> On Dec 11, 2017, at 9:36 AM, John D. Ament <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The typical steps a podling would take:
>
> - Post a report on a common ground (e.g. email, confluence, or other)
> - Let others know where it is
> - Discuss it and get others to contribute into it
> - When the report comes through, post it on the incubator wiki, e.g.
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/December2017 (link changes each month)
>
> The report generally looks fine, but I would change it so that only "[X]
> Community building" is checked. My current comment from the wiki still
> holds "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."
>
> Basically what that second sentence means is that we shouldn't be reliant
> on one person to do the report.
Trust me, I am fully willing to share in the “fun” for the next report.
*)
—Tom
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 9:05 AM Thomas Nadeau <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> The AriaTosca report was submitted last Thursday (at least made
>> available) and is available here:
>>
>>
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ARIATOSCA/Podling+Report+2017-DEC-12
>> <
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ARIATOSCA/Podling+Report+2017-DEC-12
>>>
>>
>> I was not made aware of any special process for submitting this
>> other than letting everyone know on the
>> mailer that it was being created and where it was in case folks wanted to
>> comment. If there is anything
>> else needed for this let me know.
>>
>> —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:
>>
>>
