Thank you, St.Ack :-) Hans
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 9:04 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > Done. Thanks Hans. > St.Ack > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Hans Zeller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Just a gentle reminder that the mentor sign-off is due today. > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/September2016 > > > > Thanks, > > > > Hans > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]> > > Date: Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 1:56 PM > > Subject: DRAFT report September 2016 > > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > > > > Greetings, > > > > Please review this draft report. > > > > The MoinMoin wiki is slow and unreliable today. If your wiki update > > doesn't > > go through, feel free to reply on this thread and I will integrate your > > changes. > > > > Remaining tasks: > > > > * The following podlings need signoff: > > - Fineract > > - log4cxx > > - MRQL > > - Myriad > > - Toree > > - Trafodion > > - Wave > > * The narrative and the Legal/Trademarks/Infrastructure/Misc sections > > need > > to be fleshed out with summaries from August's conversations on > > general@incubator. (Ted) > > > > Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the report! > > > > Marvin Humphrey > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Incubator PMC report for September 2016 > > > > The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and > > codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. > > > > < narrative > > > > > * Community > > > > No IPMC roster changes this month. > > > > * New Podlings > > > > - Annotator > > - AriaTosca > > > > * Graduations > > > > None this month. > > > > * Releases > > > > The following releases entered distribution during the month of > > August: > > > > - 2016-08-01 Apache Pony Mail 0.9.incubating > > - 2016-08-02 Apache Mnemonic 0.2.0-incubating > > - 2016-08-03 Apache Eagle 0.3.0-incubating > > - 2016-08-09 Apache Datafu (incubating) 1.3.1 > > - 2016-08-10 Apache Gearpump 0.8.1-incubating > > - 2016-08-20 Apache Ranger (incubating) 0.6.1 > > - 2016-08-22 Apache Metron 0.2.0BETA-incubating > > - 2016-08-22 Apache Beam 0.2.0-incubating > > - 2016-08-24 Apache CarbonData 0.1.0-incubating > > - 2016-08-29 Apache Pirk 0.1.0-incubating > > > > * IP Clearance > > > > None this month. > > > > * Legal / Trademarks > > > > > > > > * Infrastructure > > > > > > > > * Miscellaneous > > > > > > > > * Credits > > > > - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey / John D. Ament > > > > -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- > > > > * Still getting started at the Incubator > > > > - AriaTosca > > - Traffic Control > > > > * Not yet ready to graduate > > > > No release: > > > > - DistributedLog > > - Edgent > > - Fineract > > - HTrace > > - Juneau > > - log4cxx2 > > - PredictionIO > > - SensSoft > > - Toree > > > > Community growth: > > > > - Atlas > > - CarbonData > > - CommonsRDF > > - Gearpump > > - Mnemonic > > - MRQL > > - Myriad > > - Omid > > - Pirk > > - Pony Mail > > - Singa > > - SAMOA > > - Tephra > > - Trafodion > > - Wave > > > > * Ready to graduate > > > > - Ranger > > - Taverna > > > > * Considering retirement > > > > - Streams > > > > * Did not report, expected next month > > > > - Quickstep > > - Tamaya > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Table of Contents > > AriaTosca > > Atlas > > CarbonData > > CommonsRDF > > DistributedLog > > Edgent > > Fineract > > Gearpump > > HTrace > > Juneau > > log4cxx2 > > Mnemonic > > MRQL > > Myriad > > Omid > > Pirk > > Pony Mail > > PredictionIO > > Quickstep > > Ranger > > SAMOA > > SensSoft > > Singa > > Streams > > Tamaya > > Taverna > > Tephra > > Traffic Control > > Trafodion > > Toree > > 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. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for > > dependable > > release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development > > process. > > 2. Grow the community around the project. > > 3. Migrate existing users to apache mailing lists, redirect the present > > external project links 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? > > > > The project is still being setup in Apache Incubator and is presently. > > > > Received Software Grant Agreement (SGA) from Gigaspaces. > > > > The mailing lists, Jira, Github Repo, Incubator podling, Confluence > Wiki > > have been setup for the project. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > This would be the first report for AriaTosca. > > The project is presently being setup in Incubator. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > None > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > Project is being established in incubator with the proposed initial set > > of > > committers. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](ariatosca) Suneel Marthi > > [X](ariatosca) John D. Ament > > [X](ariatosca) Jakob Homan > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Atlas > > > > Apache Atlas is a scalable and extensible set of core foundational > > governance > > services that enables enterprises to effectively and efficiently meet > their > > compliance requirements within Hadoop and allows integration with the > > complete enterprise data ecosystem. > > > > Atlas has been incubating since 2015-05-05. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Podling name search is pending. > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > No specific issues at this time to report. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > 1. We have added 4 new committers since the last report from different > > organizations. Around 15 new contributors were added since the last > > report. The current number of contributors is around 60. > > 2. The activity on the atlas-dev mailing list stands at around 900 > > messages > > per month between June and August. [1] > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > 1. A major release, 0.7-incubating, was made in the month of July. > > This release added several new features to make Atlas enterprise > > ready including: Authentication and authorization support, High > > availability, deeper integrations with other Hadoop components > > including Hive, HDFS, Falcon etc., Entity versioning, Kafka message > > versioning, support for creating business taxonomies, enhanced > > user interface, better performance etc. > > 2. Work is proceeding in 0.8-incubating to stabilize many of these > > features and also add several strategic improvements including > > abstractions to the underlying graph database to make it easier > > to move to later versions, rolling upgrades, etc. > > 3. A total of 302 issues were reported between June 1st 2016 and August > > 31st 2016. 266 issues were resolved in the same time frame [2],[3] > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-07-09: 07-incubating [4] > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > 1. The PPMC voted and elected 4 new members as committers to > > the project on 2016-07-05: Tom Beerbower, Keval Bhatt, David > > Kantor and Darshan Kumar. > > > > [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-atlas-dev/ > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-1149?jql= > > project%20%3D%20ATLAS%20AND%20created%20%3E%3D%202016-06- > > 01%20AND%20created%20%3C%3D%202016-08-31 > > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-775?jql= > > project%20%3D%20ATLAS%20AND%20resolved%20%3E%3D%202016-06- > > 01%20AND%20resolved%20%3C%3D%202016-08-31 > > [4] https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201607.mbox/% > > 3ccaabv78fuzcv51e4pn8fg7nwkjyouqo9z2wnhsiz2estbtvj...@mail.gmail.com%3E > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](atlas) Arun Murthy > > [X](atlas) Chris Douglas > > [x](atlas) Jakob Homan > > [ ](atlas) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > CarbonData > > > > Apache CarbonData is a new Apache Hadoop native file format for faster > > interactive query using advanced columnar storage, index, compression and > > encoding techniques to improve computing efficiency, in turn it will help > > speedup queries an order of magnitude faster over PetaBytes of data. > > > > CarbonData has been incubating since 2016-06-02. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Prepare new releases > > 2. Increase both dev and user communities > > 3. Publish and update website to promote CarbonData > > > > 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 activity increased: many new users started to use and > > test CarbonData, we had more than 100 new issues created during Aug; > One > > user formally deployed CarbonData to their business system, the > > query efficiency speeded up 50 times (the user is the biggest internet > > finance company in China) > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > Code donation has been done and all resources have been created by > INFRA > > (git, github mirror, mailing list, Jira, ...). > > > > We also created the Jenkins CI jobs. > > > > We did the first release (0.1.0-incubating) and we are preparing a new > > one. > > > > We're also working on the website (with improved look'n feel). > > > > We're also preparing some talks and presentations about CarbonData. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-08-27 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > 2016-07-15 > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](carbondata) Henry Saputra > > [X](carbondata) Jean-Baptiste Onofre > > [X](carbondata) Uma Maheswara Rao G > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > CommonsRDF > > > > Commons RDF is a set of interfaces and classes for RDF 1.1 concepts and > > behaviours. The commons-rdf-api module defines interfaces and testing > > harness. The commons-rdf-simple module provides a basic reference > > implementation to exercise the test harness and clarify API contracts. > > > > CommonsRDF has been incubating since 2015-03-06. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Work with key target communities (Apache Jena and Eclipse RDF4J) to > > ensure Commons RDF meets potential user requirements and > expectations > > towards next versions of the Commons API. > > 2. Engage wider RDF community > > 3. Graduate to Apache Commons > > > > 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 fairly quiet during the summer. > > > > Mailing list stats: > > > > dev@commonsrdf traffic > > Jun 2016: 10 > > Jul 2016: 21 > > Aug 2016: 3 > > > > Jira stats for last 90 days: > > Created: 5 > > Resolved: 1 > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > Building on the idea of Commons VFS-style integration > > we have added branches that add bindings for > > Eclipse RDF4j (formerly Open RDF Sesame), > > Apache Jena and JSON-LD-Java. > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-commonsrdf/branches > > > > This has raised interest within Jena > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-1015 > > > > We should now be moving towards a 0.3.0 release, > > and working towards graduation to Apache Commons PMC, > > we are adapting the build to be more compatible with the > > Commons release process https://commons.apache.org/releases/ > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-05-24 apache-commonsrdf-0.2.0-incubating > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > None > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](commonsrdf) John D Ament > > [ ](commonsrdf) Gary Gregory > > [X](commonsrdf) Lewis J McGibbney > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > DistributedLog > > > > DistributedLog is a high-performance replicated log service. It offers > > durability, replication and strong consistency, which provides a > > fundamental > > building block for building reliable distributed systems. > > > > DistributedLog has been incubating since 2016-06-24. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Getting an Apache release out > > 2. Improve general documentation > > 3. Grow user base > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > There is currently no issue. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > 1. A few people began actively to involve in the project discussion > > 2. Some project ideas have been initiated and discussed on the mailing > > list > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > 1. The wiki has been filled up with development and contribution > > information. > > 2. The existing website content has been pushed to asf-site branch and > > live under http://distributedlog.incubator.apache.org. The new > > website > > has been discussed. > > 3. The pom file was updated to follow Apache's principle and the status > > page is updated. > > 4. Various project ideas are under developing. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > N/A > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > N/A > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](distributedlog) Flavio Junqueira > > [X](distributedlog) Chris Nauroth > > [X](distributedlog) Henry Saputra > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Edgent > > > > Apache Edgent is a programming model and micro-kernel style runtime > that > > can be embedded in gateways and small footprint edge devices enabling > > local, real-time, analytics on the continuous streams of data coming > from > > equipment, vehicles, systems, appliances, devices and sensors of all > > kinds > > (for example, Raspberry Pis or smart phones). Working in conjunction > with > > centralized analytic systems, Apache Edgent provides efficient and > timely > > analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the center to the edge. > > > > Edgent has been incubating since 2016-02-29. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Create and expand a diverse community of contributors and committers > > around Edgent project > > 2. Set up new build system, allowing us to remove code dependencies > from > > our repository > > 3. Create the first Apache release of Edgent > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > No > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > Significant progress has been made on a new build system, using > Gradle. > > One of the goals is to remove third party code, so we can work toward a > > release. > > > > The community has been active and participating in voting. Heavy > commit > > activity, but light Jira activity, recently as the name change was > > implemented in the code, documentation and web site. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > According to JIRA, the project has added the following: > > > > * June: 29 new issues; 22 issues resolved. > > * July: 20 new issues; 15 issues resolved. > > * August: 7 new issues; 7 issues resolved. > > > > August activity was largely build and renaming activities, tracked > under > > a > > few Jira issues. > > > > The name for the project was changed from Apache Quarks to Apache > Edgent. > > The new name went through a suitable name search and was approved. The > > infrastructure, code and documentation changes have been completed. > > > > A logo was voted on and chosen, and a wiki was set up for the Edgent > > community. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > We have not created an Apache release as of yet. We need to complete > > build > > changes and licensing work to create a release. > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > In May, we added two new committers and PPMC members, Kathy Saunders > and > > Queenie Ma. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](edgent) Daniel Debrunner > > [ ](edgent) Luciano Resende > > [X](edgent) Katherine Marsden > > [X](edgent) Justin Mclean > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Fineract > > > > Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform. > > > > Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Getting a first release out – we are still inhibited by Hibernate > > issues > > which are more deeply rooted than we realized. > > 2. Moving the community from the Mifos infrastructure to the Apache > > infrastructure – most discussions are taking place out of public > view. > > 3. Resolving the questions around introduction of a rework of the > > original > > code – in particular repository/infrastructure/release questions > > which > > result from the microservice architecture. > > > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > The person who creates and submits the board reports will cease to > > perform > > this task until the code rework is ready to be introduced to the > > community. > > It is possible that this will endanger the board reports. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > Several prospective new committers have recently joined the Mifos > > community > > through Google Summer of Code and as new partners that we are working > to > > add as committers to the Apache Fineract. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > We have tried and failed to produce an apache release again. A release > > was > > produced by the mifos community outside of apache and announced on the > > apache fineract user list. > > > > The release included work intended to move us closer to apache > policies. > > In particular, the removal of Hibernate annotations from the code > > uncovered > > a circular dependency in the data structure which was not caught in > > testing. Two production systems from early adopters are out-of-service > > today. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > XXXX-XX-XX > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > Jim Jagielski was added as a mentor. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler > > [ ](fineract) Greg Stein > > [ ](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik > > [ ](fineract) Jim Jagielski > > > > Shepherd/Mentor 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. Make initial Apache branded release and release on a regular > schedule. > > 2. Continue to evolve community interest and support. > > 3. Integrate with Apache Beam and akka-streams frameworks. > > > > 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? > > > > Increased community contribution on integration with Apache Cassandra. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > We released Apache Gearpump 0.8.1-incubating, which is Gearpump's first > > release as an Apache incubator project. > > > > Integration within Apache Beam (Gearpump Runner) has been merged into a > > feature branch. > > > > Continued integration within akka-streams (Gearpump Materializer). > Three > > PRs committed. > > > > 28 issues created and 18 resolved. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-08-16 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > No new committers or PMC members elected yet. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell > > [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho > > [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin > > [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon > > [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > Justin Mclean: > > > > PPMC are looking for additional mentors. > > > > -------------------- > > HTrace > > > > Apache HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed > > systems written in java. > > > > Apache HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Continue to grow the Apache HTrace community > > 2. Continue to explore projects integrating Apache HTrace > > 3. Continue to develop and release stable Apache HTrace incubating > > artifacts > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > * The dev@htrace mailing list continues to see new comers which is > > great. > > * Although a GSoC-related project was not successfully completed, the > > Apache Kudu and Apache HTrace communities have made contact. This is > > part of the drive to have more projects integrate Apache HTrace. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > * A discussion thread is currently ongoing to release HTrace 4.2. This > > will include over 40 issues addressed and may even be our last > > incubating > > release before we attempt to graduate. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > * htrace-4.1.0-incubating on March 5th, 2016 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > * None this period. Last added committer: Abraham Elmahrek - 2.11.15 > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](htrace) Jake Farrell > > [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon > > [X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney > > [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell > > [x](htrace) Billie Rinaldi > > [x](htrace) Michael Stack > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Juneau > > > > Apache Juneau is a toolkit for marshalling POJOs to a wide variety of > > content > > types using a common framework, and for creating sophisticated self- > > documenting REST interfaces and microservices using VERY little code. > > > > Juneau has been incubating since 2016-06-24. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Build up community with non-IBM and non-Salesforce contributors. > > 2. Release a version of the product to spark external interest in the > > project. > > 3. Need to determine where built libraries will be hosted for download. > > > > 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? > > > > No new members in August. The hope is that a release of the product > will > > spark interest. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > Website is now running. > > Jira is now running and accepting bug reports. > > Jenkins is now running and producing builds. > > Confluence space has been created with articles for developers to get > > started contributing. > > Passes apache-rat check. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > None. > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](juneau) Craig Russell > > [ ](juneau) Jochen Wiedmann > > [X](juneau) John D. Ament > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > log4cxx2 > > > > Logging for C++. N.B. This is a reboot of the Log4cxx podling which > > previously graduated. > > > > log4cxx2 has been incubating since 2013-12-09. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Create a release > > 2. Activate some community > > 3. > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > There was a discussion in the first quarter of the year to move the > > project to attic unless it is able to release in the next few months. > No > > release happened since then. > > > > There was a discussion about some kind of "maintenance mode" where > > releases > > and community growth doesn't matter much. As that mode doesn't exist, > it > > has been suggested to release, graduate from incubator and just live > > along > > other logging projects and in a comparable state like log4cxx. > > > > Currently it seems that there's only one official project member with > > commit access left answering mails. Even though that member and some > > contributors worked on being able to create a release in the past, > > contrary > > to expectations that project member didn't find the time to deal with a > > release as necessary. > > > > It seems most likely that if a release doesn't happen until the next > > report > > is due, it won't at all anymore. At least not by that one left member. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > One new contributor took quite some time to look and fix the release > > process. Two support mails from users, no new project members. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > Robert Middleton took quite some time to look at the build and release > > process on Windows and Linux in the last two months and came to the > > conclusion that the current Maven based process for both seems broken. > > He provided a shell based alternative for the release and CMAKE build > > starting points, which hasn't been merged into or tested by the project > > yet. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2008-04-03 was the last official, pre-incubation 0.10.0 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](log4cxx2) Ralph Goers > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > Drew Farris: > > > > One mentor active within in the past month. There is a single active > > committer and minor progress towards a release. The current build > > system > > is proving problematic for the contributor involved. There is some > > discussion about moving to the attic and this seems appropriate > > > > -------------------- > > Mnemonic > > > > Apache Mnemonic is an advanced hybrid memory storage oriented library, > > we've > > proposed a non-volatile/durable Java object model and durable computing > > service that bring several advantages to significantly improve the > > performance of massive real-time data processing/analytics. developers > are > > able to use this library to design their cache-less and SerDe-less high > > performance applications. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Apache releases: we have release version 0.2.0-incubating > > 2. Encouraging community participation and contribution > > 3. Invented Durable Computing Model and Service on top of Durable > Object > > Model > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > No. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > Our last report was in April. Since then > > > > * Twelve new contributors have joined and seven contributors have > > submitted > > their patches. > > * We need to encourage more discussion on the dev list in the coming > > months > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > * Added memory service and testcases > > * Added computing service and testcases > > * Re-organized sub-modules > > * Added Apache Rat and Checkstyle to ensure compliance > > * Added release.sh, runall.sh script tools > > * Supported Docker dev. construction > > * Removed the dependency of customized 3rd party library > > * Removed the dependency of special version of nvml > > * Constructed project website (WIP) > > * Supported discrete addressing for memory service > > * and other bugfixes, features, improvements > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-08-02 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > None > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt > > [X](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell > > [x](mnemonic) James Taylor > > [ ](mnemonic) Henry Saputra > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > -------------------- > > MRQL > > > > MRQL is a query processing and optimization system for large-scale, > > distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop, Hama, Spark, > and > > Flink. > > > > MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Increase the number of active committers > > 2. Increase adoption, expand user community, and increase user list > > activity > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > No > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > There were no new developers or new committers since our last report. > > There are two UTA students who are developing code for the MRQL project > > as > > part of their Master's thesis, but they have not participated in the > MRQL > > community yet. One is working on implementing MRQL streaming with > Apache > > Storm and he is scheduled to complete it by the end of the year. The > > other > > student is working on MRQL data visualization. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > There were 8 JIRA issues reported from which 6 have already been > > resolved. > > The main work during this period was on algebra-based and source-level > > debugging of MRQL queries. Basically, MRQL query results are annotated > > with lineage information that links each result value with the input > data > > that were used to calculate the value. We hope that this debugger will > > be > > a valuable tool for developing and understanding MRQL queries. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-03-02 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > 2014-04-17 > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](mrql) Alan Cabrera > > [ ](mrql) Edward J. Yoon > > [ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > -------------------- > > Myriad > > > > Myriad enables co-existence of Apache Hadoop YARN and Apache Mesos > together > > on the same cluster and allows dynamic resource allocations across both > > Hadoop and other applications running on the same physical data center > > infrastructure. > > > > Myriad has been incubating since 2015-03-01. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Expand user/contributor/committer community > > 2. Gather more support from Hadoop and Mesos vendors > > 3. Release new versions (0.3 in planning), with more enterprise > features > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > None. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > * dev@ mailing list picked up traffic (153 messages in June) around > the > > 0.2.0 release. 236 messages since the last report. > > * 6 new members on the dev@ mailing list. 3 new patch contributors. > > * Bi-weekly dev syncs with 2-5 participants. Some cancelled due to lack > > of > > attendance. Minutes at http://s.apache.org/8kF > > * Myriad to be presented at HadoopWorld/Strata NYC and a talk submitted > > for > > ApacheCon BigData EU. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > * Myriad 0.2.0 released. Myriad 0.3.0 in development/planning. > > * 10 commits since 6/1. 8 JIRAs resolved. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-06-20 myriad-0.2.0-incubating > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > 2016-06-16 Yuliya Feldman > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman > > [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper > > [ ](myriad) Ted Dunning > > [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Omid > > > > Omid is a flexible, reliable, high performant and scalable ACID > > transactional > > framework that allows client applications to execute transactions on top > of > > MVCC key/value-based NoSQL datastores (currently Apache HBase) providing > > Snapshot Isolation guarantees on the accessed data. > > > > Omid has been incubating since 2016-03-28. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Boost project dissemination in the Apache community. > > 2. Collaborate/integrate Omid with other Apache projects. > > 3. Get positive feedback from other projects currently > integrating/using > > Omid. > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > N/A > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > * Omid presented at Hadoop Summit 2016 in San Jose. Some attendants > > manifested interest and asked for future plans of integrating Omid > with > > Apache Phoenix. > > * First contact with Apache DistributedLog community for a possible > > integration with Omid. > > * Blog entry on Apache Omid ready to be published in Yahoo's hadoop > blog > > site. > > * Quarter Stats (from: 2016-06-01 to: 2016-08-31): > > +---------------------------------------------+ > > | Metric | counts | > > +---------------------------------------------+ > > | # of msgs in dev list | 204 | > > | Active Contributors (incl mentors)| 6 | > > | Jira New Issues | 10 | > > | Resolved Issues | 12 | > > | Pull Requests merged | 7 | > > | Pull Requests proposed | 10 | > > +---------------------------------------------+ > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > First version of Omid released under the Apache incubator program. It > has > > also been integrated with the Apache Hive project. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-06-24 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > At incubation acceptance (2016-03-28) > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](omid) Alan Gates > > [ ](omid) Lars Hofhansl > > [ ](omid) Flavio P. Junqueira > > [ ](omid) Thejas Nair > > [x](omid) James Taylor > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Pirk > > > > Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR). > > > > Pirk has been incubating since 2016-06-17. The initial code for Pirk was > > granted on 2016-07-11. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Grow the community to establish diversity of background and > expertise. > > 2. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for > > dependable > > release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development > > process. > > 3. Add to and improve the Pirk user documentation and examples both on > > the > > website and in the codebase > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > None. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > We have officially welcomed two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel > > Marthi, both also mentors). The mailing list activity, pull requests, > and > > page views to the Apache Pirk website (via Google Analytics) have also > > greatly increased since the last report. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > The project completed it's first release, 0.1.0-incubating, since the > > last > > report and provided a release guide on its website documenting the > > process. > > Additionally, the project has ensured that all dependencies are > compliant > > with the Apache License version 2.0 and that all code and documentation > > artifacts have the correct Apache licensing markings and notice. The > > project has also undertaken a refactor of some of the initial packages > > and > > provided initial streaming implementations. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > August 29, 2016 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > Pirk elected two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel Marthi, both > > mentors) on August 18, 2016. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [x](pirk) Billie Rinaldi > > [ ](pirk) Joe Witt > > [X](pirk) Josh Elser > > [X](pirk) Suneel Marthi > > [X](pirk) Tim Ellison > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > Josh Elser: > > > > Extremely happy to see the first release completed so soon after > > entering incubation. Very pleased with the interaction and > > responsiveness at PPMC and IPMC levels during the vote process. They > > are > > well on their way. > > > > Suneel Marthi: > > > > I must add that the first release candidate was put out for PPMC/IPMC > > Vote in less than a month since the initial code was pushed to the > > apache github repo. > > > > -------------------- > > Pony Mail > > > > Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, > > that > > can be integrated with many email platforms. > > > > Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Grow the community > > 2. Make contributions easier (lower the bar for hacking on > code/docs/UI) > > 3. Increase awareness of the project > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > None > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > Slight uptick in active members of the community, we now count roughly > 10 > > active people participating either on the mailing list or IRC. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > Work has begun on a redesign of the UI, allowing for contributions more > > easily. This is codenamed 'coffee and cake', and is expected to reach > a > > usable phase in a month or two. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-08-02 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > None since inception. See graduation info point 1. The codebase needs > to > > be more accessible before contributions can occur. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer > > [X](ponymail) John D. Ament > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > PredictionIO > > > > PredictionIO is an open source Machine Learning Server built on top of > > state- > > of-the-art open source stack, that enables developers to manage and > deploy > > production-ready predictive services for various kinds of machine > learning > > tasks. > > > > PredictionIO has been incubating since 2016-05-26. The initial code for > > PredictionIO was granted on 2016-06-16. A second grant of PredictionIO > > Templates is in the works and anticipated to be complete in September > 2016. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Establish a formal release schedule and process, allowing for > > dependable > > release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache way. > > 2. Grow the community to establish diversity of background. > > 3. Transition remaining former PredictionIO users from google-groups to > > ASF > > mailing lists. > > > > 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. Users have begun to migrate from the old Google group to the Apache > > user > > list > > 2. Three new contributors have become active and have been making > > consistently acceptable contributions and are on path to becoming > > committers. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > 1. The old Prediction.io docs site has been migrated to > > http://predictionio.incubator.apache.org > > 2. About seven templates from the original PredictionIO have been > ported > > to > > Apache PredictionIO, pending a decision on a 2nd grant. The pending > > 2nd > > grant will not block a PredictionIO release. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > No releases have been made yet. Present activities are focussed > towards a > > planned first Apache Release in September 2016. > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > Paul Li was elected as committer and PMC member on Aug 30, 2016. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](predictionio) Andrew Purtell > > [x](predictionio) James Taylor > > [ ](predictionio) Lars Hofhansl > > [ ](predictionio) Luciano Resende > > [ ](predictionio) Xiangrui Meng > > [X](predictionio) Suneel Marthi > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Ranger > > > > The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage > > comprehensive > > data security across the Hadoop platform. > > > > Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Increase the community participants for Apache Ranger > > 2. Re-organize documentation for easier access to end-users, new users > > and > > contributors. > > 3. Integration of Apache Ranger with other Apache Initiatives > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > None > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > 1. Mailing list activity since last report (June-01-2016 to > > August-31-2016): > > @dev 1423 > > @user 124 > > @commit 294 > > > > 2. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after > June-01-2016 > > before August-31-2016): > > Created: 155 > > Resolved: 168 > > > > 3. Adding more community members to involve in Apache Ranger > > * Added new contributors: Suneel Marthi > > * Apache Hawq community is working with Ranger to build a > > authorization engine for Apache Hawq (RANGER-782) > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > 1. Released one major release : > > 0.6.0 released on 07/18/2016 > > > > 2. Released one minor release : > > 0.6.1 released on 08/20/2016 > > > > 3. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.7.0 > > a. Working on scoping of the release and features > > > > Date of last release: > > > > August-20-2016 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > 1. Gautam Borad has been added as committer on June-29-2015 > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](ranger) Alan Gates > > [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno > > [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das > > [X](ranger) Jakob Homan > > [ ](ranger) Owen O'Malley > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > Drew Farris: > > > > Three mentors active. New release available in August. Community > > growth. Discussion of Graduation Steps. A healthy podling. > > > > -------------------- > > 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 S4, and Apache Samza. > > > > SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Perform another release > > 2. Grow the developer base > > 3. Grow the user base > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > None > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > Mailing list activity (June 2016 - August 2016): > > * @dev: 77 messages > > > > Jira issues backlog (June 2016 - August 2016): > > * Created: 1 > > * Resolved: 0 > > > > We have had interest from both the Apex and Gearpump communities. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > We have been preparing a second release of the project, which was > delayed > > due to some minor issues in the RC and then the summer break for most > > developers. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2015-07-21 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > None > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](samoa) Alan Gates > > [ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan > > [ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar > > [ ](samoa) Ted Dunning > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > SensSoft > > > > SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform > > > > SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Establishing our Users mailing list and getting incubating releases > > to the user community > > 2. Completing the initial build on our website(s) (in progress) > > 3. Consolidating our Quick Start deployment guides on Apache > > infrastructure > > (Confluence, website) that allow for an end-to-end deployment of > data > > collection services with containers for assets (Docker Images) for > > speedy deployment (in progress) > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > No > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > 1. Community members have been working with DoD and Industry partners > to > > bring them on as contributors to the project (ex. Other industry > > leaders > > in HCI/UX offerings for DoD have begun offering SensSoft products as > > part of their technical offerings). > > 2. The community has established a Twitter feed (@ApacheSensSoft) and > are > > growing our community by following others (e.g., Kitware, etc.) > > 3. Community members from Draper Labs have made arrangements to present > > at > > uie21 and the emetrics summit as exhibitors to capture community > > followers in the UI/UX and business analytics communities. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > 1. The transition to Apache Infrastructure is complete!!! > > 2. We have moved over all our development tickets into Apache Jira. All > > development is now taking place @Apache which is great. > > 3. We are working on new patches and version releases for TAP, > > UserAle.js, > > Distill products (sub projects under SENSSOFT), which will now be > > visible through commits. > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > N/A > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](senssoft) Paul Ramirez > > [X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney > > [X](senssoft) Chris Mattmann > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > Chris Mattmann: > > > > Project has primarily being Championed by Lewis John McGibbney. Lots > of > > lots of JIRA activity and mailing list activity from the Draper > > contributors, including Joshua Poore. Doing a good job starting up. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > XXXX-XX-XX > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > XXXX-XX-XX > > > > -------------------- > > 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. Grow the community. One committer was added in July, more would be > > nominated soon after releasing V1.0. We are also expanding the user > > base by participating in meetups of local organizations, including > > PyDataSG. > > 2. Optimize V1 release in terms of memory and efficiency for both > > stand-alone training and distributed training. > > 3. Add more examples and tutorials to attract users, including > deployment > > on Android phones. > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > No > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > There were 187, 100 and 69 emails from dev@ list in June 2016, July > 2016 > > and August 2016 respectively. The number of commits has increased 50% > > (about 200 commits) since last report. One new committer was added. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > We have been working on V1.0 since the last release. The vote for > > releasing > > V1.0 has been sent to the general mailing list. > > > > The new version has major improvements in term of programming > abstraction > > and usability. Some features are listed here, > > > > * Support heterogeneous hardware: CPP for CPU, CUDA for Nvidia GPU, > > OpenCL > > for other devices (including AMD GPUs) > > * New programming abstractions supporting complex deep learning models > > * Re-write the Python binding and provide running examples > > * Cross-platform (Linux and Mac OSX) > > * Upgrade the Cudnn library version to V5 for running RNN models > > * New website for documentation > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-04-20 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > 2016-07-20 > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](singa) Daniel Dai > > [X](singa) Alan Gates > > [ ](singa) Ted Dunning > > [ ](singa) Thejas Nair > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Streams > > > > Apache Streams (incubating) unifies a diverse world of digital profiles > > and online activities into common formats and vocabularies, and makes > > these datasets accessible across a variety of databases, devices, and > > platforms for streaming, browsing, search, sharing, and analytics > > use-cases. > > > > Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Community growth and PMC maturity. > > 2. Demonstrate a consistent release schedule. > > 3. Participation of project community within related standards-bodies > and > > Apache projects. > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > No commits or mailing list activity since the last report. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > No commits or mailing list activity since the last report. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > No commits or mailing list activity since the last report. > > > > No issues resolved > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2015-04-26 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > 2015-02-23: Robert Douglas elected as committer / PMC member > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](streams) Matt Franklin > > [X](streams) Ate Douma > > [ ](streams) Craig McClanahan > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > Ate Douma: > > > > As indicated in the report, the activity and community of the project > > has dwindled down to practically zero. As a consequence I've now > > raised > > the question on the dev list if better to retire the project. Unless > > this triggers some serious activity and interest from the community, > I > > expect an actual vote to retire before the next board report. > > > > -------------------- > > Tamaya > > > > Tamaya is a highly flexible configuration solution based on an modular, > > extensible and injectable key/value based design, which should provide a > > minimal but extendible modern and functional API leveraging SE, ME and EE > > environments. > > > > Tamaya has been incubating since 2014-11-14. > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > John D. Ament: > > > > The project continues to struggle. I'm not sure its recoverable as > an > > ASF project at this time. May make sense to reboot in an external > > resource, e.g. GitHub, build a true community, and then come back. > > > > -------------------- > > Taverna > > > > Taverna is a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute > > data-driven workflows. > > > > Taverna has been incubating since 2014-10-20. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Project maturity evaluation and graduation > > 2. Complete IP/license review of unreleased repositories > > 3. Further engaging user/devops community > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > Preparing to graduate. > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > The community is moving towards graduation, by preparing a > > Graduation Maturity Assessment > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAVERNADEV/ > > 2016-03+Taverna+Graduation+Maturity+Assessment > > > > While we wished we could have released all of Taverna's git > repositories > > through the Incubator before graduating, we realize that with limited > > developer time, getting all of them to a cleanly releasable state > > could remove focus from development of the core repositories. > > > > As we an important point of Incubator releases is to ensure the project > > understands the ASF release process, including release review and > voting, > > IP management and licensing compatibility; as well as accepting > > contributions. We believe we have gained that after 3 release votes > > https://archive.apache.org/dist/incubator/taverna/source/ > > and 7 GSOC/student contributors. > > > > We have however identified the need for a License Review of the > remaining > > git repositories that have not yet been formally released through the > > Apache Incubator (e.g. to ensure ASF file headers), which we are now > > completing: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAVERNADEV/ > > 2016-09+License+review > > > > We might consider not including all of these repositories as we move > > towards graduation - we already have an alternative home > > https://github.com/taverna-extras for dormant extensions. > > > > dev@taverna mailing lists stats: > > > > Jun 2016: 347 > > Jul 2016: 221 > > Aug 2016: 170 > > > > users@taverna: > > > > Jun 2016: 4 > > Jul 2016: 2 > > Aug 2016: 4 > > > > JIRA issues over last 90 days: > > > > 34 created > > 12 resolved > > > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > We have seen an upsurge in activity with > > two successful GSOC projects as well as several > > new plugins from other students. Some of them have shown interest > > in continued contributions, which we must take into account > > for proposing new committers. > > > > This have admittedly taken some focus from the committers > > from the incubator graduation path - so we're now > > putting effort back into finishing our License Review. > > > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-07-01 taverna-engine-3.1.0-incubating > > 2016-07-01 taverna-common-activities-2.1.0-incubating > > 2016-07-01 taverna-commandline-3.1.0-incubating > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > 2015-12-04 > > > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [x](taverna) Andy Seaborne > > [ ](taverna) Daniel J Debrunner > > [ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas > > [ ](taverna) Suresh Marru > > [ ](taverna) Marlon Pierce > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > Andy Seaborne: > > > > The Taverna podling is hindered by a lack of active mentors (myself > > included) - the project has appealled to general@ on a couple of > > occasions > > > > 3 of the 4 active contributors are from one institution and > > contribution > > is related to EU project commitments. The codebase is large and has > a > > long history. One option is to identify a "core" and move out the > rest > > until such time as they are sustainable. More active PMC/commiters > > would be a big boost. > > > > The comment from the last report applies: > > > > Drew Farris (shepherd): > > > > Little mentor activity on the mailing lists, could use another > > active mentor. Healthy activity in the community. > > > > -------------------- > > Tephra > > > > Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top > of > > Apache HBase and other storage engines. > > > > Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Regular releases > > 2. Improve community engagement > > 3. Increase adoption > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > - None at this time. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > - 12 subscribers in dev mailing list > > - 5 new JIRAs filed since last report > > - 2 new contributors submitted patches > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > - Working on 0.9.0 release > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-05-31 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > - None since coming to incubation > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](tephra) Alan Gates > > [X](tephra) Andrew Purtell > > [X](tephra) Henry Saputra > > [x](tephra) James Taylor > > [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > > > > Toree > > > > Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and > remotely > > access Apache Spark. It enables interactive workloads between > applications > > and a Spark cluster. As a Jupyter Notebook extension, it provides the > user > > with a preconfigured environment for interacting with Spark using Scala, > > Python, R or SQL. > > > > Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Resolve LGPL dependency: Great news! The team has just merged a PR > and > > removed the LGPL license in favor of MPL > > (https://github.com/zeromq/jeromq/pull/358) > > 2. Make a release: 0.1.x branch should be ready for release. Master has > > moved to start support for Spark 2.0 > > 3. Grow a diverse community: We should put some emphasis on growing the > > community and making it diverse (the rule is at least three > > independent > > contributors) We have 1 major independent contributor > (mariusvniekerk) > > and at least 2 minor ones > > (https://github.com/apache/incubator-toree/graphs/contributors) > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > TOREE-262 - Progress on removal of LGPL dependency - Awaiting MPL > release > > of JeroMQ. Will update branches to remove caveats re: LGPL once the > > JeroMQ > > release is available. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > 1. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters > > 2. Still working on transitioning users from Spark Kernel project into > > Toree. Making significant progress here. > > 3. More external contributions being made. Community member > > 2mariusvniekerk key in porting Toree to work on Spark 2.0. Sitting > on > > PR 56. Working with committer to finish up some details and will > merge > > when ready. This is a significant contribution. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > 1. JeroMQ community has finalized work to transition to MPL. Waiting > for > > maven release. > > 2. Addressing issues opened by community > > > > Date of last release: > > > > None since incubation. > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > No new additions since incubation > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](toree) Luciano Resende > > [ ](toree) Reynold Xin > > [ ](toree) Hitesh Shah > > [ ](toree) Julien Le Dem > > > > -------------------- > > Traffic Control > > > > Traffic Control allows you to build a large scale content delivery > network > > using open source. > > > > Traffic Control has been incubating since 2016-07-12. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Software grant from Comcast and others active in the current > > github.com/Comcast project to ASF. Discussion between Comcast and > ASF > > legal on-going, this is blocking all other progress. > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware > > of? > > > > See above issue 1. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > Established apache.org accounts for all of the initial committers. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > - Setup git repo and mailing lists. > > - Started Software Grant process. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > We released 1.6.0 on 2016-07-29 under the old process, because the > > release > > process (candidates and votes) had already started before our official > > entry in the incubator. We have started release 1.7.0 under the old > > process > > as well, since we don't have the necessary ASF infrastructure in place, > > and > > this is pending the SGA. > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > 2016-07-12 - initial committer list. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](trafficcontrol) Phil Sorber > > [X](trafficcontrol) Eric Covener > > [ ](trafficcontrol) Daniel Gruno > > [ ](trafficcontrol) J. Aaron Farr > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Trafodion > > > > Trafodion is a webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or > > operational workloads on Hadoop. > > > > Trafodion has been incubating since 2015-05-24. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Develop community and bring in more diverse contributors. > > 2. Continue the momentum and become more integrated with the > > rest of the Apache community. > > 3. Continue to create software releases and to find a release > > manager for the next one. > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > * None > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > * Participation in public lists has been relatively steady: > > 789 messages in the codereview forum, 752@commits, > > 483@dev, 1240@issues and 101@user. > > * We released Trafodion 2.0.0 (source and some binaries) and > > Trafodion 2.0.1 (source and convenience binaries). > > Steve Varnau was the release manager for both releases. > > * We announced two new committers and three new PPMC members: > > * Gunnar Tapper (committer and PPMC member), July 5 > > * Steve Varnau (existing committer, now also a PPMC member), > > Aug 18 > > * Ming Liu (committer and PPMC member), Aug 19 > > * We have seen increased activity in China. > > * We are working on a roadmap for the next release, Atanu Mishra > > has volunteered to coordinate it. > > * Community members speaking at public events: > > * Rohit Jain talked at Data Day Seattle on 7/23 > > * Rao Kakarlamudi talked at the Milpitas Big Data meetup on 8/5 > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > * Some highlights of Trafodion 2.0.0: > > * Support for Apache HBase 1.0 and Hadoop distros CDH 5.4, HDP 2.3 > > * Elasticity (adding/removing nodes from a Trafodion instance) > > * DDL operations are now transaction-protected > > * BLOB/CLOB support (preview) > > * ALTER COLUMN for all column attributes > > * Support for GBK character set in Hive tables > > * 249 commits from 24 contributors. > > * 180 JIRAs filed and 123 resolved June 1 - Aug 30. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-07-07 2.0.1 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > in August (committers and PPMC members) > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](trafodion) Devaraj Das > > [ ](trafodion) Enis Söztutar > > [ ](trafodion) Michael Stack > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Wave > > > > A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich > communication. > > It can be used like email, chat, or a document. > > > > Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Growing community > > 2. Improving code base. > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > None. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > - We have ongoing community discussion about how to bring in new > > developers > > to ensure sustainability of the project. > > > > A votation session has been scheduled (Sept 28th) to decide if Wave's > > fork > > Swellrt is brought/merged into Wave. This would bring SwellRT active > > developers into Wave and it could facilitate use of Wave by new > > developers > > thanks to a new API, removing GWT legacy code. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > - Made some code improvements > > > > Date of last release: > > > > March 2016 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > February 2016 > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](wave) Christian Grobmeier > > [ ](wave) Upayavira > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > >
