All,
Please find below the draft board report for December 2014. If anyone has
any comments for the miscellaneous section please let me know. I still
have to address line lengths, but the report's all here.
Please feel free to edit the wiki with any proposed changes.
= Incubator PMC report for December 2014 =
=== Timeline ===
||Wed December 03 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
||Sun December 07 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
||Sun December 07 ||Summary due by end of day ||
||Tue December 09 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
||Wed December 10 ||Report submitted to Board ||
||Wed December 17 ||Board meeting ||
=== Shepherd Assignments ===
||Alan D. Cabrera ||Ignite ||
||Andrei Savu ||Drill ||
||Andrei Savu ||Johnzon ||
||Dave Fisher ||NPanday ||
||John Ament ||MRQL ||
||John Ament ||log4cxx2 ||
||Justin Mclean ||Tamaya ||
||Konstantin Boudnik ||Argus ||
||Matthew Franklin ||Brooklyn ||
||Raphael Bircher ||Kalumet ||
||Raphael Bircher ||Streams ||
||Roman Shaposhnik ||Sentry ||
||Ross Gardler ||Wave ||
||Suresh Marru ||Falcon ||
||Suresh Marru ||Lens ||
||Timothy Chen ||Ripple ||
||Timothy Chen ||Taverna ||
=== Report content ===
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Incubator PMC report for December 2014
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 36 podlings undergoing incubation. Two podlings joined
us this month, NiFi and Tamaya. Three new IPMC members and two new
Shepherds joined our ranks as well.
* Community
New IPMC members:
Andrew L. Farris
Thejas Nair
Brock Noland
New Incubator Shepherds:
Timothy Chen
Andrew L. Farris
People who left the IPMC:
None
* New Podlings
Nifi
Tamaya
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
apache-calcite-0.9.2-incubating
apache-twill-0.4.0-incubating
apache-parquet-format-2.2.0-incubating
apache-johnzon-0.2-incubating
apache-slider-0.60.0-incubating
metamodel-4.3.0-incubating
apache-aurora-0.6.0-incubating
* IP Clearance
Sling Sightly and XSS modules
* Legal / Trademarks
There are many on going Podling Name Search requests, with few being
closed.
Droids still has an open name search.
Falcon is procesing a name search currently.
Tamaya successfully cleared Podling Name Search.
* Infrastructure
SVN outage caused minor inconvenience to some podlings.
Argus/Ranger is facing some struggles with their rename.
* Miscellaneous
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
Ignite
Lens
Nifi
Tamaya
Taverna
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
Brooklyn
Wave
Community growth:
Falcon
Johnzon
Sentry
Streams
* Ready to graduate
The Board has motions for the following:
* Did not report, expected next month
Ranger (formerly Argus)
Kalumet
log4cxx2
NPanday
Ripple
* Not signed off by mentors
Brooklyn
Falcon
MRQL
Streams
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Table of Contents
Argus
Brooklyn
Falcon
Ignite
Johnzon
Kalumet
Lens
log4cxx2
MRQL
NiFi
NPanday
Ripple
Sentry
Streams
Tamaya
Taverna
Wave
----------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------
Argus
The Argus project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform.
Argus has been incubating since 2014-07-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
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?
How has the project developed since the last report?
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](argus) Alan Gates
[ ](argus) Daniel Gruno
[ ](argus) Devaraj Das
[ ](argus) Jakob Homan
[ ](argus) Owen O'Malley
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a framework for modelling, monitoring, and managing applications
through autonomic blueprints.
Brooklyn has been incubating since 2014-05-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Completing our first release under Apache
2. Grow the community
3. More diversity of the committers/PPMC (currently biased towards
employees of a single organization)
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?
Our community continues to grow slowly but surely, and has received
interest and contributions from new community members.
We had the opportunity to talk about our project at ApacheCon Europe
last week, which has introduced Brooklyn to a wider audience within
Apache.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Code continues to be proposed and merged at a high rate. We are
satisfied with our technical velocity.
We are currently in the process of making our first release. As is
common with incubating project's first releases, this involves several
iterations and ongoing discussions with mentors and IPMC.
Date of last release:
No release yet, but we have begun the process for our first release
and aim to release as soon as we possibly can.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No change since 2014-07-02.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](brooklyn) Matt Hogstrom
[ ](brooklyn) Alex Karasulu
[ ](brooklyn) David Nalley
[ ](brooklyn) Marcel Offermans
[ ](brooklyn) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](brooklyn) Olivier Lamy
[ ](brooklyn) Chip Childers
[ ](brooklyn) Andrei Savu
[ ](brooklyn) Joe Brockmeier
[ ](brooklyn) Jim Jagielski
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Falcon
Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed for
data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and data
discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data and
its associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters.
Falcon has been incubating since 2013-03-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
Graduation resolution was presented to the board in Nov 2014 and the board
has asked the project team to address the following issues before it can be
considered
* Podling name search pending (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-61)
* Discrepancy in status report with respect to commiter ids.
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?
* More users & contributors have joined the falcon project and the
community continues to grow
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Development activity has been very hectic more than 240 JIRAs have been
created and about 200 resolved since the last report
* There are more than 100 users subscribed on the dev mailing list
Date of last release:
2014-12-03 (0.6-incubating)
2014-09-20 (0.5-incubating)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Aug 28, 2014
Signed-off-by:
[ ](falcon) Arun Murthy
[ ](falcon) Chris Douglas
[ ](falcon) Owen O'Malley
[ ](falcon) Devaraj Das
[ ](falcon) Alan Gates
Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Ignite
A unified In-Memory Data Fabric providing high-performance, distributed in-
memory data management software layer between various data sources and user
applications.
Ignite has been incubating since 2014-10-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finish migration to Apache process.
2. Grow active and healthy community around Apache Ignite product.
3. Get on a stable release schedule and have 3 successful product
releases.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None at the moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No new committers/PPMC members were added.
Several new contributors have joined.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Project planning for the 1st sprint started with over 30 tickets filed
in Ignite Jira.
- Landing web page was set.
- Website design was chosen in Jira, IGNITE-7. Initial version will be
pushed early in the week of 12/9.
- Ignite code was pushed into Apache GIT repository. The code is fully
maven-enabled and buildable.
Date of last release:
No releases yet: the code is still in the development phase
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
10/01/2014 Initial committers were added.
Signed-off-by:
[X](ignite) Branko Čibej
[ ](ignite) Konstantin Boudnik
[ ](ignite) Henry Saputra
[ ](ignite) Roman Shaposhnik
[ ](ignite) Michael Stack
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Johnzon
Implementation of JSR-353 JavaTM API for JSON Processing (Renamed from
Fleece)
Johnzon has been incubating since 2014-06-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Expanding the community, increase dev list activity and adding new
committers/pmc members.
2. Complete the status page
3. Add and improve documentation
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* Nothing
How has the community developed since the last report?
There are new people on the dev list and the project got contributions
from non-committers.
On the dev list there are approx. 70 msgs (on average) messages per month.
Christian Grobmeier quits as mentor.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project did its first and second incubator release.
During the last three month nine jira issues were reported and fixed.
Date of last release:
2014-11-22
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Last committer was elected 2014-08-23, no new PMC members since
incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[X](johnzon) Justin Mclean
[ ](johnzon) Daniel Kulp
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Kalumet
Kalumet a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE
environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and
resources.
Kalumet has been incubating since 2011-09-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
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?
How has the project developed since the last report?
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](kalumet) Jim Jagielski
[ ](kalumet) Henri Gomez
[ ](kalumet) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](kalumet) Olivier Lamy
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Lens
Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified way
over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive
with
other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data cubes.
Lens has been incubating since 2014-10-10.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make the first release from apache
2. Make project website available on apache
3. Reach out to people through presentations and blogs
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We are still waiting for project website creation via
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8549
How has the community developed since the last report?
* We are near of proposing a new committer
* We are actively working on logo for the project
* We have presented above Apache Lens in Hadoop meetup at Bangalore, India
* Proposed talks on upcoming ApacheCon and HadoopSummit conferences
* Mailing list subscription (as on 29th November):
** Dev list : 25 members
** Commits list : 11 members
** User list : 19 members
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Main activities include
** Podling setup wrt jira, reviewboard, jenkins, confluence space
** Standardizing branching and versioning in project code base
** Improving documentation
** Stabilizing the code for first stable release
* Mailing list activity :
** Dev via http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-lens-dev/
*** November - 512 messsages
** Commits via
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-lens-commits/ is missing
*** Missing archive -https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8744
*** November - 74 messages (counted thru subscription)
** User mailing list activity - None
* Issues 82 created and 25 resolved via
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LENS/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:summary-panel
Date of last release:
NONE
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
NONE
Signed-off-by:
[X](lens) Christopher Douglas
[X](lens) Jakob Homan
[ ](lens) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](lens) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
log4cxx2
Logging for C++
log4cxx2 has been incubating since 2013-12-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
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?
How has the project developed since the last report?
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](log4cxx2) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](log4cxx2) Scott Deboy
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Podling has not reported. It doesn't look like the marvin alerts went
out. Could be a moderation issue. Mailing list activity is very light.
--------------------
MRQL
MRQL is a query processing and optimization system for large-scale,
distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop, Hama, Spark, and
Flink.
MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. increase the number of active committers
2. increase adoption, expand user community, and increase user list
activity
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?
There were no new developers or new committers since our last reports.
How has the project developed since the last report?
During the last three month, 12 jira issues were reported, from which
10 were fixed. Most of these issues were related to MRQL query
evaluation in Flink mode. Finally, we have set up MRQL on ASF
Jenkins, which is a CI server that continuously checks the integrity
of our builds and validates our tests.
Date of last release:
2014-06-26
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-04-17
Signed-off-by:
[ ](mrql) Alan Cabrera
[ ](mrql) Anthony Elder
[ ](mrql) Alex Karasulu
[ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Podling looks very healthy.
--------------------
NiFi
NiFi is a dataflow system based on the concepts of flow-based programming.
NiFi has been incubating since 2014-11-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Establishment of Apache Infrastructure. Git establishment is
outstanding with INFRA-8707
2. Produce an initial release.
3. Grow the community beyond those involved in the incubator proposal.
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?
Since podling initiation our dev mailing list has 42 subscribers and the
commits mailing list has 19.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Since podling initiation the team has mailing lists, website, and Jira
setup. Awaiting INFRA action for Git. We should then be able to better
communicate and grow. We fully understand though that Infra has been very
busy addressing the SVN server issues.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Entered incubation 2014-11-24. There have been
comments/messages/subscriptions on the mailing lists from folks not on the
initial contributors list. We believe there is a good opportunity to bring
on more folks from a more diverse base fairly quickly.
Signed-off-by:
[X](nifi) Billie Rinaldi
[X](nifi) Arvind Prabhakar
[X](nifi) Sergio Fernández
[X](nifi) Benson Margulies
[X](nifi) Drew Farris
[ ](nifi) Brock Noland
[X](nifi) Andrew Purtell
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
NPanday
NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache
Maven.
NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
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?
How has the project developed since the last report?
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](npanday) Raphael Bircher
[ ](npanday) Konstantin Boudnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Ripple
Ripple is a browser based mobile phone emulator designed to aid in the
development of HTML5 based mobile applications. Ripple is a cross platform
and cross runtime testing/debugging tool. It currently supports such
runtimes
as Cordova, WebWorks aand the Mobile Web.
Ripple has been incubating since 2012-10-16.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
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?
How has the project developed since the last report?
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ripple) Jukka Zitting
[ ](ripple) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](ripple) Andrew Savory
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Report is past due already, and no releases has been made since incubation.
Email/Code both not quite active, has concerns about inactivement and
retirement
for few months already.
--------------------
Sentry
Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role
based authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop
cluster.
Sentry has been incubating since 2013-08-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to grow the Sentry community
2. Initiate graduation discussion with community and address any
potential concerns raised
3. Update project status page, website etc
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 community is growing. Several new members have started actively
contributing to the project. New contributors made a significant
contribution in patches as well as release activity. The user group meetup
at NYC was well attended. Community members presented Apache Sentry at
various community meetups around the world, include Hadoop group meetup in
Hydrabad, India and ApacheCon Europe in Budapest, Hungary.
How has the project developed since the last report?
A number of new features implemented in the master codeline. The sentry
community is working towards removing some of the non Apache dependencies
in order to avoid any potential concerns for the graduation processes.
Date of last release:
2014-08-19
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Arun Suresh and Tuong Truong have been added as a committer as announced
on 9/1/2014. No new PPMC members have been added since the project has
entered the incubator.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](sentry) Arvind Prabhakar
[ ](sentry) Joe Brockmeier
[ ](sentry) David Nalley
[ ](sentry) Olivier Lamy
[X](sentry) Patrick Hunt
[ ](sentry) Thomas White
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Streams
Apache Streams (incubating) is a lightweight (yet scalable) framework for
ActivityStreams.
Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20.
The project provides a framework for abstracting away individual data
schemas and API protocols from solutions built to collect, publish,
process, and analyze digital activity data, as well as a community-driven
process for determining best practice usage of the ActivityStreams
specification with real-world datasets - valuing working, tested,
adaptable, useful code over strict adherence to existing specs.
Importantly, the project does not impose one execution framework - modules
built to Apache Streams interfaces and coding standards may be instantiated
within multiple JVM-based runtime containers, including popular ‘big-data'
frameworks.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Establish and maintain a consistent release process.
2. Improve quality of code, tests, documentation, and examples.
3. PPMC must relieve project mentors of all responsibility for the
project's adherence to the Apache Way and long-term viability.
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?
Ryan Ebanks was voted in as committer and PPMC member on 10-17-2014.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Since the last report, 50 pull requests were submitted and merged to
master, 43 issues were marked resolved, and 78 issues were created.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Ryan Ebanks, committer and PPMC, 10-17-2014
Signed-off-by:
[ ](streams) Matt Franklin
[ ](streams) Ate Douma
[ ](streams) Craig McClanahan
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Tamaya
Tamaya is a highly flexible configuration solution based on an modular,
extensible and injectable key/value based design, which should provide a
minimal but extendible modern and functional API leveraging SE, ME and
EE environments.
Tamaya has been incubating since 2014-11-14.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Project web site must be setup (ongoing).
2. Establish a collaboration model within the community and ensure a
common view on the main focus points.
3. Improve code base for being ready for a first release around Q1 2015.
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?
Many of the committers have successfully filed the ICLA and also started
to contribute, some of them already by doing first patches. Feedback in
the community was overwhelming. We could also successfully place the
topic at conferences as well as in the German Java Magazin and other
events. Also interest of people during the Zurich Hackergarten in
November was great and will definitely lead to additional committers
early 2015.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project setup is going quite well. Initial committers are onboarding,
the initial code donation was successfully moved and other preconditions
like the project name, IP clearance, Jenkins etc. were successfully done.
Thanks to INFRA for their incredible support!
Date of last release: Still getting started.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Still getting started.
Signed-off-by:
[x](tamaya) John D. Ament
[ ](tamaya) David Blevins
[ ](tamaya) Mark Struberg
[ ](tamaya) Gerhard Petracek
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Justin Mclean - Off to a good start. Email list and mentors active.
--------------------
Taverna
Taverna is a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute
data-driven workflows.
Taverna has been incubating since 2014-10-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. IP clearance to be signed by Univ of Manchester
2. Move source code, wiki, issues to apache.org. Restructure git repos.
3. Invite contributors who volunteered at October workshop
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Infrastructure bootstrapping takes a long time and requires a series of
requests. E.g. Taverna incubator has been approved, but does not get a
web-site without explicitly asking for it. Documentation for apache.org
infrastructure assumes you are already a long-term committer.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Transition of mailing list succcessful (? - can we get some numbers?).
Most of the proposed initial committers have sorted CLAs
https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TavernaProposal#Initial_Committers and
received apache.org account - see
https://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#taverna
Many of the remaining initial committers have not been active in the recent
years. We're following up these (and others) through private conversations.
There's been some confusion with regards to the term "committer" - some
were scared and thought it meant they had to make a committment to work on
the source code!
Not much further development - worried that dev@taverna are scared away by
the long-dragged bootstrapping which dominates the list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Source code is being restructured at https://github.com/taverna-incubator
before being staged to import into git.apache.org
Normal development continues at https://github.com/taverna/ - due to
prepare the final 2.5.1 non-Apache release.
Stian Soiland-Reyes was at ApacheCon in Budapest, fruitful discussions with
mentor Andy Seaborne and Gavin McDonald from INFRA with regards to the
transitioning of Taverna's existing source code repository, wiki and issue
tracker (luckily git->git, confluence->confluence and jira->jira).
Date of last release:
No release since incubation.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers or PMC members elected since incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[x](taverna) Andy Seaborne
[ ](taverna) Chris Mattmann
[ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas
[x](taverna) Suresh Marru
[x](taverna) Marlon Pierce
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
As noted the email list just been migrated and code repo setup, but already
show good signs of activity on the email list.
Code activity seems good so far although it's still on it's own github repo.
--------------------
Wave
A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication.
It
can be used like email, chat, or a document.
Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Making release.
2. Growing community.
3. Source fixes/improvements.
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?
After some spike in activity we had a slowdown.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Some improvements were committed like full text search with Solr and some
more need to be reviewed/merged. We are working on making an updated RC and
plan to hold review/voting soon.
Date of last release:
not yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No
Signed-off-by:
[X](wave) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](wave) Upayavira
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
}}}
