All,
Below is the current draft of our report. As of now, we have 5 reports
missing and 4 reports not signed off on. I hope we can get that resolved
in the next few days. I have copied those podlings impacted.
Incubator PMC report for December 2017
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are currently 53 podlings incubating. In the month of November, we
executed six releases, added one IPMC member and received the resignation
of another (which is in flight until their sole podling retires). We added
two podlings to our roster, have a few more in the pipeline and have one
podling planning to graduate this month.
* Community
New IPMC members:
- Michael Semb Wever
People who left the IPMC:
- Upayavira (not processed in LDAP yet)
* New Podlings
- Crail
- Service Comb
* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
- Amaterasu - Activity stopped late November
- Aria Tosca
- HTrace - 0 on list activity
- Pony Mail - Low activity, suspect just missed.
- Wave - Retiring
* Podlings Missing sign off
- Griffin
- Myriad
- OpenWhisk
- Spot
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
- Trafodion
- Your podling here?
- Your podling here?
* Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
November:
- 2017-11-01 Apache Freemarker 2.3.27
- 2017-11-08 Apache Netbeans HTML4J 1.5
- 2017-11-15 Apache Mnemonic 0.10.0
- 2017-11-15 Apache MXNet 0.12.1
- 2017-11-18 Apache Netbeans HTML4J 1.5.1
- 2017-11-28 Apache Griffin 0.1.6
* IP Clearance
* Legal / Trademarks
* Infrastructure
* Miscellaneous
* Credits
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Table of Contents
Amaterasu
AriaTosca
Crail
Daffodil
Gearpump
Griffin
Hivemall
HTrace
Myriad
Omid
OpenWhisk
PageSpeed
Pony Mail
Pulsar
Quickstep
SAMOA
SDAP
SINGA
Spot
Superset
Taverna
Tephra
Trafodion
Wave
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Amaterasu
Apache Amaterasu is a framework providing continuous deployment for Big Data
pipelines.
Amaterasu has been incubating since 2017-09-07.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
How has the project developed since the last report?
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](amaterasu) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
[ ](amaterasu) Olivier Lamy
Comments:
[ ](amaterasu) Davor Bonaci
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
johndament:
The podling was moving OK until the end of November, not sure if it's a
holiday lull.
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AriaTosca
ARIA TOSCA project offers an easily consumable Software Development Kit(SDK)
and a Command Line Interface(CLI) to implement TOSCA(Topology and
Orchestration Specification of Cloud Applications) based solutions.
AriaTosca has been incubating since 2016-08-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
How has the project developed since the last report?
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ariatosca) Suneel Marthi
Comments:
[ ](ariatosca) John D. Ament
Comments: Activity on list is picking up over the slack
conversations. A community member is planning to write a report, however
it indicates a corporate hierarchy issue within the project that needs to
get solved.
[ ](ariatosca) Jakob Homan
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Crail
Crail is a storage platform for sharing performance critical
data in distributed data processing jobs at very high speed.
Crail has been incubating since 2017-11-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finish project setup
2. Community building
3. Create a first release
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?
N/A
How has the project developed since the last report?
* This is the first report.
* Apache ICLA signed by all contributors from IBM Zurich Research.
* Software Grant and Corporate Contributor License Agreement
signed by IBM ZUrich Research representative.
* Infrastructure setup underway (missing JIRA due to
infrastructure issues)
* Available Crail code to be transferred soon.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2017-11-01 (entering incubation)
Signed-off-by:
[X] (crail) Julian Hyde
Comments:
Project is still boot-strapping. No activity on dev
list yet (except for preparation of this report).
[ ] (crail) Luciano Resende
Comments:
[ ] (crail) Raphael Bircher
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Daffodil
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description
Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Obtain remaining SGA from NCSA
2. First release as an Apache Incubator
3. Broadening base of contributors and building the community
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?
- No additional committers or community growth, however activity on the
dev@daffodil list has increased, with multiple design discussions,
code reviews, and project discussions taking place.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- All tickets from the old JIRA system were successfully transferred to
ASF JIRA
- IBM has submitted their SGA. We are now only waiting on an SGA from
NCSA, who we believe is very close to submission. Once that is in, we
believe all necessary SGA's and CLA's will have been submitted and we
can begin the process of relicensing the Daffodil codebase to Apache
v2 and switching the package namespace to org.apache.daffodil
- Development pace has increased, with multiple issues, commits, and
pull requests having gone through the new Daffodil Code Contributor
Workflow
- Continuous integration has been enabled via TravisCI GitHub
Integration
- Migrated repository to GitBox
- A website has been developed based on the Apache Incubator Website
template. Still need to enable automatic building/publishing--
manually publishing for now.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
- None
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- None, same as project incubator inception
Signed-off-by:
[X](daffodil) John D. Ament
Comments: Solid on list communication. Waiting on SGAs to be
processed to relicense the code. Podling executed a non-ASF release in the
interim.
[X](daffodil) David Fisher
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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. Have frequent release cycles.
2. Continue to evolve community interest and support.
3. Keep up with Apache Beam's evolving API.
- 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 was a company managed to deploy Gearpump on their secured Hadoop
cluster. They reported some bugs occurred in their environment and
contributed the fixes back to Gearpump community.
- How has the project developed since the last report?
15 issues created and 9 issues resolved.
An official Gearpump docker image was published.
Continuous improvements for Gearpump Runner in Apache Beam were made.
Date of last release:
2017-07-17
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
Signed-off-by:
[X](gearpump) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
[ ](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
Comments:
[ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
Comments:
[ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
Comments:
[ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
Comments:
[ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Griffin
Griffin is a open source Data Quality solution for distributed data systems
at
any scale in both streaming or batch data context
Griffin has been incubating since 2016-12-05.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continuous enhancing to provide better accuracy and profing data
quality dimensions.
2. Release more dq dimensions like timeliness and completeness based on
feedbacks from community.
3. Onboard more user cases and grow the community.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- Apache Griffin 0.1.6-incubating released.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Four new contributors on-board, some more users had contacted us for
use cases.
- Discussed and Voting to on-board some committers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Active development is moving on well, 67 commits in last three months.
- Profiling measure for streaming mode has been developed.
- Scheduler has been optimized, support flexible job scheduling.
- UI module for profiling measure has been developed.
- Work toward for next version to support enhanced scheduler end to end,
and support more data quality dimensions.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-11-07
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- Initial set of committers / PPMC.
- Discussed and Voting to on-board some committers.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](griffin) Kasper Sørensen
Comments:
[ ](griffin) Uma Maheswara Rao Gangumalla
Comments:
[ ](griffin) Luciano Resende
Comments:
[ ](griffin) Henry Saputra
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Interesting project. Seems to be going well. No concerns. Dave Fisher.
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Hivemall
Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive
UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.
Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Create the first Apache release
2. Community growth (committers and users)
3. Documentation improvements
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?
* Got contributions from new external contributors
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pull/116
* Github watchers/stars are gradually increasing:
108 stars as of Dec 6 (was 99 on Sept 6)
* Twitter account @ApacheHivemall followers are gradually increasing:
101 followers as of Dec 6 (was 87 on Sept 6)
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Approaching the first Apache release while the released delayed
from Q3 to Q4.
- Blocking issues are decreased
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMALL-21
- Remaining tasks are just updating Maven release scheme and documents
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-15465
Since the last report, we have
* In the last 3 months, we opened 19 JIRA issues and closed 16 JIRA
issues
as seen in https://goo.gl/QFQEF5 (as of Dec 1)
Created Resolved
Sept 2017 3 8
Oct 2017 12 5
Nov 2017 4 3
* Created 14 Pull Requests and merged 21 Pull Requests between June 01
and Aug 31.
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20created%3A2017-09-01..2017-11-30
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20closed%3A2017-09-01..2017-11-30
How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your
own
commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[x] Working towards first release
[x] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
No release yet
(planning the first Apache release in Q4, 2017)
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* Oct 10: Invited Kento Nozawa as a committer
Signed-off-by:
[ ](hivemall) Reynold Xin
Comments:
[X](hivemall) Markus Weimer
Comments:
[ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng
Comments:
[ ](hivemall) Daniel Dai
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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HTrace
HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.
HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
How has the project developed since the last report?
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](htrace) Jake Farrell
Comments:
[ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
Comments:
[ ](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
Comments:
[ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
Comments:
[ ](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
Comments:
[ ](htrace) Michael Stack
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Myriad
Myriad enables co-existence of Apache Hadoop YARN and Apache Mesos together
on
the same cluster and allows dynamic resource allocations across both Hadoop
and other applications running on the same physical data center
infrastructure.
Myriad has been incubating since 2015-03-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Work on refactoring the existing code-base to take advantage of the
advances
made in the containerized orchestration space.
2. Make it easier for committers to get their changes reviewed and merged.
3. Come up with a roadmap of features for upcoming releases and work
towards release 0.3
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Couple of committers have volunteered to drive the project forward by
contributing
new features to make the project more relevant to the fast-changing
ecosystem, vet
releases, while improving the engagement with community.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The dev@ mailing had a discussion around retirement. No consensus.
How has the project developed since the last report?
There were two proposals on the mailing list about refactoring the project
to take
advantage of the advances in the containerized orchestration space.
Two of the committers also got together and discussed the initial re-factor
proposal.
One of the committers is going to send out a write about the refactor plan
to the
dev@ mailing list for review with other committers.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[x] Initial setup
[x] Working towards first release
[x] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2016-06-20 myriad-0.2.0-incubating
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2016-06-16 Yuliya Feldman
Signed-off-by:
[ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
Comments:
[ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
Comments:
[ ](myriad) Ted Dunning
Comments:
[ ](myriad) Luciano Resende
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Omid
Omid is a flexible, reliable, high performant and scalable ACID
transactional
framework that allows client applications to execute transactions on top of
MVCC key/value-based NoSQL datastores (currently Apache HBase) providing
Snapshot Isolation guarantees on the accessed data.
Omid has been incubating since 2016-03-28.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Boost project dissemination in the Apache community.
2. Collaborate/integrate Omid with other Apache projects.
3. Get positive feedback from other projects currently in Apache.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
N/A
How has the community developed since the last report?
Continue integration with Apache Phoenix
How has the project developed since the last report?
Critical fixes on security and HBase 0.x & 1.x integration.
HBase 0.x version being tested in prod environment at Yahoo.
Started testing HBase version 1.x in local environments.
Quarter Stats (from: 2017-09-01 to: 2017-11-30):
+---------------------------------------------+
| Metric | counts |
+---------------------------------------------+
| # of msgs in dev list | 53 |
| Active Contributors (incl mentors)| 8 |
| Jira New Issues | 5 |
| Resolved Issues | 1 |
| Pull Requests merged | 1 |
| Pull Requests proposed | 2 |
+---------------------------------------------+
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2016-06-24
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[X](omid) Alan Gates
Comments:
[ ](omid) Lars Hofhansl
Comments:
[ ](omid) Flavio P. Junqueira
Comments:
[ ](omid) Thejas Nair
Comments:
[x](omid) James Taylor
Comments:
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OpenWhisk
OpenWhisk is an open source, distributed Serverless computing platform able
to execute application logic (Actions) in response to events (Triggers)
from external sources (Feeds) or HTTP requests governed by conditional
logic (Rules). It provides a programming environment supported by a REST
API-based Command Line Interface (CLI) along with tooling to support
packaging and catalog services. Additionally, it now provides options to
host the platform components as Docker containers on various Container
Frameworks such as Mesos, Kunernetes, and Compose.
OpenWhisk has been incubating since 2016-11-23.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Est. release process for ZIP of source code
2. Increase additional company and individual Contributors to maintain
all project repos.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- It had been our intent to have Apache infra. to host our staging (and
move it out of disparate private builds within various companies). However,
INFRA indicates they only typically allocate 1 VM per project for use with
demos and minor things. They indicate that perhaps a corporate donation is
in order (ala. Spark).
- Goal: standup testing resources at Apache and utilize for public
CI and performance testing of OpenWhisk on Kubernetes
- Needed resources:
Minimum 5 worker node kubernetes cluster. Each worker nodes
can be fairly modest (2-4 virtual cores; 4-8GB of memory)
- Formal hand-off of OpenWhisk trademark/logo from IBM needs to be
executed; need to identify process for this.
Discussion started w/ Apache legal via "legal-discuss" mailing list
with subject "Trademark handoff for "OpenWhisk" name and logo".
How has the community developed since the last report?
- incubator-openwhisk Github stars: 2181 (+253 since last report)
- incubator-openwhisk GitHub forks: 469 (+52 since last report)
- dev mailing list activity continues to be active
- The bi-weekly Zoom "Technical Interchange" continues to be well
received and attended.
- Complete videos posted to OW YouTube channel and detailed notes to
our CWIKI.
- YouTube Channel: Apache Meetings Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4l9L8wyQlk&list=PLxVTI8yc_iX4qqr_45gduBFQxhSTfJ68g
- CWiki Meeting Notes: OpenWhisk Technical Interchange Meeting Notes:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/OpenWhisk+Technical+Interchange+Meeting+Notes
New Contributors of note (not comprehensive):
- Brendan McAddams: Red Hat: Akka expert working on creating separate
Akka dispatchers for CouchDB and Kafka Clients
- Kavitha Vallari Devara: Samsung FaaS team in "Open Service Lab of
Convergence Team (SW R&D Center): incubator-openwhisk organizing project
directory structure.
- Gabriel Nicolas Avellaneda: independent. CLI contributions
- Manjiri Tapaswi: N. Caroline State Univ. (NCSU): Fixed all "good
first issues" for "incubator-wskdeploy"
- Stig Bakken, Zedge (mobile phone customization), first review of PR
in Kube repo.
How has the project developed since the last report?
OpenWhisk general developments:
- Reorg. of "core" openwhisk directories to better match architecture
- Removal of openwhisk cli and cli related test cases
- Community agreed to Scala formatting guidelines; re-enforced via github
pre-commit hooks
- Focus on improved per-invocation (of Actions) performance via logging
and other improvements.
- Changed default logging backend from log4j to Logback
- Redis is now optional on deployment
- Support for metrics streaming (via plug-in, default Kamon).
- Continued focus in HA/Clustering enablement while continuing to reduce
reliance on Ansible for configuration. Work included:
- Enabling Controller HA support (defaults to active cluster of 2).
- Enabling CouchDB clustering
- Using ZooKeeper as persistent store for InvokerId assignment
- Adaptive timeouts for controller and nginx
- Programmatic lazy creation of completedN and invokerN topics
- Certificate checking for secure mode
- Now generating maven snapshot artifacts for some sub-projects
- Kubernetes deployment improvements:
- Moved Travis testing to using Minikube & more current Kubernetes version
(1.7.4)
- Significant progress on supporting deploy of complete OpenWhisk system
on Kubernetes, eliminating custom containers, and streamlining deploy
process
- Separation of Language runtimes into their own top-level repos.
including: docker (SDK) runtime, pythin, nodejs, java, php, swift
- Updates to Akka and focus on improving messaging
- Updates to improve API Gateway resiliency
- Nginx performance improved
- NodeJS 6 upgraded to 6.11.4
- NodeJS 8 support
- Swift 3.1.1 now default, deprecated Swift 3
openwhisk-package-deploy:
- New repo created with proper license, docs, tests, and Travis CI
- New action wskdeploy allows to deploy wskdeploy git repos
- New "managed" sync support
openwhisk-packages-cloudant/couchdb:
- Update to feed action to update trigger config (dbName)
- Update to feed action to return config and status
openwhisk-packages-kafka:
- New ability for feed action to return config and status
- Update to feed action to update trigger config (topic)
openwhisk-packages-alarms:
- New ability for feed action to return config and status
- New alarm trigger type interval
- New alarm trigger type fire once
- New StartDate and stopDate parameters for cron
openwhisk-cli:
- New canonical source after duplication removal from main repo
- New open issues moved from main repo to CLI repo
- New trigger feed lifecycles on `trigger get` and `trigger update`
Significant. discussions (dev list):
- Warm containers
- Are Java actions first class citizens?
- Git commit (accreditation)
- Moving out runtime images and tests
- Enablement of controller clustering
- Invoker activation queueing proposal
- proposal to remove trigger activations when no rules are matched
- [Scala] code style guideline
- NodeJS 8 support
- Use an explicit property to define type of Whisk entity
How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your
own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Comments:
Need greater variety of contributors and contributing companies
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
None during this period
Signed-off-by:
[ ](openwhisk) Felix Meschberger
Comments:
[ ](openwhisk) Isabel Drost-Fromm
Comments:
[ ](openwhisk) Sergio Fernández
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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PageSpeed
PageSpeed represents a series of open source technologies to help make the
web
faster by rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth.
PageSpeed has been incubating since 2017-09-30.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finish project setup
2. Community building
3. Create a first release
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?
- A new potential committer indicated interest in joining the PageSpeed
initiative
by maintaining the FreeBSD port he contributed and updating it to the
latest, and
upstreaming required changes to support the new platform to make future
updates
easier.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Some technical hurdles were encountered while trying to run the RAT tools
on
the codebase. The plan is to pick this up again after the initial code drop
has been
performed to the ASF repo.
- We are working on getting the source code into the ASF repository.
- Progress was made on new features and getting the module distributed more
widely.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2017-09-30 (entering incubation)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](pagespeed) Jukka Zitting
Comments:
[X](pagespeed) Leif Hedstrom
Comments:
[ ](pagespeed) Nick Kew
Comments:
[ ](pagespeed) Phil Sorber
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Pony Mail
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service,
that
can be integrated with many email platforms.
Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
How has the project developed since the last report?
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
Comments:
[ ](ponymail) John D. Ament
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Pulsar
Pulsar is a highly scalable, low latency messaging platform running on
commodity hardware. It provides simple pub-sub semantics over topics,
guaranteed at-least-once delivery of messages, automatic cursor management
for
subscribers, and cross-datacenter replication.
Pulsar has been incubating since 2017-06-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community with new Committers/PPMC members.
2. Set up a test cluster to be able to run system tests
3. Improve release process by having more committers taking part in
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 community added 5 contributors. There is a healthy discuss on issues
related
to development, tools and processes among the community members.
There has been a good number of questions asked by users on the Slack
channel
where there are around 33 weekly active users.
How has the project developed since the last report?
18 authors have pushed 150 commits to master in the last 3 months.
The project has made the its second release in the Apache Incubator on
October 13th.
The next release (1.21-incubating) is being voted right now in the dev
mailing list.
Several design documents with improvement proposals have been submitted to
the
wiki and discussed in the mailing list.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-10-13, 1.20.0-incubating
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
None
Signed-off-by:
[X](pulsar) Dave Fisher
Comments: Seems like the podling is engaging new contributors mostly
through slack channel.
We will need to make sure that enough information is
archived by either discussion on dev@ or
in some other way. They are on their fourth RC in the
current release and are doing things correctly.
[ ](pulsar) Jim Jagielski
Comments:
[ ](pulsar) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments:
[ ](pulsar) Francis Liu
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Quickstep
Quickstep is a high-performance database engine.
Quickstep has been incubating since 2016-03-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Work on adoption of the Quickstep technology.
2. Continue building a developer community.
3. Work towards a second release.
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 are a number of active developers working with the code base,
who may become committers in the near future.
How has the project developed since the last report?
A number of bug reports have been filed and features added to move
the single-node version of the system forward. The newer features
added to the system are accompanied by a JIRA issue. There is more
activity on the dev mailing list, and the newer members of the
community are involved in the discussions.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-03-25
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2017-10-03 Robert Claus (committer)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](quickstep) Konstantin Boudnik
Comments:
[x](quickstep) Julian Hyde
Comments:
Community building is this project's biggest challenge.
Robert Claus is, I believe, the first committer outside
of the UW team, so his appointment is good progress.
[ ](quickstep) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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SAMOA
SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the most
common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification,
clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop
new
algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines (DSPEs).
It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on several DSPEs
such as Apache Storm, Apache Flink, and Apache Samza.
SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Elect new PPMC members
2. Enlarge the community
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
Mailing list activity (September 2017 - November 2017):
* @dev: 49 messages
Jira issues backlog (September 2017 - November 2017):
* Created: 5
* Resolved: 1
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Planning a new release in the next month.
* Presentation at the Flink Forward Conference from Orange's team
* Integration of a new Boosting algorithm
* Improved Apache Kafka support and support for JSON and Avro.
* Improved SAMOA instances.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2016-09-30
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
None
Signed-off-by:
[X](samoa) Alan Gates
Comments: In response to shepherd's comments (see below) community
started a vote on a couple of contributors becoming committers.
[ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan
Comments:
[ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar
Comments:
[ ](samoa) Ted Dunning
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Concerned about the lack of community growth. Very few commits this year
yet there are pull requests by contributors.
Sent an email to private@samoa
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SDAP
SDAP is an integrated data analytic center for Big Science problems.
SDAP has been incubating since 2017-10-22.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow community
2. Make formal SDAP (Incubating) releases
3. Evangelize SDAP as an integrated data analytic center for Big Science
problems
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 have not formally reported before. We hope the community
to grow once we make our first Incubating release.
How has the project developed since the last report?
All infrastructure and codebase(s) have successfully been
transitioned over to the ASF. We are working to comply
with branding, trademarks and source code. This work is ongoing.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
No new committers or PPMC have been added other than the
original SDAP committers.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](sdap) Jörn Rottmann
Comments:
[ ](sdap) Raphael Bircher
Comments:
[ ](sdap) Suneel Marthi
Comments:
[X](sdap) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments: SDAP is doing pretty well. Branding,
trademarks and source code compliance are the
primary issues right now. Once these are addressed
SDAP can focus on the first Incubating release.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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SINGA
SINGA is a distributed deep learning platform.
SINGA has been incubating since 2015-03-17.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finish the existing jira tickets, especially the Keras API and
Open Neural Network Exchange format.
2. Prepare the graduation documents and start discussion in dev@ list.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
N/A
How has the community developed since the last report?
1 new developer (Wengtong Li) contributed to the repository.
1 new committer (Moaz) joined officially.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. We fixed several bugs related to Tensor operations and unit-testing.
2. Some new issues/features are created, mainly abut supporting including
Keras API and Open Neural Network Exchange format.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
We are discussing the graduation process and want to
start it with one more release.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-06-29
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2017-09-01
Signed-off-by:
[ ](singa) Daniel Dai
Comments:
[X](singa) Alan Gates
Comments:
[ ](singa) Ted Dunning
Comments:
[ ](singa) Thejas Nair
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Spot
Apache Spot is a solution stack that provides the capability to ingest IT
related telemetry (network flows, domain name service DNS, and proxy server
logs) and provide unsupervised machine learning capabilities to identify
suspicious activity. The information is organized and presented using
operational analytics so that a security analyst can investigate the most
suspicious connections. Apache Spot is built on and using Apache Spark and
Apache Hadoop.
Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Build diverse community
2. Continue building a strong and diverse body of PPMC members for long
term project continuity
3. Demonstrate ability to create releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* Based on React being re-licensed under the MIT license and remaining
compatible with Apache licensed projects, we have not moved forward on
replacing our use of the React framework at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
How has the project developed since the last report?
* We have passed a vote on implementing an ingest re-architecture.
* Branch for ingest re-architecture created
https://github.com/apache/incubator-spot/tree/spot-242-ingest
* Epic created in JIRA for ingest re-architecture
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPOT-185
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-09-08
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2017-06-02
Signed-off-by:
[ ](spot) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
Comments:
[ ](spot) Brock Noland
Comments:
[ ](spot) Andrei Savu
Comments:
[ ](spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Superset
Superset is an enterprise-ready web application for data exploration, data
visualization and dashboarding.
Superset has been incubating since 2017-05-21.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community and enroll new committers.
2. Plan and execute our first Apache release
3. Make progress
Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware
of?
* We’re working on finding a way to link Jira Issues to GitHub Issues as the
team has a preference for using GitHub Issues for tracking.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Organic growth of our Github contributors (184), forks (2,675), watchers
(888) and stars (16,969)
* Group of active committers meeting bi-weekly from Airbnb, Lyft and
Twitter (Apple joining soon)
* Slack channel for Apache Superset created at
https://apache-superset.slack.com/
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Committers have created initial UI/UX mocks and engineering plan for
redesign of Explore and Dashboarding views
* A healthy, constant flow of bug fixes, quality improvements and new
features, take a look at the project’s Pulse on Github for more details
* The team has completed all of the items on the Incubation Checklist
How does the podling rate their own maturity.
[ ] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release: No official release yet since being voted into Apache
Incubation. (Planning for the first Apache release in Q2, 2018)
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* Grace Guo - PPMC & Committer (2017-10-29)
* Chris Williams - PPMC & Committer (2017-10-20)
* John Bodley - PPMC & Committer (2017-10-20)
Signed-off-by:
[X](superset) Ashutosh Chauhan
Comments:
[X](superset) Luke Han
Comments:
[ ](superset) Jim Jagielski
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Taverna
Taverna is a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute
data-driven workflows.
Taverna has been incubating since 2014-10-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Re-engage PMC to encourage regular activity
2. Retiring irrelevant git repositories
3. Graduate!
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Community slow. Considering retiring, but will try one last push.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Quite a few pull requests, but need follow ups.
Non-PPMC committers have taken more charge in release preparation.
Email stats since 2017-09-01:
dev@taverna: 29
users@taverna: 2
How has the project developed since the last report?
Very slow progress towards graduation.
Some progress towards next releases - need implicit Release Manager
delegation.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2016-07-01
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2016-10-20
Signed-off-by:
[x](taverna) Andy Seaborne
Comments:
In Dec 2016, the report said "Preparing to graduate." In 2017, the dev@
list has been quiet and the last release was in 2016.
While the PPMC is large, not everyone has been active in incubation. I am
worried that pushing through graduation will only result in the same
situation as a TLP.
The community needs to consider what is the best environment for Taverna.
[ ](taverna) Daniel J Debrunner
Comments:
[ ](taverna) Marlon Pierce
Comments:
[x](taverna) Stian Soiland-Reyes
Comments: I have admitted lack of leadership. I think we should
seriously consider retiring, but only after a 6 month push towards getting
graduation done.
[ ](taverna) Suresh Marru
Comments:
[ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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.
Two most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Improve community engagement
2. 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?
- 1 new subscriber in dev mailing list since the last report
- 18 new JIRAs filed since the last report
- 1 external contributors submitted patches since the last report
- 1 external contributor created a ticket in JIRA since the last report
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Tephra 0.13.0-incubating released
- Working on 0.14.0-incubating release
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[x] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of the last release:
2017-09-21
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- None since coming to incubation
Signed-off-by:
[X](tephra) Alan Gates
Comments:
[ ](tephra) Andrew Purtell
Comments:
[x](tephra) James Taylor
Comments:
[ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Trafodion
Trafodion is a webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or
operational workloads on Hadoop.
Trafodion has been incubating since 2015-05-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
- New mentor added: Jacques Le Roux
- Slowly attracting more adopters and subscribers.
- ML postings: 37 user, 396 dev, 528 coderev, 668 issues, 533 commits
- Twitter: 228 followers, 73 tweets, 66 likes
How has the project developed since the last report?
* 115 commits from 17 contributors.
* 95 tickets filed and 78 resolved.
* We are working towards our next release, 2.2. Ming Liu is the Release
Manager.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[x] Other:
Request to graduate submitted to board after discussions.
Date of last release:
2017-05-01 2.1
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2017-03-10
Signed-off-by:
[ ](trafodion) Michael Stack
Comments:
[X](trafodion) Jacques Le Roux
Comments: I'm new to this poddling, but I have already seen that the
activity is steady, the CI pipeline is working good and over
all
I like the responsiveness and kindness of the community.
Ready for graduation!
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Wave
A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication.
It
can be used like email, chat, or a document.
Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Wave project had low levels of activity and no active contributions. The
community discusses how to proceed with project termination.
How has the community developed since the last report?
How has the project developed since the last report?
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](wave) Upayavira
Comments:
[ ](wave) John D. Ament
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
