Here is the draft ASF report for Apr 2017, covering Q1 2017 activity. It is posted at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/April2017
Please let me know if you have any comments or suggestions and I will update the report. ------------------------------- MADlib Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists. MADlib has been incubating since 2015-09-15. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Continue to produce regular Apache (incubating) releases. 2. Continue to execute and manage the project according to governance model of the "Apache Way”. 3. Continue to build community. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? 1. The next release v1.11 will be the 5th as an incubating project. We believe this release will meet all requirements for a clean ASF release, based on listening to guidance from the IPMC over the previous releases. After that, the community would ideally like to move towards top level status. 2. The licensing issues have been resolved. Should anyone want to review, we have summarized the issue and resolution with relevant links on the MADlib wiki at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MADLIB/ASF+Licensing+Guidance How has the community developed since the last report? 1. Some related events in Q1 2017: * Feb 4, 2017 - Presentation at FOSDEM’17 Graph devroom. Topic: Graph Analytics on Massively Parallel Processing Databases (Frank McQuillan) * Feb 2, 2017 - Greenplum meetup in SF. Topic: Machine Learning and Cyber Security with Greenplum and Apache MADlib (Anirudh Kondaveeti, Frank McQuillan) * Mar 23, 2017 - MADlib community call. Topic: New Features in Apache MADlib 1.10 (Frank McQuillan) 2. See material technical conversations on user/dev mailing lists and in the appropriate JIRAs and pull requests. How has the project developed since the last report? 1. Build infra set up on Apache infra https://builds.apache.org/job/madlib-master-build/ 2. Docker image with necessary dependencies required to compile and test MADlib on PostgreSQL 9.6 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MADLIB/Quick+Start+Guide+for+Developers#QuickStartGuideforDevelopers-Dock 3. Active work in progress for 5th ASF release MADlib v1.11 scheduled for Apr 2017. Features include: PageRank, connected components, stratified sampling, improvements to decision tree & random forest, array & sparse vector output for pivot 4. Mailing list activity in Q1 to date: 274 postings to dev, 111 postings to user. 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: MADlib v1.10 on 3/10/17. When were the last committers or PMC members elected: Orhan Kislal on 9/7/16 and Nandish Jayaram on 9/7/16.
