Sorry for the delayed response (past two days at ApacheCON were a blur). I've updated the wiki with the latest on Fineract. Would appreciate if that gets pulled into the final report.
Thanks, Roman. On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Myrle Krantz <mkra...@mifos.org> wrote: > 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 >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
