[DRAFT] Incubator PMC Board Report - February 2018
All, Below is the current draft of the IPMC report. Of note is that the Slider report still needs mentor sign off. Hopefully that will come soon. I'm going to give it one more day and plan to submit the report on Thursday. Incubator PMC report for February 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 54 podlings incubating. In the month of January, podlings executed five releases, we added four additional IPMC members; as well as one new podling and one retiring podling. * Community New IPMC members: - David E. Jones - Kevin A. McGrail - Mark Thomas - Timothy Chen People who left the IPMC: - None * New Podlings - ECharts * Podlings that failed to report, expected next month - iota: no further reports expected, podling is retiring - Milagro: expecting podling to retire - Myriad: expecting podling to retire * Podlings missing sign off - Slider * Graduations The board has motions for the following: - None * Releases The following releases entered distribution during the month of January: - 2018-01-02 Apache Airflow 1.9.0 - 2018-01-16 Apache Aria Tosca 0.2.0 - 2018-01-17 Apache Taverna Server 3.1.0 - 2018-01-22 Apache Traffic Control 2.1.0 - 2018-01-27 Apache DataFu 1.3.3 * IP Clearance - Appreciations go out for ensuring that RocketMQ performs proper IP Clearance. Similar reminders have gone out to DeltaSpike and TomEE. * Legal / Trademarks - Multiple podlings have open tickets and emails in to legal to review open questions. Assistance is requested to guide them, even if the answer is "work with your mentors to get an answer." * Infrastructure - Work will need to begin to clean up remaining links into the retired Service Desk instance. * Miscellaneous -- Table of Contents Airflow Crail ECharts Edgent Heron Joshua Livy PageSpeed PLC4X Ratis S2Graph SDAP ServiceComb SkyWalking Slider Spot Tamaya Toree Unomi -- 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. We have had 4 releases and are working toward our 5th. We are getting better at releases. 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. We had our forth official release 1.9.0 on Jan 2, 2018. 2. Since our last podling report 4 months ago (i.e. between Sept 25 & Feb 8, inclusive), we grew our contributors from 315 to 385 3. Since our last podling report 4 months ago (i.e. between Sept 25 & Feb 8, inclusive), we resolved 331 pull requests (currently at 2128 closed PRs) 4. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies officially using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 132, 18 new from the last podling report. How has the project developed since the last report? See above : 331 PR resolved, 70 new contributors, & 18 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: [ ](airflow) Jakob Homan Comments: Crail Crail is a storage platform for sharing performance critical data in distributed data processing jobs at very high speed. Crail has been incubating since 2017-11-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Community building 2. Improve project visibility 3. Create the first release Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? * No issues require attention at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? * We are trying to advertise Crail to attract more people to contribute and/or use it. In that respect, we got a presentation at this years SF Spark Summit accepted, where we will talk about Crail deployment in the Spark context. How has the project developed since the last report? * Code transfer to apache.org complete * Project website up, working on improvements and compliance * Working on adapting Crail build process to new (Apache) environment. How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [x] Initial setup [x] Working
[DRAFT] Incubator PMC Board Report - February 2018
All, Below is the draft of the incubator report. We have two podlings missing sign off, and three podlings not reporting (all expected to retire soon). Incubator PMC report for February 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 54 podlings incubating. In the month of January, podlings executed five releases, we added four additional IPMC members; as well as one new podling and one retiring podling. * Community New IPMC members: - David E. Jones - Kevin A. McGrail - Mark Thomas - Timothy Chen People who left the IPMC: - None * New Podlings - ECharts * Podlings that failed to report, expected next month - iota: no further reports expected, podling is retiring - Milagro: expecting podling to retire - Myriad: expecting podling to retire * Podlings missing sign off - Airflow - Slider * Graduations The board has motions for the following: - None * Releases The following releases entered distribution during the month of January: - 2018-01-02 Apache Airflow 1.9.0 - 2018-01-16 Apache Aria Tosca 0.2.0 - 2018-01-17 Apache Taverna Server 3.1.0 - 2018-01-22 Apache Traffic Control 2.1.0 - 2018-01-27 Apache DataFu 1.3.3 * IP Clearance * Legal / Trademarks * Infrastructure * Miscellaneous * Credits -- Table of Contents Airflow Crail ECharts Edgent Heron Joshua Livy PageSpeed PLC4X Ratis S2Graph SDAP ServiceComb SkyWalking Slider Spot Tamaya Toree Unomi -- 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. We have had 4 releases and are working toward our 5th. We are getting better at releases. 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. We had our forth official release 1.9.0 on Jan 2, 2018. 2. Since our last podling report 4 months ago (i.e. between Sept 25 & Feb 8, inclusive), we grew our contributors from 315 to 385 3. Since our last podling report 4 months ago (i.e. between Sept 25 & Feb 8, inclusive), we resolved 331 pull requests (currently at 2128 closed PRs) 4. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies officially using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 132, 18 new from the last podling report. How has the project developed since the last report? See above : 331 PR resolved, 70 new contributors, & 18 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: [ ](airflow) Hitesh Shah Comments: [ ](airflow) Jakob Homan Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes: Crail Crail is a storage platform for sharing performance critical data in distributed data processing jobs at very high speed. Crail has been incubating since 2017-11-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Community building 2. Improve project visibility 3. Create the first release Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? * No issues require attention at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? * We are trying to advertise Crail to attract more people to contribute and/or use it. In that respect, we got a presentation at this years SF Spark Summit accepted, where we will talk about Crail deployment in the Spark context. How has the project developed since the last report? * Code transfer to apache.org complete * Project website up, working on improvements and compliance * Working on adapting Crail build process to new (Apache) environment. 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: * N/A When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? * 2017-11-01 (entering incubation) Signed-off-by: [x](crail) Julian Hyde Comments: Well done getting the web site up and the source code into ASF git. It feels like the project is really up and running. Next steps are a release and podling name
