Here are the recent IPMC additions sorted by time of addition:
Amareshwari Sriramadasu <amareshw...@apache.org> [2015-04-11]
David Lester <dles...@apache.org> [2015-04-11]
Kim Whitehall <whiteh...@apache.org> [2015-04-11]
P. Taylor Goetz <ptgo...@apache.org> [2015-04-11]
Michael Joyce <jo...@apache.org> [2015-04-13]
Jitendra Pandey <jiten...@apache.org> [2015-04-30]
Chris Nauroth <cnaur...@apache.org> [2015-05-10]
Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> [2015-05-10]
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:56 AM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org>
wrote:
> All,
>
> Below please find the current draft of this month's board report. I'm
> struggling a bit with the new IPMC members section, Ted if you can update
> it?
>
> = Incubator PMC report for May 2015 =
> === Timeline ===
> ||Wed May 06 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
> ||Sun May 10 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
> ||Sun May 10 ||Summary due by end of day ||
> ||Tue May 12 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
> ||Wed May 13 ||Report submitted to Board ||
> ||Wed May 20 ||Board meeting ||
>
>
> === Shepherd Assignments ===
> ||Andrei Savu ||AsterixDB ||
> ||Andrei Savu ||Groovy ||
> ||Drew Farris ||BatchEE ||
> ||Justin Mclean ||Myriad ||
> ||Konstantin Boudnik ||Blur ||
> ||Konstantin Boudnik ||Kylin ||
> ||Matthew Franklin ||Droids ||
> ||Matthew Franklin ||Twill ||
> ||P. Taylor Goetz ||NiFi ||
> ||P. Taylor Goetz ||REEF ||
> ||Raphael Bircher ||Tamaya ||
> ||Raphael Bircher ||TinkerPop ||
> ||Suresh Marru ||CommonsRDF ||
> ||Suresh Marru ||Slider ||
> ||Timothy Chen ||Singa ||
> ||Timothy Chen ||Sirona ||
>
>
> === Report content ===
> {{{
> Incubator PMC report for May 2015
>
> 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
>
> Geode
>
> * Graduations
>
> The board has motions for the following:
>
> Parquet
>
> * Releases
>
> The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
>
> 2015-04-02 apache-ignite-1.0.0
> 2015-04-02 apahce-johnzon-0.7
> 2015-04-15 apache-parquet-mr-1.6.0
> 2015-04-16 apache-calcite-1.2.0
> 2015-04-25 apache-streams-project-0.2
> 2015-04-27 apache-tinkerpop-3.0.0.M8-incubating
>
>
> * IP Clearance
>
> Apache Storm Azure Eventhub Integration
> Donation of Apache Flex documentation by Adobe
> Donation of Apache Usergrid source code by Apigee.
>
> * Legal / Trademarks
>
>
>
> * Infrastructure
>
>
>
> * Miscellaneous
>
> * The "Marvin" report reminders fired in a timely manner for the first
> time in several months and were sent to the proper podlings. A
> replacement script had been contemplated but now that there is less
> urgency it seems likely that we will continue to use the existing
> facilities.
>
> -------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
>
> * Still getting started at the Incubator
>
> AsterixDB
> Myriad
>
> * Not yet ready to graduate
>
> No release:
>
> CommonsRDF
> Groovy
> Kylin
> Singa
> Tamaya
> Zeppelin
>
> Community growth:
>
> NiFi
> Slider
> TinkerPop
> Twill
>
> * Ready to graduate
>
> Blur
>
> * Low Activity
>
> Droids
> ODF Toolkit
>
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
> BatchEE
> REEF
> Sirona
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Table of Contents
> AsterixDB
> Blur
> CommonsRDF
> Droids
> Groovy
> Kylin
> Myriad
> NiFi
> ODF Toolkit
> Singa
> Slider
> Tamaya
> TinkerPop
> Twill
> Zeppelin
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------
> AsterixDB
>
> Apache AsterixDB is a scalable big data management system (BDMS) that
> provides storage, management, and query capabilities for large collections
> of semi- structured data.
>
> AsterixDB has been incubating since 2015-02-28.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Get the site up.
> 2. Do an Apache release.
> 3. Grow community
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> No, still getting started.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> The SGA has been signed and the code has been imported.
> More discussions happen on the Apache lists now.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> SGA and code drop done, need to get the site (and maybe the Wiki) up as
> well.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No Releases yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No elected PMC and/or committers
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](asterixdb) Ate Douma
> [x](asterixdb) Chris Mattmann
> [x](asterixdb) Henry Saputra
> [x](asterixdb) Jochen Wiedmann
> [x](asterixdb) Ted Dunning
>
> 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. We anticipate pursuing graduation after our upcoming release.
> 2.
> 3.
>
> 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?
>
> - Subscriptions: user@ - 57[-3]; dev@ - 67[+1]
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Many bug fixes related to stability and bulk incremental ingestion.
>
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Grow the CommonsRDF Community such that we can progress
> towards graduation
> 2. Further engage the podling with the nuances of the Apache
> Incubation process
> 3. Drive towards the first incubating release
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> Peter Ansell resigned from the PPMC, but remains affiliated with the
> project.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Development and coding practices agreed.
> Newcomers are joining discussions, adding feature requests.
>
> Mailing list subscribers numbers were not included in last report.
> Numbers
> for April 2015:
>
> dev@ ======> 16 subscribers, 333 messages
> commits@ ======> 9 subscribers, 248 messages
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> There has been a bunch of development activity going on at CommonsRDF
> with
> over 200 dev@ messages in March and 300 in April. Website and
> documentation established at http://commonsrdf.incubator.apache.org.
> All
> project communication and development has been migrated to Apache
> Infrastructure. The project has been introduced to the W3C Data on the
> Web Best Practices Working Group to increase the community. There is
> also
> an ongoing thread relating to the first project incubating release with a
> release candidate currently being voted on.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](commonsrdf) Rob Vesse
> [X](commonsrdf) John D Ament
> [ ](commonsrdf) Gary Gregory
> [X](commonsrdf) Lewis J. McGibbney (Champion)
> [X](ipmc) Chris Mattmann
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Chris Mattmann:
> Peter Ansell's resignation from the IPMC isn't related to this project,
> right?
> Rob Vesse:
> Peter Ansell's resignation was due to frustrations at the speed of
> progress particularly
> around some technical discussions that he had felt had previously been
> resolved prior to this
> project entering the Incubator and so he has chosen to focus his efforts
> on other projects.
> The project does seem to now have resolved those issues and has been able
> to move forward
> with a first release candidate.
> John Ament:
> Peter Ansell resigned from the PPMC/Podling, not the IPMC.
>
>
> --------------------
> 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.
>
> Name search needs to be concluded. Availability looks better this quarter
> for completing that task.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> No change
>
> 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:
>
> [x](droids) Thorsten Scherler
> [x](droids) Richard Frovarp
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Chris Mattmann:
> Droids has been incubating for quite a while - is it time to graduate
> or retire?
>
> --------------------
> Groovy
>
> Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the Java
> platform.
> Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-
> typing and static compilation capabilities, aimed at multiplying
> developers’
> productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax. It
> integrates smoothly with any Java program, and immediately delivers to your
> application powerful features, including scripting capabilities, Domain-
> Specific Language authoring, runtime and compile-time meta-programming and
> functional programming.
>
> Groovy has been incubating since 2015-03-24
>
> The most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. We still have to get our new release process ready for making our
> first
> release under the incubator banner
> 2. We need to continue encouraging our users to use our new resources at
> Apache instead of using the old ones at Codehaus (in particular
> mailing-lists which are still running at Codehaus)
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> We noticed some issues with JIRA rights that we brought to the attention
> to our mentors.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> With the JIRA creation and the mirroring on Github, the project received
> new tickets and also code contributions through pull requests.
> So the the community has followed the project at Apache, and has managed
> to move to using our new resources there, and new users contributing.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Since the last report, the JIRA issue tracker has been created and
> Codehaus JIRA issues have been moved in. We also got a "notifications"
> mailing-list created for JIRA notification emails. The Git repository
> has
> also been created and the code was imported in Apache's Git, and mirrored
> on Github.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Not yet released under the Apache incubation umbrella.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No new election.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](groovy) Andrew Bayer
> [X](groovy) Konstantin Boudnik
> [X](groovy) Bertrand Delacretaz
> [ ](groovy) Jim Jagielski
> [X](groovy) Emmanuel Lecharny
> [X](groovy) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Integration into the Incubator is going well.
>
>
> --------------------
> Kylin
>
> Kylin is a distributed and scalable OLAP engine built on Hadoop to support
> extremely large datasets.
>
> Kylin has been incubating since 2014-11-25.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Make the first release from apache, it's in progress now, status
> tracking under: KYLIN-669
> 2. Grow user and contributor base, increase the number of active
> committers
> 3. Add more documentation to support new users and contributors.
>
> 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?
>
> 1. Kylin joined Spark Meetup Bay Area on March 23 to discussed "Adding
> Spark Support to Apache Kylin"
> 2. Kylin has been presented at Hadoop Summit Europe by Ted Dunning on
> April 16
> 3. Kylin has been presented at Database Technology Conference 2015
> Beijing
> by Yang Li on April 19
> 4. Luke Han presented Kylin's open source topic at QCon 2015 Beijing on
> April 23
> 5. Kylin has been presented at Strata+Hadoop World London 2015 by Luke
> Han
> and Yang Li on May 6
> 6. Kylin will be present at HBaseCon 2015 by Seshu Adunuthula on May 7
> 8. Offical twitter account created: @ApacheKylin
> * Followers 235
> 9. Issue backlog status since last report:
> * Created: 124
> * Resolved: 61
> 10. Mailing list activity since last report:
> * @dev 475 messages in April and 421 messages in March
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Binary package for user to install without build from source which
> reduced a lot deployment issues.
> 2. Streaming OLAP function prototype.
> 3. New Cubing Algorithm
>
> Date of last release:
>
> None yet, the community is activity working on the first release:
> KYLIN-669
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 1. 3 news committers has been elected on April 8: Shaofeng Shi, Qianhao
> Zhou, Jason Zhong
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](kylin) Owen O'Malley
> [x](kylin) Ted Dunning
> [x](kylin) Henry Saputra
>
> 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. Fill out the ip-clearance form and donate the Myriad code to ASF.
> 2. Migrate the code and issues from github, change all links/references.
> 3. Figure out how and when to release a new "version" of Myriad.
>
> 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?
>
> More than 100 emails on dev@. Began open community-wide
> meetings/hangouts.
> One new community member from China, and more from MapR.
>
> Gave presentations at ApacheCon, Data Science MD, and East Bay Big Data
> Group. Upcoming presentations at China Mesos User Group and at MesosCon
> in
> August.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Significant recent commits/PRs include:
> 1. Committed: Remote binary distribution (PR#83)
> 2. Committed: Configuration via REST API (PR#84)
> 3. In review: Multi-project build (PR#77)
> 4. In progress: Web UI Dashboard (PR#82)
> 5. In progress: Fine-grained scaling (PR#91)
> 6. In progress: High availability for the Scheduler/RM (PR#94)
> 7. In progress: Dockerizing the Scheduler/ResourceManager (PR#95)
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No releases yet. Still at 0.0.1 in the source. Will plan a release after
> we migrate to Apache git.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Need to grant Apache git karma to initial committers and migrate the code
> base. Then we will vote in new committers from the existing developer
> community.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
> [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
> [x](myriad) Ted Dunning
> [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Justin Mclean (jmclean):
>
> Mentors active, no issues, project just starting out.
>
> --------------------
> 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. Continue to grow the community and support the new user base
> 2. Establish rhythm for releases and improve documentation and procedures
> 3. Provide a clear and expedient process for code contribution and review
>
> 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 a new PPMC member - Aldrin Piri.
> - We completed our second release on March 17 2015.
> - Two talks were given at ApacheCon NA 2015 featuring Apache NiFi
> (incubating)
> - The first Apache NiFi meetup was held in the Baltimore/Washington area.
> - The project has code contributions from more than 25 people.
> - The mailing lists are quite active with developer questions and an
> increasing amount of user focused questions. The dev list has 118
> registered addresses. Commits has 30 and our brand new 'users' list
> established in mid April has 20.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - We have produced our second release within the Apache Incubator.
> - We are in the closing stages of our third release and includes bug
> fixes, new features, and improved documentation with significant
> representation of contribution outside of the PPMC.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-03-16
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-03-17
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](nifi) Billie Rinaldi
> [ ](nifi) Arvind Prabhakar
> [X](nifi) Sergio Fernandez
> [ ](nifi) Benson Margulies
> [ ](nifi) Brock Noland
> [X](nifi) Drew Farris
> [X](nifi) Andrew Purtell
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz):
> Mentors engaged. Podling seems to be doing well with no issues
> requiring mentor assistance.
>
> --------------------
> ODF Toolkit
>
> This report is a catch up from last month which we missed.
>
> Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
> OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
>
> ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Grow the community in terms of committers
> 2. Have regular releases
> 3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing
> project, or move to the attic.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> Nothing new, very quiet. But we are not dead yet :-)
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> No new committers, some minor activity re tickets in Jira
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The latest release has been added as a Maven artifact in response to a
> user request.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2014-06-02
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2012-10-29
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](ipmc) Chris Mattmann
>
> Shepherd Notes:
> - perhaps think about joining Apache POI and/or Tika?
>
> --------------------
> 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 of developers and users.
> 2. Build the homepage and add more documentations.
> 2. Prepare for the first release.
>
> 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?
>
> Three software engineers from NetEase have joined the dev@ list. They
> have
> been working on deep learning using GPUs for speech processing.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. We have updated the Incubation Status file.
> 2. We have finished migrating the code to Apache git repository.
> 3. We have discussed on the features and development schedule for first
> release.
> 4. A new communication framework has been implemented to unify the
> training architectures used by existing systems.
> 5. We have added GNU autotools for installing Singa.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> N/A.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](singa) Daniel Dai
> [ ](singa) Alan Gates
> [x](singa) Ted Dunning
> [ ](singa) Thejas Nair
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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 diverse developer and user community
> 2. Achieving broader adoption of the existing code and slider-deployable
> applications (examples: HBase, Accumulo)
> 3. Making slider better at deploying other applications, so improving
> takeup.
>
> 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 are getting some questions from users on the list and an occasional
> patch submitted. A number of features added to the recent releases
> were driven by user needs.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We completed release 0.61.0-incubating in February with more complex
> release artifacts than we had released previously. We also released
> 0.70.1-incubating in March. Planning is under way for releasing 0.80 in
> May 2015.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-03-31: Slider 0.70.1-incubating
> 2015-02-19: Slider 0.61.0-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2014-09-27: Gour Saha, committer and PPMC member
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](slider) Arun C Murthy
> [ ](slider) Devaraj Das
> [ ](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> [ ](slider) Mahadev Konar
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Publish a first release until mid year.
> 2. Keep focus for a reasonable functionality and way forward.
> 3. Keep up/increase community engagement, increase publicity by further
> evangelizing it.
>
> 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?
>
> Two people have shown very interested 1) on the mailing list, or 2) even
> helped with some work at ZH Hackergarten. Crcial will be going out with a
> first release asap.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We successfully backported API/core to Java 7. Overall project quality
> increased. Some API aspects were reevaluated and several bugfixes and new
> features were added. Also a lot of documentation and examples were added,
> so we definitively approach a first release.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> N/A (not released anything).
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 25th January 2015 (Reinhard Sandtner)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](tamaya) John D. Ament
> [ ](tamaya) Mark Struberg
> [ ](tamaya) Gerhard Petracek
> [ ](tamaya) David Blevins
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> John Ament:
> Podling is beginning the process towards the first release.
>
> --------------------
> TinkerPop
>
> TinkerPop is a graph computing framework written in Java
>
> TinkerPop has been incubating since 2015-01-16.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Get more committers on the project.
> 2. Get TinkerPop 3.0.0.GA out.
> 3. Get vendors migrated from TP2 to TP3
>
> 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?
>
> Vendors are starting to use dev@ to communicate requirements for their
> respective products.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We released 3.0.0.M8-incubating -- our first Apache release.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> April 6, 2015
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](tinkerpop) Rich Bowen
> [ ](tinkerpop) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](tinkerpop) Hadrian Zbarcea
> [ ](tinkerpop) Matt Franklin
> [ ](tinkerpop) David Nalley
>
> 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?
>
> - 14 new JIRA issues filed since last report (2015-02-01)
> - 12 JIRA issues resolved since last report (2015-02-01)
> - 4 new contributors submitted patches
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Version 0.6.0-incubating is being worked upon
> - New project using Twill: Fluo - transaction layer that enables
> incremental processing on big data
> - Twill ported to work on Mapr distribution
>
> Date of last release:
>
> - 2015-02-27: 0.5.0-incubating
>
> What are the plans for the next period?
>
> - Encourage contributions from active users
> - 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) Vinod K
> [ ](twill) Arun C Murthy
> [ ](twill) Tom White
> [X](twill) Patrick Hunt
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --------------------
> Zeppelin
>
> A collaborative data analytics and visualisation tool for distributed,
> general-purpose data processing systems such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink,
> etc.
>
> Zeppelin has been incubating since 2014-12-23.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Do an Apache release
> 2. Community growth: more committers from different organisations
> 3. Increase adoption
>
> 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?
>
> More people submitting patches and feature requests then in previous
> month: 30 patches has been merged and 40 patches has been submitted from
> 21 different contributors.
>
> Traffic in users@ grew a lot in last month with new users asking and new
> contributors answering questions: +27 subscribers in dev@, +58
> subscribers
> in users@ since last month.
>
> Introduction to Zeppelin was well received on ApacheCon 2015, it
> generated
> some interest from other projects in collaboration\integration which
> resulted in discussions dev@ and new JIRA issues.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Complete PODLINGNAMESEARCH-64
>
> Generic JDBC as well as TajoJDBC and HiveJDBC interpreters were
> contributed by individual contributors as well as a bunch bugs were
> fixed.
>
> Pluggable notebook persistence layer was abstracted.
>
> Rich GUI inside Notebook was added (custom AngularJS code)
>
> Date of last release:
>
> None
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-03-27
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](zeppelin) Konstantin Boudnik
> [x](zeppelin) Henry Saputra
> [X](zeppelin) Roman Shaposhnik
> [x](zeppelin) Ted Dunning
> [ ](zeppelin) Hyunsik Choi
>
>
> }}}
>
