I did sign off on some of the projects I mentored: Aurora, and Kylin. I apologize for missing Ignite, and Zeppelin.
- Henry 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. All initial committers have been issued > ASF accounts and the basic INFRA has been setup. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > This is the first report. > > Date of last release: > > N/A > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > N/A > > Signed-off-by: > > [x](zeppelin) Konstantin Boudnik > [X](zeppelin) Hyunsik Choi > [X](zeppelin) Ted Dunning > [ ](zeppelin) Henry Saputra > [X](zeppelin) Roman Shaposhnik > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
