Kylin is a new podling which was approved, but do not see a mention here in this report.
Thanks Seshu Adunuthula On 12/9/14, 6:13 PM, "John D. Ament" <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: >Below is the "final" copy of the report, ready to be signed off on. I >removed non-reporting podlings. > >Can we get someone from MRQL and Brooklyn to sign off on those reports? >Brooklyn specifically has a *lot* of mentors to find no one to sign off on >it. > >BTW, in my last email I incorrectly listed log4cxx as non-reporting. They >did report. > >= Incubator PMC report for December 2014 = >=== Timeline === >||Wed December 03 ||Podling reports due by end of day || >||Sun December 07 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day || >||Sun December 07 ||Summary due by end of day || >||Tue December 09 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day || >||Wed December 10 ||Report submitted to Board || >||Wed December 17 ||Board meeting || > > >=== Shepherd Assignments === >||Alan D. Cabrera ||Ignite || >||Andrei Savu ||Drill || >||Andrei Savu ||Johnzon || >||Dave Fisher ||NPanday || >||John Ament ||MRQL || >||John Ament ||log4cxx2 || >||Justin Mclean ||Tamaya || >||Konstantin Boudnik ||Argus || >||Matthew Franklin ||Brooklyn || >||Raphael Bircher ||Kalumet || >||Raphael Bircher ||Streams || >||Roman Shaposhnik ||Sentry || >||Ross Gardler ||Wave || >||Suresh Marru ||Falcon || >||Suresh Marru ||Lens || >||Timothy Chen ||Ripple || >||Timothy Chen ||Taverna || > > >=== Report content === >{{{ >Incubator PMC report for December 2014 > >The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and >codebases >wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. > >There are currently 36 podlings undergoing incubation. Two podlings >joined >us this month, NiFi and Tamaya. Three new IPMC members and two new >Shepherds joined our ranks as well. > >* Community > > New IPMC members: > > Andrew L. Farris > Thejas Nair > Brock Noland > > New Incubator Shepherds: > > Timothy Chen > Andrew L. Farris > > People who left the IPMC: > > None > >* New Podlings > > Nifi > Tamaya > >* Graduations > > The board has motions for the following: > > The IPMC is currently voting on graudations for: > > Flink > >* Releases > > The following releases were made since the last Incubator report: > > apache-calcite-0.9.2-incubating > apache-twill-0.4.0-incubating > apache-parquet-format-2.2.0-incubating > apache-johnzon-0.2-incubating > apache-slider-0.60.0-incubating > metamodel-4.3.0-incubating > apache-aurora-0.6.0-incubating > >* IP Clearance > > Sling Sightly and XSS modules > >* Legal / Trademarks > > There are many on going Podling Name Search requests, > with few being closed. > > Droids still has an open name search. > Falcon is procesing a name search currently. > Tamaya successfully cleared Podling Name Search. > > Two podlings (BatchEE and Johnzon) are currently waiting > on the result of a new licensing agreement w/ Oracle to > gain access to the TCKs for new EE related JSRs. Until this > is done they could not be considered compliant implementations > >* Infrastructure > > SVN outage caused minor inconvenience to some podlings. > Argus/Ranger is facing some struggles with their rename. > >* Miscellaneous > > The Kalumet podling is currently thinking about throwing around a > retirement vote. > >-------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- > >* Still getting started at the Incubator > > Ignite > Lens > Nifi > Tamaya > Taverna > >* Not yet ready to graduate > > No release: > > Brooklyn > Wave > > Community growth: > > Falcon > Johnzon > Sentry > Streams > > >* Ready to graduate > > The Board has motions for the following: > > > >* Did not report, expected next month > > Ranger (formerly Argus) > Kalumet > NPanday > >* Not signed off by mentors > > Brooklyn > MRQL > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Table of Contents >Brooklyn >Falcon >Ignite >Johnzon >Lens >log4cxx2 >MRQL >NiFi >Ripple >Sentry >Streams >Tamaya >Taverna >Wave > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------------------- >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. Completing our first release under Apache > 2. Grow the community > 3. More diversity of the committers/PPMC (currently biased towards > employees of a single organization) > >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? > > Our community continues to grow slowly but surely, and has received > interest and contributions from new community members. > > We had the opportunity to talk about our project at ApacheCon Europe > last week, which has introduced Brooklyn to a wider audience within > Apache. > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > Code continues to be proposed and merged at a high rate. We are > satisfied with our technical velocity. > > We are currently in the process of making our first release. As is > common with incubating project's first releases, this involves several > iterations and ongoing discussions with mentors and IPMC. > >Date of last release: > > No release yet, but we have begun the process for our first release > and aim to release as soon as we possibly can. > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > No change since 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 > > >-------------------- >Falcon >Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed >for > data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and >data discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data >and its associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters. > >Falcon has been incubating since 2013-03-27. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >Graduation resolution was presented to the board in Nov 2014 and the board >has asked the project team to address the following issues before it can >be > considered >* Podling name search pending (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-61) >* Discrepancy in status report with respect to commiter ids. > > >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? >* More users & contributors have joined the falcon project and the >community continues to grow > >How has the project developed since the last report? >* Development activity has been very hectic more than 240 JIRAs have been >created and about 200 resolved since the last report >* There are more than 100 users subscribed on the dev mailing list > >Date of last release: > > 2014-12-03 (0.6-incubating) > 2014-09-20 (0.5-incubating) > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > Aug 28, 2014 > >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](falcon) Arun Murthy > [X](falcon) Chris Douglas > [ ](falcon) Owen O'Malley > [ ](falcon) Devaraj Das > [ ](falcon) Alan Gates > >-------------------- >Ignite > >A unified In-Memory Data Fabric providing high-performance, distributed >in- >memory data management software layer between various data sources and >user >applications. > >Ignite has been incubating since 2014-10-01. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Finish migration to Apache process. > 2. Grow active and healthy community around Apache Ignite product. > 3. Get on a stable release schedule and have 3 successful product >releases. > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware of? > > None at the moment. > >How has the community developed since the last report? > > No new committers/PPMC members were added. > Several new contributors have joined. > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > - Project planning for the 1st sprint started with over 30 tickets filed > in Ignite Jira. > - Landing web page was set. > - Website design was chosen in Jira, IGNITE-7. Initial version will be > pushed early in the week of 12/9. > - Ignite code was pushed into Apache GIT repository. The code is fully > maven-enabled and buildable. > >Date of last release: > > No releases yet: the code is still in the development phase > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 10/01/2014 Initial committers were added. > >Signed-off-by: > > [X](ignite) Branko Čibej > [X](ignite) Konstantin Boudnik > [ ](ignite) Henry Saputra > [ ](ignite) Roman Shaposhnik > [ ](ignite) Michael Stack > > >-------------------- >Johnzon > >Implementation of JSR-353 JavaTM API for JSON Processing (Renamed from > Fleece) > >Johnzon has been incubating since 2014-06-09. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Expanding the community, increase dev list activity and adding new > committers/pmc members. > 2. Complete the status page > 3. Add and improve documentation > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware of? > > * Nothing > >How has the community developed since the last report? > > There are new people on the dev list and the project got contributions > from non-committers. On the dev list there are approx. 70 msgs (on > average) messages per month. Christian Grobmeier quits as mentor. > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > The project did its first and second incubator release. > During the last three month nine jira issues were reported and fixed. > >Date of last release: > > 2014-11-22 > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > Last committer was elected 2014-08-23, no new PMC members since >incubation. > >Signed-off-by: > > [X](johnzon) Justin Mclean > [ ](johnzon) Daniel Kulp > >-------------------- >Lens > >Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified way >over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive >with >other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data cubes. > >Lens has been incubating since 2014-10-10. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Make the first release from apache > 2. Make project website available on apache > 3. Reach out to people through presentations and blogs > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware of? > > We are still waiting for project website creation via > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8549 > >How has the community developed since the last report? > > * We are near of proposing a new committer > > * We are actively working on logo for the project > > * We have presented above Apache Lens in Hadoop meetup at Bangalore, >India > > * Proposed talks on upcoming ApacheCon and HadoopSummit conferences > > * Mailing list subscription (as on 29th November): > > ** Dev list : 25 members > ** Commits list : 11 members > ** User list : 19 members > > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > * Main activities include > ** Podling setup wrt jira, reviewboard, jenkins, confluence space > ** Standardizing branching and versioning in project code base > ** Improving documentation > ** Stabilizing the code for first stable release > > * Mailing list activity : > ** Dev via http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-lens-dev/ > *** November - 512 messsages > ** Commits via http://s.apache.org/yGX is missing > *** Missing archive -https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8744 > *** November - 74 messages (counted thru subscription) > ** User mailing list activity - None > > * Issues 82 created and 25 resolved via http://s.apache.org/WOu > > >Date of last release: > > NONE > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > NONE > >Signed-off-by: > > [X](lens) Christopher Douglas > [X](lens) Jakob Homan > [ ](lens) Jean-Baptiste Onofre > [ ](lens) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli > >-------------------- >log4cxx2 > >Logging for C++ > >log4cxx2 has been incubating since 2013-12-09. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Create a release > 2. > 3. > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware of? > >None yet. > > >How has the community developed since the last report? > >Not grown. However the project aims to become a sub project of Apache >Logging again. >Community growth is not much a matter for this podling, as long as there >are >a few active contributors. > > >How has the project developed since the last report? > >Not much: some mails were sent, but in general it was not much >development. > > >Date of last release: > > None. > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > >Signed-off-by: > > [X](log4cxx2) Christian Grobmeier > [ ](log4cxx2) Scott Deboy > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Podling reported late. It doesn't look like the marvin alerts went out. > Could be a moderation issue. Mailing list activity is very light. > >-------------------- >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? > >none > >How has the community developed since the last report? > >There were no new developers or new committers since our last reports. > >How has the project developed since the last report? > >During the last three month, 12 jira issues were reported, from which >10 were fixed. Most of these issues were related to MRQL query >evaluation in Flink mode. Finally, we have set up MRQL on ASF >Jenkins, which is a CI server that continuously checks the integrity >of our builds and validates our tests. > >Date of last release: > > 2014-06-26 > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2014-04-17 > >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](mrql) Alan Cabrera > [ ](mrql) Anthony Elder > [ ](mrql) Alex Karasulu > [ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Podling looks very healthy. > >-------------------- >NiFi > >NiFi is a dataflow system based on the concepts of flow-based programming. > >NiFi has been incubating since 2014-11-24. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Establishment of Apache Infrastructure. Git establishment is > outstanding with INFRA-8707 > 2. Produce an initial release. > 3. Grow the community beyond those involved in the incubator proposal. > >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? > > Since podling initiation our dev mailing list has 42 subscribers and the > commits mailing list has 19. > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > Since podling initiation the team has mailing lists, website, and Jira > setup. Awaiting INFRA action for Git. We should then be able to better > communicate and grow. We fully understand though that Infra has been > very busy addressing the SVN server issues. > >Date of last release: > > N/A > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > Entered incubation 2014-11-24. There have been comments/messages/ > subscriptions on the mailing lists from folks not on the initial > contributors list. We believe there is a good opportunity to bring on > more folks from a more diverse base fairly quickly. > >Signed-off-by: > > [X](nifi) Billie Rinaldi > [X](nifi) Arvind Prabhakar > [X](nifi) Sergio Fernández > [X](nifi) Benson Margulies > [X](nifi) Drew Farris > [ ](nifi) Brock Noland > [X](nifi) Andrew Purtell > >-------------------- >Ripple > >Ripple is a browser based mobile phone emulator designed to aid in the >development of HTML5 based mobile applications. Ripple is a cross platform >and cross runtime testing/debugging tool. It currently supports such >runtimes as Cordova, WebWorks and the Mobile Web. > >Ripple has been incubating since 2012-10-16. > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware >of? >The community recently discussed the lack of growth in the project. Some >members felt that retirement of the podling was appropriate. Others have >stepped up to take over essential tasks and attempt to build a community. >We have agreed with mentors to review this situation in 6 months. It is >possible that Ripple is no longer important as its functionality is >potential being replaced by Cordova-browser. Our original champion, Ross >Gardler has also up to help evaluate the situation. For Cordova-browser >idea, there was also a discussion on the mailing list. > >How has the community developed since the last report? >No new committers since last June 2014. > >How has the project developed since the last report? >Minor user contributions. > >Date of last release: >No release made as yet, this will be the first item to recieve attention. > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >June, 2014. > > >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](ripple) Jukka Zitting > [X](ripple) Christian Grobmeier > [ ](ripple) Andrew Savory > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Report is past due already, and no releases has been made since > incubation. Email/Code both not quite active, has concerns about > inactivement and retirement for few months already. > >-------------------- >Sentry > >Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role >based authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop >cluster. > >Sentry has been incubating since 2013-08-08. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > 1. Continue to grow the Sentry community > 2. Initiate graduation discussion with community and address any > potential concerns raised > 3. Update project status page, website etc > >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 is growing. Several new members have started actively > contributing to the project. New contributors made a significant > contribution in patches as well as release activity. The user group > meetup at NYC was well attended. Community members presented Apache > Sentry at various community meetups around the world, include Hadoop > group meetup in Hydrabad, India and ApacheCon Europe in Budapest, >Hungary > >How has the project developed since the last report? > A number of new features implemented in the master codeline. The sentry > community is working towards removing some of the non Apache >dependencies > in order to avoid any potential concerns for the graduation processes. > >Date of last release: > 2014-08-19 > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > Arun Suresh and Tuong Truong have been added as a committer as announced > on 9/1/2014. No new PPMC members have been added since the project has > entered the incubator. > >Signed-off-by: > [ ](sentry) Arvind Prabhakar > [ ](sentry) Joe Brockmeier > [ ](sentry) David Nalley > [ ](sentry) Olivier Lamy > [X](sentry) Patrick Hunt > [ ](sentry) Thomas White > >-------------------- >Streams > >Apache Streams (incubating) is a lightweight (yet scalable) framework for >ActivityStreams. > >Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20. > > The project provides a framework for abstracting away individual data > schemas and API protocols from solutions built to collect, publish, > process, and analyze digital activity data, as well as a community- > driven process for determining best practice usage of the >ActivityStreams > specification with real-world datasets - valuing working, tested, > adaptable, useful code over strict adherence to existing specs. > Importantly, the project does not impose one execution framework - > modules built to Apache Streams interfaces and coding standards may > be instantiated within multiple JVM-based runtime containers, including > popular ‘big-data' frameworks. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Establish and maintain a consistent release process. > 2. Improve quality of code, tests, documentation, and examples. > 3. PPMC must relieve project mentors of all responsibility for the > project's adherence to the Apache Way and long-term viability. > >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? > > Ryan Ebanks was voted in as committer and PPMC member on 10-17-2014. > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > Since the last report, 50 pull requests were submitted and merged to > master, 43 issues were marked resolved, and 78 issues were created. > >Date of last release: > > streams-master:0.1-incubating Jan-2013 > incubator-streams:0.1-incubating in progress, ETC Dec-2014 > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > Ryan Ebanks, committer and PPMC, 10-17-2014 > >Signed-off-by: > > [ ](streams) Matt Franklin > [X](streams) Ate Douma > [ ](streams) Craig McClanahan > >-------------------- >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. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > 1. Project web site must be setup (ongoing). > 2. Establish a collaboration model within the community and ensure a > common view on the main focus points. > 3. Improve code base for being ready for a first release around Q1 >2015. > >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? > Many of the committers have successfully filed the ICLA and also >started > to contribute, some of them already by doing first patches. Feedback in > the community was overwhelming. We could also successfully place the > topic at conferences as well as in the German Java Magazin and other > events. Also interest of people during the Zurich Hackergarten in > November was great and will definitely lead to additional committers > early 2015. > >How has the project developed since the last report? > The project setup is going quite well. Initial committers are >onboarding, > the initial code donation was successfully moved and other preconditions > like the project name, IP clearance, Jenkins etc. were successfully >done. > Thanks to INFRA for their incredible support! > >Date of last release: Still getting started. > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > Still getting started. > >Signed-off-by: > [x](tamaya) John D. Ament > [ ](tamaya) David Blevins > [ ](tamaya) Mark Struberg > [ ](tamaya) Gerhard Petracek > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > >Justin Mclean - Off to a good start. Email list and mentors active. > >-------------------- > >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. IP clearance to be signed by Univ of Manchester > 2. Move source code, wiki, issues to apache.org. Restructure git repos. > 3. Invite contributors who volunteered at October workshop > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware of? > > Infrastructure bootstrapping takes a long time and requires a series of > requests. E.g. Taverna incubator has been approved, but does not get a > web-site without explicitly asking for it. Documentation for apache.org > infrastructure assumes you are already a long-term committer. > > >How has the community developed since the last report? > > Transition of mailing list succcessful (? - can we get some numbers?). > > Most of the proposed initial committers have sorted CLAs > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TavernaProposal#Initial_Committers > and received apache.org account - see > https://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#taverna > > Many of the remaining initial committers have not been active in the > recent years. We're following up these (and others) through private > conversations. There's been some confusion with regards to the term > "committer" - some were scared and thought it meant they had to make > a committment to work on the source code! > > Not much further development - worried that dev@taverna are scared away > by the long-dragged bootstrapping which dominates the list. > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > Source code is being restructured at >https://github.com/taverna-incubator > before being staged to import into git.apache.org > > Normal development continues at https://github.com/taverna/ - due to > prepare the final 2.5.1 non-Apache release. > > Stian Soiland-Reyes was at ApacheCon in Budapest, fruitful discussions > with mentor Andy Seaborne and Gavin McDonald from INFRA with regards to > the transitioning of Taverna's existing source code repository, wiki and > issue tracker (luckily git->git, confluence->confluence and jira->jira). > >Date of last release: > > No release since incubation. > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > No new committers or PMC members elected since incubation. > >Signed-off-by: > > [x](taverna) Andy Seaborne > [ ](taverna) Chris Mattmann > [ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas > [x](taverna) Suresh Marru > [x](taverna) Marlon Pierce > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > As noted the email list just been migrated and code repo setup, but > already show good signs of activity on the email list. Code > activity seems good so far although it's still on it's own github repo. > > >-------------------- >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. Making release. > 2. Growing community. > 3. Source fixes/improvements. > >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? > After some spike in activity we had a slowdown. > > >How has the project developed since the last report? > Some improvements were committed like full text search with Solr and >some > more need to be reviewed/merged. We are working on making an updated RC > and plan to hold review/voting soon. > > >Date of last release: > > not yet. > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > No > >Signed-off-by: > > [X](wave) Christian Grobmeier > [ ](wave) Upayavira > >Shepherd/Mentor notes: >}}} --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org