Hello General! Refreshing this 72 VOTE:
I am looking for additional review and binding VOTEs from the Incubator regarding a recent SW grant (via CCLA) from UMD to the Flagon Podling. The Flagon community has VOTED to accept for reasons outlined below and Secretary has accepted the CCLA. We are seeking concurrence from the incubator. Details follow: > On Aug 19, 2022, at 9:32 PM, Joshua Poore <poor...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hello Incubator! > > I am continuing a 72 VOTE from the Flagon Community on Incubator General > regarding the acceptance of an ICLA and Software Grant into the Apache Flagon > (Incubating) Podling. > > The purpose of this VOTE is to establish consensus and transparency wrt to IP > Clearance. > > We conducted a Community Discussion @ Flagon and a VOTE. > > VOTE Thread on Flagon Private: > https://lists.apache.org/thread/t5gof3sj40xrv2ylrgntx6oz2vdcc37t > > VOTE Result on Flagon Private: > https://lists.apache.org/thread/dvz7rtxl77pfqb3c3tgn36g1wbfgr54h > > [3] +1 (+2 Binding) > [0] 0 > [0] -1 > > Accepted Submission of ICLA to Secretary: > https://lists.apache.org/thread/fz6v7x9gjcllr5dvsf5ho9hbt7ogrwvw > > > > Respectfully, > > Josh (Flagon PPMC) > > > Details on the Software Grant Follow (copied from original Flagon VOTE) below: > > > The Software Grant encompasses a refactor of the Apache Flagon Distill > product, which has been deprecated for a few years now [1] > This Grant includes ~150 new commits and thousands of new insertions (and a > lot of deletions) At UMD my team and I re-thought Distill as a Python > Package (for distro through PyPI) [2] that allows users to: > - efficiently segment UserALE.js (or User Behavior Logs) data > - curate segments - transform segments with logical operations (intersection, > union, etc.) > - filter log data extracted from segments > - apply analytics (e.g., statistical, graphs) to data extracted from segments > - support graph-based visualization (funnel, sankey) > Additionally: > - code is well documented [3] > - excellent working examples [4] > Distill also provides examples for dashboards to visualize segments using > both Apache Superset and Plotly/Dash > The original Distill product was tethered to a front-end (Tap), relied on > rudimentary (and error-prone) processing of segments within the client. This > made Distill difficult to maintain and required users to adopt tap, limiting > their analytical use-cases with UserALE.js and Distill. Overall, I think > that Distill provides a far more scaleable product to engage (and expand) our > development community. I think this will add real value to Apache Flagon. > Overhead/Actions prior to release: > - Documentation builds will need be adjusted for a new repo/branch > - Additional documentation for a few analytical functions (i.e., click-rate) > - Minor tweaks to simply code in a few functions (i.e., click-rate) > - Some restructuring of Repo to consolidate and organize examples > - a few additional README’s should be added (i.e., examples /dir) > IP Clearance The Software Grant is signed by Felicia Metz, esq. who is an > Associate Director at the University of Maryland’s, UMD Ventures office, > which has authority to release UMD IP. That makes accepting this grant > significantly easier from an IP Clearance perspective. New Committers The > UMD executed CCLA includes 5 new committers and potentially new PPMC members > [see 5 for executed Software Grant from UMD] > > [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-flagon-distill > [2] > https://github.com/UMD-ARLIS/incubator-flagon-distill/tree/distill_toolkit_refactor > > [3] > https://incubator-flagon-distill.readthedocs.io/en/distill_toolkit_refactor > [4] > https://github.com/UMD-ARLIS/incubator-flagon-distill/blob/distill_toolkit_refactor/examples/Segments_Demo.ipynb > > [5] https://lists.apache.org/thread/fz6v7x9gjcllr5dvsf5ho9hbt7ogrwvw --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
