Just a quick FYI: Just returned from a week of travel so I'm late with sign 
offs, but will do them tomorrow.

-Taylor

> On Apr 9, 2017, at 7:41 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> Below is the current draft.  Unlike most months, most of the reports are
> already signed off, just waiting for sign off from Weex.  Thanks for
> getting this done quickly!
> 
> John
> 
> Incubator PMC report for April 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 have had 1 IPMC member
> resign.  There were a total of 16 releases during this period.
> 
> * Community
> 
>  New IPMC members:
> 
>  - None
> 
>  People who left the IPMC:
> 
>  - Gianugo Rabellino
> 
> * New Podlings
> 
>  - None
> 
> * Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
> 
>  - BatchEE
>  - HORN
>  - MXNet
>  - Sirona
> 
> * Graduations
> 
>  The board has motions for the following:
> 
>  - Fineract
>  - Log4cxx2 (as a subproject to Logging)
>  - Metron
> 
> * Releases
> 
>  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
>  March:
> 
>  - 2017-03-03 Apache SystemML 0.13.0
>  - 2017-03-07 Apache TrafficControl 1.8.0
>  - 2017-03-10 Apache MADLib 1.10.0
>  - 2017-03-10 Apache DataFu 1.3.2
>  - 2017-03-13 Apache Mnemonic 0.5.0
>  - 2017-03-16 Apache Metron 0.3.1
>  - 2017-03-16 Apache Tephra 0.11.0
>  - 2017-03-17 Apache Atlas 0.8.0
>  - 2017-03-19 Apache Airflow 1.8.0
>  - 2017-03-19 Apache Streams 0.5
>  - 2017-03-20 Apache Edgent 1.1.0
>  - 2017-03-21 Apache Mynewt 1.0.0
>  - 2017-03-23 Apache Slider 0.92.0
>  - 2017-03-25 Apache Freemarker 2.3.26
>  - 2017-03-25 Apache Quickstep 0.1.0
>  - 2017-03-30 Apache Toree 0.1.0
> 
> * Legal / Trademarks
> 
>  - A new incubator logo has been selected.  We plan to roll out to
> podlings starting in April.
> 
> * Infrastructure
> 
> 
> 
> * Miscellaneous
> 
>  - We've begun the process to reflect usage of the roster tool in podling
> processes.
> 
> * Credits
> 
>  - Report Manager:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>                       Table of Contents
> Airflow
> Annotator
> DataFu
> FreeMarker
> Gobblin
> Gossip
> Griffin
> HAWQ
> Juneau
> MADlib
> Metron
> Milagro
> Mynewt
> NetBeans
> ODF Toolkit
> Pony Mail
> Ratis
> RocketMQ
> Rya
> SensSoft
> 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. We are working on our second apache release 1.8.1 to get more
> experience
>     with the process
>  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 had our first official release. 1.8.0 on March 19th 2017.
>  2. We elected 1 new PPMC Member/Committer: Alex Guziel (a.k.a saguziel)
>  3. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Jan 1 and Mar
>     31, inclusive), we grew our contributors from 224 to 256
>  4. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Jan 1 and Mar
>     31, inclusive), we resolved 216 pull requests (currently at 1479 closed
>     PRs)
>  5. Three meet-ups, one in San Francisco, CA hosted by Clover Health, one
> in
>     New York, NY hosted by Blue Apron and one in San Jose, CA hosted by
> PayPal
>     were held by the community.
>  6. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies
>     officially using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 83.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  1. As noted above, 216 pull requests were merged since our last report
>     (i.e. between Jan 1 and Mar 31, inclusive).
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [ ] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release
>  [ ] Community building
>  [X] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
>  The Airflow community continues to grow, and we have successfully created
>  our first Apache release. We want to continue on this momentum and create
>  another release to solidify our  process and tools around it, but we feel
>  we are nearing graduation. We are open to feedback and guidance to make
>  sure we can do so.
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  2017-03-19
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  As mentioned on
> 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/Announcements#Announcements-Mar14,2017
>  Alex Guziel joined the Apache Airflow PPMC/Committer group.
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [ ](airflow) Chris Nauroth
>     Comments:
>  [x](airflow) Hitesh Shah
>     Comments:
>  [x](airflow) Jakob Homan
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd 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. Developer/community engagement/growth
>  2. Research and planning
>  3. Shipping a "promising demo"
> 
> 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?
> 
>  Minimal mailing list activity. Little from new people. It seems (mostly)
>  that folks are waiting on "someone to code something" before they state
>  opinions, get involved, etc. We've used the wiki a bit--in hopes of
> getting
>  feedback/input, but since mailing list folks can't edit/comment by default
>  there's been lag/disinterest caused by that hurdle being particularly
> high.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  The two most active developers (randall & bigbluehat) have a plan (on the
>  wiki) which they hope to deliver code for before May. There are two events
>  in May (I Annotate and ApacheCon) which we hope to demo/present at to
>  increase awareness/interest/contribution.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [x] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release
>  [ ] Community building
>  [ ] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  XXXX-XX-XX
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  We've not added any new committers since the beginning. We're still
> waiting
>  on all the initial committers to join the list and/or participate.
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [ ](annotator) Nick Kew
>     Comments:
>  [ ](annotator) Brian McCallister
>     Comments:
>  [ ](annotator) Daniel Gruno
>     Comments:
>  [X](annotator) Jim Jagielski
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> 
> 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. Complete maturity evaluation checklist
>  2. Draft graduation resolution
>  3. Continue 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?
> 
>  No changes
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  Version 1.3.2 was released.  This addressed an issue with released
>  convenience binaries not including LICENSE, NOTICE, and DISCLAIMER
>  in META-INF of JARs.  This was considered an important item to
>  tackle before graduation.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [x] Initial setup
>  [x] Working towards first release (released 1.3.0, 1.3.1, and 1.3.2)
>  [x] Community building (4 committers added since incubuation, 24
>      contributors in total)
>  [x] Nearing graduation (maturity evaluation is nearly complete)
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  2017-03-10
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  July 2016 (Eyal Allweil)
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
>     Comments:
>  [x](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
>     Comments: I believe the podling is ready for graduation
>  [ ](datafu) Ted Dunning
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd 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 produces releases from its current stable branch since 2004 (and
> is started in 1999).
> 
> FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01.
> 
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>  The project is constantly exploring new ways to "convert" active
>  users into committers, since we have a very large user base and a
>  rather small group of committers. This was actually expected, given
>  the age (and topic) of the project. While the FreeMarker 3 line,
>  which was started quite recently, will be much more appealing for
>  contributors, development on that direction will certainly take a
>  long time. In other respects the project is mature and ready for
>  graduation.
> 
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
> 
>  We are eager to graduate but we were hoping to increase the number
>  of active contributors more before the graduation. However, since
>  the community is slowly growing and we have completed all the
>  Incubation tasks, we are now more inclined to discuss the graduation
>  and then proceed as a top level project. One of the practical
>  problems with being stuck in the Incubator is that many users stick
>  to the last non-incubating release as that has no "-incubating" in
>  the Maven coordinates, missing out on fixes and features done in the
>  recent two years. We brought up the issue with the Maven coordinate
>  on general@incubator.apache.org (saying that because our Maven
>  coordinate doesn't contain "apache", "incubating" is meaningless
>  there), but there was no consensus.
> 
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> 
>  We have welcomed a new committer (non-PMC), Woonsan Ko.
> 
>  A few new people has shown up to help out with our Twitter channel
>  (such as making a new logo for it, and helping to make it more
>  active), and to work on modernizing our build scripts.
> 
>  The starting of the FreeMarker 3 branch has generated more technical
>  discussions than usual.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  We have created a Project Maturity Model page at
> 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FREEMARKER/Apache+Freemarker+Project+Maturity+Model
> 
>  We have started the FreeMarker 3 branch, whose goal is to get rid of
>  backward compatibility burden that holds back the project quite much
>  at this point, and doesn't allow us to fully capitalize on the
>  experiences of the last 15 years. In our current situation it's also
>  very important that the new branch, as it advances, will be
>  technically far more appealing than the legacy branch for
>  contributors. Also, the new branch uses org.apache packages and
>  Maven coordinates (which FreeMarker 2 can't do).
> 
>  We have received a bigger contribution from Kenshoo, the source code
>  of an online template evaluator service, which we plan to use on our
>  home page, helping users to try and learn the template language.
> 
>  We have released a new micro version (2017-03-25, 2.3.26), focuses
>  on fixes and smaller improvements. This is the third stable release
>  issued during the incubation.
> 
>  We have added a How-To page for committers
>  (http://freemarker.org/committer-howto.html), which gives detailed
>  instructions on making releases, handling pull requests, updating
>  the project home page, and more.
> 
>  We have worked some on our Twitter channel, such as we have a new
>  logo and some posts.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [ ] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release
>  [X] Community building
>  [X] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
>  Comment: The project is mature and ready for graduation, unless the
> problem
>  with the number of active committers is considered as a blocker.
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  2017-03-25
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  2017-02-13 Woonsan Ko, committer (non-PMC)
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
>     Comments:
>  [ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
>     Comments:
>  [X](freemarker) David E. Jones
>     Comments:
>  [ ](freemarker) Ralph Goers
>     Comments:
>  [X](freemarker) Sergio Fernández
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Gobblin
> 
> Gobblin is a distributed data integration framework that simplifies common
> aspects of big data integration such as data ingestion, replication,
> organization and lifecycle management for both streaming and batch data
> ecosystems.
> 
> Gobblin has been incubating since 2017-02-23.
> 
> Few first steps has been made:
> 
> * mailing list setup
> * jira setup
> * few Apache account creation for new committers.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>  1. Code import. Still need agreement from LinkedIn/Microsoft
> 
> 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 very first steps of the project
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  First report :-)
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [X] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release
>  [ ] Community building
>  [ ] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  N/A
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  N/A
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [X](gobblin) Olivier Lamy
>  [X](gobblin) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
>     Comments:
>  [X](gobblin) Jim Jagielski
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd 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. A project leveraging Apache Gossip such as
>     https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-4837
>  2. Two additional active committers to handle management tasks like code
>     review
>  3. Continued releases
> 
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
> 
>  Two students are submitting proposals for Google Summer of Code. Both have
>  already contributed features which were committed to the project. We are
>  hopefully they both proposals will be accepted.
> 
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> 
>  The mailing list has been active with several people who were drawn to the
>  project by GSOC 17 labels placed on our tickets. Two of them have
>  contributed features that have been committed, and a third person (who
> will
>  not be doing GSOC) has asked to be assigned a ticket. Our last release had
>  roughly 5 different contributors, The mailing list is fairly active as we
>  review GSOC proposals. We have more than 50 stars on github which shows
>  that visibility is making a steady climb.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  A release 0.1.1 was completed right before our last report. We made an
>  aggressive list of features for 0.1.2. We de-prioritized some of the
> items,
>  but we completed far more than we expected. We had improvements in
>  performance, testing, and features. CRDT support seemed to be the biggest
>  'splash' feature.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> 
>  I am happy with the continued feature development and code/test
>  improvement. We are attracting interest of some new developers who seem
>  likely to stay involved and potentially be committers in the future. While
>  the majority of management and reviews is done by a few, others are
>  beginning to help with tasks like code reviews. As pointed out in the
> "move
>  towards graduation" section, having a couple other highly active
>  reviewers/committers would be a positive next step.
> 
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [ ] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release
>  [x] Community building
>  [ ] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  2017-04-02 (April 02)
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  Chandresh Pancholi added as a committer in February 2017
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [ ](gossip) P. Taylor Goetz
>     Comments:
>  [x](gossip) Josh Elser
>     Comments:
>        The podling is still working to attract new members, but those
>        involved so far are doing well.
>  [x](gossip) Drew Farris
>     Comments:
>        It is great to see the interest driven by GSOC participation.
>        Kudos to the team for engaging with GSOC.
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Griffin
> 
> Griffin is a open source Data Quality solution for distributed data systems
> at
> any scale in both streaming or batch data context
> 
> Griffin has been incubating since 2016-12-05.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>  1.Setup website, wiki, plan, milestone.
>  2.Make the first release.
>  3.Grow the 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?
> 
>    Two new contributors on-boarded, several developers had contacted us for
>    plan, milestones, status and use cases.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>  - Active development started in the community. 24 commits in last month.
>  - The project setup is going quite well. Initial committers are
> onboarding,
>    JIRA, Website, mailing list were successfully done.
>  - Work toward next gen version (general enough) is progressing
>    substantially.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [X] Initial setup
>  [X] Working towards first release
>  [X] Community building
>  [ ] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  N/A
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  - Initial set of committers / PPMC.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [X](griffin) Henry Saputra
>     Comments:
>  [ ](griffin) Kasper Sørensen
>     Comments:
>  [ ](griffin) Uma Maheswara Rao Gangumalla
>     Comments:
>  [ ](griffin) Luciano Resende
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> 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. Continue to improve the project's release cadence. To this end we
>     plan on expanding automation services to support increased
>     developer participation.
> 
>  2. Continue to 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.
> 
>  3. Expand release artifacts to include the delivery of binary
>     artifacts. We expect the project to significantly refine the
>     binary release process in several key areas.
> 
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
> 
>  1. Nothing urgent at this time.
> 
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> 
>  1. Two Meetups took place in Beijing, China:
> 
>     * HAWQ Meetup (January 12, 2017)
> 
>       - HAWQ2.X New Features - Yanqing Wen, Pivotal HAWQ Senior
>         Engineer
>       - HAWQ Elasticity - Huan Zhang, Pivotal HAWQ Senior Engineer
>       - Data Lake and HAWQ Integration - Wenbin Lu, EMC Big Data
>         Senior Engineer
> 
>     * HAWQ Meetup (March 23, 2017)
> 
>       - Apache HAWQ Exploration Step by Step - Configuration, Build,
>         Deployment and Debug by Xiang Sheng, Pivotal Software
>         Engineer
>       - Transaction Management in Apache HAWQ by Ming Li, Pivotal
>         Senior Software Engineer
>       - Max Compute - A SQL engine based on Apache HAWQ by Chen Xia,
>         Database Expert in Alibaba Cloud
> 
>  2. A significant push by the dev community has been made to review
>     and merge the project's Pull Requests (PR). As of March 30, 2017,
>     eight of the nine open PRs have been opened in the last ten
>     days. The PR opened on Sep 2016 is targeted to be merged after
>     the Apache 2.2.0.0 release.
> 
>  3. Community contribution highlight(s):
> 
>     * Leveraging the extensible PXF design, a JDBC PXF plugin
>       was contributed by Devin Jia (github id: jiadexin). This
>       contribution came from the community and not from the
>       company which originally donated HAWQ to the ASF.
> 
>  4. Recent porting efforts:
> 
>     - Persistent Systems Engineers are actively engaging the dev
>       community on their HAWQ porting efforts to RHEL 7.1 on S390
>       platform.
> 
>     - Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus) porting notes have been
>       published on dev list.
> 
>  5. Ruilong Huo has volunteered to be the Release Manager (RM) for
>     the upcoming 2.2.0.0 release
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  1. Apache HAWQ 2.1.0.0 (source code only) has been released.
> 
>  2. Apache HAWQ 2.2.0.0 release proposed (source code and first
>     binary release).  This is the 3rd release as an incubating
>     project. The binaries will be Hadoop vendor agnostic providing
>     support for the Apache Bigtop 1.2.0 distribution.
> 
>     Release page:
> 
> 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/Apache+HAWQ+2.2.0.0-incubating+Release
> 
>     Release hightlights:
> 
>       * CentOS 7.x Support
>       * Ranger Integration
>       * PXF ORC Profile
>       * Bug Fixes
> 
>  3. Paul Guo (paul...@gmail.com - committer and recent HAWQ PPMC
>     member) is publishing (to dev email list) a regular HAWQ Graduation
>     update for the project.
> 
>     * HAWQ graduation update (January, 17, 2017)
> 
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cd37e2b48d4bbc9fe4a9cea47f8247a2a614fa9643171937db9568ed@%3Cdev.hawq.apache.org%3E
> 
>     * Apache HAWQ graduation update (Mar 1st, 2017)
> 
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3a1e454f8c706dd71b1690c3ae74a157ef42eefde2185c780e2a57a2@%3Cdev.hawq.apache.org%3E
> 
>  4. The Apache HAWQ website has been updated:
>     * Provide clearer (more user-friendly) home page with good
>       access to downloadable release artifacts.
>     * The Apache HAWQ doc set is opened sourced and accessible
>       from website's nav bar.
> 
>  5. Significant updates to the Apache HAWQ wiki:
> 
>     * Add more community activities and recorded videos:
>       https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/Community
> 
>     * Add design documents for certain components:
>       https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/Tech+Documents
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [ ] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release
>  [X] Community building
>  [X] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  2017-02-28
> 
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> 
>  Podling committers (3) added:
>    Lisa Owen: January 31, 2017
>    Jane Beckman: February 1, 2017
>    Kyle Dunn: March 2, 2017
> 
>  PPMC member (1) added:
>    Paul Guo: March 10, 2017
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
> [X](hawq) Alan Gates
>           Comments:
> [X](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik
>           Comments:
> [ ](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
>           Comments:
> [ ](hawq) Thejas Nair
>           Comments:
> [x](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
>           Comments:
>             Podling seems to be a few months away from fulfilling all of
> the
>             graduation requirements.
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> HORN
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
>  johndament:  No email activity on the list in 3 months,
> 
> --------------------
> 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?
> 
>  The Juneau community has teamed with the Streams community to
>  replace Jackson (and other libraries) in Apache Streams.
>  Ongoing collaboration is going on between the teams.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  6.0.1 minor release delivered on Jan 3, 2017.
>  6.1.0 major release delivered on Feb 25, 2017.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [ ] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release
>  [X] Community building
>  [ ] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  2017-02-25
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  - Initial committers only.
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [ ](juneau) Craig Russell
>     Comments:
>  [ ](juneau) Jochen Wiedmann
>     Comments:
>  [X](juneau) John D. Ament
>     Comments: The podling's struggling a bit with community growth.  The
> Streams podling has recently begun leveraging Juneau for serialization, so
> I'm hopeful to see more interaction.
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd 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. Continue to produce regular Apache (incubating) releases.
>  2. Continue to execute and manage the project according to governance
> model
>     of the "Apache Way".
>  3. Continue to build community.
> 
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
> of?
> 
>  1. The next release v1.11 will be the 5th as an incubating project.  We
>     believe this release will meet all requirements for a clean ASF
> release,
>     based on listening to guidance from the IPMC over the previous
> releases.
>     After that, the community would ideally like to move towards top level
>     status.
>  2. The licensing issues have been resolved.  Should anyone want to review,
>     we have summarized the issue and resolution with relevant links on the
>     MADlib wiki at
> 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MADLIB/ASF+Licensing+Guidance
> 
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> 
>  1. Some related events in Q1 2017:
>     * Feb 4, 2017 - Presentation at FOSDEM’17 Graph devroom.  Topic:  Graph
>       Analytics on Massively Parallel Processing Databases (Frank
> McQuillan)
>     * Feb 2, 2017 - Greenplum meetup in SF.  Topic:  Machine Learning and
>       Cyber Security with Greenplum and Apache MADlib (Anirudh Kondaveeti,
>       Frank McQuillan)
>     * Mar 23, 2017 - MADlib community call.  Topic:  New Features in Apache
>       MADlib 1.10 (Frank McQuillan)
>  2. See material technical conversations on user/dev mailing lists and in
>     the appropriate JIRAs and pull requests.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  1. Build infra set up on Apache infra
>     https://builds.apache.org/job/madlib-master-build/
>  2. Docker image with necessary dependencies required to compile and test
>     MADlib on PostgreSQL 9.6
> 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MADLIB/Quick+Start+Guide+for+Developers#QuickStartGuideforDevelopers-Dock
>  3. Active work in progress for 5th ASF release MADlib v1.11 scheduled for
>     Apr 2017.  Features include: PageRank, connected components, stratified
>     sampling, improvements to decision tree & random forest, array & sparse
>     vector output for pivot
>  4. Mailing list activity in Q1 to date:  274 postings to dev, 111 postings
>     to user.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [ ] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release
>  [ ] Community building
>  [X] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  MADlib v1.10 on 3/10/17.
> 
> 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:
> 
>  [X](madlib) Konstantin Boudnik
>     Comments:
>  [ ](madlib) Ted Dunning
>     Comments:
>  [x](madlib) Roman Shaposhnik
>     Comments: we hope to submit a TLP resolution next month
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd 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. All issues have been addressed.
>  2. Community graduation discussion and vote have been initiated and passed
>  3. Incubator graduation discussion and vote have been initiated and passed
> 
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
> 
>  NA
> 
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> 
>  Most of the community and IPMC will transition to the Metron PMC once we
>  establish it.  Two of our Mentors chose to stay on with the project.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  We produced a 0.3.1 build
> 
>  The project is in the process of graduating into a TLP
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> 
>  I think our community is very mature and we will make a great Apache TLP
>  project
> 
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [x] Initial setup
>  [x] Working towards first release
>  [x] Community building
>  [x] Nearing graduation
>  [x] Other: graduation vote passed
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  2017-03-17
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
> Two committers were voted in on 3/15.
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [x](metron) Billie Rinaldi
>     Comments:
>  [ ](metron) Chris Mattmann
>     Comments:
>  [ ](metron) Owen O'Malley
>     Comments:
>  [ ](metron) P. Taylor Goetz
>     Comments:
>  [ ](metron) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Milagro
> 
> Distributed Cryptography; M-Pin protocol for Identity and Trust
> 
> Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>  1. Develop MILAGRO toolbox
>  2. Creating full working MILAGRO ecosystem, based on MILAGRO crypto
> library
>     – further research and development (IoT, blockchain, fractions etc.)
>  3. Building the MILAGRO community – engaging developers and
> cryptographers,
>     raising awareness and helping to secure future of internet.
> 
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
> 
>  We are having issues with Apache repos, and syncing two-way with Github,
>  which becomes annoying, as developers reports. We’re facing issues in
>  logging in to Apache Wiki page (
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/April2017
>  <https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/April2017> )
>  <https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/April2017)> - error messages are poping
>  here and there, so it’s impossible to work directly on Apache tools (while
>  users names and passwords, are 100% correct), we still can not access
>  those, and we are having issues with accessing SVN.
> 
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> 
>  MILAGRO community, sadly isn’t currently growing, most likely cause of
>  technical issues, few interested folks were unable to login, so they are
>  working directly on Github repo, while we still can not have two-way
>  syncing with Apache account.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  In past few months, MILAGRO community was focused on developing MILAGRO
>  Crypto C Library, the most important parts were:
> 
>  - enabling the solution to use different curves at the same time
>  - adding Golang wrappers for RSA and ECDSA
>  - adding tests and working examples for the Golang wrappers
>  - adding benchmarks
>  - finally splitting the library into proper logical components
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [ ] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release
>  [ ] Community building
>  [ ] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  n/a
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  n/a
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [ ](milagro) Sterling Hughes
>     Comments:
>  [*](milagro) Jan Willem Janssen
>     Comments:
>       I do see some ongoing development, like new repositories being
>       created, but there's not a lot of discussion happening on the MLs and
>       as such I do not have a clear picture where the project currently
>       stands, what problems they have, and how we can improve on that.
>  [*](milagro) Nick Kew
>     Comments:
>       Nothing seems to have happened since last time.  This report
> describes
>       technical difficulties: loss of certain github functionality in
> moving
>       to apache, and others I find harder to grasp.  I will again post a
>       followup to this to the project's dev list.
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
>  Drew Farris (shepherd): There should be more effort to move development
> and
>       communication on Milagro to Apache infrastructure. I don't see much
>       evidence of project activity looking at the mailing lists and repos
>       alone. I feel that technical issues should be communicated about and
>       resolved on the mailing lists - not in the incubator report. I don't
> see a
>       dedicated effort from the project members to communicate and resolve
>       these problems. The lack of progress leads me to question whether
>       the Milagro community at large is truly interested in running an
> Apache
>       project.
> 
> --------------------
> MXNet
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [ ](mxnet) Sebastian Schelter
>     Comments:
>  [ ](mxnet) Suneel Marthi
>     Comments: Its been 4 months since this project has been proposed for
> Apache Incubator and so far nothing's been done to move the project to
> Apache. All activity is still happening on the original project github -
> http://github.com/dmlc/mxnet and all conversations still happen on the
> project's Gitter channel. Since the last report from March 2017 (which btw
> was drafted and filed by me) there's been ZERO traction on moving the
> project to Apache. There are upcoming talks in various confs like -
> https://conferences.oreilly.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-ny/public/schedule/detail/58186
> that make no reference to the fact that the project is now 'Apache'. The
> reason me and Hen have not filed a report yet for April 2017 is due to the
> fact we would rather one of the committers on the project took the
> initiative to do it as opposed to a mentor covering for the project.
>  [ ](mxnet) Markus Weimer
>     Comments:
>  [ ](mxnet) Henri Yandell
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> JM: No report yet. Slow to start up but at least one Mentor active.
> 
> --------------------
> 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. Demonstrate the capability to do point and major releases that can be
>     used to build downloadable RTOS images for multiple MCU architectures,
>     peripherals, and network connectivity protocols. The goal of having a
>     first major (1.0) release in the first quarter of 2017 was met. The
>     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. 19 new
>     subscribers on dev@ mailing list since last report resulting in a total
>     of 160 subscribers.
>  2. Increased participation by several new contributors through pull
>     requests for new MCU support, merges by new committers, new BSP
> support,
>     connectivity features, and test cases and test results. There is a
>     measurable increase in usage of the project for 3rd-party products and
>     demos. Outreach continues via conferences, exhibits, one on one
>     meetings, tutorials, beta testers, prototype and performance testing
>     with multiple organizations.  For example, 255 Pull Requests have been
>     closed on GitHub.
>  3. Vigorous discussions, feature proposals, optimizations, code behavior
>     analysis, user interface improvements, and implementation debates on
>     @dev mailing list. Activity on dev@ list averaged 192 msgs/month in
> 2016
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  1. The first major release (1.0) was successfully completed on March 22nd.
>     Two beta releases led up to the first major release - first on December
>     13, 2016, the second on Feb 24, 2017, with the final month before the
>     release (between beta2 and 1.0) focusing on bug fixes, performance
>     tuning, and code cleanup for a robust first release. An example of
>     policy developed and executed is the Release Policy:
> 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MYNEWT/Release+and+Support+Policy
>  2. Planning: Issues including bug reports, features, and wish list
> captured
>     and tracked in ASF JIRA by members of the community. Proposals for new
>     features are posted on the dev@ mailing list and voted on by community
>     members.
>  3. Effort towards self governance: Voting successfully completed to grant
>     committer status to five new candidates since last report. New
> committer
>     acceptance policy defined and followed:
> 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MYNEWT/New+Committer+Acceptance+Process
>     Another example of policy developed and executed is the Release Policy:
> 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MYNEWT/Release+and+Support+Policy
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [ ] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release
>  [ ] Community building
>  [x] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  2017-03-22
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
> 2017-03-28
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [ ](mynewt) Sterling Hughes
>     Comments:
>  [X](mynewt) Jim Jagielski
>     Comments:
>  [X](mynewt) Justin Mclean
>     Comments:
>  [ ](mynewt) Greg Stein
>     Comments:
>  [ ](mynewt) P. Taylor Goetz
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd 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?
> 
>  - Several new entries added to Who's Who page:
>    https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Who%27s+Who
>  - Ongoing discussions on the Apache NetBeans mailing list.
>  - Several updates to http://incubator.apache.org/projects/netbeans.html
>    have been done.
>  - Meetups planned in April: Athens, Bangalore, London
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  - All repos relating to Java SE NetBeans IDE have been audited on Oracle's
>    side (
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Apache+Transition).
>  - Only the code that has been written since the audit started needs to be
>    reviewed, of the Java SE NetBeans IDE.
>  - Regular updates on process to Apache NetBeans mailing list.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> 
>  No releases yet, though active discussions and community enthusiasm.
> 
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [X] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release
>  [ ] Community building
>  [ ] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  No releases yet.
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  No one has been elected so far.
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [X](netbeans) Ate Douma
>     Comments:
>  [X](netbeans) Bertrand Delacretaz
>     Comments:
>  [ ](netbeans) Daniel Gruno
>     Comments:
>  [X](netbeans) Mark Struberg
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> ODF Toolkit
> 
> Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
> OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
> 
> ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>  1. 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?
> 
>  How do we get people to test our release on the incubation 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 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/.
> 
>  There are some game-changing features in the pipeline (e.g.
>  collaboration) which are expected to strengthen the acceptance and develop
>  the community.
> 
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> 
>  We received with Tom Barber a new active Mentor
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  Update of documentation and bug fixing.
>  Our release candidate is currently on a vote on the general incubator
> list.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [ ] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release
>  [x] Community building
>  [ ] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  2014-06-02
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  2015-10-05 - Damjan Jovanovic for Committer/PPMC
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
>     Comments:
>  [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
>     Comments:
>  [X](odftoolkit) Tom Barber
>     Comments:
>       Svante is still pretty much the sole developer but there are people
>       testing and voting on releases. We'll ship this release and figure
> out
>       how best to market it once the IPMC signs off on the release.
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Pony Mail
> 
> Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service,
> that
> can be integrated with many email platforms.
> 
> Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>  1. Growing the community, especially contributors
>  2. Grow awareness within Apache, we are eating our own dog food
>  3. Start getting more releases out.
> 
> 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?
> 
>  Not much to report here. Community remains the same size.  We are
>  discussing releasing a new version soon(ish).
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  Many bug fixes, but no new release yet. TBD.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [ ] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release
>  [x] Community building
>  [ ] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  2016-08-02
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  Sebb, 2016-09-10.
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
>     Comments:
>  [X](ponymail) John D. Ament
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Ratis
> 
> Ratis is a Java implementation for RAFT consensus protocol
> 
> Ratis has been incubating since 2017-01-03.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>  1. Setup jenkins.
>  2. Make the first release. Snapshot release was made available, work in
>     progress for 0.1.0 release.
>  3. Grow the 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?
> 
>  - One new contributor joined.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  - A Snapshot release was made available.
>  - One new contributor.
>  - 25 new commits.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [ ] Initial setup - Need jenkins setup.
>  [X] Working towards first release - Snapshot release available. Work in
>      progress for the first release.
>  [ ] Community building - One new contributor.
>  [ ] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  - None
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  - Initial set of committers/PPMC.
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [ ](ratis) Chris Nauroth
>     Comments:
>  [ ](ratis) Devaraj Das
>     Comments:
>  [x](ratis) Jakob Homan
>     Comments:
>  [ ](ratis) Uma Maheswara Rao G
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> 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. Vote in our first PMC members
>  2. Moving sub-projects from GitHub into the ASF
>  3. Grow the 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?
> 
>  * Increased mailing list activity: solutions and milestone plan are
>    discussed and decided in mailing list.
>  * Organized the second hackathon in community, The mainly purpose is to
>    foster users and contributors to use mail list to ask or discuss
>    problems.
>  * Star has increased from 516 to 854 since the latest report.
>  * Moving mature sub-projects into Apache repository, these projects
>    including RocketMQ-Console, RocketMQ-JMS,RocketMQ Docker and
>    RocketMQ-Spark PR. Contributors in this repository have over 15+
>  * Polish RocketMQ various wikis, including example guide, architecture
>    guide, dev-ops guide etc.
>  * Up to now, RocketMQ community have finished the several external
>    integration projects, including RocketMQ-Flume, RocketMQ-Ignite,
>    RocketMQ-Storm, RocketMQ-Spark.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  * Up to now, 140+ issues have been reported on JIRA site and 59 have been
>    resolved or closed. Since November 85+ pull requests have been created
>    and 56+ pull requests have been closed.
>  * Teams are sparing no effort in RocketMQ 4.1 development, which will
>    introduce a new client api. It covers messaging and streaming solutions
>    in the finance, e-commerce, Iot and big-data area.
>  * Received a batch message PR, that is a great enhance for RocketMQ
>    big-data area.
>  * Received a message filter PR, that is a new idea for RocketMQ filter
>    feature.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [ ] Initial setup - The initial setup went pretty well with assistance
> from
>      John Ament and his Incubator documentation improvement efforts.
>  [ ] Working towards first release - The podling has performed its first
>      release as noted below
>  [X] Community building - Some contributors are beginning to participate.
> So
>      far users have been slow to show up, so more effort on this front will
>      be encouraged.
>  [ ] Nearing graduation - Making progress, not there yet.
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  2017-02-21
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  Last elected committers as following:
>  * 27 Feb 2017 - Roman Shtykh
>  * 27 Feb 2017 - Zhen Dong Liu
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [X](rocketmq) Bruce Snyder
>     Comments:
>  [ ](rocketmq) Brian McCallister
>     Comments:
>  [ ](rocketmq) Willem Ning Jiang
>     Comments:
>  [ ](rocketmq) Luke Han
>     Comments:
>  [X](rocketmq) Justin McLean
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> JM: There has been discussion on list re community building and activities
> happening e.g. external hackathon but translating that into new committers
> seems hard.
> I think part of this is process (new to Apache and the way we do things)
> and perhaps
> PR review process / the committer bar has been set a little too high.
> Perhaps the PMC
> should look at voting in people that contribute to the project a little
> earlier?
> 
> --------------------
> 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?
> 
>  * Talk on Rya accepted at Apache Big Data, May 18, 2017
>  * PRs from non-committers (14 contributions from 6 non-committers) which
>    are integrated into the repository continue to be received
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  * Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered
>  * Committed features: Added support for select * {?s ?p ?o} queries
> (select
>    all triples). Implemented MongoDB based entity secondary index. Added
>    MongoDB column visibility. Fixed column visibilities in Fluo. Added
>    GeoWave, in addition to GeoMesa, to the optional rya.geoindexing. Added
>    statement metadata optimizer so  that reified queries can be issued in
> an
>    efficient way.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [ ] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release
>  [x] Community building
>  [ ] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  Oct 28, 2016
> 
> 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
>     Comments:
>       Things seem to be going well. Relatively quiet, but not a problem.
>  [ ](rya) Edward J. Yoon
>     Comments:
>  [ ](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
>     Comments:
>  [x](rya) Billie Rinaldi
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> SensSoft
> 
> SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
> 
> SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>  1. Moving towards the first Incubating release of the source code and
> other
>     release artifacts.
>  2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) community.
>  3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap
>     https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmap
> 
> 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 community has been stable and working well towards
>  the commons goals identified within the Roadmap.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  The project has reached a stage where our first Incubating
>  VOTE'ing process is very close. The community has been working
>  well towards strategic release-oriented goals.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [x] Initial setup
>  [x] Working towards first release
>  [ ] Community building
>  [ ] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  XXXX-XX-XX
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  Arthi Vezhavendan was added to PPMC and Committer base on 2017-01-24
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
>     Comments:
>  [X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
>     Comments:
>  [ ](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd 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. Enhance automation to facilitate committer voting on new releases.
>  2. Enhance documentation to ease ramp-up time for new community members.
>  3. Grow the community.
> 
> 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?
> 
>  Several new people have become active on the project. A 2 week hackathon
>  was organized to on-board some new contributors from Qwilt.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  Traffic Control 1.8 was released on 3/7/2017 after a lot of cleanup of
>  licenses and dependencies! Traffic Control 2.0 is converging on the first
>  release candidate.
> 
>  Since the last report (January 2017), we have
> 
>  * Merged 232 Pull Requests with 441 commits from 16 contributors
>  * Opened 135 JIRA issues
>  * Closed 68 JIRA issues
>  * Seen 105 messages on the dev@ list.
> 
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [ ] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release (wip)
>  [ ] Community building (wip)
>  [ ] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  Traffic Control 1.8 was released on 3/7/2017.
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  No new committers or PPMC members yet.
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [X](trafficcontrol) Phil Sorber
>     Comments:
>  [ ](trafficcontrol) Eric Covener
>     Comments:
>  [ ](trafficcontrol) Daniel Gruno
>     Comments:
>  [ ](trafficcontrol) J. Aaron Farr
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Weex
> 
> Weex is a framework for building Mobile cross-platform high performance UI.
> 
> Weex has been incubating since 2016-11-30.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>  1. Move the whole workflow and infra into Apache (not the codebase only).
>  2. Develop more contributors and committers.
>  3. Clear the ICLA issues.
> 
> 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?
> 
>  * 1,510 stars and 229 forks in our new Apache repo in GitHub.
>  * 600+ mails in dev channel
>  * Developed one new committer: Yuan Shen
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  * Enhanced accessibility
>  * Supported iPad screen
>  * Supported more features like: "waterfall" component, prefetch,
> "expression binding", box-shadow, etc.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>  [x] Initial setup
>  [ ] Working towards first release (wip)
>  [ ] Community building (wip)
>  [ ] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>  No
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  We invited Yuan Shen as a new committer in 2017-02-23.
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [ ](weex) Luke Han
>     Comments:
>  [ ](weex) Willem Jiang
>     Comments:
>  [ ](weex) Stephan Ewen
>     Comments:
>  [ ](weex) Niclas Hedhman
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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