Here is the draft report for July 2016, covering Q2 activity. It is posted at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/July2016
------------------------------- MADlib Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists. MADlib has been incubating since 2015-09-15. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Continue to produce regular Apache (incubating) releases. 2. Expand the community, increase dev list activity and add new contributors. 3. Execute and manage the project according to governance model required by the "Apache Way”. 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. MADlib related events in Q2 2016: * April 19 - Joint community call MADlib - Greenplum Database. Topic: MADlib v1.9 new features (Nandish Jayaram, Ivan Novick, Cesar Rojas, Frank McQuillan) * May 5 - MADLib community call. Topic: Detailed review of the MADlib v1.9 release (Xiaocheng Tang, Frank McQuillan) * June 21 - MADLib community call. Topic: Apache Zeppelin meets Apache MADlib (incubating) and Apache HAWQ (incubating) (Moon soo Lee, Rahul Iyer, Frank McQuillan) * June 21 - Data Engineers Guild meetup in Palo Alto. Topic: The Analytics and Science Behind Connected Transportation (Srivatsan Ramanujam, Esther Vasiete, Ralph Rabbat, Frank McQuillan) 2. Material technical conversations on dev mailing lists and in the appropriate JIRAs and pull requests. 3. We are seeing some PostgreSQL experts chipping on SQL coding and making good suggestions in the pull requests. How has the project developed since the last report? 1. 2nd ASF release MADlib v1.9 released on April 6, 2016. The goal of this 2nd release was general availability of MADlib v1.9 for community use. 2. 3rd ASF release MADlib v1.9.1 anticipated this summer depending on community input. Features include: path functions (phase 2), 1-class support vector machines for novelty detection, prediction metrics, sessionization, pivoting. 3. 2 JIRAs created and 14 resolved in last 30 days. Date of last release: MADlib v1.9 on 4/6/16. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Xiaocheng Tang on 1/14/16.