All,
Below is the current draft of the report. Waiting on the MXNet podling's
report, as well as multiple requiring sign offs.
I haven't summarized things like absent mentors, please feel free to add
comments to the report to better reflect its state.
Incubator PMC report for April 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 presently 53 podlings incubating. During the month of March,
podlings executed 5 distinct releases, 6 total artifacts. We added 2 new
IPMC members.
* Community
New IPMC members:
- Jun Rao
- Matt Sicker
People who left the IPMC:
- None
* New Podlings
- None
* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
- Gossip - No on list activity, likely to retire.
- Milagro - Retirement vote started
- MXNet - Report written, not posted yet
* Podlings missing sign off, will be removed if not signed off
- BatchEE
- HAWQ
- Livy
- ODF Toolkit
- Service Comb
- Singa
- Weex
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
- Your podling here?
- Your podling here?
* Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
March:
- 2018-03-04 Apache Rya 3.2.12
- 2018-03-05 Apache Pulsar 1.22.0
- 2018-03-09 Apache SensSoft Useralejs 1.0.0
- 2018-03-17 Apache HAWQ 2.3.0.0
- 2018-03-27 Apache ServiceComb Service Center 1.0.0-m1
- 2018-03-27 Apache ServiceComb Saga 0.1.0
* IP Clearance
* Legal / Trademarks
* Infrastructure
- An issue came up recently between the ECharts podling and
Infrastructure that was communicated privately to mentors - not posted to
any list. In future, such problems should at least be reported to the
private@incubator list to ensure they are archived.
* Miscellaneous
* Credits
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Table of Contents
Airflow
Amaterasu
Annotator
BatchEE
Druid
Dubbo
ECharts
Gearpump
Gobblin
Gossip
HAWQ
Hivemall
Livy
Milagro
MXNet
Nemo
NetBeans
ODF Toolkit
PLC4X
Pony Mail
Quickstep
Rya
SensSoft
ServiceComb
SINGA
Traffic Control
Weex
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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. Once we make a release with the licensing fix we will move forward
with 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 1.5 months ago (i.e. between Feb 8 & March
28,
inclusive), we grew our contributors from 375 to 427
2. Since our last podling report 1.5 months ago (i.e. between Feb 8 & March
28,
inclusive), we resolved 152 pull requests (currently at 2280 closed PRs)
3. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies
officially
using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 149, 17 new from the last
podling
report 1.5 months ago.
How has the project developed since the last report?
See above : 152 PRs resolved, 52 new contributors, & 17 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:
[x](airflow) Hitesh Shah
Comments:
[x](airflow) Jakob Homan
Comments: Ready for graduation
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
I checked into the licensing issue and it is resolved, but it seems that a
release will be needed before graduation.
Dave Fisher
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Amaterasu
Apache Amaterasu is a framework providing configuration management and
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?
* One conference talks are scheduled in the near future (Voxxed Days
Melbourne)
How has the project developed since the last report?
* since the last report 12 PRs were opened and 11 are merged
* One additional contributor started contributing to the code base
* One organization we are aware of have started a POC with Amaterasu
* We are in the process of automating the release process as preparation
for the 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?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] 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:
[X](amaterasu) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
[X](amaterasu) Olivier Lamy
Comments:
[X](amaterasu) Davor Bonaci
Comments: low activity, improvements needed to get back on track.
Clearly we need to move forward on the community grow up and first release.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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. Establishing a release cadence.
2. Demonstrating utility in the wild.
3. Increasing community participation.
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?
* Two members of the initial committers list have established ASF
accounts.
* The community is scheduling a teleconference for the coming weeks.
* The community is discussing a face-to-face meeting in the coming months.
* Several community members have expressed interest in helping with code
and non-code contributions.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Licensing documentation has been updated in preparation for release.
* Initial test suite automation has been completed.
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:
The initial setup feels complete now. There is work toward a first releases
happening.
The community is slowly attracting new voices, but volume of participation
is still low.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Initial committers having completed setup, the project now has enough
participants to perform elections.
At this time, no elections have been finalized.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](annotator) Nick Kew
Comments:
[ ](annotator) Brian McCallister
Comments:
[ ](annotator) Daniel Gruno
Comments:
[X](annotator) Jim Jagielski
Comments: As noted, progress is somewhat slow, but not to point of any
concern at this stage.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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 enironment related enhancements/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:
[ ](batchee) Mark Struberg
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
It is time for this podling to graduate. I really think that they should
take the time and JFDI.
Dave Fisher.
--------------------
Druid
Druid is a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store.
Druid has been incubating since 2018-02-28.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Complete SGA for current sources and ICLAs for current committers.
2. Move the source code and website to Apache infrastructure.
3. Plan and execute our first Apache 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?
- We have moved development discussions to our Apache dev mailing list.
- A healthy, constant flow of bug fixes, quality improvements and new
features
are still ongoing on https://github.com/druid-io/druid.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Since the last report there have been 36 commits from 18 individuals.
- We have released Druid 0.12.0 (outside the Incubator). We are optimistic
that our next release will be done as an Apache release.
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:
- Druid 0.12.0 on 2018-03-06 (non-Apache release)
- No official release yet since beginning Apache Incubation
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- Project is still functioning with the initial set of committers.
Signed-off-by:
[x](druid) Julian Hyde
Comments: The project still has good momentum getting through
the initial tasks, and development/community activities
continue at usual pace.
[ ](druid) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments:
[ ](druid) Jun Rao
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Dubbo
Dubbo is a high-performance, lightweight, java based RPC framework.
Dubbo has been incubating since 2018-02-16.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. First ASF release
2. Migrate remaining assets to the ASF
3. Community building
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?
* Complete ICLA for all PPMC
* SGA has been filed
* The community has decided to use Github issue instead of JIRA
* Discussed feature donation by external users. e.g. circuit breaker,
xmlrpc
* Received 1 GSoc student application (Raghu on Protocol Buffer
integration)
* Currently ~450 mails on the dev@ list
* 9 new companies reported their using of Dubbo since last report
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Dubbo 2.6.1 & Dubbo 2.5.10 released (prior to code transition, non-ASF
release)
* Move 7 repos (including the core Dubbo repo) to Apache
* Website (dubbo.incubator.apache.org) has been enabled
* Website has been updated to be complied with ASF branding policy
* 37 pull request created, 21 of them are closed
* 80 Github issues created, 22 of them are closed
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?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[ ](dubbo) Justin Mclean
Comments:
[X](dubbo) John D. Ament
Comments: Podling is moving forward very well. An on list discussion
about splitting up the dev list into multiple lists has started.
[ ](dubbo) Jean-Frederic Clere
Comments:
[ ](dubbo) Mark Thomas
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
An excellent start.
Dave Fisher
--------------------
ECharts
ECharts is a charting and data visualization library written in JavaScript.
ECharts has been incubating since 2018-01-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Get repo moved to https://github.com/apache/incubator-echarts.
2. Get GitHub ID linked and 2FA enabled.
3. First pushed to https://github.com/apache/incubator-echarts.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Currently the setting page of GitHub is not visible to us. There may be a
problem when we need to configure it (e.g.: see if anything goes wrong when
building gh-pages branch) but communication is delayed via email. So we'd
like to ask if it is possible for at least one of us core committers to
have the admin right.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We released the information that ECharts has become a repo of Apache, and
received positive feedback from the community.
How has the project developed since the last report?
None.
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:
N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[X](echarts) John D. Ament
Comments: Lots of development activities picking up. Need to
encourage more on list discussion. Its often hard to sift through the
developer list due to gitbox notifications.
[ ](echarts) Daniel Gruno
Comments:
[ ](echarts) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments:
[X](echarts) Dave Fisher
Comments: They are really just getting started now that the repos is
transferred. The mentors are going to need to educate the podling more, but
they have found infra users ML and have asked about how to split up the
email flows. One thing I have noticed about GitBox projects is that it is
harder to understand what is happening in those notifications vs. JIRAs.
(That's just an observation, not sure of the Way yet.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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. Increase user adoption.
- 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?
Gearpump took part in Google Summer of Code 2017 project and it has been
succeffully accompolished by student, Buddhi Ayesha, who is interested in
making more contributions beyond the project.
- How has the project developed since the last report?
32 issues created and 20 issues resolved.
Gearpump Runner has been merged into Apache Beam trunk.
An experimental SQL support has been added and state management is under
development.
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:
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:
johndament: Report not discussed on list, responded to an email from Sept
2017 to indicate it was posted by a mentor. Lots of development activity,
not much developer discussion. Seems like they have an unused user list as
well.
--------------------
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 community has continued to grow and engage more (on mailing lists
and Gitter IRC).
* 51% of commits have been from non-committer contributors.
* Email stats since last report:
u...@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 47
d...@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 694
* There have been 121 Commits since last report:
git log --format='%ci' | grep -cE '(2018-0(1|2|3|4))'
* 62 ie. 51% of those commits were by non-committers:
git log --format='%ae %ci' | grep -E '(2018-0(1|2|3|4))' | 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 meetups / conferences
around the world (independently by Apache community members) eg. Strata etc.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Various new connectors for integration with more systems, and several
enhancements / feature development.
* Continued development of Gobblin-as-a-Service (PaaS for Gobblin as well
as non-Gobblin systems). More engagement of community on this front.
* Enhancements to website, and packaging / distribution of Gobblin.
* Release v0.12.0 is being voted on right now.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
[ ] 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.
(A few more contributors in the community are ready to be elected.)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](gobblin) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
[X](gobblin) Olivier Lamy
Comments:
[X](gobblin) Jim Jagielski
Comments: release process being better defined the 0.12 RC efforts.
NOTICE requirements better understood.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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HAWQ
HAWQ is an advanced enterprise SQL on Hadoop analytic engine built around a
robust and high-performance massively-parallel processing (MPP) SQL engine
evolved from 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)
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 :
* HAWQ on Microsoft Azure Cloud. Microsoft Incubator Talk (Speaker: Lei
Chang, Mar 21, 2018)
2. Two committer candidates passed the voting process:
1) Shubham SHARMA
2) Lav JAIN
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. HAWQ 2.3 released. It includes the following features.
1) New Feature: HAWQ Core supports plugable external storage framework.
2) New Feature: HAWQ Ranger supports RPS HA.
3) New Feature: HAWQ Ranger supports Kerberos authentication.
4) New Feature: HAWQ Core supports HDFS TDE (Transparent Data Encryption)
through libHdfs3.
5) Licenses: Fix PXF license files located in PXF jar files.
6) Licenses: Check Apache HAWQ mandatory libraries to match LC20, LC30
license criteria.
7) Build: Release build project
8) Bug fixes.
Project page link:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/Apache+HAWQ+2.3.0.0-incubating+Release
2. HAWQ 2.4 release plan was proposed.
1) New Feature: Pluggable Vectorized Execution Engine on HAWQ.
2) New Feature: Support Runtime Filter for HAWQ local hash join.
3) New Feature: Support accessing Hive table data by the new Pluggable
Storage Framework.
4) Bug fixes.
Project page link:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/Apache+HAWQ+2.4.0.0-incubating+Release
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-03-12, Apache HAWQ 2.3.0.0
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
1) Lav Jain: April 5, 2018
2) Shubham Sharma: April 5, 2018
Signed-off-by:
[ ](hawq) Alan Gates
Comments:
[ ](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
Comments:
[ ](hawq) Thejas Nair
Comments:
[ ](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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?
* Markus Weimer resigned from our Project mentor as he sent a message
to IPMC private list on March 1.
* We need to recruit active Mentor(s)
- Failed March2018 podling report due to missing mentor sign-off
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Github watchers/stars are gradually increasing:
131 stars as of April 3 (was 108 on Dec 6)
* Twitter account @ApacheHivemall followers are gradually increasing:
123 followers as of April 3 (was 101 on Dec 6)
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Released the first Apache release (v0.5.0) on March 5.
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/18e6355dd06ff065004516eec6ff861777b4ad526714b61667b4904b@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
Since the last report, we have
* In the last 4 months, we opened 22 JIRA issues and closed 15 JIRA
issues
as seen in https://goo.gl/QFQEF5 (as of April 3)
Created Resolved
Dec 2017 3 7
Jan 2018 4 3
Feb 2018 5 1
March 2018 10 4
* Created 14 Pull Requests and closed/merged 13 Pull Requests between
Dec 01 and April 01.
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20created%3A2017-12-01..2018-04-01
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20closed%3A2017-12-01..2018-04-01
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:
March 5, 2018.
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- Elected Jerome Banks as a committer on April 2.
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/98b28689dcffbf3a51a1ff80d9c86be96b46bbb3829bda334a722d89@%3Cdev.hivemall.apache.org%3E
Signed-off-by:
[ ](hivemall) Reynold Xin
Comments:
[ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng
Comments:
[X](hivemall) Daniel Dai
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
johndament: The comments with the new committer election are
interesting. Don't forget to go through IP Clearance if you are importing
an external code base.
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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. Grow the community and continue to involve more users and contributors
2. Grow more committers to maintain the project
3. Solidify our release cadence
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?
Activity on the dev and user mailing lists as well as the rate of reported
JIRA issues has stayed steady.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The master branch has been updated to support Spark 2.3 in our next 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 last release:
2018-02-05
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2017-09-18
Signed-off-by:
[ ](livy) Bikas Saha
Comments:
[ ](livy) Brock Noland
Comments:
[ ](livy) Luciano Resende
Comments:
[ ](livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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MXNet
A Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep Learning
MXNet has been incubating since 2017-01-23.
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:
[ ](mxnet) Sebastian Schelter
Comments:
[ ](mxnet) Suneel Marthi
Comments:
[ ](mxnet) Henri Yandell
Comments:
[ ](mxnet) Markus Weimer
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Nemo
Nemo is a data processing system to flexibly control the runtime behaviors
of
a job to adapt to varying deployment characteristics.
Nemo has been incubating since 2018-02-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community
2. Create a first Apache release
3. Donate code to ASF
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?
* Committers actively involved in mailing lists
* Committers actively started to send PRs and do code reviews
* Two committers volunteered for GSoC mentors
How has the project developed since the last report?
* SonarCloud integrated
* Community standards and documentation added
* Scheduler improved by adding a new scheduling policy and making it
reactive
* Operator pipelining implemented
* Experiments performed to demonstrate the benefits of Nemo
* Blogs posted
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:
None yet.
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
None yet.
Signed-off-by:
[X](nemo) Davor Bonaci
Comments: The project is very active, moving quickly, and doing very
well.
[X](nemo) Hyunsik Choi
Comments:
[X](nemo) Byung-Gon Chun
Comments:
[X](nemo) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
Comments:
[ ](nemo) Markus Weimer
Comments:
[ ](nemo) Reynold Xin
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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. Granting and integration of 2nd donation (mainly Java EE, JavaScript,
PHP, Groovy) -- is being wrapped up at Oracle.
2. Granting and integration of 3rd donation, consisting of tutorials,
related images, and other documentation for populating netbeans.apache.org.
3. Rerouting/switching from netbeans.org to netbeans.apache.org, plus new
home for plugins.netbeans.org.
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?
- NetCAT (NetBeans Community Acceptance Testing) program has started up,
preparatory to final release of 9.0.
- New Apache NetBeans logo has been voted on and accepted.
- Ongoing discussions re redesign of splash screen.
- Apache NetBeans Day as a class of event has been approved by Apache
trademarks: https://netbeans.apache.org/community/events.html
- First official Apache NetBeans Day accepted via lazy consensus to be
held April 27, in London, at the University of Greenwich:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/328f564ac753165b39e7d96e67c929f7996a935ef75437c6c8e239fc@%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E
- Currently 557 on Apache NetBeans users mailing list and 406 on Apache
NetBeans dev mailing list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 Beta has been released (02/22/18)
- Support for running on JDK 8, 9, 10 added, with Java editor support for
new JDK 10 'var' type (JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference).
- netbeans.apache.org is up and running.
- Legal issue settled: Apache does not require and does not consider
helpful list of 3rd party deps in grant:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-374
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:
2018-02-22 Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 Beta
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* PPMC member Antonio Vieiro elected on Feb 18, 2018
* PPMC member John McDonnell elected on Feb 18, 2018
Signed-off-by:
[ ](netbeans) Ate Douma
Comments:
[ ](netbeans) Bertrand Delacretaz
Comments:
[ ](netbeans) Daniel Gruno
Comments:
[X](netbeans) Mark Struberg
Comments: There is really lots of activity in the project
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
johndament: Great progress by the podling.
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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 the 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?
Several bug reports but no new committers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Svante Schubert sponsorship by German government's prototypefund.org is
about to end, the new collaboration feature for the ODF Toolkit not yet on
GitHub.
Date of the 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:
Drew Farris (shepherd): Little overall project activity, but questions
are being answered on the user list. One mentor active on the mailing lists
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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.
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.
Make our first release
Any Issues the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of:
In contrast to previous reports some of the concerns regarding availability
and usability of specifications have been resolved. Especially for using
the Modbus and the OPC-UA specifications Christofer was able to get
official permissions from the corresponding foundations to use the
specifications. These permission Emails have been filed in the private list
for documentation.
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?
Christofer has invested most of his time in March spreading the word about
PLC4X.
A first POC has been created for a company which is currently going into
production
An article about Apache Edgent and Apache PLC4X has been published as a
cover-story in the German JavaSPEKTRUM magazines Industrial IoT special
edition (https://www.sigs-datacom.de/digital/javaspektrum/). One PLC4X talk
has been accepted to the Apache EU Roadshow 2018 in Berlin and one will be
at the Silpion Techcamp in Hamburg (https://techcamp.hamburg/) in the first
April week.
The dev-list subscriptions has gone up by one from February, we are hoping
to increase the number in the next few weeks (However quite some emails
come in from un-registered users that have to pass moderation).
We now have a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/ApachePlc4x as another
channel of communicating interesting PLC4X facts.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have been working hard on making better use of the ASF build
infrastructure. Especially regarding setting up our project VM at
plc4x-vm.apache.org this effort will be continued.
After receiving the permission to use and implement the Modbus protocol,
the Driver skeletons have been setup, but no real implementation of the
protocol itself has been done yet. We are still hoping for volunteers to
step up as interest in implementing the Modbus protocol has been explicitly
mentioned by community memebers.
The work on the RawSocket Netty transport which is a requirement to
implement protocols that are IP based, but are not TCP or UDP has continued
and we are currently working on some of the quirks on Linux based
operating-systems.
We added Netty support for IO over serial ports and will be using this in
the Beckhoff module as a first protocol.
We are still working on the S7 Protocol fragmentation and hope to be able
to finish this in April.
Also we discussed on the list about how the others would think of
initiating a first release of PLC4X.
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
Signed-off-by:
[ ](plc4x) Greg Trasuk
Comments:
[ ](plc4x) Justin Mclean
Comments:
[ ](plc4x) Luciano Resende
Comments:
[X](plc4x) Stefan Bodewig
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Drew Farris (shepherd): Three mentors active on the mailing list. Active
project.
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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 participation in community
2. Get releases out properly
3. Evangelize
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None that I can think of.
How has the community developed since the last report?
There has been external interest in the project, however this has not yet
formed into a formal relationship.
How has the project developed since the last report?
A release, 0.10, was voted on and approved.
Due to time constraints, the release has not been fully completed yet.
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:
2018-04-04-ish (WIP!)
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Sebastian Bazley, April 2017
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
Comments:
[X](ponymail) John D. Ament
Comments: Report not discussed on list, extremely low volume and
continues to look like a one person project.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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. Adoption of the Quickstep technology.
2. Grow the Quickstep 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?
A paper that describes the Quickstep system was accepted in a premier
database conference Very Large Databases (VLDB). Link to the paper:
http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p663-patel.pdf This paper should help the
system and the community to increase its reach further. We are already
getting emails from readers who are finding interest in the system. We are
encouraging the readers to be a part of the community.
We have submitted a keynote proposal ApacheCon. If accepted, the
paper/presentation would help to increase the awareness of Quickstep
project in the Apache community.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have continued development of the code base. Apart from the routine bug
fixes, there are ongoing efforts for three main development directions
(respective JIRA issues have been opened):
1. Enhancing the type system used by Quickstep
2. Supporting concurrent queries in the system
3. Developing a distributed version of Quickstep
We are planning another release before summer.
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)
We have seen contributions from some new members (Yuanchen Li, Dylan Bacon
and Yusong Yang). We will soon initiate the process for them to be
committers.
Signed-off-by:
[x](quickstep) Julian Hyde
Comments: Development remains fairly active but the podling's ability
to build community outside its core community is a major concern.
[ ](quickstep) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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. Increase diversity of 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?
* Apache Rya 3.2.12 (incubating) released
* More people expressed interest in contributing to Rya
* More discussions about graduation
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Apache Rya 3.2.12 (incubating) released
* Improved documentation for deploying Rya PCJ Updater
* Created a Rya Shell for MongoDB
* Integrated RyaStreams with the Rya Shell
* Added PCJ indexer support for MongoDB backend
* Implemented a forward-chaining rules engine that runs as a batch
process, operates on user-defined SPIN rules, and inserts derived
information back in Rya
* Added the ability to use the MongoDB aggregation pipeline to evaluate
simple SPARQL expressions for MongoDB backend
* Implemented single node Kafka streams incremental SPARQL processor
* Plans to improve the SPARQL endpoint to improve standards compliance
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:
2018-03-04
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* PPMC member Caleb Meier elected on Jan 3rd, 2017
Signed-off-by:
[ ](rya) Josh Elser
Comments:
[ ](rya) Edward J. Yoon
Comments:
[ ](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
Comments:
[x](rya) Billie Rinaldi
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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. Extending release process to other parts of the SensSoft software
stack.
2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) community.
3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmap
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?
The community successfully delivered the first Incubating release
for UserALE.js. No new community members have come onboard.
Several members of the community VOTE'd on the UserALE.js 1.0.0
release candidate.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Development continues at a sustainable level.
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
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-03-14
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Arthi Vezhavendan was added to PPMC and Committer base on 2017-01-24
Signed-off-by:
[ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
Comments:
[X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
[ ](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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. Community building
2. Project visibility
3. Create 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?
* The community finally get the first release out, service-center
1.0.0-m1, java-chassis 1.0.0-m1 and saga 0.1.0
* The community hold a meetup in Beijing at March 30.
How has the project developed since the last report(March 2018)?
* Java Chassis merged with 54 PRs by 10 contributors.
* Service Center merged with 21 PRs by 5 contributors .
* Saga resolved merged with 24 PRs by 7 contributors.
* 117 mails sent by 27 people on the dev@ list
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:
2018-04-03 Java Chassis 1.0.0-m1
2018-03-26 Service Center 1.0.0-m1
2018-03-26 Saga 0.1.0
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2018-03-14 Added ningjiang，liubao，wujimin，asifdxtreme，littlecui as the
Initial PPMC member
Signed-off-by:
[ ](servicecomb) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
[ ](servicecomb) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
Comments:
[ ](servicecomb) Timothy Chen
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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, including autograd (SINGA-342),
tensor improvement (SINGA-341), backend for Keras (SINGA-340), ONNX
(SINGA-333))
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We are working on the next release with the autograd feature.
Another release is scheduled with improved tensor and Keras backend.
How has the community developed since the last report?
There are 3 new contributors joined.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We fixed some bugs, updated the documentation and are now working on some
major/big updates (new features) including the new front-end APIs and the
autograd feature.
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:
2017-06-29
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2017-09-01
Signed-off-by:
[ ](singa) Daniel Dai
Comments:
[ ](singa) Alan Gates
Comments:
[ ](singa) Ted Dunning
Comments:
[ ](singa) Thejas Nair
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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. A successful graduation vote by project community
2. A successful graduation vote by the IPMC
3. A successful acceptance of our graduation resolution by the apache board
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 (January 2018)?
Since January the Traffic Control community has worked on the following:
* Getting Traffic Control 2.1 released
* Getting Traffic Control 2.2 ready for release candidates
* Supporting new users with installing and configuring traffic control
* Tie up loose ends and prepare ourselves for graduation
* Planning a spring summit to be held April 2018 in Boston, MA
How has the project developed since the last report?
Since the last report (January 2018), we have
* Merged 199 Pull Requests with 673 commits from 27 unique contributors
* Opened 217 Github issues
* Closed 214 Github issues
* 301 emails sent by 46 people on the dev@ list
* 26 emails sent by 10 people on the users@ list
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
We have started the graduation process! We voted on starting the
graduation process, chose a project chair, and have started the Project
vote on the graduation resolution.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release (wip)
[ ] Community building (wip)
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
Traffic Control 2.1 was released on January 22, 2017.
Traffic Control 2.2 is currently on RC 3 and we hope to have 2.2 released
by the end of April, 2018.
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: I think this project is in good shape, hopefully we see a
graduation resolution in the IPMC for it soon.
[X](trafficcontrol) Eric Covener
Comments:
[X](trafficcontrol) Leif Hedstrom
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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.
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.
The project has an ongoing problem with lack of mentor engagement.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* WeexConf 2018 was held in Hangzhou, which brought a lot of new users and
contributors who is intrested in the project, and Weex meetup in other
cities will come soon.
* 278(91 new issues since the last report) issues have been reported on
JIRA, and 145(52 since the last report) of them are resolved or closed.
* More non-Chinese developers are using Weex and contributing to the
community, including developers from India, Russia, Singapore, etc. The
first non-Chinese committer will come out soon.
* Our Github repo has growth in contributors 145(10 new since the last
report), forks 1168(192 new), watchers 451(74 new) and stars 8730(1622 new)
* WebSite Trends Month Active, PV(542124), UV(91873), IP(76598), New
Unique Visitor(47883) , Session(168065)
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Excluding merges, 11 authors have pushed 16 commits to master and 14
commits to all branches.
* Replacing Facebook's Yoga is done and will be released next month.
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?
None.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](weex) Luke Han
Comments:
[ ](weex) Willem Jiang
Comments:
[ ](weex) Stephan Ewen
Comments:
[ ](weex) Raphael Bircher
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
