We're still missing sign off from Slider and TrafficControl.
TrafficControl's MLs don't seem to work yet, as a result this email
includes the mentors directly.
John
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 10:00 PM John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> Below is the current draft of the IPMC board report.
>
> We're still missing sign off from: slider, systemml, toree, trafficcontrol
> (added them to the to to help get sign off)
>
> Please see below
>
> Incubator PMC report for August 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 59 podlings currently undergoing incubation. We added two
> podlings to the roster and have no graduations this month. July was
> a quiet month, completing four releases and no other major activities.
>
> * Community
>
> New IPMC members:
>
> - None
>
> People who left the IPMC:
>
> - None
>
> * New Podlings
>
> - SensSoft
> - Traffic Control
>
>
> * Graduations
>
> The board has motions for the following:
>
> - None
>
> * Releases
>
> The following releases entered distribution during the month of
> July:
>
> - Apache Trafodion 2.0.1-incubating
> - Apache Atlas 0.7-incubating
> - Apache Ranger 0.6.0-incubating
> - Apache Eagle 0.4.0-incubating
>
>
> * Legal / Trademarks
>
> - See also: Fluo's report
>
> * Credits
>
> - Report Manager: John D. Ament
>
> -------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
>
> * Still getting started at the Incubator
>
> - CarbonData
> - DistributedLog
> - Juneau
> - Pirk
> - Pony Mail
> - SensSoft
> - Trafic Control
>
> * Not yet ready to graduate
>
> No release:
>
> - Blur
> - CMDA
> - Guacamole
> - Impala
> - iota
> - PredictionIO
> - Quickstep
> - S2Graph
>
> Community growth:
>
> - Beam
> - Eagle
> - Fluo
> - Joshua
> - Slider
> - SystemML
>
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
> - Fineract
> - Quarks
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Table of Contents
> BatchEE
> Beam
> Blur
> CarbonData
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
> DistributedLog
> Eagle
> Fluo
> Guacamole
> Impala
> iota
> Joshua
> Juneau
> OpenAz
> Pirk
> Pony Mail
> PredictionIO
> Quickstep
> S2Graph
> SensSoft
> Sirona
> Slider
> SystemML
> Tamaya
> Toree
> Traffic Control
> Unomi
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------
>
> BatchEE
>
> BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and a
> set of useful extensions for this specification.
>
> BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> None, as the PPMC feels the project is ready to graduate
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
> of?
>
> No
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> We got several new users and interest in advanced integration (in
> particular our GUI).
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Not much but it is quite stable and no new spec was out since last report
> so it behaves as expected.
> BatchEE is used in TomEE and many industry projects.
> So we also get feedback in indirect ways via TomEE, Geronimo, etc.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-12-08 batchee-0.3-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> * Reinhard Sandtner on 2015-12-01
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> [ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
> [X](batchee) Mark Struberg
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> struberg: I think this podling is ready to graduate.
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Beam
>
> Apache Beam is an open source, unified model and set of language-specific
> SDKs
> for defining and executing data processing workflows, and also data
> ingestion
> and integration flows, supporting Enterprise Integration Patterns
> (EIPs) and Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). Beam pipelines simplify the
> mechanics of large-scale batch and streaming data processing and can run
> on a
> number of runtimes such as Apache Flink, Apache Gearpump, Apache Spark, and
> Google Cloud Dataflow (a cloud service). Beam also brings SDKs in different
> languages, allowing users to easily implement their data integration
> processes.
>
> Beam has been incubating since 2016-02-01.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Additional and continued Beam releases
> 2. Grow the community of Beam users and contributors
> 3. Add to and improve upon documentation, code samples, and project
> website
>
> 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?
>
> * 425 closed/merged pull requests
> * High engagement on dev and user mailing lists (590 / 455 messages)
> * Several public talks, articles, and videos including:
> * Hadoop Summit San Jose ("Apache Beam: A Unified Model for Batch and
> Streaming Data Processing" & "The Next Generation of Data Processing &
> OSS")
> * O’Reilly & The New Stack ("Future-proof and scale-proof your code")
> * QCon NY ("Apache Beam: The Case for Unifying Streaming API's")
> * JBCN Barcelona ("Introduction to Apache Beam")
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Major developments on the project since last report include the following:
>
> * First incubating release (0.1.0-incubating)
> * Second incubating release (0.2.0-incubating)
> * Addition of Apache Beam Python SDK
> * Addition of the Apache Gearpump runner
> * Added support for writing to Apache Kafka clusters
> * Added support for reading from and writing to Java Message Services,
> including Apache ActiveMQ, GeronimoJMS, and RabbitMQ
> * Ratified new Beam model APIs to improve efficiency and failure handling:
> DoFn setup, teardown, and reuse
> * Optimized key components such as data serialization and shuffle
> * Continued improvements to the Flink, Spark, and Dataflow runners
> * Continued reorganization and refactoring of the project
> * Continued improvements to documentation and testing
>
> Date of last release:
>
> * 2016/06/15 - 0.1.0-incubating
> * 2016/08/08 - 0.2.0-incubating)
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A - no changes since last report.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](beam) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> [ ](beam) Venkatesh Seetharam
> [X](beam) Bertrand Delacretaz
> [X](beam) Ted Dunning
>
>
> --------------------
>
> 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. Greater community involvement.
> 2. Produce releases.
> 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@ - 61[0]; dev@ - 79[+1]
> The community involvement has not really changed over the past few
> months.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Not much has changed, a few bug fixes.
>
> 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
>
>
> --------------------
>
> CarbonData
>
> Apache CarbonData is a new Apache Hadoop native file format for faster
> interactive query using advanced columnar storage, index, compression and
> encoding techniques to improve computing efficiency, in turn it will help
> speedup queries an order of magnitude faster over PetaBytes of data.
>
> CarbonData has been incubating since 2016-06-02.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Prepare first CarbonData release
> 2. Prepare first CarbonData website
> 3. Promote the project and grow user and dev community
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
> of?
>
> None
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> We voted two new committers: Venkata Ramana and Ravindra Pesala.
>
> We are preparing the CarbonData website, blog posts and talks to promote
> CarbonData and grow the user and dev communities.
>
> The community activity increased: many new users started to use and test
> CarbonData, we had more than 100 new issues created during July.
>
> On the other hand, presentation material has been created and a first talk
> has been given:
>
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/liangchen18/apache-carbondatanew-high-performance-d
> ata-format-for-faster-data-analysis
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Code donation has been done and all resources have been created by INFRA
> (git, github mirror, mailing list, Jira, ...).
>
> We also created the Jenkins CI jobs.
>
> We are now in the process of cleanup and polishing the build and legal to
> prepare the first release.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Not yet available
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-07-15
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](carbondata) Henry Saputra
> [X](carbondata) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> [X](carbondata) Uma Maheswara Rao G
>
> --------------------
>
> 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. Enlarge the CMDA community;
> 2. Develop stable platform to allow broad contributors to turn in code;
> 3. Develop a streamline procedure to allow the entire community to develop
> the CMDA project
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
> of?
>
> Noe.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> In this month, the CMDA community focuses on developing the summer school
> program, in order to advocate and distribute CMDA 2.0, to educate more
> students on our latest product, and to attract more people to join our
> community. So far, we have received about 25 graduate students who show
> interest and will come to our summer school to learn CMDA 2.0 product and
> the platform.
>
> Meanwhile, with the great guidance from our mentors, the CMDA community
> has learned to run the project from various aspects in an Apache way. Many
> community meetings were held to streamline and develop our operation
> regulations. Here we just name a few strategies. Weekly community meetings
> are arranged with pre-distributed meeting agenda. Meeting invites are sent
> to all community members with open access to the weekly meetings. After
> each community meeting, various contributors/groups summarize their to-do
> items on the community mailing list, to welcome all community members'
> input. Community communication always adopts the community mailing list as
> carrier. More committers join the voting group. More committers are
> recommended based on their active performance in the community.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have successfully encapsulated and deployed CMDA 2.0 onto Amazon cloud
> environment, leveraging docker technology to ensure scalability.
> Provenance engine is also deployed onto Amazon cloud to ensure that we
> gather all provenance during the summer school for further study and
> development of our project after the summer school.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman
> [X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Gregory D. Reddin
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> * Chris Mattmann - The community has shown progress in addressing a near
> vote
> to terminate the podling. There were and still are concerns that need
> to be
> tended to and watched but as a mentor I am pleased by the efforts of
> Jia,
> Seungwon, and Lei whom I have seen contribute to the discussion. I
> think we
> should continue to closely evaluate the progress, but I am happy with
> this
> month.
>
> * Drew Farris - Three mentors active on the mailing lists. Kudos to
> Chris to
> the amount of engagement here. After choosing to avoid retirement the
> community is taking concrete steps to increase its engagement with ASF
> by
> establishing a web presence at Apache, creating committer accounts,
> preparing code for contribution and moving processes to the mailing
> lists.
> This podling is moving to a monthly reporting cycle for the next three
> months progress can be monitored closely.
>
> --------------------
>
> DistributedLog
>
> DistributedLog is a high-performance replicated log service. It offers
> durability, replication and strong consistency, which provides a
> fundamental
> building block for building reliable distributed systems.
>
> DistributedLog has been incubating since 2016-06-24.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> * Getting an Apache release out
> * Improve general documentation
> * Grow user base
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
> of?
>
> There is currently no issue.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * A few people have started to report issues
> * Some conversations have been initiated on the mailing list
> * Sijie will be present at Strata in China to present the project
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * The wiki has been set up (cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DL/)
> * A few contributions were made to the repository on GitHub and are in the
> process of being merged
> * Various mailing lists have been set up
> * SGA from Twitter has been completed
> * Status page is up and we have started filling it out
> * Most accounts of initial committers have been created
> * Jira queue has been created (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DL)
> * Repository has been created (and mirrored on GitHub)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](distributedlog) Flavio Junqueira
> [x](distributedlog) Chris Nauroth
> [ ](distributedlog) Henry Saputra
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Flavio Junqueira: Project has been progressing well. All three mentors have
> been actively participating in bringing the project up to speed and helping
> out with issues. Several contributors have expressed interest in the
> project
> and there is some initial discussion around issues, improvements, and new
> features. I'm personally happy with the progress.
>
> --------------------
>
> Eagle
>
> Apache Eagle (incubating) is an open source analytics solution for
> identifying
> security and performance issues instantly on big data platforms, e.g.
> Apache
> Hadoop, Apache Spark etc. It analyzes data activities, Yarn application,
> Hadoop JMX metrics and daemon logs etc., provides state-of-the-art alert
> engine to identify security breach, performance issues and shows insights.
>
> Eagle has been incubating since 2015-10-26.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Eagle community is discussing graduation and use Apache maturity
> assessment to measure the gap to graduation. That should be completed,
> see
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/EAG/Eagle+Podling+Maturity+Ass
> essment
>
> 2. Complete one requirement from self assessment which is to provide a
> well-documented channel to report security issues, along with a
> documented way of responding to them.
>
> 3. Identify other housekeeping before graduation, for example agreement on
> bylaws, PMC composition etc.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
> of?
>
> NIL
>
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> - Presented in Apache Con, May 2016
> - Presented in London Stratus + Hadoop, May 2016
> - Presented in San Jose Hadoop Summit, June 2016
> - Presented in DTCC2016 Beijing, China, May 2016
> - Presented in JavaCon, China, May 2016
> - Presented in Hadoop Summit, San Jose, China, June 2016
> - Presented in Data Asset Management Summit, Shanghai, China, July 2016
>
> Communities showed continuous interest in Apache Eagle project. Some
> company tried to integrate Eagle as part of whole solution and some
> contributed different use case to Eagle platform, for example MapR
> support, Oozie monitoring support etc.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Technically we added more documents for user to easily use Eagle
>
> Besides Hadoop security monitoring, we have started working on performance
> monitoring design and development based on the requests from community.
>
> As we may have multiple different use cases running on top of Eagle, a
> design discussion and prototype is conducted to make sure Eagle is a
> framework to host multiple use cases and user will use Eagle to manage
> those use cases.
>
> Alert engine is going to be decoupled from data processing so that alert
> engine will be multi-tenant and easy to be used by multiple use cases by
> incorporating well-designed metadata.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-07-19
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> - Daniel Zhou, 2016-06-15
> - Michael Wu, 2016-06-17
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](eagle) Owen O'Malley
> [ ](eagle) Henry Saputra
> [x](eagle) Julian Hyde
> [x](eagle) P. Taylor Goetz
> [x](eagle) Amareshwari Sriramdasu
>
> --------------------
>
> Fluo
>
> Fluo is a distributed system for incrementally processing large data sets
> stored in Accumulo.
>
> Fluo has been incubating since 2016-05-17.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Attract new contributors
> 2. Do a release
> 3. Conduct a podling name search
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
> of?
>
> No
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> We have a new contributor to Fluo since the last report.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We completed refactoring of code to use Apache names. We attempted our
> first release of a parent pom (for both Fluo projects) and it failed on
> the incubator list. A parent pom is a way to share build configuration
> among multiple projects. We plan for Fluo and Fluo Recipes to both
> inherit the same parent pom and obtain common config for code formatting,
> findbugs, checkstyle rules, etc. For this to work the parent pom needs to
> be released before the projects.
>
> The reason it failed is because members of the IPMC identified the
> following issues :
>
> * Improper linking to pre-Apache releases of Fluo from website.
> * Branding and linking issues with fluo.io domain, fluo-io GitHub org and
> projects. The domain name and github org were used by the project before
> moving to Apache.
>
> This was really good feedback. We want to remedy the issues identified
> and eliminate possible confusion around the Apache Fluo brand. The
> following link identifies discussion of a possible way forward.
>
>
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b478645815bf7b1fee8342a21924162decc173d9
> 1c22eaf5f708a435@%3Cdev.fluo.apache.org%3E
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Never
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Never
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](fluo) Billie Rinaldi
> [x](fluo) Drew Farris
> [x](fluo) Josh Elser
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> JE: There was a very heavy discussion on branding spurred from the
> attempted VOTE
> thread. In the end, I believe this was a very positive discussion and
> resulted
> in fixing many branding issues. I believe most of them were due to the
> transition
> from an independent Github community to Apache (which included
> bringing the website).
> The PPMC has been extremely responsive to incubator feedback and I am
> very happy
> with the level of response they spearheaded (without mentor
> prodding/coaxing).
>
> --------------------
>
> Guacamole
>
> Guacamole is an enterprise-grade, protocol-agnostic, remote desktop
> gateway.
> Combined with cloud hosting, Guacamole provides an excellent alternative to
> traditional desktops. Guacamole aims to make cloud-hosted desktop access
> preferable to traditional, local access.
>
> Guacamole has been incubating since 2016-02-10.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Making the first Guacamole release under the Apache Incubator
> 2. Encouraging community participation and contribution
> 3. Accepting additional committers
>
> 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?
>
> Activity on the mailing lists has increased now that the new project
> website is up. At the time of the last report, the @user list was unused.
> Since then, the number of emails has increased each month, with 52 in May,
> 95 in June, and 123 in July. Users do still occasionally post to the old
> SourceForge forums, but are then gently redirected to the mailing lists.
>
> Excluding project committers, the community has opened 5 pull requests, 2
> of which have been merged.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The project has finished migrating to Apache infrastructure, including the
> project website. There is one major outstanding task, screen sharing,
> which has been blocking the release but is finally nearing completion.
>
> Since last report, the project has had roughly 250 commits, about 60% of
> which were directly related to the outstanding task mentioned above.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-12-18 (0.9.9, prior to Apache Incubator)
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> The most recent committer, Frode Langelo, was accepted into the
> project by VOTE on 2016-04-03, with the required ICLA received on
> 2016-04-05.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](guacamole) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> [ ](guacamole) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](guacamole) Olivier Lamy
> [X](guacamole) Jim Jagielski
> [X](guacamole) Greg Trasuk
>
> --------------------
>
> Impala
>
> Impala is a high-performance C++ and Java SQL query engine for data stored
> in
> Apache Hadoop-based clusters.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Transition of development workflows to ASF (see
> https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA-3221)
> 2. Initial release as incubating project.
> 3. Community growth
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware
> of?
>
> No.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Our last report was in April. Since then
>
> * Six new contributors have submitted patches for review, and two
> contributors new to the project since incubation have continued to send
> patches.
> * Mailing list activity more than doubled in the four months since our
> last report compared to the four months before that, from 31 threads to
> 75 threads (excluding patch review comments)
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * The podling name search was completed:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-96
> * Trademark handoff was completed
> * Impala's git repository is now hosted on ASF infrastructure
> * Impala's website's source is hosted on ASF’s git infrastructure and the
> website is now available on https://impala.apache.org
> * Project bylaws have been ratified:
> https://impala.apache.org/bylaws.html
> * Developer documentation has started to move to the ASF-hosted wiki:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/collector/pages.action?key=IMPALA
> * Work has begun in migrating to ASF-hosted JIRA
> * A patch changing the copyright headers is in review
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No releases have been made yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No committers or PMC members have been added since incubation began.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](impala) Tom White
> [ ](impala) Todd Lipcon
> [ ](impala) Carl Steinbach
> [ ](impala) Brock Noland
>
> --------------------
>
> 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. Building a community now that we have completed source code upload of
> one for the main components of the system.
> 2. Moving towards an initial release before the end of the year
> 3. Working on IP clearance for the 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?
>
> A number of individuals have made contributions some of which have been
> incorporated. We need to encourage more discussion on the dev list in the
> coming months.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We continue to improve (the Fey engine) we have added tests for the core
> engine and documentation for the engine and the component set.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> At the start of the project.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
> [X](iota) Justin Mclean
> [ ](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Justin Mclean: Probably time to come off the extended monthly reporting?
>
> --------------------
>
> Joshua
>
> Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit
>
> Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Ensure first release of Joshua Incubating artifacts (6.1)
> 2. Continue to build the Joshua PPMC and user community
> 3. Investigate targeted user communities within Apache
>
> 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 gained a new contributor, and have continued developing and
> updating the web page to increase interest. We have not made
> any real advertising or publicity pushes, but hope to around the
> time of our first formal release under the Apache banner (targeted
> for September).
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have been steadily pushing up stability and design improvements,
> including a move from an ant+ivy to a maven build system. We have
> made some changes to our build process, including enabling
> Travis-CI for continual integration testing. We are in discussion
> about deeper architectural changes that will facilitate an API.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> N/A
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Kellen Sunderland and Felix Hieber (April 11, 2016)
> Thamme Gowda (May 26, 2016)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
> [ ](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
> [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
> [X](joshua) Henri Yandell
>
> --------------------
>
> Juneau
>
> Apache Juneau is a toolkit for marshalling POJOs to a wide variety of
> content
> types using a common framework, and for creating sophisticated self-
> documenting REST interfaces and microservices using VERY little code.
>
> Juneau has been incubating since 2016-06-24.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Build up community with non-IBM and non-Salesforce contributors.
> 2. Finish creating website.
> 3. Finish populating Git repo.
>
> 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?
>
> Currently only two of the original proposers have gone through the process
> of getting commit approval.
>
> Some of the Salesforce proposers have been busy with their release
> schedule. Others need to be bugged to finish up the paperwork.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Grant from IBM Corporation for Juno (Apache Juneau) has been received by
> the ASF.
>
> The Juno codebase has been uploaded to the Git repository. We're still in
> the process of cleaning it up and converting to using Maven for builds.
>
> Work has been done on the website, although build issues appear to be
> preventing it from being fully deployed.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> N/A
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](juneau) Craig Russell
> [ ](juneau) Jochen Wiedmann
> [X](juneau) John D. Ament
>
> --------------------
>
> 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.
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> johndament: The community is currently voting to retire.
>
> --------------------
>
> Pirk
>
> Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR).
>
> Pirk has been incubating since 2016-06-17. The initial code for Pirk was
> granted on 2016-07-11.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for
> dependable release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache
> development process.
> 2. Establish a process which allows different release cycles for the core
> framework, extensions/adaptors, and additional algorithms.
> 3. Grow the community to establish diversity of background and expertise.
>
> 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 mailing list activity, pull requests, and page views to the Apache
> Pirk website (via Google Analytics) have greatly increased since the last
> report.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The project has ensured that all dependencies are compliant with the
> Apache License version 2.0 and that all code and documentation artifacts
> have the correct Apache licensing markings and notice. The project has
> also undertaken a refactor of some of the initial packages and provided
> more robust support for user interaction.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No releases have been made yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Pirk is operating with its initial committers and PMC and has not yet
> elected new committers or PMC members.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](pirk) Billie Rinaldi
> [X](pirk) Joe Witt
> [X](pirk) Josh Elser
> [X](pirk) Suneel Marthi
> [X](pirk) Tim Ellison
>
> --------------------
>
> Pony Mail
>
> Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service,
> that
> can be integrated with many email platforms.
>
> Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Grow the community base
> 2. Ensure that releases and processes adhere to ASF standards
> 3. Spread the word, get more developers onboard.
>
> 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?
>
> The community is growing, albeit at a very slow pace, possibly due to
> summer vacations (and some newborns). We intend to ramp up our recruitment
> drive in the coming months.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have managed to vote on and release Pony Mail 0.9.
>
> Trademark issues have been discussed, mostly done but perhaps with a few
> lose ends to tie up.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-08-02
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-05-27
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
> [X](ponymail) John D. Ament
>
> --------------------
>
> PredictionIO
>
> PredictionIO is an open source Machine Learning Server built on top of
> state-
> of-the-art open source stack, that enables developers to manage and deploy
> production-ready predictive services for various kinds of machine learning
> tasks.
>
> PredictionIO has been incubating since 2016-05-26.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Establish a formal release schedule and process, allowing for
> dependable release cycles consistent with the Apache way.
> 2. Grow the community to establish diversity
> 3. Transition of present PredictionIO users from google-groups to ASF
> mailing lists.
>
> 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 mailing list activity, pull requests and page views to the
> PredictionIO website (per google analytics) have greatly increased since
> the last report. We have announced our new mailing lists on ASF infra on
> the old Google Groups and have made those groups read only. Since then, we
> have seen previous joining the new ASF-based community, and some new
> contributors actively making proposals and patches.
>
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The project has ensured that all dependencies are Apache License 2.0
> compliant, and all code. Working to ensure that all code and documentation
> markings have the correct apache license 2.0 attributions. We have seen
> contributors who used to submit patches pre-donation are now actively
> submitting patches to the migrated codebase. There are also new
> contributors who have submitted proposals about migrating the template
> gallery to be based on ASF, which we have happily merged. New integration
> tests have also been proposed and being actively developed by new
> contributors.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No releases yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> PredictionIO is still operating with the initial committers and PMC and
> has not yet elected new committers or PMC members.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](predictionio) Andrew Purtell
> [ ](predictionio) James Taylor
> [ ](predictionio) Lars Hofhansl
> [ ](predictionio) Luciano Resende
> [ ](predictionio) Xiangrui Meng
> [X](predictionio) Suneel Marthi
>
> --------------------
>
>
> Quickstep
>
> Quickstep is a high-performance database engine.
>
> Quickstep has been incubating since 2016-03-29.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Acquire early adopters.
> 2. Continue to build the developer community.
> 3. Create an ASF 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?
>
> 1. Added two new members to the (core) Committers group.
> 2. Added one new member to the Contributor group.
> 3. Started discussions for a community and governance structure. Initial
> proposal has been circulated the project developer list.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. We have closed over 40 pull requests.
> 2. Created a website.
> 3. Created a getting started guide.
> 4. Started work on cleaning up the entire repository to have licensing and
> copyrights in line with ASF projects.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No release yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](quickstep) Konstantin Boudnik
> [x](quickstep) Julian Hyde
> [ ](quickstep) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> --------------------
>
> S2Graph
>
> S2Graph is a distributed and scalable OLTP graph database built on Apache
> HBase to support fast traversal of extremely large graphs.
>
> S2Graph has been incubating since 2015-11-29.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Make a release
> 2. Attract users and contributors
> 3. Foster more and diverse committers
>
> 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?
>
> * Held a session on S2Graph: Internal at Apache Big Data NA
> * Made various networking efforts at Apache Big Data NA, Vancouver and
> Druid Meet-up, Seoul
> * Made plans to integrate with Apache TinkerPop in order to reach a wider
> audience (S2GRAPH-72)
> * Discussion with Apache Zepplin regarding joint meet-ups at Seoul
> * 3 inquiries from user mailing list
> * Submit paper to INFOCOM 2017
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * We decided project logo.
> * Project website is up.
> * Working on issues on providing package for distribution.
> * 20 issues are created, 18 issues are resolved.
> * Working on first release(S2GRAPH-86)
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No yet
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](s2graph) Andrew Purtell
> [ ](s2graph) Venkatesh Seetharam
> [X](s2graph) Sergio Fernández
>
>
> --------------------
>
> SensSoft
>
> SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
>
> SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Ensure that Software grant/CCLA are submitted to secretary@
> 2. Port all infrastructure and community over to the ASF Incubator
> infrastructure.
> 3. Grow the Senssoft community and work towards incubating releases.
>
> 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?
>
> Senssoft has only literally arrived in the Incubator. Podling
> bootstrapping is currently underway.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Development has been going on outside of The ASF while we wait on sending
> relevant documents to secretary@
>
> Date of last release:
>
> N/A
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
> [X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
> [ ](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Sirona
>
> Monitoring Solution.
>
> Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Extend the community
> 2. Release a bit more often
> 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?
>
> User community increased a bit but not much the core project community.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We tried to release but have few fixes to do.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-11-03
>
> 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
> [X](sirona) Mark Struberg
>
> --------------------
>
> 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. Apache Slider community/PPMC has voted to move portions of Slider into
> Apache Hadoop YARN as modules. It is possible that the remaining pieces
> will be moved at a later point in time or become obsolete or evolve to
> work closely with YARN. Slider PPMC will decide what makes the most
> sense as we progress through this exciting time.
> 2. Getting more external users
> 3. Growth of a diverse set of developers/committers/PMC members is also
> crucial towards the final state of Slider
>
> 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 Apache Hadoop YARN community/PMC and Apache Slider community/PPMC has
> decided to move portions of Slider into YARN, to make fast and significant
> progress on: YARN-4692 - [Umbrella] Simplified and first-class support for
> services in YARN. As a result, portions like Slider Core, Application
> Master, Client and Tests will roll into Apache Hadoop YARN as module(s).
> This effort is being captured in: YARN-5079 : Native YARN framework layer
> for services. At this point, a branch has been created in the Hadoop
> codebase, and Slider has been selectively migrated. As a result of this,
> we are already seeing interest in the Hadoop committers/PMC, who have
> started to contribute and submit patches to Slider.
>
> In order to support existing users of Slider, and to provide seamless
> migration, there will be sufficient overlap between the time when a stable
> state of long running services support is available in some future version
> of YARN and the time till an independent Slider release is available. The
> community/PPMC will also determine the future state of Slider as we
> navigate through these changes.
>
> The discussions on the Slider and YARN community DLs can be viewed here -
>
> https://s.apache.org/0hoh
> https://s.apache.org/MncV
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We released version 0.91.0-incubating in June, 2016 with significant work
> done on token management, unique component support, SLIDER-906 (Support
> for Docker based application packaging with first class YARN support) and
> several bug fixes. Work continues on support for complex services
> (assemblies) and agent-less applications in Slider. The efforts on the
> Core will continue in the new services branch created in YARN.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-06-28 slider-0.91.0-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-07-07: Yu (Thomas) Liu
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](slider) Arun C Murthy
> [ ](slider) Devaraj Das
> [ ](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> [ ](slider) Mahadev Konar
>
>
> --------------------
>
> SystemML
>
> SystemML provides declarative large-scale machine learning (ML) that aims
> at
> flexible specification of ML algorithms and automatic generation of hybrid
> runtime plans ranging from single node, in-memory computations, to
> distributed
> computations running on Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Spark.
>
> SystemML has been incubating since 2015-11-02.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> - Grow SystemML community: increase mailing list activity,
> increase adoption of SystemML for scalable machine learning, encourage
> data scientists to adopt DML and PyDML algorithm scripts, respond to
> user feedback to ensure SystemML meets the requirements of real-world
> situations, write papers, and present talks about SystemML.
> - Continue to produce releases.
> - Increase the diversity of our project's contributors and committers.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
> of?
>
> NONE.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Our mailing list from May through July had 237 messages including a wide
> range of topics. We have gained 6 new contributors since May 1st. On
> GitHub, the project has been starred 365 times and forked 129 times. Fred
> Reiss spoke at Spark Summit West on June 7 about building custom machine
> learning algorithms with SystemML. Mike Dusenberry presented about
> SystemML on May 19 at Datapalooza Denver. Elgohary, Boehm, Haas, Reiss,
> and Reinwald published Compressed Linear Algebra for Large-Scale Machine
> Learning.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We produced our second Apache release, version 0.10.0-incubating. The
> project has had 205 commits since May 1. 187 issues have been reported on
> our JIRA site and 127 issues have been resolved. 70 pull requests have
> been created since May 1, and 63 of these have been closed.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-06-15 (version 0.10.0-incubating)
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-05-07 Glenn Weidner
> 2016-05-07 Faraz Makari Manshadi
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](systemml) Luciano Resende
> [ ](systemml) Patrick Wendell
> [ ](systemml) Reynold Xin
> [ ](systemml) Rich Bowen
>
> 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. Allow community to build consensus in APIs.
> 2. Get new contributors.
> 3. Understand and work through end user use-cases.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
> of?
>
> The community recently had a bit of a falling out between this project
> and some changes proposed to go into the Geronimo project. Its generally
> believed that what was being proposed was not malicious. It does however
> represent some of the core issues around this project's ability create
> consensus and grow.
>
> The project has already been incubating for two years, with very few
> releases
> and very little contributor growth.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> - See issues section.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Releases are still in progress, and work is being done to refactor
> the Tamaya APIs based on some input from Mark Struberg and others.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-04-06 (0.2-incubating)
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Philipp Ottlinger has been elected on 2016-04-22 as new committer.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](tamaya) John D. Ament
> [X](tamaya) Mark Struberg
> [ ](tamaya) Gerhard Petracek
> [ ](tamaya) David Blevins
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> johndament: Discussions are beginning to talk through the future of
> the podling. Going to request an extra report next month since this
> was created by mentors.
>
> --------------------
>
> 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. Resolve LGPL dependency: This is in progress, and hopefully we will
> have the dependency license changed to a license that is compatible
> with AL2.
> 2. Make a release: 0.1.x branch should be ready for release. Master has
> moved to start support for Spark 2.0
> 3. Grow a diverse community: We should put some emphasis on growing the
> community and making it diverse (the rule is at least three
> independent
> contributors)
>
> 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. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters
> 2. Still working on transitioning users from Spark Kernel project into
> Toree.
> 3. More external contributions being made. Community member
> 2mariusvniekerk
> key in porting Toree to work on Spark 2.0. Sitting on PR 56.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Contrinue working with JeroMQ community to further their transition
> into MPL v2 and away from LGPL. 3 committers to go.
> 2. Addressing issues opened by community
>
> 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
> [ ](toree) Hitesh Shah
> [ ](toree) Julien Le Dem
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Traffic Control
>
> Traffic Control allows you to build a large scale content delivery network
> using open source.
>
> Traffic Control has been incubating since 2016-07-12.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Get set up with all resources (git / mailing lists / JIRA / irc / etc)
> 2. Name search / name sign off
> 3. Prepare for next release under apache process
>
> 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?
>
> This is the first report, we are just getting started.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> This is the first report, we are just getting started. ICLAs are done.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> We released 1.6.0 on 2016-07-29 under the old process, because the release
> process (candidates and votes) had already started before our official
> entry in the incubator. Our next release will be the first release where
> we will follow the Apache incubator process.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-07-12 - initial committer list.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](trafficcontrol) Phil Sorber
> [ ](trafficcontrol) Eric Covener
> [ ](trafficcontrol) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](trafficcontrol) J. Aaron Farr
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> --------------------
> Unomi
>
> Unomi is a reference implementation of the OASIS Context Server
> specification
> currently being worked on by the OASIS Context Server Technical Committee.
> It
> provides a high-performance user profile and event tracking server.
>
> Unomi has been incubating since 2015-10-05.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Continued releases, and updated dependencies
> 2. Grow up user and contributor communities, seeing more contribution/PR
>
> 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 activity of the dev mailing list smoothly increased, discussing key
> enhancements in the project.
>
> We are now targeting the development of the user community. For that, we
> discussed about improving and polishing the website. Today, it's obvious
> that it's not easy to understand what Unomi can do and actually does. The
> purpose is to give more use cases and introduction on the mailing list.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The first Apache Unomi 1.0.0-incubating has been released.
>
> We updated key dependencies and implemented couple of new releases in
> addition of the bug fixes. The purpose is to cut off a new release asap.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-03-09
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](unomi) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> [X](unomi) Bertrand Delacretaz
> [ ](unomi) Chris Mattmann
>
