Just VOTE’d. Excellent community building. lewismc On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 17:42 Joshua Poore <poor...@apache.org> wrote:
> Feel free to continue discussing. However, I have initiated a VOTE on > private@ to accept the CCLA and Software Grant. > > > On May 31, 2022, at 9:49 PM, Joshua Poore <poor...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I’m very excited to say that the University of Maryland has executed an > CCLA with Software Grant for the Apache Flagon project! > > > > 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. > > > > Prior to initiating a VOTE on private@ I wanted to give the community > an opportunity to chime in and ask questions. The New Committers listed are > already subscribed to the dev list. > > > > Let’s take 72 hours to DISCUSS prior to a VOTE. > > > > Best, > > > > Josh > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-flagon-distill < > https://github.com/apache/incubator-flagon-distill> > > [2] > https://github.com/UMD-ARLIS/incubator-flagon-distill/tree/distill_toolkit_refactor > < > https://github.com/UMD-ARLIS/incubator-flagon-distill/tree/distill_toolkit_refactor> > > > [3] > https://incubator-flagon-distill.readthedocs.io/en/distill_toolkit_refactor/ > < > 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 > < > https://github.com/UMD-ARLIS/incubator-flagon-distill/blob/distill_toolkit_refactor/examples/Segments_Demo.ipynb > > > > -- http://home.apache.org/~lewismc/ http://people.apache.org/keys/committer/lewismc
