[DRAFT] Incubator PMC Board Report - September 2017

[John D. Ament]

All,

Below is our current draft of the Incubator PMC board report.  We have 2
podlings not signed off and 4 podlings not reporting.   Hopefully they can
report soon.

John

Incubator PMC report for September 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 currently 54 podlings incubating.  We executed nine podling
releases and have one podling planning to graduate this month.  No changes
to the PMC structure this month.

* Community

  New IPMC members:

  - None

  People who left the IPMC:

  - None

* New Podlings

  - Daffodil

* Podlings that Retired

  - MRQL

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

Missing Sign Off:

  - Myriad
  - OpenWhisk
  - Quickstep
  - Spot

* Reports Missing Sign off

  - Griffin
  - Pulsar

* Graduations

  The board has motions for the following:

  - RocketMQ
  - Your podling here?

* Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  August:

  - 2017-08-01 Apache Juneau 6.3.1
  - 2017-08-01 Apache Tamaya 0.3.0
  - 2017-08-05 Apache Tamaya Extensions 0.3.0
  - 2017-08-08 Apache Pulsar 1.19.0
  - 2017-08-16 Apache HTrace 4.3.0
  - 2017-08-16 Apache Spot 1.0
  - 2017-08-17 Apache Fluo 1.0.0
  - 2017-08-23 Apache S2Graph 0.2.0
  - 2017-08-29 Apache Livy 0.4.0

* IP Clearance



* Legal / Trademarks



* Infrastructure



* Miscellaneous



* Credits

--
   Table of Contents
AriaTosca
Daffodil
Gearpump
Gobblin
Griffin
Heron
Hivemall
HTrace
Livy
Mnemonic
MRQL
Myriad
Omid
OpenWhisk
Pony Mail
Pulsar
Quickstep
SAMOA
SINGA
Spot
Superset
Taverna
Tephra
Trafodion
Wave

--


AriaTosca

ARIA TOSCA project offers an easily consumable Software Development Kit(SDK)
and a Command Line Interface(CLI) to implement TOSCA(Topology and
Orchestration Specification of Cloud Applications) based solutions.

AriaTosca has been incubating since 2016-08-27.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Grow the community and enroll new committers.
  2. Rotate Release Managers for future releases.
  3.

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?

 Seeing some contributions now from independent developers.
 Active discussions on mailing lists with potential users and contributors.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 The project has had its first two releases in July 2017 - 0.1 and 0.1.1

 Important new features have been added:
   - Resumable workflows
   - Scaling nodes during service creation
   - AWS plugin support
   - Additional work towards being more TOSCA-compliant (e.g. interface
inputs support)
   - Additional usage examples have been added, including ones that use
IaaS plugins (Openstack, AWS), as well as one covering a real-life NFV
use-case (Clearwater example)
   - More comprehensive tests, including for documentation generation, and
parallelization of test suites
   - Standardized the release process with automatic shell scripts,
allowing anyone to easily create additional releases for the project
   - 64 JIRA issues have been resolved since the last report

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:

  July 17, 2017

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  Project is still functioning with the initial set of committers.

Signed-off-by:

  [X](ariatosca) Suneel Marthi
 Comments:
  [X](ariatosca) John D. Ament
 Comments: The project has started to see more community interest.
Need to figure out how to drive development more on list to get more
outside contributions.
  [ ](ariatosca) Jakob Homan
 Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:




Daffodil

Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description
Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.

Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Initial setup (finalize infrastructure setup, get SGAs in place, move
code/documentation/bugs/etc. over to Apache infrastructure, modify licenses)
  2. Establish guidelines regarding release cycles, code reviews, bug
management, etc.
  3. Work to grow the community to establish a diversity of backgrounds and
expertise

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?

  N/A

How has the project developed since the last report?

  N/A

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add 

Re: Podling Report Reminder - September 2017

[John D. Ament]

Sergio,

I'm a bit surprised that no one stepped up to do OpenWhisk's report, 
considering the on list activity.  Who has done them in the past?

John

On 2017-09-07 20:46, Sergio Fernández  wrote: 
> nobody? deadline is already over!
> 
> On Sep 7, 2017 06:45, "Sergio Fernández"  wrote:
> 
> > volunteer?
> >
> > On Sep 5, 2017 18:40,  wrote:
> >
> >> 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, 20 September 2017, 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, September 06).
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> 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.
> >> *   How does the podling rate their own maturity.
> >>
> >> This should be appended to the Incubator Wiki page at:
> >>
> >> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/September2017
> >>
> >> Note: This is manually populated. You may need to wait a little before
> >> this page is created from a template.
> >>
> >> Mentors
> >> ---
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >
>