The details shared in the email sound great. Will follow up after reading the links, in the event anything seems really concerning.
On Tue, May 31, 2022, 6:49 PM Joshua Poore <poor...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > I’m very excited to say that the University of Maryland has executed an > CCLA with Software Grant for the Apache Flagon project! > > The Software Grant encompasses a refactor of the Apache Flagon Distill > product, which has been deprecated for a few years now [1] > > This Grant includes ~150 new commits and thousands of new insertions (and > a lot of deletions) > > At UMD my team and I re-thought Distill as a Python Package (for distro > through PyPI) [2] that allows users to: > > - efficiently segment UserALE.js (or User Behavior Logs) data > - curate segments > - transform segments with logical operations (intersection, union, etc.) > - filter log data extracted from segments > - apply analytics (e.g., statistical, graphs) to data extracted from > segments > - support graph-based visualization (funnel, sankey) > > Additionally: > - code is well documented [3] > - excellent working examples [4] > > Distill also provides examples for dashboards to visualize segments using > both Apache Superset and Plotly/Dash > > The original Distill product was tethered to a front-end (Tap), relied on > rudimentary (and error-prone) processing of segments within the client. > This made Distill difficult to maintain and required users to adopt tap, > limiting their analytical use-cases with UserALE.js and Distill. > > Overall, I think that Distill provides a far more scaleable product to > engage (and expand) our development community. I think this will add real > value to Apache Flagon. > > Overhead/Actions prior to release: > > - Documentation builds will need be adjusted for a new repo/branch > - Additional documentation for a few analytical functions (i.e., > click-rate) > - Minor tweaks to simply code in a few functions (i.e., click-rate) > - Some restructuring of Repo to consolidate and organize examples > - a few additional README’s should be added (i.e., examples /dir) > > IP Clearance > > The Software Grant is signed by Felicia Metz, esq. who is an Associate > Director at the University of Maryland’s, UMD Ventures office, which has > authority to release UMD IP. That makes accepting this grant significantly > easier from an IP Clearance perspective. > > New Committers > > The UMD executed CCLA includes 5 new committers and potentially new PPMC > members. > > Prior to initiating a VOTE on private@ I wanted to give the community an > opportunity to chime in and ask questions. The New Committers listed are > already subscribed to the dev list. > > Let’s take 72 hours to DISCUSS prior to a VOTE. > > Best, > > Josh > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-flagon-distill < > https://github.com/apache/incubator-flagon-distill> > [2] > https://github.com/UMD-ARLIS/incubator-flagon-distill/tree/distill_toolkit_refactor > < > https://github.com/UMD-ARLIS/incubator-flagon-distill/tree/distill_toolkit_refactor> > > [3] > https://incubator-flagon-distill.readthedocs.io/en/distill_toolkit_refactor/ > < > https://incubator-flagon-distill.readthedocs.io/en/distill_toolkit_refactor/> > > [4] > https://github.com/UMD-ARLIS/incubator-flagon-distill/blob/distill_toolkit_refactor/examples/Segments_Demo.ipynb > < > https://github.com/UMD-ARLIS/incubator-flagon-distill/blob/distill_toolkit_refactor/examples/Segments_Demo.ipynb> >
