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[DRAFT] Board Report - August 2014
Hi all,
Below is what I'm calling the final draft of this month's board report,
ready for Roman to review. Roman, please review when you get a chance.
Thank you to BatchEE and Parquet for finally getting your reports in.
There are still a few sign offs pending:
- Brooklyn
- Hadoop Development Tools
- Slider
These podlings are CC'd to try to get their mentors to sign off by Tuesday
evening.
If anyone has any additional content to add for the blank sections, please
let me know. It looks like July was a pretty quiet month in the incubator.
= Incubator PMC report for August 2014 =
=== Timeline ===
||Wed August 06 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
||Sun August 10 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
||Sun August 10 ||Summary due by end of day ||
||Tue August 12 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
||Wed August 13 ||Report submitted to Board ||
||Wed August 20 ||Board meeting ||
=== Shepherd Assignments ===
||Alan D. Cabrera ||Optiq ||
||Alan D. Cabrera ||Twill ||
||Andrei Savu ||Flink ||
||Andrei Savu ||Hadoop Development Tools ||
||John D. Ament ||Sirona ||
||John D. Ament ||Slider ||
||Justin Mclean ||BatchEE ||
||Konstantin Boudnik ||Fleece ||
||Konstantin Boudnik ||Parquet ||
||Matthew Franklin ||Argus ||
||Matthew Franklin ||Droids ||
||Roman Shaposhnik ||ODF Toolkit ||
||Raphael Bircher ||Kalumet ||
||Raphael Bircher ||NPanday ||
||Suresh Marru ||Blur ||
||Suresh Marru ||Brooklyn ||
=== Report content ===
{{{
Incubator PMC report for August 2014
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
< narrative >
* Community
New IPMC members:
People who left the IPMC:
* New Podlings
Argus
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
N/A - included in last month.
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
Apache Tez-0.4.1-incubating RC0
Apache Slider 0.40-incubating RC0
Apache Blur 0.2.3-incubating RC2
Apache Metamodel incubating 4.2.0
Apache DeviceMap BrowserMap incubating 1.4.1
Apache HDT version 0.0.2.incubating (RC1)
* IP Clearance
Brooklyn CAMP Server
Sling Query contribution
BigCouch updates to Apache CouchDB
* Legal / Trademarks
* Infrastructure
* Miscellaneous
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
Parquet
Sirona
Twill
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
Argus
Brooklyn
Fleece
Flink
Optiq
Community growth:
BatchEE
Blur
Hadoop Development Tools
* Ready to graduate
The Board has motions for the following:
N/A
* Did not report, expected next month
N/A - though Celix still needs to clean up
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Table of Contents
Argus
BatchEE
Blur
Brooklyn
Droids
Fleece
Flink
Hadoop Development Tools
Kalumet
NPanday
ODF Toolkit
Optiq
Parquet
Sirona
Slider
Twill
----------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------
Argus
The Argus project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform.
Argus has been incubating since 2014-07-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Get all podling committers and mentors on mailing lists
2. Publish initial code drop along with a code grant
3. Get approval for name of Argus (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-54)
4. Create a project website
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
As part of the discussion about entering incubator, we added a second
mentor (Daniel Gruno) from outside of Hortonworks.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* podling accepted into incubator
* all committers have ICLA filed and accounts created
* Jira created
* status page created
* git repostiory created
* mailing lists created
How has the project developed since the last report?
This is the first report.
Date of last release:
none yet
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
none yet
Signed-off-by:
[X](argus) Alan Gates
[ ](argus) Daniel Gruno
[X](argus) Devaraj Das
[X](argus) Jakob Homan
[X](argus) Owen O'Malley
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
BatchEE
BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (JSR-352) 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:
1. Increase community (surely implies communication)
2. Do more release (in progress)
3. Improve our documentation
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?
We start to get some interesting "real life" user feedbacks (mainly through
JIRA).
How has the project developed since the last report?
Mainly bugfixes and some feature enhancement (goal is stability and ease of
use).
Date of last release:
2014-04-01
We are currently preparing for a new release.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
[X](batchee) Mark Struberg
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Blur
Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data
in a cloud computing environment.
Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. It is unclear if we can get the Trademark assign document provided by
trademarks@ signed by Near Infinity. The company no longer exists.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Other than the issue with the Trademark assignment listed above, no.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We continue to be small but active.
- Subscriptions: user@ - 61[+7]; dev@ - 67[+6]
How has the project developed since the last report?
Apache Blur has released a stable version and has started development of
a new feature set that should help grow the adoption of the technology.
This new feature set is being driven through community interaction and
development.
Date of last release:
2014-07-29
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-07-28
Signed-off-by:
[ ](blur) Doug Cutting
[X](blur) Patrick Hunt
[X](blur) Tim Williams
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a framework for modelling, monitoring, and managing
applications through autonomic blueprints.
Brooklyn has been incubating since 2014-05-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Performing our first release under Apache
2. Grow the community
3. More diversity of the committers/PPMC (currently biased towards
employees of a single organisation)
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?
No major changes - the community is still small, but is attracting a
new names on the mailing list and IRC channel, including some code
contributions.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Development is in full progress and we have settled in to our new
home at the Incubator, and are preparing to make our first release.
Date of last release:
No releases under Apache yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No change since last report, when two new committers/PPMC members
joined (2014-07-02)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](brooklyn) Matt Hogstrom
[ ](brooklyn) Alex Karasulu
[ ](brooklyn) David Nalley
[ ](brooklyn) Marcel Offermans
[ ](brooklyn) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](brooklyn) Olivier Lamy
[ ](brooklyn) Chip Childers
[ ](brooklyn) Andrei Savu
[ ](brooklyn) Joe Brockmeier
[ ](brooklyn) Jim Jagielski
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Droids
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to
create and extend existing droids (robots).
Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Activity
2. Name Search
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None. The previous goal of conducting the name search was not met due to
time availability. Outlook is much more promising this quarter.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No change. Name search is one big outstanding piece to complete, and it
is rather intimidating.
It is hoped that one of the more experienced individuals will have time
to complete it this quarter.
That should help with participation once the final name is known.
How has the project developed since the last report?
No change.
Date of last release:
2012-10-15
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-05-07
Signed-off-by:
[x](droids) Thorsten Scherler
[X](droids) Richard Frovarp
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Fleece
Implementation of JSR 353: JavaTM API for JSON Processing.
Fleece has been incubating since 2014-06-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Rename the project due to naming conflicts with "Fleece".
Proposed name is "Johnzon".
2. Expanding the community, increase dev list activity and adding
new committers.
3. Publish first incubator release.
The Fleece project status page at
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/fleece
needs updating but that would be pending on #1 due to many items on the
status-page need to be re-visited once #1 is settled.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* Project have to be renamed because of naming conflicts with "Fleece".
* Waiting for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-53
How has the community developed since the last report?
* There have been several patches submitted from a current non-committer
and we’re hoping to be able to mentor that person toward becoming a
committer.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Several issues were reported an fixed (mainly core performance and
API compliance enhancements).
* Lots of new unittests added.
Date of last release:
* No releases as of yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
* N/A
Signed-off-by:
[ X ](fleece) Justin Mclean
[ ](fleece) Christian Grobmeier
[ X ](fleece) Daniel Kulp
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Mailing list is active, all seems to be normal and ok.
--------------------
Flink
Flink is an open source system for expressive, declarative, fast, and
efficient data analysis. Flink combines the scalability and programming
flexibility of distributed MapReduce-like platforms with the efficiency,
out-of-core execution, and query optimization capabilities found in parallel
databases. Flink was originally known as Stratosphere when it entered the
Incubator.
Flink has been incubating since 2014-04-14.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. First incubator release
2. Continue with community growth
3. More comfortable with ASF policies and processes
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 new committer has been accepted into the project.
We received a large external code contribution and pending reviews.
The project started a bi-weekly Hangout.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project has moved all infrastructure to Apache,
the source code has been renamed to the "org.apache.flink" namespace.
We are finalizing the preparations for the first Incubator release
Date of last release:
2014-05-31 (no incubator release yet)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-07-10
Signed-off-by:
[ ](flink) Sean Owen
[ ](flink) Ted Dunning
[ ](flink) Owen O'Malley
[X](flink) Henry Saputra
[ ](flink) Ashutosh Chauhan
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Hadoop Development Tools
Eclipse based tools for developing applications on the Hadoop platform
Hadoop Development Tools has been incubating since 2012-11-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Build Community
2. Get more activity
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?
- 133 mails exchanged on mailing list
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Migrated all the existing functionality from master which enabled us for
next release.
- Released 0.0.2 incubating
Date of last release:
- July'2014
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- November 2013
Signed-off-by:
[ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Suresh Marru
[ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Chris Mattmann
[ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Kalumet
Kalumet a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE
environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and
resources.
Kalumet has been incubating since 2011-09-20.
Community Developement:
Apache Kalumet 0.6-incubating version has been released.
However, due to some misunderstanding, the release vote has not been
completed by 3 IPMC. Especially, some legal files issues have been raised.
We are preparing a 0.6.1-incubating release to fix the legal files and
submit to IPMC vote. We are in the way of promoting the documentation
on the website.
Project Development:
We are preparing the 0.6.1-incubating (plan for July, 14) to fix the
legal files issues raised on 0.6-incubating release and have a complete
IPMC vote.
We are preparing the 0.7-incubating release with the development changes.
Local branches have been created containing:
- new model and REST API
- new webconsole (remove of Echo framework)
These local branches will be merged on the 0.7-incubating branch (master).
Before Graduation:
- The documentation has been updated and aligned with the 0.6-incubating
release. The documentation will be promoted on the website and "linked"
in announcement e-mails as soon as the 0.6.1-incubating release has
been voted.
- The 0.7-incubating release will fix the graduation issue, especially
in term of license (removal of Echo2 framework for the UI).
Post Graduation:
- Kalumet scripts. It's the extension of the "software" concept
globally to all Kalumet resources. It will allow users to create custom
deployment/update plan, with a set of fine-grained steps.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of:
None so far.
Date of last release:
2013-11-22
Date of next release:
2014-08-24
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None
Signed-off-by:
[ ](kalumet) Jim Jagielski
[ ](kalumet) Henri Gomez
[X](kalumet) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](kalumet) Olivier Lamy
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
NPanday
NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache
Maven.
NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13.
Since the last report in July:
- the build issues on the Windows Jenkins slaves were resolved
- further JIRA issues have been cleaned up to prepare for the release
- Konstantin Boudnik was formally added as a mentor for the project
While some progress was made towards getting the release out, there is
still more work to do as time allows.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Ship the changes on trunk as a release and make it easier for new
users to get up to speed when interested in the project
2. Get a critical mass of committers/PPMC members that can respond to
contributors, apply patches, nominate committers, and vote on releases
3. Provide guidance on how to get involved in contributing
The incubator is already aware of the low level of activity, that many of
the PPMC are now disengaged. There continues to be interest in a new
release from users, and new interest from some in making contributions that
continue to be followed up.
Date of last release:
2011-05-16
The last committer was added on 2011-04-19. There have not been any PPMC
additions since inception.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](npanday) Raphael Bircher
[X](npanday) Konstantin Boudnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
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. Grow the community in terms of committers
2. Have regular releases
3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing
project
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?
We issued a "call for volunteers" to our users list and got a good
response: http://s.apache.org/4Vx
Of course, it will be easier to grow the community if we can reliably
conduct a release vote.
How has the project developed since the last report?
2014-06-02 - ODF Toolkit 0.6.1-incubating available
Date of last release:
2014-06-02
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-10-29
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
[x](odftoolkit) Rob Weir
--------------------
Optiq
Optiq is a highly customizable engine for parsing and planning queries on
data in a wide variety of formats. It allows database-like access, and in
particular a SQL interface and advanced query optimization, for data not
residing in a traditional database.
Optiq has been incubating since 2014-05-19.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Migrate fully to Apache infrastructure (next: web site and
nightly builds).
2. Re-organize code into org.apache.optiq namespace.
3. Regular releases.
4. Build an ASF community.
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 added our first post-incubation committer, Vladimir
Sitnikov.
We are planning our first hackathon.
There have been community discussions about the goals for a future
1.0 release, in particular whether the project should be reorganized
to allow projects to use the optimizer core without using SQL parser
and code-generation facilities.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Adopting Apache infrastructure:
* Gained access to Nexus and started publishing (on-demand, not
nightly) snapshot builds.
* Web site in progress.
Working on first release under the Apache incubator,
apache-optiq-0.9.0-incubating.
Date of last release:
No releases yet under the Incubator.
Last unofficial release was optiq-0.8, on 2014-06-27.
First official release is imminent.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Vladimir Sitnikov, elected committer on 2014-07-15.
Signed-off-by:
[x](optiq) Ted Dunning
[X](optiq) Alan Gates
[x](optiq) Steven Noels
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Parquet
Parquet is a columnar storage format for Hadoop.
Parquet has been incubating since 2014-05-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Expanding the community and adding new committers
2. 1st release
3. Identifying how to ensure timely code reviews by committers
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None at this time
Latest Additions:
* PMC addition: N/A
* Contributor addition: N/A
Issue backlog status since last report:
* Created: 60
* Resolved: 17
Mailing list activity since last report:
* dev 212 messages
How has the project developed since the last report?
* New commit workflow has been documented and commits have been
increasing using the commit script.
* Project website is posted: parquet.incubator.apache.org, working on
moving more content from github hosting
* Moved to issues.apache.org for all new issues
* Planning first release of parquet-format and parquet-mr. Using
parquet-format release to identify steps needed to release the
larger projects (e.g., parquet-mr)
* Adding documentation on reviews and contacts for specific modules
Signed-off-by:
[X](parquet) Jake Farrell
[ ](parquet) Chris Mattmann
[ ](parquet) Roman Shaposhnik
[X](parquet) Tom White
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Mailing list has a healthy traffic, mostly bug reports. Mentors are
active and participating in the community.
--------------------
Sirona
Monitoring Solution.
Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. need to increse contributor number
2.
3.
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?
Not a lot since last report as the project was a bit quiet.
Mainly some real usage feedbacks
How has the project developed since the last report?
A release has been cutted and some discussion on reworking the ui.
We felt holidays but some new features are expected soon (path tracking
for instance)
Date of last release:
2014-06-26
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[x](sirona) Olivier Lamy
[ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
[ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
[ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Traffic on the list is light. There was a recent release, using new rules
it looks like. I'm concerned over volume and availability of core devs.
--------------------
Slider
Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and
manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters.
Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Building a user community
2. Getting those users to contribute their work back
3. Improving the application to make it easier to use
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?
We're getting some independent users/developers on our list, including some
initial minor contributions and some bug reports. As an example, we have
some contributed logos ... which is now going to trigger a competition/vote
for a slider logo.
The main external developer adoption is not in actual contributions for the
core slider engine, but from a few people writing slider application-
packages to deploy their own applications. This is a good first step -
we have to work with them to get them through this process, note and
address issues they have -as well as encouraging them to contribute a bit
themselves. There's a tradeoff there: we don't want to dismiss all issues
with "file a patch with the JIRA" -maybe there's an intermediate step of
"let's work on this, can you take this branch and verify it works for you?"
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. We're still fast-iterating through releases.
2. We're testing slider against the forthcoming Hadoop 2.5 release, to
help validate that release.
3. We're debating when - in August - to make the leap to only building
against Hadoop 2.6
The switch to 2.6 will mean that this code would be developer only, as it
would only work against non-production Hadoop clusters. Yet we need this
for the forthcoming features: the Credential provider, service registry,
Yarn node labeling and other features we need to integrate with.
That's a fairly exclusionary move for potential users: the current plan is
to make a release in sync with Hadoop 2.5, which will be the last Hadoop
2.4/2.5 compatible version. Yet it not only gives us those new features,
it helps tune those features and find bugs in their implementation. As an
example, one fix in Hadoop 2.4 is related to an Application Master failure
and restart problem which we'd found, a problem which, if we'd switched to
Hadoop 2.4-SNAPSHOT earlier, would have been found and fixed in the 2.4
release.
Date of last release:
2014-07-21
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-05
Signed-off-by:
[ ](slider) Arun C Murthy
[ ](slider) Devaraj Das
[ ](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](slider) Mahadev Konar
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Twill
Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop® YARN to reduce the complexity of
developing distributed applications.
Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14.
Top three items to resolve before graduation:
- More committers from different organizations.
- Regular Releases.
- Increase adoption.
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?
- 22 new JIRA issues filed since last report (2014-05-01)
- 13 JIRA issues resolved since last report (2014-05-01)
- Subscribers to the dev list up from 44 in May to 52 in August.
- 5 new contributors since last report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Version 0.3.0-incubating RC1 being voted upon
Date of last release:
- 2014-04-22: 0.2.0-incubating
What are the plans for the next period?
- Increase release frequency
- Engage active contributors and identify potential committers
- Improve documentation and website
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- No new committers since incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](twill) Arun C Murthy
[X](twill) Tom White
[X](twill) Patrick Hunt
[ ](twill) Andrei Savu
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
}}}
Re: [DRAFT] Board Report - August 2014
Posted by Steve Loughran <st...@hortonworks.com>.
chasing this down...
On 10 August 2014 23:38, John D. Ament <jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Below is what I'm calling the final draft of this month's board report,
> ready for Roman to review. Roman, please review when you get a chance.
>
> Thank you to BatchEE and Parquet for finally getting your reports in.
> There are still a few sign offs pending:
>
> - Brooklyn
> - Hadoop Development Tools
> - Slider
>
> These podlings are CC'd to try to get their mentors to sign off by Tuesday
> evening.
>
> If anyone has any additional content to add for the blank sections, please
> let me know. It looks like July was a pretty quiet month in the incubator.
>
> = Incubator PMC report for August 2014 =
> === Timeline ===
> ||Wed August 06 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
> ||Sun August 10 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
> ||Sun August 10 ||Summary due by end of day ||
> ||Tue August 12 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
> ||Wed August 13 ||Report submitted to Board ||
> ||Wed August 20 ||Board meeting ||
>
>
> === Shepherd Assignments ===
> ||Alan D. Cabrera ||Optiq ||
> ||Alan D. Cabrera ||Twill ||
> ||Andrei Savu ||Flink ||
> ||Andrei Savu ||Hadoop Development Tools ||
> ||John D. Ament ||Sirona ||
> ||John D. Ament ||Slider ||
> ||Justin Mclean ||BatchEE ||
> ||Konstantin Boudnik ||Fleece ||
> ||Konstantin Boudnik ||Parquet ||
> ||Matthew Franklin ||Argus ||
> ||Matthew Franklin ||Droids ||
> ||Roman Shaposhnik ||ODF Toolkit ||
> ||Raphael Bircher ||Kalumet ||
> ||Raphael Bircher ||NPanday ||
> ||Suresh Marru ||Blur ||
> ||Suresh Marru ||Brooklyn ||
>
>
> === Report content ===
> {{{
> Incubator PMC report for August 2014
>
> The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
> codebases
> wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
>
> < narrative >
>
> * Community
>
> New IPMC members:
>
>
> People who left the IPMC:
>
>
>
> * New Podlings
>
> Argus
>
> * Graduations
>
> The board has motions for the following:
>
> N/A - included in last month.
>
> * Releases
>
> The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
>
> Apache Tez-0.4.1-incubating RC0
> Apache Slider 0.40-incubating RC0
> Apache Blur 0.2.3-incubating RC2
> Apache Metamodel incubating 4.2.0
> Apache DeviceMap BrowserMap incubating 1.4.1
> Apache HDT version 0.0.2.incubating (RC1)
>
> * IP Clearance
>
> Brooklyn CAMP Server
> Sling Query contribution
> BigCouch updates to Apache CouchDB
>
> * Legal / Trademarks
>
>
>
> * Infrastructure
>
>
>
> * Miscellaneous
>
>
>
> -------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
>
> * Still getting started at the Incubator
>
> Parquet
> Sirona
> Twill
>
> * Not yet ready to graduate
>
> No release:
>
> Argus
> Brooklyn
> Fleece
> Flink
> Optiq
>
> Community growth:
>
> BatchEE
> Blur
> Hadoop Development Tools
>
> * Ready to graduate
>
> The Board has motions for the following:
>
> N/A
>
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
> N/A - though Celix still needs to clean up
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Table of Contents
> Argus
> BatchEE
> Blur
> Brooklyn
> Droids
> Fleece
> Flink
> Hadoop Development Tools
> Kalumet
> NPanday
> ODF Toolkit
> Optiq
> Parquet
> Sirona
> Slider
> Twill
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------
> Argus
>
> The Argus project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
> comprehensive
> data security across the Hadoop platform.
>
> Argus has been incubating since 2014-07-24.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Get all podling committers and mentors on mailing lists
> 2. Publish initial code drop along with a code grant
> 3. Get approval for name of Argus (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-54)
> 4. Create a project website
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> As part of the discussion about entering incubator, we added a second
> mentor (Daniel Gruno) from outside of Hortonworks.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * podling accepted into incubator
> * all committers have ICLA filed and accounts created
> * Jira created
> * status page created
> * git repostiory created
> * mailing lists created
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> This is the first report.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> none yet
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> none yet
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](argus) Alan Gates
> [ ](argus) Daniel Gruno
> [X](argus) Devaraj Das
> [X](argus) Jakob Homan
> [X](argus) Owen O'Malley
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> BatchEE
>
> BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (JSR-352) 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:
>
> 1. Increase community (surely implies communication)
> 2. Do more release (in progress)
> 3. Improve our documentation
>
> 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?
>
> We start to get some interesting "real life" user feedbacks (mainly through
> JIRA).
>
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Mainly bugfixes and some feature enhancement (goal is stability and ease of
> use).
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2014-04-01
> We are currently preparing for a new release.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> [ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
> [X](batchee) Mark Struberg
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Blur
>
> Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data
> in a cloud computing environment.
>
> Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. It is unclear if we can get the Trademark assign document provided by
> trademarks@ signed by Near Infinity. The company no longer exists.
> 2.
> 3.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> Other than the issue with the Trademark assignment listed above, no.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> We continue to be small but active.
> - Subscriptions: user@ - 61[+7]; dev@ - 67[+6]
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Apache Blur has released a stable version and has started development of
> a new feature set that should help grow the adoption of the technology.
> This new feature set is being driven through community interaction and
> development.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2014-07-29
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2014-07-28
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](blur) Doug Cutting
> [X](blur) Patrick Hunt
> [X](blur) Tim Williams
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Brooklyn
>
> Brooklyn is a framework for modelling, monitoring, and managing
> applications through autonomic blueprints.
>
> Brooklyn has been incubating since 2014-05-01.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Performing our first release under Apache
> 2. Grow the community
> 3. More diversity of the committers/PPMC (currently biased towards
> employees of a single organisation)
>
> 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?
>
> No major changes - the community is still small, but is attracting a
> new names on the mailing list and IRC channel, including some code
> contributions.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Development is in full progress and we have settled in to our new
> home at the Incubator, and are preparing to make our first release.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No releases under Apache yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No change since last report, when two new committers/PPMC members
> joined (2014-07-02)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](brooklyn) Matt Hogstrom
> [ ](brooklyn) Alex Karasulu
> [ ](brooklyn) David Nalley
> [ ](brooklyn) Marcel Offermans
> [ ](brooklyn) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> [ ](brooklyn) Olivier Lamy
> [ ](brooklyn) Chip Childers
> [ ](brooklyn) Andrei Savu
> [ ](brooklyn) Joe Brockmeier
> [ ](brooklyn) Jim Jagielski
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --------------------
> Droids
>
> Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to
> create and extend existing droids (robots).
>
> Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Activity
> 2. Name Search
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> None. The previous goal of conducting the name search was not met due to
> time availability. Outlook is much more promising this quarter.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> No change. Name search is one big outstanding piece to complete, and it
> is rather intimidating.
> It is hoped that one of the more experienced individuals will have time
> to complete it this quarter.
> That should help with participation once the final name is known.
>
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> No change.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2012-10-15
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2012-05-07
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](droids) Thorsten Scherler
> [X](droids) Richard Frovarp
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Fleece
>
> Implementation of JSR 353: JavaTM API for JSON Processing.
>
> Fleece has been incubating since 2014-06-09.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Rename the project due to naming conflicts with "Fleece".
> Proposed name is "Johnzon".
> 2. Expanding the community, increase dev list activity and adding
> new committers.
> 3. Publish first incubator release.
>
> The Fleece project status page at
> http://incubator.apache.org/projects/fleece
> needs updating but that would be pending on #1 due to many items on the
> status-page need to be re-visited once #1 is settled.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> * Project have to be renamed because of naming conflicts with "Fleece".
> * Waiting for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-53
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * There have been several patches submitted from a current non-committer
> and we’re hoping to be able to mentor that person toward becoming a
> committer.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Several issues were reported an fixed (mainly core performance and
> API compliance enhancements).
> * Lots of new unittests added.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> * No releases as of yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> * N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ X ](fleece) Justin Mclean
> [ ](fleece) Christian Grobmeier
> [ X ](fleece) Daniel Kulp
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> Mailing list is active, all seems to be normal and ok.
>
>
> --------------------
> Flink
>
> Flink is an open source system for expressive, declarative, fast, and
> efficient data analysis. Flink combines the scalability and programming
> flexibility of distributed MapReduce-like platforms with the efficiency,
> out-of-core execution, and query optimization capabilities found in
> parallel
> databases. Flink was originally known as Stratosphere when it entered the
> Incubator.
>
> Flink has been incubating since 2014-04-14.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. First incubator release
> 2. Continue with community growth
> 3. More comfortable with ASF policies and processes
>
> 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 new committer has been accepted into the project.
> We received a large external code contribution and pending reviews.
> The project started a bi-weekly Hangout.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The project has moved all infrastructure to Apache,
> the source code has been renamed to the "org.apache.flink" namespace.
> We are finalizing the preparations for the first Incubator release
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2014-05-31 (no incubator release yet)
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2014-07-10
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](flink) Sean Owen
> [ ](flink) Ted Dunning
> [ ](flink) Owen O'Malley
> [X](flink) Henry Saputra
> [ ](flink) Ashutosh Chauhan
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Hadoop Development Tools
>
> Eclipse based tools for developing applications on the Hadoop platform
>
> Hadoop Development Tools has been incubating since 2012-11-09.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Build Community
> 2. Get more activity
>
> 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?
>
> - 133 mails exchanged on mailing list
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Migrated all the existing functionality from master which enabled us for
> next release.
> - Released 0.0.2 incubating
>
> Date of last release:
>
> - July'2014
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> - November 2013
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Suresh Marru
> [ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Kalumet
>
> Kalumet a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE
> environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and
> resources.
>
> Kalumet has been incubating since 2011-09-20.
>
> Community Developement:
> Apache Kalumet 0.6-incubating version has been released.
> However, due to some misunderstanding, the release vote has not been
> completed by 3 IPMC. Especially, some legal files issues have been raised.
> We are preparing a 0.6.1-incubating release to fix the legal files and
> submit to IPMC vote. We are in the way of promoting the documentation
> on the website.
>
> Project Development:
> We are preparing the 0.6.1-incubating (plan for July, 14) to fix the
> legal files issues raised on 0.6-incubating release and have a complete
> IPMC vote.
> We are preparing the 0.7-incubating release with the development changes.
>
> Local branches have been created containing:
> - new model and REST API
> - new webconsole (remove of Echo framework)
> These local branches will be merged on the 0.7-incubating branch (master).
>
> Before Graduation:
> - The documentation has been updated and aligned with the 0.6-incubating
> release. The documentation will be promoted on the website and "linked"
> in announcement e-mails as soon as the 0.6.1-incubating release has
> been voted.
> - The 0.7-incubating release will fix the graduation issue, especially
> in term of license (removal of Echo2 framework for the UI).
>
> Post Graduation:
> - Kalumet scripts. It's the extension of the "software" concept
> globally to all Kalumet resources. It will allow users to create custom
> deployment/update plan, with a set of fine-grained steps.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of:
>
> None so far.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2013-11-22
>
> Date of next release:
>
> 2014-08-24
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](kalumet) Jim Jagielski
> [ ](kalumet) Henri Gomez
> [X](kalumet) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> [ ](kalumet) Olivier Lamy
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> NPanday
>
> NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache
> Maven.
>
> NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13.
>
> Since the last report in July:
> - the build issues on the Windows Jenkins slaves were resolved
> - further JIRA issues have been cleaned up to prepare for the release
> - Konstantin Boudnik was formally added as a mentor for the project
>
> While some progress was made towards getting the release out, there is
> still more work to do as time allows.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Ship the changes on trunk as a release and make it easier for new
> users to get up to speed when interested in the project
> 2. Get a critical mass of committers/PPMC members that can respond to
> contributors, apply patches, nominate committers, and vote on releases
> 3. Provide guidance on how to get involved in contributing
>
> The incubator is already aware of the low level of activity, that many of
> the PPMC are now disengaged. There continues to be interest in a new
> release from users, and new interest from some in making contributions that
> continue to be followed up.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2011-05-16
>
> The last committer was added on 2011-04-19. There have not been any PPMC
> additions since inception.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](npanday) Raphael Bircher
> [X](npanday) Konstantin Boudnik
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> --------------------
> 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. Grow the community in terms of committers
> 2. Have regular releases
> 3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing
> project
>
> 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?
>
> We issued a "call for volunteers" to our users list and got a good
> response: http://s.apache.org/4Vx
>
> Of course, it will be easier to grow the community if we can reliably
> conduct a release vote.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 2014-06-02 - ODF Toolkit 0.6.1-incubating available
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2014-06-02
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2012-10-29
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
> [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
> [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
> [x](odftoolkit) Rob Weir
>
>
> --------------------
> Optiq
>
> Optiq is a highly customizable engine for parsing and planning queries on
> data in a wide variety of formats. It allows database-like access, and in
> particular a SQL interface and advanced query optimization, for data not
> residing in a traditional database.
>
> Optiq has been incubating since 2014-05-19.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Migrate fully to Apache infrastructure (next: web site and
> nightly builds).
>
> 2. Re-organize code into org.apache.optiq namespace.
>
> 3. Regular releases.
>
> 4. Build an ASF community.
>
> 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 added our first post-incubation committer, Vladimir
> Sitnikov.
>
> We are planning our first hackathon.
>
> There have been community discussions about the goals for a future
> 1.0 release, in particular whether the project should be reorganized
> to allow projects to use the optimizer core without using SQL parser
> and code-generation facilities.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Adopting Apache infrastructure:
>
> * Gained access to Nexus and started publishing (on-demand, not
> nightly) snapshot builds.
>
> * Web site in progress.
>
> Working on first release under the Apache incubator,
> apache-optiq-0.9.0-incubating.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No releases yet under the Incubator.
> Last unofficial release was optiq-0.8, on 2014-06-27.
> First official release is imminent.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Vladimir Sitnikov, elected committer on 2014-07-15.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](optiq) Ted Dunning
> [X](optiq) Alan Gates
> [x](optiq) Steven Noels
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Parquet
>
> Parquet is a columnar storage format for Hadoop.
>
> Parquet has been incubating since 2014-05-20.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Expanding the community and adding new committers
> 2. 1st release
> 3. Identifying how to ensure timely code reviews by committers
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> None at this time
>
> Latest Additions:
>
> * PMC addition: N/A
> * Contributor addition: N/A
>
> Issue backlog status since last report:
>
> * Created: 60
> * Resolved: 17
>
> Mailing list activity since last report:
>
> * dev 212 messages
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * New commit workflow has been documented and commits have been
> increasing using the commit script.
> * Project website is posted: parquet.incubator.apache.org, working on
> moving more content from github hosting
> * Moved to issues.apache.org for all new issues
> * Planning first release of parquet-format and parquet-mr. Using
> parquet-format release to identify steps needed to release the
> larger projects (e.g., parquet-mr)
> * Adding documentation on reviews and contacts for specific modules
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](parquet) Jake Farrell
> [ ](parquet) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](parquet) Roman Shaposhnik
> [X](parquet) Tom White
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> Mailing list has a healthy traffic, mostly bug reports. Mentors are
> active and participating in the community.
>
>
> --------------------
> Sirona
>
> Monitoring Solution.
>
> Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. need to increse contributor number
> 2.
> 3.
>
> 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?
> Not a lot since last report as the project was a bit quiet.
>
> Mainly some real usage feedbacks
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> A release has been cutted and some discussion on reworking the ui.
>
> We felt holidays but some new features are expected soon (path tracking
> for instance)
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2014-06-26
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](sirona) Olivier Lamy
> [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
> [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
> [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Traffic on the list is light. There was a recent release, using new rules
> it looks like. I'm concerned over volume and availability of core devs.
>
> --------------------
>
> Slider
>
> Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and
> manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters.
>
> Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Building a user community
> 2. Getting those users to contribute their work back
> 3. Improving the application to make it easier to use
>
> 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?
>
> We're getting some independent users/developers on our list, including some
> initial minor contributions and some bug reports. As an example, we have
> some contributed logos ... which is now going to trigger a competition/vote
> for a slider logo.
>
> The main external developer adoption is not in actual contributions for the
> core slider engine, but from a few people writing slider application-
> packages to deploy their own applications. This is a good first step -
> we have to work with them to get them through this process, note and
> address issues they have -as well as encouraging them to contribute a bit
> themselves. There's a tradeoff there: we don't want to dismiss all issues
> with "file a patch with the JIRA" -maybe there's an intermediate step of
> "let's work on this, can you take this branch and verify it works for you?"
>
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. We're still fast-iterating through releases.
> 2. We're testing slider against the forthcoming Hadoop 2.5 release, to
> help validate that release.
> 3. We're debating when - in August - to make the leap to only building
> against Hadoop 2.6
>
> The switch to 2.6 will mean that this code would be developer only, as it
> would only work against non-production Hadoop clusters. Yet we need this
> for the forthcoming features: the Credential provider, service registry,
> Yarn node labeling and other features we need to integrate with.
>
> That's a fairly exclusionary move for potential users: the current plan is
> to make a release in sync with Hadoop 2.5, which will be the last Hadoop
> 2.4/2.5 compatible version. Yet it not only gives us those new features,
> it helps tune those features and find bugs in their implementation. As an
> example, one fix in Hadoop 2.4 is related to an Application Master failure
> and restart problem which we'd found, a problem which, if we'd switched to
> Hadoop 2.4-SNAPSHOT earlier, would have been found and fixed in the 2.4
> release.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2014-07-21
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2014-05
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](slider) Arun C Murthy
> [ ](slider) Devaraj Das
> [ ](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> [ ](slider) Mahadev Konar
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> --------------------
> Twill
>
> Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop® YARN to reduce the complexity
> of
> developing distributed applications.
>
> Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14.
>
> Top three items to resolve before graduation:
>
> - More committers from different organizations.
> - Regular Releases.
> - Increase adoption.
>
> 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?
> - 22 new JIRA issues filed since last report (2014-05-01)
> - 13 JIRA issues resolved since last report (2014-05-01)
> - Subscribers to the dev list up from 44 in May to 52 in August.
> - 5 new contributors since last report.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Version 0.3.0-incubating RC1 being voted upon
>
> Date of last release:
>
> - 2014-04-22: 0.2.0-incubating
>
> What are the plans for the next period?
> - Increase release frequency
> - Engage active contributors and identify potential committers
> - Improve documentation and website
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> - No new committers since incubation.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](twill) Arun C Murthy
> [X](twill) Tom White
> [X](twill) Patrick Hunt
> [ ](twill) Andrei Savu
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> }}}
>
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Fwd: [DRAFT] Board Report - August 2014
Posted by "John D. Ament" <jo...@gmail.com>.
I misspelled your names here :-)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: John D. Ament <jo...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 6:38 PM
Subject: [DRAFT] Board Report - August 2014
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Cc: dev@booklyn.incubator.apache.org, dev@hdt.incubator.apache.org,
dev@slider.incubator.apache.org
Hi all,
Below is what I'm calling the final draft of this month's board report,
ready for Roman to review. Roman, please review when you get a chance.
Thank you to BatchEE and Parquet for finally getting your reports in.
There are still a few sign offs pending:
- Brooklyn
- Hadoop Development Tools
- Slider
These podlings are CC'd to try to get their mentors to sign off by Tuesday
evening.
If anyone has any additional content to add for the blank sections, please
let me know. It looks like July was a pretty quiet month in the incubator.
= Incubator PMC report for August 2014 =
=== Timeline ===
||Wed August 06 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
||Sun August 10 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
||Sun August 10 ||Summary due by end of day ||
||Tue August 12 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
||Wed August 13 ||Report submitted to Board ||
||Wed August 20 ||Board meeting ||
=== Shepherd Assignments ===
||Alan D. Cabrera ||Optiq ||
||Alan D. Cabrera ||Twill ||
||Andrei Savu ||Flink ||
||Andrei Savu ||Hadoop Development Tools ||
||John D. Ament ||Sirona ||
||John D. Ament ||Slider ||
||Justin Mclean ||BatchEE ||
||Konstantin Boudnik ||Fleece ||
||Konstantin Boudnik ||Parquet ||
||Matthew Franklin ||Argus ||
||Matthew Franklin ||Droids ||
||Roman Shaposhnik ||ODF Toolkit ||
||Raphael Bircher ||Kalumet ||
||Raphael Bircher ||NPanday ||
||Suresh Marru ||Blur ||
||Suresh Marru ||Brooklyn ||
=== Report content ===
{{{
Incubator PMC report for August 2014
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
< narrative >
* Community
New IPMC members:
People who left the IPMC:
* New Podlings
Argus
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
N/A - included in last month.
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
Apache Tez-0.4.1-incubating RC0
Apache Slider 0.40-incubating RC0
Apache Blur 0.2.3-incubating RC2
Apache Metamodel incubating 4.2.0
Apache DeviceMap BrowserMap incubating 1.4.1
Apache HDT version 0.0.2.incubating (RC1)
* IP Clearance
Brooklyn CAMP Server
Sling Query contribution
BigCouch updates to Apache CouchDB
* Legal / Trademarks
* Infrastructure
* Miscellaneous
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
Parquet
Sirona
Twill
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
Argus
Brooklyn
Fleece
Flink
Optiq
Community growth:
BatchEE
Blur
Hadoop Development Tools
* Ready to graduate
The Board has motions for the following:
N/A
* Did not report, expected next month
N/A - though Celix still needs to clean up
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Table of Contents
Argus
BatchEE
Blur
Brooklyn
Droids
Fleece
Flink
Hadoop Development Tools
Kalumet
NPanday
ODF Toolkit
Optiq
Parquet
Sirona
Slider
Twill
----------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------
Argus
The Argus project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform.
Argus has been incubating since 2014-07-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Get all podling committers and mentors on mailing lists
2. Publish initial code drop along with a code grant
3. Get approval for name of Argus (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-54)
4. Create a project website
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
As part of the discussion about entering incubator, we added a second
mentor (Daniel Gruno) from outside of Hortonworks.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* podling accepted into incubator
* all committers have ICLA filed and accounts created
* Jira created
* status page created
* git repostiory created
* mailing lists created
How has the project developed since the last report?
This is the first report.
Date of last release:
none yet
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
none yet
Signed-off-by:
[X](argus) Alan Gates
[ ](argus) Daniel Gruno
[X](argus) Devaraj Das
[X](argus) Jakob Homan
[X](argus) Owen O'Malley
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
BatchEE
BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (JSR-352) 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:
1. Increase community (surely implies communication)
2. Do more release (in progress)
3. Improve our documentation
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?
We start to get some interesting "real life" user feedbacks (mainly through
JIRA).
How has the project developed since the last report?
Mainly bugfixes and some feature enhancement (goal is stability and ease of
use).
Date of last release:
2014-04-01
We are currently preparing for a new release.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
[X](batchee) Mark Struberg
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Blur
Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data
in a cloud computing environment.
Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. It is unclear if we can get the Trademark assign document provided by
trademarks@ signed by Near Infinity. The company no longer exists.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Other than the issue with the Trademark assignment listed above, no.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We continue to be small but active.
- Subscriptions: user@ - 61[+7]; dev@ - 67[+6]
How has the project developed since the last report?
Apache Blur has released a stable version and has started development of
a new feature set that should help grow the adoption of the technology.
This new feature set is being driven through community interaction and
development.
Date of last release:
2014-07-29
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-07-28
Signed-off-by:
[ ](blur) Doug Cutting
[X](blur) Patrick Hunt
[X](blur) Tim Williams
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a framework for modelling, monitoring, and managing
applications through autonomic blueprints.
Brooklyn has been incubating since 2014-05-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Performing our first release under Apache
2. Grow the community
3. More diversity of the committers/PPMC (currently biased towards
employees of a single organisation)
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?
No major changes - the community is still small, but is attracting a
new names on the mailing list and IRC channel, including some code
contributions.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Development is in full progress and we have settled in to our new
home at the Incubator, and are preparing to make our first release.
Date of last release:
No releases under Apache yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No change since last report, when two new committers/PPMC members
joined (2014-07-02)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](brooklyn) Matt Hogstrom
[ ](brooklyn) Alex Karasulu
[ ](brooklyn) David Nalley
[ ](brooklyn) Marcel Offermans
[ ](brooklyn) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](brooklyn) Olivier Lamy
[ ](brooklyn) Chip Childers
[ ](brooklyn) Andrei Savu
[ ](brooklyn) Joe Brockmeier
[ ](brooklyn) Jim Jagielski
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Droids
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to
create and extend existing droids (robots).
Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Activity
2. Name Search
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None. The previous goal of conducting the name search was not met due to
time availability. Outlook is much more promising this quarter.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No change. Name search is one big outstanding piece to complete, and it
is rather intimidating.
It is hoped that one of the more experienced individuals will have time
to complete it this quarter.
That should help with participation once the final name is known.
How has the project developed since the last report?
No change.
Date of last release:
2012-10-15
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-05-07
Signed-off-by:
[x](droids) Thorsten Scherler
[X](droids) Richard Frovarp
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Fleece
Implementation of JSR 353: JavaTM API for JSON Processing.
Fleece has been incubating since 2014-06-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Rename the project due to naming conflicts with "Fleece".
Proposed name is "Johnzon".
2. Expanding the community, increase dev list activity and adding
new committers.
3. Publish first incubator release.
The Fleece project status page at
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/fleece
needs updating but that would be pending on #1 due to many items on the
status-page need to be re-visited once #1 is settled.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* Project have to be renamed because of naming conflicts with "Fleece".
* Waiting for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-53
How has the community developed since the last report?
* There have been several patches submitted from a current non-committer
and we’re hoping to be able to mentor that person toward becoming a
committer.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Several issues were reported an fixed (mainly core performance and
API compliance enhancements).
* Lots of new unittests added.
Date of last release:
* No releases as of yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
* N/A
Signed-off-by:
[ X ](fleece) Justin Mclean
[ ](fleece) Christian Grobmeier
[ X ](fleece) Daniel Kulp
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Mailing list is active, all seems to be normal and ok.
--------------------
Flink
Flink is an open source system for expressive, declarative, fast, and
efficient data analysis. Flink combines the scalability and programming
flexibility of distributed MapReduce-like platforms with the efficiency,
out-of-core execution, and query optimization capabilities found in parallel
databases. Flink was originally known as Stratosphere when it entered the
Incubator.
Flink has been incubating since 2014-04-14.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. First incubator release
2. Continue with community growth
3. More comfortable with ASF policies and processes
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 new committer has been accepted into the project.
We received a large external code contribution and pending reviews.
The project started a bi-weekly Hangout.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project has moved all infrastructure to Apache,
the source code has been renamed to the "org.apache.flink" namespace.
We are finalizing the preparations for the first Incubator release
Date of last release:
2014-05-31 (no incubator release yet)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-07-10
Signed-off-by:
[ ](flink) Sean Owen
[ ](flink) Ted Dunning
[ ](flink) Owen O'Malley
[X](flink) Henry Saputra
[ ](flink) Ashutosh Chauhan
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Hadoop Development Tools
Eclipse based tools for developing applications on the Hadoop platform
Hadoop Development Tools has been incubating since 2012-11-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Build Community
2. Get more activity
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?
- 133 mails exchanged on mailing list
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Migrated all the existing functionality from master which enabled us for
next release.
- Released 0.0.2 incubating
Date of last release:
- July'2014
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- November 2013
Signed-off-by:
[ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Suresh Marru
[ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Chris Mattmann
[ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Kalumet
Kalumet a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE
environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and
resources.
Kalumet has been incubating since 2011-09-20.
Community Developement:
Apache Kalumet 0.6-incubating version has been released.
However, due to some misunderstanding, the release vote has not been
completed by 3 IPMC. Especially, some legal files issues have been raised.
We are preparing a 0.6.1-incubating release to fix the legal files and
submit to IPMC vote. We are in the way of promoting the documentation
on the website.
Project Development:
We are preparing the 0.6.1-incubating (plan for July, 14) to fix the
legal files issues raised on 0.6-incubating release and have a complete
IPMC vote.
We are preparing the 0.7-incubating release with the development changes.
Local branches have been created containing:
- new model and REST API
- new webconsole (remove of Echo framework)
These local branches will be merged on the 0.7-incubating branch (master).
Before Graduation:
- The documentation has been updated and aligned with the 0.6-incubating
release. The documentation will be promoted on the website and "linked"
in announcement e-mails as soon as the 0.6.1-incubating release has
been voted.
- The 0.7-incubating release will fix the graduation issue, especially
in term of license (removal of Echo2 framework for the UI).
Post Graduation:
- Kalumet scripts. It's the extension of the "software" concept
globally to all Kalumet resources. It will allow users to create custom
deployment/update plan, with a set of fine-grained steps.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of:
None so far.
Date of last release:
2013-11-22
Date of next release:
2014-08-24
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None
Signed-off-by:
[ ](kalumet) Jim Jagielski
[ ](kalumet) Henri Gomez
[X](kalumet) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](kalumet) Olivier Lamy
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
NPanday
NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache
Maven.
NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13.
Since the last report in July:
- the build issues on the Windows Jenkins slaves were resolved
- further JIRA issues have been cleaned up to prepare for the release
- Konstantin Boudnik was formally added as a mentor for the project
While some progress was made towards getting the release out, there is
still more work to do as time allows.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Ship the changes on trunk as a release and make it easier for new
users to get up to speed when interested in the project
2. Get a critical mass of committers/PPMC members that can respond to
contributors, apply patches, nominate committers, and vote on releases
3. Provide guidance on how to get involved in contributing
The incubator is already aware of the low level of activity, that many of
the PPMC are now disengaged. There continues to be interest in a new
release from users, and new interest from some in making contributions that
continue to be followed up.
Date of last release:
2011-05-16
The last committer was added on 2011-04-19. There have not been any PPMC
additions since inception.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](npanday) Raphael Bircher
[X](npanday) Konstantin Boudnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
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. Grow the community in terms of committers
2. Have regular releases
3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing
project
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?
We issued a "call for volunteers" to our users list and got a good
response: http://s.apache.org/4Vx
Of course, it will be easier to grow the community if we can reliably
conduct a release vote.
How has the project developed since the last report?
2014-06-02 - ODF Toolkit 0.6.1-incubating available
Date of last release:
2014-06-02
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-10-29
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
[x](odftoolkit) Rob Weir
--------------------
Optiq
Optiq is a highly customizable engine for parsing and planning queries on
data in a wide variety of formats. It allows database-like access, and in
particular a SQL interface and advanced query optimization, for data not
residing in a traditional database.
Optiq has been incubating since 2014-05-19.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Migrate fully to Apache infrastructure (next: web site and
nightly builds).
2. Re-organize code into org.apache.optiq namespace.
3. Regular releases.
4. Build an ASF community.
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 added our first post-incubation committer, Vladimir
Sitnikov.
We are planning our first hackathon.
There have been community discussions about the goals for a future
1.0 release, in particular whether the project should be reorganized
to allow projects to use the optimizer core without using SQL parser
and code-generation facilities.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Adopting Apache infrastructure:
* Gained access to Nexus and started publishing (on-demand, not
nightly) snapshot builds.
* Web site in progress.
Working on first release under the Apache incubator,
apache-optiq-0.9.0-incubating.
Date of last release:
No releases yet under the Incubator.
Last unofficial release was optiq-0.8, on 2014-06-27.
First official release is imminent.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Vladimir Sitnikov, elected committer on 2014-07-15.
Signed-off-by:
[x](optiq) Ted Dunning
[X](optiq) Alan Gates
[x](optiq) Steven Noels
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Parquet
Parquet is a columnar storage format for Hadoop.
Parquet has been incubating since 2014-05-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Expanding the community and adding new committers
2. 1st release
3. Identifying how to ensure timely code reviews by committers
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None at this time
Latest Additions:
* PMC addition: N/A
* Contributor addition: N/A
Issue backlog status since last report:
* Created: 60
* Resolved: 17
Mailing list activity since last report:
* dev 212 messages
How has the project developed since the last report?
* New commit workflow has been documented and commits have been
increasing using the commit script.
* Project website is posted: parquet.incubator.apache.org, working on
moving more content from github hosting
* Moved to issues.apache.org for all new issues
* Planning first release of parquet-format and parquet-mr. Using
parquet-format release to identify steps needed to release the
larger projects (e.g., parquet-mr)
* Adding documentation on reviews and contacts for specific modules
Signed-off-by:
[X](parquet) Jake Farrell
[ ](parquet) Chris Mattmann
[ ](parquet) Roman Shaposhnik
[X](parquet) Tom White
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Mailing list has a healthy traffic, mostly bug reports. Mentors are
active and participating in the community.
--------------------
Sirona
Monitoring Solution.
Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. need to increse contributor number
2.
3.
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?
Not a lot since last report as the project was a bit quiet.
Mainly some real usage feedbacks
How has the project developed since the last report?
A release has been cutted and some discussion on reworking the ui.
We felt holidays but some new features are expected soon (path tracking
for instance)
Date of last release:
2014-06-26
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[x](sirona) Olivier Lamy
[ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
[ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
[ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Traffic on the list is light. There was a recent release, using new rules
it looks like. I'm concerned over volume and availability of core devs.
--------------------
Slider
Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and
manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters.
Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Building a user community
2. Getting those users to contribute their work back
3. Improving the application to make it easier to use
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?
We're getting some independent users/developers on our list, including some
initial minor contributions and some bug reports. As an example, we have
some contributed logos ... which is now going to trigger a competition/vote
for a slider logo.
The main external developer adoption is not in actual contributions for the
core slider engine, but from a few people writing slider application-
packages to deploy their own applications. This is a good first step -
we have to work with them to get them through this process, note and
address issues they have -as well as encouraging them to contribute a bit
themselves. There's a tradeoff there: we don't want to dismiss all issues
with "file a patch with the JIRA" -maybe there's an intermediate step of
"let's work on this, can you take this branch and verify it works for you?"
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. We're still fast-iterating through releases.
2. We're testing slider against the forthcoming Hadoop 2.5 release, to
help validate that release.
3. We're debating when - in August - to make the leap to only building
against Hadoop 2.6
The switch to 2.6 will mean that this code would be developer only, as it
would only work against non-production Hadoop clusters. Yet we need this
for the forthcoming features: the Credential provider, service registry,
Yarn node labeling and other features we need to integrate with.
That's a fairly exclusionary move for potential users: the current plan is
to make a release in sync with Hadoop 2.5, which will be the last Hadoop
2.4/2.5 compatible version. Yet it not only gives us those new features,
it helps tune those features and find bugs in their implementation. As an
example, one fix in Hadoop 2.4 is related to an Application Master failure
and restart problem which we'd found, a problem which, if we'd switched to
Hadoop 2.4-SNAPSHOT earlier, would have been found and fixed in the 2.4
release.
Date of last release:
2014-07-21
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-05
Signed-off-by:
[ ](slider) Arun C Murthy
[ ](slider) Devaraj Das
[ ](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](slider) Mahadev Konar
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Twill
Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop® YARN to reduce the complexity of
developing distributed applications.
Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14.
Top three items to resolve before graduation:
- More committers from different organizations.
- Regular Releases.
- Increase adoption.
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?
- 22 new JIRA issues filed since last report (2014-05-01)
- 13 JIRA issues resolved since last report (2014-05-01)
- Subscribers to the dev list up from 44 in May to 52 in August.
- 5 new contributors since last report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Version 0.3.0-incubating RC1 being voted upon
Date of last release:
- 2014-04-22: 0.2.0-incubating
What are the plans for the next period?
- Increase release frequency
- Engage active contributors and identify potential committers
- Improve documentation and website
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- No new committers since incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](twill) Arun C Murthy
[X](twill) Tom White
[X](twill) Patrick Hunt
[ ](twill) Andrei Savu
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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