Hi John, others! Will file a batchee report today.
LieGrue, strub On Thursday, 7 August 2014, 2:15, John D. Ament <john.d.am...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >All, > >Today end of day all podling reports are due. Below is the draft report >that will be handed to the board. Please review, you still have a couple >of hours (technically) to get edits in. > >Mentors, at this point please start reviewing your podlings reports and >sign off on them as appropriate. > >Thanks, > >John > >= Incubator PMC report for August 2014 = > >=== Timeline === >||Wed August 06 ||Podling reports due by end of day || >||Sun August 10 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day || >||Sun August 10 ||Summary due by end of day || >||Tue August 12 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day || >||Wed August 13 ||Report submitted to Board || >||Wed August 20 ||Board meeting || > > >=== Shepherd Assignments === >||Alan D. Cabrera ||Optiq || >||Alan D. Cabrera ||Twill || >||Andrei Savu ||Flink || >||Andrei Savu ||Hadoop Development Tools || >||Dave Fisher ||Celix || >||John D. Ament ||Sirona || >||John D. Ament ||Slider || >||Justin Mclean ||BatchEE || >||Konstantin Boudnik ||Fleece || >||Konstantin Boudnik ||Parquet || >||Matthew Franklin ||Argus || >||Matthew Franklin ||Droids || >||Raphael Bircher ||Kalumet || >||Raphael Bircher ||NPanday || >||Suresh Marru ||Blur || >||Suresh Marru ||Brooklyn || > >=== Report content === >{{{ >Incubator PMC report for August 2014 > >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 > > New IPMC members: > > > People who left the IPMC: > > > >* New Podlings > >Argus > >* Graduations > > The board has motions for the following: > >N/A - included in last month. > >* Releases > > The following releases were made since the last Incubator report: > >Apache Tez-0.4.1-incubating RC0 >Apache Slider 0.40-incubating RC0 >Apache Blur 0.2.3-incubating RC2 >Apache Metamodel incubating 4.2.0 >Apache DeviceMap BrowserMap incubating 1.4.1 >Apache HDT version 0.0.2.incubating (RC1) > >* IP Clearance > >Brooklyn CAMP Server >Sling Query contribution >BigCouch updates to Apache CouchDB > >* Legal / Trademarks > > > >* Infrastructure > > > >* Miscellaneous > > > >-------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- > >* Still getting started at the Incubator > >Sirona >Twill > >* Not yet ready to graduate > > No release: > >Argus >Brooklyn >Fleece >Flink >Optiq > > Community growth: > >Blur >Hadoop Development Tools > >* Ready to graduate > > The Board has motions for the following: > > > >* Did not report, expected next month > >BatchEE >Celix (graduated, please remove from clutch tks) >Parquet > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Table of Contents >Argus >BatchEE >Blur >Brooklyn >Celix >Droids >Fleece >Flink >Hadoop Development Tools >Kalumet >NPanday >Optiq >Parquet >Sirona >Slider >Twill > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >-------------------- >Argus > >The Argus project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive >data security across the Hadoop platform. > >Argus has been incubating since 2014-07-24. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Get all podling committers and mentors on mailing lists > 2. Publish initial code drop along with a code grant > 3. Get approval for name of Argus (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-54) > 4. Create a project website > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware of? > > As part of the discussion about entering incubator, we added a second >mentor (Daniel Gruno) from outside of Hortonworks. > >How has the community developed since the last report? > > * podling accepted into incubator > * all committers have ICLA filed and accounts created > * Jira created > * status page created > * git repostiory created > * mailing lists created > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > This is the first report. > >Date of last release: > > none yet > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > none yet > >Signed-off-by: > > [X](argus) Alan Gates > [ ](argus) Daniel Gruno > [X](argus) Devaraj Das > [X](argus) Jakob Homan > [X](argus) Owen O'Malley > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > >-------------------- >BatchEE > >BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and a >set of useful extensions for this specification. > >BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. > 2. > 3. > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware of? > > > >How has the community developed since the last report? > > > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > > >Date of last release: > > XXXX-XX-XX > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré > [ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy > [ ](batchee) Mark Struberg > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > >-------------------- >Blur > >Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data >in a cloud computing environment. > >Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. It is unclear if we can get the Trademark assign document provided by > trademarks@ signed by Near Infinity. The company no longer exists. > 2. > 3. > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware of? > > Other than the issue with the Trademark assignment listed above, no. > >How has the community developed since the last report? > > We continue to be small but active. > - Subscriptions: user@ - 61[+7]; dev@ - 67[+6] > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > Apache Blur has released a stable version and has started development of >a new feature set that should help grow the adoption of the technology. >This new feature set is being driven through community interaction and >development. > >Date of last release: > > 2014-07-29 > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2014-07-28 > >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](blur) Doug Cutting > [X](blur) Patrick Hunt > [X](blur) Tim Williams > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > >-------------------- >Brooklyn > >Brooklyn is a framework for modelling, monitoring, and managing applications >through autonomic blueprints. > >Brooklyn has been incubating since 2014-05-01. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Performing our first release under Apache > 2. Grow the community > 3. More diversity of the committers/PPMC (currently biased towards > employees of a single organisation) > >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? > > No major changes - the community is still small, but is attracting a > new names on the mailing list and IRC channel, including some code > contributions. > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > Development is in full progress and we have settled in to our new > home at the Incubator, and are preparing to make our first release. > >Date of last release: > > No releases under Apache yet. > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > No change since last report, when two new committers/PPMC members > joined (2014-07-02) > >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](brooklyn) Matt Hogstrom > [ ](brooklyn) Alex Karasulu > [ ](brooklyn) David Nalley > [ ](brooklyn) Marcel Offermans > [ ](brooklyn) Jean-Baptiste Onofré > [ ](brooklyn) Olivier Lamy > [ ](brooklyn) Chip Childers > [ ](brooklyn) Andrei Savu > [ ](brooklyn) Joe Brockmeier > [ ](brooklyn) Jim Jagielski > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > >-------------------- >Celix > >Celix is an OSGi like implementation in C with a distinct focus on >interoperability between Java and C. > >Celix has been incubating since 2010-11-02. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. > 2. > 3. > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware of? > > > >How has the community developed since the last report? > > > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > > >Date of last release: > > XXXX-XX-XX > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](celix) Marcel Offermans > [ ](celix) Karl Pauls > [ ](celix) Roman Shaposhnik > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > >-------------------- >Droids > >Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to >create and extend existing droids (robots). > >Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Activity > 2. Name Search > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware of? > >None. The previous goal of conducting the name search was not met due to >time availability. Outlook is much more promising this quarter. > >How has the community developed since the last report? > No change. Name search is one big outstanding piece to complete, and it >is rather intimidating. > It is hoped that one of the more experienced individuals will have time >to complete it this quarter. > That should help with participation once the final name is known. > > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > No change. > >Date of last release: > > 2012-10-15 > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2012-05-07 > >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](droids) Thorsten Scherler > [X](droids) Richard Frovarp > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > >-------------------- >Fleece > >Implementation of JSR 353: JavaTM API for JSON Processing. > >Fleece has been incubating since 2014-06-09. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Rename the project due to naming conflicts with "Fleece". > Proposed name is "Johnzon". > 2. Expanding the community, increase dev list activity and adding > new committers. > 3. Publish first incubator release. > > The Fleece project status page at >http://incubator.apache.org/projects/fleece > needs updating but that would be pending on #1 due to many items on the >status- > page need to be re-visited once #1 is settled. > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware of? > > * Project have to be renamed because of naming conflicts with "Fleece". > * Waiting for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-53 > >How has the community developed since the last report? > > * There have been several patches submitted from a current non-committer > and we’re hoping to be able to mentor that person toward becoming a >committer. > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > * Several issues were reported an fixed (mainly core performance and API >compliance enhancements). > * Lots of new unittests added. > >Date of last release: > > * No releases as of yet. > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > * N/A > >Signed-off-by: > > [ X ](fleece) Justin Mclean > [ ](fleece) Christian Grobmeier > [ X ](fleece) Daniel Kulp > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > >-------------------- >Flink > >Flink is an open source system for expressive, declarative, fast, and >efficient data analysis. Flink combines the scalability and programming >flexibility of distributed MapReduce-like platforms with the efficiency, >out-of-core execution, and query optimization capabilities found in parallel >databases. Flink was originally known as Stratosphere when it entered the >Incubator. > >Flink has been incubating since 2014-04-14. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. First incubator release > 2. Continue with community growth > 3. More comfortable with ASF policies and processes > >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? > > One new committer has been accepted into the project. > We received a large external code contribution and pending reviews. > The project started a bi-weekly Hangout. > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > The project has moved all infrastructure to Apache, > the source code has been renamed to the "org.apache.flink" namespace. > We are finalizing the preparations for the first Incubator release > >Date of last release: > > 2014-05-31 (no incubator release yet) > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2014-07-10 > >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](flink) Sean Owen > [ ](flink) Ted Dunning > [ ](flink) Owen O'Malley > [X](flink) Henry Saputra > [ ](flink) Ashutosh Chauhan > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > >-------------------- >Hadoop Development Tools > >Eclipse based tools for developing applications on the Hadoop platform > >Hadoop Development Tools has been incubating since 2012-11-09. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Build Community > 2. Get more activity > >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? > >- 133 mails exchanged on mailing list > >How has the project developed since the last report? > >- Migrated all the existing functionality from master which enabled us fro >next release. >- Released 0.0.2 incubating > >Date of last release: > >- July'2014 > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > >- November 2013 > >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Suresh Marru > [ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Chris Mattmann > [ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Roman Shaposhnik > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > >-------------------- >Kalumet > >Kalumet a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE >environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and >resources. > >Kalumet has been incubating since 2011-09-20. > >Community Developement: >Apache Kalumet 0.6-incubating version has been released. >However, due to some misunderstanding, the release vote has not been >completed by 3 IPMC. Especially, some legal files issues have been raised. >We are preparing a 0.6.1-incubating release to fix the legal files and >submit to IPMC vote. We are in the way of promoting the documentation >on the website. > >Project Development: >We are preparing the 0.6.1-incubating (plan for July, 14) to fix the >legal files issues raised on 0.6-incubating release and have a complete >IPMC vote. >We are preparing the 0.7-incubating release with the development changes. > >Local branches have been created containing: >- new model and REST API >- new webconsole (remove of Echo framework) >These local branches will be merged on the 0.7-incubating branch (master). > >Before Graduation: > - The documentation has been updated and aligned with the 0.6-incubating > release. The documentation will be promoted on the website and "linked" > in announcement e-mails as soon as the 0.6.1-incubating release has > been voted. > - The 0.7-incubating release will fix the graduation issue, especially > in term of license (removal of Echo2 framework for the UI). > >Post Graduation: > - Kalumet scripts. It's the extension of the "software" concept > globally to all Kalumet resources. It will allow users to create custom > deployment/update plan, with a set of fine-grained steps. > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware of: > >None so far. > >Date of last release: > > 2013-11-22 > >Date of next release: > > 2014-08-24 > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > None >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](kalumet) Jim Jagielski > [ ](kalumet) Henri Gomez > [X](kalumet) Jean-Baptiste Onofre > [ ](kalumet) Olivier Lamy > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > >-------------------- >NPanday > >NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache >Maven. > >NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13. > >Since the last report in July: >- the build issues on the Windows Jenkins slaves were resolved >- further JIRA issues have been cleaned up to prepare for the release >- Konstantin Boudnik was formally added as a mentor for the project > >While some progress was made towards getting the release out, there is >still more work to >do as time allows. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Ship the changes on trunk as a release and make it easier for new >users to get up to >speed when interested in the project > 2. Get a critical mass of committers/PPMC members that can respond to >contributors, apply >patches, nominate committers, and vote on releases > 3. Provide guidance on how to get involved in contributing > >The incubator is already aware of the low level of activity, that many of >the PPMC are now >disengaged. There continues to be interest in a new release from users, and >new >interest from some in making contributions that continue to be followed up. > >Date of last release: > > 2011-05-16 > >The last committer was added on 2011-04-19. There have not been any PPMC >additions since inception. > >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](npanday) Raphael Bircher > [X](npanday) Konstantin Boudnik > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > >-------------------- >Optiq > >Optiq is a highly customizable engine for parsing and planning queries on >data >in a wide variety of formats. It allows database-like access, and in >particular a SQL interface and advanced query optimization, for data not >residing in a traditional database. > >Optiq has been incubating since 2014-05-19. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > >1. Migrate fully to Apache infrastructure (next: web site and > nightly builds). > >2. Re-organize code into org.apache.optiq namespace. > >3. Regular releases. > >4. Build an ASF community. > >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 added our first post-incubation committer, Vladimir >Sitnikov. > >We are planning our first hackathon. > >There have been community discussions about the goals for a future >1.0 release, in particular whether the project should be reorganized >to allow projects to use the optimizer core without using SQL parser >and code-generation facilities. > >How has the project developed since the last report? > >Adopting Apache infrastructure: > > * Gained access to Nexus and started publishing (on-demand, not > nightly) snapshot builds. > > * Web site in progress. > >Working on first release under the Apache incubator, >apache-optiq-0.9.0-incubating. > >Date of last release: > >No releases yet under the Incubator. >Last unofficial release was optiq-0.8, on 2014-06-27. >First official release is imminent. > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > >Vladimir Sitnikov, elected committer on 2014-07-15. > >Signed-off-by: > > [x](optiq) Ted Dunning > [X](optiq) Alan Gates > [x](optiq) Steven Noels > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > >-------------------- >Parquet > >Parquet is a columnar storage format for Hadoop. > >Parquet has been incubating since 2014-05-20. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. > 2. > 3. > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware of? > > > >How has the community developed since the last report? > > > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > > >Date of last release: > > XXXX-XX-XX > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](parquet) Jake Farrell > [ ](parquet) Chris Mattmann > [ ](parquet) Roman Shaposhnik > [ ](parquet) Tom White > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > >-------------------- >Sirona > >Monitoring Solution. > >Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. > 2. > 3. > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware of? > > > >How has the community developed since the last report? >Not a lot since last report as the project was a bit quiet. > > >How has the project developed since the last report? >A release has been cutted and some discussion on reworking the ui. > > >Date of last release: > > 2014-06-26 > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > >Signed-off-by: > > [x](sirona) Olivier Lamy > [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez > [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre > [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen > [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > >Traffic on the list is light. There was a recent release, using new rules >it looks like. > >-------------------- > >Slider > >Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and >manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters. > >Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Building a user community > 2. Getting those users to contribute their work back > 3. Improving the application to make it easier to use > >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? > >We're getting some independent users/developers on our list, including some >initial minor contributions and some bug reports. As an example, we have >some contributed logos ... which is now going to trigger a competition/vote >for a slider logo. > >The main external developer adoption is not in actual contributions for the >core slider engine, but from a few people writing slider >application-packages to deploy their own applications. This is a good first >step -we have to work with them to get them through this process, note and >address issues they have -as well as encouraging them to contribute a bit >themselves. There's a tradeoff there: we don't want to dismiss all issues >with "file a patch with the JIRA" -maybe there's an intermediate step of >"let's work on this, can you take this branch and verify it works for you?" > > >How has the project developed since the last report? > >1. We're still fast-iterating through releases. >1. We're testing slider against the forthcoming Hadoop 2.5 release, to >help validate that release. >1. We're debating when - in August - to make the leap to only building >against Hadoop 2.6 > >The switch to 2.6 will mean that this code would be developer only, as it >would only work against non-production Hadoop clusters. Yet we need this >for the forthcoming features: the Credential provider, service registry, >Yarn node labeling and other features we need to integrate with. > >That's a fairly exclusionary move for potential users: the current plan is >to make a release in sync with Hadoop 2.5, which will be the last Hadoop >2.4/2.5 compatible version. Yet it not only gives us those new features, it >helps tune those features and find bugs in their implementation. As an >example, one fix in Hadoop 2.4 is related to an Application Master failure >and restart problem which we'd found, a problem which, if we'd switched to >Hadoop 2.4-SNAPSHOT earlier, would have been found and fixed in the 2.4 >release. > >Date of last release: > > 2014-07-21 > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2014-05 > > >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](slider) Arun C Murthy > [ ](slider) Devaraj Das > [ ](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré > [ ](slider) Mahadev Konar > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > >-------------------- >Twill > >Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop® YARN to reduce the complexity of >developing distributed applications. > >Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14. > >Top three items to resolve before graduation: > > - More committers from different organizations. > - Regular Releases. > - 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? > - 22 new JIRA issues filed since last report (2014-05-01) > - 13 JIRA issues resolved since last report (2014-05-01) > - Subscribers to the dev list up from 44 in May to 52 in August. > - 5 new contributors since last report. > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > - Version 0.3.0-incubating RC1 being voted upon > >Date of last release: > > - 2014-04-22: 0.2.0-incubating > >What are the plans for the next period? > - Increase release frequency > - Engage active contributors and identify potential committers > - Improve documentation and website > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > - No new committers since incubation. > >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](twill) Arun C Murthy > [ ](twill) Tom White > [X](twill) Patrick Hunt > [ ](twill) Andrei Savu > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > >}}} > >