[Incubator Wiki] Update of "March2018" by MatteoMerli

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Added Pulsar report

  
  Pulsar has been incubating since 2017-06-01.
  
- Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
+ Two most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
  
+   1. Grow the community with new Committers/PPMC members.
+   2. Complete the Podling name search tasks
-   1.
-   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?
- 
- 
- 
- How has the project developed since the last report?
+ How has the community developed since the last report?
  
+   The community added 6 new contributors that submitted pull-requests
+   which were merged into master.
  
- How would you assess the podling's maturity?
- Please feel free to add your own commentary.
+   There has been a sharp increase in users approaching the team on the Slack channel with many questions on getting started, clarifications, troubleshooting.
+   While developers use Slack for informal chatting, the predominant usage of Slack has be users support. We have created a tool to create daily email digests of the   
+   conversation and post it on dev@ and user@ lists, to comply with ASF policy of. We are also extracting the most recurrent questions/answer from Slack and plan to add an 
+   FAQ section on the website, together with improving documentation in the areas that seemed more difficult to users.
  
+   Project members from several companies have organized or participated in several meetups, presenting Pulsar's introductions, deep-dives and hands-on tutorial, including 
+   recorded podcasts. We have several scheduled talks on Pulsar at various conferences (such as Strata San Jose on March 8th).
+ 
+ 
+ How has the project developed since the last report?
+ 
+   22 authors have pushed 536 commits to master in the last 3 months.
+ 
+   The project has made the its third and fourth releases since joining the Apache
+   Incubator (1.21.0-incubating on Dec 17th and 1.22.0-incubating on Mar 6th).
+   Project members are actively working on next milestone, 2.0 release that will
+   include several new features including:
+    * Topic compaction
+    * Redesigned type-safe API with schema support
+    * Lightweight compute support
+ 
+   Overall, since December, 7 new PIPs (Pulsar Improvement Proposals) for major
+   feature/changes, have been submitted to the wiki and discussed in the mailing list.
+ 
+   Since the last report the number of weekly-active-users on the Slack channel has
+   increased from 27 to 53.
+ 
+ 
+ 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
+   [X] Nearing graduation
    [ ] Other:
  
  Date of last release:
  
-   XXXX-XX-XX
+   2017-12-13, 1.21.0-incubating
+   2018-03-06, 1.22.0-incubating
  
  When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  
+   2018-01-19 - Sijie Guo
  
  
  Signed-off-by:

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