ODF Podling A report was submitted, but not signed off. Any mentors available to sign off?
John On 2018/04/09 01:12:15, "John D. Ament" <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------- > 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 > > -------------------- > 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: > > > -------------------- > 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: > > > -------------------- > 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: > > > > -------------------- > 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: > > > -------------------- > 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: > > > -------------------- > 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: > > > > -------------------- > 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. > > -------------------- > 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: > > > > -------------------- > 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: > > > > -------------------- > 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: > > > > -------------------- > 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. > > -------------------- > 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 > > -------------------- > 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. > > -------------------- > 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: > > > > -------------------- > 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: > > > > -------------------- > 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: > > > > -------------------- > 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: > > > > -------------------- > 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: > > > > -------------------- > 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: > > > > -------------------- > 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: > > > > -------------------- > 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: >