I believe they already removed themselves.

On Nov 11, 2016 15:24, "P. Taylor Goetz" <ptgo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Sorry for the late change request, but is it okay to remove Metron from
> the report front matter since they aren’t due to report this month?
>
> -Taylor
>
> > On Nov 11, 2016, at 8:12 AM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I'll be submitting this report in a couple of hours, on behalf of the
> > IPMC.  I don't see any changes, but I will grab the current copy from
> > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/November2016 .
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 9:12 PM John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> All,
> >>
> >> Below is the final draft of this month's report.
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >> Incubator PMC report for November 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 currently 63 podlings incubating - no change from last month.
> >> The Geode podling has begun discussions around graduation.  There were
> two
> >> new IPMC members added this past month.  The IPMC approved 17 releases
> this
> >> month as well.
> >>
> >> * Community
> >>
> >>  New IPMC members:
> >>
> >>  - Felix Meschberger
> >>  - Stephan Ewen
> >>
> >>  People who left the IPMC:
> >>
> >>  - None
> >>
> >> * New Podlings
> >>
> >>  - None
> >>
> >> * Graduations
> >>
> >>  The board has motions for the following:
> >>
> >>  - Geode
> >>
> >> * Releases
> >>
> >>  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
> >>  October:
> >>
> >>  - Apache Unomi        1.1.0-incubating     2016-10-03
> >>  - Apache Impala       2.7.0-incubating     2016-10-04
> >>  - Apache Fluo         1.0.0-incubating     2016-10-05
> >>  - Apache Htrace       4.2.0-incubating     2016-10-07
> >>  - Apache PredictionIO 0.10.0-incubating    2016-10-07
> >>  - Apache Pirk         0.2.0-incubating     2016-10-09
> >>  - Apache HAWQ         2.0.0.0-incubating   2016-10-10
> >>  - Apache CarbonData   0.1.1-incubating     2016-10-11
> >>  - Apache Metron       0.2.1BETA-incubating 2016-10-13
> >>  - Apache Geode        1.0.0-incubating     2016-10-15
> >>  - Apache Mnemonic     0.3.0-incubating     2016-10-21
> >>  - Apache Juneau       6.0.0-incubating     2016-10-24
> >>  - Apache Fineract     0.4.0-incubating     2016-10-25
> >>  - Apache Fluo Recipes 1.0.0-incubating     2016-10-27
> >>  - Apache Rya          3.2.10-incubating    2016-10-28
> >>  - Apache S2Graph      0.1.0-incubating     2016-10-30
> >>  - Apache Beam         0.3.0-incubating     2016-10-31
> >>
> >>
> >> * IP Clearance
> >>
> >>  - None
> >>
> >> * Legal / Trademarks
> >>
> >>  - Incoming podlings are pushing more for GitHub as master approaches.
> >>  - In addition, the usage of GitHub Issues continues to be asked.
> >>  - Better alignment between all impacted parties is needed for both of
> >> these.
> >>
> >> * Infrastructure
> >>
> >>  - While the loss of a server is never convenient, the report manager
> >> gives huge kudos to the infra team for replacing the moin-moin wiki
> server
> >> quickly, avoiding much impact on this months report.
> >>
> >> * Miscellaneous
> >>
> >>  - None
> >>
> >> * Credits
> >>
> >>  - Report Manager: John D. Ament
> >>
> >> -------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
> >>
> >> * Still getting started at the Incubator
> >>
> >>  - AriaTosca
> >>  - Guacamole
> >>  - Hivemall
> >>  - iota
> >>  - NetBeans
> >>  - Spot
> >>  - Toree
> >>
> >>
> >> * Not yet ready to graduate
> >>
> >>  Stagnant:
> >>
> >>  - Metron
> >>  - Sirona
> >>
> >>  No release:
> >>
> >>  - Blur
> >>  - Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
> >>  - DistributedLog
> >>  - Edgent
> >>  - Joshua
> >>
> >>
> >>  Community growth:
> >>
> >>  - DataFu
> >>  - Fineract
> >>  - Fluo
> >>  - Impala
> >>  - PredictionIO
> >>  - S2Graph
> >>  - Streams
> >>  - Unomi
> >>
> >>
> >> * Potentially Ready to Graduate
> >>
> >>  - BatchEE
> >>  - Beam
> >>  - CarbonData
> >>  - Eagle
> >>  - Slider
> >>  - SystemML
> >>  - Tamaya
> >>
> >> * Did not report, expected next month
> >>
> >>  - Annotator
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>                       Table of Contents
> >> AriaTosca
> >> Beam
> >> Blur
> >> CarbonData
> >> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
> >> DataFu
> >> DistributedLog
> >> Eagle
> >> Edgent
> >> Fineract
> >> Fluo
> >> Guacamole
> >> Hivemall
> >> Impala
> >> iota
> >> Joshua
> >> NetBeans
> >> PredictionIO
> >> S2Graph
> >> Sirona
> >> Slider
> >> Spot
> >> Streams
> >> SystemML
> >> Tamaya
> >> Toree
> >> Unomi
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> AriaTosca
> >>
> >> ARIA TOSCA project offers an easily consumable Software Development
> >> Kit(SDK)
> >> and a Command Line Interface(CLI) to implement TOSCA(Topology and
> >> Orchestration Specification of Cloud Applications) based solutions.
> >>
> >> AriaTosca has been incubating since 2016-08-27.
> >>
> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >>
> >>   1. Finalize migration of existing ARIA code, including Parser-NG with
> >> TOSCA and TOSCA for NFV profiles, and workflow engine to the ASF repo.
> >>   2. Create and publish release process for ARIA-TOSCA Project, release
> >> process will include Parser, TOSCA profiles, Workflow Engine, CLI.
> >>   3. Publish "How To Contribute" guide at ARIA-TOSCA Website.
> >>
> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> >> aware of?
> >>   There's an INFRA jira we created over a month ago which has yet to be
> >> addressed - please see here
> >>   INFRA-12733 - Ability to create a Sprint Board for AriaTosca WAITING
> >> FOR USER
> >>
> >>   It is not entirely critical for the project's progress, but it could
> be
> >> helpful if we indeed get a sprint board and the other things requested
> in
> >> that issue.
> >>
> >> How has the community developed since the last report?
> >>   Preparing TOSCA DSL training materials
> >>   Confluence space initialized
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>  1. Created master branch
> >>  2. CI on travis enabled for the project
> >>  3. Initial workflow engine code migrated to ASF repo
> >>  4. Preparing migrating Parser code to ASF repo
> >>  5. Various task executors have been implemented
> >>
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>   None
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >>   Project is being established in incubator with the proposed initial
> set
> >> of
> >>  committers.
> >>
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >>
> >>  [X](ariatosca) Suneel Marthi
> >>  [X](ariatosca) John D. Ament
> >>  [ ](ariatosca) Jakob Homan
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> 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 Apex,
> >> Apache Spark, and Google Cloud Dataflow. Beam also brings SDKs in
> different
> >> languages, allowing users to easily implement their data integration
> >> processes.
> >>
> >> Beam has been incubating since 2016-02-01.
> >>
> >> The most important issue to address in the move towards graduation:
> >> 1. Make it easier for the Beam community to to learn, use, and grow by
> >> expanding and improving the Beam documentation, code samples, and the
> >> 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?
> >> * 441 closed/merged pull requests
> >> * High engagement on dev and user mailing lists (742 / 179 messages)
> >> * Several public talks, articles, and videos including:
> >>    - @Scale San Jose (“No shard left behind: APIs for massive parallel
> >> efficiency in Apache Beam”)
> >>    - Strata + Hadoop World NYC (“Learn stream processing with Apache
> >> Beam”)
> >>    - Paris Spark Meetup (“Introduction to Apache Beam”)
> >>    - Hadoop Summit Melbourne (“Stream/Batch processing portable across
> >> on-prem (Spark, Flink) and Cloud with Apache Beam”)
> >>    - Hadoop User Group Taipei (“Stream Processing with Beam and Google
> >> Cloud Dataflow”)
> >>    - Data Science Lab London (“Apache Beam: Stream and Batch Processing;
> >> Unified and Portable!”)
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >> Major developments on the project since last report include the
> following:
> >> * Second and third incubating release (0.2.0 and 0.3.0) and a release
> guide
> >> [1]
> >> * New DirectRunner support for testing streaming pipelines[2]
> >> * Continued improvements to the Flink, Spark, and Dataflow runners
> >> * Added support for new IO connectors, including MongoDB, Kinesis, and
> JDBC
> >> with Cassandra, MQTT support pending in pull requests
> >> * Addition of the Apache Apex runner on a feature branch, and continued
> >> work on the Apache Gearpump runner and Python SDK feature branches. [3]
> >> * Continued reorganization and refactoring of the project
> >> * Continued improvements to documentation and testing
> >>
> >> [1]: http://beam.incubator.apache.org/contribute/release-guide/
> >> [2]: http://beam.incubator.apache.org/blog/2016/10/20/test-stream.html
> >> [3]: http://beam.incubator.apache.org/contribute/work-in-
> >> progress/#feature-branches
> >>
> >> Dates of last releases:
> >> * 2016/08/07 - 0.2.0-incubating
> >> * 2016/10/31 - 0.3.0-incubating
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >> The following committers were elected on 2016/10/20:
> >> * Thomas Weise
> >> * Jesse Anderson
> >> * Thomas Groh
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >> [X](beam) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> >> [ ](beam) Venkatesh Seetharam
> >> [ ](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@ - 62[+1]; dev@ - 78[-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
> >>  [ ](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 a couple of new releases
> >>  2. Increase the communities
> >>  3. Prepare 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?
> >>
> >>  The community activity increased: many new users started to use and
> test
> >>  CarbonData, we had more than 300 issues created till Nov; Two new
> finance
> >>  enterprises have formally deployed CarbonData to their business
> >> system,and
> >>  the query performance speeded up 10-70 times in comparison to old
> system
> >>  (both are bank enterprise in China).
> >>
> >>  We finished 2nd Meetup in Beijing on 29th Oct, and CarbonData has
> >> increased
> >>  10+ contributors in last month.
> >>
> >> 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, and preparing org website.
> >>
> >>  We did the 2nd release (0.1.1-incubating) in Oct and we are preparing a
> >> new
> >>  one(0.2.0) in Nov.
> >>
> >>  We have finished 2 technical talks in Bay area with Databricks, Alluxio
> >> in
> >>  last month for discussing ecosystem integration with Spark and Alluxio.
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >>  2016-10-10
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >>  We elected a new committer Kumar Vishal on 2016-10-15.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >>  [X](carbondata) Henry Saputra
> >>  [X](carbondata) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> >>  [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.
> >>
> >> The achievements in October of 2016 are:
> >>
> >>  1. Drafted the Apache CMDA project web page
> >>  2. Developed a mechanism to keep track of user id in each service call
> >>  3. Designed a mechanism to define a workflow, to execute a workflow, to
> >>     collect the result and provenance from the workflow execution.
> >>
> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >>
> >>  1. To facilitate workflow scenarios in which a scientist can chain two
> or
> >>     more services;
> >>  2. To develop a suite of science use cases;
> >>  3. To demonstrate the use of provenance in recommendation of data,
> users,
> >>     and services.
> >>
> >> 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 climate scientist Frank Lee has joined the project to develop science
> >> use
> >>  cases. The priority has been shifted to helping him in adding new
> source
> >>  data files and modifying the software to accommodate these new data
> >> files.
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>  The issues that we found from our 2016 Caltech/JPL climate summer
> school
> >>  have been addressed. Examples are: a mechanism to capture and store
> user
> >> id
> >>  for provenance data collection, and removal of some functionalities
> that
> >>  are not meant for users that do not have login accounts on our website.
> >>
> >> 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:
> >>
> >> I'm worried still about this podling. Discussion seemed to still happen
> >> offlist
> >> and to be summarized to the list, instead of actively involving others
> in
> >> the
> >> community. Also, it says the website has been drafted - where is it?
> Where
> >> are
> >> the corresponding JIRA issues? Where are the public discussions about
> the
> >> site.
> >> The podling is/was on a short leash since the [DISCUSS] Retirement vote.
> >> I'd say
> >> give it one more month, and would appreciate others chiming in here. The
> >> other
> >> thing I'd say is that there is definitely mentor attrition here. I don't
> >> think we
> >> have enough active mentors reinforcing and sending the message (myself
> >> included)
> >> day to day. It's definitely more reactive now than proactive. The
> podling
> >> could use
> >> some help in that area.
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> DataFu
> >>
> >> DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in
> >> higher
> >> level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides
> functions
> >> for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream
> >> sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop
> >> jobs
> >> for incremental data processing in MapReduce.
> >>
> >> DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05.
> >>
> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >>
> >>  1. Resolve NOTICE and LICENSE issues for binary distributions
> >>  2. Continued releases
> >>  3. Increased committer 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?
> >>
> >>  * No updates
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>  * Released 1.3.1.  Now using ASF-associated signing key.  Feedback from
> >> previous release addressed.
> >>  * Website updated alongside 1.3.1 release.
> >>  * Cleaned up release instructions.
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >>  2016-08-10
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >>  July 2016 (Eyal Allweil)
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >>  [ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
> >>  [X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
> >>  [ ](datafu) Ted Dunning
> >>
> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >>
> >> (rvs) pushing this community towards graduation is pretty high on my
> TODO
> >> list. I think they are as ready as they are ever going to be.
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> 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:
> >>
> >>  1.Continue to grow the community, and increase diversity of community.
> >>  2.Improve documentation, including documentation of project and
> >> processes.
> >>  3.Successful 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?
> >>
> >> 1. Increase in contributions from community.
> >>   - 8 created and 4 resolved issues in community JIRA in October.
> >> 2. Lots of engagement on documentation.
> >>   - Enhance existing documents,
> >>   - Setup guides for developers and committers.
> >> 3. Increased traffic on the mailing list, in particular, due to
> committers
> >> engaging more actively with contributors.
> >>   - we have 35 people subscribed mail list.
> >>   - 125 messages to distributedlog mail list in October.
> >>
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >> 1. Documentation has improved for project build and project deployment.
> >> Added more information on  community page.
> >>    New added pages:
> >>    https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DL/Developer+Guide
> >>    https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DL/Committer+Guide
> >> 2. Involved more discussion of new ideas and bring in new features.
> >> Include major discussions like 'transaction support', 'batch commit',
> >> "EventStore" . etc.
> >> 3. First release expected on November, and repackaging of the project
> >> under apache namespace are being discussed.
> >> - Pull requests for repackaging.
> >> - The major blocker is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DL-2. We
> >> were expecting to let DL depends on an official bk version.
> >>
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >> NA
> >>
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >> NA
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >>  [ ](distributedlog) Flavio Junqueira
> >>  [ ](distributedlog) Chris Nauroth
> >>  [X](distributedlog) Henry Saputra
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> Eagle
> >>
> >> Eagle is a Monitoring solution for Hadoop to instantly identify access
> to
> >> sensitive data, recognize attacks, malicious activities and take
> actions in
> >> real time.
> >>
> >> Eagle has been incubating since 2015-10-26.
> >>
> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >>
> >>  1.  Jira, PR are all populated with good description so that people can
> >> reference in the future.
> >>  2.  Massive improvement on unit test, now it becomes stable and build
> >> status is closed monitored in README
> >>  3.  Community has one more discussion about graduation and all are with
> >> positive feedback, and we are going through the graduation steps.
> >>
> >> 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 conference: QCon Shanghai
> >>  - More active contributors from YHD.com participate in large feature
> >> development
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>  - 0.5 version is being in active development. This version will include
> >> big improvement in application management and alert engine.
> >>  - Job monitoring feature is ready including map/reduce and spark job
> >>  - Standalone alert engine which is highly scalable and user friendly in
> >> that user does not need code to configure alerting rules
> >>  - UI is completely rewritten to expose metadata to end user and user
> can
> >> define data source, stream and policy etc.
> >>  - Cluster health monitoring is ready, including hdfs health indicator,
> >> hbase health indicator etc.
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >>  2016-07-19, and 0.5 release is being prepared
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >>  - Jinhu Wu 2016-09-10
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >>  [ ](eagle) Owen O'Malley
> >>  [X](eagle) Henry Saputra
> >>  [x](eagle) Julian Hyde
> >>  [X](eagle) P. Taylor Goetz
> >>  [ ](eagle) Amareshwari Sriramdasu
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> Edgent
> >>
> >> Edgent is a stream processing programming model and lightweight runtime
> to
> >> execute analytics at devices on the edge or at the gateway.
> >>
> >> Edgent has been incubating since 2016-02-29.
> >>
> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >>
> >>   1. Create and expand a diverse community of contributors and
> committers
> >> around the Edgent project
> >>   2. Create the first Apache release of Edgent
> >>   3. Document a repeatable release 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?
> >>
> >>   * A well attended meetup in Plano, TX about Apache Edgent was held on
> >> September 9th
> >>     "Sensor Data Analytics Acceleration with Apache Edgent"
> >>     http://www.meetup.com/DFW-Sensor-Technology/events/233150402/
> >>
> >>   * A presentation about Apache Edgent was presented on October 21st @
> >> Open Source India 2016
> >>     Approximately 400 attendees were present.
> >>
> >>   * A presentation about Apache Edgent, Streaming Analytics and Weather
> >> Company Data was presented at World of Watson in Las Vegas on October
> 26th.
> >>
> >>   * A demo about Apache Edgent was presented at World of Watson in Las
> >> Vegas on October 24th.
> >>     "IoT Device Events to Streaming Analytics in 15 Minutes with
> Bluemix"
> >>
> >>   * For the months of September and October four new community members
> >> either subscribed to the edgent-dev mailing list, or opened JIRAs.
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>   * A new build system was created using Gradle. The initial
> contribution
> >> for this work came from two community contributors.  The follow up work
> was
> >> done by committers.
> >>
> >>   According to JIRA, the project has added the following:
> >>
> >>   * September: 11 new issues; 15 issues resolved.
> >>
> >>   * October: 46 new issues; 23 issues resolved.
> >>
> >>   * October activity was almost exclusively due to readying for the
> first
> >> Edgent release.
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >>  * We have not created an Apache release, but are working on one to be
> >> ready soon. During the September and October time period we made build
> >> changes and handled licensing work and are poised to create our first
> >> release.
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >>   * In May, we added two new committers and PPMC members, Kathy Saunders
> >> and Queenie Ma.
> >>
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >>  [ ](edgent) Daniel Debrunner
> >>  [x](edgent) Luciano Resende
> >>  [X](edgent) Katherine Marsden
> >>  [X](edgent) Justin Mclean
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> 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. With the first official incubation release out, we want to work on
> >> getting frequent successful incubation releases shipped to the
> community on
> >> a monthly basis.
> >>  2. Adding new committers and contributors to the project along with
> >> empowering volunteers and support partner organizations in the
> community to
> >> contribute to the codebase while using the project infrastructure.
> >>  3. Resolving the questions around introduction of a rework of the
> >> original code – in particular repository/infrastructure/release
> questions
> >> which result from the microservice architecture
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> * With the first official incubation release out, we look add several
> new
> >> committers who have worked on modules and features that will soon be
> merged
> >> into the release.
> >> * The community is more involved and engaged in asking questions on the
> >> developer and user mailing lists. We are working to ensure that all
> >> inquiries are actively addressed and more discussions regarding
> >> functionality and design occur on the mailing lists.
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >> * Our first release was made on October 25, 2016. We received 4 binding
> >> votes from the community.
> >> * Significant work was led by the Mifos core development team to address
> >> the licensing issues with a dependency on Hibernate and replacing it
> with
> >> OpenJPA - details on the code changes made and the challenges overcome
> can
> >> be found at https://youtu.be/C4lXtXY-MY4
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >> 2016-10-25
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >> 2016-05-05
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >>  [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
> >>  [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
> >>  [X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
> >>
> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >>
> >> (rvs) next item on the immediate TODO list for the community is to
> master
> >> releases of binary convenience artifacts
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> 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 and users
> >>  2. Additional releases
> >>  3.
> >>
> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> >> aware of?
> >>
> >>  None at this time.
> >>
> >> How has the community developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>  * Two talks at the Accumulo Summit mentioned Fluo:
> >>    *
> >> http://accumulosummit.com/program/talks/tips-for-
> writing-fluo-applications/
> >>    *
> >> http://accumulosummit.com/program/talks/indexing-
> strategies-for-searching-semantic-networks/
> >>  * Hadoop Weekly Issue #191 mentioned Fluo's release
> >>  * Website traffic is up after the first release according to Google
> >> Analytics
> >>  * Created Twitter Account : http://twitter.com/apachefluo
> >>  * Recent release of Rya which uses Fluo
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >> * Successfully made first release and two more releases :
> >>   * https://fluo.apache.org/release/fluo-recipes-1.0.0-incubating/
> >>   * https://fluo.apache.org/release/fluo-1.0.0-incubating/
> >>   *
> >> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/0d02022b544fef972dabcfbbf59381
> fc811fe3d0843f7052568cd56e@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E
> >> * Created Fluo Tour (easy, hands on introduction) :
> >> https://fluo.apache.org/tour/
> >> * Completed Podling Namesearch :
> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-109
> >> * fluo.io now redirects to fluo.apache.org
> >> * The fluo-io GitHub org was renamed to astralway
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >>  2016-10-28
> >>
> >> 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: The podling is definitely finding their legs in creating and
> releasing
> >> software, but very little progress has been made on growing the
> community
> >> (no prospective members).
> >>    I am also happy with the state of trademarks for the podling.
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> 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?
> >>
> >>  It is clear that the continuing lack of a release is a major obstacle
> to
> >>  community development, especially given outstanding pull requests which
> >>  cannot be merged due to pre-release code freeze.
> >>
> >>  We believe that the source and documentation are finally up-to-date
> with
> >>  respect to Apache and the Incubator, and that we are ready to move
> >> forward
> >>  with the procedures surrounding the release. Any assistance in
> navigating
> >>  our first release would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> How has the community developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>  Community participation has remained roughly the same as last report.
> >> Mailing
> >>  list participation is active but unchanged. Since last report, we have
> >>  received an additional 3 pull requests, and have engaged the
> >> contributors for
> >>  code review. Code looks good, and response to feedback has been
> >> professional,
> >>  but merge is blocked until we can get the first release out of the way.
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>  All outstanding issues which were aimed at the project's first release
> >>  (0.9.10-incubating) have been completed, as have all bugs discovered
> >> during
> >>  testing. We have made preparatory changes to the project website with
> the
> >>  release in mind.
> >>
> >>  The project's old SourceForge forums have finally been closed, replaced
> >> by
> >>  the mailing lists. The forums have been left in read-only mode for the
> >> sake
> >>  of reference, with a stickied announcement notifying users of the move.
> >>
> >> 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 Onofré
> >>  [ ](guacamole) Daniel Gruno
> >>  [ ](guacamole) Olivier Lamy
> >>  [X](guacamole) Jim Jagielski
> >>  [X](guacamole) Greg Trasuk
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> Hivemall
> >>
> >> Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive
> >> UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.
> >>
> >> Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.
> >>
> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >>
> >>  1. Create the first Apache release
> >>  2. Community growth
> >>  3. IP clearance
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >>  * Presented a talk in Hadoop Summit Tokyo on Oct 26.
> >>  * Still in progress at migrating the repository/community to ASF infra
> >> on
> >>    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMALL-8
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>  * We setup JIRA and managed issues on
> >>    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMALL/
> >>  * We build the project site on
> >>    http://hivemall.incubator.apache.org/
> >>  * Documentation updates has been made
> >>    http://hivemall.incubator.apache.org/userguide/
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >>  No release yet
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >>  None
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >>  [ ](hivemall) Reynold Xin
> >>  [X](hivemall) Markus Weimer
> >>  [ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> 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. Community growth
> >>  2. Transition of user documentation to Apache hosting
> >>  3. Migration of pre-commit continuous integration testing to
> >> publicly-available infrastructure
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >>  Our last report was in August. Since then, we have five new
> >>  contributors who have authored patches, while two relatively recent
> >>  contributors who were active before August have continued their
> >>  involvement by authoring new patches. Traffic to our developer mailing
> >>  list has grown by about 60%.
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>  There have been 241 commits since the last report.
> >>
> >>  Our status website now has 16 of the 17 listed work items complete. We
> >>  had our first Apache release and have a wiki page describing how to
> >>  perform the release in detail. We scrubbed our code using the RAT tool
> >>  for copyright notices not compliant with the ASF rules. We wrote
> >>  guidelines for contributors on how to become a committer and added a
> >>  new committer. All developer documentation has now moved to the
> >>  Apache-hosted wiki.
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >>  2016-10-05
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >>  2016-08-18
> >>
> >> 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 the developer community
> >>  2. Outreach at events outside the Apache ecosystem to inform and invite
> >> participation in the project
> >>  3. Getting an alpha release out by the end of this year based on the
> >> current code base.
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> Increased user interest with 4 individuals that are contributing in
> spurts
> >> of activity. This needs to become consistent.
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >> Some improvements in the core engine, performers and the build process
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >>  XXXX-XX-XX
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >> None but we are working on a proposal to add a new committer (a
> >> contributor that has made significant contributions in the last 6
> months)
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >>  [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
> >>  [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
> >>  [X](iota) Justin Mclean
> >>  [X](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
> >>
> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >>
> >> Justin Mclean:
> >> I have some concerns re progress of this poddling:
> >> - The on list PPMC activity is low and there may be discussions
> happening
> >> off list.
> >> - There is little progress towards making an Apache release.
> >> - I'm not sure there are 3 active PPMC members.
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> 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. Creating our first release.
> >>  2. Continue to build the community
> >>  3. Identify specific users and use cases.
> >>
> >> 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 added a few new members.
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>  A new release is imminent; we just need to pull the trigger. We have
> put
> >> together over sixty "language packs" that will be released in a
> >> no-dependency version and a Docker container.
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >>  Forthcoming.
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >>  John Hewitt (August 13, 2016)
> >>  Max Thomas (pending)
> >>  Michael Hedderich (pending)
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >>  [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
> >>  [ ](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
> >>  [X](joshua) Chris Mattmann
> >>  [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
> >>  [X](joshua) Henri Yandell
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> NetBeans
> >>
> >> NetBeans is a development environment, tooling platform and application
> >> framework.
> >>
> >> NetBeans has been incubating since 2016-10-01.
> >>
> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >>
> >>  1. Licensing, i.e., identifying and solving GPL-related code.
> >>  2. Coming up with a process of contributing code that makes sense to
> >> everyone.
> >>  3. Working on roadmaps, features, and plans together as a 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?
> >>
> >>   Mailing lists and Wiki set up.
> >>
> >>   Discussions about voting, the CCLA/SGA, are taking place in the
> private
> >> mailing list, all other discussions in dev mailing list.
> >>
> >>   We want as many discussions as possible in dev mailing list, i.e., as
> >> public as possible.
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>   Apache NetBeans Proposal has been published and accepted into
> >> incubation.
> >>
> >>   Apache Transition plan, listing everything needing to be done,
> >> including proposed milestones, is being worked on:
> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Apache+Transition
> >>
> >>   CCLA and SGA have been provided in draft form by Oracle and have been
> >> approved by ASF. Currently they're in the process of being approved and
> >> signed by Oracle.
> >>
> >>   Once that's done, experiments with migrating hg.netbeans.org/releases
> >> to Apache Git can proceed.
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >>  No releases yet.
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >>  No one has been elected so far.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >>  [X](netbeans) Ate Douma
> >>  [X](netbeans) Bertrand Delacretaz
> >>  [X](netbeans) Emmanuel Lecharny
> >>  [ ](netbeans) Daniel Gruno
> >>  [X](netbeans) Jim Jagielski
> >>  [x](netbeans) Mark Struberg
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> 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. The initial code for
> >> PredictionIO was granted on 2016-06-16. A second grant of PredictionIO
> >> templates and SDKs was granted on 2016-09-20.
> >>
> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >>
> >>  1. Establish a formal release schedule and process, allowing for
> >> dependable release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache way.
> >>  2. Grow the community to establish diversity.
> >>  3. Migrate the remainder of former 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?
> >>
> >>  1. Both user and development mailing list are seeing increased
> activity.
> >>  2. Users requesting features are coming forward with code
> contributions.
> >> There have been discussions regarding future roadmap and
> >> development on the mailing lists.
> >>  3. The ecosystem around engine templates is slowly gaining traction
> again
> >> on Apache infrastructure. There are discussions around engine templates.
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>  1. The first Apache release has been released on 2016-10-17.
> >>  2. The second software grant has been issued and recorded by ASF. Seven
> >> templates
> >> and five SDKs are now transferred to Apache.
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >>  Apache PredictionIO 0.10.0-incubating on 2016-10-17
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >>  Paul Li was elected as committer and PMC member on Aug 30, 2016.
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >>  [X](predictionio) Andrew Purtell
> >>  [ ](predictionio) James Taylor
> >>  [ ](predictionio) Lars Hofhansl
> >>  [ ](predictionio) Luciano Resende
> >>  [ ](predictionio) Xiangrui Meng
> >>  [X](predictionio) Suneel Marthi
> >>
> >>
> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >>
> >> Drew Farris (shepherd): Two Mentors active on the mailing lists. Healthy
> >> activity observed on lists.
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> 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 two sessions on S2Graph: usecases
> >>    * Deview: https://deview.kr/2016/schedule#session/160
> >>    * TechPlanet:
> >> http://techplanet.skplanet.com/eng/speaker_track2.html#spk_trk2_5
> >>
> >>  * Started to discuss overhauling the website layout and contents
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>  * The first Apache release has been released on 2016-11-01.
> >>
> >>  * 30 issues are created, 32 issues are resolved.
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >>  Apache S2Graph 0.1.0-incubating on 2016-11-01.
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >>  No
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >>  [ ](s2graph) Andrew Purtell
> >>  [ ](s2graph) Seetharam Venkatesh
> >>  [X](s2graph) Sergio Fernández
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> Sirona
> >>
> >> Monitoring Solution.
> >>
> >> Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
> >>
> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >>
> >>  1. Increase community/visibility
> >>  2. Get a bit more dynamic
> >>  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?
> >>
> >> Not much
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >> Some enhancements around the javaagent for short time living JVM use
> cases.
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >>  struberg: Cool project, but sadly we have a very low activity
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> 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
> >> had 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, the Slider Core module (including
> >> Application
> >> Master, Client and Java unit tests) has been rolled into an Apache
> Hadoop
> >> YARN feature branch as a hadoop-yarn-slider-core module.
> >> This effort is being captured in: YARN-5079 : Native YARN framework
> layer
> >> for services. All the migrations are happening in a branch (namely
> >> yarn-native-services) created of off Hadoop trunk. 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
> >>
> >> For the benefit of those who would like to use Slider Core from the
> >> Hadoop codebase, but continue to use classic Slider Agent and legacy
> >> app-packages, a new branch (yarn-native-services) has been created
> >> in classic Slider repo. This branch retains only the Agent (python) code
> >> and the App Packages. It adds Slider Core module as a Hadoop
> >> dependency. This allows users to consume the latest of Slider Core.
> >> Future classic Slider releases can be made purely off of this branch.
> >>
> >> Additionally an effort is being made to create an agent-less provider
> for
> >> legacy app-packages, which could help users to completely migrate to
> >> Hadoop codebase for creating long-running services with Slider.
> Expectation
> >> from app-package owners would be to make minor modification of their
> >> packages. Primary changes would be to shed the dependency on python
> >> Agent code, effectively making packages much simpler than what they
> >> look like today in classic Slider.
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >> There has been fewer bug fixes on the classic Slider side as most of
> >> the focus has been on developing features on native YARN services in
> >> the Hadoop codebase. Work continues on support for complex services
> >> (assemblies) and agent-less applications in Slider. The efforts on
> Slider
> >> Core will continue in the new services branch created in YARN. Few
> >> key features which were merged to classic Slider as well were -
> >> SLIDER-875 - Ability to create an Uber application package with
> >> capability to deploy and manage as a single business app, and
> >> SLIDER-1107 - Generate app configuration files in AM. Several issues
> >> identified by Coverity scans were resolved as well. Additionally few
> >> patches were contributed by the community fixing functional and
> >> performance issues. Slider community plans to ship a release in the
> >> next quarter with all these features and bug fixes.
> >>
> >> 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
> >>  [X](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> >>  [X](slider) Mahadev Konar
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> Spot
> >>
> >> Apache Spot is a solution stack that provides the capability to ingest
> >> network related telemetry (network flows, domain name service
> information
> >> and
> >> proxy server logs) and provide unsupervised machine learning
> capabilities
> >> to
> >> identify suspicious activity.  The information is organized and
> presented
> >> using operational analytics so that a security analyst can investigate
> the
> >> most suspicious connections. Apache Spot is built on an open data model
> >> using
> >> Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop.
> >>
> >> Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23.
> >>
> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >>
> >>  - Move infrastructure and development to ASF (code, issues, mailing
> >> list, …)
> >>  - Build diverse community
> >>  - Demonstrate ability to create releases
> >>
> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> >> aware of?
> >>
> >>  We currently have a hard dependency via our LDA implementation that
> >>  requires a GPL license.  A rewrite is in progress to move the code from
> >>  LDA-C to Spark LDA.
> >>
> >> How has the community developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>  This is first report after accepting Apache Spot to incubator and we
> >> still
> >>  have not transitioned everything to ASF. We do however see increased
> >>  interest in the project, primarily on our Slack channel.
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>  This is first report.
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >>  N/A
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >>  N/A
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >>  [x](spot) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> >>  [ ](spot) Brock Noland
> >>  [ ](spot) Andrei Savu
> >>  [X](spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> 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. Participation of project community within related standards-bodies
> and
> >>    Apache projects.
> >>
> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware
> >> of?
> >>
> >>  The project is now on a monthly reporting schedule to monitor effective
> >> progress in growing the community
> >>  and active participation.
> >>
> >> How has the community developed since the last report?
> >>
> >> d...@streams.incubator.apache.org
> >> 115 emails (up >100%) sent by 16 people (+1), divided into 36 topics (up
> >> 400%).
> >>
> >> http://streams.incubator.apache.org
> >> 196 Sessions (up ~60%), 247 Users (up ~35%), 1110 Pageviews (up >100%).
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams-master
> >> Excluding merges, 4 authors (+3) have pushed 32 commits (up ~375%) to
> >> master.
> >> On master, 22 files (up 250%) have changed.
> >>
> >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams
> >> Excluding merges, 7 authors (+6) have pushed 106 commits (up >1000%) to
> >> master.
> >> On master, 868 files (up >1000%) have changed.
> >>
> >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams-examples
> >> Excluding merges, 3 authors (+2) have pushed 7 commits (+1) to master.
> >> On master, 24 files have changed.
> >>
> >> 52 Issues closed for the upcoming 0.4-incubating release
> >> 35 new Issues opened (+28)
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >> 2016-10-03 : 0.3-incubating release
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >> 2016-10-27: Joey Frazee elected as committer / PPMC member
> >> 2016-09-28: Suneel Marthi elected as mentor / PPMC member
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >> [X](streams) Ate Douma
> >> [X](streams) Matt Franklin
> >> [X](streams) Suneel Marthi
> >>
> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >>
> >> Suneel Marthi: Healthy community activity, following the 0.3 release on
> >> Oct 3, 0.4 release is presently in the works and work has been scoped
> out
> >> for the 0.5 release.
> >> Ate Douma: the Streams podling is getting back on track, making good
> >> progress:
> >> * new community participants
> >> * good mailing list discussions
> >> * elected a new committer and ppmc member (Joey)
> >> * a new release candidate 0.4-incubating is in progress
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> 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 August through October had 375 messages on a wide
> >> range
> >> of topics. We have gained 4 new contributors to the main project since
> >> August
> >> 1st. Our website has been redesigned with the help of several design
> >> engineers
> >> and we have commits from 3 new contributors to the website project. On
> >> GitHub,
> >> the project has been starred 417 times and forked 156 times.
> >>
> >> Niketan Pansare gave a talk with the title "Apache SystemML -
> Declarative
> >> Machine Learning at Scale" on October 7th in the CS graduate seminar at
> UC
> >> Merced. Matthias Boehm gave a talk on "Compressed Linear Algebra for
> >> Large-
> >> Scale Machine Learning" at TU Dresden on August 30th. We presented the
> >> papers
> >> "Compressed Linear Algebra for Large-Scale Machine Learning" (research
> >> paper +
> >> poster) and "SystemML: Declarative Machine Learning on Spark" (industry
> >> paper)
> >> at VLDB'16. The "Compressed Linear Algebra for Large-Scale Machine
> >> Learning"
> >> paper won the VLDB 2016 Best Paper Award. We gave two 90 minute
> tutorials
> >> at the
> >> BOSS'16 workshop, co-located with VLDB'16, and our paper "SPOOF:
> >> Sum-Product
> >> Optimization and Operator Fusion for Large-Scale Machine Learning" has
> >> been
> >> accepted at CIDR'17.
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >> The main project has had 213 commits since August 1. The website project
> >> has
> >> had 51 commits since August 1. Since August 1, 241 issues have been
> >> reported
> >> on our JIRA site and 137 issues have been resolved or closed. 79 pull
> >> requests
> >> have been created since August 1, and 72 pull requests 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:
> >>
> >>  [x](systemml) Luciano Resende
> >>  [ ](systemml) Patrick Wendell
> >>  [ ](systemml) Reynold Xin
> >>  [ ](systemml) Rich Bowen
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> 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. Extend Community
> >>  2. Improve Documentation and release base components
> >>  3. Graduate als TLP in 2017 after next releases
> >>
> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> >> aware of?
> >>
> >> After our next releases and improving our homepage we'd like to graduate
> >> as a TLP in 2017.
> >>
> >>
> >> How has the community developed since the last report?
> >>
> >> We have increasing feedback of use cases to be covered and also a few
> >> bug reports, so Tamaya is used by developers and companies.
> >> Additionally we are doing regular bi-weekly hangouts and have defined a
> >> well defined roadmap to release and restructure our project.
> >> Apart from that we gathered feedback from JavaOne 2016: official
> >> Configuration JSR proposal and Anatole had a talk there.
> >>
> >> The conflicts that arose in the past seem to be solved as some of the
> >> mentors and early committers have left the project. Since we've
> >> established our hangouts we have the feeling of beeing more connect and
> >> able to work towards a common goal.
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >>  Apart from the main project we established new repositories to hold
> >>  extensions and sandbox modules. In order to get rid of the problematic
> >>  webpage generation we decided to start from scratch.
> >>  In addition to making the API more smooth, we try to keep the base
> >>  repository/project as lean as possible and prepare a next release.
> >>  Due to various technical issues (infrastructure behaves differently
> from
> >>  local builds and checkouts) we did not meet our deadline on getting a
> >>  release out by the end of October.
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >>  2016-04-06
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >>  Phil Ottlinger at 2016-04-24.
> >>
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >>  [X](tamaya) John D. Ament
> >>  [ ](tamaya) David Blevins
> >>
> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >>
> >> johndament:
> >>  While the podling has had issues in the past around community growth, I
> >> am seeing them operate more consistently, with clear open discussions.
> I
> >> believe they're operating well and should be ready to graduate soon, if
> not
> >> already.
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> 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. Make a release: The community is working on RC from 0.1.x branch.
> >> Master
> >>   has moved to start support for Spark 2.0. Currently working on RC3.
> >> 2. 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) In progress. Project elected new PPMC member.
> >>
> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware
> >> of?
> >>
> >> NONE, previous issue with LGPL dependency has been RESOLVED as the
> JeroMQ
> >> dependency has now been released as MPL license.
> >>
> >> How has the community developed since the last report?
> >>
> >> 1. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters
> >> 2. No worries about transitioning from old Spark Kernel code.
> >> 3. More external contributions being made. Mainly focused on master to
> >> stabilize Spark 2.0 support
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >> 1. Working on 1st release. Got an RC3 going on for a vote
> >> 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
> >> [x](toree) Hitesh Shah
> >> [ ](toree) Julien Le Dem
> >>
> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >>
> >> Drew Farris (shepherd): Two Mentors active on the mailing lists. Healthy
> >> activity and progress towards release observed on the mailing lists.
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> We are still 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.
> >> Some small improvements have been performed in that way.
> >>
> >> How has the project developed since the last report?
> >>
> >> The second Apache Unomi 1.1.0-incubating has been released.
> >>
> >> We updated key dependencies and provided new features in
> >> addition of the bug fixes. We also fixed the LGPL issue in the binary
> >> distribution.
> >> The Unomi rules and conditions engine has been improved as well.
> >>
> >> Date of last release:
> >>
> >> 2016-10-03
> >>
> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >>
> >> N/A
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by:
> >>
> >> [X](unomi) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> >> [ ](unomi) Bertrand Delacretaz
> >> [ ](unomi) Chris Mattmann
> >>
> >> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >>
> >> Chris Mattmann:
> >>
> >> I am going to humbly request being removed as a mentor for this
> podling. I
> >> haven't
> >> had a chance to send it to the list but I don't have the bandwidth to
> >> actively provide
> >> oversight here.
> >>
>
>
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