Some comments from me (since you sent it my way): On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 1:15 AM mck <m...@apache.org> wrote:
> > > This email was sent by an automated system on behalf of the Apache > > Incubator PMC. It is an initial reminder to give you plenty of time to > > prepare your quarterly board report. > > > The third report for SkyWalking has been written up. > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/March2018 > > Luke and William: your sign-off on the report is required. > > Thanks goes to Sheng for writing up the draft of this, understanding what > was involved, and passing it on to me to check and add anything further. > > === > 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. IP clearance. > 3. First ASF release. (SkyWalking 5.0) > 3. Further ASF culture and processes. > IP Clearance is an on going thing for podlings. So while it is required for graduation, it's not an expected short term deliverable. If you have other items for graduation, I would recommend those instead of IP Clearance. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > Recheck the Apache recommend way, when our plugin related to some GPL > library. > Make those plugins optional seems good enough. > Can you reword this as "Looking for input on how to develop/release our plugins that rely on GPL libraries, is making those plugins optional good enough?" or something to that effect. > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > Improved understanding of the release process way of the Apache. And > prepare for the first release. > > A C# agent proposed by .NET community has started ( > https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/skywalking-csharp) > After it release, will make SkyWalking can support multi languages. > Some discussions about golang and Nodejs server are on going. > > This is a link to an external resource, and will set off red flags. Can this be tracked somewhere under the Apache area on github? > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Code wise the project has good momentum. > There has been ~44 pull requests opened and accepted, and 103 commits, > by 7 contributors in the last month. > > > 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: > > 5.0.0-alpha is currently in progress. One attempt was made and put into > the staging repository, > only a minor issue blocked the test build announcement email going out. > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > Hongtao Gao (PPMC) > Sheng Wu (PPMC) > Shinn Zhang (PPMC) > Yongsheng Peng (PPMC) > === > > regards, > Mick >
