Many projects are still missing sign offs, so I'll start some commentary here.
On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 6:57 PM John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > All, > > Below is the current draft of the board report. Please review at your > convenience. > > Incubator PMC report for December 2016 > > 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 65 podlings incubating, another record high. > There were seven releases published in the month of November. > There were seven new IPMC members elected and one member who left. > > * Community > > New IPMC members: > > - Kasper Sørensen > - Willem Ning Jiang > - Luke Han > - Par Niclas Hedhman > - Jukka Zitting > - Stian Soiland-Reyes > - Kasper Sørensen > > People who left the IPMC: > > - Sean Busbey > > * New Podlings > > - RocketMQ > - OpenWhisk > - Weex > > * Graduations > > The board has motions for the following: > > - Beam > > The following have already graduated into sub-projects: > > - CommonsRDF -> Apache Commons RDF > > * Releases > > The following releases entered distribution during the month of > November: > > - Apache Ranger 0.6.2-incubating 2016-11-08 > - Apache Streams 0.4-incubating 2016-11-10 > - Apache SystemML 0.11.0-incubating 2016-11-12 > - Apache CommonsRDF 0.3.0-incubating 2016-11-15 > - Apache CarbonData 0.2.0-incubating 2016-11-19 > - Apache Metron 0.3.0-incubating 2016-11-28 > - Apache Gearpump 0.8.2-incubating 2016-11-28 > > * IP Clearance > > - None > > * Legal / Trademarks > > - None > > * Infrastructure > > - None > > * Miscellaneous > > - Work has begun on updating Apache Incubator documentation to better > align > with current infrastructure requirements and provide better guidelines > to > new podlings on how to get setup. > > * Credits > > - Report Manager: John D. Ament > > -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- > > * Still getting started at the Incubator > > - Annotator > - AriaTosca > - NetBeans > - OpenWhisk > - Spot > > * Not yet ready to graduate > > No release: > > - MRQL > - Myriad > - Pirk > - SAMOA > - Trafodion > - Wave > > Community growth: > > - Atlas > - Gearpump > - Hivemall > - HTrace > - Mnemonic > - Pony Mail > - Quickstep > - Singa > - Tephra > > * Ready to graduate > > - Ranger > - Streams > - Taverna > > The Board has motions for the following: > > - Beam > > * In trouble, further actions required > > - log4cxx2 > - Omid > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Table of Contents > Annotator > AriaTosca > Atlas > Gearpump > Hivemall > HTrace > log4cxx2 > Mnemonic > MRQL > Myriad > NetBeans > Omid > OpenWhisk > Pirk > Pony Mail > Quickstep > Ranger > SAMOA > Singa > Spot > Streams > Taverna > Tephra > Trafodion > Wave > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------- > Annotator > > Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and > humans. > > Annotator has been incubating since 2016-08-30. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Achieving active development cadence > 2. Attracting new contributors > 3. Establishing presence (web, repo, activity) > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware > of? > > Beginning work within the ASF has been slow (and rather confusing). > Mailing > list activity has improved, but still low volume. Development priorities > are still being discussed. We do now have repositories for code and the > website, but are blocked by needing access to them--the request as been > made to the general@incubator list. However, we have successfully gotten > Jira and Confluence setup for the project and have a promotional web page > ready and waiting once access has been granted. Making the incubation > process clearer (and ideally more automated) would have saved a lot of > time > and confusion. That said, our Champion (Daniel Gruno), has been most > helpful in helping us navigate. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > Discussions have begun on development priorities. Infrastructure helped > us > resolve some outstanding project setup needs (Jira, Confluence, and git > for > the web site and code). Once the site is online, we intend to promote the > community more and make concrete plans out of the proposals made on the > mailing list so far. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Same as above. Mostly discussion and infrastructure/access setup--some > still in progress. > > Date of last release: > > None. > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > None since start of incubation. > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](annotator) Nick Kew > [ ](annotator) Brian McCallister > [ ](annotator) Daniel Gruno > [ ](annotator) Jim Jagielski > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Drew Farris (shepherd): One mentor active on mailing lists and another's > assistance is > referenced in the board report. Annotator is still getting off the > ground. Observed > recent mailing list activity seeking to set a path forward for the > project. > It's good to start to see progress, however it seems to have been going on for a long time. Also good to see access rights issues are being resolved. > > -------------------- > AriaTosca > > ARIA TOSCA project offers an easily consumable Software Development > Kit(SDK) > and a Command Line Interface(CLI) to implement TOSCA(Topology and > Orchestration Specification of Cloud Applications) based solutions. > > AriaTosca has been incubating since 2016-08-27. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Grow the community and enroll new committers. > 2. Have frequent Release cycles to be compliant with the Apache Way. > 3. Publish "How To Contribute" guide at ARIA-TOSCA Website. > 4. Update ARIA website acording to ASF guideline(Include release process > for ARIA-TOSCA Project) > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > There's an INFRA jira we created over a month ago which has yet to be > addressed - please see here INFRA-12733 - Ability to create a Sprint > Board > for AriaTosca WAITING FOR USER > > It is not entirely critical for the project's progress, but it could be > helpful if we indeed get a sprint board and the other things requested in > that issue. > > Update: the ticket is now in progress. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > * Open-O is in process for consuming the ARIA ASF package > * Cloudfiy is in process for consuming the ARIA ASF package as well. > * Need to work on building the community and accepting external > contributions. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * TOSCA parser migrated into ASF > * CI on Appveyor, Jenkins > * Sphinx documentation added to the project > * CLIs of workflow engine and parser coalesced > * TOSCA CSAR packager added > * APIs for workflows, operations > * Workflow engine task retry support > * Workflow engine execution cancel support > > Date of last release: > > No Releases yet > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > Project is still functioning with the initial set of committers. > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](ariatosca) Suneel Marthi > [ ](ariatosca) John D. Ament > [ ](ariatosca) Jakob Homan > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > John D. Ament: > > The podling is still getting its feet wet. Discussions are starting to > happen on the mailing lists rather than in physical offices which is > good > and will help to bring about a more diverse community. I would also > strongly encourage the podling to work with their mentors to get infra > changes in to avoid confusion. > > -------------------- > Atlas > > Apache Atlas is a scalable and extensible set of core foundational > governance > services that enables enterprises to effectively and efficiently meet their > compliance requirements within Hadoop and allows integration with the > complete enterprise data ecosystem. > > Atlas has been incubating since 2015-05-05. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Podling name search is pending. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > No specific issues at this time to report. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > 1. We have added 3 new committers since the last report from different > organizations. About 10 new contributors have been added since the > last > report. The current number of contributors is around 70. > 2. The activity on the atlas-dev mailing list stands at around 610 > messages > per month between September and November [1] > 3. People across various organizations are interested in exploring Atlas. > We have received comments and suggestions from people who are > evaluating > Atlas for their governance requirements [5] > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > 1. We are working towards a 0.8-incubating release in the next couple of > months. This upcoming release would include major features like > structured high level REST APIs, entity creation/updation from Atlas > UI,DSL Search improvements, Atlas Hook support for Hive2, Knox SSO > support for Atlas, addition of user defined and system attributes to > entities > > 2. An abstraction layer has been added to make Atlas agnostic to the > underlying graph database version > > 3. A total of 186 issues were reported between Sep 1st 2016 and Nov 30th > 2016. 122 issues have been resolved in the same time [2][3] > > Date of last release: > > 2016-07-09: 07-incubating [4] > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 1. The PPMC voted and elected 3 new members as committers to the project > on > 2016-10-20: Madhan Neethiraj, Jeffrey Hagelberg and Vimal Sharma. > > Links > > [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-atlas-dev/ > > [2] > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-1341?jql=project%20%3D%20ATLAS%20AND%20created%20%3E%3D%20%272016-09-01%27%20and%20created%20%3C%3D%20%272016-11-30%27 > > [3] > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-1335?jql=project%20%3D%20ATLAS%20AND%20resolved%20%3E%3D%20%272016-09-01%27%20and%20resolved%20%3C%3D%20%272016-11-30%27 > > [4] > https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201607.mbox/%3ccaabv78fuzcv51e4pn8fg7nwkjyouqo9z2wnhsiz2estbtvj...@mail.gmail.com%3E > > [5] http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/case-open-metadata > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](atlas) Arun Murthy > [ ](atlas) Chris Douglas > [ ](atlas) Jakob Homan > [ ](atlas) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > Is the inclusion of only a single item pending graduation an indication that the podling is nearly ready to graduate? > > -------------------- > > Gearpump > > Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the > micro-serviceActor 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 and release on a regular schedule. > 2. Continue to evolve community interest and support. > 3. Integrate within Apache Beam and akka-streams frameworks. > > - Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to > beaware > of? > - None > > > - How has the community developed since the last report? > - Increased community contribution on integration with Apache Cassandra. > > - How has the project developed since the last report? > - Two Apache source releases and one binary release > - Added Window DSL and Triggers. > - Continued integration within Apache Beam (Gearpump Runner). > Codes have been merged to runner-gearpump branch on Beam and Beam > capabilities are being built into Gearpump. > - Continued integration within akka-streams (Gearpump Materializer). > 4 PRs have been committed to akka and an akka-stream feature branch has > been created on Gearpump. > - 75 issues created and 55 resolved > - Manu presented Gearpump at Strata Beijing 2016 > - Kam presented Gearpump Materializer at Reactive Summit 2016 > - Huafeng and Karol co-presented Gearpump at ApacheCon Big Data Europe 2016 > > Date of last release: > 2016-11-30 > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? No new committers or > PMC members elected yet. > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](gearpump) Andrew Purtell > [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho > [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin > [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon > [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang > [X](gearpump) Jean-Baptiste Onofré > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > Hivemall > > Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive > UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs. > > Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Create the first Apache release > 2. Community growth (committers and users) > 3. Migrate the development community from Github to ASF infra > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > * All SGAs and I-CLA has been submitted and recorded > * Daniel Dai is elected as a new Mentor on Nov 22 > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/48a61eb44188d3f204e7c41ff7c102128e9325eed029ab41a23ff3a9@%3Cdev.hivemall.apache.org%3E > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > * Presented a talk in Cloudera World Tokyo on Nov 8. > * Created Twitter Account: @ApacheHivemall > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * Collected and submitted all SGAs and I-CLA required for IP clearance > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMALL-9 > * Finished updating License headers and NOTICE > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMALL-12 > * Finished the initial code dump on Dec 1 and the development moved to > ASF > infra > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMALL-6 > https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall > * Created 5 JIRA Issues and resolved 4 issues in the last 30 days > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMALL/ > > Date of last release: > > No release yet (planning the first Apache release in Q1, 2017) > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > * Daniel Dai (Mentor) on Nov 22 > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](hivemall) Reynold Xin > [ ](hivemall) Markus Weimer > [ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng > [ ](hivemall) Daniel Dai > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > -------------------- > 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 Apache HTrace community > 2. Continue to explore projects integrating Apache HTrace > 3. Continue to develop and release stable Apache HTrace incubating > artifacts > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > Mailing lists have been quiet. Little activity during this period. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Released htrace-4.2.0 and added a new committer. > > Date of last release: > > htrace-4.2.0 October 6th, 2016 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > +Mike Drob (mdrob) October 3rd, 2016 - Committer+PMC Member > > Signed-off-by: > > [x](htrace) Jake Farrell > [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon > [ ](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney > [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell > [x](htrace) Billie Rinaldi > [x](htrace) Michael Stack > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > log4cxx2 > > Logging for C++. N.B. This is a reboot of the Log4cxx podling which > previously graduated. > > log4cxx2 has been incubating since 2013-12-09. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Create a release > 2. Activate some community > 3. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > There was a discussion in the first quarter of the year to move the > project to attic unless it is able to release in the next few months. No > release happened since then. > > Currently it seems that there's only one official project member with > commit access left and even though some contributor worked on fixing the > release process, that project member was unable to invest the necessary > time to create a release yet. > > For that reason, the left member decided to not even care anymore about a > release and published this decision on the dev mailing list of the > project. > While the member is still willing to provide some support and would > regret > a move of the project to attic, creating a release has no priority nor is > seen as strictly necessary and will therefore most likely always > prioritize > lower than other tasks. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > 3 support questions, no new project members. There was a lengthy > discussion > about switching to C++ standard smart pointers with possibly breaking the > API, the influence of such an approach on a release etc. Some bugs have > been created to coordinate that work. > > Robert Middleton started to move the project to smart pointers using > boost > or std::shared_ptr in a private GitHub repo. He's actually changing more > code than the one left official project member. > > https://github.com/rm5248/log4cxx-testing/tree/smart_pointers > > Date of last release: > > 2008-04-03 was the last official, pre-incubation 0.10.0 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](log4cxx2) Ralph Goers > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Ralph Goers: > > The Log4j PMC will need to have a discussion about the state of this > project. Since Log4cxx2 was always intended to be a subproject of the > Logging project moving it to the attic may or may not be the right > move. > Instead, it might just become a "dormant" subproject. > > I've flagged this report in a new section, requiring further action. > -------------------- > Mnemonic > > Apache Mnemonic is an advanced hybrid memory storage oriented library, > we've > proposed a non-volatile/durable Java object model and durable computing > service that bring several advantages to significantly improve the > performance of massive real-time data processing/analytics. developers are > able to use this library to design their cache-less, SerDe-less and > native-direct computing high performance applications. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Apache releases: we have release version 0.3.0-incubating > 2. Improved dev. docker to facilitate development. > 3. provided information to potential customers e.g. bank user, other > project's Apache committers > > 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? > > Our last report was in April. Since then > > * Two more developers are going to join our community. > * We need to encourage more discussion on the dev list in the coming > months > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * Added durable native sorting service (n-dim linked data) with testcases > * Removed the 3rd Maven repository and use Maven central repository only > * DOM and DNCS could apply to volatile memory service except fixed k-v > store > * Added a bench workload to verify the benefits from DNCS with scripts, > generator > * Added a sys-vmem service that makes it possible to utilize system > memory > for DNCS in an unified way > * Added a script to bundle signed portable artifacts for maven repository > submitting > * and other bugfixes, features, improvements > > Date of last release: > > 2016-10-21 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > None > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt > [ ](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell > [ ](mnemonic) James Taylor > [ ](mnemonic) Henry Saputra > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > 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? > > None > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > There was one new developer who developed the new evaluation mode for > MRQL > that runs on top of Apache Storm. There were no new committers since our > last report. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > A new evaluation mode for MRQL queries was developed based on Apache > Storm > (using the Trident API). MRQL can now process stream queries on a single > stream using Storm, but will be soon be extended to support multiple > streams. > > Date of last release: > > 2016-03-02 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2014-04-17 > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](mrql) Alan Cabrera > [ ](mrql) Edward J. Yoon > [ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > Myriad > > Myriad enables co-existence of Apache Hadoop YARN and Apache Mesos together > on the same cluster and allows dynamic resource allocations across both > Hadoop and other applications running on the same physical data center > infrastructure. > > Myriad has been incubating since 2015-03-01. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Expand user/contributor/committer community > 2. Gather more support from Hadoop and Mesos vendors > 3. Release new versions (0.3 in progress), with more enterprise features > > 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? > > * dev@ mailing list had 73 messages since the last report. 2 new > correspondents. > * Bi-weekly dev syncs with 2-3 participants. Some cancelled due to lack > of > attendance. Minutes at http://s.apache.org/8kF > * Myriad presented at HadoopWorld/Strata NYC. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * Myriad 0.3.0 in progress. > * 1 commit/PR merged and 2 JIRAs resolved. > * Myriad submitted to DC/OS Universe: > https://github.com/mesosphere/universe/pull/841 > > Date of last release: > > 2016-06-20 myriad-0.2.0-incubating > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2016-06-16 Yuliya Feldman > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman > [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper > [ ](myriad) Ted Dunning > [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > NetBeans > > NetBeans is a development environment, tooling platform and application > framework. > > NetBeans has been incubating since 2016-10-01. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Licensing, i.e., identifying and solving GPL-related code. > 2. Coming up with a process of contributing code that makes sense to > everyone. > 3. Working on roadmaps, features, and plans together as a 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? > > Discussed CCLA/SGA on the dev mailing list. > > Discussed existing mailing lists migration plan to Apache: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists+migration > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > CCLA and SGA still in the process of being approved and signed by Oracle, > which will also apply the copyright headers as instructed on the dev > mailing list. > > Started initial code cleanup analysis > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Overview%3A+NetBeans+Structure > > Oracle has already agreed to relicense the Graal.js parser under the > Apache license. Resolved in LEGAL-279 the nb-javac dependency license. > > Almost finished new static website for Apache NetBeans. > > Experimented Mercurial to Git repository migration with a focus on > repository size. Solution found, size not an issue anymore. > > Date of last release: > > No releases yet. > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > No one has been elected so far. > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](netbeans) Ate Douma > [ ](netbeans) Bertrand Delacretaz > [X](netbeans) Emmanuel Lecharny > [ ](netbeans) Daniel Gruno > [ ](netbeans) Jim Jagielski > [ ](netbeans) Mark Struberg > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > Omid > > Omid is a flexible, reliable, high performant and scalable ACID > transactional > framework that allows client applications to execute transactions on top of > MVCC key/value-based NoSQL datastores (currently Apache HBase) providing > Snapshot Isolation guarantees on the accessed data. > > Omid has been incubating since 2016-03-28. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Boost project dissemination in the Apache community. > 2. Collaborate/integrate Omid with other Apache projects. > 3. Get positive feedback from other projects currently integrating/using > Omid. > > 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? > > Initiated contact with Apache Phoenix community to integrate Omid. > Blog entries published in Yahoo Engineering and Hadoop blogs. > Article about Apache Omid incubation published in Datanami. > Talk proposal on Omid sent to DataWorks Summit EU 2017 > Quarter Stats (from: 2016-09-01 to: 2016-11-30): > +---------------------------------------------+ > | Metric | counts | > +---------------------------------------------+ > | # of msgs in dev list | 20 | > | Active Contributors (incl mentors)| 6 | > | Jira New Issues | 2 | > | Resolved Issues | 1 | > | Pull Requests merged | 0 | > | Pull Requests proposed | 0 | > +---------------------------------------------+ > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > In the process of completing its second release under in the Apache > incubator. > > Date of last release: > > 2016-06-24 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > At incubation acceptance (2016-03-28) > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](omid) Alan Gates > [ ](omid) Lars Hofhansl > [x](omid) Flavio P. Junqueira > [ ](omid) Thejas Nair > [ ](omid) James Taylor > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Alan Gates: > > I'm concerned about this podling. The last commit was on August 15. > Discounting broadcast and reminders, there have been no emails on the > dev > list since October, and there were only 3 that month. I've sent email > on > the dev list asking if people are still actively involved. > > Flavio Junqueira: > I second Alan's concern, there has been very little activity in the > last > period for this podling. > Is it worth moving to a monthly reporting cycle? Or begin discussions around potential retirement? > > -------------------- > OpenWhisk > > OpenWhisk is an open source, distributed Serverless computing platform able > to execute application logic (Actions) in response to events (Triggers) > from > external sources (Feeds) or HTTP requests governed by conditional logic > (Rules). It provides a programming environment supported by a REST > API-based > Command Line Interface (CLI) along with tooling to support packaging and > catalog services. > > OpenWhisk has been incubating since 2016-11-23. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. The project just entered the Incubator and infrastructure is in > progress > to be setup. > 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: > > None yet. > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > - > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](openwhisk) Felix Meschberger > [ ](openwhisk) Isabel Drost-Fromm > [X](openwhisk) Sergio Fernández > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > Pirk > > Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR). > > Pirk has been incubating since 2016-06-17. The initial code for Pirk was > granted on 2016-07-11. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Grow the community to establish diversity of background and expertise. > 2. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for > dependable > release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development > process. > 3. Add to and improve the Pirk user documentation and examples both on > the > website and in the codebase > > 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 attracted a couple of new contributors since the last report. The > mailing list activity, pull requests, and page views to the Apache Pirk > website (via Google Analytics) have also increased since the last report. > An 'Introducing Pirk' talk was presented at ApacheCon Europe on November > 15, 2016. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > The project is in the process of completing its second release, > 0.2.0-incubating. The project has also undertaken a refactor of some of > the > packages and drivers and added additional user/developer documentation on > the website. > > Date of last release: > > August 29, 2016 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > Pirk elected two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel Marthi, both > mentors) on August 18, 2016. > > Signed-off-by: > > [x](pirk) Billie Rinaldi > [x](pirk) Joe Witt > [x](pirk) Josh Elser > [X](pirk) Suneel Marthi > [ ](pirk) Tim Ellison > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Josh Elser: > > Dev traffic appears to have slowed down a little in the past month, but > nothing really to be concerned about yet, IMO. > > -------------------- > Pony Mail > > Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, > that > can be integrated with many email platforms. > > Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Grow the community > 2. Grow awareness of the project > 3. Master releases and project management > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > None that we know of. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > One new committer (Sebastian Bazley) was invited to the project. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Email traffic has been roughly the same, 75-ish mails per month to the > lists. Quite a few bugs have been worked on. > > Date of last release: > > 2016-08-02 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > - Sebastian Bazley was elected committer on October 9th, 2016. > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer > [X](ponymail) John D. Ament > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > Quickstep > > Quickstep is a high-performance database engine. > > Quickstep has been incubating since 2016-03-29. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Make the first release of the system. > 2. Write blogs/papers on the release. > 3. Help foster a user community to try out the 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? > > The developer community is actively working on having more discussions on > line both on code and larger project related work. In other words, > embracing the Apache way both mechanistically and philosophically. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > The code continues to make progress and is close to the point where a > release can be created. > > Date of last release: > > None so far. > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > Tarun Bansal was elected as a committer on Oct 27, 2016. > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](quickstep) Konstantin Boudnik > [x](quickstep) Julian Hyde > [x](quickstep) Roman Shaposhnik > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > 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. Working with Mentors on all action/preparation for Graduation > 2. Re-organize documentation for easier access to end-users, new users > and > contributors. > 3. Expanding user/dev 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? > > 1. Mailing list activity since last report (September-01-2016 to > November-30-2016): > @dev 648 > @user 96 > @commit 140 > > 2. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after > September-01-2016 before November-30-2016): > Created: 71 > Resolved: 48 > > 3. Adding more community members to involve in Apache Ranger > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > 1. Released one minor release: > 0.6.2 released on 11/08/2016 > > 2. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.7.0 > a. Working on the roadmap features to be delivered soon. > > 3. Members are actively involved in Graduation process in the dev > community > * "Graduation Maturity Assessment" is being discussed in the community > * Elected VP/PMC Chair for Ranger: Selvamohan Neethiraj > > Date of last release: > > November-08-2016 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 1. Velmurugan Periasamy has been added as PMC member on September-05-2016 > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](ranger) Alan Gates > [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno > [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das > [ ](ranger) Jakob Homan > [ ](ranger) Owen O'Malley > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Alan Gates: > > The community is actively working on graduating. They have been > discussing a draft proposal on the dev list and are working out a few > final details before taking it to the Incubator PMC. Based on their > self > assessment against the maturity model, community growth, and several > Apache releases I believe they are ready to graduate. > Always great to hear about potential graduations. > > -------------------- > 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 Flink, Apache Storm, Apache Apex and Apache > Samza. > > SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Grow the developer base > 2. Grow the user base > 3. Add some more ML techniques > > 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? > > Mailing list activity (September 2016 - November 2016): > * @dev: 87 messages > > Jira issues backlog (September 2016 - November 2016): > * Created: 0 > * Resolved: 1 > > - We manage to resolve the pending issue regarding the integration of > Apache Apex with Samoa. > - Also, we made some testing progress with Apache Gearpump. > - We also had a presentation of Apache Samoa and its integration with > Apache Apex in Apache BigData Europe 2016 > - We also published a scientific paper using Apache Samoa and one of its > machine learning techniques (Vertical Hoeffding Tree) (to be presented > in > IEEE BigData Conference in December 2016) > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > - We have performed a new release with several bug fixes and new features > (0.4.0) > - We are looking into new ML techniques for development. > > Date of last release: > > 2016-09-30 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > None > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](samoa) Alan Gates > [ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan > [ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar > [ ](samoa) Ted Dunning > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Alan Gates: > > Very low activity on this project over the last few months, with last > commit showing as Sept 22 and very few commits since last March. A big > need here beyond activity is to grow the community. There is a one > individual who made several contributions last spring; I sent an email > to > the mailing list asking if it made sense to invite him to become a > committer. > > -------------------- > Singa > > Singa is a distributed deep learning platform. > > Singa has been incubating since 2015-03-17. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Add more documentations and tutorials, to make the installation and > use > of SINGA easier. We have done some work as described below in the > answer > of 'how has the project developed since the last report'. > 2. Grow the community. We added one more committer after the last report > and are getting more user feedbacks. We want to further grow the > community and to graduate in early 2017. > > 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? > > There were 68, 125 and 61 emails from dev@ list in September 2016, > October > 2016 and November 2016 respectively. > > There are 100 more commits since the last report. > > One new committer was added into SINGA committer list. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > We released the v1.0 shortly after the last report, which include major > changes in terms of the programming model and other aspects: > > + Tensor abstraction for supporting more machine learning models. > + Device abstraction for running on different hardware devices, > including > CPU, (Nvidia/AMD) GPU and FPGA (to be tested in later versions). > + Replace GNU autotool with cmake for compilation. > + Support Mac OS. > + Improve Python binding, including installation and programming > + More deep learning models, including VGG and ResNet > + Replace website building tool from maven to Sphinx and updated the > documentations. > + Integrate Travis-CI > > We also added python notebooks and windows support, and are working on > the > model zoo, python whl files and Docker images to make it easier for users > to get started with SINGA. > > We are focusing on our niches, including distributed training at the > system > level and health-care models at the application level. > > Date of last release: > > 2016-09-09 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2016-10-21 > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](singa) Daniel Dai > [X](singa) Alan Gates > [ ](singa) Ted Dunning > [ ](singa) Thejas Nair > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > Spot > > Apache Spot is a solution stack that provides the capability to ingest > network related telemetry (network flows, domain name service information > and proxy server logs) and provide unsupervised machine learning > capabilities to identify suspicious activity. The information is organized > and presented using operational analytics so that a security analyst can > investigate the most suspicious connections. Apache Spot is built on an > open data model using Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop. > > > Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23. > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > 1. Move infrastructure and development to ASF (code, issues, mailing > list, ...) > 2. Build diverse community > 3. Demonstrate ability to create releases > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > Please elaborate on the process for code scanning and IP reviews. > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > Community interaction has ramped velocity, as new adopters of the project > have been posting questions through Twitter and Slack. We have added > approximately 20% to our Slack channel and added several contributors > through the ICLA. > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > We have moved our repo to ASF as of December 8, 2016. > We have removed our LDA-C dependencies by switching to Spark LDA, > eliminating licensing issues on this particular branch. > > > Date of last release: > N/A > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > N/A > > > Signed-off-by: > > > [ ](spot) Jarek Jarcec Cecho > [ ](spot) Brock Noland > [ ](spot) Andrei Savu > [ ](spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > Streams > > Apache Streams (incubating) unifies a diverse world of digital profiles and > online activities into common formats and vocabularies, and makes these > datasets accessible across a variety of databases, devices, and platforms > for > streaming, browsing, search, sharing, and analytics use-cases. > > Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Community growth and PMC maturity. > 2. Demonstrate a consistent release schedule. > 3. Participation of project community within related standards-bodies and > Apache projects. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > The community has begun an internal assessment using the Apache Maturity > Model to identify gaps that should be addressed before graduation. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > Dev List > 117 emails sent by 16 people, divided into 32 topics. > > Web Page > 498 Sessions (up ~150%), 341 Users (up ~35%), 1178 Pageviews (up 10%). > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Source Control > https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams > > Excluding merges, 2 authors have pushed 17 commits to master and 17 > commits > to all branches. On master, 816 files have changed and there have been > 36,280 additions and 38,567 deletions. > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams-examples > > Excluding merges, 2 authors have pushed 2 commits to master and 2 commits > to all branches. On master, 8 files have changed and there have been 323 > additions and 301 deletions. > > Steve Blackmon presented Apache Streams at Shark Tank, ApacheCon Europe, > Seville, Spain on Nov 18, 2016. > > Team is presently working on 0.4.1-incubating release scheduled for the > week of Dec 5, 2016. > > Work has been scoped out for an upcoming 0.5-incubating release scheduled > for later this year. > > JIRA > > 52 issues closed with 0.4-incubating release > 12 issues closed after 0.4-incubating release > 16 new issues opened in November. > > Date of last release: > > 2016-11-11 : 0.4-incubating release > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2016-10-27: Joey Frazee elected as committer / PPMC member > 2016-09-28: Suneel Marthi elected as mentor / PPMC member > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](streams) Matt Franklin > [X](streams) Ate Douma > [X](streams) Suneel Marthi > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Suneel Marthi: > > There's been lot of activity on the project since Sep 2016 and the > project has had 2 releases since then. The project's on track for TLP > graduation. > > -------------------- > 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. Project maturity evaluation > 2. IP/licence review of unreleased repositories > 3. Graduate! > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > Preparing to graduate. > > Stian added as new mentor. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > Added 3 new committers who were introduced via the Google Summer of > Code. 2 > of them did not directly work on Apache Taverna through GSoC but this was > where they heard about the project. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > The Taverna Mobile Android application is nearing release standard with > all > licence checks passed. > > Most of the codebases under the Taverna banner are also nearing release > standard with an extensive licence review currently underway. > > Preparing maturity report, almost ready for graduation vote. > > Email stats dev@taverna: > > 2016-09: 190 emails > 2016-10: 69 emails > 2016-11: 78 emails > > Email stats users@taverna: > > 2016-09: 0 emails > 2016-10: 3 emails > 2016-11: 16 emails > > Jira stats: > > 2016-09 (6 created, 0 resolved) > 2016-10 (3 created, 7 resolved) > 2016-11 (0 created, 15 resolved) > > Git stats: > 2016-09: 158 commits > 2016-10: 165 commits > 2016-11: 34 commits > > Date of last release: > > 2016-07-01 taverna-engine-3.1.0-incubating > 2016-07-01 taverna-common-activities-2.1.0-incubating > 2016-07-01 taverna-commandline-3.1.0-incubating > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2016-10-20 > > Signed-off-by: > > [x](taverna) Andy Seaborne > [ ](taverna) Daniel J Debrunner > [x](taverna) Stian Soiland-Reyes > [ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas > [ ](taverna) Suresh Marru > [ ](taverna) Marlon Pierce > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > The use of stats here is OK, but to provide better context should include how they compare to prior quarter. > > -------------------- > 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. Regular releases > 2. Improve community engagement > 3. Increase adoption > > 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? > > - 18 subscribers in dev mailing list > - 21 new JIRAs filed since the last report > - 4 external contributors submitted patches since the last report > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > - Working on 0.10.0 release > - Released 0.9.0 > > Date of the last release: > > 2016-09-18 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > - None since coming to incubation > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](tephra) Alan Gates > [ ](tephra) Andrew Purtell > [x](tephra) James Taylor > [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > - Drew Farris (Shepherd): Two mentors active on mailing lists. Project is > building towards > a healthy community. > > -------------------- > Trafodion > > Trafodion is a webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or > operational workloads on Hadoop. > > Trafodion has been incubating since 2015-05-24. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Develop community and bring in more diverse contributors. > 2. Continue the momentum and become more integrated with the > rest of the Apache community. > 3. Continue to create software 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? > > * Participation in public lists has been relatively steady: > 715 messages in the codereview forum, 728@commits, > 257@dev, 1155@issues and 61@user. > * We are working towards our next release, 2.1. > * Gunnar Tapper has volunteered to be the Release Manager. > * Identified items for the roadmap of our next release: > - TRAFODION-2067 Support CDH 5.7 > - TRAFODION-1988 Better java exception handling in the > java layer of Trafodion > - TRAFODION-2117 Add support of SQL extension 'EXCEPT' > - TRAFODION-2060 Add support for native tinyint datatype > - TRAFODION-1931 ODB tool support on Windows platform > - TRAFODION-1861 Support Trafodion running on CentOS 7 > - TRAFODION-1673 Implement the WITH clause in Trafodion > SQL for simple use cases > - TRAFODION-2047 add SQL syntax support to INTERSECT > - TRAFODION-2127 enhance Trafodion implementation of > WITH clause > * The community continues to be active in China, with > some communications happening outside the Apache dev lists, > we had a discussion on the Incubator general list about that. > * Community members speaking at public events: > - Liu Ming had a Trafodion open-class for undergraduates > at FuDan University, Shanghai on Nov 10. > - Jin Jian had a Trafodion open-class for post-graduate > students at FuDan University, Shanghai on Nov 24 > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * 253 commits from 27 contributors. > * 182 JIRAs filed and 113 resolved Sep 1 - Nov 30. > * Many of the roadmap items listed above have been > implemented, plus many more enhancements not listed > above. > > Date of last release: > > 2016-07-07 2.0.1 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > in August > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](trafodion) Devaraj Das > [ ](trafodion) Enis Söztutar > [ ](trafodion) Michael Stack > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > For the last committers comment, would be great to include the exact date. > > > -------------------- > 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? > > None > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > The community has several new/re-activated contributors and participants > across different disciplines since last report. The most significant > developments for our community have come about since September. > > After an open community conference call on Sept 28th, a joint effort > between Wave and SwellRT development was initiated. SwellRT API has been > tried out by some members of the community and a branch containing the > SwellRT code is now in the repository. Discussions are still taking place > to determine the full extent of the integration as the projects share a > common goal but have side plans as well. > > SwellRT is a fork of Wave resolving some complexity issues of the Wave > code > that have prevented community growth and adoption issues. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Some members of Wave community have tried SwellRT API and some common > tasks > have been performed, such as: > > - Cleaned up some obsolete dependencies. > - New branch created on wave repo containing a mirror of SwellRT code. > - Updated major dependencies and fixed minor bugs, some taken from > SwellRT. > > Date of last release: > > March 2016 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > February 2016 > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](wave) Christian Grobmeier > [x](wave) Upayavira > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Upayavira: > > SwellRT appears to be a useful addition to Wave - it was originally a > fork of Wave that has been improved/simplified. The Wave community > still > needs to handle IP Clearance for the SwellRT codebase. > Its great to hear about this podling bouncing back. Considering the notes about SwellRT, are there any potential licensing issues by integrating the code?
