) Ted Dunning >> >> -------------------- >> HTrace >> >> HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems >> written in java. >> >> HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Make our first release from incubator >> 2. Move dependent projects over to the incubator version >> 3. Continue to grow user and contributor base; i.e. grow the 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? >> >> * 141 messages on dev@htrace >> * 42 issues resolved and 11 open >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> * This is our first report. >> * We are fully moved over to Apache Infrastructure now (thanks in >> particular to Jake Farrell for help here). >> * We have our first htrace website published. >> * Development of an easy to deploy htraced trace sink and visualization is >> moving along nicely. >> * An htrace receiver for Apache Flume was contributed. >> * We have put up 5 release candidates for our 1st podling release with a >> 6th on its way. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> None as yet. >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> None since initial setup. >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [X](htrace) Jake Farrell >> [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon >> [X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney >> [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell >> [X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi >> [X](htrace) Michael Stack >> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes: >> >> John D. Ament (johndament): >> >> The podling is working through its first release slowly. First release >> is always the hardest. Good activity for a new podling on the lists, >> still waiting on the board report though. >> >> -------------------- >> Ignite >> >> A unified In-Memory Data Fabric providing high-performance, distributed in- >> memory data management software layer between various data sources and user >> applications. >> >> Ignite has been incubating since 2014-10-01. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Finish migration to Apache process. >> 2. Grow active and healthy community around Apache Ignite product. >> 3. Get on a stable release schedule and have 3 successful product >> releases. >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >> aware of? >> >> None at the moment. >> >> How has the community developed since the last report? >> >> Several contributors expressed interest in contributing. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> - Started the implementation of JCache (JSR 107) specification. >> - Integrated JCache (JSR 107) TCK test suite into project lifecycle. >> - Made significant improvements to Apache Ignite (incubating) website. >> - Submitted SGA from GridGain to Apache Ignite (incubating) for In-Memory >> Hadoop Accelerator. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> No releases yet: the code is still in the migration phase >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> 10/01/2014 Initial committers were added. >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [x](ignite) Branko Čibej >> [x](ignite) Konstantin Boudnik >> [ ](ignite) Henry Saputra >> [X](ignite) Roman Shaposhnik >> [X](ignite) Michael Stack >> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes: >> >> Alan Cabrera (adc): >> >> This podling is off to a great start. Mentors are extremely active >> participants with most of the non-Jira chatter being between Dmitriy >> Setrakyan and the mentors; look to the Jira issue to see the rest of the >> community "getting it done". The "issues to be addressed" section seems >> reasonable. >> >> Branko Čibej (brane): >> >> I agree with Alan's assessment, but I'd really like to see more >> activity on the dev@ list; especially more of the initial committers >> getting involved in discussions there. Whilst Jira notifications are >> nice, I have a nagging feeling that most of the discussions within >> the community are happening off-line, which leaves a rather large >> hole in the community's collective memory (i.e., mail archives). >> This will have to be addressed before graduation. >> >> -------------------- >> >> 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. >> >> Community Developement: >> >> Apache Kalumet 0.6-incubating version has been released. However, due to >> some misunderstanding, the release vote has not been completed by 3 IPMC. >> Especially, some legal files issues have been raised. >> >> We are preparing a 0.6.1-incubating release to fix the legal files and >> submit to IPMC vote. >> >> We are in the way of promoting the documentation on the website. >> >> Project Development: >> >> We are preparing the 0.6.1-incubating (plan for December, 27) to fix the >> legal files issues raised on 0.6-incubating release and have a complete >> IPMC vote. >> >> We are preparing the 0.7-incubating release with the development changes. >> >> A new contributor has been identified and started to work on some issues >> and refactoring of the webconsole (mockup provided using Vaadin). >> >> Local branches have been created containing: >> >> - new model and REST API >> - new webconsole (remove of Echo framework) >> >> These local branches will be merged on the 0.7-incubating branch (master). >> >> Before Graduation: >> >> - The documentation has been updated and aligned with the 0.6-incubating >> release. The documentation will be promoted on the website and "linked" >> in announcement e-mails as soon as the 0.6.1-incubating release has been >> voted. >> - The 0.7-incubating release will fix the graduation issue, especially in >> term of license (removal of Echo2 framework for the UI). >> >> Post Graduation: >> >> - Kalumet scripts. It's the extension of the "software" concept globally >> to all Kalumet resources. It will allow users to create custom >> deployment/update plan, with a set of fine-grained steps. >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware >> of: >> >> None so far. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> 2013-11-22 >> >> Date of next release: >> >> 2014-12-27 >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> None >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [X](kalumet) Jim Jagielski >> [ ](kalumet) Henri Gomez >> [X](kalumet) Jean-Baptiste Onofre >> [ ](kalumet) Olivier Lamy >> >> -------------------- >> Kylin >> >> Kylin is a distributed and scalable OLAP engine built on Hadoop to support >> extremely large datasets. >> >> Kylin has been incubating since 2014-11-25. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Migrate source code and issue tracking from github.com to Apache Git >> and JIRA >> 2. Make the first release from apache >> 3. Make project website available on apache >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >> aware of? >> >> * Nothing >> >> How has the community developed since the last report? >> >> The community is growing. Several new members have started actively >> contributing to the project. New contributors made a significant >> contribution in develop new feature, fix bugs, refine web experience. The >> Kylin meetups at Bay Area and Beijing was well attended. Apache Kylin has >> been presented at Big Data Technology Conference 2014, Beijing which is >> one of biggest Big Data conference in China. Interest of people during >> that event was great and engaged a lots of organizations and individuals, >> many of them started to evaluate and joined Kylin community. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> 1. The project setup is going quite well. Initial committers are >> onboarding, JIRA, mailing list were successfully done, Web content has >> been migrated to Apache Git but need tuning. Main source code migration >> will be done in January 2015. >> 2. Bug fixing, enhancement are happing on current branch which >> will be the target v1.0 release. >> 3. Work toward next gen version (supports inverted-index) is >> progressing substantially. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> None yet. We are preparing to release 1.0-incubating (MOLAP) within >> the next 1 month. >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> NONE >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [x](kylin) Owen O'Malley >> [x](kylin) Ted Dunning >> [x](kylin) Henry Saputra >> >> -------------------- >> Lens >> >> Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified way >> over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive >> with other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data >> cubes. >> >> Lens has been incubating since 2014-10-10. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Make the first release from apache >> 2. Make project website available on apache >> 3. Reach out to people through presentations and blogs >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >> aware of? >> >> We are still waiting for project website creation via >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8549 >> >> How has the community developed since the last report? >> >> * Logo of the project has been finalized and published. >> * Added one new committer/PPMC - Rajat Khandelwal >> * Had contributor meetup in Bangalore, India >> * Mailing list subscription (as on 2015-jan-03): >> * Dev list: 29 members >> * Commits list: 14 members >> * User list: 21 members >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> * Main activities include >> * Podling setup wrt jenkins and pushing docs >> * Improving documentation >> * Stabilizing the code for first stable release >> * Feature additions - Join chains in OLAP cube >> * Mailing list activity : >> * Dev via mail-archives.apache.org: >> * December - 1380 messsages >> * Commits via mail-archives.apache.org: >> * December - 50 messages >> * User mailing list activity - None >> >> * Issues 101 created and 62 resolved (via 30 day summary from LENS Jira) >> >> Date of last release: >> >> NONE >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> 2014-12-24 >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [X](lens) Christopher Douglas >> [X](lens) Jakob Homan >> [X](lens) Jean-Baptiste Onofre >> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes: >> >> Alan Cabrera (adc): >> >> Very good report; an exemplar of how reports should be done. The >> community seems very active and healthy. IMO, only items 1 & 2 are >> required for graduation. >> >> -------------------- >> MRQL >> >> MRQL is a query processing and optimization system for large-scale, >> distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop, Hama, Spark, and >> Flink. >> >> MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Increase the number of active committers >> 2. Increase adoption, expand user community, and increase user list >> activity >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >> aware of? >> >> The project is not making much progress on the level of increasing the >> number of active committers and expanding the users community. >> >> This is already being discussed inside the project community and the main >> active committer asked to give the project more few months as he will try >> spreading the word more about the project through some public events >> >> How has the community developed since the last report? >> >> None >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> During the last three month, 12 jira issues were reported, from which 10 >> were fixed. Most of these issues were related to MRQL query evaluation in >> Flink mode. Finally, we have set up MRQL on ASF Jenkins, which is a CI >> server that continuously checks the integrity of our builds and validates >> our tests. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> 2014-06-26 >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> 2014-04-17 >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [X](mrql) Alan Cabrera >> [ ](mrql) Alex Karasulu >> [X](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din >> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes: >> >> Konstantin Boudnik (cos): >> >> Very light email list traffic compare to prev. month. Mentors are >> active. >> >> -------------------- >> NiFi >> >> NiFi is a dataflow system based on the concepts of flow-based programming. >> >> NiFi has been incubating since 2014-11-24. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Produce an initial release. >> 2. Grow our community beyond the initial set of committers. >> 3. Establish rhythm for releases, review processes, and document how to >> most effectively bring on new committers. >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >> aware of? >> >> Nothing we wish to raise at this time. >> >> How has the community developed since the last report? >> >> The dev mailing list has picked up 20 new e-mails since the last report >> and is now at 62 (commits has grown to 25). >> >> At the suggestion of the community we've adopted a review-then-commit >> strategy which is designed to among other things help with community >> development. >> >> We've received several patches from members outside the initial committer >> list including changes which dramatically improved our build process and >> provide new extensions. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> All of our current infrastructure needs are setup and things are working >> really well. Our focus now is on working towards our first release which >> is 0.0.1 and presently comprised of 85 JIRA issues the vast majority of >> which are resolved. We've conducted a thorough review of all source files >> to ensure proper license headers/notices/disclaimers are present. We've >> completed a thorough review and modification of the overall LICENSE and >> NOTICE files in preparation for release. We've conducted the initial >> podling name search and submitted the ticket for that analysis to be >> verified and confirmed. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> N/A >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> We have not grown the official committer list beyond the initial committer >> list. Though there are a couple of folks who are committing fairly >> consistently now and a new member to join the dev mailing list that is >> very promising. >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [X](nifi) Billie Rinaldi >> [x](nifi) Arvind Prabhakar >> [ ](nifi) Sergio Fernandez >> [x](nifi) Benson Margulies >> [x](nifi) Brock Noland >> [ ](nifi) Drew Farris >> [X](nifi) Andrew Purtell >> >> -------------------- >> NPanday >> >> NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache >> Maven. >> >> NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13. >> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes: >> >> P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz): >> >> NPanday has missed the last two reports (last report August 2014). One >> of two mentors are engaged and encouraging the podling to make a final >> release before retiring (last release was on 2011-05-17). However, there >> is little PPMC/Committer involvement with only 2 PPMC members showing >> involvement on the dev@ list in the past year. Also confirmed that a >> report reminder email was received by the dev@ list for each of the last >> missed reporting periods as well at the current period. >> >> It's clear that mentors past and present have attempted to help the >> NPanday project grow to a viable size -- at least enough to approve a >> release, new Committer/PPMC Member, or even decide to retire -- without >> success. >> >> The main warning signs appear to be: >> >> * Inability to reach community consensus (barely 2 acive Committer/PPMC >> Members, making 3 +1s for any vote very difficult) >> * Inability to perform releases >> * Inability to grow the community to a viable size >> >> The issues listed above do not indicate a lack of mentor involvement, >> but rather a community in decline. >> >> -------------------- >> ODF Toolkit >> >> Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of >> OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents >> >> ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Grow the community in terms of committers >> 2. Have regular releases >> 3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing >> project, or move to the attic. >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >> aware of? >> >> No new. >> >> How has the community developed since the last report? >> >> We have made a release but there has been little activity since then. >> >> We still need to attract more members and publicizing the project in the >> ODF. >> >> Our validator was used on the ODF Plugfest, ahead a patch was provided by >> a new contributor. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> Update of ODF validator before the ODF Plugfest (London). >> >> There have been some user issues reported and responded to. >> >> ODF Toolkit part of presentation on the Apache Con Europe. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> 2014-06-02 >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> 2012-10-29 >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [x](odftoolkit) Rob Weir >> [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby >> [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch >> [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov >> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes: >> >> Additional mentor comments (from robweir) here: >> http://s.apache.org/bUW >> >> -------------------- >> Parquet >> >> Parquet is a columnar storage format for Hadoop. >> >> Parquet has been incubating since 2014-05-20 . >> >> Three most important issues >> >> - Expanding the community and adding new committers >> - 1st releases toward org.apache Parquet 1.6.0 GA >> - Identifying how to ensure timely code reviews by committers >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >> aware of? >> >> - None at this time >> >> Latest Additions: >> >> * PMC addition: None >> * Contributor addition: Dan Weeks and Alex Levenson >> >> Issue backlog status since last report: >> >> * Created: 45 >> * Resolved: 20 >> >> Mailing list activity since last report: >> >> * dev 310 messages: 90 in Oct, 126 in Nov, and 94 in Dec >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> - Completed first release, Apache Parquet Format (incubating) 2.2.0 >> - Established a by-law for adding committers >> - Added 2 new committers >> - Parquet presentation accepted for Strata San Jose >> >> Date of last release: >> >> - parquet-format released 14 November 2014 >> - Not yet released: parquet-mr and parquet-cpp >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [ ](parquet) Todd Lipcon >> [X](parquet) Jake Farrell >> [X](parquet) Chris Mattmann >> [X](parquet) Roman Shaposhnik >> [ ](parquet) Tom White >> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes: >> >> Mailing lists are active; most mentors are active. >> >> -------------------- >> Ranger >> >> The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage >> comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform. >> >> Apache Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> * Increase the Ranger contributors/committers across industry verticals >> * Establish a automated git check-in process to validate the check-in >> patches for quality control (similar to Hadoop QA) >> * Add more documentation to support new users and contributors. >> >> 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? >> >> * Added few more contributors >> * Vote for adding an additional committer is in progress with >> private@ranger.incubator >> * Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after Oct-01-2014 >> before Dec-30-2014): >> Created: 115 >> Resolved: 100 >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> * Project Name has been renamed from "Apache Argus” to “Apache Ranger” >> * Three Release candidates were voted in dev community for Ranger-0.4.0 >> version and RC3 has been voted to be released in IPMC >> * First release of Apache Ranger 0.4.0 on Nov-17,2014 >> * Apache Ranger 0.4.0 Release artifacts are published in >> official dist directory. >> * Ranger Documentation wiki Site >> (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER) has been added. >> * Working on release of Apache 0.4.1 to avoid compilation issues related >> to SNAPSHOT libraries in HBase and Hive dependencies >> * Working on adding more security functionalities for the next release, >> Apache Ranger 0.5.0 >> >> Date of last release: >> >> Nov-17-2014 >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> none yet >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [X](ranger) Alan Gates >> [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno >> [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das >> [X](ranger) Jakob Homan >> [X](ranger) Owen O'Malley >> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes: >> >> John D. Ament (johndament): >> >> Ranger suffered a bit from a renaming issue that came up. Activity on >> the lists is a little bit lighter since, but I'm sure will bounce back. >> I'm concerned over inability to access the wiki though, sent a note to >> the podling to request proper access. >> >> -------------------- >> SAMOA >> >> SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the most >> common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification, >> clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop >> new algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines >> (DSPEs). It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on >> several DSPEs such as Apache Storm, Apache S4, and Apache Samza. >> >> SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15 and is not fully functioning as a >> project yet. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Get IP clearance (SGA) from Yahoo >> 2. Move the current code into ASF's git repository >> 3. Start working as an Apache project >> >> 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? >> >> This is the first report. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> This is the first report. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> No incubator release yet. >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> We just established the initial PPMC. >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [ ](samoa) Alan Gates >> [ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan >> [ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar >> [X](samoa) Ted Dunning >> >> -------------------- >> Samza >> >> Samza is a stream processing system for running continuous computation on >> infinite streams of data. >> >> Samza has been incubating since 2013-07-30. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> None. PPMC and IPMC have voted for graduation. Waiting on Board meeting >> to pass final resolution. >> >> 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? >> >> Continued growth in mailing list, particularly from new users. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> Released version 0.8. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> 2014-12-09 >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> Chinmay Soman, 2014-08-13, PPMC and committer. >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [X](samza) Chris Douglas >> [ ](samza) Arun Murthy >> [X](samza) Roman Shaposhnik >> >> -------------------- >> Tamaya >> >> Tamaya is a highly flexible configuration solution based on an modular, >> extensible and injectable key/value based design, which should provide a >> minimal but extendible modern and functional API leveraging SE, ME and EE >> environments. >> >> Tamaya has been incubating since 2014-11-14. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Project web site must be setup (done). >> 2. Establish a solid code base for a release. >> 3. Continue to grow the community. >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >> aware of? >> >> There are many discussions about how simple the API and or code should be. >> >> How has the community developed since the last report? >> >> We got a new contributor, Reinhard Sandtner who already shipped a patch >> and is participating in some discussions. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> The project setup is going quite well. The initial code donation is under >> ongoing review. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> None yet. >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> None yet. >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [X](tamaya) John D. Ament >> [X](tamaya) Mark Struberg >> [ ](tamaya) Gerhard Petracek >> [ ](tamaya) David Blevins >> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes: >> >> John D. Ament (johndament): >> >> Podling is struggling a bit with some growing pains. Hope it will >> straighten out soon. >> >> -------------------- >> Taverna >> >> Taverna is a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute >> data-driven workflows. >> >> Taverna has been incubating since 2014-10-20. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. IP clearance to be signed by Univ of Manchester >> 2. Move source code, wiki, issues to apache.org. >> 3. Re-awake community after migration, prepare a 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? >> >> Quiet month - dominated by migration issues. >> >> Involvement with students who are combining Taverna and Apache Storm. >> >> Email traffic December 2014: >> >> * dev@taverna: 50 messages >> * users@taverna: 12 messages >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> The project is waiting for the Software Grant from Univ of Manchester >> Solicitor and Contracts Manager as he needed to retrieve the existing CLAs >> from archive. He has replied (2015-01-05): "They should arrive back from >> storage this week and we can proceed with the [software grant] transfer" >> >> Taverna's WSDL-support modified to work with Apache Woden. >> >> About 45% of code base ready to be migrated (moved to slimmer git layout, >> modified to org.apache.taverna groupId and build). >> TODO: LICENSE and NOTICE plugins for Maven. >> >> Apache Taverna website live at >> http://taverna.incubator.apache.org/ >> -- not yet migrating content from >> http://www.taverna.org.uk/ until IP clearance sorted >> >> Discussions around packaging / Debian >> >> Date of last release: >> >> None >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> None since incubation >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [X](taverna) Andy Seaborne >> [X](taverna) Chris Mattmann >> [ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas >> [ ](taverna) Suresh Marru >> [X](taverna) Marlon Pierce >> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes: >> >> Andy Seaborne (andy): >> >> Given the podling has not yet got the software grant on ASF file, >> through no fault of the podling, I suggest keeping reporting Taverna >> monthly. >> >> Justin Mclean (jmclean): >> >> Off to a good start, with discussions about making builds and assembling >> LICENSE and NOTICE. Mentors (very) active. >> >> -------------------- >> Usergrid >> >> Usergrid is Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) composed of an integrated database >> (Cassandra), application layer and client tier with SDKs for developers. >> >> Usergrid has been incubating since 2013-10-03. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Continue to build community >> 2. Perfect release process >> 3. Exclude unnecessary dependencies from release >> >> 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? >> >> We added a couple of new committers: Alex Muramoto, Ryan Bridges and John >> Ament. We are working on our second release from the Incubator, Usergrid >> 1.0.1 and are creating release candidates now for voting. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> Much work has been done in the "two-dot-o" version of Usergrid with a new >> persistence and query engine. Bugs have been fixed in the master branch >> and it is now being prepared for a Usergrid 1.0.1 release. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> Back in September: 2014-09-10 >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> Just last week - 2014-12-19 >> >> Signed-off-by: >> >> [X](usergrid) Dave Johnson >> [X](usergrid) Jake Farrell >> [X](usergrid) Jim Jagielski >> [X](usergrid) John D. Ament >> [ ](usergrid) Lewis John Mcgibbney >> [ ](usergrid) Luciano Resende >> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes: >> >> John D. Ament (johndament): >> >> The group is still getting accustomed to the Apache Way. Special thanks >> to those in the incubator who have helped with licensing issues in the >> current release attempt. >> >> -------------------- >> Zeppelin >> >> Zeppelin is a collaborative data analytics and visualization tool >> for distributed, general-purpose data processing systems such as >> Apache Spark, Apache Flink, etc. >> >> Zeppelin has been incubating since 2014-12-23. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Complete the SGA >> 2. Migrate to ASF infrastructure >> 3. Complete PODLINGNAMESEARCH-64 >> >> 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? >> >> Zeppelin has just entered the ASF Incubator and the onboarding >> is progressing nicely. 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