I've moved the podlings that had no report submitted to non-reporting and
marked them as monthly. I'm especially concerned about iota and Johnzon,
one a brand new podling (maybe they shouldn't have reported this month?)
and the other a podling that was trying to graduate. I'll reach out to
those communities separately.
I left the following reports in for now, without sign off. They should be
removed before we submit the report to the board unless one of their
mentors can sign off on the reports:
- Kudu
- Myriad
Both are fine reports, so shouldn't be an issue to sign off on them.
Note that I signed off on the CommonsRDF report, but to be clear to
everyone, it is an acknowledgement that the podling is in danger of
retiring.
This month seems to have been a pretty big swing in mentors on projects. I
think everyones realizing how busy they are. For those mentors who have
resigned, if you could please update podlings.xml to indicate your
resignation that would be appreciated.
For any podling that may be suffering from a lack of mentorship, I would
suggest to please reach out to the IPMC for support, we have many trained
members who may be willing to give you a hand.
John
On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 2:15 PM John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have some things I'm going to wrap up tonight. But below is the current
> draft report. I notice that there are still many missing podlings.
>
> - Atlas
> - Htrace
> - iota (new podling)
> - Johnzon (just raised a graduation vote)
> - OpenAz
> - Ranger
> - Sirona
> - Wave
>
> I'd like to hear from these podlings/mentors to understand where their
> reports are.
>
> John
>
>
> = Incubator PMC report for March 2016 =
> === Timeline ===
> ||Wed March 02 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
> ||Sun March 06 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
> ||Sun March 06 ||Summary due by end of day ||
> ||Tue March 08 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
> ||Wed March 09 ||Report submitted to Board ||
> ||Wed March 16 ||Board meeting ||
>
>
> === Shepherd Assignments ===
> ||Drew Farris ||Sirona ||
> ||John Ament ||Streams ||
> ||John Ament ||Wave ||
> ||Justin Mclean ||Metron ||
> ||P. Taylor Goetz ||Joshua ||
> ||P. Taylor Goetz ||Zeppelin ||
> ||P. Taylor Goetz ||log4cxx2 ||
> ||Timothy Chen ||Impala ||
> ||Timothy Chen ||Johnzon ||
> ||Timothy Chen ||MRQL ||
> ||[none] ||Atlas ||
> ||[none] ||Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer ||
> ||[none] ||CommonsRDF ||
> ||[none] ||Fineract ||
> ||[none] ||HTrace ||
> ||[none] ||Kudu ||
> ||[none] ||Milagro ||
> ||[none] ||Myriad ||
> ||[none] ||OpenAz ||
> ||[none] ||Ranger ||
> ||[none] ||SAMOA ||
> ||[none] ||Sentry ||
> ||[none] ||Singa ||
> ||[none] ||Taverna ||
> ||[none] ||Toree ||
> ||[none] ||Trafodion ||
> ||[none] ||iota ||
>
>
> === Report content ===
> {{{
> Incubator PMC report for March 2016
>
> 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 52 podlings currently undergoing incubation.
>
> * Community
>
> New IPMC members:
>
> - Kathey Marsden
> - Daniel John Debrunner
>
> * New Podlings
>
> - Guacamole
> - Joshua
> - Quarks
>
> * Graduations
>
> The board has motions for the following:
>
> - Sentry
>
> * Releases
>
> The following releases entered distribution during the month of
> February:
>
> 2016-02-06 Apache Geode 1.0.0-incubating.M1
> 2016-02-07 Apache Apex v3.3.0-incubating
> 2016-02-11 Apache Wave 0.4.0-incubating
> 2016-02-11 Apache SystemML 0.9.0-incubating
> 2016-02-11 Apache TinkerPop 3.1.1-incubating
> 2016-02-20 Apache Johnzon 0.9.3-incubating
> 2016-02-25 Apache Kudu (incubating) 0.7.0
> 2016-02-26 Apache AsterixDB 0.8.8-incubating
>
> * IP Clearance
>
>
>
> * Legal / Trademarks
>
> - There was substantial discussion on general@incubator about how
> challenging it is to produce compliant LICENSE and NOTICE files.
>
> - A couple of podlings with runtime LGPL dependencies pledged to remove
> those dependencies before graduation but were permitted to make
> incubating releases in the meantime. There was uncertainty as to
> whether VP Legal's approval was required; ultimately VP Legal appeared
> on general@incubator and approved the plans.
>
> * Infrastructure
>
>
>
> * Miscellaneous
>
> - The Incubator's Retirement Guide has been substantially refreshed, and
> it should now be easier for a Mentor or other volunteer to perform the
> administrative steps to retire a podling.
>
> * Credits
>
> - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey
>
> -------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
>
> * Still getting started at the Incubator
>
> - Impala
> - Joshua
> - Milagro
>
> * Not yet ready to graduate
>
> No release:
>
> - CMDA
> - Fineract
> - log4cxx2
> - Metron
> - Toree
>
> Community growth:
>
> - Commons RDF
> - Kudu
> - Myriad
> - SAMOA
> - Singa
> - Taverna
> - Trafodion
> - Zeppelin
>
> * Ready to graduate
>
> The Board has motions for the following:
>
> - Sentry
>
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Table of Contents
> Atlas
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
> CommonsRDF
> Fineract
> HTrace
> Impala
> iota
> Johnzon
> Joshua
> Kudu
> log4cxx2
> Metron
> Milagro
> MRQL
> Myriad
> OpenAz
> Ranger
> SAMOA
> Sentry
> Singa
> Sirona
> Streams
> Taverna
> Toree
> Trafodion
> Wave
> Zeppelin
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------
> Atlas
>
> Apache Atlas is a scalable and extensible set of core foundational
> governance services that enables enterprises to effectively and efficiently
> meet their compliance requirements within Hadoop and allows integration
> with
> the complete enterprise data ecosystem
>
> Atlas has been incubating since 2015-05-05.
>
> 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:
>
> [ ](atlas) Arun Murthy
> [ ](atlas) Chris Douglas
> [ ](atlas) Jakob Homan
> [ ](atlas) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Moving project communication to the mailing list;
> 2. Moving development activities to be owned by Apache;
> 3. Working on community building.
>
> 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?
>
> * Started using the mailing list d...@cmda.incubator.apache.org
> to communicate project development issues;
> * Created a Docker container that will be used for our future
> development as well as deployment vehicle (in progress);
> * Working on a unified git repository to host both the CMU and
> the JPL code bases;
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * The JPL team developed the following new services:
> * Time series for multiple datasets
> * Conditional probability density function calculation
> * Empirical orthogonal function calculation
> * Random forest feature importance calculation
> * Anomaly calculation
> * The JPL team improved these features:
> * A new color scheme of data visualization of some services
> * The URL for a RestFul service call has been constructed
> * The JPL team is working on
> * supporting a workflow with CMDA services. identified first examples
> to
> work on.
> * modifying the CMDA services to be “chainable” (callable in a
> workflow).
> * The CMU team created a unified github repository that
> has both the CMU and JPL code bases. Needs cleanup;
> * The CMU team created a new Docker container that has
> the latest Ubuntu operating system and the run-time
> environment for the CMU deployment;
> * The JPL team installed the run-time environment in
> the Docker container for the JPL deployment.
> An integrated test is pending;
> * The JPL team acquired a GPU server that will be used
> as the testbed for speeding up their web services;
>
> Date of last release:
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann
> [X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Gregory D. Reddin
>
> 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. Re-engage and grow the Commons RDF community base
> 2. Work with key target communities (initially within Apache) to ensure
> Commons RDF meets potential user requirements and expectations towards
> next versions of the Commons API.
> 3. Find lateral target goals that could make the project viable.
>
> 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?
>
> Sleeper community in the last months; very few mails and no commits.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Project's development has completely stop in the last months. We expected
> a different engagement from major RDF toolkits. But since that does not
> happen, we have started to discuss options to find a viability for the
> project https://s.apache.org/oxqb
>
> By the next reporting period we should have something more concrete
> towards the future, or we could think about a possible exit strategy.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-05-07
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> n/a (no PPMC or Committers have been elected yet)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](commonsrdf) Rob Vesse
> [ ](commonsrdf) John D Ament
> [ ](commonsrdf) Gary Gregory
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Fineract
>
> Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
>
> Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Inform the non-technical part of the existing Mifos.org community of
> the change in project structure
> 2. Getting licensing issues figured out for our first release
> 3. Replacing dependencies that are not compliant with the license
> policies
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> None, currently.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Since the code was initially pushed over, the community is working on the
> first release.
>
> In addition to the initial committer new contributors started to work on
> the project.
>
> There is a technical conference in Amsterdam in the second week of March
> during which some contributors and some community members will be
> introduced to developing under the Apache model.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The initial code is now available and the work to meet the license
> policies has started.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> N/A
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
> [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
> [X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --------------------
> HTrace
>
> HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
> written in java.
>
> HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11.
>
> 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:
>
> [ ](htrace) Jake Farrell
> [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
> [ ](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
> [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
> [ ](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
> [ ](htrace) Michael Stack
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Impala
>
> Impala is a high-performance C++ and Java SQL query engine for data stored
> in Apache Hadoop-based clusters.
>
> Impala has been incubating since 2015-12-03.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Movement of existing JIRA / Git / wiki resources to Apache
> equivalents
> 2. Initial release as incubating project.
> 3. Community growth
>
> 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 have been no additions to the committer or PMC lists since
> incubation began. However, we have seen an uptick in external
> contributions, both through code, and in discussion on the mailing list.
> One contributor has been attempting to port Impala to PPC, and has
> reported some success after asking many questions.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have made some slow progress with our initial infrastructure tasks.
> Code review traffic is now copied to d...@impala.incubator.apache.org,
> which means that developer discussions are now happening on the mailing
> lists.
>
> We have a number of infrastructure tasks ahead of us which are blocked on
> the current Impala team at Cloudera being very busy with an internal
> release (this is one reason we look forward to a more diverse
> community!).
> For example:
>
> 1. We would like to move our Git repository to .apache.org in short
> order,
> but as it stands the existing repo is 10GB large and historically
> contains many binary artifacts that, while acceptably licensed, have
> no
> useful place in Impala's repository. We need to strip these artifacts
> from the Git history, and then adjust Gerrit to commit to the new
> branch in the new repo. This is not hard but takes some time.
> 2. We would also like to move our JIRA tickets from issues.cloudera.org
> to
> issues.apache.org. Experience in a sister podling has shown that this
> isn't straightforward if we wish to preserve existing release labels,
> user assignments and so on, so requires some time.
>
> We anticipate having much more time to work on these basic issues after
> the end of February. We look forward to getting Impala into a position
> where it is easier for the larger community to collaborate on these kinds
> of project management issues.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> None since entering incubation.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None since entering incubation.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](impala) Tom White
> [ ](impala) Todd Lipcon
> [ ](impala) Carl Steinbach
> [ ](impala) Brock Noland
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> iota
>
> Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.
>
> iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
>
> 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:
>
> [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
> [ ](iota) Justin Mclean
> [ ](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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.
> 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:
>
> [ ](johnzon) Justin Mclean
> [ ](johnzon) Daniel Kulp
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Joshua
>
> Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit
>
> Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.
>
> The INFRA bootstrap ticket has been opened[1], and the PPMC and INFRA
> are active in working through the setup tasks.
>
> No concerns for the board at this time.
>
>
> [1] (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11264)
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
> [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
> [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
> [X](joshua) Henri Yandell
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> --------------------
> Kudu
>
> Kudu is a distributed columnar storage engine built for the Apache Hadoop
> ecosystem.
>
> Kudu has been incubating since 2015-12-03.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Build a more diverse developer and user community
> 2. Migrate our web site under apache.org
> 3. Continue to make regular Apache releases
>
> 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?
>
> - In February, we only received one patch from a new contributor (3 total
> from non-committers). We're continuing to focus on building a more
> diverse developer community.
>
> Although recruiting new contributors to Kudu itself have been slow, we
> had community members report beginnings of a Presto integration, an
> Apache Flume sink, and Rust language bindings. We are considering
> whether it makes sense to develop these things within the Kudu project
> or external locations.
>
> - Overall development velocity continues to be pretty good: 94 patches
> committed since the last report, representing about 3.5kloc of new code
> and 4kloc of changes. This is slightly down from last month, as we
> spent a bit more time on managing our first release and fixing bugs
> rather than adding new features.
>
> Dev list traffic is similar to January (1032 messages vs 1144 in Jan).
>
> - Community members continue to give public talks about Kudu at various
> conferences and meetups. Talks were delivered at conferences or meetups
> in Tokyo (x2), Sunnyvale, Krakow, San Francisco (x2), and Seattle. More
> are planned for March.
>
> We are also encouraged that at least two Kudu meetup talks were
> delivered by new members of the community outside the core development
> team. We hope to see the "grassroots community" trend continue.
>
> - The public Kudu Slack channel continues to be popular. It has grown
> from
> 116 members last month to 150 this month. Discussion between users and
> devs is quite active, with daily participation from a global community
> (USA, China, Poland, Japan, et al). Many users seem to prefer this
> method over the traditional user mailing list.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Since the last report, we've accomplished the following milestones:
>
> - We successfully migrated our issue tracking to the Apache JIRA. Special
> thanks to Gavin on the infra team and Mike Percy on the Kudu project
> for
> hard work on this transition.
>
> - We cleaned up our license documentation and successfully published our
> first official release as an incubating project (0.7.0)!
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Feb 25, 2016: Apache Kudu 0.7.0-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None since initial incubation.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](kudu) Jake Farrell
> [ ](kudu) Brock Noland
> [ ](kudu) Michael Stack
> [ ](kudu) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> [ ](kudu) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](kudu) Julien Le Dem
> [ ](kudu) Carl Steinbach
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Activate some community
> 3.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> There's an ongoing discussion to move the project to attic unless it is
> able to release in the next few months.
>
> 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?
>
> After the discussion about the activity of the project and the success of
> the incubation process, there's currently a member willing to step
> through
> the release process. The initial plan on incubation anyway was to primary
> apply available patches and release those bug fixes.
>
> Additionally, there's once more a discussion about the supported build
> platforms, because currently the project heavily focusses on cpptasks,
> which is not maintained and simply doesn't support current versions of
> all
> formerly supported IDEs anymore. The current focus is on dropping
> cpptasks and ANT for the build of the software and use autoconf and/or
> cmake instead.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2008-04-03 was the last official, pre-incubation 0.10.0
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](log4cxx2) Ralph Goers
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Metron
>
> Metron integrates a variety of open source big data technologies in order
> to
> offer a centralized tool for security monitoring and analysis. Metron
> provides capabilities for log aggregation, full packet capture indexing,
> storage, advanced behavioral analytics and data enrichment, while applying
> the most current threat-intelligence information to security telemetry
> within a single platform.
>
> Metron has been incubating since 12-08-2015
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> Graduation:
>
> - Building a diverse community of developers for Metron
> - Getting security practitioners to provide feedback on requirements
> - Make an Apache release
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> - We are currently trying to produce the first Apache release of Metron
> - We would like to request Apache infrastructure (a Jenkins server) for
> CI
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> - We voted to add one additional committer, Nick Allen
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - We closed on 15 more Jiras and made our code base more compliant with
> Apache Licenses. We are at the latest stages of cleaning up the code
> base to come up with the Apache build.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](metron) Billie Rinaldi
> [ ](metron) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](metron) Owen O'Malley
> [ ](metron) P. Taylor Goetz
> [ ](metron) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
>
> --------------------
> Milagro
>
> Distributed Cryptography; M-Pin protocol for Identity and Trust
>
> Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Import main project repos
> 2. Work towards our first release
> 3. Broaden the community
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> The Initial Committer list is being revised (see below).
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> We have identified shortcomings in the Initial Committer list, and
> adopted
> a fast-track process to add new members, valid for the project's first
> three months (until March 20th). We have welcomed our first genuinely
> new
> committer and are inviting another. Initial committers are familiarising
> with Apache.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Both companies MIRACL and NTT are now readying their initial
> contributions
> into the Milagro repositories.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> n/a
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> We have no distinction between committers and PMC.
>
> The following have accepted invitations during the period:
>
> Peter Scanlon
> Tomasz Matecki
> Anthony Shaw
> Vladislav Mitov
> Nikolai Stoilov
>
> All except Anthony Shaw are Miracl employees, and should have been on the
> Initial Committer list. We anticipate improving diversity soon.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](milagro) Sterling Hughes
> [ ](milagro) Jan Willem Janssen
> [*](milagro) Nick Kew
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
>
> 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 report.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have released our fourth release under Apache incubation. There were
> various bug fixes and performance improvements before the release. The
> most important new feature in the new release is support for incremental
> query processing in MRQL streaming, called Incremental MRQL.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-03-02
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2014-04-17
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](mrql) Alan Cabrera
> [x](mrql) Edward J. Yoon
> [ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din
>
> 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. Grow the Myriad user base.
> 2. Expand the contributor community.
> 3. Release Myriad 0.2.0 in April/May, with focus on multitenancy,
> security, and oversubscription.
>
> 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?
>
> - Mailing list traffic went into a holiday lull after the 0.1.0 release.
> Should pick up again as we plan the 0.2.0 release.
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-myriad-dev/
> - Our biweekly community syncs still get 6-12 participants, including new
> participants from Accenture. See minutes at: http://s.apache.org/8kF
> - Freenode #myriad IRC channel has been mostly quiet since the 0.1.0
> release, except for an occasional user question or discussion around a
> community sync. Chatter should pick up again leading up to the 0.2.0
> release, and moreso after we get a few more users. Archived by ASFBot
> at: http://wilderness.apache.org/channels/#logs-#myriad
> - Website and wiki were updated with the 0.1.0 release.
> http://myriad.incubator.apache.org
> - Presented at DockerConEU. Submitted talks for ApacheCon, MesosCon,
> Hadoop Summit, Container World.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Resolved 6 JIRAs and merged 6 PRs since Dec 2, 2015.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-12-10 myriad-0.1.0-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-10-05 Darin J
> 2015-10-14 Swapnil Daingade
> In the process of nominating the next committer.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
> [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
> [ ](myriad) Ted Dunning
> [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> OpenAz
>
> Tools and libraries for developing Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC)
> Systems in a variety of languages.
>
> OpenAz has been incubating since 2015-01-20.
>
> 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:
>
> [ ](openaz) Emmanuel Lecharny
> [ ](openaz) Colm O Heigeartaigh
> [ ](openaz) Hadrian Zbarcea
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Ranger
>
> The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
> comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.
>
> Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.
>
> 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:
>
> [ ](ranger) Alan Gates
> [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
> [ ](ranger) Jakob Homan
> [ ](ranger) Owen O'Malley
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> SAMOA
>
> SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the
> most
> common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification,
> clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop
> new algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines
> (DSPEs). It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on
> several DSPEs such as Apache Storm, Apache S4, and Apache Samza.
>
> SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Grow the community
> 2. Elect new PMC members
> 3. Release more often
>
> 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?
>
> Mailing list activity (December 2015 - February 2016):
> * @dev: 114 messages
>
> Jira issues backlog (December 2015 - February 2016):
> * Created: 7
> * Resolved: 4
>
> We have a number of new users showing up on the mailing list, which is
> encouraging.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The community has decided to drop support for S4, which is now inactive.
> There is also some continued interest by Apache Apex about a possible
> integration. Internally, we have been working on strengthening our main
> classifier (VHT). There has also been work on improving the connection
> with Avro and Kafka. The adapted for Flink has been updated to the
> latest
> stable version (0.10).
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-07-21
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](samoa) Alan Gates
> [ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan
> [ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar
> [ ](samoa) Ted Dunning
>
> 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.Graduation vote has been passed, see below for details.
> 2.
> 3.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> 1. Graduation vote has been passed and the resolution has been proposed
> to
> the board for consideration in the board meeting.
> References:
> https://s.apache.org/dev_discuss
> https://s.apache.org/dev_vote_result
> https://s.apache.org/general_discuss
> https://s.apache.org/Incubator_vote
> Other:
> https://s.apache.org/general_notify
> https://s.apache.org/8rty (Maturity Model assessment)
> 2. Olivier Lamy resigned as a mentor.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> 1. We had ~500 messages on dev list in the past three months. (Got number
> from http://markmail.org/list/org.apache.sentry.dev)
> 2. Community is continuing to do monthly hangouts.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> About 131 issues were created and about 87 resolved in the past 3
> months(Numbers from jira).
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-09-22, preparing for 1.7.0 release
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Hao Hao was added as committer on 01/29/2016. On 2015-12-21, community
> voted to make Committer == PPMC.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](sentry) Arvind Prabhakar
> [ ](sentry) Joe Brockmeier
> [ ](sentry) David Nalley
> [X](sentry) Patrick Hunt
> [X](sentry) Thomas White
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Improve the system, including performance and features like
> distributed
> GPU training over GPU clusters, R binding, etc.
> 2. Add more examples and documentation to attach users
> 3. Grow the community. We have been trying to reach out to a more diverse
> community of developers and users by presenting SINGA for various
> audiences. Completing items 1 and 2 above would attract more
> contributors and users.
>
> 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?
>
> The Github repository has scored 540 stars and 190 forks.
>
> There were 60, 180 and 7 commits in Dec 2015, Jan 2016 and Feb 2016
> respectively.
>
> There were 77, 105, 13 emails from dev@ list in Dec 2015, Jan 2016 and
> Feb
> 2016 respectively.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> In Jan 2016, we released our second version, i.e., incubating-v0.2.0,
> with
> the following major features:
>
> * GPU support, which enables training of complex models on a single node
> with multiple GPU cards.
> * Hybrid neural net partitioning, which supports data and model
> parallelism at the same time.
> * Python wrapper, which makes it easy to configure the job, including
> neural net and SGD algorithm.
> * RNN model and BPTT algorithms, to support applications based on RNN
> models, e.g., GRU.
> * Cloud software integration includes Mesos, Docker and HDFS.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-01-14
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](singa) Daniel Dai
> [X](singa) Alan Gates
> [ ](singa) Ted Dunning
> [ ](singa) Thejas Nair
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> 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:
>
> [ ](sirona) Olivier Lamy
> [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
> [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
> [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Streams
>
> Apache Streams (incubating) unifies a diverse world of digital profiles
> and online activities into common formats and vocabularies, and makes
> these datasets accessible across a variety of databases, devices,
> and platforms for streaming, browsing, search, sharing, and analytics
> use-cases.
>
> Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Community growth and PMC maturity.
> 2. Demonstrate a consistent release schedule.
> 3. Collaborate with other Apache projects to improve integrations
> with their software.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> # of contributors submitting and reviewing pull requests has remained
> low this quarter.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> no demonstrable progress in community growth.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 5 issues created / 1 resolved this quarter
> at mentors suggestion, this quarter the project focused on
> documenting project purpose, philosophies, place in ecosystem,
> how to get started, etc... as part of a web site overhaul.
> the new version is hosted at streams.staging.apache.org and will go
> live at streams.incubator.apache.org soon.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-04-26
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-02-23: Robert Douglas elected as committer / PMC member
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](streams) Matt Franklin
> [X](streams) Ate Douma
> [ ](streams) Craig McClanahan
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Community growth
> 2. Release more of the imported code to create engagement
> 3. Move to a sustainable development pattern
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> Our mentors have reported they have little or no time
> available as Taverna is picking up pace.
>
> Dan Debrunner volunteered from the incubator list and
> became a new mentor.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Welcomed new PPMC member.
>
> GSOC 2016 project ideas are already getting interest.
>
> dev@taverna mailing lists stats:
>
> Dec 2015: 42
> Jan 2016: 128
> Feb 2016: 325
>
> users@taverna:
>
> Dec 2015: 2
> Jan 2016: 0
> Feb 2016: 2
>
> JIRA issues over last 90 days:
>
> 50 created
> 32 resolved
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Good buzz around release preparation, release candidate currently
> under vote.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-08-11 taverna-language-0.15.0-incubating
>
> (new release currently under vote)
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-12-04
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](taverna) Andy Seaborne
> [ ](taverna) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas
> [X](taverna) Suresh Marru
> [X](taverna) Marlon Pierce
> [ ](taverna) Dan Debrunner
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Andy:: It would be good to have a second active mentor in addition to Dan.
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Toree
>
> Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely
> access Apache Spark. It enables interactive workloads between applications
> and a Spark cluster. As a Jupyter Notebook extension, it provides the user
> with a preconfigured environment for interacting with Spark using Scala,
> Python, R or SQL.
>
> Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Removal of LGPL dependency
> 2. Ease of installation
> 3. Documentation of APIs
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> TOREE-262 - Progress on removal of LGPL dependency
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Work with Jupyter community to update their docker stacks to include
> the latest Toree
> 2. Blog post at http://www.spark.tc/announcing-apache-toree/ to announce
> the incubation
> 3. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters
> 4. Work with Brunel project
> (https://github.com/Brunel-Visualization/Brunel) to make technology
> available on Toree
> 5. Still working on transitioning users from Spark Kernel project into
> Toree.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Source package have been renamed to org.apache.toree
> 2. All original contributors are not actively developing and fixing
> issues
> on the apache project
> 3. Project can be published and installed through Pypi (only snapshot/dev
> packaged made available for testing)
> 4. Added a plug-in framework to enable integration of 3rd party code to
> add capabilities
> 5. Create Spark Streaming example notebook to feature many of the
> capabilities of Toree in collaboration with Jupyter ecosystem
> (dashboards and widgets)
> 6. Misc bug fixes and features
> 7. Actively working with JeroMQ community to further their transition
> into
> MPL v2 and away from LGPL.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> None since incubation.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No new additions since incubation
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](toree) Luciano Resende
> [ ](toree) Reynold Xin
> [X](toree) Hitesh Shah
> [ ](toree) Julien Le Dem
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Trafodion
>
> Trafodion is a webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or
> operational workloads on Hadoop.
>
> Trafodion has been incubating since 2015-05-24.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Develop community and bring in more diverse contributors.
> 2. Work on our second release, including convenience binaries and
> support for Apache HBase 1.x without a commercial distribution.
> 3. Continue the momentum and become more integrated with the
> rest of the Apache community.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> * Lars Hofhansl and Andrew Purtell resigned as mentors.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * Participation in public lists has been increasing:
> 809 messages in the codereview forum, 1051@commits,
> 561@dev, 1377@issues and 320@user.
> * Steve Varnau has agreed to be the release manager for
> our next release.
> * A logo for Apache Trafodion was adopted by vote in February.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Completed our first release in incubation, Trafodion 1.3.0,
> on Jan 11, 2016. Many thanks go to Roberta Marton, the release manager.
> See http://trafodion.apache.org/release-notes-1-3-0.html for details.
> * Completely redesigned the web page, http://trafodion.apache.org
> and moved content from the wiki to the site, following the example
> of other Apache projects.
> * Published documentation in form of HTML and PDF manuals.
> * 287 commits from 23 contributors.
> * 200 JIRAs filed and 139 resolved in the last three months.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-01-11
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> RuoYu Zuo was announced as a new committer in February.
> The last PMC members were announced in November 2015.
> In both cases the election happened a few weeks earlier
> but it took some time to get the necessary karma.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](trafodion) Devaraj Das
> [ ](trafodion) Enis Söztutar
> [x](trafodion) Michael Stack
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> --------------------
> 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.
> 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:
>
> [ ](wave) Christian Grobmeier
> [ ](wave) Upayavira
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Zeppelin
>
> A collaborative data analytics and visualization 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. Prove PPMC's maturity by handling dispute in community gracefully
> 2. Community growth: more committers from different organizations
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> Updating long term roadmap [1] to embrace community needs is in
> discussion.
>
> [1] https://s.apache.org/Ksgm
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Traffic in users@ and dev@ grew: +38 subscribers in @dev, +83
> subscribers
> in users@ since last report.
>
> Talks at several conferences are scheduled [2].
>
> [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZEPPELIN/Community
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 209 patches have been merged from 42 different contributors since last
> report.
>
> Integration to JDBC, Apache HBase, Elasticsearch, Scalding, Tachyon has
> been added.
>
> Authentication and notebook authorization have implemented.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-01-22
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-01-16
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](zeppelin) Konstantin Boudnik
> [X](zeppelin) Henry Saputra
> [X](zeppelin) Roman Shaposhnik
> [ ](zeppelin) Ted Dunning
> [ ](zeppelin) Hyunsik Choi
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> }}}
>
>
