Podling Report Reminder - April 2017

[johndament]

Dear podling,

This email was sent by an automated system on behalf of the Apache
Incubator PMC. It is an initial reminder to give you plenty of time to
prepare your quarterly board report.

The board meeting is scheduled for Wed, 19 April 2017, 10:30 am PDT.
The report for your podling will form a part of the Incubator PMC
report. The Incubator PMC requires your report to be submitted 2 weeks
before the board meeting, to allow sufficient time for review and
submission (Wed, April 05).

Please submit your report with sufficient time to allow the Incubator
PMC, and subsequently board members to review and digest. Again, the
very latest you should submit your report is 2 weeks prior to the board
meeting.

Thanks,

The Apache Incubator PMC

Submitting your Report

--

Your report should contain the following:

*   Your project name
*   A brief description of your project, which assumes no knowledge of
the project or necessarily of its field
*   A list of the three most important issues to address in the move
towards graduation.
*   Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might 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 does the podling rate their own maturity.

This should be appended to the Incubator Wiki page at:

https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/April2017

Note: This is manually populated. You may need to wait a little before
this page is created from a template.

Mentors
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Mentors should review reports for their project(s) and sign them off on
the Incubator wiki page. Signing off reports shows that you are
following the project - projects that are not signed may raise alarms
for the Incubator PMC.

Incubator PMC

Re: next release of Rya?

[Aaron D. Mihalik]

Hey Adina,

I think this is a good idea.  Thanks for sending this out and getting the
process started.

I'm able to support another release, but I think it would be more useful if
someone else was the release manager.  I'm available to work with a
committer to get ready for the release and to update the release
documentation (which is mostly notes, not an actual process right now).

--Aaron



On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 11:43 AM Adina Crainiceanu  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to start a discussion about the next release of Rya. We had one
> release as part of ASF in October. It would be good to have more frequent
> releases, so we can learn how to do releases, as a step towards graduation
> from the Incubator.
>
> Let me know what you think.
> Thanks,
> Adina
>
> --
> Dr. Adina Crainiceanu
> Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
> United States Naval Academy
> 410-293-6822 <(410)%20293-6822>
> ad...@usna.edu
> http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/adina/
>

next release of Rya?

[Adina Crainiceanu]

Hi,

I wanted to start a discussion about the next release of Rya. We had one
release as part of ASF in October. It would be good to have more frequent
releases, so we can learn how to do releases, as a step towards graduation
from the Incubator.

Let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Adina

-- 
Dr. Adina Crainiceanu
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
United States Naval Academy
410-293-6822
ad...@usna.edu
http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/adina/

Re: draft of ASF Board Report for Rya - please comment

[Josh Elser]

My only comment is to be a bit more concrete on the number of 
contributions you have received from non-committers (e.g. how many 
unique contributors and number of contributions total). This helps to 
show what the pipeline on your community-building looks like.


Otherwise, lgtm. Thanks for putting it together, Adina!

Adina Crainiceanu wrote:

Hi,

I started the Podling report to ASF. This is due Wednesday. Please let me
know of any additions/modifications. I want to submit a draft tomorrow and
then we can modify further if needed on Wednesday.

Thank you,
Adina

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. Have more releases as part of the Apache Foundation
  2. Increase diversity of contributors.
  3. Continue to harden and develop core Rya features to improve user
experience

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?

  * Talk on Rya accepted at ApacheCon Big Data, May 18, 2017
  * PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the repository
continue to be received

How has the project developed since the last report?

  * Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered
  * Committed features: Added support for select * {?s ?p ?o} queries
(select all triples). Implemented MongoDB based entity secondary index.
Added MongoDB column visibility. Fixed column visibilities in Fluo. Added
GeoWave, in addition to GeoMesa, to the optional rya.geoindexing. Added
statement metadata optimizer so  that reified queries can be issued in an
efficient way.

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:

  Oct 28, 2016

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  New committer and PPMC member David Lotts elected on Oct 25, 2016
  New 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:
   [ ](rya) Billie Rinaldi
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

draft of ASF Board Report for Rya - please comment

[Adina Crainiceanu]

Hi,

I started the Podling report to ASF. This is due Wednesday. Please let me
know of any additions/modifications. I want to submit a draft tomorrow and
then we can modify further if needed on Wednesday.

Thank you,
Adina

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. Have more releases as part of the Apache Foundation
 2. Increase diversity of contributors.
 3. Continue to harden and develop core Rya features to improve user
experience

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?

 * Talk on Rya accepted at ApacheCon Big Data, May 18, 2017
 * PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the repository
continue to be received

How has the project developed since the last report?

 * Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered
 * Committed features: Added support for select * {?s ?p ?o} queries
(select all triples). Implemented MongoDB based entity secondary index.
Added MongoDB column visibility. Fixed column visibilities in Fluo. Added
GeoWave, in addition to GeoMesa, to the optional rya.geoindexing. Added
statement metadata optimizer so  that reified queries can be issued in an
efficient way.

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:

 Oct 28, 2016

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 New committer and PPMC member David Lotts elected on Oct 25, 2016
 New 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:
  [ ](rya) Billie Rinaldi
 Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

-- 
Dr. Adina Crainiceanu
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
United States Naval Academy
410-293-6822
ad...@usna.edu
http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/adina/