With respect to the Fineract report, and speaking only for myself: We've already put together the report, so let's finish submitting it.
Greets from the Voreifel in Germany, Myrle *Myrle Krantz* Solutions Architect RɅĐɅЯ, The Mifos Initiative mkra...@mifos.org | Skype: mkrantz.mifos.org | http://mifos.org <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 2:26 AM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > One general call out. It's been noted in the board feedback that most > podling reports only have a single mentor sign off. Most of the current > podling reports fall into that categories, so mentors please review your > podlings' reports and sign off on them. > > Some more comments in line. > > On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 8:02 PM John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > All, > > > > Below is the current draft of the board report. We currently have one > > non-reporting/non-responding podling, CMDA. I would ask the mentors of > > that podling to step in at this point, since my emails were delivered but > > not responded to. > > > > Please review the report, there's some areas to be removed though > Marvin's > > taken the liberty to reformat the report. > > > > John > > > > Incubator PMC report for May 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 54 podlings currently undergoing incubation. We have two > > podlings planning to graduate this month, had one podling retire and > > added one podling to the roster. April was a generally quiet month, > > losing a single IPMC member, adding none, and completing nine releases. > > > > * Community > > > > New IPMC members: > > > > > > > > People who left the IPMC: > > > > - Rob Vesse > > > > * New Podlings > > > > - Gossip > > > > * Retired Podlings > > > > - Concerted > > > > * Graduations > > > > The board has motions for the following: > > > > - TinkerPop > > - Zeppelin > > > > * Releases > > > > The following releases entered distribution during the month of > > April: > > > > - 2016-04-07 Apache MADlib 1.9-incubating > > - 2016-04-11 Apache Eagle 0.3.0-incubating > > - 2016-04-12 Apache Metron 0.1BETA-incubating > > - 2016-04-15 Apache Tamaya 0.2-incubating > > - 2016-04-19 Apache Singa incubating-0.3.0.tar.gz > > - 2016-04-20 Apache TinkerPop 3.1.2-incubating > > - 2016-04-20 Apache TinkerPop 3.2.0-incubating > > - 2016-04-20 Apache Apex Core v3.2.1-incubating > > - 2016-04-21 Apache Geode 1.0.0-incubating.M2 > > > > * IP Clearance > > > > > > > > * Legal / Trademarks > > > > > > > > * Infrastructure > > > > - Kudos to the infra team for assisting with troubleshooting the new > > Marvin Jr. Podling reminder email script. > > > > * Miscellaneous > > > > > > > > * Credits > > > > - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey/John Ament > > > > -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- > > > > * Still getting started at the Incubator > > > > - Airflow > > - Beam > > - Gearpump > > - Mnemonic > > - Quickstep > > - Tephra > > > > * Not yet ready to graduate > > > > No release: > > > > - Fineract > > - Guacamole > > - iota > > - S2Graph > > - Toree > > > > Community growth: > > > > - Blur > > - Eagle > > - Joshua > > - Kudu > > - OpenAz > > - Quarks > > - Slider > > - SystemML > > - Tamaya > > - TinkerPop > > - Twill > > - Unomi > > > > * Ready to graduate > > > > The Board has motions for the following: > > > > - TinkerPop > > - Zeppelin > > > > * Did not report, expected next month > > > > - Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Table of Contents > > Airflow > > Beam > > Blur > > Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer > > Eagle > > Fineract > > Gearpump > > Guacamole > > iota > > Joshua > > Kudu > > Mnemonic > > OpenAz > > Quarks > > Quickstep > > S2Graph > > Slider > > SystemML > > Tamaya > > Tephra > > TinkerPop > > Toree > > Twill > > Unomi > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -------------------- > > Airflow > > > > Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used > to > > author and manage data pipelines. > > > > Airflow has been incubating since 2016-03-31. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Continued releases > > 2. Grow up user and contributor communities > > 3. Improve and extend documentation and samples on the website > > > > 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? > > > > * Since we applied to the incubator in March 17 (proposal email), we > grew > > our contributors from 100 to 137 > > * Since we applied to the incubator in March 17 (proposal email), we > > accepted/merged 119 PRs > > * Dev mailing lists activity increased > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > * All resources have been created (website, Jira, git & github mirror, > > ...) > > but not all migrations are complete > > * The code donation (and Pull Request migration) is in progress > > * The website is in progress > > * The previous wiki has been migrated to confluence, Jira is now used > > instead of the old Github issues, and the old google group is being > > EOLd > > on May 2 as users migrate to the dev mailing list > > > > Date of last release: > > > > N/A - we are still working out releases as we are new to Apache. > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > N/A - we are still new to Apache and have not gotten to the point of > > electing new committers/PMC members. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](airflow) Chris Nauroth > > [ ](airflow) Hitesh Shah > > [x](airflow) Jakob Homan > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Beam > > > > Apache Beam is an open source, unified model and set of language-specific > > SDKs for defining and executing data processing workflows, and also data > > ingestion and integration flows, supporting Enterprise Integration > Patterns > > (EIPs) and Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). Dataflow pipelines simplify > > the > > mechanics of large-scale batch and streaming data processing and can run > > on a > > number of runtimes like Apache Flink, Apache Spark, and Google Cloud > > Dataflow > > (a cloud service). Beam also brings DSL in different languages, allowing > > users to easily implement their data integration processes. > > > > Beam has been incubating since 2016-02-01. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Continued releases > > 2. Grow up user and contributor communities > > 3. Improve and extend documentation and samples on the website > > > > 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? > > > > * Both user and dev mailing lists activity increased > > * We sustain a high level of activity on the pull request cycles > (submit, > > review, ...) > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > * All resources have been created (website, Jira, git & github mirror, > > ...) > > * The code donation has been completed > > * The website has been published, we are still in the process of > donated > > documentation and samples resources > > * We renamed all package to match the Apache convention > > * We started the re-organization and refactoring of the project > structure > > (isolating and moving some modules) > > > > Date of last release: > > > > N/A > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > N/A > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](beam) Jean-Baptiste Onofre > > [ ](beam) Jim Jagielski > > [ ](beam) Venkatesh Seetharam > > [ ](beam) Bertrand Delacretaz > > [ ](beam) Ted Dunning > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Blur > > > > Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data > > in a cloud computing environment. > > > > Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Greater community involvement. > > 2. Produce releases. > > 3. > > > > 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? > > > > - Subscriptions: user@ - 61[+5]; dev@ - 78[+6] > > - The community involvement has not really changed over the past few > > months. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > - Software bug fixes and performance enhancements. > > - An announcement was made of a production release of Apache Blur (very > > cool!) > > > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-blur-user/201604.mbox/%3CCAGW2whTUEFLYCUeyAdT3_KH9FczdrBJ6SLV3YMuuSA-4XBfR%3DA%40mail.gmail.com%3E > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2014-07-29 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > 2014-07-28 > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](blur) Doug Cutting > > [X](blur) Patrick Hunt > > [ ](blur) Tim Williams > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > 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. > > 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: > > > > [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman > > [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann > > [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce > > [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall > > [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Gregory D. Reddin > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > I've reached out to this podling multiple times, all manual. I received no > response even though there's some other activities going on in the mailing > lists. > > > > > > -------------------- > > Concerted > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > Julian Hyde (jhyde): > > > > Concerted voted to retire, and on 2016-04-25 the IPMC voted to > > retire Concerted. > > > > Retirement steps are complete; > > see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11752 > > > > > > -------------------- > > Eagle > > > > Eagle is a Monitoring solution for Hadoop to instantly identify access to > > sensitive data, recognize attacks, malicious activities and take actions > in > > real time. > > > > Eagle has been incubating since 2015-10-26. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Release of Apache Eagle 0.3v > > 2. Growing the community by adding contributors from different areas > > 3. We are working on making changes to the public site to include more > > developer friendly information > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > NIL > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > We have companies in banking, gov and other domains starting to use > > the product and are actively contributing. > > > > • Presented at QCon Software Conference Beijing 2016 > > • Shared at Shanghai Java User Group > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > We presented at the Hadoop Summit in Dublin and garnered more interests > > from different companies. We are having more outreach by participating > in > > conferences and we are presenting in Apache Con, Strata + Hadoop World. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-03-28 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > NIL > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](eagle) Owen O'Malley > > [ ](eagle) Henry Saputra > > [X](eagle) Julian Hyde > > [ ](eagle) P. Taylor Goetz > > [X](eagle) Amareshwari Sriramdasu > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > Julian Hyde (jhyde): > > > > The project made its first release this quarter, which is a great > > achievement. As such, release 0.3 should no longer be listed as a > > goal, but nevertheless it is good that they are aiming to show that > > the release process is repeatable. > > > > -------------------- > > 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. Finalizing the initial release > > 2. Addressing with the VP of Legal our Hibernate dependency and how to > > remedy (removal, exception, etc.) > > 3. Continue to encourage participation in Fineract collaboration and > > communication infrastructure by bringing offline interactions online > > and directing collaboration to occur in right channels. > > > > 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? > > > > - Participated in and selected one intern for Google Summer of Code > > working on the India Unified Payments Interface. > > - Community members attended LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, WA and > > encouraged developers to get involved in the Apache Fineract > > community. > > - Discussion of requirements is taking place via mailing lists for > major > > enhancements community is anticipating over next quarter. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > More communications are happening on the appropriate lists as we have > > been > > directing conversations to happen in the public mailing lists and > outside > > of previous community silos. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > N/A > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > N/A > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > This report came out of order, due to an error on my part. I attempted to > follow up with the podling but no response. I'm going to leave it in > assuming a mentor wants to sign off on it. > > > > > > -------------------- > > > > Gearpump > > > > Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the > > micro-service > > Actor model. > > > > Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Make initial Apache branded release and release on a regular > schedule. > > 2. Build community interest and support. > > 3. Complete apache branded website with compelling examples and > roadmap. > > > > 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? > > > > - High amount of activity and discussion on dev mailing list (april > 604) > > - Increased participation and interest from developers to provide new > > sources and examples > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > - All outstanding issues from old github repo have been reopened as > > JIRAs. > > - All prior merges in old repo have been converted to PR's and merged > to > > master within apache gearpump repo. > > - Branded apache website is completed and reviewed. Publishing to > > https://s.apache.org/T86l > > - INFRA tickets required to publish to repository.apache.org > completed, > > travis build scripts updated > > > > Date of last release: > > > > No release yet. > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > No new committers or PMC members elected yet. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell > > [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho > > [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin > > [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon > > [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Guacamole > > > > Guacamole is an enterprise-grade, protocol-agnostic, remote desktop > > gateway. > > Combined with cloud hosting, Guacamole provides an excellent alternative > to > > traditional desktops. Guacamole aims to make cloud-hosted desktop access > > preferable to traditional, local access. > > > > Guacamole has been incubating since 2016-02-10. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Finalizing the move to Apache infrastructure > > 2. Making the first Guacamole release under the Apache Incubator > > 3. Accepting additional committers > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > The PPMC has had difficulty fully engaging mentors to finish the > > migration of Apache Guacamole to Apache infrastructure and processes. > > Though the project has successfully moved to Apache-hosted git > > repositories, the processes for importing our existing JIRA issues and > > adding our first non-founding committer (Frode Langelo) were stagnated > > until very recently. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > While our community of users continues to grow, this is mainly the > > established pattern of growth that existed prior to acceptance in the > > Apache Incubator. We are expecting this to change once the Apache > > Guacamole website is up, public announcement of the move to the > > Incubator is made, and users of the old SourceForge forums are > > directed to the mailing lists. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > The project has accepted its first committer outside the original > > founding developers, Frode Langelo, and development has moved onto > > Apache-hosted git repositories. Development of new Apache Guacamole > > website is nearing completion. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2015-12-18 (0.9.9, prior to Apache Incubator) > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > The most recent committer, Frode Langelo, was accepted into the > > project by VOTE on 2016-04-03, with the required ICLA received on > > 2016-04-05. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](guacamole) Jean-Baptiste Onofre > > [ ](guacamole) Daniel Gruno > > [ ](guacamole) Olivier Lamy > > [ ](guacamole) Jim Jagielski > > [ ](guacamole) Greg Trasuk > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > Jean-Baptiste Onofre (jbonofre): > > > > Frode's account should be OK now. For the Jira, the difficulty was > that > > the project wanted to import existing Jira content. Not sure it's a > > good > > idea as bunch of users don't exist in the Apache Jira and there's lot > > of > > "noise". I would recommend to start by creating the highest priority > > tasks and issues in the Apache Jira. > > > > If you continue to run into issues getting assistance on getting your setup > complete, don't hesitate to drop a mail on the general list, someone here > can help. > > > > > > -------------------- > > > > iota > > > > Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices. > > > > iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Transitioning code, website and Jira issues to the Apache > > repositories. > > 2. Continuing iota website and code development using the Apache > > infrastructure. > > 3. Building an iota community via a variety of means including > > presentations at series of conferences beginning with ApacheCon followed > by > > 7x24 Spring Conference, Data center Dynamics and others throughout the > > summer. We will work with our mentors to find other means of community > > building. > > > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > This project has been slower to start than we anticipated. Why? Based on > > experience in the field with we questioned the scalability of our > original > > architecture. We made the difficult decision that we needed a more > scalable > > architecture and we on the design of a baseline architecture. WE now feel > > we have a good starting point and with the help of the iota community we > > can move forward with. > > > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > None > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > None > > > > Date of last release: > > > > None > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > None yet. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno > > [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes > > [X](iota) Justin Mclean > > [ ](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > Some of the prior concerns seem to be problems still. If the prior > architectural issues are resolved, do we expect to see changes beginning to > happen more on the ASF side? > > > > > > -------------------- > > > > Joshua > > > > Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit > > > > Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Ensure first release of Joshua Incubating artifacts (6.1) > > 2. Continue to build the Joshua PPMC and user community > > 3. Investigate targeted user communities within Apache > > > > 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? > > > > Joshua is being represented at ApacheCon. Currently one presentation is > > taking place in addition to a meetup. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > The project team have been working on development code as well as > > official > > branding. All infrastructure has been migrated over to Apache. We are > > aiming for our first release some time after ApacheCon. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > N/A > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > Kellen Sunderland and Felix Hieber joined the PPMC and as committers on > > April 11th, 2016. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez > > [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney > > [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann > > [ ](joshua) Tom Barber > > [ ](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? > > > > The PPMC invited Binglin Chang as a new committer and PPMC member. > > Binglin > > has continued to increase his involvement and some of his colleagues > are > > now becoming more involved as well. > > > > Since the last report, we had contributions from several new > > contributors, > > including five new contributors from outside Cloudera (the initial code > > grantor). Of those, two were substantial pieces of new functionality: a > > new sink to ingest data from Apache Flume, and an improved integration > > with Apache Spark. We hope that the authors of these contributions will > > continue to be involved in the community and grow into committers. > > > > In March, one of our mentors approached the development community with > > some ideas to make the project more approachable for developers. As a > > result of this, we've been working on a few action items: > > > > 1) We started a project blog and have been posting weekly updates on > > development progress as well as more detailed posts on new features > or > > project news. We've heard from community members that this is an > easy > > way to track the project without subscribing to high-volume dev > lists. > > > > 2) Our dev@ list is currently very noisy with a lot of code review > > comments. For more casual contributors this can be overwhelming as > > code review is intermingled with higher level project discussions. > The > > community discussed the issue and decided to split the code review > > traffic to a new mailing list (currently awaiting infra to create > it) > > > > 3) We've started an informal policy of emailing the dev list with a > > heads-up whenever any new larger feature first shows up on gerrit or > > JIRA, to make it easier for people to give input on large items > > without > > having to see every bug fix or small improvement. For example, > > whenever > > design discussion starts on a new feature, the contributor sends a > > 'heads-up' email to dev@. > > > > Development activity continues to be healthy. Mailing list traffic for > > the > > dev list in April and May was similar to the preceding months. Patch > > contribution level is also fairly stable (50-80 commits/month) with > lulls > > around releases as people focus on release testing, documentation, etc. > > > > User mailing list traffic is steadily increasing in quantity and > > diversity: 108 messages in April vs 51 in March, 40 in Feb. April saw > 26 > > distinct people contribute to the user list discussion vs 15 in Feb. > > Website traffic also indicates growing interest, with April having 30% > > more traffic than Feb. > > > > In the last two months, Kudu-related talks were delivered in San > > Francisco, San Jose, Beijing, Boston, DC, Detroit, London, and Dublin. > > More talks are scheduled for the upcoming months at ApacheCon Big Data, > > Strata/Hadoop World, Berlin Buzzwords, and various local meetups. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > Since the last report, we've accomplished the following milestones: > > > > - We released Apache Kudu 0.7.1-incubating on 3/9/2016 to fix a few > > issues > > found in the 0.7.0 release. > > - We released Apache Kudu 0.8.0-incubating on 4/10/2016 with various > new > > features and improvements. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > April 10, 2016: Apache Kudu 0.8.0-incubating > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > - Binglin Chang was added as a committer and PPMC member on April 4, > > 2016. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](kudu) Jake Farrell > > [ ](kudu) Brock Noland > > [ ](kudu) Michael Stack > > [ ](kudu) Jarek Jarcec Cecho > > [ ](kudu) Chris Mattmann > > [ ](kudu) Julien Le Dem > > [ ](kudu) Carl Steinbach > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > > > Mnemonic > > > > Mnemonic is a Java based non-volatile memory library for in-place > > structured > > data processing and computing. > > > > Mnemonic has been incubating since 2016-03-03. > > Mnemonic code was moved into ASF on 3/24. > > > > Various metrics for April are as follows: > > > > +--------------------------------------------+ > > | Metric | counts | > > +--------------------------------------------+ > > | Non Merge Commits | 16 | > > | Contributors | 4 | > > | Jira New Issues | 20 | > > | Resolved Issues | 24 | > > | Pull Requests merged | 6 | > > | Pull Requests proposed | 7 | > > +--------------------------------------------+ > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Apache releases: we are preparing 0.1.0 release > > 2. Expand and build strong community, keep active dev list discussions, > > adding new contributors > > a. Mnemonic website is up: http://mnemonic.incubator.apache.org/ > > b. Mnemonic cwiki is up: > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MNEMONIC/Apache+Mnemonic+Home > > 3. Develop new features: We are working in Native computing layer > design. > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > Everything is on track, nothing urgent at this time. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > 1. We completed setting up infrastructure. Both project website and > cwiki > > are up running. We are working on adding contents and documentation > to > > the sites so new contributors and community members can get better > > view > > of what this project is and how to get involved. > > 2. We realized, unlike other application level projects, library (or > API) > > projects traditionally had less contributors until certain amount of > > adopters successfully integrated those libraries. We plan to help > some > > integrations, such as HBase, Arrow, etc. after our first official > code > > release. > > 3. We submitted 2 proposals for Strata Hadoop World NYC. > > 4. We will present Mnemonic project in upcoming ApacheCon Big Data > > conference on 5/11. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > We are designing the native computing infrastructure, built native > > computing interface code. > > > > In preparing first official release: > > > > 1. Defined coding guidelines for the project. Reformatted all code > based > > on defined coding style. > > 2. Added the checkstyle to automate the checking process. > > 3. Formalized the names of annotations, classes and methods. > > 4. Removed the dependency of property mnemonic.core.version. > > 5. Added a new profile for artifacts releasing and signing. > > 6. Added release plugin and configuration for releasing. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > No release yet, working on 0.1.0 release > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > No election, since the project is still in early stage of developing. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt > > [X](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell > > [x](mnemonic) James Taylor > > [ ](mnemonic) Henry Saputra > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > OpenAz > > > > Tools and libraries for developing Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) > > Systems in a variety of languages. > > > > OpenAz has been incubating since 2015-01-20. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Increasing community involvement: We are focusing on getting > > information published on the website to aid the acquisition and > > orientation of new contributors, as well increasing the number of > > committers, in order to reduce individual member workload, reduce > > reliance on any particular member, and to increase project velocity. > > 2. Merging the source code from AT&T, JP Morgan and Oracle and creating > > POM's. AT&T and JP Morgan source code has been merged and POM's > > created, it needs uploading into the Apache repository. > > 3. Get our first release done. > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > There have been multiple slowdowns and votes toward retiring the > project. > > Though we have a small team and there has been less than ideal > community > > involvement, we have recently increased the number of active members > and > > are directing focused efforts towards increasing community involvement. > > > > We will be checking the status next month to determine whether efforts > > contributed by this new group will be sufficient for recovering the > > project. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > There was talk of retiring, but a group of folks have stepped up and > > expressed interest in helping OpenAZ get off the ground. We are working > > on > > getting those interested folks voted as committers and getting the > > website > > running. One new committer has actually been voted in (David Ash). > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > We have merged in a port of the administrative portion of AT&T's > > contributed code, which was the last remaining piece of that code base. > > More work needs to be done on this front, but it's a major part of the > > code base and this is a good start toward making it happen. > > > > We have also merged a fix for configuration and policy files, which > > updated class names and removed duplicate xml declarations from policy > > files. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > n/a > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > One new committer was elected Tuesday, May 3rd. > > > > We have several interested folks in working on the project: > > > > - Yannick Grignon > > - Farasath Ahamed > > - Inge Olaisen > > - Carlos Perez > > - Remon Sinnema > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](openaz) Emmanuel Lecharny > > [ ](openaz) Colm O Heigeartaigh > > [ ](openaz) Hadrian Zbarcea > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > Its great to see this podling bounce back. We should continue to monitor > to make sure it stays on track. Kudos to the community for restarting > itself. > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Quarks > > > > Apache Quarks is a programming model and micro-kernel style runtime that > > can > > be embedded in gateways and small footprint edge devices enabling local, > > real-time, analytics on the continuous streams of data coming from > > equipment, vehicles, systems, appliances, devices and sensors of all > kinds > > (for example, Raspberry Pis or smart phones). Working in conjunction with > > centralized analytic systems, Apache Quarks provides efficient and timely > > analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the center to the edge. > > > > Quarks has been incubating since 2016-02-29. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Create and expand a diverse community of contributors and committers > > around Quarks project > > 2. Create the first Apache release of Quarks > > 3. Complete migration of website to host all content at Apache (javadoc > > is > > still on Github). > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > Nothing jumps to mind. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > We have added a new committer and PPMC member, Cazen Lee. Cazen > started > > making valuable contributions almost immediately when Quarks went into > > incubation. The Quarks community is still small, as Quarks has just > > recently incubated, therefore we aim to continue growing our list in > the > > near future. > > > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > * According to JIRA, the project has added 59 new issues in April, and > 34 > > issues have been resolved. > > * On April 13th, the committers hosted an "Introduction to Quarks" > > webcast > > where they presented a high-level overview of the project and > > demonstrated > > how to write, monitor and debug Quarks applications. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > Quarks is still new, so we haven't created an Apache release as of yet. > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > In April we added a new committer and PPMC member, Cazen Lee. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](quarks) Daniel Debrunner > > [x](quarks) Luciano Resende > > [X](quarks) Katherine Marsden > > [X](quarks) Justin Mclean > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Quickstep > > > > Quickstep is a high-performance data processing platform based on a core > > relational kernel. > > > > Quickstep has been incubating since 2016-03-29. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Find, nurture, and collaborate with an expanded cadre of > contributors > > from different organizations, electing the most dedicated as > > additional > > committers. > > 2. Demonstrate open collaboration and decision making among > contributors, > > committers and the PPMC in The Apache Way > > 3. Create one or more usable official releases of Apache Quickstep. > > > > 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? > > > > This is the first report for this project. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > This is the first report for this project. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > N/A as the project was just incubated. > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > April 2016. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](quickstep) Konstantin Boudnik > > [X](quickstep) Julian Hyde > > [ ](quickstep) Roman Shaposhnik > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > Julian Hyde (jhyde): > > > > Most of the initial committers have submitted CLAs and joined the > > mailing lists, and activity on the dev list is looking healthy. > > > > -------------------- > > > > S2Graph > > > > S2Graph is a distributed and scalable OLTP graph database built on Apache > > HBase to support fast traversal of extremely large graphs. > > > > S2Graph has been incubating since 2015-11-29. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Make a release > > 2. Attract users and contributors > > 3. Foster more and diverse committers > > > > 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 has been concerns about s2graph community, and we have decided > > that committers in the same company will avoid face-to-face > discussion > > and start out on the dev mailing list. we opened up 11 discussions on > > the dev mailing list afterwards. > > * There are two new contributors, one is working on packaging and other > > is > > working on bug fix. > > * We will present about Apache S2Graph in > apache-big-data-north-america. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > * We started out the discussion on first release plan and project road > > map. > > * We opened up the discussion on the project logo. > > * 45 issues are created, 31 issues are resolved, 34 commits merged. > > * We deprecated our old github repository under kakao and made it point > > to > > ASF github repository. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > No yet > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > No > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](s2graph) Andrew Purtell > > [ ](s2graph) Seetharam Venkatesh > > [X](s2graph) Sergio Fernández > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > Converting from in house to open community development is tough, so its > great to see the podling picking up on it early and resolving any issues > before they are realized. > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > > > Slider > > > > Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and > > manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters. > > > > Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Getting more external users > > 2. Getting more diverse set of developers > > 3. Getting more diverse set of committers/PMC > > > > 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? > > > > We continue to see regular interaction with users who are trying out > > Apache Slider (incubating). Questions range from introductory "I'm > > trying to do $x" to bug reports "I did $a and encountered an issue $b". > > The committers try their best to keep people involved and steer them > > toward contributions. The strong majority of contributions continue to > > come from existing podling members. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > The IP clearance for the Apache Kafka Slider "app-package" process > > was addressed (after discussion on general@i.a.o) and this codebase > was > > merged in. This was a great contribution by a few external developers > > and very much appreciated. > > > > Work continues on "phase 2" of some long-term work to include support > > for running Docker containers in Slider. The intent behind this work is > > that we will make it easier for (prospective) users to build > > applications that can run on Slider. There is a tentative patch on > > SLIDER-906 and some related documentation updates. > > > > We have agreed upon a next release (0.91) happening in May, but have > > not made any significant progress towards that release yet. > > > > We had a discussion put forth about the future of Slider by a podling > > member. At the inception of Slider, Apache Hadoop's YARN was not ready > > to support long-lived services "natively". While Slider has been in > > incubation, YARN has continued to grow towards treating these services > > natively, partly as a result of requirements necessary of Slider to > > work. As such, we discussed whether it would make sense to ask the YARN > > project if they would be interesting in combining efforts, moving the > > core of Slider into YARN itself. The Slider community reacted > > positively, noting that YARN is likely a better long-term home for the > > core of Slider; however, there were a few points raised that would need > > to be addressed before any action was actually taken. The mail > discussion > > can be found at https://s.apache.org/3ywX > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-01-09 slider-0.90.2-incubating > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > 2015-07-07: Yu (Thomas) Liu > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](slider) Arun C Murthy > > [ ](slider) Devaraj Das > > [X](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré > > [ ](slider) Mahadev Konar > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > Drew Farris (drew) > > - No apparent mentor activity on the dev/private mailing lists over the > > past > > few months for the Slider podling. Active committers and a reasonable > > amount of > > JIRA and mailing list activity. > > > > -------------------- > > SystemML > > > > SystemML provides declarative large-scale machine learning (ML) that aims > > at > > flexible specification of ML algorithms and automatic generation of > hybrid > > runtime plans ranging from single node, in-memory computations, to > > distributed computations running on Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache > > Spark. > > > > SystemML has been incubating since 2015-11-02. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > - Grow SystemML community: increase mailing list activity, > > increase adoption of SystemML for scalable machine learning, > encourage > > data scientists to adopt DML and PyDML algorithm scripts, respond to > > user feedback to ensure SystemML meets the requirements of real-world > > situations, write papers, and present talks about SystemML. > > - Continue to produce releases. > > - Increase the diversity of our project's contributors and committers. > > > > 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 mailing list from February through April had 199 messages involving > > topics such as algorithms, DML functionality, usability, and bug fixes. > > In > > addition, we have had many discussions on our JIRA site and in pull > > request conversations. Fred Reiss presented at Spark Summit East on > > February 17 about SystemML internals. Berthold Reinwald spoke at the > > Spark > > Technology Center on March 9 about scalable machine learning with > > SystemML. Niketan Pansare spoke on April 28 at Datapalooza in Austin > and > > on April 29 at Rice University about declarative machine learning at > > scale > > with SystemML. Researchers in Germany are working to add Flink as an > > additional SystemML backend. On GitHub, the project has been starred > 267 > > times and forked 92 times. We have gained two new contributors since > > February 1st. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > We produced our first Apache release, version 0.9.0-incubating. > Numerous > > additions have been made to the project, including core functionality, > > usability improvements, and documentation. The project has had 204 > > commits > > since February 1. In the same time frame, 155 new issues have been > > reported on our JIRA site and 77 issues have been resolved. 114 pull > > requests opened since Febrary 1 have been closed. We are preparing to > > produce our second incubator release. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-02-15 (version 0.9.0-incubating) > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > NONE > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [x](systemml) Luciano Resende > > [ ](systemml) Patrick Wendell > > [ ](systemml) Reynold Xin > > [ ](systemml) Rich Bowen > > > > 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. We released Tamaya 0.2-incubating on 2016-04-06. > > 2. Attract more community members. > > 3. Create a fully ASF compliant release (both source and binary, > > since the source one was good this time around) > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > There are no such items. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > - We elected a new committer. > > - Some people expressed their interest to use Tamaya in their projects. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > - Release 0.2-incubating has been released. > > - New features based on community input have been added to the roadmap. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-04-06 (0.2-incubating) > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > Philipp Ottlinger has been elected on 2016-04-22 as new committer. > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](tamaya) John D. Ament > > [ ](tamaya) Mark Struberg > > [ ](tamaya) Gerhard Petracek > > [ ](tamaya) David Blevins > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > Tephra > > > > Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top > of > > Apache HBase and other storage engines. > > > > Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Complete project setup > > 2. Regular releases > > 3. Improve community engagement > > > > 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? > > > > - Mailing lists have been created. > > - Working on the project page. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > - Project is in initial setup phase. > > - SGA has been submitted, and git repo is set up. > > - Waiting for other bootstrapping tasks like JIRA import to be done. > > - Working towards the first release. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > None > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > - None since coming to incubation > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](tephra) Alan Gates > > [X](tephra) Andrew Purtell > > [ ](tephra) Henry Saputra > > [x](tephra) James Taylor > > [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > > > TinkerPop > > > > TinkerPop is a graph computing framework written in Java > > > > TinkerPop has been incubating since 2015-01-16. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > The outstanding issues have been addressed. > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > > aware of? > > > > Nothing at this time. > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > We have 4 new committers: Ketrina Yim, Pieter Martin, Jean-Baptiste > > Musso, > > and Michael Pollmeier > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > Since the last status report, 172 new JIRA issues have been created and > > 126 have been resolved. Open discussions of the project related > > activities and decisions continue on the TinkerPop dev mailing list. > The > > committer count has been growing and various other TinkerPop community > > members have shown an increased amount of participation on tickets and > in > > discussion. Excellent work is being performed by a variety of folks > on a > > consistent basis that has resulted in two releases since the last > report. > > > > Over the past few months, work was performed to stand up a new DataStax > > hosted website, Planet TinkerPop. This raised concerns in the Apache > > community and it was determined that the best course of action was to > > request that Planet TinkerPop be taken down, and some of the > > vendor-neutral TinkerPop content be donated to TinkerPop for usage on > the > > TinkerPop incubator site. Efforts were made to avoid running afoul of > > Apache guidelines prior to the Planet TinkerPop launch, but the PPMC > did > > not have a complete understanding of Apache brand management > > expectations. > > Over the past weeks, the transition of DataStax donated content to the > > TinkerPop site has been completed. In the process, the PPMC has > received > > guidance and clarification from mentors and the wider Apache community. > > We feel that the Apache TinkerPop site is stronger now than ever and > will > > continue to serve as a great vendor neutral resource going forward. The > > lessons learned throughout this process will serve the TinkerPop PPMC > > well > > going forward. > > > > Since the last status report, 166 new JIRA issues have been created and > > 127 have been resolved. Open discussions of project related activities > > and decisions continue on the TinkerPop dev mailing list. > > > > Date of last release(s): > > > > * 2016-04-21 - Apache TinkerPop 3.1.2 > > * 2016-04-21 - Apache TinkerPop 3.2.0 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > * Ketrina Yim - committer (2016-03-14) > > * Pieter Martin - committer (2016-02-21) > > * Jean-Baptiste Musso - committer (2016-03-28) > > * Michael Pollmeier - committer (2016-03-26) > > > > Please see our Project Status page as we have been diligent to update > it > > accordingly. > > > > http://incubator.apache.org/projects/tinkerpop.html > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](tinkerpop) Rich Bowen > > [X](tinkerpop) Daniel Gruno > > [ ](tinkerpop) Hadrian Zbarcea > > [ ](tinkerpop) Matt Franklin > > [ ](tinkerpop) David Nalley > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > Daniel Gruno (humbedooh): > > > > I am satisfied that the issues raised last month have been amicably > > resolved. > > > > -------------------- > > 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. Resolve LGPL dependency: This is in progress, and hopefully we will > > have the dependency license changed to a license that is compatible > > with AL2. > > 2. Make a release: nearing completion > > 3. Grow a diverse community: We should put some emphasis on growing the > > community and making it diverse (the rule is at least three > > independent > > contributors) > > > > 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. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters > > 2. Still working on transitioning users from Spark Kernel project into > > Toree. > > 3. More external contributions being made > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > 1. Contrinue working with JeroMQ community to further their transition > > into MPL v2 and away from LGPL. 3 committers to go. > > 2. Substantial effort in our build system to make Apache compliant > > releases. > > 3. Addressing issues opened by community > > > > Date of last release: > > > > None since incubation. > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > No new additions since incubation > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [x](toree) Luciano Resende > > [ ](toree) Reynold Xin > > [ ](toree) Hitesh Shah > > [ ](toree) Julien Le Dem > > > > > > -------------------- > > > > Twill > > > > Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop® YARN to reduce the complexity > > of developing distributed applications. > > > > Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14. > > > > Top three items to resolve before graduation: > > > > - More engagement from the community. > > - Improve documentations and examples. > > - Increase adoption. > > > > 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? > > > > - Fluo, being proposed for Apache incubation uses Twill > > - Twill talk scheduled in Apache Big Data Conference 2016 > > - 7 new JIRA issues filed since last report > > - 2 JIRA issues resolved since last report > > - 1 new contributors submitted patches > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > - Version 0.8.0-incubating is being worked upon > > > > Date of last release: > > > > - 2016-01-26: 0.7.0-incubating > > > > What are the plans for the next period? > > > > - Encourage contributions from active users > > - Identify potential committers > > - Engage more on social channels (IRC and Twitter) > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > - August 4, 2015 : Henry Saputra > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [ ](twill) Vinod K > > [ ](twill) Arun C Murthy > > [ ](twill) Tom White > > [X](twill) Patrick Hunt > > [ ](twill) Andrei Savu > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > > > > > -------------------- > > Unomi > > > > Unomi is a reference implementation of the OASIS Context Server > > specification > > currently being worked on by the OASIS Context Server Technical > Committee. > > It > > provides a high-performance user profile and event tracking server. > > > > Unomi has been incubating since 2015-10-05. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > > > 1. Continued releases, and updated dependencies > > 2. Grow up user and contributor communities, seeing more > contribution/PR > > > > 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 activity of the dev mailing list smoothly increased, discussing key > > enhancements in the project. > > > > We are now targeting the development of the user community. > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > The first Apache Unomi 1.0.0-incubating has been released. > > > > We are now preparing a serie of dependency updates, heading to the > > 1.1.0-incubating release. > > > > Date of last release: > > > > 2016-03-09 > > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > > > N/A > > > > Signed-off-by: > > > > [X](unomi) Jean-Baptiste Onofré > > [X](unomi) Bertrand Delacretaz > > [ ](unomi) Chris Mattmann > > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > >
