I'm adding the report for Apache Atlas now, sorry for the delay.
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:24 AM John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> Unless there are any external changes, I believe this is the final report.
>
> I don't think I have access to file to the board, so someone else may need
> to.
>
> = Incubator PMC report for March 2016 =
> === Timeline ===
> ||Wed March 02 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
> ||Sun March 06 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
> ||Sun March 06 ||Summary due by end of day ||
> ||Tue March 08 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
> ||Wed March 09 ||Report submitted to Board ||
> ||Wed March 16 ||Board meeting ||
>
>
> === Shepherd Assignments ===
> ||Drew Farris ||Sirona ||
> ||John Ament ||Streams ||
> ||John Ament ||Wave ||
> ||Justin Mclean ||Metron ||
> ||P. Taylor Goetz ||Joshua ||
> ||P. Taylor Goetz ||Zeppelin ||
> ||P. Taylor Goetz ||log4cxx2 ||
> ||Timothy Chen ||Impala ||
> ||Timothy Chen ||Johnzon ||
> ||Timothy Chen ||MRQL ||
> ||[none] ||Atlas ||
> ||[none] ||Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer ||
> ||[none] ||CommonsRDF ||
> ||[none] ||Fineract ||
> ||[none] ||HTrace ||
> ||[none] ||Kudu ||
> ||[none] ||Milagro ||
> ||[none] ||Myriad ||
> ||[none] ||OpenAz ||
> ||[none] ||Ranger ||
> ||[none] ||SAMOA ||
> ||[none] ||Sentry ||
> ||[none] ||Singa ||
> ||[none] ||Taverna ||
> ||[none] ||Toree ||
> ||[none] ||Trafodion ||
> ||[none] ||iota ||
>
>
> === Report content ===
> {{{
> Incubator PMC report for March 2016
>
> 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 52 podlings currently undergoing incubation.
>
> * Community
>
> New IPMC members:
>
> - Kathey Marsden
> - Daniel John Debrunner
>
> * New Podlings
>
> - Guacamole
> - Joshua
> - Quarks
>
> * Graduations
>
> The board has motions for the following:
>
> - Sentry
>
> * Releases
>
> The following releases entered distribution during the month of
> February:
>
> 2016-02-06 Apache Geode 1.0.0-incubating.M1
> 2016-02-07 Apache Apex v3.3.0-incubating
> 2016-02-11 Apache Wave 0.4.0-incubating
> 2016-02-11 Apache SystemML 0.9.0-incubating
> 2016-02-11 Apache TinkerPop 3.1.1-incubating
> 2016-02-20 Apache Johnzon 0.9.3-incubating
> 2016-02-25 Apache Kudu (incubating) 0.7.0
> 2016-02-26 Apache AsterixDB 0.8.8-incubating
>
> * IP Clearance
>
> - No podling related IP Clearances were processed during this time.
>
> * Legal / Trademarks
>
> - There was substantial discussion on general@incubator about how
> challenging it is to produce compliant LICENSE and NOTICE files.
>
> - A couple of podlings with runtime LGPL dependencies pledged to remove
> those dependencies before graduation but were permitted to make
> incubating releases in the meantime. There was uncertainty as to
> whether VP Legal's approval was required; ultimately VP Legal appeared
> on general@incubator and approved the plans.
>
> * Infrastructure
>
> - The Freemarker podling had a long standing request to use their
> existing
> domain as the primary domain. This was approved by Shane Curcuru but
> closed by infra without comment, see INFRA-10787.
>
> - The Kudu podling is currently running its website as http://getkudu.io
> .
> The standard webpage of http://kudu.incubator.apache.org does not
> work.
> An infra ticket has been created to do the conversion INFRA-11407.
>
> * Miscellaneous
>
> - The Incubator's Retirement Guide has been substantially refreshed, and
> it should now be easier for a Mentor or other volunteer to perform the
> administrative steps to retire a podling.
>
> - This month saw a large number of mentors resign from podlings.
>
> - Brooklyn submitted an IP Clearance on the incubator mailing lists.
> Last that was seen about the incubators role in IP Clearance was that
> it shouldn't be the gatekeeper of top level projects.
>
> - The current count of 52 podlings is likely the largest the incubator
> has ever seen.
>
> * Credits
>
> - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey
> - Interim Report Manager: John D. Ament
>
> -------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
>
> * Still getting started at the Incubator
>
> - Impala
> - Joshua
> - Milagro
>
> * Not yet ready to graduate
>
> No release:
>
> - CMDA
> - Fineract
> - log4cxx2
> - Metron
> - Toree
>
> Community growth:
>
> - CommonsRDF
> - Kudu
> - Myriad
> - SAMOA
> - Singa
> - Taverna
> - Trafodion
> - Zeppelin
>
> * Ready to graduate
>
> The Board has motions for the following:
>
> - Sentry
>
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
> - Atlas
> - HTrace
> - iota
> - Johnzon
> - OpenAz
> - Ranger
> - Sirona
> - Wave
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Table of Contents
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
> CommonsRDF
> Fineract
> Impala
> Joshua
> Kudu
> log4cxx2
> Metron
> Milagro
> MRQL
> Myriad
> SAMOA
> Sentry
> Singa
> Streams
> Taverna
> Toree
> Trafodion
> Zeppelin
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
>
> CMDA provides web services for multi-aspect physics-based and phenomenon-
> oriented climate model performance evaluation and diagnosis through the
> comprehensive and synergistic use of multiple observational data,
> reanalysis
> data, and model outputs.
>
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer has been incubating since 2015-05-08.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Moving project communication to the mailing list;
> 2. Moving development activities to be owned by Apache;
> 3. Working on community building.
>
> 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?
>
> * Started using the mailing list d...@cmda.incubator.apache.org
> to communicate project development issues;
> * Created a Docker container that will be used for our future
> development as well as deployment vehicle (in progress);
> * Working on a unified git repository to host both the CMU and
> the JPL code bases;
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * The JPL team developed the following new services:
> * Time series for multiple datasets
> * Conditional probability density function calculation
> * Empirical orthogonal function calculation
> * Random forest feature importance calculation
> * Anomaly calculation
> * The JPL team improved these features:
> * A new color scheme of data visualization of some services
> * The URL for a RestFul service call has been constructed
> * The JPL team is working on
> * supporting a workflow with CMDA services. identified first examples
> to
> work on.
> * modifying the CMDA services to be “chainable” (callable in a
> workflow).
> * The CMU team created a unified github repository that
> has both the CMU and JPL code bases. Needs cleanup;
> * The CMU team created a new Docker container that has
> the latest Ubuntu operating system and the run-time
> environment for the CMU deployment;
> * The JPL team installed the run-time environment in
> the Docker container for the JPL deployment.
> An integrated test is pending;
> * The JPL team acquired a GPU server that will be used
> as the testbed for speeding up their web services;
>
> Date of last release:
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann
> [X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Gregory D. Reddin
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Great news! The community wrote the report this month! Thank you to
> Lei Pan for pushing forward and I have high hopes over the next few months
> we can light a fire under this project.
>
>
> --------------------
> CommonsRDF
>
> Commons RDF is a set of interfaces and classes for RDF 1.1 concepts and
> behaviours. The commons-rdf-api module defines interfaces and testing
> harness. The commons-rdf-simple module provides a basic reference
> implementation to exercise the test harness and clarify API contracts.
>
> CommonsRDF has been incubating since 2015-03-06.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Re-engage and grow the Commons RDF community base
> 2. Work with key target communities (initially within Apache) to ensure
> Commons RDF meets potential user requirements and expectations towards
> next versions of the Commons API.
> 3. Find lateral target goals that could make the project viable.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> n/a
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Sleeper community in the last months; very few mails and no commits.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Project's development has completely stop in the last months. We expected
> a different engagement from major RDF toolkits. But since that does not
> happen, we have started to discuss options to find a viability for the
> project https://s.apache.org/oxqb
>
> By the next reporting period we should have something more concrete
> towards the future, or we could think about a possible exit strategy.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-05-07
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> n/a (no PPMC or Committers have been elected yet)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](commonsrdf) Rob Vesse
> [x](commonsrdf) John D Ament
> [ ](commonsrdf) Gary Gregory
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> johndament: The report reflects current community engagement.
>
> --------------------
> Fineract
>
> Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
>
> Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Inform the non-technical part of the existing Mifos.org community of
> the change in project structure
> 2. Getting licensing issues figured out for our first release
> 3. Replacing dependencies that are not compliant with the license
> policies
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> None, currently.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Since the code was initially pushed over, the community is working on the
> first release.
>
> In addition to the initial committer new contributors started to work on
> the project.
>
> There is a technical conference in Amsterdam in the second week of March
> during which some contributors and some community members will be
> introduced to developing under the Apache model.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The initial code is now available and the work to meet the license
> policies has started.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> N/A
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
> [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
> [X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --------------------
> Impala
>
> Impala is a high-performance C++ and Java SQL query engine for data stored
> in Apache Hadoop-based clusters.
>
> Impala has been incubating since 2015-12-03.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Movement of existing JIRA / Git / wiki resources to Apache
> equivalents
> 2. Initial release as incubating project.
> 3. Community growth
>
> 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 have been no additions to the committer or PMC lists since
> incubation began. However, we have seen an uptick in external
> contributions, both through code, and in discussion on the mailing list.
> One contributor has been attempting to port Impala to PPC, and has
> reported some success after asking many questions.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have made some slow progress with our initial infrastructure tasks.
> Code review traffic is now copied to d...@impala.incubator.apache.org,
> which means that developer discussions are now happening on the mailing
> lists.
>
> We have a number of infrastructure tasks ahead of us which are blocked on
> the current Impala team at Cloudera being very busy with an internal
> release (this is one reason we look forward to a more diverse
> community!).
> For example:
>
> 1. We would like to move our Git repository to .apache.org in short
> order,
> but as it stands the existing repo is 10GB large and historically
> contains many binary artifacts that, while acceptably licensed, have
> no
> useful place in Impala's repository. We need to strip these artifacts
> from the Git history, and then adjust Gerrit to commit to the new
> branch in the new repo. This is not hard but takes some time.
> 2. We would also like to move our JIRA tickets from issues.cloudera.org
> to
> issues.apache.org. Experience in a sister podling has shown that this
> isn't straightforward if we wish to preserve existing release labels,
> user assignments and so on, so requires some time.
>
> We anticipate having much more time to work on these basic issues after
> the end of February. We look forward to getting Impala into a position
> where it is easier for the larger community to collaborate on these kinds
> of project management issues.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> None since entering incubation.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None since entering incubation.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](impala) Tom White
> [ ](impala) Todd Lipcon
> [ ](impala) Carl Steinbach
> [ ](impala) Brock Noland
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --------------------
> Joshua
>
> Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit
>
> Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.
>
> The INFRA bootstrap ticket has been opened[1], and the PPMC and INFRA
> are active in working through the setup tasks.
>
> No concerns for the board at this time.
>
>
> [1] (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11264)
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
> [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
> [X](joshua) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
> [X](joshua) Henri Yandell
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> --------------------
> Kudu
>
> Kudu is a distributed columnar storage engine built for the Apache Hadoop
> ecosystem.
>
> Kudu has been incubating since 2015-12-03.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Build a more diverse developer and user community
> 2. Migrate our web site under apache.org
> 3. Continue to make regular Apache releases
>
> 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?
>
> - In February, we only received one patch from a new contributor (3 total
> from non-committers). We're continuing to focus on building a more
> diverse developer community.
>
> Although recruiting new contributors to Kudu itself have been slow, we
> had community members report beginnings of a Presto integration, an
> Apache Flume sink, and Rust language bindings. We are considering
> whether it makes sense to develop these things within the Kudu project
> or external locations.
>
> - Overall development velocity continues to be pretty good: 94 patches
> committed since the last report, representing about 3.5kloc of new code
> and 4kloc of changes. This is slightly down from last month, as we
> spent a bit more time on managing our first release and fixing bugs
> rather than adding new features.
>
> Dev list traffic is similar to January (1032 messages vs 1144 in Jan).
>
> - Community members continue to give public talks about Kudu at various
> conferences and meetups. Talks were delivered at conferences or meetups
> in Tokyo (x2), Sunnyvale, Krakow, San Francisco (x2), and Seattle. More
> are planned for March.
>
> We are also encouraged that at least two Kudu meetup talks were
> delivered by new members of the community outside the core development
> team. We hope to see the "grassroots community" trend continue.
>
> - The public Kudu Slack channel continues to be popular. It has grown
> from
> 116 members last month to 150 this month. Discussion between users and
> devs is quite active, with daily participation from a global community
> (USA, China, Poland, Japan, et al). Many users seem to prefer this
> method over the traditional user mailing list.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Since the last report, we've accomplished the following milestones:
>
> - We successfully migrated our issue tracking to the Apache JIRA. Special
> thanks to Gavin on the infra team and Mike Percy on the Kudu project
> for
> hard work on this transition.
>
> - We cleaned up our license documentation and successfully published our
> first official release as an incubating project (0.7.0)!
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Feb 25, 2016: Apache Kudu 0.7.0-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None since initial incubation.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](kudu) Jake Farrell
> [ ](kudu) Brock Noland
> [X](kudu) Michael Stack
> [ ](kudu) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> [X](kudu) Chris Mattmann
> [X](kudu) Julien Le Dem
> [ ](kudu) Carl Steinbach
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> KUDU is very active. We need to get our website done and branded
> as an Incubator and eventually TLP site. Good progress.
>
>
> --------------------
> log4cxx2
>
> Logging for C++
>
> log4cxx2 has been incubating since 2013-12-09.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Create a release
> 2. Activate some community
> 3.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> There's an ongoing discussion to move the project to attic unless it is
> able to release in the next few months.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Not grown. However, the project aims to become a sub project of Apache
> Logging again. Community growth is not much a matter for this podling, as
> long as there are a few active contributors.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> After the discussion about the activity of the project and the success of
> the incubation process, there's currently a member willing to step
> through
> the release process. The initial plan on incubation anyway was to primary
> apply available patches and release those bug fixes.
>
> Additionally, there's once more a discussion about the supported build
> platforms, because currently the project heavily focusses on cpptasks,
> which is not maintained and simply doesn't support current versions of
> all
> formerly supported IDEs anymore. The current focus is on dropping
> cpptasks and ANT for the build of the software and use autoconf and/or
> cmake instead.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2008-04-03 was the last official, pre-incubation 0.10.0
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](log4cxx2) Ralph Goers
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Metron
>
> Metron integrates a variety of open source big data technologies in order
> to
> offer a centralized tool for security monitoring and analysis. Metron
> provides capabilities for log aggregation, full packet capture indexing,
> storage, advanced behavioral analytics and data enrichment, while applying
> the most current threat-intelligence information to security telemetry
> within a single platform.
>
> Metron has been incubating since 12-08-2015
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> Graduation:
>
> - Building a diverse community of developers for Metron
> - Getting security practitioners to provide feedback on requirements
> - Make an Apache release
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> - We are currently trying to produce the first Apache release of Metron
> - We would like to request Apache infrastructure (a Jenkins server) for
> CI
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> - We voted to add one additional committer, Nick Allen
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - We closed on 15 more Jiras and made our code base more compliant with
> Apache Licenses. We are at the latest stages of cleaning up the code
> base to come up with the Apache build.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](metron) Billie Rinaldi
> [ ](metron) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](metron) Owen O'Malley
> [X](metron) P. Taylor Goetz
> [ ](metron) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
>
> --------------------
> Milagro
>
> Distributed Cryptography; M-Pin protocol for Identity and Trust
>
> Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Import main project repos
> 2. Work towards our first release
> 3. Broaden the community
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> The Initial Committer list is being revised (see below).
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> We have identified shortcomings in the Initial Committer list, and
> adopted
> a fast-track process to add new members, valid for the project's first
> three months (until March 20th). We have welcomed our first genuinely
> new
> committer and are inviting another. Initial committers are familiarising
> with Apache.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Both companies MIRACL and NTT are now readying their initial
> contributions
> into the Milagro repositories.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> n/a
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> We have no distinction between committers and PMC.
>
> The following have accepted invitations during the period:
>
> Peter Scanlon
> Tomasz Matecki
> Anthony Shaw
> Vladislav Mitov
> Nikolai Stoilov
>
> All except Anthony Shaw are Miracl employees, and should have been on the
> Initial Committer list. We anticipate improving diversity soon.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](milagro) Sterling Hughes
> [ ](milagro) Jan Willem Janssen
> [x](milagro) Nick Kew
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
>
> 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 report.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have released our fourth release under Apache incubation. There were
> various bug fixes and performance improvements before the release. The
> most important new feature in the new release is support for incremental
> query processing in MRQL streaming, called Incremental MRQL.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-03-02
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2014-04-17
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](mrql) Alan Cabrera
> [x](mrql) Edward J. Yoon
> [ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Myriad
>
> Myriad enables co-existence of Apache Hadoop YARN and Apache Mesos together
> on the same cluster and allows dynamic resource allocations across both
> Hadoop and other applications running on the same physical data center
> infrastructure.
>
> Myriad has been incubating since 2015-03-01.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Grow the Myriad user base.
> 2. Expand the contributor community.
> 3. Release Myriad 0.2.0 in April/May, with focus on multitenancy,
> security, and oversubscription.
>
> 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?
>
> - Mailing list traffic went into a holiday lull after the 0.1.0 release.
> Should pick up again as we plan the 0.2.0 release.
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-myriad-dev/
> - Our biweekly community syncs still get 6-12 participants, including new
> participants from Accenture. See minutes at: http://s.apache.org/8kF
> - Freenode #myriad IRC channel has been mostly quiet since the 0.1.0
> release, except for an occasional user question or discussion around a
> community sync. Chatter should pick up again leading up to the 0.2.0
> release, and moreso after we get a few more users. Archived by ASFBot
> at: http://wilderness.apache.org/channels/#logs-#myriad
> - Website and wiki were updated with the 0.1.0 release.
> http://myriad.incubator.apache.org
> - Presented at DockerConEU. Submitted talks for ApacheCon, MesosCon,
> Hadoop Summit, Container World.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Resolved 6 JIRAs and merged 6 PRs since Dec 2, 2015.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-12-10 myriad-0.1.0-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-10-05 Darin J
> 2015-10-14 Swapnil Daingade
> In the process of nominating the next committer.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
> [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
> [x](myriad) Ted Dunning
> [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --------------------
> SAMOA
>
> SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the
> most
> common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification,
> clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop
> new algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines
> (DSPEs). It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on
> several DSPEs such as Apache Storm, Apache S4, and Apache Samza.
>
> SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Grow the community
> 2. Elect new PMC members
> 3. Release more often
>
> 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?
>
> Mailing list activity (December 2015 - February 2016):
> * @dev: 114 messages
>
> Jira issues backlog (December 2015 - February 2016):
> * Created: 7
> * Resolved: 4
>
> We have a number of new users showing up on the mailing list, which is
> encouraging.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The community has decided to drop support for S4, which is now inactive.
> There is also some continued interest by Apache Apex about a possible
> integration. Internally, we have been working on strengthening our main
> classifier (VHT). There has also been work on improving the connection
> with Avro and Kafka. The adapted for Flink has been updated to the
> latest
> stable version (0.10).
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-07-21
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](samoa) Alan Gates
> [ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan
> [ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar
> [X](samoa) Ted Dunning
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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.Graduation vote has been passed, see below for details.
> 2.
> 3.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> 1. Graduation vote has been passed and the resolution has been proposed
> to
> the board for consideration in the board meeting.
> References:
> https://s.apache.org/dev_discuss
> https://s.apache.org/dev_vote_result
> https://s.apache.org/general_discuss
> https://s.apache.org/Incubator_vote
> Other:
> https://s.apache.org/general_notify
> https://s.apache.org/8rty (Maturity Model assessment)
> 2. Olivier Lamy resigned as a mentor.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> 1. We had ~500 messages on dev list in the past three months. (Got number
> from http://markmail.org/list/org.apache.sentry.dev)
> 2. Community is continuing to do monthly hangouts.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> About 131 issues were created and about 87 resolved in the past 3
> months(Numbers from jira).
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-09-22, preparing for 1.7.0 release
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Hao Hao was added as committer on 01/29/2016. On 2015-12-21, community
> voted to make Committer == PPMC.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](sentry) Arvind Prabhakar
> [ ](sentry) Joe Brockmeier
> [ ](sentry) David Nalley
> [X](sentry) Patrick Hunt
> [X](sentry) Thomas White
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Singa
>
> Singa is a distributed deep learning platform.
>
> Singa has been incubating since 2015-03-17.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Improve the system, including performance and features like
> distributed
> GPU training over GPU clusters, R binding, etc.
> 2. Add more examples and documentation to attach users
> 3. Grow the community. We have been trying to reach out to a more diverse
> community of developers and users by presenting SINGA for various
> audiences. Completing items 1 and 2 above would attract more
> contributors and users.
>
> 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?
>
> The Github repository has scored 540 stars and 190 forks.
>
> There were 60, 180 and 7 commits in Dec 2015, Jan 2016 and Feb 2016
> respectively.
>
> There were 77, 105, 13 emails from dev@ list in Dec 2015, Jan 2016 and
> Feb
> 2016 respectively.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> In Jan 2016, we released our second version, i.e., incubating-v0.2.0,
> with
> the following major features:
>
> * GPU support, which enables training of complex models on a single node
> with multiple GPU cards.
> * Hybrid neural net partitioning, which supports data and model
> parallelism at the same time.
> * Python wrapper, which makes it easy to configure the job, including
> neural net and SGD algorithm.
> * RNN model and BPTT algorithms, to support applications based on RNN
> models, e.g., GRU.
> * Cloud software integration includes Mesos, Docker and HDFS.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-01-14
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](singa) Daniel Dai
> [X](singa) Alan Gates
> [X](singa) Ted Dunning
> [ ](singa) Thejas Nair
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --------------------
> Streams
>
> Apache Streams (incubating) unifies a diverse world of digital profiles
> and online activities into common formats and vocabularies, and makes
> these datasets accessible across a variety of databases, devices,
> and platforms for streaming, browsing, search, sharing, and analytics
> use-cases.
>
> Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Community growth and PMC maturity.
> 2. Demonstrate a consistent release schedule.
> 3. Collaborate with other Apache projects to improve integrations
> with their software.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> # of contributors submitting and reviewing pull requests has remained
> low this quarter.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> no demonstrable progress in community growth.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 5 issues created / 1 resolved this quarter
> at mentors suggestion, this quarter the project focused on
> documenting project purpose, philosophies, place in ecosystem,
> how to get started, etc... as part of a web site overhaul.
> the new version is hosted at streams.staging.apache.org and will go
> live at streams.incubator.apache.org soon.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-04-26
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-02-23: Robert Douglas elected as committer / PMC member
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](streams) Matt Franklin
> [X](streams) Ate Douma
> [ ](streams) Craig McClanahan
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Community growth
> 2. Release more of the imported code to create engagement
> 3. Move to a sustainable development pattern
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> Our mentors have reported they have little or no time
> available as Taverna is picking up pace.
>
> Dan Debrunner volunteered from the incubator list and
> became a new mentor.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Welcomed new PPMC member.
>
> GSOC 2016 project ideas are already getting interest.
>
> dev@taverna mailing lists stats:
>
> Dec 2015: 42
> Jan 2016: 128
> Feb 2016: 325
>
> users@taverna:
>
> Dec 2015: 2
> Jan 2016: 0
> Feb 2016: 2
>
> JIRA issues over last 90 days:
>
> 50 created
> 32 resolved
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Good buzz around release preparation, release candidate currently
> under vote.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-08-11 taverna-language-0.15.0-incubating
>
> (new release currently under vote)
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-12-04
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](taverna) Andy Seaborne
> [X](taverna) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas
> [X](taverna) Suresh Marru
> [X](taverna) Marlon Pierce
> [ ](taverna) Dan Debrunner
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Andy:: It would be good to have a second active mentor in addition to
> Dan.
> Chris: I have to retire as a Taverna mentor. That said - what's stopping
> Taverna from being ready to graduate? If it's just mentor activity then
> consider
> graduating. The community looks active, looks like it's releasing, looks
> like
> involved in GSoC, etc.
>
>
> --------------------
> Toree
>
> Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely
> access Apache Spark. It enables interactive workloads between applications
> and a Spark cluster. As a Jupyter Notebook extension, it provides the user
> with a preconfigured environment for interacting with Spark using Scala,
> Python, R or SQL.
>
> Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Removal of LGPL dependency
> 2. Ease of installation
> 3. Documentation of APIs
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> TOREE-262 - Progress on removal of LGPL dependency
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Work with Jupyter community to update their docker stacks to include
> the latest Toree
> 2. Blog post at http://www.spark.tc/announcing-apache-toree/ to announce
> the incubation
> 3. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters
> 4. Work with Brunel project
> (https://github.com/Brunel-Visualization/Brunel) to make technology
> available on Toree
> 5. Still working on transitioning users from Spark Kernel project into
> Toree.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Source package have been renamed to org.apache.toree
> 2. All original contributors are not actively developing and fixing
> issues
> on the apache project
> 3. Project can be published and installed through Pypi (only snapshot/dev
> packaged made available for testing)
> 4. Added a plug-in framework to enable integration of 3rd party code to
> add capabilities
> 5. Create Spark Streaming example notebook to feature many of the
> capabilities of Toree in collaboration with Jupyter ecosystem
> (dashboards and widgets)
> 6. Misc bug fixes and features
> 7. Actively working with JeroMQ community to further their transition
> into
> MPL v2 and away from LGPL.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> None since incubation.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No new additions since incubation
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](toree) Luciano Resende
> [ ](toree) Reynold Xin
> [X](toree) Hitesh Shah
> [X](toree) Julien Le Dem
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Trafodion
>
> Trafodion is a webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or
> operational workloads on Hadoop.
>
> Trafodion has been incubating since 2015-05-24.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Develop community and bring in more diverse contributors.
> 2. Work on our second release, including convenience binaries and
> support for Apache HBase 1.x without a commercial distribution.
> 3. Continue the momentum and become more integrated with the
> rest of the Apache community.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> * Lars Hofhansl and Andrew Purtell resigned as mentors.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * Participation in public lists has been increasing:
> 809 messages in the codereview forum, 1051@commits,
> 561@dev, 1377@issues and 320@user.
> * Steve Varnau has agreed to be the release manager for
> our next release.
> * A logo for Apache Trafodion was adopted by vote in February.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Completed our first release in incubation, Trafodion 1.3.0,
> on Jan 11, 2016. Many thanks go to Roberta Marton, the release manager.
> See http://trafodion.apache.org/release-notes-1-3-0.html for details.
> * Completely redesigned the web page, http://trafodion.apache.org
> and moved content from the wiki to the site, following the example
> of other Apache projects.
> * Published documentation in form of HTML and PDF manuals.
> * 287 commits from 23 contributors.
> * 200 JIRAs filed and 139 resolved in the last three months.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-01-11
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> RuoYu Zuo was announced as a new committer in February.
> The last PMC members were announced in November 2015.
> In both cases the election happened a few weeks earlier
> but it took some time to get the necessary karma.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](trafodion) Devaraj Das
> [ ](trafodion) Enis Söztutar
> [x](trafodion) Michael Stack
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --------------------
> Zeppelin
>
> A collaborative data analytics and visualization tool for distributed,
> general-purpose data processing systems such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink,
> etc.
>
> Zeppelin has been incubating since 2014-12-23.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Prove PPMC's maturity by handling dispute in community gracefully
> 2. Community growth: more committers from different organizations
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> Updating long term roadmap [1] to embrace community needs is in
> discussion.
>
> [1] https://s.apache.org/Ksgm
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Traffic in users@ and dev@ grew: +38 subscribers in @dev, +83
> subscribers
> in users@ since last report.
>
> Talks at several conferences are scheduled [2].
>
> [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZEPPELIN/Community
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 209 patches have been merged from 42 different contributors since last
> report.
>
> Integration to JDBC, Apache HBase, Elasticsearch, Scalding, Tachyon has
> been added.
>
> Authentication and notebook authorization have implemented.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-01-22
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-01-16
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](zeppelin) Konstantin Boudnik
> [X](zeppelin) Henry Saputra
> [X](zeppelin) Roman Shaposhnik
> [X](zeppelin) Ted Dunning
> [ ](zeppelin) Hyunsik Choi
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> }}}
>
