John,
Why didn’t you take the podling report I posted from last week? What
you have here is just a blank template. I
filled all of the information in.
—Tom
> On Dec 10, 2017, at 9:36 AM, John D. Ament <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------
> 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.
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> -----------------------
> 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:
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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.
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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:
