On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 9:24 PM P. Taylor Goetz <ptgo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I read the first draft, I was kind of alarmed at the lack of mentor > sign offs, but wanted to give it a few days. I'm still concerned. > Well I only sent that yesterday so... there's still time (but technically was due yesterday). It's unfortunately become the norm. With the holidays as well, I suspect more people will be out. There is for instance a report of a podling of mine that I've not signed off on. I believe they know why, but I may follow up. > > Do we need some sort of corrective measure? > The corrective measure is the board's feedback every month. I can only encourage podlings to speak up. - Bring up to your mentors the fact that they don't sign off. - Mentors bring up to each other when sign off is missing. - IPMC members point out when it's happening, or missing (as in your response). > > On a brighter note, I'm really impressed with the Streams turnaround. > Kudos to the mentors, PPMC, and community for seemingly turning that > project around from the brink of retirement to the brink of graduation. > Nice work! > > -Taylor > > > On Dec 12, 2016, at 8:10 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > 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? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
