I was under the impression that an SGA was required, hence we've pursued
that route. If we could instead just do individual ICLAs, that seems like a
much easier route. +1 for that.

Bill

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 7:18 PM P. Taylor Goetz <ptgo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 for ICLAs. That would make things easier, and I imagine (hope) many
> have already been filed.
>
> -Taylor
>
> > On Sep 14, 2017, at 9:09 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > Changing the subject to avoid any confusion and also looping in the Heron
> > team to this question/concern.
> >
> > Personally, I'd like to understand why Heron is inclined to do a SGA
> rather
> > than ICLAs.  Typically, an SGA would be used if the source code isn't
> > already Apache Licensed and if we don't receive ICLAs from all
> > contributors.
> >
> > Based on [1] there have been 69 contributors to Heron (plus some
> ambiguity
> > since source code is being dropped in from other sources).  A SGA would
> > only work if Twitter has full custody to the source code.  We have to be
> > very careful that such an SGA doesn't list too much within it, or carry a
> > broad disclaimer on it (based on lessons learned from the Netbeans SGA).
> >
> > With this in mind, I'd actually formally recommend against a SGA for
> Heron,
> > and instead import the code as is and sort through the relevant licensing
> > issues here at Apache.
> >
> > Further, in the below thread, there's a recommendation that the podling
> be
> > left at monthly until repositories are brought over.  I have no opinion
> on
> > the matter, and defer to those recommending the action.  Does the podling
> > have any concerns staying monthly?
> >
> > John
> >
> > [1]: https://github.com/twitter/heron/graphs/contributors
> >
> >> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 5:09 PM Fu Maosong <maoson...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> For Heron, Twitter Legal is working on the SGA. We have sent emails for
> the
> >> progress last week but they haven't replied yet.
> >>
> >> 2017-09-12 17:24 GMT-07:00 John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org>:
> >>
> >>> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 6:02 PM Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Pulsar is now signed off and also shepherd notes done.
> >>>>
> >>>> Heron is a little slow moving over should we keep them monthly until
> >> the
> >>>> repos is moved?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Any thoughts on why Heron may be slow moving?  I'd like to understand
> the
> >>> problem(s) first before condemning them to monthly reporting.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Dave
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Sep 12, 2017, at 2:40 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'll be signing Pulsar shortly.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Sep 12, 2017, at 2:38 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> All,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Below please find the revised report.  I'm extremely happy to see
> >> two
> >>> of
> >>>>>> the missing podlings reported.  Hopefully we can get the remaining
> >>> sign
> >>>>>> offs in place (Griffin & Pulsar).  Hopefully Spot can file a report
> >> as
> >>>> well.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Incubator PMC report for September 2017
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 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 54 podlings incubating.  We executed nine
> >> podling
> >>>>>> releases and have one podling planning to graduate this month.  No
> >>>> changes
> >>>>>> to the PMC structure this month.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Community
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> New IPMC members:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - None
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> People who left the IPMC:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - None
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * New Podlings
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - Amaterasu
> >>>>>> - Daffodil
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Podlings that Retired
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - MRQL
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - Myriad
> >>>>>> - Spot
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Reports Missing Sign off
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - Griffin
> >>>>>> - Pulsar
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Graduations
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The board has motions for the following:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - RocketMQ
> >>>>>> - Your podling here?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Releases
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The following releases entered distribution during the month of
> >>>>>> August:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - 2017-08-01 Apache Juneau 6.3.1
> >>>>>> - 2017-08-01 Apache Tamaya 0.3.0
> >>>>>> - 2017-08-05 Apache Tamaya Extensions 0.3.0
> >>>>>> - 2017-08-08 Apache Pulsar 1.19.0
> >>>>>> - 2017-08-16 Apache HTrace 4.3.0
> >>>>>> - 2017-08-16 Apache Spot 1.0
> >>>>>> - 2017-08-17 Apache Fluo 1.0.0
> >>>>>> - 2017-08-23 Apache S2Graph 0.2.0
> >>>>>> - 2017-08-29 Apache Livy 0.4.0
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * IP Clearance
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Legal / Trademarks
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Infrastructure
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Miscellaneous
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Credits
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> ----------
> >>>>>>                     Table of Contents
> >>>>>> AriaTosca
> >>>>>> Daffodil
> >>>>>> Gearpump
> >>>>>> Gobblin
> >>>>>> Griffin
> >>>>>> Heron
> >>>>>> Hivemall
> >>>>>> HTrace
> >>>>>> Livy
> >>>>>> Mnemonic
> >>>>>> MRQL
> >>>>>> Myriad
> >>>>>> Omid
> >>>>>> OpenWhisk
> >>>>>> Pony Mail
> >>>>>> Pulsar
> >>>>>> Quickstep
> >>>>>> SAMOA
> >>>>>> SINGA
> >>>>>> Spot
> >>>>>> Superset
> >>>>>> Taverna
> >>>>>> Tephra
> >>>>>> Trafodion
> >>>>>> Wave
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> ----------
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> 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. Rotate Release Managers for future releases.
> >>>>>> 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?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Seeing some contributions now from independent developers.
> >>>>>> Active discussions on mailing lists with potential users and
> >>>> contributors.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The project has had its first two releases in July 2017 - 0.1 and
> >>> 0.1.1
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Important new features have been added:
> >>>>>> - Resumable workflows
> >>>>>> - Scaling nodes during service creation
> >>>>>> - AWS plugin support
> >>>>>> - Additional work towards being more TOSCA-compliant (e.g.
> >> interface
> >>>>>> inputs support)
> >>>>>> - Additional usage examples have been added, including ones that
> >> use
> >>>>>> IaaS plugins (Openstack, AWS), as well as one covering a real-life
> >> NFV
> >>>>>> use-case (Clearwater example)
> >>>>>> - More comprehensive tests, including for documentation generation,
> >>> and
> >>>>>> parallelization of test suites
> >>>>>> - Standardized the release process with automatic shell scripts,
> >>>>>> allowing anyone to easily create additional releases for the project
> >>>>>> - 64 JIRA issues have been resolved since the last report
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [ ] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [X] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> July 17, 2017
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Project is still functioning with the initial set of committers.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [X](ariatosca) Suneel Marthi
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [X](ariatosca) John D. Ament
> >>>>>>   Comments: The project has started to see more community interest.
> >>>>>> Need to figure out how to drive development more on list to get more
> >>>>>> outside contributions.
> >>>>>> [ ](ariatosca) Jakob Homan
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> Daffodil
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description
> >>>>>> Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and
> >>> XML/JSON.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> >> graduation:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1. Initial setup (finalize infrastructure setup, get SGAs in place,
> >>> move
> >>>>>> code/documentation/bugs/etc. over to Apache infrastructure, modify
> >>>> licenses)
> >>>>>> 2. Establish guidelines regarding release cycles, code reviews, bug
> >>>>>> management, etc.
> >>>>>> 3. Work to grow the community to establish a diversity of
> >> backgrounds
> >>>> and
> >>>>>> expertise
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 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?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> N/A
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> N/A
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [X] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [ ] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [ ] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> N/A
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> N/A
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [X](daffodil) John D. Ament
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [X](daffodil) David Fisher
> >>>>>>   Comments: Just starting off.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> Gearpump
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the
> >>>>>> micro-service Actor model.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> >> graduation:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1. Have frequent release cycles.
> >>>>>> 2. Continue to evolve community interest and support.
> >>>>>> 3. Increase user adoption.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 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?
> >>>>>> - Gearpump took part in Google Summer of Code 2017 project and it
> >> has
> >>>> been
> >>>>>> succeffully accompolished by student, Buddhi Ayesha, who is
> >> interested
> >>>> in
> >>>>>> making more contributions beyond the project.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>> - 32 issues created and 20 issues resolved.
> >>>>>> - Gearpump Runner has been merged into Apache Beam trunk.
> >>>>>> - An experimental SQL support has been added and state management is
> >>>> under
> >>>>>> development.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [ ] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [ ] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>> 2017-07-17
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>>>>> No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [X](gearpump) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> Gobblin
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Gobblin is a distributed data integration framework that simplifies
> >>>> common
> >>>>>> aspects of big data integration such as data ingestion, replication,
> >>>>>> organization and lifecycle management for both streaming and batch
> >>> data
> >>>>>> ecosystems.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Gobblin has been incubating since 2017-02-23.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> >> graduation:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1. Cut our first release
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to
> >> be
> >>>>>> aware of?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> None
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the community developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * We are working towards our first release.
> >>>>>> * Email stats for last month:
> >>>>>> u...@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 14
> >>>>>> d...@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 259
> >>>>>> * There have been 54 Commits in last month:
> >>>>>>  git log --format='%ci' | grep -cE '2017-0(8)'
> >>>>>> * 30 of those commits were by non-committers:
> >>>>>> git log --format='%ae %ci' | grep -E '2017-0(8)' | cut -d ' ' -f 1
> >> |
> >>>>>> sort | uniq -c | sort -n
> >>>>>> * A video conference based meetup happened last month.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Site has been setup.
> >>>>>> * Apache wiki has been populated with relevant content.
> >>>>>> * Code development is actively being tracked via JIRA / Sprint
> >>>> dashboard.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The podling is working towards its first release. Like last time,
> >>>> continued
> >>>>>> progress and activity on all fronts.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [X] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [X] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> N/A
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> N/A
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ](gobblin) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> >>>>>>   Comments: Waiting the board report. I will help/ping.
> >>>>>> [X](gobblin) Olivier Lamy
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](gobblin) Jim Jagielski
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> Griffin
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Griffin is a open source Data Quality solution for distributed data
> >>>> systems
> >>>>>> at
> >>>>>> any scale in both streaming or batch data context
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Griffin has been incubating since 2016-12-05.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> >> graduation:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1. Continuous development of more dq dimensions for batch and
> >>> streaming
> >>>>>> mode.
> >>>>>> 2. Make the next release.
> >>>>>> 3. Grow the community.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to
> >> be
> >>>>>> aware of?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> None
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the community developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - Three new contributors on-board, some users had contacted us for
> >> use
> >>>>>> cases.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>> - Active development is moving on well, 83 commits in last three
> >>> months.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - The first release of Griffin has been published.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - Accuracy measure for streaming mode has been developed.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - Griffin DSL has been optimized, to support accuracy and profiling
> >>>> cases
> >>>>>> well.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - Service module refined API, UI module upgrade to Angular 2.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - Work toward for next release version (general enough) to support
> >>>>>> streaming dq measure end to end.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [ ] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [X] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2017-07-17
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - Initial set of committers / PPMC.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ](griffin) Kasper Sørensen
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](griffin) Uma Maheswara Rao Gangumalla
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](griffin) Luciano Resende
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](griffin) Henry Saputra
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> Heron
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> A real-time, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Heron has been incubating since 2017-06-23.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> >> graduation:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1. Finish bootstrapping project, IP clearance, initial website
> >>>>>> 2. Expanding the community and adding new committers
> >>>>>> 3. 1st ASF release
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 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?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Some issues encountered with new mailing list signups have been
> >>>>>> resolved.
> >>>>>> * All initial committers have submitted ICLAs and have gotten their
> >>> ASF
> >>>>>> accounts setup.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * The project has made 3 non-Apache releases.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [x] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [ ] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [ ] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> No Apache releases as of yet. Working on code import.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> N/A, still bootstrapping the project.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [X](heron) Jake Farrell
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](heron) Jacques Nadeau
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](heron) Julien Le Dem
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](heron) P. Taylor Goetz
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd 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. Documentation improvements
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 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?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Got contributions from new external contributors
> >>>>>>  https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pull/91
> >>>>>>  https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pull/93
> >>>>>>  https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pull/111
> >>>>>>  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMALL-124
> >>>>>> * Udemy course featuring Hivemal was opened by someone outside PPMC
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>> https://www.udemy.com/new-in-big-data-apache-hivemall-
> >>> machine-learning-with-sql/
> >>>>>> * Github watchers/stars are gradually increasing:
> >>>>>>  99 stars as of Sept 6 (was 79 on May 31)
> >>>>>> * Twitter account @ApacheHivemall followers are gradually
> >> increasing:
> >>>>>>  87 followers as of Sept 6 (was 70 on May 31)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Approaching the first Apache release while the released delayed
> >>>>>> from Q2 to Q3 due to delay in merging large patches.
> >>>>>>  - Waiting for incoming pull requests to review and merge
> >>>>>>    https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls
> >>>>>>  - Merging HIVEMALL-24 takes time more than expected
> >>>>>>    https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pull/105
> >>>>>>  - Blocking issues are decreased
> >>>>>>    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMALL-21
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Since the last report, we have
> >>>>>> * In the last 90 days, we opened 29 JIRA issues and closed 21 JIRA
> >>>> issues
> >>>>>>    as seen in https://goo.gl/88Qr11 (as of Sept 6)
> >>>>>>                   Created   Resolved
> >>>>>>       June  2017    7           8
> >>>>>>       July  2017   15         12
> >>>>>>       Aug   2017    5           0
> >>>>>>       Sept  2017      2            1
> >>>>>> * Created 30 Pull Requests and merged 24 Pull Requests between June
> >>> 01
> >>>>>> and Aug 31.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%
> >>> 3Apr%20created%3A2017-06-01..2017-08-31
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%
> >>> 3Apr%20closed%3A2017-06-01..2017-08-31
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add
> >>>> your
> >>>>>> own
> >>>>>> commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [x] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [x] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> No release yet
> >>>>>> (planning the first Apache release in Q3, 2017)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * June 5: Invited Takuya Kitazawa to PPMC
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ](hivemall) Reynold Xin
> >>>>>>  Comments:
> >>>>>> [X](hivemall) Markus Weimer
> >>>>>>  Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng
> >>>>>>  Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](hivemall) Daniel Dai
> >>>>>>  Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd 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?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> In a DISCUSSION thread on our dev list [1], one of us suggested
> >>>>>> moving the podling htrace to the attic because of inactivity.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> A healthy back and forth suggested that we are not
> >>>>>> dead yet, that we cut back our scope radically, and
> >>>>>> that we give it another try before calling it quits.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1. https://s.apache.org/9ybr
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the community developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Mailing lists continue quiet (bar the above noted thread).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> No development.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add
> >>>> your
> >>>>>> own
> >>>>>> commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [ ] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [x] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2016-10-06
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2016-10-03
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ](htrace) Jake Farrell
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [x](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
> >>>>>>   Comments: I think the following comment resonates on the mailing
> >>> list
> >>>>>>   "...A healthy back and forth suggested that we are not dead yet,
> >>>>>>   that we cut back our scope radically, and that we give it another
> >>>>>>   try before calling it quits." I think HTrace may have a good
> >>>>>> opportunity
> >>>>>>   to come back to life if the above cut backs are implemented.
> >>>>>> [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [x](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [X](htrace) Michael Stack
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> Livy
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Livy is web service that exposes a REST interface for managing long
> >>>> running
> >>>>>> Apache Spark contexts in your cluster. With Livy, new applications
> >> can
> >>>> be
> >>>>>> built on top of Apache Spark that require fine grained interaction
> >>> with
> >>>> many
> >>>>>> Spark contexts.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Livy has been incubating since 2017-06-05.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> >> graduation:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1. Grow more committers to maintain the community
> >>>>>> 2. Expand the community, be more open to the newcomers
> >>>>>> 3. Have a regular release cadence
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 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?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> We are seeing nascent activity on the new ASF mailing lists for
> >> users.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> We released the first Apache release of Livy, and migrated all the
> >>>> assets
> >>>>>> including JIRA, website to ASF.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> One big feature about support shared session across languages was
> >>>> merged.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [ ] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [X] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2017-09-01
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> N/A
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [X](livy) Bikas Saha
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](livy) Brock Noland
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](livy) Luciano Resende
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [X](livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> Mnemonic
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Apache Mnemonic is a transparent NVM hybrid memory oriented library
> >>>> that has
> >>>>>> created Durable Object Model (DOM), Durable Computing Model (DCM)
> >> and
> >>>>>> Durable Query Model (DQM)
> >>>>>> that bring many 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 direct-native
> >>>>>> high-performance applications or frameworks.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Mnemonic has been incubating since 2016-03-03.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> >> graduation:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1. Have elected new PPMC, Release Manager and committers
> >>>>>> 2. Have proposed Durable Query Model (DQM) based on DOM and DCM
> >>>>>> 3. Have prepared Apache maturity assessment checklist for review
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to
> >> be
> >>>>>> aware of?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Not yet
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the community developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Our last report was in Jun. Since then
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * fulfilled the gaps from graduation
> >>>>>> * elected new release manager
> >>>>>> * elected new committers
> >>>>>> * introduce owner of CQEngine to our community
> >>>>>> * some contributors have started to vote for graduation
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * improved Apache mnemonic official website
> >>>>>> * implemented durable query in memory service level
> >>>>>> * implemented pure Java volatile memory service
> >>>>>> * improved the documentation of project specific release process
> >>>>>> * released mnemonic-0.8.0-incubating
> >>>>>> * started to vote mnemonic-0.9.0-incubating
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [ ] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [ ] Community building
> >>>>>> [X] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2017-06-23
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Johnu George (PPMC on Aug. 04 2017)
> >>>>>> PeiLi Shen (Committer on Aug. 13 2017)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [X](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt
> >>>>>>   Comments: afaict ready to graduate (there is an active DISCUSS
> >>> thread
> >>>>>> going on now)
> >>>>>> [ ](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [X](mnemonic) James Taylor
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](mnemonic) Henry Saputra
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> Myriad
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> johndament: No report from podling.  Discussion back in July
> >> indicated
> >>>>>> the podling did not want to retire and had enough active members to
> >>> stay
> >>>>>> alive.  No on list activity since then.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> 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 in Apache.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 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?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Started integration with Apache Phoenix
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Several bugs discovered and fixed.
> >>>>>> Continue testing prod environment at Yahoo.
> >>>>>> Branch 0.9.0.0 started for next release
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Quarter Stats (from: 2017-03-01 to: 2017-05-31):
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  +---------------------------------------------+
> >>>>>>  |   Metric                          | counts  |
> >>>>>>  +---------------------------------------------+
> >>>>>>  | # of msgs in dev list             |   108    |
> >>>>>>  | Active Contributors (incl mentors)|    8    |
> >>>>>>  | Jira New Issues                   |    6    |
> >>>>>>  | Resolved Issues                   |    6    |
> >>>>>>  | Pull Requests merged              |    3    |
> >>>>>>  | Pull Requests proposed            |    3    |
> >>>>>>  +---------------------------------------------+
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [ ] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [X] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2016-06-24
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [X](omid) Alan Gates
> >>>>>>   Comments:  Activity continues to be low but there has been a
> >>>>>> noticeable uptick since the last report, and there is now a
> >> consistent
> >>>> if
> >>>>>> low level of activity on the project.  The big challenge now for
> >> Omid
> >>>> is to
> >>>>>> attract new contributors to the project.
> >>>>>> [ ](omid) Lars Hofhansl
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](omid) Flavio P. Junqueira
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](omid) Thejas Nair
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [X](omid) James Taylor
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> 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.  Additionslly, it now provides
> >> options
> >>>> to
> >>>>>> host the platform components as Docker containers on various
> >> Container
> >>>>>> Frameworks such as Mesos, Kunernetes, and Compose.
> >>>>>> OpenWhisk has been incubating since 2016-11-23.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> >>> graduation:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  1. Est. release process for ZIP of source code
> >>>>>>  2. Est. release process for Docker and other platform binaries
> >>>>>>  3. Increase additional company and individual Contributors to
> >>> maintain
> >>>>>> all project repos.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to
> >> be
> >>>>>> aware of?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  - It had been our intent to have Apache host our staging (and move
> >>> it
> >>>>>> out of disparate private builds within various companies). However,
> >>>> INFRA
> >>>>>> indicates they only typically allocate 1 VM per project for use with
> >>>> demos
> >>>>>> and minor things. They indicated that typically a donation is in
> >> order
> >>>>>> (ala. Spark).
> >>>>>>    -- Note: the desire for this staging capability was expressed in
> >>> the
> >>>>>> Incubator submission where we anticipated needing ~12 VMs to host
> >> each
> >>>>>> platform component and be able to load balance/schedule Functional
> >>> code
> >>>> as
> >>>>>> part of the OpenWhisk Serverless (across multiple supported language
> >>>>>> runtimes). This would also be needed to effectively test
> >>>> auto-scaling/load
> >>>>>> balancing and container pools and to get accurate performance test
> >>>> measures.
> >>>>>>  - Formal hand-off of OpenWhisk trademark/logo from IBM needs to be
> >>>>>> executed; need to identify process for this.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the community developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  - First substantive design changes allowing for Service Provider
> >>>>>> Interfaces (SPIs) developed within Apache community (dev list, WIki,
> >>>> etc.).
> >>>>>>  - Established bi-weekly Zoom "Technical Interchange" calls that
> >> have
> >>>>>> been well received.
> >>>>>>      Complete videos posted to OW YouTube channel and detailed
> >> notes
> >>> to
> >>>>>> our CWIKI.
> >>>>>>  - Kubernetes on OpenWhisk work hosted a few ad-hoc to continue
> >>> design
> >>>>>> discussions (CWIKI has designs and comments)
> >>>>>>    for how best to move away from Ansible deployments to
> >>>>>> self-configuring, autoscalable containers (for use in Kube, Mesos,
> >>>> Compose,
> >>>>>> etc.).
> >>>>>>  - Increased interest/list/Slack traffic in general due to
> >> experiment
> >>>>>> Kube work, as it is applicable to Mesos, etc.
> >>>>>>  - Increased community discussions (design topics, features) of
> >>>>>> substance moved to dev list.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  - incubator-openwhisk Github stars: 1928
> >>>>>>  - incubator-openwhisk GitHub forks: 417
> >>>>>>  - Movement to become more "pluggable" via Service Provider
> >>> Interfaces
> >>>>>> (SPI), several PRs that are ongoing.
> >>>>>>      - So far there are now interfaces for MessagingProvider.scala,
> >>>>>> ArtifactStoreProvider.scala
> >>>>>>        and proposals for others such as LogStore, ContainerFactory,
> >>>>>> LoadBalancer,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sig. PRs:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  - initial work on no root ansible #2669
> >>>>>>      This allows to deploy with no sudo/root access. Significant to
> >>>>>> enable Kube/Mesos deployments.
> >>>>>>  - Simplify Spi implementations. #2663
> >>>>>>      Service Provider Interfaces (SPI) become more mature as
> >> patterns
> >>>>>> emerge.
> >>>>>>      Healthy discussion/growth area for project to allow most
> >>>> components
> >>>>>> to become (eventually) pluggable
> >>>>>>      (e.g., Log, Trace, Container build, Load    Balancing,
> >>> Scheduler,
> >>>>>> Routing, Message Queue, etc.)
> >>>>>>  - Apply standard scala formatting #2650
> >>>>>>      Coding/linting standards debated/agreed to by community (and
> >> CI
> >>>>>> automated enforcement encoded)
> >>>>>>  - Allow multiple controllers and invokers in local environments
> >>> #2633
> >>>>>>      implement a ContainerPool which is completely independent of
> >> the
> >>>>>> underlying container driver to facilitate testing and extensibility.
> >>>>>>      More improvements to allow different pooling of invoker
> >>> containers
> >>>>>> based upon different application use case
> >>>>>>      (new ideas generated in community) including requirements for
> >>>> diff.
> >>>>>> scheduling/co-tenanting,/user responsiveness (http), etc. needs.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sig. discussions (dev list):
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  - Release for OpenWhisk
> >>>>>>  - Releases and SPI plans
> >>>>>>  - OpenWhisk shell tool
> >>>>>>  - authentication models for openwhisk
> >>>>>>  - Performance tests for OpenWhisk
> >>>>>>  - Adaption of hosts-files
> >>>>>>  - Default handling for HTTP web actions
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?  Please feel free to
> >> add
> >>>> your
> >>>>>> own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [X] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [X] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  Need greater variety of contributors and contributing companies
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  N/A
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  - Tyson Norris, Committer, 08/31/2017
> >>>>>>  - James Dubee, PPMC, Committer, 09/05/2017
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ](openwhisk) Felix Meschberger
> >>>>>>    Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](openwhisk) Isabel Drost-Fromm
> >>>>>>    Comments:
> >>>>>> [X](openwhisk) Sergio Fernández
> >>>>>>    Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> 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. Work on the next release (0.10)
> >>>>>> 2. Work on expanding the community, be more open to newcomers
> >>>>>> 3. Resolve design strategies
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to
> >> be
> >>>>>> aware of?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> None that I am aware of.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the community developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> No major development. A few more bug reports from outside
> >> contributors
> >>>>>> have been filed.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Work continues towards the next release, 0.10, which should be
> >>>>>> ready for a vote soon.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The podling is somewhat mature, but it is my assessment that
> >>>>>> more people are needed for it to be a fully viable community.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [X] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [X] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [?] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2016-08-02
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> sebb as PMC, 2017-04-17.
> >>>>>> No new committers as of late.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [X](ponymail) John D. Ament
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> Pulsar
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Pulsar is a highly scalable, low latency messaging platform running
> >> on
> >>>>>> commodity hardware. It provides simple pub-sub semantics over
> >> topics,
> >>>>>> guaranteed at-least-once delivery of messages, automatic cursor
> >>>> management
> >>>>>> for
> >>>>>> subscribers, and cross-datacenter replication.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Pulsar has been incubating since 2017-06-01.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> >> graduation:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1. Grow the community with new Committers/PPMC members.
> >>>>>> 2. Set up a test cluster to be able to run system tests
> >>>>>> 3. Improve release process by having more committers taking part in
> >>>>>> 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?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The community added 2 contributors. There is a healthy discuss on
> >>> issues
> >>>>>> related
> >>>>>> to development, tools and processes among the community members.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 8 authors have pushed 69 commits to master in the last 30 days.
> >>>>>> The project has made the first release from the Apache Incubator on
> >>>> August
> >>>>>> 9th.
> >>>>>> The next release is planned for mid-September. Several design
> >>> documents
> >>>>>> with
> >>>>>> improvement proposals have been submitted to the wiki and discussed
> >> in
> >>>> the
> >>>>>> mailing list.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [ ] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [X] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2017-08-09, 1.19.0-incubating
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> <none>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ](pulsar) Dave Fisher
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](pulsar) Jim Jagielski
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](pulsar) P. Taylor Goetz
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](pulsar) Francis Liu
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd 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. Building a Quickstep community
> >>>>>> 2. More adoption of the Quickstep technology
> >>>>>> 3. More 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?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> In the summer of 2017, we took efforts to spread awareness about the
> >>>>>> Quickstep project and technology. We had many talks, particularly in
> >>>>>> the San Francisco Bay Area. The talks/venues are listed here:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1.  SRI International in Menlo Park
> >>>>>> 2.  A meetup hosted by H2O.ai in Mountain View
> >>>>>> 3.  Hortonworks in Santa Clara (Thanks to our mentor Julian Hyde
> >>>>>>    for hosting)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> We had also applied for a talk at BigDataWisconsin meetup but the
> >>>>>> proposal was not selected.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> During the summer, the development activity was slow. There are
> >>>>>> ongoing efforts to build a distributed version of Quickstep.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [ ] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [x] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2017-03-25
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2017-05-12 Tianrun Lee (committer)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ](quickstep) Konstantin Boudnik
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [x](quickstep) Julian Hyde
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>     Community building remains the project's biggest challenge.
> >>>>>>     The project has been putting considerable effort into talks
> >>>>>>     and I hope this effort starts to pay off.
> >>>>>> [ ](quickstep) Roman Shaposhnik
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> SAMOA
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for
> >>> the
> >>>> most
> >>>>>> common data mining and machine learning tasks such as
> >> classification,
> >>>>>> clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to
> >>>> develop
> >>>>>> new
> >>>>>> algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines
> >>>> (DSPEs).
> >>>>>> It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on
> >> several
> >>>> DSPEs
> >>>>>> such as Apache Storm, Apache Flink, and Apache Samza.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> >> graduation:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1. Elect new PPMC members
> >>>>>> 2. Enlarge the community
> >>>>>> 3.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 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 (June 2017 - August 2017):
> >>>>>> * @dev: 120 messages
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Jira issues backlog (June 2017 - August 2017):
> >>>>>> * Created:  4
> >>>>>> * Resolved: 5
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> We saw the engagement of new contributors, who are plausible
> >>> candidates
> >>>>>> for the PPMC.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Planning a new release in the next month. Work on the release was
> >>>>>> delayed due to summer holidays for most of the contributors.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Integrated Apache Kafka support and support for JSON and Avro.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Developed a new Boosting algorithm that will be integrated
> >> shortly.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Integrated new version of the SAMOA instances.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Integrated ability to store predictions on disk.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [ ] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [X] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2016-09-30
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> None
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [X](samoa) Alan Gates
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](samoa) Ted Dunning
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> 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. Prepare all documentations and go through the graduation voting
> >>>>>> process.
> >>>>>> 2.
> >>>>>> 3.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 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?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> A new committer (moaz) has been added into SINGA.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1. We extended SINGA Python support from Py2 to Py3.
> >>>>>> 2. We added CPack to generate debian packages for SINGA
> >>>>>> 3. Several example models (VGG and InceptionV3/V4) were added.
> >>>>>> 4. A couple of bugs were fixed and the documentation was updated.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [ ] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [ ] Community building
> >>>>>> [X] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2017-12-02
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2017-29-08
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ](singa) Daniel Dai
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [X](singa) Alan Gates
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](singa) Ted Dunning
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](singa) Thejas Nair
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> Spot
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Apache Spot is a platform for network telemetry built on an open
> >> data
> >>>> model
> >>>>>> and Apache Hadoop.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> >> graduation:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1.
> >>>>>> 2.
> >>>>>> 3.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to
> >> be
> >>>>>> aware of?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the community developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [ ] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [ ] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> XXXX-XX-XX
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ](spot) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](spot) Brock Noland
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](spot) Andrei Savu
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - Drew Farris (shepherd): No mentor activity apparent from the
> >> mailing
> >>>>>> lists,
> >>>>>>  ongoing project activity observed.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> Superset
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Superset is an enterprise-ready web application for data
> >> exploration,
> >>>> data
> >>>>>> visualization and dashboarding.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Superset has been incubating since 2017-05-21.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> >> graduation:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1. Address the challenge that React is no longer allowed in Apache
> >>>>>> projects
> >>>>>> 2. Grow the community and enroll new committers.
> >>>>>> 3. Plan and execute our first Apache release
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to
> >> be
> >>>>>> aware of?
> >>>>>> * Superset is heavily reliant upon React, but React is no longer
> >>>> allowed in
> >>>>>> ASF projects (
> >>>>>>
> >>>> https://code.facebook.com/posts/112130496157735/
> >>> explaining-react-s-license/
> >>>> ).
> >>>>>> We are currently evaluating Preact as an alternative. (
> >>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/pull/3355)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the community developed since the last report?
> >>>>>> * Grace Guo and Riccardo Magliocchetti have been elected as Superset
> >>>>>> Committers
> >>>>>> * Organic growth of our Github contributors (160), forks (2,338),
> >>>> watchers
> >>>>>> (829) and stars (15,807)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>> * We have completed all of the items on the Apache Incubation
> >>> Checklist
> >>>>>> * We have a healthy, constant flow of bug fixes, quality
> >> improvements
> >>>> and
> >>>>>> new features. Take a look at the project’s Pulse on Github for more
> >>>> details
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [X] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [ ] Community building
> >>>>>> [ ] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>> * No official release yet since being voted into Apache
> >>>>>> Incubation.  (Planning for the first Apache release in Q4, 2017)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>> Grace Guo and Riccardo Magliocchetti were both elected on August 17,
> >>>> 2017
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [X](superset) Ashutosh Chauhan
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [X](superset) Luke Han
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](superset) Jim Jagielski
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> 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. Complete the remaining IP review (by retiring irrelevant git
> >>>>>> repositories)
> >>>>>> 2. Re-engage PMC to encourage regular activity
> >>>>>> 3. Graduate!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 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?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Fairly quiet over the summer. Lack of progress towards graduation.
> >>> Need
> >>>>>> more active drive.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Email stats since 2017-07-01:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> dev@taverna: 74 emails
> >>>>>> users@taverna: 4 emails
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Progress towards release of the Taverna Mobile Android App.
> >>>>>> Been in contact with legal/infra to figure out how to do code
> >> signing
> >>>> for
> >>>>>> Google Play store.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ] Initial setup
> >>>>>> [ ] Working towards first release
> >>>>>> [ ] Community building
> >>>>>> [x] Nearing graduation
> >>>>>> [ ] Other:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Date of last release:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2016-07-01
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2016-10-20
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [ ](taverna) Andy Seaborne
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](taverna) Daniel J Debrunner
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](taverna) Marlon Pierce
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [x](taverna) Stian Soiland-Reyes
> >>>>>>   Comments: Mailing list has gone very quiet
> >>>>>> [ ](taverna) Suresh Marru
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>> [ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas
> >>>>>>   Comments:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --------------------
> >>>>>> 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.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Two most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1. Improve community engagement
> >>>>>> 2. 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?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - 1 new subscriber in dev mailing list since the last report
> >>>>>> - 16 new JIRAs filed since the last report
> >>>>>> - 2 external contributors submitted patches since the last report
> >>>>>> - 4 external contributor created a ticket in JIRA since the last
> >>> report
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - Working on 0.13.0-incubating release
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >>>>>> Please

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