Done. Thanks, Roman.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 5:01 PM, John D. Ament <john.d.am...@gmail.com> wrote: > Podlings, > > We still need to get sign off on two reports. Please review these reports. > > Below is a draft: > > Incubator PMC report for January 2017 > > 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 presently 64 podlings incubating. We had one new podling join. > No > changes in PMC membership. > > * Community > > New IPMC members: > > - None > > People who left the IPMC: > > - None > > * New Podlings > > - Griffin > > * Graduations > > The board has motions for the following: > > - Ranger > > * Releases > > The following releases entered distribution during the month of > December: > > - Apache Mynewt 1.0.0-b1-incubating 2016-12-12 > - Apache Edgent 1.0.0-incubating 2016-12-15 > - Apache Tephra 0.10.0-incubating 2016-12-15 > - Apache Fineract 0.5.0-incubating 2016-12-22 > - Apache Streams 0.4.1-incubating 2016-12-26 > - Apache Guacamole 0.9.10-incubating 2016-12-29 > > > * IP Clearance > > - None > > * Legal / Trademarks > > - The process for picking a new incubator logo has begun, we're expecting > to > complete it in April. Thanks to Sally for picking up the CFP! > - Incubator documentation updates are in progress, we are starting with > release management then will move into roles & responsibilities. > > * Infrastructure > > - No issues, though its suspected some status on github as master for > OpenWhisk may be expected. > > * Miscellaneous > > - N/A > > * Credits > > - Report Manager: John D. Ament > > -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- > > * Still getting started at the Incubator > > - NetBeans > - RocketMQ > - Traffic Control > - Weex > > * Not yet ready to graduate > > No release: > > - Annotator > - MADlib > - ODF Toolkit > > Community growth: > > - Gossip > - Horn > - Juneau > - Mynewt > > Need Signoffs: > > - HAWQ > - MADlib > > * Ready to graduate > > The Board has motions for the following: > > - Ranger > > The following appear to be close from maturity model: > > - Airflow > - BatchEE > - FreeMarker > - Metron > > * Did not report, expected next month > > - DataFu > - Milagro > - SensSoft > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Table of Contents > Airflow > Annotator > BatchEE > FreeMarker > Gossip > HAWQ > Hivemall > HORN > Juneau > MADlib > Metron > Mynewt > NetBeans > ODF Toolkit > OpenWhisk > RocketMQ > Rya > Spot > Traffic Control > Weex > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------- > > Airflow > > Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to > author and manage data pipelines. > > Airflow has been incubating since 2016-03-31. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Getting an Apache release out > 2. > 3. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > None > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > 1. We elected 1 new PPMC Member/Committer : Alex Van Boxel a.k.a. > alexvanboxel > 2. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Oct 4 and Dec > 31, inclusive), we grew our contributors from 191 to 224 > 3. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Oct 4 and Dec > 31, inclusive), we resolved 202 pull requests (currently at 1263 closed > PRs) > 4. One meet-up, hosted at WePay, was held by the community > 5. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies > officially using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 74 > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > See above > > Date of last release: > > None. First ASF release currently being discussed. > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > As mentioned on > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/Announcements#Announcements-Nov28,2016 > , > Alex Van Boxel joined the Apache Airflow PPMC/Committer group. > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](airflow) Chris Nauroth > [x](airflow) Hitesh Shah > [ ](airflow) Jakob Homan > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > Annotator > > Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and > humans. > > Annotator has been incubating since 2016-08-30. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Publish a project roadmap to guide us towards a first release > 2. Achieve active development cadence > 3. Improve project description and clarify purpose on the web site > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > Code contributions at Apache have not yet begun, although the community is > coalescing. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > One (1) new contributor has expressed interest on the mailing list. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > The initial website is up and all repositories have been created. > > Date of last release: > > None > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > None since start of incubation > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](annotator) Nick Kew > [ ](annotator) Brian McCallister > [ ](annotator) Daniel Gruno > [X](annotator) Jim Jagielski > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > 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: > > 1. some more activity probably (but since we are between specification > releases it was expected) > 2. probably graduate > 3. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > No, BatchEE implements a JavaEE specification and its development cycle is > pretty close to the specification, since there was no new version. It is > in > maintenance mode for now which was expected. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > Not much, BatchEE is stable and used with few container flavors (part of > TomEE plus, used with tomee embedded, application composer, meecrowave, > ...) > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Fixes on CDI scopes. > > Date of last release: > > 2016-09-25 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré > [ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy > [X](batchee) Mark Struberg > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > > FreeMarker > > FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text output > based on templates. FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library for > programmers. > > FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > We think that the project is getting ready for a successful > graduation, since during incubation we have cleared copyright and > trademark, migrated all the project's assets to the ASF Infra, > learned how to produce and publish releases (with 2 releases issued > during incubation), learned how to invite committers. But, the > project is still struggling to find a way to "convert" active users > into committers; there are several users that have expressed the > desire to be more involved and help the project, but this doesn't > materialize into consistent contributions. In order to facilitate > new contributions and attract new potential committers we are trying > to define new ideas/tasks that are useful to the project but can be > completed even by contributors who don't yet know the project in > depth. We also plan to make a non-backward-compatible branch which > is easier to contribute to because it removes the substantial > complexity caused by the legacy burden, and also allows adding > interesting new features that wouldn't be feasible with the backward > compatibility constraints set more than 12 years ago. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > None > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > There were no changes. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > This was a more silent period, but Jira issues, pull request, Stack > Overflow questions were answered, some issues were fixed. > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2015-10-21 Nan Lei, committer (non-PMC) > > Date of last release: > > 2016-06-26 > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato > [X](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere > [X](freemarker) David E. Jones > [X](freemarker) Ralph Goers > [X](freemarker) Sergio Fernández > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > Gossip > > Gossip is an implementation of the Gossip Protocol. > > Gossip has been incubating since 2016-04-28. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Create some tutorial videos and blog posts to educate people on Gossip > Project > 2. Focus on some critical technical improvements multi-node testing and > accrual failure detection that will be critical for adoption into other > projects > > 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? > > - One contributor has been voted as a committer. There are 13 watches 24 > stars on github. > - Sean Busbey has stepped down as a mentor. Sean's early help was critical > to this hatchling. Thank you, Sean. > - Drew Farris has taken a role as a mentor. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Some technical features were frozen out until we completed our first > release. Effort was spent on doing the first release (getting access, key > signing, correctly enabling RAT maven plugin etc). This was mostly > one-time > effort. > > Date of last release: > > We are currently voting on our first release. > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > Chandresh Pancholi as added as a committer on 11/29/16 > > Signed-off-by: > > [x](gossip) P. Taylor Goetz > [x](gossip) Josh Elser > [x](gossip) Drew Farris > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Josh Elser: > > First release should be landing within 72*2 hrs. Hopefully this will > spawn a good cadence and attract more people to the, relatively quiet, > podling. > > -------------------- > > HAWQ > > Apache HAWQ is a Hadoop native SQL query engine that combines the key > technological advantages of MPP database with the scalability and > convenience > of Hadoop. HAWQ reads data from and writes data to HDFS natively. HAWQ > delivers industry-leading performance and linear scalability. It provides > users the tools to confidently and successfully interact with petabyte range > data sets. HAWQ provides users with a complete, standards compliant SQL > interface. > > HAWQ has been incubating since 2015-09-04. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Expand the community, by adding new contributors and focusing on making > sure that there's a much more robust level of conversations and > discussions happening around roadmaps and feature development on the > public dev mailing list > 2. Infrastructure migration: create Jenkins projects that build HAWQ > binary, source tarballs, and run feature tests including at least > installcheck-good tests for each commit (HAWQ-127). > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware > of? > > Everything seems to be smooth, nothing urgent at this time. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > 1. The community becomes more open for discussion around the roadmap, > various features that committers are working on, infrastructure > enhancements for the project. > 2. Two talks: > * The SQL-on-Hadoop engine that replaces traditional data warehouses: > HAWQ, China Open Source Conference Oct, 2016, Lei Chang > * Apache HAWQ on cloud: the easiest way to cloud from traditional data > warehouses, Big Data Technology Conferences, Dec, 2016, Lei Chang > 3. Ed volunteered as an RM for the upcoming 2.1.0.0 release > 4. Interesting discussions and work around Docker for HAWQ. HAWQ has an > account on docker hub: https://hub.docker.com/u/hawq/ > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > 1. Apache HAWQ 2.0.0.0 released. > 2. HAWQ 2.1.0.0 release proposed: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/HAWQ+Release+2.1.0.0-incubating+Release > * Critical HAWQ Register bug fixes > * Move HAWQ Ambari plugin to Apache HAWQ: HAWQ-1013 RESOLVED > * Introduction of the PXF ORC support > * Many bug fixes > > Date of last release: > > Oct 8, 2016 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > Two committers added: Hong Wu and Paul Guo > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](hawq) Alan Gates > [ ](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik > [ ](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz > [ ](hawq) Thejas Nair > [ ](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > 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 (committers and users) > 3. Documentation improvements > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > * We added 2 new committers since the last report from different > organizations. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > * Merged two large contributions from external contributors. > * dev@ mailing list had 112 messages in this month as seen in > https://lists.apache.org/trends.html?d...@hivemall.apache.org:2016-12 > No messages in users@ in this month. > * Github watchers/stars are gradually increasing: 38 stars as of Dec 26 > https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall > Still the community migration is halfway as the original repository has > 475 stars. > * Twitter account @ApacheHivemall followers are gradually increasing: 33 > followers as of Dec 26 > * Increased articles that mentions Apache Hivemall such as > https://dzone.com/articles/2016-the-year-in-big-data > http://gihyo.jp/dev/column/newyear/2017/hadoop-ecosystem (in Japanese) > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * Worked towards the first Apache release in Q1, 2017. > Merged 2 out of 5 large pending pull request that is blockers for the > release. > https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls > * Merged two large pull requests from external contributors. > Hivemall PMC invited them to Hivemall committers. > https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pull/11 > (contribution by Takuya Kitazawa@Tokyo Univ) > https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pull/15 > (contribution by Ryu-ichi Ito@Osaka Univ) > * Finished setup for TravisCI and Coveralls. > * Created 2 JIRA issues and resolved 3 issues in this month. > > Date of last release: > > No release yet (planning the first Apache release in Q1, 2017) > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > * Ryu-ichi Ito on Dec 28, 2016 - Committer (currently waiting for ICLA) > * Takuya Kitazawa on Dec 28, 2016 - Committer (currently waiting for ICLA) > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](hivemall) Reynold Xin > [X](hivemall) Markus Weimer > [ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng > [ ](hivemall) Daniel Dai > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > -------------------- > HORN > > HORN is a neuron-centric programming APIs and execution framework for large- > scale deep learning, built on top of Apache Hama. > > HORN has been incubating since 2015-09-04. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Expand the community. > 2. Create the first Apache release. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > * No issue at this moment. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > * We added 1 new committer since the last report from different > organization. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * Implemented Recurrent Neural Networks. > * Merged few trivial improvement pull requests. > > Date of last release: > > XXXX-XX-XX > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > * 2016-12-12 New committers: Yeonhee Lee. > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](horn) Luciano Resende > [ ](horn) Robin Anil > [x](horn) Edward J. Yoon > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > 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. Solicit user feedback/usage > 3. Grow awareness of the project > > 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? > > One new original committer from IBM submitted his ICLA and joined in > December. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > First release created. Second release currently in the pipeline. > Infrastructure and website in place. > > Date of last release: > > 2016-10-25 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > n/a > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](juneau) Craig Russell > [ ](juneau) Jochen Wiedmann > [X](juneau) John D. Ament > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > > MADlib > > Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists. > > MADlib has been incubating since 2015-09-15. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Need guidance from Incubator PMC on how to resolve the BSD licensing > switch over to Apache License. What should be the content of the > license > headers for files that were previously BSD licensed and then granted to > ASF? Related legal-discuss threads: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201609.mbox/%3ccalgg8z03zhhbfegxoi4fh+vxtf+9m7x6hak9rjkqjapuzi6...@mail.gmail.com%3E > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201603.mbox/%3C9D1AF43C-370B-4E58-B0EF-2E29D242F50B%40jaguNET.com%3E > 2. Continue to produce regular Apache (incubating) releases. > 3. Continue to execute and manage the project according to governance > model > of the "Apache Way”. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware > of? > > 1. Yes-please see #1 above and provide guidance. > 2. The next release v1.10 will be the 4th as an incubating project. After > that, the community would ideally like to move towards top level > status. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > 1. Some related events in Q4 2016 and upcoming: > * Feb 4, 2017 - Presentation accepted at FOSDEM’17 Graph devroom. > Topic: Graph Analytics on Massively Parallel Processing Databases > (Frank McQuillan) > * Dec 1, 2016 - MADLib community call. Topic: New features in R > interface and MADlib user survey results (hosted by Greg Chase, Orhan > Kislal, Frank McQuillan) > * Nov 16, 2016 - Presentation at PGConf Silicon Valley. Topic: > Distributed In-Database Machine Learning with Apache MADlib > (incubating) (Frank McQuillan) > * Nov 14, 2016 - Presentation at Apache Big Data Europe. Topic: > Distributed In-Database Machine Learning with Apache MADlib > (incubating) (Roman Shaposhnik) > 2. Material technical conversations on user/dev mailing lists and in the > appropriate JIRAs and pull requests. > 3. New contributors to the project have been working on KNN module and > Python interface. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > 1. Active work in progress for 4th ASF release MADlib v10 scheduled for > Jan > 2017. Features include: single source shortest path graph algorithm, > completely new module for encoding categorical variables, R interface > update, grouping support in elastic net and PCA, cross validation in > elastic net, verbose output option for decision tree visualization. > 2. Mailing list activity in Q4: 227 postings to dev, 66 postings to user. > > Date of last release: > > MADlib v1.9.1 on 9/19/16. > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected: > > Orhan Kislal on 9/7/16 and Nandish Jayaram on 9/7/16. > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](madlib) Konstantin Boudnik > [ ](madlib) Ted Dunning > [ ](madlib) Roman Shaposhnik > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > Metron > > Metron is a project dedicated to providing an extensible and scalable > advanced > network security analytics tool. It has strong foundations in the Apache > Hadoop ecosystem. > > Metron has been incubating since 2015-12-06. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Trigger a community discussion to graduate from incubation. We have > received a lot of value from the incubation process and after speaking > to our mentors and going through the Apache Project Maturity Model we > believe that we will soon be ready to graduate. > 2. Vote to ratify our Development Guidelines and Process for Reporting > Issues > 3. Vote to ratify our Release Process > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > We refreshed our website to be more compliant with Apache policies > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > - We added 2 committers > - We had a clean Apache build > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > - We closed 63 PRs as of our last build > - We integrated with Apache Ambari to make the project easier to deploy > - We modified and re-voted on our Bylaws > - We successfully filed our Name Search Jira. > > Date of last release: > > 2016-11-14 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > 2016-9-1 > > Signed-off-by: > > [x](metron) Billie Rinaldi > [ ](metron) Chris Mattmann > [ ](metron) Owen O'Malley > [x](metron) P. Taylor Goetz > [ ](metron) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > > Mynewt > > Mynewt is a real-time operating system for constrained embedded systems > like > wearables, lightbulbs, locks and doorbells. It works on a variety of 32-bit > MCUs (microcontrollers), including ARM Cortex-M and MIPS architectures. > > Mynewt has been incubating since 2015-10-20. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Make further point releases capable of producing a downloadable RTOS > image with support for multiple MCU architectures, peripherals, and > network connectivity protocols with the goal of the first major (1.0) > release in the first quarter of 2017. These point releases are intended > to demonstrate and solidify the repeatability, usability, and maturity > of process. > 2. Continue to develop and execute policies that enable project > contributors to achieve self-governance. > 3. Expand community - attract new project contributors, get users with > diverse backgrounds applying project to new use cases and encouraging > adoption, grow committer 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? > > 1. Active mailing lists with increasing numbers of subscribers. 23 new > subscribers on dev@ mailing list since last report. > 2. Increased participation by several new contributors through pull > requests for new MCU support, new BSP support, features, and test cases > and test results. Increased usage of the project for 3rd-party products > or demos. Outreach continues via conferences, exhibits, one on one > meetings, tutorials, beta testers. > 3. Vigorous discussions on feature proposals, code behavior analysis, API, > code usability, and implementation specifics on @dev mailing list. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > 1. The first beta release of the first major release (1.0.0-b1) was > completed on December 13, 2016. A second beta is being considered > before > the first release in Q1, 2017 to facilitate a smooth major release. > 2. Planning: Issues including bug reports, features, and wish list > captured > and tracked in ASF JIRA by members of the community. > 3. Effort towards self governance: Voting successfully completed to grant > committer status to two new candidates since last report. > > Date of last release: > > 2016-12-13 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > 2016-12-6 > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](mynewt) Sterling Hughes > [X](mynewt) Jim Jagielski > [x](mynewt) Justin Mclean > [ ](mynewt) Greg Stein > [x](mynewt) P. Taylor Goetz > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > 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? > > Our first vote for the new logo, still ongoing. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > The 1st (out of 12) repository has been cleared by Oracle legal / > technical > review for donation. > > Dependencies optionally downloaded from Maven Central instead of the > project's own public dependencies server. > > Converted Git repositories pushed to GitHub by a community contributor. > These are not canonical since we are waiting for the Code Grant to be > signed. > > First community member pull request on the GitHub repository. > > Ticket created for a new website. > > 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 > [ ](netbeans) Emmanuel Lecharny > [ ](netbeans) Daniel Gruno > [X](netbeans) Jim Jagielski > [ ](netbeans) Mark Struberg > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Drew Farris (shepherd): > > 6(!) Mentors active on mailing lists. Healthy progress over the past > couple months. > > -------------------- > ODF Toolkit > > Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of > OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents > > ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. > > Most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Get companies backing up the project as part of a commercial story, to > get a long-term momentum > 2. Do recurrent releases - some semi-automation would be helpful - for the > 3rd party users > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > A discussion has been started about the cancellation of the project due to > lack of developers on the private odf-toolkit and private incubator list. > > A general issue of the project is that it 'just' a toolkit of an office > file format, which in addition is far from leading on the business market, > so likely never being used by the mass market - a very niche product. > > Still the toolkit seems to be working well for most common use cases, but > is repeatedly updated by developers on changes of the ODF, like Red Hat > developers enhancing the ODF validator as part of LibreOffice regression > tests (e.g. out-of-the-box running on http://odf-validator.rhcloud.com/) > most often quite ahead of one of the international ODF Plugfests - > http://odfplugfest.org/2016-paris/programme/. > > Since there are still some game changing features in the pipeline (e.g. > collaboration) which are expected to strengthen the acceptance and develop > the community but on the other hand the mentorship / infrastructure of the > project could be better, a decision needs to be made on the future. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > We clarified on the ApacheCon Europe that a merge with the Open-XChange > fork is possible, which extended the original sources still using AL2 and > having done several releases with the new AL2 sources. > > So, we are working on the next release including the fixes and planning a > follow-up release adding new features. > > Those features should be able to attract companies to back the project. > > In addition, those will be used as reference implementation for the "OASIS > Advanced Document Collaboration" subcommittee. > > Date of last release: > > 2013-06-22 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > 2015-10-05 - Damjan Jovanovic for Commiter/PPMC > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby > [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch > [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > OpenWhisk > > OpenWhisk is an open source, distributed Serverless computing platform able > to execute application logic (Actions) in response to events (Triggers) from > external sources (Feeds) or HTTP requests governed by conditional logic > (Rules). It provides a programming environment supported by a REST API-based > Command Line Interface (CLI) along with tooling to support packaging and > catalog services. > > OpenWhisk has been incubating since 2016-11-23. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Moving github repos under the Apache Github Org > 2. Setup jenkins infra server to automate website deployment > 3. Review and update project > [checklist](http://incubator.apache.org/projects/openwhisk.html). > > Some items should be mark done (around infra) and followup on committer > that there is a ICLA submitted. Additionally, we add links to the project > page to their respctive areas on our .org site and/or newly created > COnfluence Wiki. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware > of? > > - No issues so far > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > - dev and private mailing list establish and initial activity healthy > - New website deploy openwhisk.org with content from the Github repo > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > - TBD: gather stats from Github repos commits, issues and pull requests > - New in core: New API Auth Keys architecture, API Gateway experimental > - New in packages: Kafka Feed > - Added a "Dockerized" option for running the "wskdeploy" tool > > Date of last release: > > - No release yet > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > - No one ha been elected or nominated yet. > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](openwhisk) Felix Meschberger > [ ](openwhisk) Isabel Drost-Fromm > [ ](openwhisk) Sergio Fernández > > > -------------------- > RocketMQ > > RocketMQ is a fast, low latency, reliable, scalable, distributed, easy to > use > message-oriented middleware, especially for processing large amounts of > streaming data. > > RocketMQ has been incubating since 2016-11-21. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Confirm the IP review is complete > 2. Make our first Apache release > 3. Vote in our first committer / PMC members > > 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? > > * Contributors have begun to appear and contribute to the code base > * Discussions on dev@ mailing list is beginning > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * User accounts created for new folks > * ICLA documents submitted and recognized > * SGA document submitted and recognized > * Mailing lists created > * Git repo created > * Source code has been imported > * Work has begun on the code base using git pull requests > > Date of last release: > > No releases yet > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > No elections have taken place yet > > Signed-off-by: > > [x](rocketmq) Bruce Snyder > [ ](rocketmq) Brian McCallister > [ ](rocketmq) Willem Ning Jiang > [ ](rocketmq) Luke Han > [x](rocketmq) Justin McLean > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > Rya > > Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that > supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built > on top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and > query processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across > multiple > nodes. Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a > conventional query mechanism for RDF data. > > Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Have more releases as part of the Apache Foundation > 2. Increase diversity of contributors. > 3. Continue to harden and develop core Rya features to improve user > experience > > 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? > > * New committer and PPMC member, David Lotts, was invited and accepted to > join Apache Rya PPMC. > * Committer Caleb Meier joined Rya PPMC. > * Sean Busbey resigned as mentor > * Billie Rinaldi became a mentor for Rya > * Talk on Rya at Accumulo Summit, October 11, 2016 > * PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the repository > continue > to be received > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * We had the first successful release as part of the ASF > * Resolved an incompatible-licensed geospatial dependency so we can have > the successful ASF release - we refactored the code to isolate an > optional module > * Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered > * Committed features: implemented new commands for Rya console: AddUser > (give perimssions to users for the tables associated with Rya instance), > RemoveUser , Uninstall, LoadStatementsFile. Added merge tool to allow > cloning between Mongo and Accumulo instances. Added initial Spark > support. > > Date of last release: > > 2016-10-28 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > * New committer and PPMC member David Lotts elected on Oct 25, 2016 > * New PPMC member Caleb Meier elected on Jan 3rd, 2017 > > Signed-off-by: > > [x](rya) Josh Elser > [ ](rya) Edward J. Yoon > [ ](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam > [x](rya) Billie Rinaldi > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Josh Elser > > The podling put in a substantial amount of work to get their first > release out. We noticed that their geospatial indexing support was > bringing in a bunch of incompatibly licensed deps. Multiple members made > an effort to both understand the problem and the potential to address > it. > I was/am very happy both with their patience, effort, and concern that > was given to the problem. It was a good sign that they will pay > attention > to these kinds of problems on their own in the future (self-governing). > > -------------------- > > 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: > > 1. Move infrastructure and development to ASF (code, issues, mailing > list, ...) > 2. Build diverse community > 3. Demonstrate ability to create releases > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware > of? > > Please elaborate on the process for code scanning and IP reviews. On the > last report this was brought to attention but no communication was > received. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > Community interaction continues ramping, as new adopters of the project > have been posting questions through Twitter and Slack. Now opening issues > over ASF JIRA, and expanding to other geographies such as Latin America > and > Europe. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Repo was moved last December, committers have worked over the last month > establishing a process, to get contributions reviewed and voted, which > also > will give give the opportunity to get ICLA individuals voted as members of > the project. > > In addition, we have been working on the new structure of the project > webpage, and new documentation schema facilitating both project > information > and documentation on the same site. > > Last but not least, a convocatory to discuss roadmap options and project > objectives for Q1 and Q2 will be launched, it will be posted on project > webpage and social media. > > Date of last release: > > N/A > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > N/A > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](spot) Jarek Jarcec Cecho > [ ](spot) Brock Noland > [ ](spot) Andrei Savu > [ ](spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > -------------------- > 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. Licenses and legal details. Traffic Control is a project made up of > several different components, and includes or depends on an extensive > list of software. We are working on making sure all source files have > the right headers, all the licenses of included software are > compatible > and the LICENSE and NOTICE are correct. > 2. Enhance automation to facilitate committer voting on new releases. > 3. Enhance documentation to ease ramp-up time for new community members. > > 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? > > We hosted a 2 day user / dev meetup in the Bay Area in October that was > attended by 16 people representing 5 companies. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > All code has been move to Apache git. All new issues are being opened > in Apache JIRA. All email communications have been moved to to Apache > email lists. Our website has been moved to > http://trafficcontrol.incubator.apache.org/ . > > Since the last report (October 2016), we have > > * Merged 145 Pull Requests with 314 commits from 19 contributors > * Opened 83 JIRA issues > * Closed 45 JIRA issues > * Seen 81 messages on the dev@ list in December (before December we > had commit messages going to dev@ as well, so those numbers are not > indicative of dev communications) > > Date of last release: > > None yet. We are addressing issues with release 1.8-incubating RC5. > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > No new committers or PPMC members yet. > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](trafficcontrol) Phil Sorber > [x](trafficcontrol) Eric Covener > [ ](trafficcontrol) Daniel Gruno > [ ](trafficcontrol) J. Aaron Farr > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Drew Farris (shepherd): > > Healthy activity on mailing lists, one mentor active. > > -------------------- > Weex > > Weex is a framework for building Mobile cross-platform high performance UI. > > Weex has been incubating since 2016-11-30. > > This is our first report. Weex community is really excited about joining > Apache community and getting organized. Most of us are newbie of > international open source community, Thanks everybody in ASF for your > patience and encouragement. > > Most notable progress this first month; > > 1. 7 members of Weex team have submitted ICLAs. > 2. SGA & CCLA have been signed and have been mailed to secretary, of ASF. > 3. Project maillist & JIRA have been activated & we have volunteer JIRA > administrator. Our setup issue on JIRA[1] > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > * Code repository need be set up. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > * Weex Github star number was reached 10k on December 21. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Since our Apache code repository haven’t been setup, the project have not > been developed in Apache Way yet. But our pre-Apache development process > are ongoing. Several bugs have been fixed and some new features have been > added (detail of information [2]). We will migrate code to Apache repo as > soon as possible. > > Date of last release: > > None > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > None > > [1]:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WEEX-1 > [2]:https://github.com/alibaba/weex/releases/tag/v0.9.4 > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](weex) Luke Han > [ ](weex) Willem Jiang > [ ](weex) Stephan Ewen > [x](weex) Niclas Hedhman > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > Niclas Hedhman: > > The development on the previous GitHub project is progressing at high > speed. But we have an understanding that moving to ASF repos is of the > highest importance for the next month. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
