Re: February 2016 SystemML Incubator Podling Report - Draft

[Deron Eriksson]

Hi Luciano,


> >   2. Core library improvements, including Apache Spark integration.
> >
>
> This is not a block for graduating. Graduation is about learning the
> "Apache way" and being about community over code, diversity, etc. Nothing
> specific to code stage or quality.
>
>
Very good point about community over code. Do you have a suggestion for a
statement that is more in line with this way of thinking that is not
covered by point 1?

Thanks,
Deron

Re: February 2016 SystemML Incubator Podling Report - Draft

[Deron Eriksson]

I see you edited the report on the incubator wiki. Thank you!


On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Luciano Resende 
wrote:

> For 1, the project should focus on :
>
> 1. Grow SystemML community: Add committers and increase diversity of the
> community.
>
> We would need (active) members of at least three different companies (or
> independents)
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Deron Eriksson 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Luciano,
> >
> >
> > > >   2. Core library improvements, including Apache Spark integration.
> > > >
> > >
> > > This is not a block for graduating. Graduation is about learning the
> > > "Apache way" and being about community over code, diversity, etc.
> Nothing
> > > specific to code stage or quality.
> > >
> > >
> > Very good point about community over code. Do you have a suggestion for a
> > statement that is more in line with this way of thinking that is not
> > covered by point 1?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Deron
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Luciano Resende
> http://people.apache.org/~lresende
> http://twitter.com/lresende1975
> http://lresende.blogspot.com/
>

Re: February 2016 SystemML Incubator Podling Report - Draft

[Luciano Resende]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Deron Eriksson 
wrote:

> I see you edited the report on the incubator wiki. Thank you!
>
>
I had to review as a mentor, did a quick update.


-- 
Luciano Resende
http://people.apache.org/~lresende
http://twitter.com/lresende1975
http://lresende.blogspot.com/

February 2016 SystemML Incubator Podling Report - Draft

[Deron Eriksson]

Hi,

The SystemML podling report for February is due tomorrow. Please let me
know if any additions or changes need to be made to the following draft.

Deron



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 running on 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 and PyDML algorithm scripts, respond to
 user feedback to ensure SystemML meets the requirements of real-world
 situations, write papers, and present talks about SystemML.
  2. Core library improvements, including Apache Spark integration.
  3. Produce a release.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

  Our JIRA site is up and operational.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Our mailing list in January had 123 messages (7 of which were Jenkins). We
  have had several useful discussions on the mailing list concerning various
  aspects of SystemML. A data scientist has created JIRAs regarding
usability
  issues and we are addressing these issues. We have had several useful
  additional discussions on our JIRA site and in our Pull Request
  conversations.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Numerous additions have been made to the project, including core
  functionality, usability improvements, and documentation. The project has
had
  96 commits since January 6. In the last 30 days, 126 new issues have been
  reported on our JIRA site and 68 issues have been resolved. We are in the
  process of producing our first Apache release, version 0.9.0.
  RC3 passed the SystemML PMC vote and is currently being voted on by the
IPMC.


Date of last release:

  NONE

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  NONE