Hi John, Fineract has added a mentor: Jim Jagielski He could also sign off our report.
Greets, 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 Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:24 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > All, > > Below is the current final draft. There's still one report not signed off > on - Fineract, if any of the podlings mentors (Ross/Greg/Roman) can sign > off that would be huge. > > 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: > > - None > > 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 > > * Infrastructure > > - Kudos to the infra team for assisting with troubleshooting the new > Marvin Jr. Podling reminder email script. > > * 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 > 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 > [X](airflow) Hitesh Shah > [x](airflow) Jakob Homan > > -------------------- > 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 > [X](beam) Venkatesh Seetharam > [ ](beam) Bertrand Delacretaz > [X](beam) Ted Dunning > > -------------------- > 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 > [X](blur) Tim Williams > > -------------------- > 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 > [X](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 > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler > [ ](fineract) Greg Stein > [ ](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik > > Shepherd/Mentor notes: > > -------------------- > > 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 > > -------------------- > 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. > > -------------------- > > 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 > > > -------------------- > > 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 > > -------------------- > 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: > > [X](kudu) Jake Farrell > [ ](kudu) Brock Noland > [ ](kudu) Michael Stack > [ ](kudu) Jarek Jarcec Cecho > [ ](kudu) Chris Mattmann > [ ](kudu) Julien Le Dem > [ ](kudu) Carl Steinbach > > -------------------- > > 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 > > -------------------- > 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 > > -------------------- > 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 > > -------------------- > 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 > [X](s2graph) Venkatesh Seetharam > [X](s2graph) Sergio Fernández > > -------------------- > > 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 > > -------------------- > 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 > > -------------------- > 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 > > -------------------- > > 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 > [x](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 > > -------------------- > 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 >
