Geode was supposed to report - but its not included in the missing reports
list.
Niall
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:30 AM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org>
wrote:
> All,
>
> I'd like to present the draft board report for additional community input.
> We have reports expected from 19 podlings, 12 reported, 7 did not. Of the
> 7 that did not report, I left in the shepherd comments on 2 (myself and
> Justin Mclean) who had some additional insights on the welfare of the
> podlings in question.
>
> There are multiple podlings without mentor sign off - Blur, ODF Toolkit,
> Twill and Sentry. Its not too late to sign off, so if you can get those
> signatures in great. If you cannot, or feel there is an issue with the
> report please bring it up and we'll need to move them to non-reporting.
>
> I've copied the current body below.
>
> = Incubator PMC report for August 2015 =
> === Timeline ===
> ||Wed August 05 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
> ||Sun August 09 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
> ||Sun August 09 ||Summary due by end of day ||
> ||Tue August 11 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
> ||Wed August 12 ||Report submitted to Board ||
> ||Wed August 19 ||Board meeting ||
>
>
> === Shepherd Assignments ===
> ||Andrei Savu ||AsterixDB ||
> ||Andrei Savu ||Kylin ||
> ||Drew Farris ||Blur ||
> ||John Ament ||Calcite ||
> ||John Ament ||Droids ||
> ||Justin Mclean ||BatchEE ||
> ||Matthew Franklin ||DataFu ||
> ||Matthew Franklin ||Tamaya ||
> ||Matthew Franklin ||Twill ||
> ||P. Taylor Goetz ||FreeMarker ||
> ||P. Taylor Goetz ||Trafodion ||
> ||Raphael Bircher ||Sirona ||
> ||Raphael Bircher ||Slider ||
> ||Ross Gardler ||Ripple ||
> ||Suresh Marru ||ODF Toolkit ||
> ||Suresh Marru ||REEF ||
> ||Suresh Marru ||TinkerPop ||
> ||Timothy Chen ||Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer ||
> ||Timothy Chen ||Kalumet ||
>
>
> === Report content ===
> {{{
> Incubator PMC report for August 2015
>
> 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 43 podlings currently under incubation.
>
> * Community
>
> New IPMC members:
>
> Flavio Junquiero
>
> People who left the IPMC:
>
> (none)
>
> * New Podlings
>
> No new podlings entered the incubator this month.
>
> * Graduations
>
> The board has motions for the following:
>
> Ignite
>
> * Releases
>
> The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
>
> 2015-07-27 - apache-brooklyn-0.7.0-incubating
> 2015-07-24 - Apache-Twill-0.6.0-incubating
> 2015-07-23 - Apache-Zeppelin-0.5.0-incubating release
> 2015-07-22 - apache-ripple-emulator-0.9.30-incubating
> 2015-07-21 - apache-ignite-1.3.0-incubating
> 2015-07-21 - apache-samoa-0.3.0-incubating
> 2015-07-21 - apache-kylin-0.7.2-incubating
> 2015-07-16 - apache-tinkerpop-3.0.0-incubating
> 2015-07-16 - apache-usergrid-1.0.2-incubating
> 2015-07-16 - apache-nifi-0.2.0-incubating
> 2015-07-16 - apache-groovy-2.4.4-incubating
> 2015-07-16 - apache-lens-2.2.0-beta-incubating
> 2015-07-09 - apache-sentry-1.5.1-incubating
> 2015-07-09 - apache-atlas-0.5-incubating
>
> * IP Clearance
>
> JBoss HornetQ code grant to the ActiveMQ PMC.
>
> * Legal / Trademarks
>
>
>
> * Infrastructure
>
> Marvin board report reminders went out this month. There was
> much rejoicing.
>
> * Miscellaneous
>
> * Report Manager: John D. Ament
>
> -------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
>
> * Still getting started at the Incubator
>
> AsterixDB
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
> DataFu
> FreeMarker
>
> * Not yet ready to graduate
>
> No release:
>
> Blur
> Tamaya
>
> Community growth:
>
> Kylin
> Trafodion
> Twill
>
> * Ready to graduate
>
> Calcite
>
> The Board has motions for the following:
>
> Ignite
>
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
> BatchEE (Shepherd notes remaining)
> Droids (Shepherd notes remaining)
> Kalumet
> REEF
> Ripple
> Slider
> Tinkerpop
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Table of Contents
> AsterixDB
> BatchEE (notes only)
> Blur
> Calcite
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
> DataFu
> Droids (notes only)
> FreeMarker
> Kylin
> ODF Toolkit
> Sirona
> Tamaya
> Trafodion
> Twill
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------
> 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. Migrate issues from Google Code
> 2. Do an Apache release.
> 3. Grow community
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> 1. The most urgent issue right now is to migrate the issues from the
> Google Code tracker to the ASF JIRA (INFRA-9954) as Google Code turns
> read-only on Aug 24. The issue was open with sporadic activity for
> some time. Recently, the frequency of the interactions with infra has
> increased significantly (thanks!), but the problem is not solved yet.
> 2. There was a discussion on the use of a Gerrit instance hosted at UCI
> for code reviews in this project. After an initial assumption that
> this
> was contrary to Apache policy and the subsequent
> a) clarification on how Gerrit is being used (every AsterixDB commit
> is
> explicitly made by a committer to the ASF git repo - not by
> Gerrit),
> b) configuration of Gerrit that all notifications are sent the the
> project's mailing list, and
> c) addition of a step at Gerrit account creation that requires that an
> ICLA is on file at the ASF
> the current state of the discussion is that this is
> a) not contrary to policy but also
> b) not ideal as the regular workflow depends on non-ASF resources.
> Ideally the code review tool would be hosted by infra, but capacity is
> an issue.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Getting more requests on opportunities to contribute and also some
> contributions.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - New website is up
> - YARN support added
> - Other development is ongoing
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No Releases yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No new elected PPMC and/or committers since entering incubator.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](asterixdb) Ate Douma
> [ ](asterixdb) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](asterixdb) Henry Saputra
> [x](asterixdb) Jochen Wiedmann
> [x](asterixdb) Ted Dunning
>
>
> --------------------
> 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.
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Justin Mclean:
> Did not report (3rd time in a row). Low mailing list activity.
>
> --------------------
> 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. At this point we need to have more releases, more often.
> 2.
> 3.
>
> 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?
>
> - Subscriptions: user@ - 55[-2]; dev@ - 67[0]
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Many bug fixes, plus a release vote was called. It did not pass due to
> some licensing issues with a javascript library in a web application that
> is apart of the Blur project. It has recently been resolved, we will
> call
> a vote for a new release in the beginning of August.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2014-07-29 (The vote for the 0.2.4 release was called on 2015-07-02)
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2014-07-28
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](blur) Doug Cutting
> [ ](blur) Patrick Hunt
> [ ](blur) Tim Williams
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Calcite
>
> Calcite 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. (Renamed from Optiq on 2014-09-30.)
>
> Calcite has been incubating since 2014-05-19.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Add more PPMC members.
> 2. Demonstrate community robustness by rotating project tasks among
> multiple project members.
> 3. There is no third thing. We are almost ready to graduate.
>
> 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 last report was in April. (We are reporting a month late, because
> we missed the July report.)
>
> In July, there were 148 messages on dev@, 37 commits, 44 issues
> created, 39 issues resolved by 10 contributors.
>
> Diversity is improving. The 1.4 release will be the first release for
> which Julian Hyde was not release manager.
>
> Julian Hyde won best lightning talk at XLDB 2015 in May with the talk
> "Apache Calcite: One planner fits all".
>
> Tom Barber spoke about Calcite at ApacheCon NA in April.
>
> Collaborations with other Apache projects continue:
>
> * Phoenix has built a remote JDBC driver using Calcite’s Avatica
> component.
> * Phoenix is replacing their SQL parser & planner with Calcite.
> * Samza is developing support for streaming SQL queries using
> Calcite for parsing and planning.
> * Kylin upgraded from 0.9.2 to 1.3.
> * Collaboration with Hive and Drill continues.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We completed releases 1.2 and 1.3, and are preparing 1.4.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-05-30 apache-calcite-1.3.0-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-04-24 5 new committers
> 2014-12-31 1 new PPMC member
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](calcite) Ted Dunning
> [X](calcite) Alan Gates
> [X](calcite) Steven Noels
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Ted Dunning:
>
> This is turning into a serious community. They should consider
> graduation.
>
>
> johndament:
> Podling seems to be in good shape. They may want to consider
> beginning the graduation process.
>
> --------------------
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
>
> CMDA provides web services for multi-aspect physics-based and phenomenon-
> oriented climate model performance evaluation and diagnosis through the
> comprehensive and synergistic use of multiple observational data,
> reanalysis
> data, and model outputs.
>
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer has been incubating since 2015-05-08.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Start developing at the ASF
> 2. Start using ASF JIRA
> 3. Get code pushed to ASF Git repo
>
> 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?
>
> See below
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> CMDA has not really gotten started at the ASF yet. Very little has
> changed
> since the last report. The most important thing is getting the community
> started. At the moment the CMDA JIRA is completely empty and the code
> base
> has yet to be pushed to the git repo. Mailing list activity is largely
> non-existent and there's no website up for the project yet. Hopefully
> these hurdles will be crossed during this next month so that more active
> develop can start for the project.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> None yet
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None yet
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann
> [X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Gregory D. Reddin
>
>
> --------------------
> DataFu
>
> DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in
> higher level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides
> functions for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank,
> stream sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides
> Hadoop jobs for incremental data processing in MapReduce.
>
> DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Do first release
> 2. Grow user and contributor base
> 3. Increased committer activity
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> * Performing the initial release remains the most important milestone.
> However, the majority of the known tasks for this have been completed.
> The remaining tasks are related to documentation. We are able to
> generate a signed, versioned source release from the build system.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * A couple new contributors have submitted patches. One of these has
> been
> committed and the other is nearly ready to be committed.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * The build system has been updated to provide tasks for generating
> signed, versioned source releases. Documentation has been updated as
> well with instructions on how to do this.
> * Apache DataFu has been updated to run against Hadoop 2. There was an
> issue running the Hourglass integration tests against Hadoop 2, which
> had been blocking this update.
> * A couple new patches from two new contributors for Pig UDFs have been
> submitted. One of these is an improvement to the HyperLogLog UDF
> cardinality estimator that makes it much more efficient. The other is
> a
> helper for getting a tuple out of a bag.
> * A patch has been submitted for a UDF to incrementally process
> date-partitioned data in Pig. This provides similar functionality that
> is available in Hourglass.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> * Not yet released
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> * November 2014
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
> [X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
> [X](datafu) Ted Dunning
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Ted Dunning:
>
> The generation of signed releases on shared hardware has historically
> raised serious security questions from infra. I think that this process
> needs to be vetted very carefully.
>
> --------------------
> 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.
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> johndament:
> Did not report. Podling seems to be in bad shape. Prior reports
> indicated similar issues.
>
> --------------------
> FreeMarker
>
> FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text
> output
> based on templates. FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library
> for
> programmers.
>
> FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. IP clearance
> 2. Move to ASF infrastructure, especially the code repository
> 3. Finding contributors
>
> 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 in early stage of incubation (like source code wasn't imported
> yet), so there's no change.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have collected the required Software Grants and ICLA-s. We are working
> on the migration to the ASF infrastructure and preparing for the IP
> clearance process.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> There was no release from the Incubator yet
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> We only have the initial comitters and inital PMC members yet.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
> [ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
> [ ](freemarker) David E. Jones
> [X](freemarker) Ralph Goers
> [ ](freemarker) Sergio Fernández
>
>
> --------------------
>
> 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. Grow community to add more PPMC members, contributors
> 2. Rotate community tasks between PPMC members
> 3. Well manage features (streaming and batch) within coming releases
>
> 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. In July, there were 610 messages on dev@, 52 issues created, 22
> issues
> resolved
> 2. Qianhao Zhou has presented Apache Kylin
> at China Hadoop Summit 2015 Shanghai on July 24, 2015
> 3. Debashis Saha and Luke Han has presented Apache Kylin
> at Hadoop Summit 2015 San Jose on June 9, 2015
> 4. Hongbin Ma has presented Apache Kylin
> at OSC (Open source innovation meetup) Shanghai on June 14, 2015
> 5. Fabian Wilckens has spoken about Apache Kylin
> at Berlin BuzzWords on June 1, 2015
> 6. Medha Samant has presented Apache Kylin
> at Drill Meetup Bayarea on May 26, 2015
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Released 0.7.1 and 0.7.2, is preparing release 0.7.3
> 2. Cleanup and GC tool of cube build job
> 3. Early streaming features bring into 0.8 branch,
> continuing refactoring to support lambda architecture
> 4. Metadata migration tool
> 5. Kafka as streaming source
> 6. In-memory cubing for streaming
> 7. Upgraded Calcite to 1.3 to support better SQL functions and bug fixes
> 8. Bug fixes
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-07-21 v0.7.2-incubating released
> 2015-06-10 v0.7.1-incubating released (First Apache Release)
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 1. Two new mentors joined Apache Kylin PMC: Julian Hyde and Taylor Goetz
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](kylin) Owen O'Malley
> [X](kylin) Ted Dunning
> [X](kylin) Henry Saputra
> [X](kylin) Julian Hyde
> [X](kylin) P. Taylor Goetz
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Ted Dunning: This is a very active and inclusive community.
>
> --------------------
> ODF Toolkit
>
> 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
> 2. Generate additional releases
> 3.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> Very quiet.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> No new committers. New tickets have been raised by interested users.
>
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2014-06-02
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2012-10-29
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
> [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
> [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
>
> 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. Increase community
>
> 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?
>
> Not a lot.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Ongoing incremental improvements and bug fixes.
> Discussing/preparing a new release.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2014-06-26
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None added since project has started
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
> [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
> [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
> [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
>
> --------------------
> 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. We need more active contributors.
> 2. We must provide support for Java EE.
> 3. We must release more often.
>
> 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?
> Streamlining all features and preparingthe first release took more
> time as originally suggested due to absences of key people involved.
> It has shown that additional committers are urgently needed.
> There were several that have shown interest, but unfortunately this
> did not lead to additional contributors.
>
> We hope that presentations at ApacheCon, Devoxx and several other
> conferences as well as articles at JAXenter and more will
> help to improve the community until end of year.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> We have now an agreed core set of APIs and extensions that provide a
> healthy and usefule base for the future. The extensions are all
> well tested and documented, so we should be able tome come up
> if a good quality with our first release. The first release
> 0.1-incubating is now in the vote on PMC, so we are
> now on track to further wider community awereness for our
> project. Anatole has a article series on the topic in the
> biggest German technical paper and also will blog regularly
> on it, once the release is out. As a star spec lead his
> network should definitively help to grow community then.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> None. But first release is discussed in the PMC as of now,
> so within the next 1-2 week it should be out.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> See last report (no new committers or PMC members).
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](tamaya) John D. Ament
> [ ](tamaya) Mark Struberg
> [ ](tamaya) Gerhard Petracek
> [ ](tamaya) David Blevins
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> johndament:
> The small community came together quickly following existing ASF best
> practices to get their first together. Thank you especially to Justin
> Mclean for pre-reviewing the release to catch any issues. Once Tamaya
> gets through some community growth, they will be well functioning.
>
> --------------------
> Trafodion
>
> Trafodion is a webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or
> operational workloads on Hadoop.
>
> Trafodion has been incubating since 2015-05-24.
>
> Four most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Develop community and a deeper understanding of the Apache Way. Move
> all communication to project public lists.
> 2. Complete wiki migration and website build.
> 3. Resolve remaining license conflicts.
> 4. Make our first Apache (incubating) release.
>
> 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?
>
> * All issues are now discussed through JIRAs.
> * An on boarding process for new contributors has been documented in the
> wiki.
> * We have 30 contributors from more than 4 organizations.
> * Accepted to present at ApacheCon in Budapest on September 30.
> * At least 2 users have been guided through public lists as they try out
> the product.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Website up at http://trafodion.incubator.apache.org/
> * 5 pages added to the wiki at
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TRAFODION/
> * Daily builds are being done using a CI system outside of ASF
> Infrastructure.
> * 17 authors have made 29 commits to master in July. 165 files changed,
> 9518 lines additions, 5742 deletions.
> * With migration from previous issue tracking system completed we have
> 1415 JIRAs created and 36 resolved in July 2015
>
> Date of last release:
>
> We have not done a release of Trafodion since incubation.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Steve Varnau elected as committer on July 16, 2015.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](trafodion) Andrew Purtell
> [ ](trafodion) Devaraj Das
> [ ](trafodion) Enis Söztutar
> [ ](trafodion) Lars Hofhansl
> [X](trafodion) Michael Stack
> [X](trafodion) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> --------------------
> Twill
>
> Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop YARN that reduces the complexity
> of developing distributed applications, allowing developers to focus more
> on
> their business logic.
>
> Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Encouraging more contributions in open manner
> 2. More regular release cycles and roadmap
> 3. Increase adoptions
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> * Need help from mentors to verify releases to get binding votes in dev
> list before going to general incubator list
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * New release 0.6.0-incubating on July 24, 2015
> * 19 JIRA issues resolved since last report
> * Add 2 new external contributors
> * Add a new PPMC member
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Version 0.6.0-incubating is released
> * Fixing issue to support MapR distribution
> * Adding new PPMC member: Henry Saputra
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-07-24 0.6.0-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-08-04 Henry Saputra
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](twill) Arun C Murthy
> [ ](twill) Tom White
> [ ](twill) Patrick Hunt
> [ ](twill) Andrei Savu
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> -------------------------
>
> 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. Encourage more feature and direction discussions on the dev list
> rather
> than jira.
> 2. Continue reporting on time
> 3. Improve release schedules
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
> of?
>
> * Community has fixed all the issues raised except for the ongoing
> efforts
> mentioned in the previous section.
> * Community has released Sentry 1.5.1 after fixing the earlier release
> issues.
> * Making project direction more visible: Created a roadmap page on wiki,
> so that there is one place every one can see what is community working
> on or aspiring to work on.
> * Project is now doing monthly reporting
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> We had 73 messages on dev list last month. (Got number from
> http://markmail.org/list/org.apache.sentry.dev)
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> About 42 issues were created and about 46 resolved(Numbers from jira).
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-07-14
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Colin Ma, Dapeng Sun, Guoquan Shen and Xiaomeng Huang were added as
> committers on 12/24/2014. 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
> [ ](sentry) Patrick Hunt
> [ ](sentry) Thomas White
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> }}}
>
