Podling Report Reminder - December 2016

[johndament]

Dear podling,

This email was sent by an automated system on behalf of the Apache
Incubator PMC. It is an initial reminder to give you plenty of time to
prepare your quarterly board report.

The board meeting is scheduled for Wed, 21 December 2016, 10:30 am PDT.
The report for your podling will form a part of the Incubator PMC
report. The Incubator PMC requires your report to be submitted 2 weeks
before the board meeting, to allow sufficient time for review and
submission (Wed, December 07).

Please submit your report with sufficient time to allow the Incubator
PMC, and subsequently board members to review and digest. Again, the
very latest you should submit your report is 2 weeks prior to the board
meeting.

Thanks,

The Apache Incubator PMC

Submitting your Report

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Your report should contain the following:

*   Your project name
*   A brief description of your project, which assumes no knowledge of
the project or necessarily of its field
*   A list of the three most important issues to address in the move
towards graduation.
*   Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be
aware of
*   How has the community developed since the last report
*   How has the project developed since the last report.

This should be appended to the Incubator Wiki page at:

https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/December2016

Note: This is manually populated. You may need to wait a little before
this page is created from a template.

Mentors
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Mentors should review reports for their project(s) and sign them off on
the Incubator wiki page. Signing off reports shows that you are
following the project - projects that are not signed may raise alarms
for the Incubator PMC.

Incubator PMC

Re: Mentor Action Needed (was: Fw: Access to git repos for Apache Annotator (incubating))

[Nick Kew]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 15:36:50 +
Benjamin Young  wrote:

> We need (at least) these two user accounts added to the `incubator`
> project, so we can commit to the Apache Annotator project:
> 
>  - bigbluehat
> 
>  - randall

Done.  If I've got it right, you should be fine.
If I haven't, try Humbedooh ;)

Anyone else who is already an Apache committer but not for
incubator is probably in the same position.  Just ask here.

-- 
Nick Kew

Re: Wiki and Issues are setup!

[Benjamin Young]

I've started tossing some pages into the Wiki (fwiw).


For anyone lurking here, if you have any info on any annotation tools, systems, 
ideas, etc, it'd be great to collect them--or links to similar indexes of such 
things on this page:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ANNO/Historical+Annotation+Research


Also, a better link for the wiki is this one:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ANNO


Thanks (in advance),

Benjamin :)

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http://bigbluehat.com/

http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung


From: Randall Leeds 
Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 12:56:10 PM
To: dev@annotator.incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Wiki and Issues are setup!

Thanks!

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016, 10:30 Benjamin Young  wrote:

> Thanks to the ASF Infra team for these!
>
>
> The wiki is here:
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=67633804
>
>
> The issues system (Jira) is here:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ANNO/
>
>
> I did ask (for those curious) about GitHub issues usage. It is possible to
> have them, but right now (due those repos being mirrors...or some such),
> we'd not be able to edit the issues or close them...which would be most
> confusing for everyone.
>
>
> Consequently, let's start with these and move forward. :)
>
>
> Also, I'm working on getting access to the website repo and have a basic
> promo page ready.
>
>
> If you're name was on the initial committers list--and you're still here,
> interested, and available--I'd like to get access setup for you on these
> things!
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Benjamin
>
> --
>
> http://bigbluehat.com/
>
> http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung
>

Re: December board report

[Benjamin Young]

I had access from when we first started at the incubator. Randall, if you want 
access, you have to ask on gene...@incubator.apache.org (might be a good idea 
for the future!).


Here's what I've added to the report--revise in reply and I'll surface them to 
the wiki as needed. Thanks!


```

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. Achieving active development cadence
  2. Attracting new contributors
  3. Establishing presence (web, repo, activity)

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?

  Beginning work within the ASF has been slow (and rather confusing). Mailing 
list activity has improved, but still low volume. Development priorities are 
still being discussed. We do now have repositories for code and the website, 
but are blocked by needing access to them--the request as been made to the 
general@incubator list. However, we have successfully gotten Jira and 
Confluence setup for the project and have a promotional web page ready and 
waiting once access has been granted. Making the incubation process clearer 
(and ideally more automated) would have saved a lot of time and confusion. That 
said, our Champion (Daniel Gruno), has been most helpful in helping us navigate.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Discussions have begun on development priorities. Infrastructure helped us 
resolve some outstanding project setup needs (Jira, Confluence, and git for the 
web site and code). Once the site is online, we intend to promote the community 
more and make concrete plans out of the proposals made on the mailing list so 
far.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Same as above. Mostly discussion and infrastructure/access setup--some still 
in progress.

Date of last release:

  None.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  None since start of incubation.

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](annotator) Nick Kew
  [ ](annotator) Brian McCallister
  [ ](annotator) Daniel Gruno
  [ ](annotator) Jim Jagielski

Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung


From: Nick Kew 
Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 7:35:53 PM
To: dev@annotator.incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: December board report

On Tue, 2016-12-06 at 23:56 +, Randall Leeds wrote:
> I'm not able to submit the following report, because the report page is
> immutable. I'm guessing perhaps this means due to time zone it's past the
> cutoff.

Are you logged in?  Have you got (asked for)
write access to the wiki?

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Nick Kew