Tamaya wasn't the only one to miss it, but sad nobody could get it there in time.
I just arrived to Austin for a JCP EC F2F, but had hoped, someone was able to write a few words on what's happening right now...? Werner On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:34 PM, John D. Ament <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > Please find the draft board report below. Please remember that this is an > open report, so feel free to add additional notes to the report directly on > the wiki ( https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/May2017 ). > > To the podlings on the CC of this email, please note that your reports are > either missing or not signed off on. Please work to get your reports > submitted ASAP. It is a pretty high number - 12 podlings. > > John > > ---- > > Incubator PMC report for May 2017 > > 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 60 podlings incubating. Podlings executed seven > releases in April, including the first release from ODF Toolkit in a long > time. One IPMC member stepped down in April, and one new member joined. > > * Community > > New IPMC members: > > - Larry McCay > > People who left the IPMC: > > - Marvin Humphrey > > * New Podlings > > - None > > * Retired Podlings > > - Pirk > > * Podlings that failed to report, expected next month > > - Gobblin > - HORN > - Joshua > - Tamaya > - Toree > - Unomi > > * Podlings presently missing sign off > > - BatchEE > - Blur > - Edgent > - iota > - Sirona > - Slider > > * Graduations > > The board has motions for the following: > > - None > > * Releases > > The following releases entered distribution during the month of > April: > > - 2017-04-01 Apache Guacamole 0.9.12 > - 2017-04-02 Apache Gossip 0.1.2 > - 2017-04-10 Apache ODF Toolkit 0.6.2 > - 2017-04-13 Apache Mnemonic 0.6.0 > - 2017-04-24 Apache PredictionIO 0.11.0 > - 2017-04-28 Apache Gearpump 0.8.3 > - 2017-04-28 Apache Juneau 6.2.0 > > * Legal / Trademarks > > - Podlings struggle with their first releases. There has been growing > asks to revisit the binaries in source releases policy as a number of newer > build tools rely on including a small JAR to ease the build process. > Several IPMC members have voiced interest in following up with legal in > this area. > > * Infrastructure > > - There were small hiccups with the Metron graduation that may need some > refinement between IPMC, Infrastructure and Trademarks/Press. > - The other graduations and Pirk's retirement went smoothly. > - In addition, thanks to some strong collaboration with Infrastructure we > now have a podlings [AT] incubator DOT apache DOT org to better communicate > with the podlings as a whole. > > * Miscellaneous > > - The new podling logo has been announced to all podlings. Some have > already implemented the new logo and it looks much better on websites. > - The new incubator website is being worked on, slowly. We may start by > simply porting the existing content and then refining policies. > - We have refined our processes to communicate out that rosters should be > maintained in Whimsy going forward. A formal announcement should happen by > ApacheCon. > > * Credits > > - Report Manager: John D. Ament > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Table of Contents > BatchEE > Blur > DistributedLog > Edgent > Fluo > Gobblin > Guacamole > HORN > Impala > iota > Joshua > MXNet > PredictionIO > Ratis > S2Graph > Sirona > Slider > SystemML > Tamaya > Toree > Unomi > Weex > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------- > 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: > > 1. Update documentation > 2. Better communicate around the project (and its independance of TomEE) > 3. - > > 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? > > Not much but since there is not yet a new version of the spec it was > expected. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Not much but since there is not yet a new version of the spec it was > expected. > > 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: > > 2016-09-22 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > 2015-12-02 > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré > Comments: > [ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy > Comments: > [ ](batchee) Mark Struberg > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Blur > > Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data > in a cloud computing environment. > > Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > We have started a discussion thread to talk about retiring Blur due to > lack of growth and activity. > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > Subscriptions: user@ - 61[0]; dev@ - 76[-1] > > 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 > [ ] Working towards first release > [ ] Community building > [ ] Nearing graduation > [ ] Other: > > Date of last release: > > 2014-07-29 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2014-07-28 > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](blur) Doug Cutting > Comments: > [ ](blur) Patrick Hunt > Comments: > [ ](blur) Tim Williams > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > DistributedLog > > DistributedLog is a high-performance replicated log service. It offers > durability, replication and strong consistency, which provides a > fundamental > building block for building reliable distributed systems. > > DistributedLog has been incubating since 2016-06-24. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Continue to grow the community, and increase diversity of community. > 2. Improve documentation, including documentation of project and > processes. > 3. Successful 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? > > > 1. community > > - Sijie gave a talk about DistributedLog at Strata+Hadoop San Jose. > - The DistributedLog paper is accepted at ICDE 2017. > - Leigh Stewart gave a presentation about DistributedLog at ICDE. > > 2. 44 people subscribed to dev mail list, > 8 improvement proposal in progress, > and 72 open issues. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > - We have released the first Apache version : 0.4.0-incubating on April 25. > - We start the work on release 0.5.0-incubating. > > > 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: > > 2017-04-25 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](distributedlog) Flavio Junqueira > Comments: > [ ](distributedlog) Chris Nauroth > Comments: > [X](distributedlog) Henry Saputra > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Edgent > > Apache Edgent is a programming model and micro-kernel style runtime > that can be embedded in gateways and small footprint edge devices enabling > local, real-time, analytics on the continuous streams of data coming > from equipment, vehicles, systems, appliances, devices and sensors of > all kinds (for example, Raspberry Pis or smart phones). Working in > conjunction with centralized analytic systems, Apache Edgent provides > efficient and timely analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the > center to the edge. > > Edgent has been incubating since 2016-02-29. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Create and expand a diverse community of contributors and committers > around the Edgent project. > 2. Checking of all items in the project's Maturity Model > ( > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/EDGENT/ > Apache+Maturity+Model+For+Edgent > ) > 3. Although not required to graduate, it might be good to attract at > least another independent committer/ppmc member. > > 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? > > * Three speakers will present their experience with Edgent at the > ApacheCon North America in May 2017: > > * Video Analytics at the Edge: Fun with Apache Edgent, OpenCV and a > Raspberry Pi - Dale LaBossiere and William Marshall, ppmc members and > committers for Edgent. > > * Having fun with Raspberry(s) and Apache Projects - Jean-Frederic > Clere. > > * Since the last report, 2 individuals have subscribed to the Apache > Edgent dev mailing list. There were 65 subscribers as of the end of > April 2017. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * Release 1.1.0 of Edgent as part of the Apache incubator was created on > 17 March 2017. This represented 26 bug fixes and improvements, > including more usage examples, application autoSubmit capability to > IotProvider, support for publishing WIoTP device events using HTTP, > and many others. > * According to JIRA, 33 new issues were added to the project and 81 > issues have been resolved or closed between February 2017 and April > 2017. > > 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: > > 2017-03-17 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > In May 2016, we added two new committers and PPMC members, > Kathy Saunders and Queenie Ma. > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](edgent) Daniel Debrunner > Comments: > [ ](edgent) Luciano Resende > Comments: > [ ](edgent) Katherine Marsden > Comments: > [ ](edgent) Justin Mclean > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Fluo > > Fluo is a distributed system for incrementally processing large data sets > stored in Accumulo. > > Fluo has been incubating since 2016-05-17. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Make an additional release of Fluo and Fluo Recipes. > 2. Vote in a new committer. > 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? > > A non-committer has made multiple code contributions to the project > recently. > We are discussing a release soon. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > A few exciting new features were added that will be in the next release : > > * Writing Fluo applications is now easier. Users only need to configure > a single observer provider class, instead of configuring each observer > class separately. This change makes it possible to use Java 8 > Lambdas! > * The scalability of Fluo was greatly improved by changing how it scans > for > notifications. The work to find notifications was decreased from > O(N^2) > to O(N) where N is the number of nodes. > * Multiple internal performance improvements were made. > > 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: > > 2016-10-28 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > Never > > > Signed-off-by: > > [x](fluo) Billie Rinaldi > Comments: > [ ](fluo) Drew Farris > Comments: > [x](fluo) Josh Elser > Comments: Fluo is comprised of ASF "veterans" -- they operate > themselves well. That "learn the Apache way" > part of incubation was there from day #1 because they > already "got it". However, they continue > to struggle to attract new talent (it is niche software). > There have been some publicity efforts from the devs, but > growing the podling beyond themselves has not yet happened > nor is on the horizon, IMO. > > 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. > 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: > > [ ](gobblin) Jean-Baptiste Onofre > Comments: > [ ](gobblin) Jim Jagielski > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Guacamole > > Guacamole is an enterprise-grade, protocol-agnostic, remote desktop > gateway. > Combined with cloud hosting, Guacamole provides an excellent alternative to > traditional desktops. Guacamole aims to make cloud-hosted desktop access > preferable to traditional, local access. > > Guacamole has been incubating since 2016-02-10. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-120 > 2. Call community graduation VOTE > 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? > > Community activity on the mailing lists is strong and increasing, with > the > user@ list currently receiving an average of 164 posts per month. > Overall: > > Report | Period | Avg. posts (per month) > --------------+--------------------+------------------------ > May 2016 (1) | (START) .. 2016-04 | 0 (Not yet migrated) > Aug 2016 (2) | 2016-05 .. 2016-07 | 90 > Nov 2016 (3) | 2016-08 .. 2016-10 | 108 > Feb 2017 (4) | 2016-11 .. 2017-01 | 129 > May 2017 (5) | 2017-02 .. 2017-04 | 164 > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > The project has fallen into a nice rhythm with respect to releases and > has > gone through two additional releases since last report: 0.9.11-incubating > and 0.9.12-incubating. > > The project website has been updated with documentation covering release > procedures, the acceptance of new committers, and handling of code review > via pull requests. Links to relevant ASF resources for PPMC members and > committers have also been added. > > The development community continues to be engaged on the mailing lists, > and > a new committer, Nick Couchman, has been brought onto the project as of > 2017-02-09. > > Recent discussion on the mailing lists regarding graduation readiness has > been positive. The podling status page for Guacamole has been brought > up to date, and the suitable name search issue has been created: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-120 > > 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: > > 2017-04-01 (0.9.12-incubating) > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > The following committers have been elected since Guacamole began > incubation: > > * Nick Couchman - 2017-02-09 > * Frode Langelo - 2016-04-03 > > As of the VOTE on 2016-12-09, all committers are implicitly members of > the > PPMC. > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](guacamole) Jean-Baptiste Onofre > Comments: > [ ](guacamole) Daniel Gruno > Comments: > [X](guacamole) Jim Jagielski > Comments: So far, a well run PPMC with minimal issues. > [ ](guacamole) Greg Trasuk > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > HORN > > HORN is a neuron-centric programming APIs and execution framework for > large- > scale deep learning, built on top of Apache Hama. > > HORN has been incubating since 2015-09-04. > > 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: > > [ ](horn) Luciano Resende > Comments: > [ ](horn) Edward J. Yoon > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > > Impala > > Impala is a high-performance C++ and Java SQL query engine for data stored > in > Apache Hadoop-based clusters. > > Impala has been incubating since 2015-12-03. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Growth of the developer community > 2. > 3. > > 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 267 Commits: > git log --format='%ci' | grep -cE '2017-0(2|3|4)' > > 42 of those commits were by non-committers: > git log --format='%ae %ci' | grep -E '2017-0(2|3|4)' | cut -d ' ' -f 1 > | sort | uniq -c | sort -n > > There were 114 emails to the user list. Of the top nine > participants, six were not committers: > > https://lists.apache.org/trends.html?user@impala. > apache.org:dfr=2017-2-1|dto=2017-4-30 > : > > There are six new committers: > > https://lists.apache.org/[email protected]: > dfr=2017-2-1|dto=2017-4-30:%22has%20invited%22 > > Two new contributors have announced plans to take on large > development efforts (JSON support and ppc64le support). > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Two of the "three most important issues to address in the move > towards graduation" from our last report in February have been > completed: The bug tracker was transitioned to issues.apache.org, > and the documentation now describes Apache Impala specifically, not > any non-Apache extensions. The documentation has also been posted to > http://impala.incubator.apache.org/docs/build/html/index.html and > http://impala.incubator.apache.org/docs/build/impala.pdf. > > Many commits have landed since our last report towards increasing > the performance of metadata. > > 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 > [X] Nearing graduation > [ ] Other: > > Once the developer community has grown a bit, Impala will be ready > to contemplate graduation. > > Date of last release: > > 2017-01-22 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > 2017-04-24 > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](impala) Tom White > Comments: > [X](impala) Todd Lipcon > Comments: > [X](impala) Carl Steinbach > Comments: > [X](impala) Brock Noland > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > -------------------- > iota > > Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices. > > iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. An initial release of iota > 2. Building a more active community > 3. Consistency in the discussions on mailing lists/ steady flow of source > code > contributions > > 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 had a few more people more actively engaged in the process. In > particular > Gunnar Tapper from Trafodian is helping us get a release out. > Omkar Prabhu and Rutvij Clerk have made commitments to help with performers > and > the release process. Barbara Gomes and Tony Faustini will be giving a > presentation on how to develop iota performers > (components for iota) at ApacheCon. This should get more people engaged > in development and use of iota. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > We have started the process of a release. We have some cleanup to do in > the code base (e.g. IOTA-40). We also need to get Rutvij Clerk's GPG key > signed by an > Apache committer who is in the "Apache circle of trust". We tried to get > this done > locally but not been successful. Perhaps we become a part of the Apache > circle of trust at the > upcoming ApacheCon in Miami where Barbara Gomes will be present. We are > targeting a basic release by ApacheCon. We will proceed with this basic > release without a > trusted GPG key as it may not be necessary at this initial stage. > > 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: > > None yet > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > Barbara Gomes was added as a committer on 12/02/2016 > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno > Comments: > [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes > Comments: > [ ](iota) Justin Mclean > Comments: > [ ](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Joshua > > Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit > > Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13. > > 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: > > [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez > Comments: > [ ](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney > Comments: > [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann > Comments: > [ ](joshua) Tom Barber > Comments: > [ ](joshua) Henri Yandell > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Apache MXNet > > MXNet is an open-source 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. MXNet allows you to mix symbolic and imperative programming > flavors to maximize both efficiency and productivity. 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 MXNet library > is portable and lightweight, and it scales to multiple GPUs and multiple > machines. > > * A list of the three most important issues to address in the move > towards graduation. > > 1. Migrate code(GitHub) and website to Apache. > 2. Grow the community: > 2.1 Improving documentation including APIs & Tutorials. > 2.2 Improving user-experience, for example improved error messages. > 3 Establish a dependable, Apache-way consistent release process. > 3.1 Features: New operators requested by user community. > Accelerate performance on CPUs and GPUs. > > * Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be > aware of: > > Code and website have taken time to get moving on. The plan is to discuss > these with Apache Infra at ApacheCon and then get the code migrated in May. > > * How has the community developed since the last report. > > 1. The community was engaged for contributions to API documentation and > tutorials. > 2. Slack channels have been created for the community to contribute > discussions to (though they need to move to the ASF Slack channel that > was recently created). > 3. In the last month, excluding merges, 51 authors have pushed 165 commits > to master and 180 commits to all branches. On master, 502 files have > changed and there have been 26,246 additions and 12,188 deletions. Count of > Closed Issues = 62, Count of New Issues = 146, Count of Merged Pull > Requests = 161, Count of Proposed Pull Requests = 27. > > * How has the project developed since the last report. > > On GitHub: > > 1. The API Documentation has improved. > 2. More features (e.g. operators) requested by the user community has been > added. > 3. Hardware acceleration like cuDDN6 integration and MKL ML package > integration was completed. > 4. A new Perl language binding for MXNet was added. > 5. Apache MxNet talk at Apache BigData North America on May 18, 2017 > > * How does the podling rate their own maturity. > > Maturity = Low. Initial setup and adjusting community to Apache-style > interactions. > > Date of last release: > > No @Apache release yet. > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > No new committers added yet. > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](mxnet) Sebastian Schelter > Comments: > [X](mxnet) Suneel Marthi > Comments: > [ ](mxnet) Markus Weimer > Comments: > [X](mxnet) Henri Yandell > Comments: Starting to see movement on moving things to Apache. > The dev@ list is beginning to see traffic. > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > PredictionIO > > PredictionIO is an open source Machine Learning Server built on top of > state- > of-the-art open source stack, that enables developers to manage and deploy > production-ready predictive services for various kinds of machine learning > tasks. > > PredictionIO has been incubating since 2016-05-26. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Establish a formal release schedule and process, allowing for > dependable release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache way. > 2. Grow the community to establish diversity of background. > 3. Transition remaining former PredictionIO users from google-groups to > ASF mailing lists. > > 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. We have published the first release (0.11.0) that incorporates major > changes by non-committer contributors. > 2. There are new tutorials and online classes for PredictionIO by third > parties. > 3. The user mailing list has more activities than last report. > 4. GitHub stars keep growing. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > 1. Released version 0.11.0 with major contributions from the > non-committer community. > 2. Established PMC documentation regarding release processes. > 3. In the process of preparing for top level graduation discussion. > > 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 the last release: > > Apache PredictionIO 0.11.0-incubating on 2017-04-25 > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > Naoki Takezoe was elected as committer and PMC member on Apr 28, 2017, > pending acceptance of invitation and status change. > Shinsuke Sugaya was elected as committer and PMC member on Apr 28, 2017, > pending acceptance of invitation and status change. > Takahiro Hagino was elected as committer and PMC member on Apr 28, 2017, > pending acceptance of invitation and status change. > Takako Shimamoto was elected as committer and PMC member on Apr 28, 2017, > pending acceptance of invitation and status change. > Sara Asher was elected as product manager and JIRA administrator on Apr > 30, 2017. > > Signed-off-by: > > [X](predictionio) Andrew Purtell > Comments: The podling is planning a graduation vote soon. I have > expressed > concerns regarding community growth. There are several frequent > contributors > who were not invited to become committers until I asked about it. > That said, > I think this podling is maturing and nearing graduation. > [ ](predictionio) James Taylor > Comments: > [ ](predictionio) Lars Hofhansl > Comments: > [ ](predictionio) Luciano Resende > Comments: > [ ](predictionio) Xiangrui Meng > Comments: > [ ](predictionio) Suneel Marthi > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Ratis > > Ratis is a java implementation for RAFT consensus protocol > > Ratis has been incubating since 2017-01-03. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Setup jenkins. > 2. Make the first release. Release candidate for 0.1.0-alpha release is > out for voting. > 3. Add 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? > > - 3 new contributors joined. Total 29 contributors now. > - Ratis is now being used for a feature in Apache Hadoop, in a branch. > That adds to user community. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > - Ratis is now being used for a feature in Apache Hadoop, in a branch. > That adds to user community. > - Release candidate for 0.1.0-alpha release is out for voting. > - 3 new contributors > - 18 new commits > > How would you assess the podling's maturity? > Please feel free to add your own commentary. > > [ ] Initial setup - - Need jenkins setup, and documentation > [ ] Working towards first release - Release candidate out for voting. > [ ] Community building - 3 new contributors. Apache Hadoop community > experimenting with the snapshot release. > [ ] Nearing graduation > [ ] Other: > > Date of last release: > > - None > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > - Initial set of committers/PPMC. > > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](ratis) Chris Nauroth > Comments: > [ ](ratis) Devaraj Das > Comments: > [x](ratis) Jakob Homan > Comments: > [ ](ratis) Uma Maheswara Rao G > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > S2Graph > > S2Graph is a distributed and scalable OLTP graph database built on Apache > HBase to support fast traversal of extremely large graphs. > > S2Graph has been incubating since 2015-11-29. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Make a second release. > 2. Attract more users and contributors. > 3. Build the developer community in both size and diversity. > > 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? > > * Mailing lists have been quiet. > - one inquery on full text search feature support. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * Development has been quiet. > - Working on Integration with Apache TinkerPop3 > - StructureStandardSuite has been passed. > - ProcessStandardSuite has been begun. 325/582 passed, 257 failed. > > * Issues resolved/created: 0/1 > > 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: > > 2016-11-01 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > None > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](s2graph) Andrew Purtell > Comments: > [ ](s2graph) Seetharam Venkatesh > Comments: > [X](s2graph) Sergio Fernández > Comments: The podling struggles to get out of the company that > originated > the project and build a community. > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > -------------------- > Sirona > > Monitoring Solution. > > Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Grow the community > 2. Fix the licensing issues to be able to release > 3. Finally release > > 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? > > User base increased a bit. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Minor fixes only. > > 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: > > 2015-11-18 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez > Comments: > [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre > Comments: > [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen > Comments: > [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Slider > > Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and > manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters. > > Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Apache Slider community/PPMC has voted to move portions of Slider into > Apache Hadoop YARN as modules. It is possible that the remaining > pieces > will be moved at a later point in time or become obsolete or evolve to > work closely with YARN. Slider PPMC will decide what makes the most > sense as we progress through this exciting time. > 2. Getting more external users > 3. Growth of a diverse set of developers/committers/PMC members is also > crucial towards the final state of Slider > > 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? > > Mailing list activity has been lower due to the bulk of the development > moving to an Apache Hadoop branch. Questions on usage and issues > encountered by end users keep coming at regular intervals, keeping the DL > fairly active. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Work continues in parallel on the Apache Hadoop yarn-native-services > branch and on the Slider podling. The bulk of the work has been in > yarn-native-services, while a few Slider patches (related to critical > issues or agent-only issues) have been committed as well. The Slider > community released version 0.92.0-incubating during March 2017. > > 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: > > 2017-03-23 slider-0.92.0-incubating > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > 2015-07-07: Yu (Thomas) Liu > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](slider) Arun C Murthy > Comments: > [ ](slider) Devaraj Das > Comments: > [ ](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré > Comments: > [ ](slider) Mahadev Konar > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > SystemML > > SystemML provides declarative large-scale machine learning (ML) that aims > at > flexible specification of ML algorithms and automatic generation of hybrid > runtime plans ranging from single node, in-memory computations, to > distributed > computations such as Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Spark. > > SystemML has been incubating since 2015-11-02. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Grow SystemML community: increase mailing list activity, > increase adoption of SystemML for scalable machine learning, encourage > data > scientists to adopt DML algorithm scripts, respond to user feedback to > ensure SystemML meets the requirements of real-world situations, and > present > talks about SystemML. > 2. Continue to produce releases. > 3. Increase the diversity of our project's contributors and 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? > Our mailing list from February through April had 350 messages on a variety > of topics. We gained 1 new contributor to the project since February 1. On > GitHub, the project has been starred 487 times and forked 184 times. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > The main project has had 334 commits since February 1. 112 pull requests > have > been created since February 1, and 103 pull requests have been closed. > Since > February 1, 348 issues have been reported on our JIRA site and 249 of > these > have been resolved. > > 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 > [X] Nearing graduation > [ ] Other: > > Date of last release: > > 2017-03-02 (version 0.13.0-incubating) > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > 2017-05-01 Felix Schüler (PPMC) > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](systemml) Luciano Resende > Comments: > [X](systemml) Henry Saputra > Comments: > [ ](systemml) Patrick Wendell > Comments: > [ ](systemml) Reynold Xin > Comments: > [ ](systemml) Rich Bowen > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Tamaya > > Tamaya is a highly flexible configuration solution based on an modular, > extensible and injectable key/value based design, which should provide a > minimal but extendible modern and functional API leveraging SE, ME and EE > environments. > > Tamaya has been incubating since 2014-11-14. > > 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: > > [ ](tamaya) John D. Ament > Comments: > [ ](tamaya) David Blevins > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Toree > > Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely > access Apache Spark. > > Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02. > > 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: > > [ ](toree) Luciano Resende > Comments: > [ ](toree) Reynold Xin > Comments: > [ ](toree) Hitesh Shah > Comments: > [ ](toree) Julien Le Dem > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: > > > > -------------------- > Unomi > > Unomi is a reference implementation of the OASIS Context Server > specification > currently being worked on by the OASIS Context Server Technical Committee. > It > provides a high-performance user profile and event tracking server. > > Unomi has been incubating since 2015-10-05. > > 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: > > [ ](unomi) Bertrand Delacretaz > Comments: > [ ](unomi) Jean-Baptiste Onofre > 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. Move the whole workflow and infra into Apache (not the codebase only). > 2. Develop more contributors and committers. > 3. First Release while in Incubator. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > We are worried that only 1 mentor is actively helping us, as this will > put > more burden on the rest of the Incubator to approve our releases. > Especially, most of active committers are not good at dealing with > license-related problem. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > * We voted in 3 new committer:TianYi Ma, Tancy and HaiBo Song. > * There are 90+ new forks and 700+ new stars since last report. > * We have encouraged people to discuss more in the JIRA and dev > mail list. Up to now, 30 issues are reported on JIRA and 25 of them > are resovled. > * We have redirect github's mails to the commits mail list to have a > clear overview of our activity in the dev mail list. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * We are trying to release 0.12 this month. Both two RCs were failed due > to the license issue. This is major issue of project. > > 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? > TianYi Ma, 5 April 2017 > Tancy, 18 April 2017 > HaiBo Song, 24 April 2017 > > > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](weex) Luke Han > Comments: > [ ](weex) Willem Jiang > Comments: > [ ](weex) Stephan Ewen > Comments: > [x](weex) Niclas Hedhman > Comments: Technical development and sheer momentum is still very high, > and no concerns in that area. The move of GitHUb notifications to commits@ > makes dev@ a more pleasant space. But I still have concerns that a lot of > discussions of what to do happens in office or other channels. > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: >
