All,
Below is the current draft of the April 2016 report. I'm sending it early,
and likely often, to help muster community input on the various sections of
the report. As of now, 1 day past due, we are still missing 4 podling
reports. I have doubts that they'll be completed, but hopefully this email
will server as hope to those podlings to report.
We have 1 confirmed graduation, 1 likely confirmed graduation and a third
vote in progress (also likely to pass as of now).
Incubator PMC report for April 2016
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
< narrative >
* Community
New IPMC members:
- Marvin Humphrey
- Suneel Marthi
- Uma Gangumalla
- Henri Yandell
People who left the IPMC:
- Jukka Zitting
* New Podlings
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
- Apex
- Johnzon
* Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
March:
2016-03-02 Apache MRQL 0.9.6-incubating
2016-03-03 Apache Apex Malhar 3.3.1-incubating
2016-03-03 Apache Htrace 4.1.0-incubating
2016-03-04 Apache Mynewt-0.8.0-b1-incubating
2016-03-09 Apache Kudu 0.7.1-incubating
2016-03-10 Apache Ranger 0.5.2-incubating
2016-03-11 Apache Taverna-language 0.15.1-incubating
2016-03-11 Apache Taverna-osgi 0.2.1-incubating
2016-03-14 Apache MADlib v1.9alpha-rc2-incubating
2016-03-21 Apache Unomi 1.0.0-incubating
2016-03-25 Apache Mynewt 0.8.0-b2-incubating
2016-03-27 Apache FreeMarker 2.3.24-incubating
* IP Clearance
- Apache Sling Dynamic Includes
* Legal / Trademarks
* Infrastructure
* Miscellaneous
* Credits
- Report Manager:
------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
- Gearpump
- iota
- Joshua
- Metron
- Milagro
- Mnemonic
- Quarks
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
- Hawq
- Horn
- Impala
- Rya
- Toree
Community growth:
- Fineract
- Geode
- MADlib
- Ranger
- Wave
* Ready to graduate
The Board has motions for the following:
- Apex
- Johnzon
* Did not report, expected next month
- Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
- Concerted
- OpenAz
- Tephra
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Table of Contents
Apex
BatchEE
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
Concerted
DataFu
Fineract
FreeMarker
Gearpump
Geode
HAWQ
HORN
HTrace
Impala
iota
Johnzon
Joshua
MADlib
Metron
Milagro
Mnemonic
Mynewt
ODF Toolkit
OpenAz
Quarks
Ranger
Rya
Sirona
Tephra
Toree
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Apex
Apex is an enterprise grade native YARN big data-in-motion platform that
unifies stream processing and batch processing.
Apex has been incubating since 2015-08-17.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
None. Incubator graduation VOTE passed: https://s.apache.org/qhTf
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
Resolution to establish Apache Apex as TLP submitted to board.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The community is very engaged with the development of the project. We see
continious uptick in mailing list participaton (2180 messages on dev@ for
March, 122+ subscribers).
The community discussed graduation, addressed outstanding issues and
completed VOTE.
The community has been active building additional meetup groups:
http://s.apache.org/jKT
Many presentations and uptick in engagement.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Release 3.3.1-icubating of Malhar on 2016-03-02
Various metrics for March are as follows:
+---------------------------------------------------+
| Metric | Core | Malhar |
+---------------------------------------------------+
| Non Merge Commits | 52 | 22 |
| Contributors | 10 | 11 |
| Jira New Issues | 40 | 31 |
| Resolved Issues | 43 | 20 |
| Pull Requests merged | 33 | 12 |
| Pull Requests proposed | 2 | 11 |
+---------------------------------------------------+
We are anticipating patch release 3.2.1 in April.
Date of last release:
2016-03-02 Apex (Malhar) 3.3.1-incubating
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2 PPMC members and 1 committer were added since December.
PPMC and committer list was updated on the status page.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](apex) Chris Nauroth
[ ](apex) Alan Gates
[X](apex) Hitesh Shah
[X](apex) Justin Mclean
[ ](apex) P. Taylor Goetz
[ ](apex) Ted Dunning
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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BatchEE
BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and a
set of useful extensions for this specification.
BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase the community a bit
2. Enhance the website
3.
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?
Not that much but we got some good interaction with JBatch specification
to enhance the product.
How has the project developed since the last report?
BatchEE contributes to JBatch to make the project moving forward in the
right way.
Date of last release:
2015-12-08
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-12-11
Signed-off-by:
[ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
[ ](batchee) Mark Struberg
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
CMDA provides web services for multi-aspect physics-based and phenomenon-
oriented climate model performance evaluation and diagnosis through the
comprehensive and synergistic use of multiple observational data, reanalysis
data, and model outputs.
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer has been incubating since 2015-05-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
How has the project developed since the last report?
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Gregory D. Reddin
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Concerted
Apache Concerted is a Do-It-Yourself toolkit for building in-memory data
engines.
Concerted has been incubating since 2015-10-14.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
How has the project developed since the last report?
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](concerted) Chris Nauroth
[ ](concerted) Daniel Dai
[ ](concerted) Jake Farrell
[ ](concerted) Julian Hyde
[ ](concerted) Lars Hofhansl
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Julian Hyde (jhyde):
No report, despite prodding from Chris, and no activity on lists.
I think this one's dead.
Jake Farrell (jfarrell):
No activity so far in 2016.
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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. Increased committer activity
3. Continued 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?
* A new contributor opened several JIRAs regarding improvements and
contributed patches. Two have been committed so far.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Improved instructions on loading projects in Eclipse based on discussion
in JIRA.
* Added checks in build system to catch issues using wrong JDK version.
* Some UDFs were improved to be more efficient.
* A new UDF is pending review.
Date of last release:
2015-11-14
When were the last committers or PMC members elected
November 2014
Signed-off-by:
[ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
[ ](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
[ ](datafu) Ted Dunning
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Fineract
Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finalising the initial release
2. Improve the communication around the differences between the previous
MifosX project and the new Fineract project, especially in the MifosX
community, website etc.
3. With the first initial release, encourage the community to use the
proper infastructure (mailing lists, issue tracker) for the ongoing
collaboration within the community.
4. Change management towards less 'key-man' dependency on previous
tech/community leaders from MifosX, more towards community driven
consensus.
5. Reduce clutter on mailinglist from JIRA updates etc.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
On the mailinglist there have been discussions around the lack of traffic
on it. This is part of the switchover from the current MifosX community
and mailinglists towards the new Fineract lists. At the same time the
recent meet-up of Mifosx and Fineract devs and people interested in it
(see community development), has also triggered a lot of offline
interaction.
How has the community developed since the last report?
While activity on the mailinglist has been pretty low, we've had a great
meet-up in Amsterdam where a nice mix of existing MifosX community members
and a group of new interested people was present. This has boosted
interest in Fineract.
We have a high level of interest from new contributors throughout Africa -
we are working to properly engage them and guide them to the correct
collaboration channels in our Fineract community.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Individual members of the leading partner organizations building solutions
using the Fineract platform have begun to effectively use the Fineract
issue tracker to communicate and track the requirements and enhancements
they're building and contributing to Fineract. These individuals are
setting a good example that other individuals from our partner community
should follow.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
[ ](fineract) Greg Stein
[ ](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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FreeMarker
FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text output
based on templates. FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library for
programmers.
FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finding more active 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?
There were no changes
How has the project developed since the last report?
FreeMarker had two public releases: A Release Candidate (so that users can
test it), and one final release. Apart from the new features and fixes, we
have adjusted the source code and build process to follow Apache best
practices more closely, and to be more appealing for contributors
(switching to Java 5, fixing formatting where it didn't fit the modern
Java conventions).
The legal/policy issue with the web site domain (INFRA-10787) was settled,
and we are using our historical domain again (freemarker.org) until
graduation.
Date of last release:
2016-03-28
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-10-21 Nan Lei, committer (non-PMC)
Signed-off-by:
[X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
[ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
[ ](freemarker) David E. Jones
[X](freemarker) Ralph Goers
[X](freemarker) Sergio Fernández
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Gearpump
Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the micro-service
Actor model.
Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make initial Apache branded release
2. Initial community process definition and practice enforcement by
following Apache policies
3. Build the first Apache branded informative website to make Gearpump
contributor and end-user friendly.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The rights holder of the Gearpump copyright filed a CCLA including a
Schedule B granting the Gearpump codebase to the Foundation. We are
awaiting assistance from Infrastructure on INFRA-11435 to perform the
import.
How has the community developed since the last report?
All of the initial committers/PPMC have set up with Apache accounts and
Apache JIRA accounts.
Discussion among developers has started on
d...@gearpump.incubator.apache.org
How has the project developed since the last report?
The JIRA for the podling is active at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEARPUMP and seeing activity.
Date of last release:
No release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
Signed-off-by:
[X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
[ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
[ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
[ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
[ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Geode
Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent
access
to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud
architectures.
Geode has been incubating since 2015-04-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Rename packages to org.apache
2. Expanding the community to include contributors and committers outside
of Pivotal.
3. Establish a release cadence.
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 been able to address the “Three most important issues to move
towards graduation” from the previous report
1. We had our first public release
2. We Added 4 new committers, one of which is outside Pivotal
3. We are about to have a second release, establishing a regular release
cadence
- We had a GeodeSummit http://geodesummit.com/
- 22 sessions (including Keynote)
- Sessions included current use cases as well as integrations with other
Apache projects
- Over 100 attendees
- Received project proposal after the summit.
- The Geode Clubhouse hosted a meeting covering a walk through the
different approaches for caching data in a Spring based application with
Apache Geode by Luke Shannon
- The breakdown of JIRA tickets is the following:
Q3 / 2015 - 65 created, 19 resolved.
Q4 / 2015 - 342 created, 227 resolved.
Q1 / 2016 - 438 created, 362 resolved.
Q2 / 2016 - 8 created, 12 resolved (As of Apr 4th)
- There was a total of 123 pull requests on GitHub with 6 still open.
- The breakdown of the mailing lists messages for January, Feb, March of
2016:
org.apache.geode.issues 4300
org.apache.geode.commits 3731
org.apache.geode.dev 2154
org.apache.geode.user 294
- There are now 153 subscribers on the dev and 145 on the user mailing
lists.
- Community events:
- January 2016:
- FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels:
- Taxi trip analysis (DEBS grand-challenge) with Apache Geode
(incubating)
- Big Data meets Fast Data: an scalable hybrid real-time transactional
and analytics solution
- February 2016:
- Seattle Java User’s Group (Talk about Introduction to Apache Geode)
- March 2016:
- Geode Summit in Palo Alto, California
- Geode meetup in Palo Alto
(http://www.meetup.com/Pivotal-Open-Source-Hub/events/228983898/)
- Apache Apex (incubating) meetup featuring Geode integration
(http://www.meetup.com/Apex-Bay-Area-Chapter/events/228593080/)
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Had first release, close to the second release (with 134 out of 138
issues resolved)
- We elected a release manager for the first release and have rotated that
responsibility for the second release
- Had a discussion about how to number the releases
- Voted on the Release candidates, rejected the first but the second
release candidate was voted as the final release
- The community discussed the criteria for becoming a committer and
learned the correct way of nominating new committers.
- JIRA components were refined after a discussion on the mailing list.
- Consensus was achieved for the scope for the releases on the mailing
list.
- Decision was made not to rename the command line tool on the mailing
list.
- Each commit and pull request is run through CI using Travis CI
- Removed @author tags
- First release published to maven central
- Javadocs hosted on the project website.
Date of last release:
2016-02-06
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- Jinmei Liao (2016-01-26)
- Sai Boorlagadda (2016-02-19)
- Nitin Lamba (2016-03-08)
- Dave Barnes (2016-03-30)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](geode) Konstantin Boudnik
[ ](geode) Chip Childers
[ ](geode) Justin Erenkrantz
[ ](geode) Jan Iversen
[ ](geode) Chris Mattmann
[ ](geode) William A. Rowe Jr.
[ ](geode) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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HAWQ
Apache HAWQ is a Hadoop native SQL query engine that combines the key
technological advantages of MPP database with the scalability and
convenience of Hadoop. HAWQ reads data from and writes data to HDFS
natively. HAWQ delivers industry-leading performance and linear
scalability. It provides users the tools to confidently and successfully
interact with petabyte range data sets. HAWQ provides users with a complete,
standards compliant SQL interface.
HAWQ has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Produce our first Apache Release
2. Expand the community, by adding new contributors and focusing on making
sure that there's a much more robust level of conversations and
discussions happening around roadmaps and feature development on the
public dev mailing list
3. Infrastructure migration: create Jenkins projects that build HAWQ
binary, source tarballs, and run feature tests including at least
installcheck-good tests for each commit (HAWQ-127).
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
Everything seems to be smooth, nothing urgent at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. One HAWQ Nest community meeting (topic: GPORCA: Query Optimization as a
Service) Video: http://bit.ly/HAWQNest0223yt
2. The community shows pretty high activities. In Dev, there have been 816
messages on dev@/user@ in March 2016.
3. Got around 29 pull requests from contributors that are not in the
initial committer team.
4. GSoC 2016: 6 topics created for it.
5. FOSDEM 2016 event:
https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/hpc_bigdata_hadoopsql/
https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/postgresql_unified_framework_for_big_data_foreign_data_wrappers/
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Main features/improvements added include:
a) Hawq-473 Add fault reason and history into hawq catalog
b) HAWQ-404 Add sort during INSERT of append only row oriented
partition tables
c) HAWQ-558 Improve performance of truncate on small tables
d) HAWQ-532 HAWQ-580 HAWQ-587 Enhance the virtual segment number
selection method
e) HAWQ-551 Enhance explain analyze with more information on data
locality and resource manager
f) HAWQ-546 Enhance \d for HCatalog tables
g) HAWQ-144 Support HAWQ build on MAC
h) HAWQ-597 Add Travis CI(OSX) for MAC
i) Critical bug fixes.
2. 135 new JIRAs filed, 116 resolved (In Mar 2016)
3. 134 code commits (In Mar 2016)
Date of last release:
We have not had a release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers/members from initial.
Signed-off-by:
[](hawq) Alan Gates
[](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik
[](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
[](hawq) Thejas Nair
[](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
JM (shepherd): A couple on minor issues around communication on list and
releases but mentors are on top on it.
--------------------
HORN
HORN is a neuron-centric programming APIs and execution framework for large-
scale deep learning, built on top of Apache Hama.
HORN has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase development velocity
2. Make a 0.1 release
3. Refocus the direction we want to take this project.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
Number of subscribers has increased slightly, development has however been
slow.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have decided that we need to refocus on what we want HORN to look like
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
October
Signed-off-by:
[ ](horn) Luciano Resende
[ ](horn) Robin Anil
[x](horn) Edward J. Yoon
[ ](horn) Rich Bowen (Note that Rich Bowen dropped off the project)
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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HTrace
HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.
HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to grow the HTrace community
2. Continue to explore projects integratiing HTrace
3. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts
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?
* YCSB community are working on integrating HTrace.
* Google Summer of Code 2016 projects for Apache HTrace are being planned.
There are proposals such as
* distributed tracing for s3 and other alternative Hadoop FS
* Kudu span receiver
* integrating HTrace into Hadoop YARN
* HTrace'ing in Apache Nutch
How has the project developed since the last report?
* +70 issues were fixed and released as part of 4.1.0-incubating.
* Improved htraced a lot in Web-UI, robustness, metrics and logging
* Added Docker support for development
* Added Documentation for developers
Date of last release:
* htrace-4.1.0-incubating on March 5th, 2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
* None this period. Last added committer: Abraham Elmahrek - 2.11.15
Signed-off-by:
[X](htrace) Jake Farrell
[ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
[X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
[ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
[X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
[ ](htrace) Michael Stack
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Impala
Impala is a high-performance C++ and Java SQL query engine for data stored
in Apache Hadoop-based clusters.
Impala has been incubating since 2015-12-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Transition of development workflows to ASF (see
https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA-3221)
2. Initial release as incubating project.
3. Community growth
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 have been no additions to the committer or PMC lists since
incubation began. We continue to see an uptick in external contributions,
with two patches from new contributors this month. One contributor
pleasingly reported it was "great to work closely with Impala community".
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have put together a list of tasks required to move development of
Impala from Cloudera's infrastructure to the ASF. Since Impala was already
a well-established project before the Incubator proposal, there is perhaps
more decoupling required than for more nascent projects. The list is at
https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA-3221, and is being actively
worked on. Note that this doesn't cover the standard podling tasks (like
name search, etc).
Date of last release:
None since entering incubation.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None since entering incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[X](impala) Tom White
[ ](impala) Todd Lipcon
[ ](impala) Carl Steinbach
[ ](impala) Brock Noland
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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iota
Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.
iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Overcome current technical difficulties. You might be asking what is
happening with Apache iota. The initial architecture that we wanted to
upload was not as scalable as we required it to be. Rather than upload
an architecture that we wanted to fundamentally change we have been
developing a new backend architecture and code based that implements a
significantly more scalable solution using Apache, Spark, Spark
Streaming and Cassandra. We are still using Python and Django for our
APIs and authentication (session and token based). Consequently, you
haven’t seen any activity on the Apache iota site and repository. This
will be changing soon. Litbit (the contributing company whose business
runs on iota) has been working around the clock to remake the backend
using additional Apache components that makes the solution far more
scalable.
2. Set up web site and import code. We will be setting up the Apache iota
website to reflect the new architecture and uploading the initial
source code as quickly as we can.
3. Promote Iota to a wider user base / grow the community. We are planning
to promoting iota at an upcoming keynote being given by Scott Noteboom
(Litbit's CEO). In addition we will be presenting iota at Apache Con in
May 2016. Our goal in promoting iota will be to start building a
community that will contribute to moving iota to it’s first release as
an Apache incubator project
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?
* This is the first submitted report
How has the project developed since the last report?
* This is the first submitted report
Date of last release:
* None
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
[ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
[X](iota) Justin Mclean
[X](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
johndament:
Its a bit concerning to see that the project is starting off in a
non-ASF way.
Even if the code isn't quite right for donation, may be better to start
off
writing new code in the ASF repos.
jmclean:
I too have concerns about why they are developing outside of the ASF.
I've
contacted them a few times with a please explain and have assurances
that
this will be fixed. I'd suggest placing the podling on monthly reports
for a
few more months.
--------------------
Johnzon
Implementation of JSR-353 JavaTM API for JSON Processing.
Johnzon has been incubating since 2014-06-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Currently graduation, so nothing but issues necessary for graduation
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* Currently graduating to a TPL
How has the community developed since the last report?
There are new people on the dev list and the project got contributions
from non-committers. On the dev list there are approx. 20 msgs (on
average) messages per month.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project did its 10th incubator release. During the last three month 9
jira issues were reported and 6 of them fixed. Project has also started
to implement the upcoming JSR-374 and JSR-367 specification. The project
has also voted for a logo.
Date of last release:
2016-FEB-17 (0.9.3-incubating)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Last committer was elected 2014-08-23, last PMC member was elected
2015-04-09 (Hendrik Saly)
Signed-off-by:
[X](johnzon) Justin Mclean
[ ](johnzon) Daniel Kulp
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
JM: IPMC hasn't come to consensus if the project is ready to graduate as
some IPMC members would like to see more community growth.
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Joshua
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit
Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Migration of the entire project over to Apache infrastructure (nearly
complete)
2. Building up community and attracting developers
3. Putting out regular Joshua releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None that come to mind. We are occupied with the issues above, and
things are proceeding nicely.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have voted in two new committers and invitations have been
extended to them.
How has the project developed since the last report?
A large pull request was accepted reporting large speed increases due to
caching, and increasing the usability of Joshua as a library.
Date of last release:
2015-11-05 (prior to incubation)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- Felix Hieber (2016-04-01)
- Kellen Sunderland (2016-04-01)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
[X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
[ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
[ ](joshua) Tom Barber
[ ](joshua) Henri Yandell
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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MADlib
Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists.
MADlib has been incubating since 2015-09-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to produce regular Apache (incubating) releases.
2. Expand the community, increase dev list activity and add new
contributors.
3. Execute and manage the project according to governance model required
by the "Apache Way”.
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?
1. Held three community calls in Q1 2016. Each call featured a different
member of the Apache MADlib community presenting on a topic of interest
to them:
* Jan 15th - Bayesian Analysis of Binomial Response Models on MPP
Databases (Gautam Muralidhar)
* Feb 16th - An Overview of GWR Analysis of Spatial Data (Chenliang
Wang)
* Mar 16th - MADlib on PostgreSQL and PGXN (AJ Welch)
2. One new committer has been added to the project (Xiaocheng Tang)
3. Presentation of Apache MADlib at FOSDEM’16 in Brussels (Frank
McQuillan)
4. Material technical conversations on dev mailing lists and in the
appropriate JIRAs (e.g., 111 emails on dev@ mailing list in Feb)
5. Several Google Summer of Code (GSoC) candidates have expressed interest
in working on MADlib projects via dev@ mailing list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. 1st ASF release MADlib v1.9alpha on 3/11/16 which was intended to clear
all potential IP issues in the code base and make it legally ready to
be adopted by the community.
2. 2nd ASF release MADlib v1.9 is currently in IPMC voting as of this
writing on 4/6/16. The goal of this 2nd release is general
availability of MADlib v1.9 for community use.
3. Some features in the latest release: path functions, support vector
machines, advanced matrix operations, covariance matrix, proportion of
variance for PCA, support for Apache HAWQ (incubating) 2.0.
4. 15 JIRAs created and 27 resolved in last 30 days.
Date of last release:
Apache MADlib (incubating) v1.9alpha on 3/11/16.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Xiaocheng Tang on 1/14/16.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](madlib) Konstantin Boudnik
[ ](madlib) Ted Dunning
[ ](madlib) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Metron
Metron integrates a variety of open source big data technologies in order to
offer a centralized tool for security monitoring and analysis. Metron
provides capabilities for log aggregation, full packet capture indexing,
storage, advanced behavioral analytics and data enrichment, while applying
the most current threat-intelligence information to security telemetry
within a single platform.
Metron has been incubating since 2015-12-06.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards
Graduation.
- Building a diverse community of developers for Metron
- Getting security practitioners to provide feedback on requirements
- Make an Apache release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to
be aware of
- We are currently trying to produce the first Apache release of Metron
* How has the community developed since the last report
- We added one additional committer, David Lyle
- We accepted 2 separate contributions from non-committers interested
in Metron
- We saw an uptick in interest from the community on the dev boards which
corresponds to people trying the product prior to an official release,
which is a good sign.
* How has the project developed since the last report
- We closed 20 more Jiras and are in the latest stages of releasing an
Apache release.
- We added deployment automation for EC2 so trying out Metron in a
multi-node environment is even easier
- We integrated the CI environment that infra set up for us at our request
so that unit tests and apache rat license checks are run on every pull
request submitted
- We added support for indexing enriched sensor capture data into Apache
Solr indexing as well as Elasticsearch
Date of last release:
--
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
--
Signed-off-by:
[X](metron) Billie Rinaldi
[ ](metron) Chris Mattmann
[ ](metron) Owen O'Malley
[ ](metron) P. Taylor Goetz
[ ](metron) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Milagro
Distributed Cryptography;
M-Pin and other pairing protocols for Identity and Trust
Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Import the software: The source code is already prepared and placed in
repositories on GitHub – soon to be imported to Apache repositories.
This includes a full Milagro MFA implementation.
2. Awareness among developers: Milagro announcement – during ApacheCon
North America – May 2016
3. General Awareness
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 substantial developments to report. The project is targeting community
development following Apachecon presentations.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Project members are preparing to present the project at ApacheCon with a
view to connecting with the wider Apache community and finding synergies
with other projects.
Date of last release:
n/a
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
February, as reported.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](milagro) Sterling Hughes
[ ](milagro) Jan Willem Janssen
[x](milagro) Nick Kew
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Mnemonic
Mnemonic is a Java based non-volatile memory library for in-place structured
data processing and computing.
Mnemonic has been incubating since 2016-03-03.
Mnemonic code was moved into ASF on 3/24
Various metrics for March are as follows:
+--------------------------------------------+
| Metric | counts |
+--------------------------------------------+
| Non Merge Commits | 82 |
| Contributors | 10 |
| Jira New Issues | 13 |
| Resolved Issues | 4 |
| Pull Requests merged | 8 |
| Pull Requests proposed | 8 |
+--------------------------------------------+
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Apache releases: we are preparing 0.1.0 release
2. Expand and build strong community, keep active dev list discussions,
adding new contributors
3. Develop new features
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Everything is on track, nothing urgent at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The project is in early stage in setting up the infra. In addition to
contributors listed in Mnemonic proposal, we had one new contributor
joined us. We are actively discuss with Arrow community in dev list for
the idea on integration. Apache Arrow community is very interested in
Mnemonic integration for extending Arrow into persistent memory and
storage.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We ported source code in Apache on 3/24 after SGA was filed on 3/23. We
are doing several refactorings and defining coding guidelines to fit
Apache project standard.
We are working on enabling Apache Arrow to use Mnemonic as underlying
pooling mechanism.
We are designing the native computing infrastructure, built native
computing interface code.
Bug tracking JIRA setup was done, 13 issues were filed. 4 issues were
solved.
Mailing list discussions are happening actively related to infrastructure,
code standard, features for the project.
Date of last release:
No release yet, working on 0.1.0 release
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No election, since the project is just starting. As part of incubation
process, initial committers and contributors were proposed and added.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt
[ ](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell
[ ](mnemonic) James Taylor
[ ](mnemonic) Henry Saputra
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Mynewt
Mynewt is a real-time operating system for constrained embedded systems like
wearables, lightbulbs, locks and doorbells. It works on a variety of 32-bit
MCUs (microcontrollers), including ARM Cortex-M and MIPS architectures.
Mynewt has been incubating since 2015-10-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make further releases capable of producing a downloadable RTOS image
with support for multiple peripherals and network connectivity. Do
subsequent releases to indicate thorough understanding, repeatability,
and maturity of process.
2. Continue to develop and execute policies that enable project
contributors to achieve self-governance
3. Expand community - attract new project contributors and users, grow
committer base
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?
1. Healthy, active mailing lists with increasing numbers of subscribers
2. Continual outside interest by 3rd parties. Outreach via conferences,
exhibits, one on one meetings, beta testers, GSoC participation.
3. Vigorous discussions and implementation decisions via proposals and
voting on @dev mailing list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Releases: Two releases so far - first on 22nd Feb, next on 18th March
- Identified and fixed license issues, regular process established to
check for license issues esp. with third party software
- Tagging process and release candidate naming process tested and used
- Voting process and timelines established and used
2. Documentation support: Several committers added documentation either
through direct git pushes or pull requests on github mirror.
3. Effort towards self governance:
- Two releases completed successfully.
- Two committer candidates going through voting for committer status
after meeting threshold of patch submissions.
Date of last release:
2016-03-18
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
At the start
Signed-off-by:
[ ](mynewt) Sterling Hughes
[ ](mynewt) Jim Jagielski
[ ](mynewt) Justin Mclean
[ ](mynewt) Greg Stein
[ ](mynewt) P. Taylor Goetz
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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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. Attract more developers
2. Have frequent releases
3. Decide on possible ways to graduate
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Not many developers are active currently.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Several patches have been added to JIRA by community members. Issues have
been reported.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Several patches have been applied, a new release is planned.
Date of last release:
2014-06-02
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-10-29
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
[X](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Hopefully the new release will generate a little more interest. I'd suggest
we wait a few more months to see the effect of that, before deciding on
what to do with the podling (staying in the incubator for ever isn't an
option!)
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OpenAz
Tools and libraries for developing Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC)
Systems in a variety of languages.
OpenAz has been incubating since 2015-01-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
How has the project developed since the last report?
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](openaz) Emmanuel Lecharny
[ ](openaz) Colm O Heigeartaigh
[ ](openaz) Hadrian Zbarcea
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Quarks
Apache Quarks is a programming model and micro-kernel style runtime that can
be embedded in gateways and small footprint edge devices enabling local,
real-time, analytics on the continuous streams of data coming from
equipment, vehicles, systems, appliances, devices and sensors of all kinds
(for example, Raspberry Pis or smart phones). Working in conjunction with
centralized analytic systems, Apache Quarks provides efficient and timely
analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the center to the edge.
Quarks has been incubating since 2016-02-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Create and expand a diverse community of contributors and committers
around Quarks project
2. Create the first Apache release of Quarks
3. Complete migration of website to host all content at Apache (javadoc is
still on Github).
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Nothing jumps to mind.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The Quarks community is keeping dev-related conversations on the mailing
list. Because of this, it's allowed for the participation of independent
contributors in mailing list discussions. Although our list of independent
contributors is small, Quarks is still very new as an Apache project and
we aim to actively grow our list in the near future.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* The project has successfully migrated from Github-based development to
using the Apache git repo, Jira, and the mailing lists.
Date of last release:
Quarks is still new, so we haven't created an Apache release as of yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No changes from the initial committers.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](quarks) Daniel Debrunner
[ ](quarks) Luciano Resende
[X](quarks) Katherine Marsden
[X](quarks) Justin Mclean
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Ranger
The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.
Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase the community participants for Apache Ranger
2. Re-organize documentation for easier access to end-users, new users and
contributors.
3. Integration of Apache Ranger with other Apache Security Initiatives
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?
1. Added new contributors:
(Bolke de Bruin,Deepak Sharma,Colm O hEigeartaigh,Tushar
Dudhatra,mugdha.varadkar,pradeep.agrawal,mehul,ankita.sinha)
Total Contributor Count: 23
2. Mailing list activity since last report (Dec-01-2015 to Mar-31-2016):
@dev 1534
@user 153
@commit 345
3. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after Dec-01-2015
before Mar-31-2016):
Created: 153
Resolved: 140
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Released two minor releases :
0.5.1 release on 01/26/2016
0.5.2 release on 02/29/2016
2. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.6.0
a. Working with new contributors to add HSM support for Apache Ranger
KMS.
b. Working to provide both Column-level-masking and Row-level-filtering
support for data security
c. Working to add Tag-Based authorization policies
Date of last release:
Feb-29-2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
1. Gautam Borad has been added as committer on June-29-2015
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ranger) Alan Gates
[ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
[ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
[ ](ranger) Jakob Homan
[ ](ranger) Owen O'Malley
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Rya
Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built
on top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and
query processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across
multiple nodes. Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through
SPARQL, a conventional query mechanism for RDF data.
Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Become familiar with the release process and have a first release as
part of the Apache Foundation
2. Expand the "how to" document to explain the ways new contributors can
become involved in the project, so we increase the size of the
community.
3. Add new 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?
* We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. We had
some technical difficulties with screen sharing, but we had a working
solution for the last meeting. Users and developers can ask questions,
receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The minutes are
sent to the dev@ list.
* We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the
repository. We expect some of these non-committers to continue to
submit PRs and become committers.
* There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code, and a few
students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Created a quick-start VM for users to try out Rya.
* Created a website for the project.
* Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered.
* Committed features: incremental update for precomputed join indices,
extensions to query planning to support more complex precomputed join
indices, free text search support for MongoDB, additional Geo indexing
for MongoDB, extensions of examples for both Accumulo and MongoDB backed
Rya
Date of last release:
Not applicable
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Not applicable
Signed-off-by:
[x](rya) Josh Elser
[x](rya) Edward J. Yoon
[x](rya) Sean Busbey
[x](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
sb: project activity was a little slow, due to other time commitments for
the dev community, but folks had a great discussion around next steps
when it came time for a draft report.
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Sirona
Monitoring Solution.
Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. increase the community
2. do more releases
3. make the community more active
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?
No change but some more user feedbacks.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Several fixes have been done and enhancements in instrumentation side.
Date of last release:
2015-11-18
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
[ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
[ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
[ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
[X](sirona) Romain Manni-Bucau
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Tephra
Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top of
Apache HBase and other storage engines.
Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
How has the project developed since the last report?
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](tephra) Alan Gates
[ ](tephra) Andrew Purtell
[ ](tephra) Henry Saputra
[ ](tephra) James Taylor
[ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Toree
Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely
access Apache Spark. It enables interactive workloads between applications
and a Spark cluster. As a Jupyter Notebook extension, it provides the user
with a preconfigured environment for interacting with Spark using Scala,
Python, R or SQL.
Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Resolve LGPL dependency: This is in progress, and hopefully we will
have the dependency license changed to a license that is compatible
with AL2.
2. Make a release: nearing completion
3. Grow a diverse community: We should put some emphasis on growing the
community and making it diverse (the rule is at least three independent
contributors)
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
TOREE-262 - Progress on removal of LGPL dependency
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters
2. Still working on transitioning users from Spark Kernel project into
Toree.
3. First external contribution made by user @dongjoon-hyun
4. Apache Toree was featured at SF Data Science meetup
https://github.com/asimjalis/apache-toree-quickstart
Date of last release:
None since incubation.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new additions since incubation
Signed-off-by:
[ ](toree) Luciano Resende
[ ](toree) Reynold Xin
[X](toree) Hitesh Shah
[ ](toree) Julien Le Dem
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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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. Growing community
2. Improving code base.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
- We made our first release.
- Elected new committer.
- Previously private fork (wiab.pro) opened the source code that includes
many improvements that can be integrated back into main project.
- Also, there's an active development in additional open source fork
(swellrt) that potentially allows us to integrate back important
features.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Replaced the old ANT build system with a new Gradle one.
- Fixed a few bugs
- Made a few code improvements
Date of last release:
March 2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
February 2016
Signed-off-by:
[ ](wave) Upayavira
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
