What's the status with Runtime2? Is Julian still contributing to that effort?
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From: Steve Lawrence <slawre...@apache.org>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2020 10:20 AM
To: dev@daffodil.apache.org <dev@daffodil.apache.org>
Subject: [DRAFT] Daffodil Podling Report - March 2020
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 unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Increase community growth and participation beyond Tresys
(main priority)
2. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provide extra
functionality (NiFI and Drill are highest priority goals)
3. Continue frequent release schedule
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
- None
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- Continued mailing lists discussions, with a handful of new faces
asking questions on the users@ mailing list, hopefully some of these
can be converted to developers
- Struggling to get active involvement outside of Tresys. We are
actively working with known users of Daffodil to encourage
contributions, including virtual meetings and making time to help
spin up with the codebase
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Release Daffodil 2.5.0
- 29 commits merged from 5 different contributors
- 44 issues created, 29 issues resolved, focus was primarily on large
features rather than bug burn down.
- Significant improvement to DFDL schema compilation time
- Incorporated SonarCloud static analysis to help verify code quality
- Lots of refactoring to improve code quality and type safety
- Created a container to streamline a repeatable release process
- Looking like next release will be sometime in March
### 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:
2020-01-12
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- 2019-11-26 - Olabusayo Kilo (Committer)
- 2019-06-20 - Brandon Sloane (PPMC)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
- Yes
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
- No known cases of a 3rd party incorrectly using the Daffodil
name/brand.
- Podling name search has been completed and approved by Brand
Management Committee:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-147
