Missing sign off on Singa report

["John D. Ament" <jo...@apache.org>]

Singa Podling,

A report was submitted but not signed off by mentors.  Any mentors available to sign off?

John

On 2018/04/09 01:12:15, "John D. Ament" <jo...@apache.org> wrote: 
> All,
> 
> Below is the current draft of the report.  Waiting on the MXNet podling's
> report, as well as multiple requiring sign offs.
> 
> I haven't summarized things like absent mentors, please feel free to add
> comments to the report to better reflect its state.
> 
> Incubator PMC report for April 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 53 podlings incubating. During the month of March,
> podlings executed 5 distinct releases, 6 total artifacts.  We added 2 new
> IPMC members.
> 
> * Community
> 
>   New IPMC members:
> 
>   - Jun Rao
>   - Matt Sicker
> 
>   People who left the IPMC:
> 
>   - None
> 
> * New Podlings
> 
>   - None
> 
> * Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
> 
>   - Gossip - No on list activity, likely to retire.
>   - Milagro - Retirement vote started
>   - MXNet - Report written, not posted yet
> 
> * Podlings missing sign off, will be removed if not signed off
> 
>   - BatchEE
>   - HAWQ
>   - Livy
>   - ODF Toolkit
>   - Service Comb
>   - Singa
>   - Weex
> 
> * Graduations
> 
>   The board has motions for the following:
> 
>   - Your podling here?
>   - Your podling here?
> 
> * Releases
> 
>   The following releases entered distribution during the month of
>   March:
> 
>   - 2018-03-04 Apache Rya 3.2.12
>   - 2018-03-05 Apache Pulsar 1.22.0
>   - 2018-03-09 Apache SensSoft Useralejs 1.0.0
>   - 2018-03-17 Apache HAWQ 2.3.0.0
>   - 2018-03-27 Apache ServiceComb Service Center 1.0.0-m1
>   - 2018-03-27 Apache ServiceComb Saga 0.1.0
> 
> * IP Clearance
> 
> 
> 
> * Legal / Trademarks
> 
> 
> 
> * Infrastructure
> 
>   - An issue came up recently between the ECharts podling and
> Infrastructure that was communicated privately to mentors - not posted to
> any list.  In future, such problems should at least be reported to the
> private@incubator list to ensure they are archived.
> 
> * Miscellaneous
> 
> 
> 
> * Credits
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>                        Table of Contents
> Airflow
> Amaterasu
> Annotator
> BatchEE
> Druid
> Dubbo
> ECharts
> Gearpump
> Gobblin
> Gossip
> HAWQ
> Hivemall
> Livy
> Milagro
> MXNet
> Nemo
> NetBeans
> ODF Toolkit
> PLC4X
> Pony Mail
> Quickstep
> Rya
> SensSoft
> ServiceComb
> SINGA
> Traffic Control
> Weex
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> --------------------
> 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. Once we make a release with the licensing fix we will move forward
> with graduation.
>   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. Since our last podling report 1.5 months ago (i.e. between Feb 8 & March
> 28,
>    inclusive), we grew our contributors from 375 to 427
> 2. Since our last podling report 1.5 months ago (i.e. between Feb 8 & March
> 28,
>    inclusive), we resolved 152 pull requests (currently at 2280 closed PRs)
> 3. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies
> officially
>    using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 149, 17 new from the last
> podling
>    report 1.5 months ago.
> 
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>   See above : 152 PRs resolved, 52 new contributors, & 17 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:
>   [x](airflow) Jakob Homan
>      Comments: Ready for graduation
> 
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> I checked into the licensing issue and it is resolved, but it seems that a
> release will be needed before graduation.
> Dave Fisher
> 
> --------------------
> Amaterasu
> 
> Apache Amaterasu is a framework providing configuration management and
> deployment for Big Data Pipelines.
> 
> It provides the following capabilities:
> 
> Continuous integration tools to package pipelines and run tests.
> A repository to store those packaged applications: the applications
> repository.
> A repository to store the pipelines, and engine configuration (for
> instance, the location of the Spark master, etc.): per environment - the
> configuration repository.
> A dashboard to monitor the pipelines.
> A DSL and integration hooks allowing third parties to easily integrate.
> 
> Amaterasu has been incubating since 2017-09.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
> 1. Prepare the first release
> 2. Grow up user and contributor communities
> 3. Prepare documentation
> 
> 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 conference talks are scheduled in the near future (Voxxed Days
> Melbourne)
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
> * since the last report 12 PRs were opened and 11 are merged
> * One additional contributor started contributing to the code base
> * One organization we are aware of have started a POC with Amaterasu
> * We are in the process of automating the release process as preparation
> for the first release in the incubator.
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
> N/A
> 
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> 
> N/A
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>   [ ] Initial setup
>   [X] Working towards first release
>   [ ] Community building
>   [ ] Nearing graduation
>   [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>   XXXX-XX-XX
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [X](amaterasu) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
>      Comments:
>   [X](amaterasu) Olivier Lamy
>      Comments:
>   [X](amaterasu) Davor Bonaci
>      Comments: low activity, improvements needed to get back on track.
> Clearly we need to move forward on the community grow up and first release.
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Annotator
> 
> Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and
> humans.
> 
> Annotator has been incubating since 2016-08-30.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>   1. Establishing a release cadence.
>   2. Demonstrating utility in the wild.
>   3. Increasing community participation.
> 
> 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?
> 
>   * Two members of the initial committers list have established ASF
> accounts.
>   * The community is scheduling a teleconference for the coming weeks.
>   * The community is discussing a face-to-face meeting in the coming months.
>   * Several community members have expressed interest in helping with code
> and non-code contributions.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>   * Licensing documentation has been updated in preparation for release.
>   * Initial test suite automation has been completed.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>   [X] Initial setup
>   [-] Working towards first release
>   [-] Community building
>   [ ] Nearing graduation
>   [ ] Other:
> 
> The initial setup feels complete now. There is work toward a first releases
> happening.
> The community is slowly attracting new voices, but volume of participation
> is still low.
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>   N/A
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
> Initial committers having completed setup, the project now has enough
> participants to perform elections.
> At this time, no elections have been finalized.
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](annotator) Nick Kew
>      Comments:
>   [ ](annotator) Brian McCallister
>      Comments:
>   [ ](annotator) Daniel Gruno
>      Comments:
>   [X](annotator) Jim Jagielski
>      Comments: As noted, progress is somewhat slow, but not to point of any
> concern at this stage.
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> --------------------
> BatchEE
> 
> BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) 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:
> 
> None
> 
> 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?
> 
> Community is stable. We still get feedback and have active people around.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
> We got some enironment related enhancements/bugfixes.
> 
> 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:
> 
>   2017-12-01 batchee-0.5-incubating
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>   2015-12-01 Reinhard Sandtner
> 
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
>      Comments:
>   [ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
>      Comments:
>   [ ](batchee) Mark Struberg
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> It is time for this podling to graduate. I really think that they should
> take the time and JFDI.
> Dave Fisher.
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Druid
> 
> Druid is a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store.
> 
> Druid has been incubating since 2018-02-28.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>  1. Complete SGA for current sources and ICLAs for current committers.
>  2. Move the source code and website to Apache infrastructure.
>  3. Plan and execute our first Apache release.
> 
> 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 moved development discussions to our Apache dev mailing list.
> - A healthy, constant flow of bug fixes, quality improvements and new
> features
>   are still ongoing on https://github.com/druid-io/druid.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
> - Since the last report there have been 36 commits from 18 individuals.
> - We have released Druid 0.12.0 (outside the Incubator). We are optimistic
>   that our next release will be done as an Apache release.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>   [X] Initial setup
>   [ ] Working towards first release
>   [ ] Community building
>   [ ] Nearing graduation
>   [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
> - Druid 0.12.0 on 2018-03-06 (non-Apache release)
> - No official release yet since beginning Apache Incubation
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
> - Project is still functioning with the initial set of committers.
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [x](druid) Julian Hyde
>      Comments: The project still has good momentum getting through
>        the initial tasks, and development/community activities
>        continue at usual pace.
>   [ ](druid) P. Taylor Goetz
>      Comments:
>   [ ](druid) Jun Rao
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Dubbo
> 
> Dubbo is a high-performance, lightweight, java based RPC framework.
> 
> Dubbo has been incubating since 2018-02-16.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>   1. First ASF release
>   2. Migrate remaining assets to the ASF
>   3. Community building
> 
> 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?
> 
>  * Complete ICLA for all PPMC
>  * SGA has been filed
>  * The community has decided to use Github issue instead of JIRA
>  * Discussed feature donation by external users. e.g. circuit breaker,
> xmlrpc
>  * Received 1 GSoc student application (Raghu on Protocol Buffer
> integration)
>  * Currently ~450 mails on the dev@ list
>  * 9 new companies reported their using of Dubbo since last report
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  * Dubbo 2.6.1 & Dubbo 2.5.10 released (prior to code transition, non-ASF
> release)
>  * Move 7 repos (including the core Dubbo repo) to Apache
>  * Website (dubbo.incubator.apache.org) has been enabled
>  * Website has been updated to be complied with ASF branding policy
>  * 37 pull request created, 21 of them are closed
>  * 80 Github issues created, 22 of them are closed
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>   [X] Initial setup
>   [ ] Working towards first release
>   [ ] Community building
>   [ ] Nearing graduation
>   [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
> N/A
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
> N/A
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](dubbo) Justin Mclean
>      Comments:
>   [X](dubbo) John D. Ament
>      Comments: Podling is moving forward very well.  An on list discussion
> about splitting up the dev list into multiple lists has started.
>   [ ](dubbo) Jean-Frederic Clere
>      Comments:
>   [ ](dubbo) Mark Thomas
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> An excellent start.
> Dave Fisher
> 
> 
> --------------------
> ECharts
> 
> ECharts is a charting and data visualization library written in JavaScript.
> 
> ECharts has been incubating since 2018-01-18.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>   1. Get repo moved to https://github.com/apache/incubator-echarts.
>   2. Get GitHub ID linked and 2FA enabled.
>   3. First pushed to https://github.com/apache/incubator-echarts.
> 
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
> 
> Currently the setting page of GitHub is not visible to us. There may be a
> problem when we need to configure it (e.g.: see if anything goes wrong when
> building gh-pages branch) but communication is delayed via email. So we'd
> like to ask if it is possible for at least one of us core committers to
> have the admin right.
> 
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> 
> We released the information that ECharts has become a repo of Apache, and
> received positive feedback from the community.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
> None.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>   [ ] Initial setup
>   [x] Working towards first release
>   [ ] Community building
>   [ ] Nearing graduation
>   [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
> N/A
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
> N/A
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [X](echarts) John D. Ament
>      Comments: Lots of development activities picking up.  Need to
> encourage more on list discussion.  Its often hard to sift through the
> developer list due to gitbox notifications.
>   [ ](echarts) Daniel Gruno
>      Comments:
>   [ ](echarts) Kevin A. McGrail
>      Comments:
>   [X](echarts) Dave Fisher
>      Comments: They are really just getting started now that the repos is
> transferred. The mentors are going to need to educate the podling more, but
> they have found infra users ML and have asked about how to split up the
> email flows. One thing I have noticed about GitBox projects is that it is
> harder to understand what is happening in those notifications vs. JIRAs.
> (That's just an observation, not sure of the Way yet.
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Gearpump
> 
>   Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the
> micro-service Actor model.
>   Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>  1. Have frequent release cycles.
>  2. Continue to evolve community interest and support.
>  3. Increase user adoption.
> 
> 
> - 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?
>  Gearpump took part in Google Summer of Code 2017 project and it has been
> succeffully accompolished by student, Buddhi Ayesha, who is interested in
> making more contributions beyond the project.
> 
> - How has the project developed since the last report?
>  32 issues created and 20 issues resolved.
>  Gearpump Runner has been merged into Apache Beam trunk.
>  An experimental SQL support has been added and state management is under
> development.
> 
> 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
>   [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
>  2017-07-17
> 
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>  No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [X](gearpump) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
>      Comments:
>  [ ](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
>      Comments:
>  [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
>      Comments:
>  [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
>      Comments:
>  [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
>      Comments:
>  [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
>   johndament: Report not discussed on list, responded to an email from Sept
> 2017 to indicate it was posted by a mentor.  Lots of development activity,
> not much developer discussion.  Seems like they have an unused user list as
> well.
> 
> --------------------
> Gobblin
> 
> Gobblin is a distributed data integration framework that simplifies common
> aspects of big data integration such as data ingestion, replication,
> organization and lifecycle management for both streaming and batch data
> ecosystems.
> 
> Gobblin has been incubating since 2017-02-23.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>   1. Make frequent releases
> 
> 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?
> 
> * Gobblin community has continued to grow and engage more (on mailing lists
> and Gitter IRC).
> * 51% of commits have been from non-committer contributors.
> * Email stats since last report:
>   user@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 47
>   dev@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 694
> * There have been 121 Commits since last report:
>     git log --format='%ci' | grep -cE '(2018-0(1|2|3|4))'
> * 62 ie. 51% of those commits were by non-committers:
>    git log --format='%ae %ci' | grep -E '(2018-0(1|2|3|4))' | cut -d ' ' -f
> 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
> * Recurring video conference based meetup has been happening every month
> with healthy attendance.
> * Gobblin was presented and well received in various meetups / conferences
> around the world (independently by Apache community members) eg. Strata etc.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
> * Various new connectors for integration with more systems, and several
> enhancements / feature development.
> * Continued development of Gobblin-as-a-Service (PaaS for Gobblin as well
> as non-Gobblin systems). More engagement of community on this front.
> * Enhancements to website, and packaging / distribution of Gobblin.
> * Release v0.12.0 is being voted on right now.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> 
>   [ ] Initial setup
>   [X] Working towards first release
>   [X] Community building
>   [ ] Nearing graduation
>   [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>   v0.12.0 is being voted on right now.
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>   Joel Baranick in December, 2017.
>   (A few more contributors in the community are ready to be elected.)
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](gobblin) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
>      Comments:
>   [X](gobblin) Olivier Lamy
>      Comments:
>   [X](gobblin) Jim Jagielski
>      Comments: release process being better defined the 0.12 RC efforts.
> NOTICE requirements better understood.
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> --------------------
> HAWQ
> 
> HAWQ is an advanced enterprise SQL on Hadoop analytic engine built around a
> robust and high-performance massively-parallel processing (MPP) SQL engine
> evolved from Greenplum Database.
> 
> HAWQ has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> graduation:
> 
>   1. Continue to improve the project's release cadence. To this
>      end we plan on expanding automation services to support
>      increased developer participation. (HAWQ-127)
> 
> 
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need
> to be aware of?
> 
>      Nothing urgent at this time.
> 
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> 
> 1. Conference Talks :
> 
>  * HAWQ on Microsoft Azure Cloud. Microsoft Incubator Talk (Speaker: Lei
> Chang, Mar 21, 2018)
> 
> 
> 2. Two committer candidates passed the voting process:
> 
>    1) Shubham SHARMA
>    2) Lav JAIN
> 
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
> 
> 1. HAWQ 2.3 released. It includes the following features.
> 
>   1) New Feature: HAWQ Core supports plugable external storage framework.
>   2) New Feature: HAWQ Ranger supports RPS HA.
>   3) New Feature: HAWQ Ranger supports Kerberos authentication.
>   4) New Feature: HAWQ Core supports HDFS TDE (Transparent Data Encryption)
> through libHdfs3.
>   5) Licenses: Fix PXF license files located in PXF jar files.
>   6) Licenses: Check Apache HAWQ mandatory libraries to match LC20, LC30
> license criteria.
>   7) Build: Release build project
>   8) Bug fixes.
> 
> Project page link:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/Apache+HAWQ+2.3.0.0-incubating+Release
> 
> 2. HAWQ 2.4 release plan was proposed.
> 
>   1) New Feature: Pluggable Vectorized Execution Engine on HAWQ.
>   2) New Feature: Support Runtime Filter for HAWQ local hash join.
>   3) New Feature: Support accessing Hive table data by the new Pluggable
> Storage Framework.
>   4) Bug fixes.
> 
> Project page link:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/Apache+HAWQ+2.4.0.0-incubating+Release
> 
> 
> 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:
> 
> 2018-03-12, Apache HAWQ 2.3.0.0
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>    1) Lav Jain: April 5, 2018
>    2) Shubham Sharma: April 5, 2018
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](hawq) Alan Gates
>      Comments:
>   [ ](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
>      Comments:
>   [ ](hawq) Thejas Nair
>      Comments:
>   [ ](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Hivemall
> 
> Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive
> UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.
> 
> Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>  1. Create the first Apache release
>  2. Community growth (committers and users)
>  3. Documentation improvements
> 
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
> of?
> 
>  * Markus Weimer resigned from our Project mentor as he sent a message
>    to IPMC private list on March 1.
>  * We need to recruit active Mentor(s)
>     - Failed March2018 podling report due to missing mentor sign-off
> 
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> 
>  * Github watchers/stars are gradually increasing:
>     131 stars as of April 3 (was 108 on Dec 6)
>  * Twitter account @ApacheHivemall followers are gradually increasing:
>     123 followers as of April 3 (was 101 on Dec 6)
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  * Released the first Apache release (v0.5.0) on March 5.
> 
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/18e6355dd06ff065004516eec6ff861777b4ad526714b61667b4904b@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
> 
>  Since the last report, we have
>    * In the last 4 months, we opened 22 JIRA issues and closed 15 JIRA
> issues
>       as seen in https://goo.gl/QFQEF5 (as of April 3)
>                      Created   Resolved
>          Dec   2017    3           7
>          Jan   2018    4           3
>          Feb   2018    5           1
>          March 2018    10          4
>    * Created 14 Pull Requests and closed/merged 13 Pull Requests between
> Dec 01 and April 01.
> 
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20created%3A2017-12-01..2018-04-01
> 
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20closed%3A2017-12-01..2018-04-01
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your
> own
> commentary.
> 
>  [ ] Initial setup
>  [x] Working towards first release
>  [x] Community building
>  [ ] Nearing graduation
>  [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>   March 5, 2018.
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  - Elected Jerome Banks as a committer on April 2.
> 
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/98b28689dcffbf3a51a1ff80d9c86be96b46bbb3829bda334a722d89@%3Cdev.hivemall.apache.org%3E
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>  [ ](hivemall) Reynold Xin
>     Comments:
>  [ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng
>     Comments:
>  [X](hivemall) Daniel Dai
>     Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
>   johndament: The comments with the new committer election are
> interesting.  Don't forget to go through IP Clearance if you are importing
> an external code base.
> 
> --------------------
> Livy
> 
> Livy is web service that exposes a REST interface for managing long running
> Apache Spark contexts in your cluster. With Livy, new applications can be
> built on top of Apache Spark that require fine grained interaction with many
> Spark contexts.
> 
> Livy has been incubating since 2017-06-05.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>   1. Grow the community and continue to involve more users and contributors
>   2. Grow more committers to maintain the project
>   3. Solidify our release cadence
> 
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
> 
> N/A
> 
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> 
> Activity on the dev and user mailing lists as well as the rate of reported
> JIRA issues has stayed steady.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
> The master branch has been updated to support Spark 2.3 in our next release.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>   [ ] Initial setup
>   [ ] Working towards first release
>   [X] Community building
>   [ ] Nearing graduation
>   [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>   2018-02-05
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>   2017-09-18
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](livy) Bikas Saha
>      Comments:
>   [ ](livy) Brock Noland
>      Comments:
>   [ ](livy) Luciano Resende
>      Comments:
>   [ ](livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> MXNet
> 
> A Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep Learning
> 
> MXNet has been incubating since 2017-01-23.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>   1.
>   2.
>   3.
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
> 
> 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
>   [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>   XXXX-XX-XX
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](mxnet) Sebastian Schelter
>      Comments:
>   [ ](mxnet) Suneel Marthi
>      Comments:
>   [ ](mxnet) Henri Yandell
>      Comments:
>   [ ](mxnet) Markus Weimer
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Nemo
> 
> Nemo is a data processing system to flexibly control the runtime behaviors
> of
> a job to adapt to varying deployment characteristics.
> 
> Nemo has been incubating since 2018-02-04.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>   1. Grow the community
>   2. Create a first Apache release
>   3. Donate code to ASF
> 
> 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?
> 
>   * Committers actively involved in mailing lists
>   * Committers actively started to send PRs and do code reviews
>   * Two committers volunteered for GSoC mentors
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>   * SonarCloud integrated
>   * Community standards and documentation added
>   * Scheduler improved by adding a new scheduling policy and making it
> reactive
>   * Operator pipelining implemented
>   * Experiments performed to demonstrate the benefits of Nemo
>   * Blogs posted
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>   [x] Initial setup
>   [x] Working towards first release
>   [ ] Community building
>   [ ] Nearing graduation
>   [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>   None yet.
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>   None yet.
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [X](nemo) Davor Bonaci
>      Comments: The project is very active, moving quickly, and doing very
> well.
>   [X](nemo) Hyunsik Choi
>      Comments:
>   [X](nemo) Byung-Gon Chun
>      Comments:
>   [X](nemo) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
>      Comments:
>   [ ](nemo) Markus Weimer
>      Comments:
>   [ ](nemo) Reynold Xin
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> NetBeans
> 
> NetBeans is a development environment, tooling platform and application
> framework.
> 
> NetBeans has been incubating since 2016-10-01.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>   1. Granting and integration of 2nd donation (mainly Java EE, JavaScript,
> PHP, Groovy) -- is being wrapped up at Oracle.
>   2. Granting and integration of 3rd donation, consisting of tutorials,
> related images, and other documentation for populating netbeans.apache.org.
>   3. Rerouting/switching from netbeans.org to netbeans.apache.org, plus new
> home for plugins.netbeans.org.
> 
> 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?
> 
>  - NetCAT (NetBeans Community Acceptance Testing) program has started up,
> preparatory to final release of 9.0.
>  - New Apache NetBeans logo has been voted on and accepted.
>  - Ongoing discussions re redesign of splash screen.
>  - Apache NetBeans Day as a class of event has been approved by Apache
> trademarks: https://netbeans.apache.org/community/events.html
>  - First official Apache NetBeans Day accepted via lazy consensus to be
> held April 27, in London, at the University of Greenwich:
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/328f564ac753165b39e7d96e67c929f7996a935ef75437c6c8e239fc@%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E
>  - Currently 557 on Apache NetBeans users mailing list and 406 on Apache
> NetBeans dev mailing list.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>  - Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 Beta has been released (02/22/18)
>  - Support for running on JDK 8, 9, 10 added, with Java editor support for
> new JDK 10 'var' type (JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference).
>  - netbeans.apache.org is up and running.
>  - Legal issue settled: Apache does not require and does not consider
> helpful list of 3rd party deps in grant:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-374
> 
> 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:
> 
>   2018-02-22 Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 Beta
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>    * PPMC member Antonio Vieiro elected on Feb 18, 2018
>    * PPMC member John McDonnell elected on Feb 18, 2018
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](netbeans) Ate Douma
>      Comments:
>   [ ](netbeans) Bertrand Delacretaz
>      Comments:
>   [ ](netbeans) Daniel Gruno
>      Comments:
>   [X](netbeans) Mark Struberg
>      Comments: There is really lots of activity in the project
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
>   johndament: Great progress by the podling.
> 
> --------------------
> 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. Fulfil the 1.0 version - (collaboration scheduled for the end of
> March)
>   2. Attract more developers
>   3. Have frequent releases
> 
> 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?
>         Several bug reports but no new committers.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>     Svante Schubert sponsorship by German government's prototypefund.org is
> about to end, the new collaboration feature for the ODF Toolkit not yet on
> GitHub.
> 
> 
> Date of the last release:
> 
>   2017-04-10
> 
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> 
>   2017-08-02
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
>      Comments:
>   [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
>      Comments:
>   [ ](odftoolkit) Tom Barber
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
>   Drew Farris (shepherd): Little overall project activity, but questions
> are being answered on the user list. One mentor active on the mailing lists
> 
> --------------------
> PLC4X
> 
> PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable
> logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared API.
> 
> Most important issues to address while moving towards graduation:
> 
> Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large percentage
> of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people from other
> companies, but will have to continue these efforts for establishing a
> healthy Apache community.
> Onboarding of new committers: With PLC4X several people on the team are not
> very familiar with the Apache Way. We have started and will continue our
> efforts on this onboarding.
> Make our first release
> 
> Any Issues the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of:
> 
> In contrast to previous reports some of the concerns regarding availability
> and usability of specifications have been resolved. Especially for using
> the Modbus and the OPC-UA specifications Christofer was able to get
> official permissions from the corresponding foundations to use the
> specifications. These permission Emails have been filed in the private list
> for documentation.
> 
> One of the external foundations (Profinet) doesn’t have a free membership.
> In general, the CEO of the European branch of the Profinet Foundation has
> signaled that it should be possible for the ASF to become a member and have
> an outside company pay the membership fees, but we have to discuss the
> details (With them as well as the ASF).
> 
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> 
> Christofer has invested most of his time in March spreading the word about
> PLC4X.
> A first POC has been created for a company which is currently going into
> production
> An article about Apache Edgent and Apache PLC4X has been published as a
> cover-story in the German JavaSPEKTRUM magazines Industrial IoT special
> edition (https://www.sigs-datacom.de/digital/javaspektrum/). One PLC4X talk
> has been accepted to the Apache EU Roadshow 2018 in Berlin and one will be
> at the Silpion Techcamp in Hamburg (https://techcamp.hamburg/) in the first
> April week.
> 
> The dev-list subscriptions has gone up by one from February, we are hoping
> to increase the number in the next few weeks (However quite some emails
> come in from un-registered users that have to pass moderation).
> 
> We now have a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/ApachePlc4x as another
> channel of communicating interesting PLC4X facts.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
> We have been working hard on making better use of the ASF build
> infrastructure. Especially regarding setting up our project VM at
> plc4x-vm.apache.org this effort will be continued.
> After receiving the permission to use and implement the Modbus protocol,
> the Driver skeletons have been setup, but no real implementation of the
> protocol itself has been done yet. We are still hoping for volunteers to
> step up as interest in implementing the Modbus protocol has been explicitly
> mentioned by community memebers.
> The work on the RawSocket Netty transport which is a requirement to
> implement protocols that are IP based, but are not TCP or UDP has continued
> and we are currently working on some of the quirks on Linux based
> operating-systems.
> We added Netty support for IO over serial ports and will be using this in
> the Beckhoff module as a first protocol.
> We are still working on the S7 Protocol fragmentation and hope to be able
> to finish this in April.
> Also we discussed on the list about how the others would think of
> initiating a first release of PLC4X.
> 
> How does the podling rate their own maturity?
> 
> We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people involved.
> So far, the new participants have shown great willingness and success in
> adopting the Apache Way.
> However, we still need to continue:
> the on-boarding
> increasing the diversity of the team
> Also, will we need to decide and establish all the processes involved in
> releasing software at Apache
> 
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](plc4x) Greg Trasuk
>      Comments:
>   [ ](plc4x) Justin Mclean
>      Comments:
>   [ ](plc4x) Luciano Resende
>      Comments:
>   [X](plc4x) Stefan Bodewig
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
>   Drew Farris (shepherd): Three mentors active on the mailing list. Active
> project.
> 
> --------------------
> Pony Mail
> 
> Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service,
> that
> can be integrated with many email platforms.
> 
> Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>   1. Grow participation in community
>   2. Get releases out properly
>   3. Evangelize
> 
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
> 
> None that I can think of.
> 
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> 
> There has been external interest in the project, however this has not yet
> formed into a formal relationship.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
> A release, 0.10, was voted on and approved.
> Due to time constraints, the release has not been fully completed yet.
> 
> 
> 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:
> 
>   2018-04-04-ish (WIP!)
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
> Sebastian Bazley, April 2017
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
>      Comments:
>   [X](ponymail) John D. Ament
>      Comments: Report not discussed on list, extremely low volume and
> continues to look like a one person project.
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Quickstep
> 
> Quickstep is a high-performance database engine.
> 
> Quickstep has been incubating since 2016-03-29.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>   1. Adoption of the Quickstep technology.
>   2. Grow the Quickstep developer community.
>   3. Work towards a second release.
> 
> 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?
> 
> A paper that describes the Quickstep system was accepted in a premier
> database conference Very Large Databases (VLDB). Link to the paper:
> http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p663-patel.pdf This paper should help the
> system and the community to increase its reach further. We are already
> getting emails from readers who are finding interest in the system. We are
> encouraging the readers to be a part of the community.
> 
> We have submitted a keynote proposal ApacheCon. If accepted, the
> paper/presentation would help to increase the awareness of Quickstep
> project in the Apache community.
> 
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
> We have continued development of the code base. Apart from the routine bug
> fixes, there are ongoing efforts for three main development directions
> (respective JIRA issues have been opened):
> 1. Enhancing the type system used by Quickstep
> 2. Supporting concurrent queries in the system
> 3. Developing a distributed version of Quickstep
> 
> We are planning another release before summer.
> 
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>   [ ] Initial setup
>   [ ] Working towards first release
>   [x] Community building
>   [ ] Nearing graduation
>   [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>   2017-03-25
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
> 2017-10-03 Robert Claus (committer)
> 
> We have seen contributions from some new members (Yuanchen Li, Dylan Bacon
> and Yusong Yang). We will soon initiate the process for them to be
> committers.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [x](quickstep) Julian Hyde
>      Comments: Development remains fairly active but the podling's ability
>        to build community outside its core community is a major concern.
>   [ ](quickstep) Roman Shaposhnik
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Rya
> 
> Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
> supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built
> on
> top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and query
> processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple
> nodes.
> Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a conventional
> query mechanism for RDF data.
> 
> Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>   1. Increase diversity of committers
> 
> 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?
> 
>  * Apache Rya 3.2.12 (incubating) released
>  * More people expressed interest in contributing to Rya
>  * More discussions about graduation
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>  * Apache Rya 3.2.12 (incubating) released
>  * Improved documentation for deploying Rya PCJ Updater
>  * Created a Rya Shell for MongoDB
>  * Integrated RyaStreams with the Rya Shell
>  * Added PCJ indexer support for MongoDB backend
>  * Implemented a forward-chaining rules engine that runs as a batch
> process, operates on user-defined SPIN rules, and inserts derived
> information back in Rya
>  * Added the ability to use the MongoDB aggregation pipeline to evaluate
> simple SPARQL expressions for MongoDB backend
>  * Implemented single node Kafka streams incremental SPARQL processor
>  * Plans to improve the SPARQL endpoint to improve standards compliance
> 
> 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:
> 
>    2018-03-04
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>  * PPMC member Caleb Meier elected on Jan 3rd, 2017
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](rya) Josh Elser
>      Comments:
>   [ ](rya) Edward J. Yoon
>      Comments:
>   [ ](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
>      Comments:
>   [x](rya) Billie Rinaldi
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> SensSoft
> 
> SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
> 
> SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>   1. Extending release process to other parts of the SensSoft software
> stack.
>   2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) community.
>   3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap
>      https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmap
> 
> 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?
> 
>   The community successfully delivered the first Incubating release
>   for UserALE.js. No new community members have come onboard.
>   Several members of the community VOTE'd on the UserALE.js 1.0.0
>   release candidate.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>   Development continues at a sustainable level.
> 
> 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
>   [X] Nearing graduation
>   [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>   2018-03-14
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>   Arthi Vezhavendan was added to PPMC and Committer base on 2017-01-24
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
>      Comments:
>   [X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
>      Comments:
>   [ ](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> ServiceComb
> 
> ServiceComb is a microservice framework that provides a set of tools and
> components to make development and deployment of cloud applications easier.
> 
> ServiceComb has been incubating since 2017-11-22.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>   1. Community building
>   2. Project visibility
>   3. Create release
> 
> 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?
>   * The community finally get the first release out, service-center
> 1.0.0-m1, java-chassis 1.0.0-m1 and saga 0.1.0
>   * The community hold a meetup in Beijing at March 30.
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report(March 2018)?
>   * Java Chassis merged with 54 PRs by 10 contributors.
>   * Service Center merged with 21 PRs by 5 contributors .
>   * Saga resolved merged with 24 PRs by 7 contributors.
>   * 117 mails sent by 27 people on the dev@ list
> 
> 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
>   [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>   2018-04-03 Java Chassis 1.0.0-m1
>   2018-03-26 Service Center 1.0.0-m1
>   2018-03-26 Saga 0.1.0
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
>   2018-03-14 Added ningjiang，liubao，wujimin，asifdxtreme，littlecui as the
> Initial PPMC member
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](servicecomb) Roman Shaposhnik
>      Comments:
>   [ ](servicecomb) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
>      Comments:
>   [ ](servicecomb) Timothy Chen
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> SINGA
> 
> SINGA is a distributed deep learning platform.
> 
> SINGA has been incubating since 2015-03-17.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>   1. Finish the existing jira tickets, including autograd (SINGA-342),
> tensor improvement (SINGA-341), backend for Keras (SINGA-340), ONNX
> (SINGA-333))
>   2.
>   3.
> 
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
> 
> We are working on the next release with the autograd feature.
> Another release is scheduled with improved tensor and Keras backend.
> 
> 
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> 
> There are 3 new contributors joined.
> 
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
> We fixed some bugs, updated the documentation and are now working on some
> major/big updates (new features) including the new front-end APIs and the
> autograd feature.
> 
> 
> 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:
> 
>   2017-06-29
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
> 2017-09-01
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](singa) Daniel Dai
>      Comments:
>   [ ](singa) Alan Gates
>      Comments:
>   [ ](singa) Ted Dunning
>      Comments:
>   [ ](singa) Thejas Nair
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Traffic Control
> 
> Traffic Control is a set of components that can be used to build, monitor,
> configure, and provision a large scale content delivery network (CDN).
> 
> Traffic Control has been incubating since 2016-07-12.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
> 1. A successful graduation vote by project community
> 2. A successful graduation vote by the IPMC
> 3. A successful acceptance of our graduation resolution by the apache board
> 
> 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 (January 2018)?
> 
> Since January the Traffic Control community has worked on the following:
> * Getting Traffic Control 2.1 released
> * Getting Traffic Control 2.2 ready for release candidates
> * Supporting new users with installing and configuring traffic control
> * Tie up loose ends and prepare ourselves for graduation
> * Planning a spring summit to be held April 2018 in Boston, MA
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
>   Since the last report (January 2018), we have
> 
>   * Merged 199 Pull Requests with 673 commits from 27 unique contributors
>   * Opened 217 Github issues
>   * Closed 214 Github issues
>   * 301 emails sent by 46 people on the dev@ list
>   * 26 emails sent by 10 people on the users@ list
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> 
> We have started the graduation process!  We voted on starting the
> graduation process, chose a project chair, and have started the Project
> vote on the graduation resolution.
> 
>   [ ] Initial setup
>   [ ] Working towards first release (wip)
>   [ ] Community building (wip)
>   [X] Nearing graduation
>   [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>   Traffic Control 2.1 was released on January 22, 2017.
> 
>   Traffic Control 2.2 is currently on RC 3 and we hope to have 2.2 released
> by the end of April, 2018.
> 
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
> In October, Traffic Control added 1 new committer: Nir Sopher.
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [X](trafficcontrol) Phil Sorber
>      Comments: I think this project is in good shape, hopefully we see a
> graduation resolution in the IPMC for it soon.
>   [X](trafficcontrol) Eric Covener
>      Comments:
>   [X](trafficcontrol) Leif Hedstrom
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Weex
> 
> Weex is a framework for building Mobile cross-platform high performance UI.
> 
> Weex has been incubating since 2016-11-30.
> 
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 
>   1. Develop more non-Chinese contributors and committers, to bring
> diversity to the community.
>   2. Replace Facebook's Yoga(Category X) dependency and release more while
> in Incubator.
>   3. Improve the developer's activity in mailing list.
> 
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
> 
> The community is still learning the Apache Way,  we are making progress and
> need more guidance from Mentors.
> The project has an ongoing problem with lack of mentor engagement.
> 
> 
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> 
> * WeexConf 2018 was held in Hangzhou, which brought a lot of new users and
> contributors who is intrested in the project, and Weex meetup in other
> cities will come soon.
> * 278(91 new issues since the last report) issues have been reported on
> JIRA, and 145(52 since the last report) of them are resolved or closed.
> * More non-Chinese developers are using Weex and contributing to the
> community, including developers from India, Russia, Singapore, etc. The
> first non-Chinese committer will come out soon.
> * Our Github repo has growth in contributors 145(10 new since the last
> report), forks 1168(192 new), watchers 451(74 new) and stars 8730(1622 new)
> * WebSite Trends Month Active, PV(542124), UV(91873), IP(76598), New
> Unique Visitor(47883) , Session(168065)
> 
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> 
> * Excluding merges, 11 authors have pushed 16 commits to master and 14
> commits to all branches.
> * Replacing Facebook's Yoga is done and will be released next month.
> 
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> 
>   [ ] Initial setup
>   [ ] Working towards first release
>   [x] Community building
>   [ ] Nearing graduation
>   [ ] Other:
> 
> Date of last release:
> 
>   2017-06-08
> 
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> 
>   None.
> 
> Signed-off-by:
> 
>   [ ](weex) Luke Han
>      Comments:
>   [ ](weex) Willem Jiang
>      Comments:
>   [ ](weex) Stephan Ewen
>      Comments:
>   [ ](weex) Raphael Bircher
>      Comments:
> 
> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> 

Re: Missing sign off on Singa report

[Alan Gates <al...@gmail.com>]

I looked at it this morning to sign off but the wiki said the deadline was
last night so I didn't bother.  If you want me to sign off still I will.

Alan.

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 10:16 AM, John D. Ament <jo...@apache.org>
wrote:

> Singa Podling,
>
> A report was submitted but not signed off by mentors.  Any mentors
> available to sign off?
>
> John
>
> On 2018/04/09 01:12:15, "John D. Ament" <jo...@apache.org> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Below is the current draft of the report.  Waiting on the MXNet podling's
> > report, as well as multiple requiring sign offs.
> >
> > I haven't summarized things like absent mentors, please feel free to add
> > comments to the report to better reflect its state.
> >
> > Incubator PMC report for April 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 53 podlings incubating. During the month of March,
> > podlings executed 5 distinct releases, 6 total artifacts.  We added 2 new
> > IPMC members.
> >
> > * Community
> >
> >   New IPMC members:
> >
> >   - Jun Rao
> >   - Matt Sicker
> >
> >   People who left the IPMC:
> >
> >   - None
> >
> > * New Podlings
> >
> >   - None
> >
> > * Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
> >
> >   - Gossip - No on list activity, likely to retire.
> >   - Milagro - Retirement vote started
> >   - MXNet - Report written, not posted yet
> >
> > * Podlings missing sign off, will be removed if not signed off
> >
> >   - BatchEE
> >   - HAWQ
> >   - Livy
> >   - ODF Toolkit
> >   - Service Comb
> >   - Singa
> >   - Weex
> >
> > * Graduations
> >
> >   The board has motions for the following:
> >
> >   - Your podling here?
> >   - Your podling here?
> >
> > * Releases
> >
> >   The following releases entered distribution during the month of
> >   March:
> >
> >   - 2018-03-04 Apache Rya 3.2.12
> >   - 2018-03-05 Apache Pulsar 1.22.0
> >   - 2018-03-09 Apache SensSoft Useralejs 1.0.0
> >   - 2018-03-17 Apache HAWQ 2.3.0.0
> >   - 2018-03-27 Apache ServiceComb Service Center 1.0.0-m1
> >   - 2018-03-27 Apache ServiceComb Saga 0.1.0
> >
> > * IP Clearance
> >
> >
> >
> > * Legal / Trademarks
> >
> >
> >
> > * Infrastructure
> >
> >   - An issue came up recently between the ECharts podling and
> > Infrastructure that was communicated privately to mentors - not posted to
> > any list.  In future, such problems should at least be reported to the
> > private@incubator list to ensure they are archived.
> >
> > * Miscellaneous
> >
> >
> >
> > * Credits
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >                        Table of Contents
> > Airflow
> > Amaterasu
> > Annotator
> > BatchEE
> > Druid
> > Dubbo
> > ECharts
> > Gearpump
> > Gobblin
> > Gossip
> > HAWQ
> > Hivemall
> > Livy
> > Milagro
> > MXNet
> > Nemo
> > NetBeans
> > ODF Toolkit
> > PLC4X
> > Pony Mail
> > Quickstep
> > Rya
> > SensSoft
> > ServiceComb
> > SINGA
> > Traffic Control
> > Weex
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > --------------------
> > 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. Once we make a release with the licensing fix we will move forward
> > with graduation.
> >   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. Since our last podling report 1.5 months ago (i.e. between Feb 8 &
> March
> > 28,
> >    inclusive), we grew our contributors from 375 to 427
> > 2. Since our last podling report 1.5 months ago (i.e. between Feb 8 &
> March
> > 28,
> >    inclusive), we resolved 152 pull requests (currently at 2280 closed
> PRs)
> > 3. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies
> > officially
> >    using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 149, 17 new from the last
> > podling
> >    report 1.5 months ago.
> >
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >   See above : 152 PRs resolved, 52 new contributors, & 17 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:
> >   [x](airflow) Jakob Homan
> >      Comments: Ready for graduation
> >
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> > I checked into the licensing issue and it is resolved, but it seems that
> a
> > release will be needed before graduation.
> > Dave Fisher
> >
> > --------------------
> > Amaterasu
> >
> > Apache Amaterasu is a framework providing configuration management and
> > deployment for Big Data Pipelines.
> >
> > It provides the following capabilities:
> >
> > Continuous integration tools to package pipelines and run tests.
> > A repository to store those packaged applications: the applications
> > repository.
> > A repository to store the pipelines, and engine configuration (for
> > instance, the location of the Spark master, etc.): per environment - the
> > configuration repository.
> > A dashboard to monitor the pipelines.
> > A DSL and integration hooks allowing third parties to easily integrate.
> >
> > Amaterasu has been incubating since 2017-09.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Prepare the first release
> > 2. Grow up user and contributor communities
> > 3. Prepare documentation
> >
> > 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 conference talks are scheduled in the near future (Voxxed Days
> > Melbourne)
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > * since the last report 12 PRs were opened and 11 are merged
> > * One additional contributor started contributing to the code base
> > * One organization we are aware of have started a POC with Amaterasu
> > * We are in the process of automating the release process as preparation
> > for the first release in the incubator.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > N/A
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > N/A
> >
> > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >
> >   [ ] Initial setup
> >   [X] Working towards first release
> >   [ ] Community building
> >   [ ] Nearing graduation
> >   [ ] Other:
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> >   XXXX-XX-XX
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [X](amaterasu) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> >      Comments:
> >   [X](amaterasu) Olivier Lamy
> >      Comments:
> >   [X](amaterasu) Davor Bonaci
> >      Comments: low activity, improvements needed to get back on track.
> > Clearly we need to move forward on the community grow up and first
> release.
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > Annotator
> >
> > Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and
> > humans.
> >
> > Annotator has been incubating since 2016-08-30.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >   1. Establishing a release cadence.
> >   2. Demonstrating utility in the wild.
> >   3. Increasing community participation.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >   * Two members of the initial committers list have established ASF
> > accounts.
> >   * The community is scheduling a teleconference for the coming weeks.
> >   * The community is discussing a face-to-face meeting in the coming
> months.
> >   * Several community members have expressed interest in helping with
> code
> > and non-code contributions.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> >   * Licensing documentation has been updated in preparation for release.
> >   * Initial test suite automation has been completed.
> >
> > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >
> >   [X] Initial setup
> >   [-] Working towards first release
> >   [-] Community building
> >   [ ] Nearing graduation
> >   [ ] Other:
> >
> > The initial setup feels complete now. There is work toward a first
> releases
> > happening.
> > The community is slowly attracting new voices, but volume of
> participation
> > is still low.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> >   N/A
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> > Initial committers having completed setup, the project now has enough
> > participants to perform elections.
> > At this time, no elections have been finalized.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](annotator) Nick Kew
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](annotator) Brian McCallister
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](annotator) Daniel Gruno
> >      Comments:
> >   [X](annotator) Jim Jagielski
> >      Comments: As noted, progress is somewhat slow, but not to point of
> any
> > concern at this stage.
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > BatchEE
> >
> > BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352)
> 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:
> >
> > None
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Community is stable. We still get feedback and have active people around.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > We got some enironment related enhancements/bugfixes.
> >
> > 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:
> >
> >   2017-12-01 batchee-0.5-incubating
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> >   2015-12-01 Reinhard Sandtner
> >
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](batchee) Mark Struberg
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> > It is time for this podling to graduate. I really think that they should
> > take the time and JFDI.
> > Dave Fisher.
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > Druid
> >
> > Druid is a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store.
> >
> > Druid has been incubating since 2018-02-28.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >  1. Complete SGA for current sources and ICLAs for current committers.
> >  2. Move the source code and website to Apache infrastructure.
> >  3. Plan and execute our first Apache release.
> >
> > 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 moved development discussions to our Apache dev mailing list.
> > - A healthy, constant flow of bug fixes, quality improvements and new
> > features
> >   are still ongoing on https://github.com/druid-io/druid.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > - Since the last report there have been 36 commits from 18 individuals.
> > - We have released Druid 0.12.0 (outside the Incubator). We are
> optimistic
> >   that our next release will be done as an Apache release.
> >
> > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >
> >   [X] Initial setup
> >   [ ] Working towards first release
> >   [ ] Community building
> >   [ ] Nearing graduation
> >   [ ] Other:
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > - Druid 0.12.0 on 2018-03-06 (non-Apache release)
> > - No official release yet since beginning Apache Incubation
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> > - Project is still functioning with the initial set of committers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [x](druid) Julian Hyde
> >      Comments: The project still has good momentum getting through
> >        the initial tasks, and development/community activities
> >        continue at usual pace.
> >   [ ](druid) P. Taylor Goetz
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](druid) Jun Rao
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > Dubbo
> >
> > Dubbo is a high-performance, lightweight, java based RPC framework.
> >
> > Dubbo has been incubating since 2018-02-16.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >   1. First ASF release
> >   2. Migrate remaining assets to the ASF
> >   3. Community building
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >  * Complete ICLA for all PPMC
> >  * SGA has been filed
> >  * The community has decided to use Github issue instead of JIRA
> >  * Discussed feature donation by external users. e.g. circuit breaker,
> > xmlrpc
> >  * Received 1 GSoc student application (Raghu on Protocol Buffer
> > integration)
> >  * Currently ~450 mails on the dev@ list
> >  * 9 new companies reported their using of Dubbo since last report
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> >  * Dubbo 2.6.1 & Dubbo 2.5.10 released (prior to code transition, non-ASF
> > release)
> >  * Move 7 repos (including the core Dubbo repo) to Apache
> >  * Website (dubbo.incubator.apache.org) has been enabled
> >  * Website has been updated to be complied with ASF branding policy
> >  * 37 pull request created, 21 of them are closed
> >  * 80 Github issues created, 22 of them are closed
> >
> > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >
> >   [X] Initial setup
> >   [ ] Working towards first release
> >   [ ] Community building
> >   [ ] Nearing graduation
> >   [ ] Other:
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > N/A
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> > N/A
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](dubbo) Justin Mclean
> >      Comments:
> >   [X](dubbo) John D. Ament
> >      Comments: Podling is moving forward very well.  An on list
> discussion
> > about splitting up the dev list into multiple lists has started.
> >   [ ](dubbo) Jean-Frederic Clere
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](dubbo) Mark Thomas
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> > An excellent start.
> > Dave Fisher
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > ECharts
> >
> > ECharts is a charting and data visualization library written in
> JavaScript.
> >
> > ECharts has been incubating since 2018-01-18.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >   1. Get repo moved to https://github.com/apache/incubator-echarts.
> >   2. Get GitHub ID linked and 2FA enabled.
> >   3. First pushed to https://github.com/apache/incubator-echarts.
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > Currently the setting page of GitHub is not visible to us. There may be a
> > problem when we need to configure it (e.g.: see if anything goes wrong
> when
> > building gh-pages branch) but communication is delayed via email. So we'd
> > like to ask if it is possible for at least one of us core committers to
> > have the admin right.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > We released the information that ECharts has become a repo of Apache, and
> > received positive feedback from the community.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > None.
> >
> > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >
> >   [ ] Initial setup
> >   [x] Working towards first release
> >   [ ] Community building
> >   [ ] Nearing graduation
> >   [ ] Other:
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > N/A
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> > N/A
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [X](echarts) John D. Ament
> >      Comments: Lots of development activities picking up.  Need to
> > encourage more on list discussion.  Its often hard to sift through the
> > developer list due to gitbox notifications.
> >   [ ](echarts) Daniel Gruno
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](echarts) Kevin A. McGrail
> >      Comments:
> >   [X](echarts) Dave Fisher
> >      Comments: They are really just getting started now that the repos is
> > transferred. The mentors are going to need to educate the podling more,
> but
> > they have found infra users ML and have asked about how to split up the
> > email flows. One thing I have noticed about GitBox projects is that it is
> > harder to understand what is happening in those notifications vs. JIRAs.
> > (That's just an observation, not sure of the Way yet.
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > Gearpump
> >
> >   Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the
> > micro-service Actor model.
> >   Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >  1. Have frequent release cycles.
> >  2. Continue to evolve community interest and support.
> >  3. Increase user adoption.
> >
> >
> > - 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?
> >  Gearpump took part in Google Summer of Code 2017 project and it has been
> > succeffully accompolished by student, Buddhi Ayesha, who is interested in
> > making more contributions beyond the project.
> >
> > - How has the project developed since the last report?
> >  32 issues created and 20 issues resolved.
> >  Gearpump Runner has been merged into Apache Beam trunk.
> >  An experimental SQL support has been added and state management is under
> > development.
> >
> > 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
> >   [ ] Other:
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >  2017-07-17
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >  No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >  [X](gearpump) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> >      Comments:
> >  [ ](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
> >      Comments:
> >  [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> >      Comments:
> >  [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
> >      Comments:
> >  [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
> >      Comments:
> >  [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >   johndament: Report not discussed on list, responded to an email from
> Sept
> > 2017 to indicate it was posted by a mentor.  Lots of development
> activity,
> > not much developer discussion.  Seems like they have an unused user list
> as
> > well.
> >
> > --------------------
> > Gobblin
> >
> > Gobblin is a distributed data integration framework that simplifies
> common
> > aspects of big data integration such as data ingestion, replication,
> > organization and lifecycle management for both streaming and batch data
> > ecosystems.
> >
> > Gobblin has been incubating since 2017-02-23.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >   1. Make frequent releases
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > * Gobblin community has continued to grow and engage more (on mailing
> lists
> > and Gitter IRC).
> > * 51% of commits have been from non-committer contributors.
> > * Email stats since last report:
> >   user@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 47
> >   dev@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 694
> > * There have been 121 Commits since last report:
> >     git log --format='%ci' | grep -cE '(2018-0(1|2|3|4))'
> > * 62 ie. 51% of those commits were by non-committers:
> >    git log --format='%ae %ci' | grep -E '(2018-0(1|2|3|4))' | cut -d ' '
> -f
> > 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
> > * Recurring video conference based meetup has been happening every month
> > with healthy attendance.
> > * Gobblin was presented and well received in various meetups /
> conferences
> > around the world (independently by Apache community members) eg. Strata
> etc.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > * Various new connectors for integration with more systems, and several
> > enhancements / feature development.
> > * Continued development of Gobblin-as-a-Service (PaaS for Gobblin as well
> > as non-Gobblin systems). More engagement of community on this front.
> > * Enhancements to website, and packaging / distribution of Gobblin.
> > * Release v0.12.0 is being voted on right now.
> >
> > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >
> >   [ ] Initial setup
> >   [X] Working towards first release
> >   [X] Community building
> >   [ ] Nearing graduation
> >   [ ] Other:
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> >   v0.12.0 is being voted on right now.
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> >   Joel Baranick in December, 2017.
> >   (A few more contributors in the community are ready to be elected.)
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](gobblin) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> >      Comments:
> >   [X](gobblin) Olivier Lamy
> >      Comments:
> >   [X](gobblin) Jim Jagielski
> >      Comments: release process being better defined the 0.12 RC efforts.
> > NOTICE requirements better understood.
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > HAWQ
> >
> > HAWQ is an advanced enterprise SQL on Hadoop analytic engine built
> around a
> > robust and high-performance massively-parallel processing (MPP) SQL
> engine
> > evolved from Greenplum Database.
> >
> > HAWQ has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> > graduation:
> >
> >   1. Continue to improve the project's release cadence. To this
> >      end we plan on expanding automation services to support
> >      increased developer participation. (HAWQ-127)
> >
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need
> > to be aware of?
> >
> >      Nothing urgent at this time.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > 1. Conference Talks :
> >
> >  * HAWQ on Microsoft Azure Cloud. Microsoft Incubator Talk (Speaker: Lei
> > Chang, Mar 21, 2018)
> >
> >
> > 2. Two committer candidates passed the voting process:
> >
> >    1) Shubham SHARMA
> >    2) Lav JAIN
> >
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> >
> > 1. HAWQ 2.3 released. It includes the following features.
> >
> >   1) New Feature: HAWQ Core supports plugable external storage framework.
> >   2) New Feature: HAWQ Ranger supports RPS HA.
> >   3) New Feature: HAWQ Ranger supports Kerberos authentication.
> >   4) New Feature: HAWQ Core supports HDFS TDE (Transparent Data
> Encryption)
> > through libHdfs3.
> >   5) Licenses: Fix PXF license files located in PXF jar files.
> >   6) Licenses: Check Apache HAWQ mandatory libraries to match LC20, LC30
> > license criteria.
> >   7) Build: Release build project
> >   8) Bug fixes.
> >
> > Project page link:
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/Apache+HAWQ+2.3.0.0-
> incubating+Release
> >
> > 2. HAWQ 2.4 release plan was proposed.
> >
> >   1) New Feature: Pluggable Vectorized Execution Engine on HAWQ.
> >   2) New Feature: Support Runtime Filter for HAWQ local hash join.
> >   3) New Feature: Support accessing Hive table data by the new Pluggable
> > Storage Framework.
> >   4) Bug fixes.
> >
> > Project page link:
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/Apache+HAWQ+2.4.0.0-
> incubating+Release
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > 2018-03-12, Apache HAWQ 2.3.0.0
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> >    1) Lav Jain: April 5, 2018
> >    2) Shubham Sharma: April 5, 2018
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](hawq) Alan Gates
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](hawq) Thejas Nair
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > Hivemall
> >
> > Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive
> > UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.
> >
> > Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >  1. Create the first Apache release
> >  2. Community growth (committers and users)
> >  3. Documentation improvements
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware
> > of?
> >
> >  * Markus Weimer resigned from our Project mentor as he sent a message
> >    to IPMC private list on March 1.
> >  * We need to recruit active Mentor(s)
> >     - Failed March2018 podling report due to missing mentor sign-off
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> >  * Github watchers/stars are gradually increasing:
> >     131 stars as of April 3 (was 108 on Dec 6)
> >  * Twitter account @ApacheHivemall followers are gradually increasing:
> >     123 followers as of April 3 (was 101 on Dec 6)
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> >  * Released the first Apache release (v0.5.0) on March 5.
> >
> > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/18e6355dd06ff065004516eec6ff86
> 1777b4ad526714b61667b4904b@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
> >
> >  Since the last report, we have
> >    * In the last 4 months, we opened 22 JIRA issues and closed 15 JIRA
> > issues
> >       as seen in https://goo.gl/QFQEF5 (as of April 3)
> >                      Created   Resolved
> >          Dec   2017    3           7
> >          Jan   2018    4           3
> >          Feb   2018    5           1
> >          March 2018    10          4
> >    * Created 14 Pull Requests and closed/merged 13 Pull Requests between
> > Dec 01 and April 01.
> >
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%
> 3Apr%20created%3A2017-12-01..2018-04-01
> >
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%
> 3Apr%20closed%3A2017-12-01..2018-04-01
> >
> > How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your
> > own
> > commentary.
> >
> >  [ ] Initial setup
> >  [x] Working towards first release
> >  [x] Community building
> >  [ ] Nearing graduation
> >  [ ] Other:
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> >   March 5, 2018.
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> >  - Elected Jerome Banks as a committer on April 2.
> >
> > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/98b28689dcffbf3a51a1ff80d9c86b
> e96b46bbb3829bda334a722d89@%3Cdev.hivemall.apache.org%3E
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >  [ ](hivemall) Reynold Xin
> >     Comments:
> >  [ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng
> >     Comments:
> >  [X](hivemall) Daniel Dai
> >     Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >   johndament: The comments with the new committer election are
> > interesting.  Don't forget to go through IP Clearance if you are
> importing
> > an external code base.
> >
> > --------------------
> > Livy
> >
> > Livy is web service that exposes a REST interface for managing long
> running
> > Apache Spark contexts in your cluster. With Livy, new applications can be
> > built on top of Apache Spark that require fine grained interaction with
> many
> > Spark contexts.
> >
> > Livy has been incubating since 2017-06-05.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >   1. Grow the community and continue to involve more users and
> contributors
> >   2. Grow more committers to maintain the project
> >   3. Solidify our release cadence
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > N/A
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > Activity on the dev and user mailing lists as well as the rate of
> reported
> > JIRA issues has stayed steady.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > The master branch has been updated to support Spark 2.3 in our next
> release.
> >
> > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >
> >   [ ] Initial setup
> >   [ ] Working towards first release
> >   [X] Community building
> >   [ ] Nearing graduation
> >   [ ] Other:
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> >   2018-02-05
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> >   2017-09-18
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](livy) Bikas Saha
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](livy) Brock Noland
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](livy) Luciano Resende
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > MXNet
> >
> > A Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep Learning
> >
> > MXNet has been incubating since 2017-01-23.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >   1.
> >   2.
> >   3.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> >
> > 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
> >   [ ] Other:
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> >   XXXX-XX-XX
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](mxnet) Sebastian Schelter
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](mxnet) Suneel Marthi
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](mxnet) Henri Yandell
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](mxnet) Markus Weimer
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > Nemo
> >
> > Nemo is a data processing system to flexibly control the runtime
> behaviors
> > of
> > a job to adapt to varying deployment characteristics.
> >
> > Nemo has been incubating since 2018-02-04.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >   1. Grow the community
> >   2. Create a first Apache release
> >   3. Donate code to ASF
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >   * Committers actively involved in mailing lists
> >   * Committers actively started to send PRs and do code reviews
> >   * Two committers volunteered for GSoC mentors
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> >   * SonarCloud integrated
> >   * Community standards and documentation added
> >   * Scheduler improved by adding a new scheduling policy and making it
> > reactive
> >   * Operator pipelining implemented
> >   * Experiments performed to demonstrate the benefits of Nemo
> >   * Blogs posted
> >
> > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >
> >   [x] Initial setup
> >   [x] Working towards first release
> >   [ ] Community building
> >   [ ] Nearing graduation
> >   [ ] Other:
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> >   None yet.
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> >   None yet.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [X](nemo) Davor Bonaci
> >      Comments: The project is very active, moving quickly, and doing very
> > well.
> >   [X](nemo) Hyunsik Choi
> >      Comments:
> >   [X](nemo) Byung-Gon Chun
> >      Comments:
> >   [X](nemo) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](nemo) Markus Weimer
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](nemo) Reynold Xin
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > NetBeans
> >
> > NetBeans is a development environment, tooling platform and application
> > framework.
> >
> > NetBeans has been incubating since 2016-10-01.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >   1. Granting and integration of 2nd donation (mainly Java EE,
> JavaScript,
> > PHP, Groovy) -- is being wrapped up at Oracle.
> >   2. Granting and integration of 3rd donation, consisting of tutorials,
> > related images, and other documentation for populating
> netbeans.apache.org.
> >   3. Rerouting/switching from netbeans.org to netbeans.apache.org, plus
> new
> > home for plugins.netbeans.org.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >  - NetCAT (NetBeans Community Acceptance Testing) program has started up,
> > preparatory to final release of 9.0.
> >  - New Apache NetBeans logo has been voted on and accepted.
> >  - Ongoing discussions re redesign of splash screen.
> >  - Apache NetBeans Day as a class of event has been approved by Apache
> > trademarks: https://netbeans.apache.org/community/events.html
> >  - First official Apache NetBeans Day accepted via lazy consensus to be
> > held April 27, in London, at the University of Greenwich:
> > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/328f564ac753165b39e7d96e67c929
> f7996a935ef75437c6c8e239fc@%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E
> >  - Currently 557 on Apache NetBeans users mailing list and 406 on Apache
> > NetBeans dev mailing list.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> >  - Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 Beta has been released (02/22/18)
> >  - Support for running on JDK 8, 9, 10 added, with Java editor support
> for
> > new JDK 10 'var' type (JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference).
> >  - netbeans.apache.org is up and running.
> >  - Legal issue settled: Apache does not require and does not consider
> > helpful list of 3rd party deps in grant:
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-374
> >
> > 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:
> >
> >   2018-02-22 Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 Beta
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> >    * PPMC member Antonio Vieiro elected on Feb 18, 2018
> >    * PPMC member John McDonnell elected on Feb 18, 2018
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](netbeans) Ate Douma
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](netbeans) Bertrand Delacretaz
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](netbeans) Daniel Gruno
> >      Comments:
> >   [X](netbeans) Mark Struberg
> >      Comments: There is really lots of activity in the project
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >   johndament: Great progress by the podling.
> >
> > --------------------
> > 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. Fulfil the 1.0 version - (collaboration scheduled for the end of
> > March)
> >   2. Attract more developers
> >   3. Have frequent releases
> >
> > 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?
> >         Several bug reports but no new committers.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >     Svante Schubert sponsorship by German government's prototypefund.org
> is
> > about to end, the new collaboration feature for the ODF Toolkit not yet
> on
> > GitHub.
> >
> >
> > Date of the last release:
> >
> >   2017-04-10
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> >   2017-08-02
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](odftoolkit) Tom Barber
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >   Drew Farris (shepherd): Little overall project activity, but questions
> > are being answered on the user list. One mentor active on the mailing
> lists
> >
> > --------------------
> > PLC4X
> >
> > PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial
> programmable
> > logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared
> API.
> >
> > Most important issues to address while moving towards graduation:
> >
> > Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large
> percentage
> > of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people from other
> > companies, but will have to continue these efforts for establishing a
> > healthy Apache community.
> > Onboarding of new committers: With PLC4X several people on the team are
> not
> > very familiar with the Apache Way. We have started and will continue our
> > efforts on this onboarding.
> > Make our first release
> >
> > Any Issues the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of:
> >
> > In contrast to previous reports some of the concerns regarding
> availability
> > and usability of specifications have been resolved. Especially for using
> > the Modbus and the OPC-UA specifications Christofer was able to get
> > official permissions from the corresponding foundations to use the
> > specifications. These permission Emails have been filed in the private
> list
> > for documentation.
> >
> > One of the external foundations (Profinet) doesn’t have a free
> membership.
> > In general, the CEO of the European branch of the Profinet Foundation has
> > signaled that it should be possible for the ASF to become a member and
> have
> > an outside company pay the membership fees, but we have to discuss the
> > details (With them as well as the ASF).
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > Christofer has invested most of his time in March spreading the word
> about
> > PLC4X.
> > A first POC has been created for a company which is currently going into
> > production
> > An article about Apache Edgent and Apache PLC4X has been published as a
> > cover-story in the German JavaSPEKTRUM magazines Industrial IoT special
> > edition (https://www.sigs-datacom.de/digital/javaspektrum/). One PLC4X
> talk
> > has been accepted to the Apache EU Roadshow 2018 in Berlin and one will
> be
> > at the Silpion Techcamp in Hamburg (https://techcamp.hamburg/) in the
> first
> > April week.
> >
> > The dev-list subscriptions has gone up by one from February, we are
> hoping
> > to increase the number in the next few weeks (However quite some emails
> > come in from un-registered users that have to pass moderation).
> >
> > We now have a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/ApachePlc4x as
> another
> > channel of communicating interesting PLC4X facts.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > We have been working hard on making better use of the ASF build
> > infrastructure. Especially regarding setting up our project VM at
> > plc4x-vm.apache.org this effort will be continued.
> > After receiving the permission to use and implement the Modbus protocol,
> > the Driver skeletons have been setup, but no real implementation of the
> > protocol itself has been done yet. We are still hoping for volunteers to
> > step up as interest in implementing the Modbus protocol has been
> explicitly
> > mentioned by community memebers.
> > The work on the RawSocket Netty transport which is a requirement to
> > implement protocols that are IP based, but are not TCP or UDP has
> continued
> > and we are currently working on some of the quirks on Linux based
> > operating-systems.
> > We added Netty support for IO over serial ports and will be using this in
> > the Beckhoff module as a first protocol.
> > We are still working on the S7 Protocol fragmentation and hope to be able
> > to finish this in April.
> > Also we discussed on the list about how the others would think of
> > initiating a first release of PLC4X.
> >
> > How does the podling rate their own maturity?
> >
> > We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people involved.
> > So far, the new participants have shown great willingness and success in
> > adopting the Apache Way.
> > However, we still need to continue:
> > the on-boarding
> > increasing the diversity of the team
> > Also, will we need to decide and establish all the processes involved in
> > releasing software at Apache
> >
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](plc4x) Greg Trasuk
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](plc4x) Justin Mclean
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](plc4x) Luciano Resende
> >      Comments:
> >   [X](plc4x) Stefan Bodewig
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >   Drew Farris (shepherd): Three mentors active on the mailing list.
> Active
> > project.
> >
> > --------------------
> > Pony Mail
> >
> > Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service,
> > that
> > can be integrated with many email platforms.
> >
> > Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >   1. Grow participation in community
> >   2. Get releases out properly
> >   3. Evangelize
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > None that I can think of.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > There has been external interest in the project, however this has not yet
> > formed into a formal relationship.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > A release, 0.10, was voted on and approved.
> > Due to time constraints, the release has not been fully completed yet.
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> >   2018-04-04-ish (WIP!)
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> > Sebastian Bazley, April 2017
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
> >      Comments:
> >   [X](ponymail) John D. Ament
> >      Comments: Report not discussed on list, extremely low volume and
> > continues to look like a one person project.
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > Quickstep
> >
> > Quickstep is a high-performance database engine.
> >
> > Quickstep has been incubating since 2016-03-29.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >   1. Adoption of the Quickstep technology.
> >   2. Grow the Quickstep developer community.
> >   3. Work towards a second release.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > A paper that describes the Quickstep system was accepted in a premier
> > database conference Very Large Databases (VLDB). Link to the paper:
> > http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p663-patel.pdf This paper should help
> the
> > system and the community to increase its reach further. We are already
> > getting emails from readers who are finding interest in the system. We
> are
> > encouraging the readers to be a part of the community.
> >
> > We have submitted a keynote proposal ApacheCon. If accepted, the
> > paper/presentation would help to increase the awareness of Quickstep
> > project in the Apache community.
> >
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > We have continued development of the code base. Apart from the routine
> bug
> > fixes, there are ongoing efforts for three main development directions
> > (respective JIRA issues have been opened):
> > 1. Enhancing the type system used by Quickstep
> > 2. Supporting concurrent queries in the system
> > 3. Developing a distributed version of Quickstep
> >
> > We are planning another release before summer.
> >
> >
> > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >
> >   [ ] Initial setup
> >   [ ] Working towards first release
> >   [x] Community building
> >   [ ] Nearing graduation
> >   [ ] Other:
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> >   2017-03-25
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> > 2017-10-03 Robert Claus (committer)
> >
> > We have seen contributions from some new members (Yuanchen Li, Dylan
> Bacon
> > and Yusong Yang). We will soon initiate the process for them to be
> > committers.
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [x](quickstep) Julian Hyde
> >      Comments: Development remains fairly active but the podling's
> ability
> >        to build community outside its core community is a major concern.
> >   [ ](quickstep) Roman Shaposhnik
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > Rya
> >
> > Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
> > supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system
> built
> > on
> > top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and
> query
> > processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple
> > nodes.
> > Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a
> conventional
> > query mechanism for RDF data.
> >
> > Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >   1. Increase diversity of committers
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >  * Apache Rya 3.2.12 (incubating) released
> >  * More people expressed interest in contributing to Rya
> >  * More discussions about graduation
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >  * Apache Rya 3.2.12 (incubating) released
> >  * Improved documentation for deploying Rya PCJ Updater
> >  * Created a Rya Shell for MongoDB
> >  * Integrated RyaStreams with the Rya Shell
> >  * Added PCJ indexer support for MongoDB backend
> >  * Implemented a forward-chaining rules engine that runs as a batch
> > process, operates on user-defined SPIN rules, and inserts derived
> > information back in Rya
> >  * Added the ability to use the MongoDB aggregation pipeline to evaluate
> > simple SPARQL expressions for MongoDB backend
> >  * Implemented single node Kafka streams incremental SPARQL processor
> >  * Plans to improve the SPARQL endpoint to improve standards compliance
> >
> > 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:
> >
> >    2018-03-04
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> >  * PPMC member Caleb Meier elected on Jan 3rd, 2017
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](rya) Josh Elser
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](rya) Edward J. Yoon
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
> >      Comments:
> >   [x](rya) Billie Rinaldi
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > SensSoft
> >
> > SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
> >
> > SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >   1. Extending release process to other parts of the SensSoft software
> > stack.
> >   2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) community.
> >   3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap
> >      https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmap
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >   The community successfully delivered the first Incubating release
> >   for UserALE.js. No new community members have come onboard.
> >   Several members of the community VOTE'd on the UserALE.js 1.0.0
> >   release candidate.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> >   Development continues at a sustainable level.
> >
> > 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
> >   [X] Nearing graduation
> >   [ ] Other:
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> >   2018-03-14
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> >   Arthi Vezhavendan was added to PPMC and Committer base on 2017-01-24
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
> >      Comments:
> >   [X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > ServiceComb
> >
> > ServiceComb is a microservice framework that provides a set of tools and
> > components to make development and deployment of cloud applications
> easier.
> >
> > ServiceComb has been incubating since 2017-11-22.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >   1. Community building
> >   2. Project visibility
> >   3. Create release
> >
> > 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?
> >   * The community finally get the first release out, service-center
> > 1.0.0-m1, java-chassis 1.0.0-m1 and saga 0.1.0
> >   * The community hold a meetup in Beijing at March 30.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report(March 2018)?
> >   * Java Chassis merged with 54 PRs by 10 contributors.
> >   * Service Center merged with 21 PRs by 5 contributors .
> >   * Saga resolved merged with 24 PRs by 7 contributors.
> >   * 117 mails sent by 27 people on the dev@ list
> >
> > 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
> >   [ ] Other:
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> >   2018-04-03 Java Chassis 1.0.0-m1
> >   2018-03-26 Service Center 1.0.0-m1
> >   2018-03-26 Saga 0.1.0
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >   2018-03-14 Added ningjiang，liubao，wujimin，asifdxtreme，littlecui as the
> > Initial PPMC member
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](servicecomb) Roman Shaposhnik
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](servicecomb) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](servicecomb) Timothy Chen
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > SINGA
> >
> > SINGA is a distributed deep learning platform.
> >
> > SINGA has been incubating since 2015-03-17.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >   1. Finish the existing jira tickets, including autograd (SINGA-342),
> > tensor improvement (SINGA-341), backend for Keras (SINGA-340), ONNX
> > (SINGA-333))
> >   2.
> >   3.
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > We are working on the next release with the autograd feature.
> > Another release is scheduled with improved tensor and Keras backend.
> >
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > There are 3 new contributors joined.
> >
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > We fixed some bugs, updated the documentation and are now working on some
> > major/big updates (new features) including the new front-end APIs and the
> > autograd feature.
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> >   2017-06-29
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> > 2017-09-01
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](singa) Daniel Dai
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](singa) Alan Gates
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](singa) Ted Dunning
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](singa) Thejas Nair
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > Traffic Control
> >
> > Traffic Control is a set of components that can be used to build,
> monitor,
> > configure, and provision a large scale content delivery network (CDN).
> >
> > Traffic Control has been incubating since 2016-07-12.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. A successful graduation vote by project community
> > 2. A successful graduation vote by the IPMC
> > 3. A successful acceptance of our graduation resolution by the apache
> board
> >
> > 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 (January 2018)?
> >
> > Since January the Traffic Control community has worked on the following:
> > * Getting Traffic Control 2.1 released
> > * Getting Traffic Control 2.2 ready for release candidates
> > * Supporting new users with installing and configuring traffic control
> > * Tie up loose ends and prepare ourselves for graduation
> > * Planning a spring summit to be held April 2018 in Boston, MA
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> >   Since the last report (January 2018), we have
> >
> >   * Merged 199 Pull Requests with 673 commits from 27 unique contributors
> >   * Opened 217 Github issues
> >   * Closed 214 Github issues
> >   * 301 emails sent by 46 people on the dev@ list
> >   * 26 emails sent by 10 people on the users@ list
> >
> > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> >
> > We have started the graduation process!  We voted on starting the
> > graduation process, chose a project chair, and have started the Project
> > vote on the graduation resolution.
> >
> >   [ ] Initial setup
> >   [ ] Working towards first release (wip)
> >   [ ] Community building (wip)
> >   [X] Nearing graduation
> >   [ ] Other:
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> >   Traffic Control 2.1 was released on January 22, 2017.
> >
> >   Traffic Control 2.2 is currently on RC 3 and we hope to have 2.2
> released
> > by the end of April, 2018.
> >
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> > In October, Traffic Control added 1 new committer: Nir Sopher.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [X](trafficcontrol) Phil Sorber
> >      Comments: I think this project is in good shape, hopefully we see a
> > graduation resolution in the IPMC for it soon.
> >   [X](trafficcontrol) Eric Covener
> >      Comments:
> >   [X](trafficcontrol) Leif Hedstrom
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > Weex
> >
> > Weex is a framework for building Mobile cross-platform high performance
> UI.
> >
> > Weex has been incubating since 2016-11-30.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> >   1. Develop more non-Chinese contributors and committers, to bring
> > diversity to the community.
> >   2. Replace Facebook's Yoga(Category X) dependency and release more
> while
> > in Incubator.
> >   3. Improve the developer's activity in mailing list.
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > The community is still learning the Apache Way,  we are making progress
> and
> > need more guidance from Mentors.
> > The project has an ongoing problem with lack of mentor engagement.
> >
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > * WeexConf 2018 was held in Hangzhou, which brought a lot of new users
> and
> > contributors who is intrested in the project, and Weex meetup in other
> > cities will come soon.
> > * 278(91 new issues since the last report) issues have been reported on
> > JIRA, and 145(52 since the last report) of them are resolved or closed.
> > * More non-Chinese developers are using Weex and contributing to the
> > community, including developers from India, Russia, Singapore, etc. The
> > first non-Chinese committer will come out soon.
> > * Our Github repo has growth in contributors 145(10 new since the last
> > report), forks 1168(192 new), watchers 451(74 new) and stars 8730(1622
> new)
> > * WebSite Trends Month Active, PV(542124), UV(91873), IP(76598), New
> > Unique Visitor(47883) , Session(168065)
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > * Excluding merges, 11 authors have pushed 16 commits to master and 14
> > commits to all branches.
> > * Replacing Facebook's Yoga is done and will be released next month.
> >
> > How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> > Please feel free to add your own commentary.
> >
> >   [ ] Initial setup
> >   [ ] Working towards first release
> >   [x] Community building
> >   [ ] Nearing graduation
> >   [ ] Other:
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> >   2017-06-08
> >
> > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
> >
> >   None.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](weex) Luke Han
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](weex) Willem Jiang
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](weex) Stephan Ewen
> >      Comments:
> >   [ ](weex) Raphael Bircher
> >      Comments:
> >
> > IPMC/Shepherd notes:
> >
>