On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:38 PM Mike Drob <md...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi John -
> >
> > I did my mentor signoffs.
> >
> > > On Mar 12, 2018, at 6:49 AM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > All,
> > >
> > > Below is the current draft of the Incubator board report.  We are still
> > > missing reports from many podlings, and several missing sign off.  I
> have
> > > CC'd the podlings missing sign off, and separately notified the ones
> > > missing reports.
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > > Incubator PMC report for March 2018
> > >
> > > 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 under incubation.  We added 1 new IPMC
> > > member, 3 new podlings and executed on 4 releases.  The HTrace report
> > > indicates retirement in flight.
> >
> > I think some discussion will be needed with HTrace as AFAIK - Podlings
> > typically aren't allowed to retire to the Attic.
> >
>
> https://incubator.apache.org/projects/#retired indicates that podlings do
> retire? If not to the attic, then where?
>
>
Podlings just retire.  The Attic PMC does not take over the project.
Effectively, they remain a part of the incubator forever but no active
development.  I've been working with infra in the last few retirements to
make things read only.


> >
> > Regards,
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > >
> > > * Community
> > >
> > >  New IPMC members:
> > >
> > >  - Timothy Chen
> > >
> > >  People who left the IPMC:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > * New Podlings
> > >
> > >  - Druid
> > >  - Dubbo
> > >  - Nemo
> > >
> > > * Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
> > >
> > >  - Gearpump
> > >  - Milagro
> > >  - OpenWhisk
> > >  - Pony Mail
> > >  - Quickstep
> > >
> > > * Podling Reports Missing Sign off
> > >  - Hivemall
> > >  - Myriad
> > >  - Samoa
> > >  - Service Comb
> > >  - SINGA
> > >  - Slider
> > >  - Spot
> > >  - Superset
> > >
> > > * Graduations
> > >
> > >  The board has motions for the following:
> > >
> > >  - Your podling here?
> > >  - Your podling here?
> > >
> > > * Releases
> > >
> > >  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
> > >  February:
> > >
> > >  - 2018-02-05 Apache Livy 0.5.0
> > >  - 2018-02-15 Apache Netbeans 9.0 beta
> > >  - 2018-02-19 Apache PonyMail 0.10.0
> > >  - 2018-02-19 Apache MXNet 1.1.0
> > >
> > > * IP Clearance
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > * Legal / Trademarks
> > >
> > >  - See Daffodil's report related to open legal questions.
> > >  - See SkyWalking's report for open questions around optional modules
> > > under discussion on legal lists.
> > >
> > > * Infrastructure
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > * Miscellaneous
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > * Credits
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >                       Table of Contents
> > > AriaTosca
> > > Crail
> > > Druid
> > > Dubbo
> > > ECharts
> > > Gearpump
> > > Griffin
> > > Hivemall
> > > HTrace
> > > Milagro
> > > Myriad
> > > Nemo
> > > Omid
> > > OpenWhisk
> > > PLC4X
> > > Pony Mail
> > > Pulsar
> > > Quickstep
> > > SAMOA
> > > ServiceComb
> > > SINGA
> > > SkyWalking
> > > Slider
> > > Spot
> > > Superset
> > > Taverna
> > > Tephra
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > 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 (more) frequent Release cycles to be compliant with the Apache
> > > Way.
> > >  3. Grow the project’s contributions from existing community of
> > > contributors
> > >
> > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > aware of?
> > >
> > > 1. The project issued its third release (0.2.0) as far as the code is
> > > concerned.  Some considerable functionality has been added since the
> last
> > > release in addition to a growth in diversity of contributions.
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > * All project communication now takes place on either the mailing list
> or
> > > ASF's Slack, and is open for everybody.  We have worked hard to make
> this
> > > the normal operating mode of the community. There have been some
> hiccups,
> > > but in general the majority of discourse has taken place on the list.
> > >
> > > * Increased chatter on the mailing list including new subscribers who
> ask
> > > questions, make suggestions and are likely to become contributors
> > > themselves in the near future.
> > >
> > > * Weekly grooming meetings are now attended by the majority of the
> > > community. This is not only a forum to review the weekly work items
> list,
> > > but also as a place for open discussion about issues, questions as well
> > as
> > > for the community to get to better know each other.
> > >
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > Over the last 3 months we have seen a significant increase in
> > contributions
> > > as well as a few new contributors, particularly from the Ericsson
> > > contingent.
> > >
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > ARIA now has two new patches considerably extend the parser's
> > > plugin/extensions
> > >
> > > Website and documentation improvements for usability and to enhance new
> > > user Usability in terms of “getting started” instructions
> > >
> > > 9 JIRA issues have been resolved since the last report.  Note that the
> > > repository was locked for several weeks during this period due to
> release
> > > process issues and learning curve.
> > >
> > > We will be doing another release during this quarter.
> > >
> > > The community has begun to undertake updating AriaTosca to support the
> > > Tosca 1.1 Simple YAML profile.
> > >
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > >  The 0.2.0 release was issued on January 16, 2018.  The .3 release is
> > > planned for this quarter.
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > >
> > > Tom Nadeau was added to the PMC/committers on 11/28/2017
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > >  [X](ariatosca) Suneel Marthi
> > >     Comments: Podling needs to focus on growing the community and a
> more
> > > frequent release cadence.
> > >  [X](ariatosca) John D. Ament
> > >     Comments: It's a small group.  On list communication is still a
> > > struggle.
> > >  [X](ariatosca) Jakob Homan
> > >     Comments: Small but growing slowly and heading in the right
> > direction.
> > >
> > > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > Crail
> > >
> > > Crail is a storage platform for sharing performance critical
> > > data in distributed data processing jobs at very high speed.
> > >
> > > Crail has been incubating since 2017-11-01.
> > >
> > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> > >
> > > 1  Community building
> > > 2. Improve project visibility
> > > 3. Create a 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 got one new active committer.
> > >  After moving the code base under apache/incubator-crail,
> > >  we are re-gaining frequency on downloads and followers
> > > * To advertise the project, we are preparing for the
> > >  SF Spark Summit presentation on Crail.
> > >  We got a presentation on Crail's non-volatile data
> > >  management accepted at OpenFabrics workshop in April.
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > * Podling name search done and approved by Legal.
> > > * Applied fixes resolving two major bugs within Crail code.
> > > * New project front end website.
> > >
> > >
> > > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > >
> > > [X] 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?
> > > 2017-11-01 (entering incubation)
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > > [x] (crail) Julian Hyde
> > >     Comments: Good progress on the "admin" aspects of incubation,
> > >       and dev list is showing good activity.
> > > [ ] (crail) Luciano Resende
> > >     Comments:
> > > [ ] (crail) Raphael Bircher
> > >     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. Complete first Apache release as an Incubator
> > >  2. Broaden base of contributors and build the community (e.g. work
> with
> > > other Apache projects where Daffodil could provide extra functionality)
> > >  3. Improve documentation on setting up a development environment to
> ease
> > > the addition of new developers
> > >
> > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > aware of?
> > >
> > > - Outstanding legal issue regarding Open Grid Forum document inclusion
> in
> > > Daffodil (LEGAL-369)
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > - No new committers. However, we have had activity from a couple
> outside
> > > users on the mailing lists asking about Daffodil capabilities/usage
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > - All SGA/CLAs have been submitted (from Tresys, IBM, and NCSA), all
> code
> > > relicensed to ASF, and package namespace switched to
> org.apache.daffodil
> > > - Development pace has continued without any notable issues
> > > - The first release candidate was created in February 2018. However,
> bugs
> > > were found that required an rc2 release. Those issues were resolved,
> but
> > > issues related to the LICENSE and NOTICE files were raised in the rc2
> > > release vote. This is expected to require an rc3 release, planned to
> > start
> > > voting in early March.
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > >  2017-09-06 - 2.0.0 (pre-Apache release)
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > >
> > > - None, same as project incubation
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > >  [X](daffodil) John D. Ament
> > >     Comments: Project is moving in the right direction, and aiming for
> > > their first ASF release.
> > >  [ ](daffodil) David Fisher
> > >     Comments:
> > >
> > > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > Druid
> > >
> > >
> > > Druid is a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store.
> > >
> > > Druid has been incubating since 2018-02-28.
> > >
> > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> > > 1. Migrate existing contributors and users to apache mailing lists.
> > > 2. Move the source code and website to apache infrastructure.
> > > 3. Plan and execute our first Apache release.
> > >
> > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > aware of?
> > > * The team is working on the items on the Incubation Checklist.
> > > * We’re working on moving the existing mailing lists, source code,
> github
> > > issues and website to Apache Infrastructure.
> > > * In order to keep the project momentum up until the migration is
> > complete
> > > we are continuing the development on existing druid repository.
> > > * We are considering doing the 0.12.0 release before migrating source
> > code
> > > to apache, since the IPMC has already voted for it and migrating infra
> to
> > > apache might take a while, and we don't want to block 0.12.0 on this
> > > migration.
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > > * This is our first board report.
> > > * Current Status of our Github contributors (212), forks (1,516),
> > watchers
> > > (524) and stars (6,157)
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > > * Creation of Domain name for Druid - DONE
> > > * Creation of Mailing lists - DONE.
> > > * A healthy, constant flow of bug fixes, quality improvements and new
> > > Features are still ongoing on https://github.com/druid-io/druid.
> > >
> > > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > > @Mentors 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 official release yet since being voted into Apache Incubation.
> > > (Planning for the first Apache release in Q2, 2018)
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > > * Project is still functioning with the initial set of committers.
> > >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > > [x] (druid) Julian Hyde
> > >    Comments:
> > >      Druid has only been in the incubator for a week, but
> > >      the PPMC have already checked off quite a few of the
> > >      initial tasks. This momentum is encouraging.
> > > [ ] (druid) P. Taylor Goetz
> > >    Comments:
> > > [X] (druid) Jun Rao
> > >    Comments:
> > >      Good start for Druid.
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > Dubbo
> > >
> > > Dubbo is a high-performance, lightweight, java based RPC framework.
> > >
> > > Dubbo has been incubating since 2018-02-16.
> > >
> > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> > >
> > >  1. Get ICLA signed (currently got 7 out of 9 initial committers)
> > >  2. Get community to sign up and move discussion to dev@
> > >  3. Move codebase to Apache
> > >
> > > 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(This is the first report)
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > N/A(This is the first report)
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > >  2018-01-25 (before joining Apache Incubator)
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > >
> > > N/A, right now all the PPMC members come from initial committers.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > >  [X](dubbo) Justin Mclean
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [X](dubbo) John D. Ament
> > >     Comments: Keep up the focus on the transition work.
> > >  [ ](dubbo) Jean-Frederic Clere
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [X](dubbo) Mark Thomas
> > >     Comments: Transition is still underway. Good to see discussion with
> > > (prospective)
> > >               mentors that was happening off-list has moved on-list.
> > >
> > > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > ECharts
> > >
> > > ECharts is a charting and data visualization library written in
> > JavaScript.
> > >
> > > ECharts has been incubating since 2018-01-18.
> > >
> > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> > >
> > >  1. Move GitHub repository to apache/incubator-echarts.
> > >  2. Working towards first ASF release.
> > >  3. Build the community and attract more committers.
> > >
> > > 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. Got all ICLA signed of initial committers.
> > > 2. Updated the license to apache v2
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > None
> > >
> > > 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](echarts) John D. Ament
> > >     Comments: No on list discussion of report.  Some more user based
> > > discussions happening, no development activities.
> > >  [ ](echarts) Daniel Gruno
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](echarts) Kevin A. McGrail
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](echarts) Dave Fisher
> > >
> > > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > Gearpump
> > >
> > > Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the
> > micro-service
> > > Actor model.
> > >
> > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> > >
> > > Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
> > >  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:
> > >
> > >  [ ](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
> > >     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. Grow/Marketing the community since we will release milestone version
> > > soon.
> > > 2. Onboard use cases, we need to contact with our customers weekly for
> > > feedback.
> > > 3. Make profiling and accuracy matured based on feedback.
> > >
> > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > aware of?
> > >
> > >  - None
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > >
> > >  - A new committer has been elected.
> > >  - More users had contacted us for use cases.
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > >  - Active development is moving on well, 38 commits in last three
> months.
> > >  - Measure module performance enhancement in streaming mode.
> > >  - Timeliness and uniqueness measure for batch and streaming mode has
> > been
> > > developed.
> > >  - Publish measure management has been developed.
> > >  - Metrics management supported in service module.
> > >  - UI module for job schedule process has been developed.
> > >  - Work toward for next version release.
> > >
> > > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > >
> > >  [] Initial setup
> > >  [] Working towards first release
> > >  [] Community building - One new contributor
> > >  [X] Nearing graduation
> > >  [] Other:
> > >
> > > Date of last release:
> > >
> > >  - Nov 23rd, 2017
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > >
> > >  - A new committer was elected at Dec 21st, 2017
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > >  [X](griffin) Henry Saputra
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](griffin) Kasper Sørensen
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](griffin) Uma Maheswara Rao Gangumalla
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](griffin) Luciano Resende
> > >     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?
> > >
> > > * Markus Weimer resigned from our Project mentor as he sent a message
> > >   to IPMC private list.
> > > * We need to recruit active Mentor(s) -> will do
> > > * Two more +1 votes from IPMC members are required for the release
> > (Please
> > > join!)
> > >
> > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/86a0d8df057c6c7b0675f8bbdb211f
> > e6602545c68de2bf9b7b8204c1@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > * Have seen talks using Apache Hivemall in EU meetups
> > >
> > > https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r7k0VggUBmEIsF7IBJtn558fEOq81
> > 2i1gBVXBxF4Wy8/
> > > * Github watchers/stars are gradually increasing:
> > >    126 stars as of Mar 1 (was 108 on Dec 6)
> > > * Twitter account @ApacheHivemall followers are gradually increasing:
> > >    111 followers as of Mar 1 (was 101 on Dec 6)
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > * Prepared the first Apache release candidates
> > >   * 0.5.0-RC3 is now under IPMC voting
> > >
> > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/86a0d8df057c6c7b0675f8bbdb211f
> > e6602545c68de2bf9b7b8204c1@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E
> > >   * 0.5.0-RC2 vote failed in IPMC vote
> > >
> > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1ed09ea21f5618c059c1a415224bd3
> > 7335507efcf0fec34125140aa8@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E
> > >   * 0.5.0-RC1 vote failed in PPMC vote
> > >
> > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/abd4d11f07695478805934c6ca1cef
> > acc9d81a244c2aabb7ad72036d@%3Cdev.hivemall.apache.org%3E
> > >
> > > Since the last report, we have
> > >   * In the last 3 months, we opened 12 JIRA issues and closed 11 JIRA
> > > issues
> > >      as seen in https://goo.gl/QFQEF5 (as of Mar 1)
> > >                     Created   Resolved
> > >         Dec   2017    3           7
> > >         Jan   2018    4           3
> > >         Feb   2018    5           1
> > >   * Created 10 Pull Requests and closed/merged 10 Pull Requests between
> > > Dec 01 and Mar 01.
> > >
> > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%
> > 3Apr%20created%3A2017-12-01..2018-03-01
> > >
> > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%
> > 3Apr%20closed%3A2017-12-01..2018-03-01
> > >
> > > 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 (Now under IPMC voting)
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > >
> > > None
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > > [ ](hivemall) Reynold Xin
> > >    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. -
> > >  2. -
> > >  3. -
> > >
> > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > aware of?
> > >
> > > The HTrace podling has seen no code activity in months. Discussion of
> > > sending it to the Attic have been circulating for some time as well.
> > > After literally no activity again over the last few months, it looks
> like
> > > it is time to progress with sending HTrace to the Attic.
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > It has not.
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > It has not.
> > >
> > > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > > Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> > >
> > >  [X] Initial setup
> > >  [X] Working towards first release
> > >  [X] Community building
> > >  [ ] Nearing graduation
> > >  [X] Other: No actiity.
> > >
> > > Date of last release:
> > >
> > >  2016-03-04
> > >
> > > 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: In our January 2018 report we mentioned that
> > >     "HTrace is very quiet. There is opportunity to continue
> > >     work if we engage with projects already using HTrace. If that does
> > not
> > >     happen, we should retire the podling." We should therefore retire
> the
> > > podling.
> > >  [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](htrace) Michael Stack
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > Milagro
> > >
> > > Distributed Cryptography; M-Pin protocol for Identity and Trust
> > >
> > > Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > >  [ ](milagro) Sterling Hughes
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](milagro) Nick Kew
> > >     Comments:
> > >
> > > IPMC/Shepherd 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:
> > > In this project state the most important action to move towards
> > > graduation is to create traction on the project again. So from my
> > > point of view the list of actions is the following:
> > >
> > > [X] Promote the project in social networks, blog entries and so forth
> > > for getting interest again.
> > > [X] Get a few active new users.
> > > [X] Refresh the state of unattended issues reported for interested
> > > users in the pass.
> > >
> > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > aware of?
> > > Only to be informed about new users are willing to boosting up the
> > > project again.
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report
> > > The most relevant thing is the activation of mailing list again and a
> > > few new users willing to participate.
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report.
> > > The project has not evolved since the last report.
> > >
> > > How does the podling rate their own maturity.
> > > [ ] Initial setup
> > > [ ] Working towards first release
> > > [X] Community building
> > > [ ] Nearing graduation
> > >
> > > Date of last release:
> > > 2016-05-29
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > >  [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](myriad) Ted Dunning
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende
> > >     Comments:
> > >
> > > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > Nemo
> > >
> > > Nemo is a data processing system to flexibly control the runtime
> > behaviors
> > > of a job to adapt to varying deployment characteristics.
> > >
> > > Nemo has been incubating since 2018-02-04.
> > >
> > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> > >
> > >  1.  Grow the community
> > >  2.  Create a first Apache release
> > >  3.  Donate code to ASF
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > >  * Committers filed ICLAs.
> > >  * Committers enrolled in mailing lists
> > >  * Committers enrolled in the slack channel
> > >  * Committers used mailing lists to discuss initial setups
> > >  * Committers started to send PRs to the apache infra
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > >  * gitbox/github set up and code transferred from snuspl/nemo to
> > > apache/incubator-nemo
> > >  * JIRA created and issues transferred from github to JIRA
> > >  * web site set up
> > >  * mailing lists set up
> > >  * The name ‘Apache Nemo’ approved (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-139)
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > >  None yet.
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > >
> > > None yet.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > >  [X](nemo) Davor Bonaci
> > >     Comments: The podling is moving very quickly.
> > >  [ ](nemo) Hyunsik Choi
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [X](nemo) Byung-Gon Chun
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [X](nemo) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](nemo) Markus Weimer
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](nemo) Reynold Xin
> > >
> > > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> > >
> > >  johndament:  Seeing good progress with on list communication.
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > Apache Phoenix
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > HBase 0.x version being tested in prod environment at Yahoo.
> > > Preparing 0.9.0 version.
> > >
> > > Quarter Stats (from: 2017-12-01 to: 2018-02-28):
> > >
> > >
> > > +---------------------------------------------+
> > > | Metric | counts |
> > > +---------------------------------------------+
> > > | # of msgs in dev list | 108 |
> > > | Active Contributors (incl mentors)| 8 |
> > > | Jira New Issues | 2 |
> > > | Resolved Issues | 8 |
> > > | Pull Requests merged | 9 |
> > > | 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:
> > >
> > > [ ](omid) Alan Gates
> > > Comments:
> > > [ ](omid) Lars Hofhansl
> > > Comments:
> > > [ ](omid) Flavio P. Junqueira
> > > Comments:
> > > [ ](omid) Thejas Nair
> > > Comments:
> > > [x](omid) James Taylor
> > > Comments:
> > >
> > > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > OpenWhisk
> > >
> > > distributed Serverless computing platform
> > >
> > > OpenWhisk has been incubating since 2016-11-23.
> > >
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > >  [ ](openwhisk) Isabel Drost-Fromm
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](openwhisk) Bertrand Delacretaz
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](openwhisk) Jim Jagielski
> > >     Comments:
> > >
> > > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > PLC4X
> > >
> > > PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial
> > programmable
> > > logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared
> > API.
> > >
> > > PLC4X has been incubating since 2017-12-18.
> > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> > >
> > >  1. Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large
> > >     percentage of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people
> > >     from other companies, but will have to continue these efforts for
> > >     establishing a healthy Apache community.
> > >  2. Onboarding of new committers: With PLC4X several people on the team
> > >     are not very familiar with the Apache Way. We have started and will
> > >     continue our efforts on this onboarding.
> > >  3. Make our first release
> > >
> > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > aware of?
> > >
> > > In order to get access to some of the specifications the ASF will
> > eventually
> > > have to become Members of some external foundations: OPC, EtherCat,
> > Modbus …
> > > these memberships usually have a free level, that allows us to use the
> > > specifications but doesn’t result in any regular costs. We will have to
> > > discuss
> > > these details with the ASF and the other foundations.
> > > One of the external foundations (Profinet) doesn’t have a free
> > membership.
> > > In
> > > general, the CEO of the European branch of the Profinet Foundation has
> > > signaled
> > > that it should be possible for the ASF to become a member and have an
> > > outside
> > > company pay the membership fees, but we have to discuss the details
> (With
> > > them
> > > as well as the ASF).
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > Christofer has invested most of his time in February spreading the word
> > > about
> > > PLC4X.
> > > A first POC has been created for the company “Kampf Schneid- und
> > > Wickeltechnik
> > > GmbH & Co. KG”
> > > Two articles for IoT Special editions of German tech magazines have
> been
> > > submitted. The “JavaSPEKTURM – IoT Sonderheft” is scheduled for sale
> end
> > or
> > > March, the “iX – IoT Sonderheft” is scheduled later.
> > > The university of Stuttgart has shown great interest in joining our
> > effort,
> > > as
> > > they had just started a project with a similar goal. Chris will
> continue
> > > on-boarding efforts in March.
> > > At this year’s AALE Conference in Cologne, Chris has talked to a lot of
> > > people
> > > from different German universities. We’re hoping to get at least a hand
> > > full of
> > > them on board too.
> > > We have continuing our onboarding of new Apache committers (extended
> > emails
> > > with a lot of explanations on why we are doing things the way we are)
> > > In the next few months we are expecting to spread the word and
> hopefully
> > > grow
> > > the community due to the tech magazine articles as well as several
> talks
> > on
> > > different conferences.
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > The work on the RawSocket Netty transport which is a requirement to
> > > implement
> > > protocols that are IP based, but are not TCP or UDP has continued and
> we
> > are
> > > currently waiting for infra to setup a dedicated Jenkins VM for our
> > project
> > > so
> > > we can enable the RawSocket releated tests.
> > > We have finished a first version of the Beckhoff ADS driver, and are
> > looking
> > > forward to first tests with this.
> > > The functionality of the S7 driver has improved due to experience
> > collected
> > > with the Kampf POC.
> > > Next we are aiming to implement Modbus and OPC-UA protocols.
> > >
> > > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > > Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> > >
> > > We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people
> involved.
> > > So far, the new participants have shown great willingness and success
> in
> > > adopting the Apache Way.
> > > However, we still need to continue:
> > > the on-boarding
> > > increasing the diversity of the team
> > > Also, will we need to decide and establish all the processes involved
> in
> > > releasing software at Apache
> > >
> > >  [X] Initial setup
> > >  [X] 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:
> > >
> > >  [ ](plc4x) Greg Trasuk
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [X](plc4x) Justin Mclean
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](plc4x) Luciano Resende
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [X](plc4x) Stefan Bodewig
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >  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:
> > >
> > >  [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](ponymail) John D. Ament
> > >     Comments: Reminder sent.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Two most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> > >
> > >  1. Grow the community with new Committers/PPMC members.
> > >  2. Complete the Podling name search tasks
> > >
> > > 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 6 new contributors that submitted pull-requests
> > >  which were merged into master.
> > >
> > >  There has been a sharp increase in users approaching the team on the
> > > Slack channel with many questions on getting started, clarifications,
> > > troubleshooting.
> > >  While developers use Slack for informal chatting, the predominant
> usage
> > > of Slack has be users support. We have created a tool to create daily
> > email
> > > digests of the
> > >  conversation and post it on dev@ and user@ lists, to comply with ASF
> > > policy of. We are also extracting the most recurrent questions/answer
> > from
> > > Slack and plan to add an
> > >  FAQ section on the website, together with improving documentation in
> the
> > > areas that seemed more difficult to users.
> > >
> > >  Project members from several companies have organized or participated
> in
> > > several meetups, presenting Pulsar's introductions, deep-dives and
> > hands-on
> > > tutorial, including
> > >  recorded podcasts. We have several scheduled talks on Pulsar at
> various
> > > conferences (such as Strata San Jose on March 8th).
> > >
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > >  22 authors have pushed 536 commits to master in the last 3 months.
> > >
> > >  The project has made the its third and fourth releases since joining
> the
> > > Apache
> > >  Incubator (1.21.0-incubating on Dec 17th and 1.22.0-incubating on Mar
> > > 6th).
> > >  Project members are actively working on next milestone, 2.0 release
> that
> > > will
> > >  include several new features including:
> > >   * Topic compaction
> > >   * Redesigned type-safe API with schema support
> > >   * Lightweight compute support
> > >
> > >  Overall, since December, 7 new PIPs (Pulsar Improvement Proposals) for
> > > major
> > >  feature/changes, have been submitted to the wiki and discussed in the
> > > mailing list.
> > >
> > >  Since the last report the number of weekly-active-users on the Slack
> > > channel has
> > >  increased from 27 to 53.
> > >
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > >  2017-12-13, 1.21.0-incubating
> > >  2018-03-06, 1.22.0-incubating
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > >
> > >  2018-01-19 - Sijie Guo
> > >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > >  [ ](pulsar) Dave Fisher
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [X](pulsar) Jim Jagielski
> > >     Comments: I would say that the project is still building community
> > and
> > > doing so extremely well.
> > >  [ ](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.
> > >  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:
> > >
> > >  [ ](quickstep) Konstantin Boudnik
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](quickstep) Julian Hyde
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](quickstep) Roman Shaposhnik
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > 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. Enlarge the contributing community
> > >  2. Have new companies and organizations using the Apache Samoa
> > technology
> > >
> > > 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 (December 2017 - February 2018):
> > >  * @dev: 23 messages
> > >
> > > Jira issues backlog (December 2017 - February 2018):
> > >  * Created:  2
> > >  * Resolved: 1
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > * Just elected two new members to the Apache Samoa PPMC
> > > * Planning a new release in the next month
> > > * Worked on consolidating input and output API, to work better with
> > > multiple types of data
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > January 2018
> > >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > >  [ ](samoa) Alan Gates
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](samoa) Ted Dunning
> > >     Comments:
> > >
> > > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > ServiceComb
> > >
> > > ServiceComb is a microservice framework that provides a set of tools
> and
> > > components to make development and deployment of cloud applications
> > easier.
> > >
> > > ServiceComb has been incubating since 2017-11-22.
> > >
> > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> > >
> > >  1. IP clearance and License clean up
> > >  2. Community building
> > >  3. Create a 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?
> > >  * The community has been working hard to get the first release out,
> > which
> > > will be service-center 1.0.0-m1, java-chassis 1.0.0-m1 and saga 0.1.0
> > >  * service-center had three internal release votes, java-chassis and
> saga
> > > release is one the way.
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report(Feb 2018)?
> > >  Due to Chinese new year, lots of committer take the holiday
> > >  * Java Chassis merged with 10 PRs by 5 contributors.
> > >  * Service Center merged with 24 PRs by 4 contributors .
> > >  * Saga resolved merged with 6 PRs by 3 contributors.
> > >  * 48 mails sent by 14 people on the dev@ list
> > > 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?
> > >
> > >   NONE
> > >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > >  [ ](servicecomb) Roman Shaposhnik
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](servicecomb) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](servicecomb) Timothy Chen
> > >     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. Finish the existing jira tickets, including autograd (SINGA-342),
> > > tensor improvement (SINGA-341), backend for Keras (SINGA-340), ONNX
> > > (SINGA-333)
> > >  2.
> > >  3.
> > >
> > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > aware of?
> > >
> > > We are working for the next release scheduled in March.
> > > We want to report the progress in April after the next release.
> > >
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > >  2017-06-29
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > >
> > >  2017-09-01
> > >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > >  [ ](singa) Daniel Dai
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](singa) Alan Gates
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](singa) Ted Dunning
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](singa) Thejas Nair
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > SkyWalking
> > >
> > > Skywalking is an APM (application performance monitor), especially for
> > > microservice, Cloud Native and container-based architecture systems.
> Also
> > > known as a distributed tracing system. It provides an automatic way to
> > > instrument applications: no need to change any of the source code of
> the
> > > target application; and an collector with an very high efficiency
> > streaming
> > > module.
> > >
> > > SkyWalking has been incubating since 2017-12-08.
> > >
> > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> > >
> > >  1. IP clearance.
> > >  3. First ASF release. (SkyWalking 5.0)
> > >  3. Further ASF culture and processes.
> > >
> > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > aware of?
> > >
> > > Recheck the Apache recommend way, when our plugin related to some GPL
> > > library.
> > > Make those plugins optional seems good enough.
> > >
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > Improved understanding of the release process way of the Apache. And
> > > prepare for the first release.
> > >
> > > A C# agent proposed by .NET community has started (
> > > https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/skywalking-csharp)
> > > After it release, will make SkyWalking can support multi languages.
> > > Some discussions about golang and Nodejs server are on going.
> > >
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > Code wise the project has good momentum.
> > > There has been ~44 pull requests opened and accepted, and 103 commits,
> > > by 7 contributors in the last month.
> > >
> > >
> > > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > > 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:
> > >
> > > 5.0.0-alpha is currently in progress. One attempt was made and put into
> > > the staging repository,
> > > only a minor issue blocked the test build announcement email going out.
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > >
> > > Hongtao Gao (PPMC)
> > > Sheng Wu (PPMC)
> > > Shinn Zhang (PPMC)
> > > Yongsheng Peng (PPMC)
> > >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > >  [x](skywalking) Luke Han
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](skywalking) Willem Ning Jiang
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [x](skywalking) Mick Semb Wever
> > >     Comments:
> > >
> > > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > Slider
> > >
> > > Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy,
> and
> > > manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters.
> > >
> > > Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29.
> > >
> > > Most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> > >  Since new development on one of Slider's primary maven modules has
> > >  moved to the hadoop-yarn-services-core module in Apache Hadoop,
> > >  development of other Slider modules has also tailed off. The Slider
> > >  community needs to decide whether we should retire the remaining
> > >  Slider code or propose graduation.
> > >
> > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > aware of?
> > >
> > >  No additional issues.
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > >
> > >  Mailing list and commit activity have continued at a low rate. We
> > invited
> > >  a new committer / PPMC member, Kyungwan Nam.
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > >  An improvement to allow Slider to work in multi-homed environments is
> > >  in progress and we have fixed a couple of bugs related to certificate
> > >  management and functional test failures when running on newer versions
> > >  of Hadoop.
> > >
> > > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > > The podling is relatively mature, but activity is low.
> > >
> > >  [ ] Initial setup
> > >  [ ] Working towards first release
> > >  [ ] Community building
> > >  [ ] Nearing graduation
> > >  [x] Other: Discussing direction
> > >
> > > Date of last release:
> > >
> > >  2017-03-23 slider-0.92.0-incubating
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > >
> > >  2018-02-21 New committer and PPMC member Kyungwan Nam
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > >  [ ](slider) Arun C Murthy
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](slider) Devaraj Das
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](slider) Mahadev Konar
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](slider) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > 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. More activity in the User and Dev mail lists
> > >  2. Integrate Open Data Model on top of Spot modules
> > >  3. Develop a better release process
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > A. more interaction from partners
> > > B. Seeing more interest and usage of Spot leading to more contributions
> > in
> > > on the way
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > A. More development around Open Data Model
> > > B. New data sources being integrated with ODM is maturing the structure
> > > C. Adding Kerberos support to the project
> > > D. Ingest Redesign
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > >  2017-09-08
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > >
> > >  2018-01-18
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > 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. Plan and execute our first Apache release
> > > 2. Align on a long-term product roadmap with the broader Apache
> Superset
> > > community
> > > 3. Grow the community and enroll new committers
> > >
> > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be
> > aware
> > > of?
> > > * None
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > > * Organic growth of our Github contributors (211), forks (2,981),
> > watchers
> > >  (975) and stars (18,249)
> > > * Group of active committers meeting bi-weekly from Airbnb, Lyft and
> > > Twitter
> > > * Slack channel for Apache Superset at https://apache-superset.slack.
> > com/
> > > has active growth and activity
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > > * A redesign of the Dashboarding view is now midway through completion
> > > * A redesign of the Explore view has just started
> > > * Deck.gl (https://uber.github.io/deck.gl/#/) has been integrated as a
> > > visualization type
> > > * 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 does the podling rate their own maturity.
> > > [ ] 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 Q2, 2018)
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > > * Grace Guo - PPMC & Committer (2017-10-29)
> > > * Chris Williams - PPMC & Committer (2017-10-20)
> > > * John Bodley - PPMC & Committer (2017-10-20)
> > >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > > [ ](superset) Ashutosh Chauhan
> > >    Comments:
> > > [x](superset) Luke Han
> > >    Comments:
> > > [X](superset) Jim Jagielski
> > >    Comments: Looking forward to seeing how the project handles the
> > release
> > > process
> > >
> > > 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. Re-engage PPMC towards community building
> > >  2. Release or Retire legacy git repositories
> > >  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?
> > >
> > >  Large interest from Google Summer of Code students.
> > >  Multiple pull requests, many already merged.
> > >  Elected new PPMC member Sagar.
> > >
> > >  Email stats dev@taverna:
> > >
> > >  2017-12: 18
> > >  2018-01: 120
> > >  2018-02: 156
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > >  Taverna Server release, addressed many IP/license issues.
> > >
> > >  Active development, but focused mainly on the Android app.
> > >  Some challenges with maintaining legacy git repositories as
> > >  they require different skills.
> > >
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > >  2018-01-18
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > >
> > >  2018-02-26 (PPMC)
> > >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > >  [ ](taverna) Andy Seaborne
> > >     Comments:
> > >
> > > While there has been an uptick in development activity recently, and
> the
> > > contributor is a new PPMC member, the podling PPMC as a group is not
> > moving
> > > towards graduation.
> > >
> > > Reiterating my comments from December: I am worried that pushing
> through
> > > graduation will only result in the same situation as a TLP.
> > >
> > >  [ ](taverna) Daniel J Debrunner
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](taverna) Marlon Pierce
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [x](taverna) Stian Soiland-Reyes
> > >     Comments:
> > > I have been quite impressed by the uptick since New Year, which shows
> how
> > > just a bit of PMC engagement can give lots of follow-on activitity. I
> > would
> > > hope Taverna can continue this move out of the "risk of retire" zone,
> but
> > > that requires more PMC members to chip in now and then.
> > >
> > >  [ ](taverna) Suresh Marru
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas
> > >     Comments:
> > >
> > > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> > >
> > >  johndament: the discrepancies between the mentors seems to be a
> concern.
> > > In general it seems like good communication flow.
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > - 15 new JIRAs filed since the last report
> > > - 1 external contributors submitted patches since the last report
> > > - 1 external contributor created tickets in JIRA since the last report
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > - Working on 0.14.0-incubating release
> > > - Adding support for HBase 2.0 (new major version of HBase)
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > >  2017-09-21
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> > >
> > > - None since coming to incubation
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > >  [ ](tephra) Alan Gates
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](tephra) Andrew Purtell
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [x](tephra) James Taylor
> > >     Comments:
> > >  [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl
> > >     Comments:
> > >
> > > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
>

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