Sorry I was on paternity leave last two weeks, didn't have time to check it. Maybe you can also help on this next time.
Thanks Jerry 2018-01-09 4:32 GMT+08:00 Alex Bozarth <[email protected]>: > Saw that we didn't report this month, any reason why, or was everyone just > on holiday? > > > *Alex Bozarth* > Software Engineer > Spark Technology Center > ------------------------------ > *E-mail:* *[email protected]* <[email protected]> > *GitHub: **github.com/ajbozarth* <https://github.com/ajbozarth> > > > 505 Howard Street > <https://maps.google.com/?q=505+Howard+Street+San+Francisco,+CA+94105+United+States&entry=gmail&source=g> > San Francisco, CA 94105 > <https://maps.google.com/?q=505+Howard+Street+San+Francisco,+CA+94105+United+States&entry=gmail&source=g> > United States > <https://maps.google.com/?q=505+Howard+Street+San+Francisco,+CA+94105+United+States&entry=gmail&source=g> > > > > [image: Inactive hide details for "John D. Ament" ---01/08/2018 11:06:22 > AM---All, Below is the current draft on the incubator report.]"John D. > Ament" ---01/08/2018 11:06:22 AM---All, Below is the current draft on the > incubator report. We have a high number > > From: "John D. Ament" <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, > [email protected], "[email protected]" < > [email protected]>, "[email protected]" < > [email protected]>, "[email protected]" < > [email protected]>, "[email protected]" < > [email protected]>, [email protected], > [email protected], "[email protected]" < > [email protected]>, [email protected], " > [email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: 01/08/2018 11:06 AM > Subject: [DRAFT] Incubator PMC Board Report - January 2018 > ------------------------------ > > > > All, > > Below is the current draft on the incubator report. We have a high number > of podlings not reporting. They are CC'd in hopes they can report. > > Incubator PMC report for January 2018 > > 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 in the inubator. We added two new podlings > in December, and executed four podling releases. Two new PMC members > joined, in support of mentoring podlings. > > * Community > > New IPMC members: > > - Stefan Bodewig > - Carl Johan Erik Edstrom > > People who left the IPMC: > > > > * New Podlings > > - PLC4X > - SkyWalking > > * Podlings that failed to report, expected next month > > - Annotator > - Crail > - HTrace > - Livy > - Milagro > - Myriad > - SDAP > - SensSoft > - Spot > - Wave > > * Podlings missing sign off > > - Airflow > - ODF Toolkit > > * Graduations > > The board has motions for the following: > > - Your podling here? > - Your podling here? > > * Releases > > The following releases entered distribution during the month of > December: > > - 2017-12-03 Apache MXNet 1.0.0 > - 2017-12-13 Apache BatchEE 0.5 > - 2017-12-14 Apache Edgent 1.2.0 > - 2017-12-17 Apache Pulsar 1.21.0 > > * IP Clearance > > > > * Legal / Trademarks > > > > * Infrastructure > > > > * Miscellaneous > > > > * Credits > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Table of Contents > Airflow > Amaterasu > Annotator > BatchEE > Crail > DataFu > FreeMarker > Gobblin > Gossip > HAWQ > HTrace > Livy > Milagro > MXNet > Myriad > NetBeans > ODF Toolkit > PageSpeed > PLC4X > Pony Mail > Rya > SDAP > SensSoft > ServiceComb > SkyWalking > Spot > Traffic Control > Wave > Weex > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------- > Airflow > > Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to > author and manage data pipelines. > > Airflow has been incubating since 2016-03-31. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. We have completed 4 apache releases. We are nearing graduation! > 2. > 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? > 1. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Sept 25 & Dec > 26, inclusive), we grew our contributors from 315 to 360 > 2. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Sept 25 & Dec > 26, inclusive), we resolved 221 pull requests (currently at 2018 closed > PRs) > 3. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies > officially using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 123, 9 new from > the last podling report. > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > See above : 221 PR resolved, 45 new contributors, & 9 new companies > officially using it. > > > 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: > > 2018-01-02 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > 2017-11-30 joygao a.k.a Joy Gao (committer/PMC) > > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](airflow) Chris Nauroth > Comments: > [ ](airflow) Hitesh Shah > Comments: > [ ](airflow) Jakob Homan > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Amaterasu > > Apache Amaterasu is a framework providing continuous deployment for Big > Data Pipelines. > > It provides the following capabilities: > > Continuous integration tools to package pipelines and run tests. > A repository to store those packaged applications: the applications > repository. > A repository to store the pipelines, and engine configuration (for > instance, the location of the Spark master, etc.): per environment - the > configuration repository. > A dashboard to monitor the pipelines. > A DSL and integration hooks allowing third parties to easily integrate. > > Amaterasu has been incubating since 2017-09. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Prepare the first release > 2. Grow up user and contributor communities > 3. Prepare documentation > > 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 planning meeting for the next version was held online and most tasks > have been assigned to contributors > * Tow new contributors have started setting up their dev environment and > are getting support from the community > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * YARN support is almost completed and a PR is planned to be issued > within the next couple of weeks > * The Amaterasu cli tools for version 0.2.0-incubating is awaiting YARN > support to be completed for integration > * the above tasks are the last two outstanding issues before releasing > version 0.2.0 and the community is getting ready for its first release in > the incubator > > Date of last release: > > N/A > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > N/A > > How would you assess the podling's maturity? > > [ ] Initial setup > [X] Working towards first release > [ ] Community building > [ ] Nearing graduation > [ ] Other: > > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](amaterasu) Jean-Baptiste Onofré > Comments: > [ ](amaterasu) Olivier Lamy > Comments: > [X](amaterasu) Davor Bonaci > Comments: visible progress in the last month > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Annotator > > Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and > humans. > > Annotator has been incubating since 2016-08-30. > > 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: > > [ ](annotator) Nick Kew > Comments: > [ ](annotator) Brian McCallister > Comments: > [ ](annotator) Daniel Gruno > Comments: > [ ](annotator) Jim Jagielski > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > BatchEE > > BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and a > set of useful extensions for this specification. > > BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > None > > 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? > > Community is stable. We still get feedback and have active people around. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > We got some bugfixes. > > 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: > > 2017-12-01 batchee-0.5-incubating > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > 2015-12-01 Reinhard Sandtner > > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré > Comments: > [ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy > Comments: > [X](batchee) Mark Struberg > 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. > 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: > > [ ](crail) Julian Hyde > Comments: > [ ](crail) Luciano Resende > Comments: > [ ](crail) Raphael Bircher > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > DataFu > > DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in > higher > level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides functions > for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream > sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop > jobs > for incremental data processing in MapReduce. > > DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Address IPMC feedback raised during graduation discussion > 2. Positive IPMC recommendation vote for graduation > 3. Continue 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? > > One new contributor (Yuval Allweil) > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Upgraded Guava and Gradle versions. > Addressed many website issues raised in graduation discussion. Whimsy > report now mostly green. > Rat task automatically run as part of build. > New UDFs for diffing tuples and computing hashes. > > 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: > > 2017-03-10 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > July 2016 (Eyal Allweil) > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan > Comments: > [X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik > Comments: In my view the podling is ready to graduate at this point. > [ ](datafu) Ted Dunning > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > -------------------- > FreeMarker > > FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text > output > based on templates. FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library > for > programmers. > > FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > We have a large user base but a rather small group of committers. > This was actually expected, given the maturity (and topic) of the project. > While the FreeMarker 3 branch, which was started 11 month ago, will be > much > more appealing for contributors, development and growth due to that will > certainly take a long time. In other respects the project is mature and > ready for graduation. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > We are eager to graduate but we're afraid that the number of active > contributors will prevent that in the foreseeable future. But remaining in > the incubator for several years is a growing problem as well, so at this > point we will attempt graduation. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > We have two new PPMC members, Jacques Le Roux and Woonsan Ko. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > There was further discussion about graduation, and we will very soon have > a graduation vote on > the podling list. We have done some preparations, like we have switched > from freemarker.org > to freemarker.apache.org as our official domain, created the DOAP file, > adjusted home page > content to align better with the recommendations. > > We have also made a new release (2.3.27-incubating). > > 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: > > 2017-11-03 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > 2017-11-13 Jacques Le Roux (PPMC) > 2017-11-09 Woonsan Ko (PPMC) > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato > Comments: > [ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere > Comments: > [X](freemarker) David E. Jones > Comments: > [X](freemarker) Ralph Goers > Comments: > [X](freemarker) Sergio Fernández > Comments: I feel that the podling is ready for graduation. > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > -------------------- > Gobblin > > Gobblin is a distributed data integration framework that simplifies common > aspects of big data integration such as data ingestion, replication, > organization and lifecycle management for both streaming and batch data > ecosystems. > > Gobblin has been incubating since 2017-02-23. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Make frequent 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? > > * Gobblin has seen an exciting growth on the community front. It has grown > into a diverse self-sustained community, where non-committer members are > often seen helping out each other on mailing lists and Gitter IRC (on most > days more than the committers). Many contributors have also stepped up and > contributed with important features and taken up ownership of critical > components. > * 70% of commits have been from non-committer contributors. > * Email stats since last report: > [email protected] : 92 > [email protected] : 671 > * Heavy activity on Gitter IRC channel (while the community uses Gitter > IRC, it also does self policing and consciously moves any discussion-thread > beyond casual chatter to the mailing lists) > * There have been 148 Commits since last report: > git log --format='%ci' | grep -cE > '(2017-0(9))|(2017-1(0|1|2)|(2018-0(1)))' > * 103 ie. 70% of those commits were by non-committers: > git log --format='%ae %ci' | grep -E > '(2017-0(9))|(2017-1(0|1|2)|(2018-0(1)))' | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort | uniq > -c | sort -n > * Recurring video conference based meetup has been happening every month > with healthy attendance. > * Gobblin was presented and well received in various conferences eg. Strata > etc. > * More companies have adopted Gobblin, and different members of PPMC have > received positive feedback and interest. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * Several new powerful features have been added to Gobblin that have > enhanced Gobblin to be more valuable in Stream processing as it is in batch > data world. > * Gobblin interestingly has started to evolve into an ecosystem rather than > a singular platform with addition of major sub-systems such as > Gobblin-as-a-Service (PaaS for Gobblin as well as non-Gobblin systems), > Global Throttling (can be used with any distributed system) and existing > Gobblin metrics. > * Documentation and stability has improved across the board. > * Release v0.12.0 is being voted on right now. > * The Apache way has become the normal way of doing things. > > How would you assess the podling's maturity? > > Gobblin has made good progress on the Community front and overall as a > project. However, before calling it nearing graduation, we will like to > make atleast couple of releases. > > [ ] Initial setup > [X] Working towards first release > [X] Community building > [ ] Nearing graduation > [ ] Other: > > Date of last release: > > v0.12.0 is being voted on right now. > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > Joel Baranick in December, 2017. > (We have a few more strong contributors that we are looking to vote in > soon) > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](gobblin) Jean-Baptiste Onofré > Comments: > [X](gobblin) Olivier Lamy > Comments: > [ ](gobblin) Jim Jagielski > Comments: > > -------------------- > Gossip > > Gossip is an implementation of the Gossip Protocol. > > Gossip has been incubating since 2016-04-28. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Continue making releases > 2. Grow community by getting more active committers > > > 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? > > There have been a few code additions that are in the review process > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Activity has slowed since the last report. > > How would you assess the podling's maturity? > > We need more active committers to become more mature. > Please feel free to add your own commentary. > > The GSOC period had several spurts of activity. We need to begin creating > more tickets that new committers can get involved in and find more people > to do diligent code reviews. > > [ ] Initial setup > [ ] Working towards first release > [X] Community building > [ ] Nearing graduation > [ ] Other: > > Date of last release: > > 2017-03-01 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > Feb 2017 > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](gossip) P. Taylor Goetz > Comments: > [X](gossip) Josh Elser > Comments: Activity has definitely tapered off over the last quarter. > Not sure if a short-term lull or a sign that all activity will fall off > soon. > [ ](gossip) Drew Farris > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > HAWQ > > > HAWQ is an advanced enterprise SQL on Hadoop analytic engine built around a > robust and high-performance massively-parallel processing (MPP) SQL > framework > evolved from Pivotal Greenplum Database. > > HAWQ has been incubating since 2015-09-04. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards > graduation: > > 1. Continue to improve the project's release cadence. To this > end we plan on expanding automation services to support > increased developer participation. (HAWQ-127) > 2. Licenses: Check Apache HAWQ mandatory libraries to match LC20, LC30 > license criteria. (HAWQ-1512) > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need > to be aware of? > > Nothing urgent at this time. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > 1. Conference Talks (2): > > * The nature of cloud database. The 7th Data Technology Carnival (Speaker: > Lei Chang, Nov 17, 2017) > > * New Data Warehouse: Apache HAWQ. 2017 Global Internet Technology > Conference (Speaker: Lei Chang, Nov 24, 2017) > > > 2. Active contributions from approximately 20 different community > contributors since the last report. > > 3. Three committer candidates passed the voting process: > > 1) Amy BAI > 2) ChunLing WANG > 3) Hongxu MA > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > 1. The scope of 2.3 release is finalized, and is under development > > 1) New Feature: HAWQ Ranger supports RPS HA. (Done) > 2) New Feature: HAWQ Ranger supports Kerberos authentication. (Done) > 3) New Feature: HAWQ Core supports plugable external storage framework. > (Almost Done HAWQ-786) > 4) New Feature: HAWQ Core supports HDFS TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) > through libHdfs3. (Done, HAWQ-1193) > 5) Licenses: Fix PXF license files located in PXF jar files. (Done > HAWQ-1496) > 6) Licenses: Check Apache HAWQ mandatory libraries to match LC20, LC30 > license criteria. (Not started HAWQ-1512) > 7) Build: Release build project (On going HAWQ-127) > 8) Bug fixes. (On going) > > Project page link: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cwiki. > apache.org_confluence_display_HAWQ_Apache-2BHAWQ-2B2.3.0.0- > 2Dincubating-2BRelease&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_ > S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ-cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD- > OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=-pw2t8Ekv7dkI_ > hcDINoCu9FmINcJoQCsVrPWRO8s84&e= > > > > 2. The community discussed the future of PXF with the addition of the > pluggable storage feature: Pluggable storage formats and files systems vs. > PXF > > > 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: > > 2017-07-12, Apache HAWQ 2.2.0.0 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > 1) Amy BAI: Nov 1, 2017 > 2) ChunLing WANG: Nov 1, 2017 > 3) Hongxu MA: Nov 4, 2017 > > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](hawq) Alan Gates > Comments: > [ ](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik > Comments: > [ ](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz > Comments: > [ ](hawq) Thejas Nair > Comments: > [X](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik > 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: > > > > -------------------- > Livy > > Livy is web service that exposes a REST interface for managing long running > Apache Spark contexts in your cluster. With Livy, new applications can be > built on top of Apache Spark that require fine grained interaction with > many > Spark contexts. > > Livy has been incubating since 2017-06-05. > > 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: > > [ ](livy) Bikas Saha > Comments: > [ ](livy) Brock Noland > Comments: > [ ](livy) Luciano Resende > Comments: > [ ](livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofre > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Milagro > > Distributed Cryptography; M-Pin protocol for Identity and Trust > > Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21. > > 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: > > [ ](milagro) Sterling Hughes > Comments: > [ ](milagro) Nick Kew > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > MXNet > > Apache MXNet is an open-source, scalable, distributed and high-performance > deep learning framework that allows you to define, train, and deploy deep > neural networks on a wide array of devices, from cloud infrastructure to > mobile devices. It is highly scalable, allowing for fast model training, > and supports a flexible programming model and multiple languages. Apache > MXNet allows you to mix symbolic and imperative programming flavors to > maximize both efficiency and productivity. Apache MXNet is built on a > dynamic dependency scheduler that automatically parallelizes both symbolic > and imperative operations on the fly. A graph optimization layer on top of > that makes symbolic execution fast and memory efficient. The Apache MXNet > library is portable and lightweight, and it scales to multiple GPUs and > multiple machines. > > > Apache MXNet has been incubating since 2017-01-23. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Establish a predictable release process consistent with Apache Way -- > ONGOING. > 2. Grow the community -- ONGOING. > 3. Bring website up to Apache standard -- ONGOING > 4. Identify remaining ICLAs or SGAs that need signing -- ONGOING > > 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) Various Slack channels, dev@ mailing lists, and user discussion forums > ( > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__discuss. > mxnet.io&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_ > S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ-cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD- > OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=ugaOYs-valEa-AlfCJARCuNgB_zwd1fA- > 8BxuyeK3kE&e=) are being used actively. The contributors have > been working on having all discussions on the public dev@ mailing list as > much as possible. If some discussions happen in private, they are > eventually brought out on dev@ with all perspectives well-represented. > This > is an ongoing improvement process where the discussion will be put on the > public dev@ mailing list so that the Apache MXNet community gets a fair > chance in influencing the final outcome/decision of the discussion. > > > b) O’Reilly published a series of blogs about MXNet, including ones with > deep matrix factorization using Apache MXNet: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www. > oreilly.com_ideas_sentiment-2Danalysis-2Dwith-2Dapache- > 2Dmxnet&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_ > S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ-cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD- > OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=SGCEkSxsdQOdZzwuByyb2y1hKtnaVz > iciU2G59CPAeA&e= > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www. > oreilly.com_ideas_deep-2Dmatrix-2Dfactorization- > 2Dusing-2Dapache-2Dmxnet&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_ > S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ-cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD- > OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=Lmr5Dosjs9T1kCOe9bB2tOGVSgI4IF > r8lmbLoLQaBX0&e= > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www. > oreilly.com_ideas_apache-2Dmxnet-2Din-2Dthe-2Dwolfram- > 2Dlanguage&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_ > S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ-cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD- > OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=W8bJmzSmq98dJzAJPQxKgyvYS4- > Pm2aoc1sLa7j02uk&e= > > c) A blog post published on 25-Oct about MXNet – an open source binary > neural network implementation based on MXNet: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aws. > amazon.com_blogs_ai_research-2Dspotlight-2Dbmxnet-2Dan- > 2Dopen-2Dsource-2Dbinary-2Dneural-2Dnetwork-2Dimplementation-2Dbased-2Don- > 2Dmxnet_&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_ > S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ-cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD- > OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=N6_5GPS3Iyn0AYDEqKgSDBImFR6PYXYPx > 3375R3RxdM&e= > > d) A blog post published on 01-Nov about the availability of Nvidia Volta > GPU support and Sparse Tensor support: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aws. > amazon.com_blogs_ai_apache-2Dmxnet-2Drelease-2Dadds-2Dsupport-2Dfor-2Dnew- > 2Dnvidia-2Dvolta-2Dgpus-2Dand-2Dsparse-2Dtensor_&d=DwIFaQ&c= > jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ- > cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD-OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_ > PoIeY&s=9PxMbPTR5KtvKSdF_Y-bc8wScUw4jvKdu3iaCDsBQ5s&e= > > e) A new blog post published on 08-Nov showing MXNet 0.12 extends Gluon > Functionality: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aws. > amazon.com_blogs_ai_apache-2Dmxnet-2Dversion-2D0-2D12-2Dextends-2Dgluon- > 2Dfunctionality-2Dto-2Dsupport-2Dcutting-2Dedge-2Dresearch_&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_ > iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ- > cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD-OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s= > wbdrkM6wcsC4wIQhUDAu6MiFwRjneKmOqnSatMbNwqY&e= > > f) A blog post published on 08-Nov introducing Model Server for MXNet: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aws. > amazon.com_blogs_ai_introducing-2Dmodel-2Dserver- > 2Dfor-2Dapache-2Dmxnet_&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_ > S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ-cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD- > OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=aGlsMqQx4QCko1T- > gM9Q6kKcOlUhIhcN6ZW5bnpZVIs&e= > > g) A blog post published on 7-Nov demonstrating performance and > scalability of MXNet: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ > techburst.io_mxnet-2Dthe-2Dreal-2Dworld-2Ddeep-2Dlearning-2Dframework- > 2D2690e56ef81f&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_ > S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ-cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD- > OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=K7rZ7FhlCvgL5UG1NXfVhSSdIAzATD > Rxlsj5d1xiZDc&e= > > h) Members of the community have conducted open meetups to share > information on Apache MXNet: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www. > meetup.com_Apache-2DMXNet-2Dlearning-2Dgroup_&d=DwIFaQ& > c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ- > cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD-OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=- > GlxhzjcNsIMUuFBN3Sc0VVBjS8HmhNwCs-u_ZMkWqY&e= > > i) Talks on Apache MXNet have been held in various universities and > conferences across the world including US, China, etc.: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www. > youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3Dme1qOzSg8MU&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_ > iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ- > cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD-OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s= > uvmoSnGXkdf4r5zH1r7HW7MQR3pf_1xC5FKC7DoWG-c&e= > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www. > youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3D9IrvDHRQaaA&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_ > iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ- > cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD-OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=s1WnlVCyJUzRU3_ > nY8b57pfRIbSW82zKkbuygaKavD4&e= > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www. > youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3D4PbSZRYXa3o&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_ > iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ- > cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD-OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_ > PoIeY&s=Coo7uGf68DjrC8Y-wSKEwwpxNmk8NBe5VZT59a0miN4&e= > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www. > youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DRRy-2D3VXA0nw&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_ > iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ- > cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD-OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s= > FQacWb42clw6mYPq3vGZkI26hJVlpnxy3n_V7JUrYxw&e= > > j) MXNet 1.0 was released on 04-Dec, 2017 with extensive support and help > from various community members and timely guidance from the Apache MXNet > Mentors. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > a. The community released MXNet 1.0 that is production ready, simplifies > deep learning experience, and significantly improves performance with > cutting-edge features described here: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs. > apache.org_mxnet_entry_milestone-2Dv1-2D0-2Drelease-2Dfor&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_ > iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ- > cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD-OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=7Ys6dS3kY- > Ekm28NNIbp39nKo8us-ruc18Vp-7KHHm0&e= > > b. From a statistics perspective, based on the Github insights, found > here: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github. > com_apache_incubator-2Dmxnet_pulse_monthly&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_ > iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ- > cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD-OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_ > PoIeY&s=EM1-aqJhTNAfevYLCDhx-UlYBeEld7ef3ePupAGcMvQ&e=, in Dec 2017, > > 51 authors pushed 115 commits to master, with updates to 489 files > including 13K additions and 9K deletions. Historically, in Sep 2017, 62 > authors pushed 171 commits to master, with updates to 467 files including > 26K additions and 7K deletions. Historically, in July 2017, 54 authors > pushed 140 commits to master, with updates to 358 files including 22K > additions and 3K deletions. > > c. Documentation- Architecture guides, How To’s, Tutorials, and APIs > continue to be improved. > > d. Support for Perl language bindings - contributed by Sergey Kolychev. > > e. More advanced features (e.g. sparse tensor, advanced indexing, gradient > compression) and bug-fixes requested by the user community continue to be > added. > > f. Community took complete end-to-end ownership of the continuous > integration process in order to enable reliable testing on a wide set of > back ends (IoT devices to GPU clusters). > > > > How would you assess the podling's maturity? > > Podling is still being established in Apache - hence maturity == Low. > > Please feel free to add your own commentary. > > [ ] Initial setup > [ ] Working towards first release > [X] Community building > [ ] Nearing graduation > [ ] Other: > > Date of last release: > > 2017-12-04 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > Sergey Kolychev was elected as a committer and PPMC member in October 2017 > for contributing the Perl language bindings. > There is a plan to convert more contributors into committers in early 2018. > > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](mxnet) Sebastian Schelter > Comments: > [X](mxnet) Suneel Marthi > Comments: > [X](mxnet) Henri Yandell > Comments: > [X](mxnet) Markus Weimer > 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. > 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: > > [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman > Comments: > [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper > Comments: > [ ](myriad) Ted Dunning > Comments: > [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > NetBeans > > NetBeans is a development environment, tooling platform and application > framework. > > NetBeans has been incubating since 2016-10-01. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Donating remaining NetBeans code from Oracle to Apache. > 2. Moving netbeans.org to Apache. > 3. Voting in new committers. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > None. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > - Voting process for new committers has been documented for the first > time, with mentors: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cwiki. > apache.org_confluence_display_NETBEANS_Becoming-2Ba- > 2Bcommitter&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_ > S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ-cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD- > OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=dpiRP5tIn2m0Z3dL3c9pfYCWXGcrd8 > zqC5a3vRvWGFM&e= > - The start has been made in voting on new committers, though because the > process wasn't clear, we stopped and put together the document above before > continuing. > - All NetBeans.org mailing lists have been contacted and everyone has > been encouraged to move to Apache NetBeans mailing lists. > - NetBeans.org mailing lists scheduled to be deleted (they're backed up > on MarkMail) in the first week of 2018. > - A new Apache NetBeans announce mailing list has been created for those > who want high level occasional announcements only, not day to day NetBeans > e-mails. > - GitHub commits and notifications are now sent to new dedicated mailing > lists to reduce the noise in the Apache NetBeans dev mailing list. > - Standard footers have been added to mails with info about how to > unsubscribe and where to get all the mailing list info ( > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cwiki. > apache.org_confluence_display_NETBEANS_Mailing-2Blists&d= > DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ- > cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD-OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_ > PoIeY&s=KPrSZxlKS8m2HWyPV_tmrno0AuRFAjdI8CaA2N6BN2A&e=). > - Currently over 550 on Apache NetBeans users mailing list and over 350 > on Apache NetBeans dev mailing lists > - Continual activity on mailing lists, new pull requests coming in and > being integrated, i.e., continually active community. > - Status report done live with several Apache NetBeans community members, > plus one Apache NetBeans mentor, at Devoxx Belgium December 2017: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www. > youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DEkfX-2DW0tgNo&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_ > iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ- > cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD-OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=wby3wKKC4Z0QYn_ > onHhMCeauoqN06l1YE6pc1Q4NGHE&e= > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > - Audit of 2nd code donation from Oracle is complete and is being > processed for donation, see end of this page: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cwiki. > apache.org_confluence_display_NETBEANS_Apache-2BTransition& > d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ- > cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD-OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_ > PoIeY&s=kzfdiLssEwE892HUYwmQ7-rhxOgHruEn8ksJoK_TmIs&e= > - Alpha of Apache NetBeans (incubating) has been released: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cwiki. > apache.org_confluence_display_NETBEANS_Apache-2BNetBeans- > 2B9.0-2BAlpha&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_ > S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ-cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD- > OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=O_VjqtTIhWwXQmFttZJ9Yyl- > 8EK1hRcAIyu-RmlUlu8&e= > - Beta of Apache NetBeans (incubating) is nearing completion and ready > for vote threads: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cwiki. > apache.org_confluence_display_NETBEANS_Apache-2BNetBeans- > 2B9.0-2BBeta&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_ > S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ-cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD- > OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=Ya52S-bCPk0CqoUiXDoMetKp11Er3j3VfWcg > HmMOixI&e= > - A special aspect of Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 Beta is the > ability for the user to need to specify whether they want to use the GPL-ed > nb-javac (which is an Apache requirement, i.e., the user needs to take the > onus of using binaries that are not compliant with Apache licensing > requirements) or javac directly from JDK 9 (which thus complies with Apache > licenses, though has less solid integration with NetBeans): > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cwiki. > apache.org_confluence_display_NETBEANS_Java-2BEditor- > 2BUsing-2BJDK-2Bjavac&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_ > S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ-cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD- > OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=jEiku8O6zRWa2bcq2dJz1x0rRDNVHl > QqUl8FEhyPXfU&e= > - see also https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__issues. > apache.org_jira_browse_LEGAL-2D279&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_ > S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ-cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD- > OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=9zwBXi89hWHW25J5zkLOkyLCtjOeAa > RC81smI-SKbqw&e= > - Plan was to work on Beta release during last week of the year, but > holiday season got in the way. > - Repo created for cleaning up netbeans.org website, with content and > instructions included: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github. > com_apache_incubator-2Dnetbeans-2Dwebsite-2Dcleanup&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_ > iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ- > cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD-OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s= > zedmqwG5NocwtpmO04UkqfMzzzOW5DeC88n6K8PhpPs&e= > - New Apache NetBeans wiki-export tool has been added to > apache-netbeans-incubator-tools: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github. > com_apache_incubator-2Dnetbeans-2Dtools&d=DwIFaQ&c= > jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ- > cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD-OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s= > BA8D1Ek52RjkiS2lkXMmrVV-qDAZReHhmTG54SsOMb4&e= > > 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: > > 2017-11-29 Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 Alpha [RC2] > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > Process for becoming a committer has been documented ( > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cwiki. > apache.org_confluence_display_NETBEANS_Becoming-2Ba- > 2Bcommitter&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_ > S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ-cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD- > OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=dpiRP5tIn2m0Z3dL3c9pfYCWXGcrd8 > zqC5a3vRvWGFM&e=) > > and can now be followed. > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](netbeans) Ate Douma > Comments: > [X](netbeans) Bertrand Delacretaz > Comments: +1 to Mark's comments > [ ](netbeans) Daniel Gruno > Comments: > [X](netbeans) Mark Struberg > Comments: The understanding of ASF 'mechanics' grows steadily. Think > they are on a good way! > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > ODF Toolkit > > Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of > OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents > > ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Fulfil the 1.0 version - (collaboration scheduled for end of March) > 2. Attract more developers > 3. Have frequent 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? > No community enhancements. Ongoing SVN to GIT transition, with read-only > repository. > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > Ongoing SVN to GIT transition to improve visibility on GitHub and > archive better mergeability for feature branches. > Svante Schubert continued sponsorship by German government's > prototypefund.org developing a new collaboration feature for the ODF > Toolkit till end of March. > > > Date of last release: > > 2017-04-10 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2017-08-02 > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch > Comments: > [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov > Comments: > [ ](odftoolkit) Tom Barber > 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? > > - Continued healthy activity has shown on the x-pagespeed-discuss groups > and > github issue system. > - There have been limited contributions to pagespeed repositories from > outside > of the current committer group. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > - There have been bug fixes and feature progress > - Transfers of the pagespeed repositories to the ASF have been initiated > - RAT has been successfully run and an in-detail review of project > dependencies is in progress. So far no blockers or critical issues have > been identified. > > 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: > [X](pagespeed) Nick Kew > Comments: > [x](pagespeed) Phil Sorber > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > > -------------------- > PLC4X > > PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable > logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared > API. > > > PLC4X has been incubating since 2017-12-18. > > Most important issues to address while moving towards graduation: > > * Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large > percentage of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people from > other companies, but will have to continue these efforts for establishing a > healthy Apache community. > * Onboarding of new committers: With PLC4X several people on the team > are not very familiar with the Apache Way. We have started and will > continue our efforts on this onboarding. > * Podling name search: We have invested a lot of time on the name > search prior to starting to work on the project, but we still need the > official OK that we’re allowed to keep the Name of Apache PLC4X. > * Make our first release > > Any Issues the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of: > > * In order to get access to some of the specifications the ASF will > eventually have to become Members of some external foundations: OPC, > EtherCat, Modbus … these memberships usually have a free level, that allows > us to use the specifications but doesn’t result in any regular costs. We > will have to discuss these details with the ASF and the other foundations. > * One of the external foundations (Profinet) doesn’t have a free > membership. In general, the CEO of the European branch of the Profinet > Foundation has signaled that it should be possible for the ASF to become a > member and have an outside company pay the membership fees, but we have to > discuss the details (With them as well as the ASF). > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > * We have been accepted into the Apache Incubator just a week before > Christmas, we are still in the process of setting up > * Prior to joining the Apache Incubator however, we have managed to > recruit people from other Apache projects and are working on getting other > people familiar with the protocols and the industry involved. After the > Christmas break we are planning on contacting a big group of people that > have claimed to be wanting to be involved (A list of about 20 Companies, > but we can’t tell how many will be using and how many would also be willing > to contribute) > * We have started the onboarding of new committers and will be > continuing to do this (extended emails with a lot of explanations on why we > are doing things the way we are) > * Project has bootstrapped quickly and we have mailing lists, website, > JIRA etc. all set up and running. > * Testing coverage has been improved over the initial code base > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * There was no last report. > > How does the podling rate their own maturity? > > * We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people > involved. > * So far, the new participants have shown great willingness and success > in adopting the Apache Way. > * However, we still need to continue: > * the on-boarding > * increasing the diversity of the team > * Also, will we need to decide and establish all the processes involved > in releasing software at Apache > > > Date of last release: > > N/A > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > N/A > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](plc4x) Greg Trasuk > Comments: > [ ](plc4x) Justin Mclean > Comments: > [ ](plc4x) Luciano Resende > Comments: > [X](plc4x) Stefan Bodewig > 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. Grow the community > 2. Get the 0.10 release out > 3. Address issues > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > There's been a bit of a lull as of late in the project. > I'm hopeful that it will pick up some speed soon. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > No noticeable change since last report. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > N/A. Working on it! > > 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? > > > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer > Comments: > [X](ponymail) John D. Ament > Comments: Would be good to get this podling moving. Needs more > committers to be truly viable. > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Rya > > Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that > supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built > on > top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and > query > processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple > nodes. > Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a > conventional > query mechanism for RDF data. > > Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > 1. Have more releases as part of the Apache Foundation > 2. Increase diversity of contributors. > > > 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? > > * Working on the next release > * Starting discussions about graduation > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * Implemented a cache for Fluo query metadata > * Added a Twill App for running the periodic service > * Fixed several bugs > > 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: > > 2017-10-10 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > * PPMC member Caleb Meier elected on Jan 3rd, 2017 > > Signed-off-by: > > [x](rya) Josh Elser > Comments: Have been pushing community towards graduation. IMO, they > are ready. > [ ](rya) Edward J. Yoon > Comments: > [ ](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam > Comments: > [ ](rya) Billie Rinaldi > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > -------------------- > 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. > 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: > > [ ](sdap) Jörn Rottmann > Comments: > [ ](sdap) Raphael Bircher > Comments: > [ ](sdap) Suneel Marthi > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > SensSoft > > SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform > > SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13. > > 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: > > [ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez > Comments: > [ ](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney > Comments: > [ ](senssoft) Chris Mattmann > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > ServiceComb > > ServiceComb is a microservice framework that provides a set of tools and > components to make development and deployment of cloud applications easier. > > ServiceComb has been incubating since 2017-11-22. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Finish apache 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 Huawei. > * Corporate Contributor License Agreement signed by Huawei. > * Software Grant Agreement signed by Huawei. > * Infrastructure setup > * ServiceComb codes are transferred Apache. > > > 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? > > 2017-11-22 (entering incubation) > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](servicecomb) Roman Shaposhnik > Comments: > [X](servicecomb) Jean-Baptiste Onofre > Comments: > [X](servicecomb) Timothy Chen > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > SkyWalking > > Skywalking is an APM (application performance monitor), especially for > microservice, Cloud Native and container-based architecture systems. Also > known as a distributed tracing system. It provides an automatic way to > instrument applications: no need to change any of the source code of the > target application; and an collector with an very high efficiency streaming > module. > > SkyWalking has been incubating since 2017-12-08. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Upload website > 2. IP clearance. > 3. First ASF release. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > None. Some branding issues around publicity of incubation were raised > and have been corrected. > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > 1. First Incubator report. > 2. Git repositories and mailing lists in place. > 3. Website ready and in transition to ASF infra. > 4. Apache ICLA signed by all contributors from Huawei. > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > Still in initial setup stage. > > > 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? > 2017-12-09 Sheng Wu (PMC) > 2017-12-09 DongXue Si (committer) > 2017-12-09 Hongtao Gao (committer) > 2017-12-09 Kai Wang (committer) > 2017-12-09 Shinn Zhang (committer) > 2017-12-09 Yang Bai (committer) > 2017-12-09 Yongsheng Peng (committer) > 2017-12-09 Sheng Wang (committer) > 2017-12-09 Yuntao Li (committer) > 2017-12-09 Zhang Kewei (committer) > > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](skywalking) Luke Han > Comments: > [X](skywalking) Willem Ning Jiang > Comments: > [x](skywalking) Mick Semb Wever > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Spot > > Apache Spot is a platform for network telemetry built on an open data model > and Apache Hadoop. > > Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23. > > 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: > > [ ](spot) Jarek Jarcec Cecho > Comments: > [ ](spot) Brock Noland > Comments: > [ ](spot) Andrei Savu > Comments: > [ ](spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Traffic Control > > Traffic Control is a set of components that can be used to build, monitor, > configure, and provision a large scale content delivery network (CDN). > > Traffic Control has been incubating since 2016-07-12. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Enhance automation to make it easier to build, install, and configure > each component. > 2. Improve documentation to ease ramp-up time for new community members and > make it easier for existing community members to find what they are looking > for. > 3. Complete at least two releases without license issues. > > 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 (October 2017)? > > We held a fall summit in October in Atlanta. This summit was attended by > over 20 participants from 5 different companies. The discussions were > great and we made sure to take any discussion that could potentially affect > the community to the mailing lists. > > We cleaned up our mentors a bit by removing a few mentors who have asked to > be removed and/or have not contributed at all. > > We have seen a few new users join our community, and our community has done > a good job of helping the new users get Traffic Control up and running. > > The community has been working hard to get a new release out, which will be > Traffic Control 2.1. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Since the last report (October 2017), we have > > * Merged 218 Pull Requests with 392 commits from 34 contributors > * Opened 135 Github issues > * Closed 70 Github issues > * 233 emails sent by 36 people on the dev@ list > * 25 emails sent by 12 people on the users@ list > > How would you assess the podling's maturity? > Please feel free to add your own commentary. > > We have started discussions about graduation and we all agree that we > should try to focus on graduating in 2018. As we see it, the biggest > hurdles we still face are: > 1) Getting releases through the incubator without licensing issues - we > would like to be able to get at least two releases through without > licensing issues. > 2) Removing dependencies with incompatible licenses; specifically > JSON.org and jdnssec ( > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github. > com_dblacka_jdnssec-2Dtools_blob_master_licenses_java- > 2Ddnssec-2Dtools-2DLICENSE.txt&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=S1_ > S7Dymu4ZL6g7L21O78VQZ53vEnAyZ-cx37DPYDyo&m=EiINg_pD- > OOs2NCf27vgOHFQscJtM7a4mwftG_PoIeY&s=QDRZTLGT3gAoEKeSHWRWAtx_ > e0UYESF19P5N8Tsbuao&e=) > > - our plan is to have these two mitigated by the end of Q1 2018. > > [ ] Initial setup > [ ] Working towards first release (wip) > [] Community building (wip) > [x ] Nearing graduation > [ ] Other: > > Date of last release: > > Traffic Control 2.0 was released on July 7th, 2017. > > Traffic Control 2.1 has passed the PPMC vote and was submitted to IPMC on > January 2nd. > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > In October, Traffic Control added 1 new committer: Nir Sopher. > > Signed-off-by: > > [x](trafficcontrol) Phil Sorber > Comments: > [](trafficcontrol) Eric Covener > Comments: > [x](trafficcontrol) Leif Hedstrom > Comments: > > 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? > > > > 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: > > > > -------------------- > Weex > > Weex is a framework for building Mobile cross-platform high performance UI. > > Weex has been incubating since 2016-11-30. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Develop more non-Chinese contributors and committers, to bring > diversity to the community. > 2. Replace Facebook's Yoga(Category X) dependency and release more while > in Incubator. > 3. Improve the developer's activity in mailing list, more "bad ideas". > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > The community is still learning the Apache Way, we are making progress and > need more guidance from Mentors. > An additional active Mentor would be good. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > • We voted one new committer: wentao shi > • We have encouraged people to discuss more in the JIRA and dev mailing > list. There is an obvious growth. 186(110 new issues since the last report) > issues have been reported on JIRA, and 93(56 since the last report) of them > are resolved or closed. And for dev@ mailing list, more discussions were > made in the past quarter. Some of the discussions are about important > decisions such as Community building roadmaps, whether to use Github > issues, how to develop plugins conveniently, how to replace Facebook/Yoga, > whether to create a project channel, etc. More and more non-alibaba and > non-Chinese guys were participating in the discussions. > • More non-alibaba developers are using Weex and reporting issues, > including developers from Tencent, Geekbang, SNDA, etc. > • Our Github repo has growth in contributors (135), forks (974), watchers > (377) and stars (7108) > • WebSite Trends Month Active, PV(440482), UV(68347), IP(59082), New > Unique Visitor(36063) , Session(114824) > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > • We have seperated the code for ducumentation & website from main repo to > weex-incubator-site, which will be easier to contribute. > • 9 authors have pushed 36 commits to master and 36 commits to all > branches. The community are intentionally making the committing work more > slow and deliberate. > • Replacing Facebook's Yoga is nearly done. > > 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: > > 2017-06-08 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > wentao shi, 19 Oct 2017 > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](weex) Luke Han > Comments: > [ ](weex) Willem Jiang > Comments: > [ ](weex) Stephan Ewen > Comments: > [ ](weex) Raphael Bircher > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > >
