ManifoldCF is also listed as March, June, September, and December on the referenced page.
Karl On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Michael Fitzner <fitzner.mich...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I think some projects are wrong scheduled for the „October 2011 > Incubator Board Report“ The current schedule plan > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ReportingSchedule shows that projects > like Etch, Hama, Hcatalog are in the months March, June, September, > December and not in October. It would be greate if someone could > correct this in the October report. > > The Etch project had its report in September; see > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/September2011 and > http://incubator.apache.org/clutch.html > > If there was a decision to report in October too, we would like to > apologise for missing it. > > Thanks > Michael F. (Apache Etch) > > 2011/10/18 Noel J. Bergman <n...@devtech.com>: >> Most of the general discussion on the Incubator list over the past month was >> how to improve the usability of the Incubator web-site. >> >> S4 (Simple Scalable Streaming System) -- a general-purpose, distributed, >> scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows >> programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous, >> unbounded streams of data -- was voted to begin Incubation. >> >> Any23 (Anything To Triples) -- a Java library, a Web service and a set of >> command line tools to extract and validate structured data in RDF format >> from a variety of Web documents and markup formats -- was voted to begin >> Incubation. >> >> Apache DirectMemory -- a multi-layered cache implementation featuring >> off-heap memory storage (ala Terracotta BigMemory) to enable caching of Java >> objects without degrading JVM performance -- was voted to begin Incubation. >> >> Apache Callback (derived from PhonaGap) -- a platform for building native >> (Apple iOS, Google Android, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Phone 7, HP >> webOS, Nokia Symbian and Samsung Bada) mobile applications using HTML, CSS >> and JavaScript -- was voted to begin Incubation. >> >> DeltaCloud is currently voting on graduation from the Incubator. ACE is >> also discussing graduation. >> >> ETCH, HAMA, HCATALOG (managed to do a release, though), KATO, MANIFOLDCF >> (also managed to do a release, though), RAT and WAVE all failed to report >> this month. The Chair is raising the issue of what to do with these >> projects. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Accumulo >> >> Accumulo is a sorted, distributed key/value store based on BigTable's >> design. Accumulo entered incubation in September 2011. >> >> In the move towards graduation, we must address: >> 1. Learning Apache procedures >> 2. Creating releases >> 3. Building a community >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware >> of: >> Discussion is ongoing as to whether agreements other than ICLAs are needed >> or desirable for people employed by the US government to make contributions >> to Apache (see LEGAL-100). >> >> Developments since entering incubation: >> * mailing lists created >> * JIRA created >> * SVN directory and git mirror created >> * accounts for initial committers created >> * ICLAs and Software Grant filed >> * CMS-ready site begun >> * initial code uploaded >> * Jenkins build created >> * ReviewBoard group created >> >> >> ------------------- >> >> ACE >> >> Apache ACE is a software distribution framework that allows you to centrally >> manage and distribute software components, configuration data and other >> artifacts to target systems. ACE started incubation on April 24th 2009. >> >> There are currently no issues requiring board or Incubator PMC attention. >> >> Community: >> * We've got a lot of great feedback and patches from the community. >> * There have been talks with the jclouds (we use them) as well as the >> Amdatu (they use us) open source projects. >> >> Software: >> * We now have a REST client API. >> * The management agent has been extended. >> * Karaf features were added. >> * We have a server side resolver based on Apache Felix. >> >> Licensing and other issues: >> * None at the moment. >> >> Things to resolve prior to graduation: >> * We hope this is our very last board report as we think we're ready for >> graduation now! >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> Ambari >> >> Ambari is monitoring, administration and lifecycle management project for >> Apache Hadoop clusters. >> >> * Incubating since 30 August 2011. >> * Mailing lists created and mentors subscribed. >> * Confluence created. >> * Initial code committed. >> * Site created. >> * Code grant received. >> * Development proceeding actively. >> * RAT added to pom and report is clean. >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> Any23 >> >> Anything To Triples (shortly Any23) defined as a Java library, a Web service >> and a set of command line tools to extract and validate structured data in >> RDF format from a variety of Web documents and markup formats. Any23 is what >> it is informally named an RDF Distiller. >> >> A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards >> graduation >> >> 1. Port Any23 code to ASF infrastructure and update license headers >> 2. Develop a strong community with organizational diversity and with >> strong connections to other relevant ASF communities. >> 3. At least one Any23 incubating release >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC), Tika PMC, or ASF Board wish/need >> to be aware of? >> >> No, not at this time. >> >> How has the community developed since the last report? >> >> Everyone has their ASF account set up, except for Giovanni Tumarello (ICLA >> filed and Chris working on getting >> account set up). We've already moved our discussions onto the public mailing >> lists now that they are set up. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> Any23 was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on October 1, 2011. >> >> Software grants from DERI and from FBK have been filed and accepted thanks >> to Michele Mostarda. There has already >> been discussion of how to move over JIRA issues and Wiki issues from the >> Google Code site and the full issues transition >> was completed on 12/10/2011. Code imports will likely begin soon, and a >> pointer on the existing Google Code site will point to the ASF Incubator >> as the new home. Simone has created us a podling status page. Chris filed >> INFRA-3978 to track JIRA, Wiki >> and mailing list creation for podling set up. It's all taken care of (thanks >> Gav). >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> Celix >> >> Celix is an implementation of the OSGi Specification in C. >> >> Celix entered incubation on November 2, 2010. >> >> In the code not much has changed during the past few months, mostly due to >> vacations. Some (reported) bugs have been fixed, and some interesting >> examples have been added. These example where donated by a user, and follow >> the OSGi in Action book. This makes them a great addition to Celix. >> Furthermore, some work has been done to make testing from CMake easier, and >> we are also looking into a method for mocking services to be able to test >> only one service without all its dependencies. >> >> On the community site, Luminis and Thales are organizing an event (in Dutch) >> to introduce embedded/distributed companies to OSGi. During this event OSGi >> will be explained, Celix and PojoSR will be introduced. Also a small >> introduction in Apache and the "Apache Way" will be given, with the goal to >> invite people to use/join Celix. >> Also, in november a talk and demo will be given at the ApacheCon. >> >> Most important issues are: >> >> Improve robustness (APR, error handling etc) >> Generate awareness and grow a community! >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> Chukwa >> >> Chukwa is Hadoop monitoring system >> >> Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring large >> distributed systems. >> >> A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards >> graduation >> >> 1. Simplify the build process and provide sample to use cases. >> 2. At least one Apache Incubator release. >> 3. Develop a strong community with organizational diversity and well >> aligned with existing ASF projects as outlined here: >> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ChukwaProposal#Alignment >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware >> of? >> >> No, not at this time. >> >> How has the community developed since the last report? >> >> There are some activity on the user mailing list, and some new users >> participated in adopting Chukwa for processing and visualizing big data >> analytics. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> There are several bug fixes, and migration to Hadoop Metrics 2 for Hadoop >> 0.20.203+. >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> Deft >> >> Deft is a non-blocking, asynchronous, event driven high performance web >> framework running on the JVM. The project entered incubation on 2011-07-08. >> >> The most important issues to address in moving to graduation: >> >> 1. Prepare an initial incubation release. >> 2. Attract more committers, and other community members. >> 3. Secure the previously used URL, "deftserver.org". >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware >> of? >> - Not at this time. >> >> How has the community developed since the last report? >> - There have been no significant developments. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> - Outstanding tasks are still being worked on, and the branch has been moved >> to trunk. >> - There is a vote pending on project name change, a task previously >> identified as needing to be addressed before graduation. >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> Easyant >> >> Easyant is a build system based on Apache Ant and Apache Ivy. Incubating >> since 2011-01-31. >> >> Towards graduation, we need to: >> * Creating a release >> * Building a community >> >> Since the last report: >> * an initial committer of Easyant didn't provided its iCLA. Hence an >> iterative cleanup of the code has been done together with developers and >> mentors. This cleanup is finished, the IP clearance is considered done, >> acknowledge by mentors. >> * no particular progress on the diversity of the community >> * discussion has started to how setup the build which will fit the ASF >> release guidelines >> >> >> ------------------- >> >> Empire-db >> >> Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows >> developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application development >> than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow highly efficient >> database operations in combination with a maximum of compile-time-safety and >> DBMS independence. Empire-db has entered Incubation in August 2008. >> >> Activity since last report: >> * a lot of work on the code has been done in order to address architectural >> changes that may significantly improve the ease-of-use and robustness of the >> code. These changes have been the biggest core code changes since >> incubation. >> * Testing of the new features and preparation of a new release are in >> progress >> >> Community >> * many of our committers have worked and contributed to this upcoming >> release especially all new committers that have joined the project since >> incubation. This gives us confidence that community improvements are slow >> but steady and that once people have learned about the benefits of Empire-db >> they will stick to it. >> * requests of new users on mailing lists have been answered and problems >> have been solved. >> >> Top priorities prior to graduation: >> * Finish and publish the release >> * Go out and advertise the benefits of Empire-db in general and the >> advantages of the new features in particular >> >> Signed off by mentor: >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> Etch >> >> FAILED TO REPORT >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> Giraph >> >> Giraph is a large-scale, fault-tolerant, Bulk Synchronous Parallel >> (BSP)-based graph processing framework that runs on Hadoop. Giraph >> entered the incubator in August 2011. >> >> Project developments: >> >> * JIRA activity steadily increased (57 issues reported so far) >> * added Jake Mannix and Dmitriy Ryaboy as committers/PPMC members >> >> >> Next steps: >> * Making a release. >> * Update on 1 initial committer who still hasn't filed an ICLA. He >> will fill off the ICLA by next week. >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> Hama >> >> FAILED TO REPORT >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> HCatalog >> >> Managed to do a release, but FAILED TO REPORT >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> Kafka >> >> (introduced to Apache incubator on Jul 4, 2011) >> >> Kafka provides an extremely high throughput distributed publish/subscribe >> messaging system. Additionally, it supports relatively long term persistence >> of messages to support a wide variety of consumers, partitioning of the >> message stream across servers and consumers, and functionality for loading >> data into Apache Hadoop for offline, batch processing. >> >> A list of the most important issues to address in the move towards >> graduation >> >> 1. Successful podling release. >> 2. Invite diverse new active committers >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware >> of? >> >> Not at this time. >> >> How has the community developed since the last report? >> >> We are getting very close to release the very first version of Kafka in >> Apache. A couple of RCs have been proposed and we are still fixing various >> license header issues reported by rat. The proposed RC fixed more than 40 >> issues. The main feature added in the RC is end-to-end compression support. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> Activities in the mailing list remain high. Several patches from >> non-committers have been submitted, reviewed and committed. >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> Kalumet >> >> *Apache Kalumet* >> >> Kalumet a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE >> environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and >> resources. >> >> Kalumet was accepted into Apache Incubator on September 20, 2011. See >> [Vote|http://markmail.org/message/2aadus43wut7e3pi] >> >> Status Page information: >> [http://incubator.apache.org/projects/kalumet.html]. >> >> First report: >> * Creation of mailing list. >> * Creation of Jira project. >> * Creation of Confluence Space. >> * Various committers account creation. >> * Pending: svn repository (svndump has been provided) >> >> Issues before graduation >> * Create Kalumet web site. >> * Make an incubating release. >> * Grow the community size and diversity. >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> Kato >> >> FAILED TO REPORT >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> Lucy >> >> Lucy is a loose port of the Apache Lucene search engine library, written in >> C >> and targeted at dynamic language users. >> >> Lucy was voted into the Incubator on July 22, 2010. >> >> Progress since the last report: >> >> * Released versions 0.2.0 and 0.2.1. >> * Added new committer Brad Harder. >> * Technical developments: >> * Eliminated one of two remaining dependencies covered by LEGAL-86 >> (JSON::XS). Only Parse::RecDescent remains. >> * Reestablished Windows portability. >> * Continued Clownfish C porting. >> >> Top priorities prior to graduation: >> >> * Disperse knowledge of codebase among developers. >> >> Issues for Incubator PMC or ASF Board: >> >> * None at this time. >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> ManifoldCF >> >> FAILED TO REPORT >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> Mesos >> >> * Implementation of a replicated log has been completed (based on Paxos). >> Next steps will be to use the log to enable the Mesos masters to have an >> accurate snapshot of the currently running frameworks, currently connected >> slaves, etc. This will enable the Mesos master to be able to launch the >> schedulers rather than them needing to be launched independently. In >> addition, the log will be useful to give to schedulers that want >> high-availability. >> >> * Numerous bugs have been fixed by new contributors: Vinod Kone, Brian >> Wickman, John Sirois. >> >> * Numerous bug fixes and features were added surrounding the interaction >> Mesos has with ZooKeeper, including in-process ZooKeeper testing >> (contributed by John Sirois). >> >> * Progress has been made on moving the build system to autotools. We'd like >> to accomplish this before trying to do a release. >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> ODFToolkit >> >> The ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation, >> scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) >> documents. Unlike other approaches which rely on runtime manipulation of >> heavy-weight editors via an automation interface, the ODF Toolkit is >> lightweight and ideal for server use. >> >> * ODF Toolkit entered incubation on Aug 1st, 2011. >> >> * Most important issues to address. >> 1) Growing the community, increasing diversity of committers >> 2) Completing IP review and updating headers >> 3) Successful podling release. >> >> * Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware >> of >> None at this time. >> >> * How has the community developed since the last report >> The mailing lists are ready now for 55 days. We have 36 subscribers. >> We're starting to receive patches from new contributors. >> >> * How has the project developed since the last report. >> >> Legacy Bugzilla issue tracker has been migrated to the Apache JIRA instance. >> We're now working on the details of source and binary release directory >> layouts and build automation to support the same in preparation for our >> first release. >> >> We're exploring enabling Jenkins support for the build. >> >> >> --------------------- >> >> Olio >> >> Olio is a web 2.0 toolkit to help developers evaluate the suitability, >> functionality and performance of various web technologies by implementing >> a reasonably complex application in several different technologies. >> Olio entered incubation in October 2008 >> >> There is no development activity on this project. There was at least 1 new >> user in the last quarter who used Olio. >> >> Graduation From Incubation: >> >> The user base is not showing growth. Since this is a test >> application/workload, >> it is being used as such for short-term projects. >> I think the decision was made to simply keep the project so users can >> continue to access it. >> -------------------- >> # Oozie >> >> * Oozie is a workflow management and scheduler primarily for Hadoop based >> jobs. >> * Oozie entered the incubation on July 11, 2011. >> >> * A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards >> graduation: >> >> * Make the first Oozie release from Apache incubation. >> * Improve the documentations: user, development for quicker adoption >> * Establish the formal contribution process (such as CTR vs RTC) >> >> >> * Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware >> of: >> >> * No issues. >> >> * How has the community developed since the last report: >> * Oozie user entirely moved to Apache Incubator using new user group >> email for communication. >> * Oozie-user email list is active and nearly 75 emails were exchanged in >> last month. >> * oozie-dev email list had nearly 150 emails in last month. >> >> * How has the project developed since the last report. >> >> * Development is completely based on Oozie code from Apache SVN. >> * Development activity became stronger during the last month. Nearly 12 >> people created 24 JIRA in last month. >> * Extensively using review-board for patches. Development community has >> addressed nearly 20 code reviews. >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> OpenOffice.org >> >> * OpenOffice.org entered incubation 2011-06-13. >> >> OpenOffice.org is an open-source, office-document productivity suite >> providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format >> (ODF). OpenOffice.org is released on multiple platforms. Its localizations >> support 110 languages worldwide. >> >> * Most Important To Address: >> >> 1) Migration of the remaining legacy OpenOffice.org website's content and >> services to Apache infrastructure, including wiki, forums, mailing lists, >> and cross-service registration using customized software not already >> supported by Apache projects and infrastructure. Successful negotiation of >> governance migration of user-supported services brought under incubation. >> Resolution of copyright, license and notice for content miugrated from >> legacy OpenOffice.org website. >> >> 2) Completion of the IP-review portions of the incubation checklist, which >> will require getting an amended SGA from Oracle to cover additional source >> files; scrubbing of incompatible notices from SGA-licensed code and >> resolving provenance of other existing materials being migrated. There are >> serveral modules that have non-compliant dependencies which will need to be >> resolved. >> >> 3) A Successful Podling Release >> >> * Issues for IPMC or ASF Board Awareness >> >> None >> >> * Community Development Progress >> >> As of 2011-10-12 there are 76 committers with 55 on the PPMC, compared to 72 >> and 55 at last report. >> >> To serve our Japanese contributor base we've added an ooo-general-ja list. >> >> Active discussions with an autonomous group that runs a support bulletin >> board for OpenOffice on the possibility of that community joining the AOOo >> project. >> >> Discussion of criteria for bringing on new committers and PPMC members, and >> whether or not there should be a separate criteria for each role, as well as >> how these decisions should be communicated to the project. >> >> Discussion of roles for PPMC members including TDF liaison, branding, press, >> and legal affairs. >> >> * Project Development Progress >> >> Dev focus has been on IP review and replacement of copyleft dependencies. >> >> Detailed planning continues on public wiki: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/ >> >> Migration of several parts of the OpenOffice.org infrastructure are in >> various stages. >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> RAT >> >> FAILED TO REPORT >> >> >> -------------------- >> >> S4 >> >> S4 (Simple Scalable Streaming System) is a general-purpose, distributed, >> scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows >> programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous, >> unbounded streams of data. >> >> S4 entered incubation on September 26th 2011. >> >> * Issues before graduation >> 1. Migrate code from github to Apache SVN and make an initial release on >> Apache with the current code (version 0.4 = version 0.3 + checkpointing + >> bugfixes) >> 2. All committers to get ICLA >> 3. Migrate web site from s4.io to Apache infrastructure >> 4. Complete the current work on the new version (0.5), which is a major >> refactoring in order to simplify concepts, API, and introduce new features >> such as dynamic deployment and reliable channels >> 5. Grow the community >> >> >> Community >> 1. Mailing lists have been created. We are already using them. >> 2. Jira initialized and started to track issues >> 3. Karma granted for committers with ICLA >> 4. Confluence Wiki space created >> 5. IRC channel set-up >> >> >> Project developments >> 1. We have pre-Apache releases on github and our current effort mostly >> focused on a major refactoring of the codebase. Goal is to have it ready >> soon so that we don't need to support 2 distinct concurrent versions. >> >> >> ------------------- >> >> Tashi >> >> Tashi has been incubating since September 2008. >> >> The Tashi project aims to build a software infrastructure for cloud >> computing >> on massive internet-scale datasets (what we call Big Data). The idea is to >> build a cluster management system that enables the Big Data that are stored >> in >> a cluster/data center to be accessed, shared, manipulated, and computed on >> by >> remote users in a convenient, efficient, and safe manner. >> >> Tashi has previously encompassed just the tools to manage virtual >> machines using Xen and KVM, but is gaining the facility to hand out >> physical machines as well. >> >> Development activities have included:- >> * Zoni has been merged into the mainline code trunk >> * Additional capability added to Zoni >> * Implement hint to influence scheduler packing policy >> * Reject incorrect arguments to tashi-client to prevent >> unintended defaults from being used >> * Migrated to rpyc version 3.1 >> * Add "free capacity" info function to Tashi >> * Support for auto creation of zoni tftp boot menus >> * Fixed deadlocks in clustermanager >> * Rewrite CM to concentrate decay handlers into one spot >> * Use Linux LVM for local scratch space creation >> * VMM is now authoritative to what is running >> * Retry deploying held VMs at a later time >> >> The project is still working toward building a larger user and development >> community. User groups have been identified in Ireland, Slovenia and Korea, >> Malaysia, as well as at Georgia Tech. >> >> Items to be resolved before graduation: >> * A stable branch exists which could be a release candidate, but >> the codebase is large and test hardware is currently in >> short supply. We are confident that the code in the stablefix >> branch will work if running QEMU emulation, Pickle or sqlite >> data storage, primitive scheduler. Xen, other data stores and >> schedulers have not been tested recently. >> * Should have example accounting code (data is kept, but >> intepretation is currently manual) >> * Develop community diversity (Committers currently at Telefonica, >> Google and CMU) >> >> -------------------- >> >> VXQuery >> >> The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor. It >> has been in incubation since 2009-07-06. >> >> Recent activities: >> >> * activity picked-up a little in August and September >> * considering direction of the project >> >> Top issues before graduation: >> >> * Create a release >> * Build community (developer and users) >> >> Signed off by mentor: >> >> -------------------- >> >> Wave >> >> FAILED TO REPORT >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
