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Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Incubator PMC report for October 2015

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 44 podlings currently undergoing incubation.

* Community

  New IPMC members:

  - Josh Elser
  - Sterling Hughes

* New Podlings

  - MADlib
  - Rya
  - Unomi

* Graduations

  The board has motions for the following:

  - Calcite

* Releases

  The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

  - 2015-09-06 Apache Kylin 1.0-incubating
  - 2015-09-14 Apache Brooklyn 0.8.0-incubating
  - 2015-09-14 Apache HTrace-4.0.0-incubating
  - 2015-09-15 Apache TinkerPop 3.0.1-incubating
  - 2015-09-16 Apache Groovy 2.4.5-incubating
  - 2015-09-21 Apache Sentry-1.6.0-incubating
  - 2015-09-22 Apache AsterixDB Hyracks 0.2.16-incubating

* IP Clearance

  - Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp donated POI Visio, an extension module for
    Apache POI. It adds support for the Microsoft Visio .vsdx xml-based file
    format. (Current Apache POI Visio support only handled the older binary
    .vsd format). Post-import, the component will be known as XDGF.

* Infrastructure

  - It seems that an incorrect date in the Board meeting calendar caused the
    report reminders to fire a week early, requiring manual cleanup after the
    correct date was established.  There was discussion of migrating the
    reminders and other Incubator bookkeeping to Whimsy.

* Miscellaneous

  - At the height of Corinthia's crisis, several committers resigned.  The
    mailing lists have since gone silent.  Some IPMC members followed up but
    those efforts do not appear to have been successful.
  - A vote to retire the Droids podling is pending.
  - Various proposals to change the Incubator have been discussed on
    general@incubator.  The one generating the most responses, mostly in
    opposition, is a proposal which would lessen the role of Mentors with
    business affiliations to podlings during Incubator entry and exit votes.
    None of the other proposals have gotten any traction.
  - A proposal regarding the Incubator formulated during ApacheCon EU was
    discussed on board@apache.

* Credits

  - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

  - HAWQ
  - MADlib

* Not yet ready to graduate

  No release:

  - Apex
  - FreeMarker
  - Geode
  - Myriad
  - OpenAZ

* Ready to graduate

  - Groovy

  The Board has motions for the following:

  - Calcite

* Did not report, expected next month

  - BatchEE
  - Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer (2 months late)
  - Cotton (2 months late)
  - DataFu
  - HORN
  - ODF Toolkit
  - Ripple (4 months late)

* Report reviewed but not signed off by Mentors, expected next month

  - Wave

* Likely to retire

  - Droids

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                       Table of Contents
Apex
FreeMarker
Geode
Groovy
HAWQ
MADlib
Myriad
ODF Toolkit
OpenAz
Wave

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Apex

Apex is an enterprise grade native YARN big data-in-motion platform that
unifies stream processing as well as batch processing.

Apex has been incubating since 2015-08-17.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Release Apex-Core, and Apex-Malhar at least twice.
  2. Grow contributors beyond the initial set.

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

  None. Thanks for continual support.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  The community is very engaged with the development of the project. There
  have been 485 messages on dev@.

  The community voted and selected the APEX logo which is put on the brand
  new project website at http://apex.incubator.apache.org/

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Various metrics are as follows:
  +---------------------------------------------------+
  |   Metric                         | Core  | Malhar |
  +---------------------------------------------------+
  | Non Merge Commits                |  88   |   33   |
  | Contributors                     |  17   |    9   |
  | Jira Issues                      |  94   |   30   |
  | Resolved Issues                  |  30   |    4   |
  +---------------------------------------------------+

  The project is still using the Atlassian instance of JIRA. The migration to
  Apache JIRA is underway.

  The first release of the project under ASF banner (3.2.0) is targeted to be
  branched off at the end of September.

Date of last release:

  No release under ASF-Incubation code base as yet. Apex-Core, Apex-Malhar
  were last launched on July end in pre Apache days.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  Committers and Mentors came about via incubation proposal.

Signed-off-by:

  [X](apex) Chris Nauroth
  [ ](apex) Alan Gates
  [X](apex) Hitesh Shah
  [X](apex) Justin Mclean
  [X](apex) P. Taylor Goetz
  [ ](apex) Ted Dunning

Shepherd/Mentor notes:




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FreeMarker

FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text output
based on templates. FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library for
programmers.

FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Finding contributors
  2. Do the first release from ASF
  3. Further infrastructure migrations (move issues to Jira, web site)

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?

  There's no significant change since the last month.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  The IP clearance process is now complete given that:

  1) Software License Agreements have been collected (and have been filed by
     the ASF Secretary) for the former copyright owners that are no more
     active and involved in the project.
  2) Contributor License Agreements have been collected (and have been filed
     by the ASF Secretary) for the main contributors of the project, that are
     now committers of the incubating project
  3) Notices in the project mailing lists and website have been published to
     announce that the project is now incubating at ASF and to invite
     potential contributors to participate in the new home
  4) License headers have been updated to reflect the new copyright

  Git repositories were migrated to ASF, and development now goes at ASF.

  GitHub integration was configured so that we can receive pull requests.

  Mailing lists were officially moved over to ASF

  Jira was created and marked as the official issue tracker, though old
  issues weren't yet migrated.

Date of last release:

  There was no release from the Incubator yet

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  We only have the initial committers and initial PMC members yet.

Signed-off-by:

  [X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
  [ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
  [ ](freemarker) David E. Jones
  [ ](freemarker) Ralph Goers
  [ ](freemarker) Sergio Fernández

Shepherd/Mentor notes:



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Geode

Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent
access to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed butt
architectures.

Geode has been incubating since 2015-04-27.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Have our first Apache (incubating) release (currently blocked on us
     solving JGroups licensing issues) GEODE-77.
  2. Expanding the community to include contributors and committers outside
     of Pivotal.
  3. Execute and manage the project according to governance model required by
     the "Apache Way"

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 has elected Nitin Lamba as its first Release Manager.
  - Project website is being revamped.
  - In September 73 issues were created and 26 resolved, bringing the total
    to 382 created and 164 resolved.
  - There was 1 pull requests to github in the last 30 days, for a total of
    19 pull requests.
  - There were 319 messages on the dev list and 32 messages on the user list.
  - There are now 128 subscribers on the user and 117 on the dev list.

  - Events and Conferences:
    In September:

    Four talks at "Apache: Big Data Europe"
    - An introduction to Apache Geode (incubating)
    - Building a highly scalable open-source Real-time Streaming Analytics
      system using Spark SQL, Apache Geode (incubating), SpringXD and Apache
      Zeppelin (incubating)
    - Implementing a Highly Scalable In-Memory Stock Prediction System with
      Apache Geode (incubating), R and Spring XD
    - Apache Geode (incubating):  The First Six Months

  Two talks at SpringOne:
    - Implementing a highly scalable Stock prediction system with R, GemFire
      and Spring XD <http://s.apache.org/gOc>
    - Building Highly-Scalable Spring Applications with In-Memory,
      Distributed Data Grids <http://s.apache.org/LHS>

  Geode clubhouse: Building Effective Apache Geode Applications with Spring
  Data GemFire (Sept 8th)

  Geode clubhouse (roundtable):  Sept 30th

  Meetup in Cork Ireland: http://s.apache.org/HV1
  Meetup in London: http://s.apache.org/sOM

  Upcoming in October:

    Geode Clubhouse: Transactions (Oct 6th)
    Geode Clubhouse: Roundtable (Oct ?)

How has the project developed since the last report?

  - A wiki page has been setup to track the first release:
    http://s.apache.org/2d6
  - 11 items have been identified to reach the first release.
  - Almost all unit tests now pass on feature/GEODE-77 branch (The JGroups
    feature branch).
  - Good progress has also been made on stabilizing CI, by fixing various
    intermittent failures in integration tests.

Date of last release:

   N/A - Just nightly builds.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?



Signed-off-by:

  [x](geode) Konstantin Boudnik
  [ ](geode) Chip Childers
  [ ](geode) Justin Erenkrantz
  [ ](geode) Jan Iversen
  [ ](geode) Chris Mattmann
  [ ](geode) William A. Rowe Jr.
  [ ](geode) Henry Saputra
  [ ](geode) Roman Shaposhnik

Shepherd/Mentor notes:



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Groovy

Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the Java platform.
Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-
typing and static compilation capabilities, aimed at multiplying developers’
productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax. It
integrates smoothly with any Java program, and immediately delivers to your
application powerful features, including scripting capabilities, Domain-
Specific Language authoring, runtime and compile-time meta-programming and
functional programming.

Groovy has been incubating since 2015-03-17.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  No issues left before graduating.

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

  No particular issue, but our mentors suggested we think about graduating.
  We still have to launch the vote, but the consensus is positive already.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  I've started collecting the number of subscribers on the users and dev
  lists starting last July (numbers from early July till end of September).
  Groovy users have been continuing to subscribe to our mailing-lists on a
  regular basis.

         Early   end of   end of    end of
         July    July     August    September
  Users: 249     259      273       274
  Dev:   152     156      163       164

  The download numbers, which are also an interesting indicator to see how
  much a project is used, are still on an upward trend.

  Here are the figures totaling downloads from both Maven Central and Bintray
  since the Groovy project entered the incubator (full numbers from September
  not yet available):

  March April May   June   July   August
  643k  759k  877k  1.15M  1.29M  1.34M

  The download numbers doubled since Groovy entered the incubator.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Since the last report 3 months ago, we managed to make two releases.

    1. Groovy 2.4.4 on July 9th, patching an important security issue,
       but the release wasn't yet compliant with all the good practices
       in terms of licenses & copyright information

    2. Groovy 2.4.5 on September 17th, we fixed all the problems of the
       previous release, and we took the opportunity to do a "release party"
       during the SpringOne2GX conference in Washington, DC, to spread the
       knowledge of the new release process across the team, as well as with
       our partners from JFrog.

Date of last release:

  2015-09-17: Groovy 2.4.5

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  We've welcomed a new committer to the project: Keegan Witt.  Keegan is also
  known in our community for his work with the Maven integration for Groovy
  (the GMavenPlus project)

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](groovy) Andrew Bayer
  [x](groovy) Konstantin Boudnik
  [x](groovy) Bertrand Delacretaz
  [X](groovy) Jim Jagielski
  [x](groovy) Emmanuel Lecharny
  [ ](groovy) Roman Shaposhnik

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

  Emmanuel Lecharny:

    Nothing special. They get it, it's now time for them to graduate, IMHO. As
    a mentor, it's a pleasure to follow this podling.

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HAWQ

HAWQ is an advanced enterprise SQL on Hadoop analytic engine built around a
robust and high-performance massively-parallel processing (MPP) SQL framework
evolved from Pivotal Greenplum Database.

HAWQ has been incubating since 2015-09-04.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Produce our first Apache Release
  2. Finalize infrastructure Migration and ICLAs from committers
  3. Expand the community, increase dev list activity and adding new
     committers/pmc members

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

  We have only just started the incubation, everything seems to be starting
  up, nothing urgent at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  This is our first report, after having been approved for incubation roughly
  2 wks ago.

  1. Most of the core contributors have completed their ICLA's and have
     established apache ids.
  2. Several presentations and meetups at ApacheCon EU and Strata aimed at
     growing interest in the project
  3. Formal announcements from Pivotal and press briefings related to the
     move of the project into Apache aimed at growing awareness and interest
     in the project.
  4. Outreach to parties that have expressed interest previously in our open
     source initiatives
  5. Still very much at the early stages of community development, we're just
     starting to get rolling.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  This is our first report, after having been approved for incubation roughly
  2 wks ago.

  1. Initial code drop has been provided to Apache
  2. Core infrastructure has been setup including: mailing lists, git, jira,
     wiki, website
  3. 62 messages on our developer list, 3 messages on our user list
  4. 16 jiras filed, 10 open, 1 reopened, 4 resolved, 1 closed - 1 issue
     unassigned
  5. 7 commits in total, including initial commit
  6. Most discussed items on the mailing list:
      - addressing issues with getting jira configured to allow issues to be
        assigned to users
      - discussion of usage of alternate communication channels, e.g. chat.
      - discussion of RTC vs CTR models for dev process

Date of last release:

  We have not had a release yet.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  Most of the initial list of committers have been onboarded, but there are
  still a few more outstanding.  We have not yet added any new members on top
  of the initial committer list.

Signed-off-by:

  [X](hawq) Alan Gates
  [x](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik
  [x](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
  [ ](hawq) Owen O'Malley
  [ ](hawq) Thejas Nair
  [ ](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik

Shepherd/Mentor notes:




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MADlib

Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists.

MADlib has been incubating since 2015-09-15.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Produce a first Apache release.
  2. Finalize infrastructure migration and ICLAs from committers.
  3. Expand the community, increase dev list activity and add new
     committers/pmc members.

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

  Just started incubation, nothing specific to report at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  We are approximately 2 weeks into the incubation process.

    1. So still at early stage.
    2. Most of the core contributors have completed their ICLA's and have
       established apache ids.
    3. Several presentations and meet-ups at ApacheCon EU and Strata NYC to
       discuss MADlib move to ASF governance.
    4. Formal announcements from Pivotal, press briefings and blogs related
       to the move of the project into Apache aimed at growing awareness and
       interest in the project.  Specialty press have picked up the story and
       reported widely.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Early activity:

  1. Initial code drop provided to Apache
  2. Core infrastructure is in the process of being migrated from existing
     infrastructure: mailing lists, git, jira, wiki, website

Date of last release:

  No release yet.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  Most of initial list of committers have been on-boarded, some still
  outstanding.  No new members added on top of the initial committer list.

Signed-off-by:

  [x](madlib) Konstantin Boudnik
  [ ](madlib) Ted Dunning
  [ ](madlib) Roman Shaposhnik

Shepherd/Mentor notes:




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Myriad

Myriad enables co-existence of Apache Hadoop YARN and Apache Mesos together
on the same cluster and allows dynamic resource allocations across both
Hadoop and other applications running on the same physical data center
infrastructure.

Myriad has been incubating since 2015-03-01.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Determine the best way to take github pull requests or ReviewBoard patch
     (chains) and apply/commit them to the Myriad git repo. We're looking at
     Mesos' apply-review.sh script, but I wonder if there's something else
     out there we should be considering. Is there a way to make github
     'Merge' integration just work, even through the mirror?
  2. Vote in and onboard new committers. Two are in progress, one from a new
     contributing organization.
  3. Prepare our first release under Apache. We'll update the code's
     copyright/namespace and packaging, but we still need to learn the other
     elements of the Apache release process. Is this "DRAFT" still the best
     resource? https://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html

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

  None beyond the above-mentioned.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  - Mailing list traffic has significantly increased from 60-80
    messages/month in April-July to 171 in August and 227 in September. Some
    of that could be JIRA integration, but we still have 17 unique human
    authors now, up from 13 in July.
  - Increasing participation in our biweekly community syncs. We now get
    around 7-11 participants, up from the 5-8 we were getting in May-July.
    See minutes at: http://s.apache.org/8kF

  - Wiki: Ruth has done a wonderful job populating and organizing the wiki
    from our scattered docs. Now we have 24 wiki pages describing use cases,
    architecture, installation/configuration, administration, and the REST
    API. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MYRIAD/Myriad+Home
  - Website under development, with awesome Myriad logo.
    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYRIAD-144 preview at
    http://klucar.github.io/myriad-site/
  - We started a #myriad IRC channel on Freenode, and are in the process of
    integrating it with ASFBot.
    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-10485
  - Well-attended talk by Mohit and Santosh at MesosCon.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU2VE08fOD4
  - Swapnil, Sarjeet, and Mitra won 1st place in freestyle category at docker
    global hack day for docker based multi-tenant YARN/Myriad clusters.
    https://blog.docker.com/2015/09/docker-global-hack-day-3-winners/

How has the project developed since the last report?

  - Finally got the SGA from Paypal and migrated our source to Apache git!
    Still need to figure how to integrate it into our commit workflow.
  - Resolved 14 JIRAs: http://s.apache.org/3dc
  - Merged the following PRs (from the old github repo)
      * Multi-project build changes (PR#108)
      * Improved unit testing (PR#112)
      * Myriad Logo update (PR#113)
      * Dynamically configurable NM Ports (PR#102)
      * Fine-grained scaling (PR#91)
      * Upgrade to Hadoop 2.7 (PR#116)
      * Complete Myriad HA Implementation (PR#123)
      * Run MyriadExecutor as NodeManager AuxService (PR#118,123)

Date of last release:

  Santosh will release manage the Myriad 0.1.0 release, our first release
  under Apache. We created a 0.1.0 version tag in JIRA, and targeted some
  pre-release issues for Apache copyright/namespace changes. We'll try to
  merge in some outstanding PRs, but there are no other feature blockers, so
  we hope to cut our first release candidate this month.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  - One new committer has been privately nominated and voted in, awaiting
    IPMC Board approval. Then he/she still has to accept the invitation.
  - Another is in the midst of voting this week.

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
  [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
  [ ](myriad) Ted Dunning
  [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende

Shepherd/Mentor notes:




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ODF Toolkit

Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

  Rob Weir (robweir):

    No report submitted, though I did remind the PPMC.   I sense some "report
    fatigue" since they missed the July report deadline, submitted then in
    time for August, but lacked a mentor sign off, and then submitted again in
    September and did get sign off.

  Drew Farris (drew):

    Kudos to robweir activity as a mentor, however this project could use
    another mentor. Generally little traffic or activity.

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OpenAz

Tools and libraries for developing Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC)
Systems in a variety of languages.

OpenAz has been incubating since 2015-01-20.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Confirm 1.0.0 as the first release
  2. Get website up to attract more attention
  3. Vote to confirm if any JIRA's are needed to be closed for 1st 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?

  n/a

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Preparing for v1.0.0 release

Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  no new since initial

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](openaz) Emmanuel Lecharny
  [ ](openaz) Colm O Heigeartaigh
  [ ](openaz) Hadrian Zbarcea

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

  P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz):

    The OpenAz report is pretty sparse and has not been signed off
    by any of the podling's mentors. dev@ mailing list activity is
    extremely low (15 messages in the past 3 months). I would recommend
    the top priority be for the project to expand the community.



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Wave

A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication.
It can be used like email, chat, or a document.

Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

  Marvin Humphrey (marvin):

    Wave's report was deliberately not signed off by its Mentors.  Mentor
    Upayavira engaged the Wave community about the possibility of retiring.
    The community preferred to continue; a timeline for making an incubating
    release was discussed.

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Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Posted by Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>.
> --------------------
> ODF Toolkit
>
> Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
> OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>   Rob Weir (robweir):
>
>     No report submitted, though I did remind the PPMC.   I sense some "report
>     fatigue" since they missed the July report deadline, submitted then in
>     time for August, but lacked a mentor sign off, and then submitted again in
>     September and did get sign off.
>
>   Drew Farris (drew):
>
>     Kudos to robweir activity as a mentor, however this project could use
>     another mentor. Generally little traffic or activity.

The following Mentor notes for ODF Toolkit have been added to the wiki:

  Nick Burch (nick):

    Project has recently added a committer, which is good, but
otherwise the level
    of activity remains too low. I've heard rumours of development happening
    in private elsewhere, but unless that effort returns to the project and
    activity improves, I think we're going to have to look at admitting defeat
    and retiring the podling soon.

ODF Toolkit will remain in "monthly" reporting, so a report is expected next
month.  "Report fatigue", while understandable, is not an excuse.  The
Board expects all TLPs to turn in meaningful reports that adequately
communicate the state of the community, even when not much is happening.

> --------------------
> Wave
>
> A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication.
> It can be used like email, chat, or a document.
>
> Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>   Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
>
>     Wave's report was deliberately not signed off by its Mentors.  Mentor
>     Upayavira engaged the Wave community about the possibility of retiring.
>     The community preferred to continue; a timeline for making an incubating
>     release was discussed.

Upayavira signed off on the Wave report and added the following commentary:

  [x](wave) Upayavira
  [ ](wave) Christian Grobmeier

  Upayavira (upayavira):

    As Marvin observed, I'm doubtful that Wave has the momentum to make
    any significant change nor to progress towards graduation. The community
    will need to meet some targets - the immediate one is to make a release
    before the next board report is due.

I had previously deleted the report (which was pretty bare-bones) because it
was not signed off.

I plan to interpret Upayavira's signoff as fulfilling Wave's reporting
requirement for this cycle (even without the podling report text included in
the final) and will remove Wave from "monthly" reporting.

Marvin Humphrey

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RE: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Posted by "Edward J. Yoon" <ed...@samsung.com>.
Thanks!

First of all, please check whether you have edit permission on 
https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/October2015 If not, you can get edit 
permission by request. Example is here: 
http://markmail.org/message/dfiwmv6rxnbr425o

The report template will be automatically generated on Wiki every month. Then, 
we fulfill it.

I can roughly help you. Here's what we did:

 * Podling Bootstrap process has been done.
  * All PPMC members are in both private@ and dev@ and signed ICLA.
 * all required infrastructures e.g., mailing lists, JIRA, Git repo are now 
available

and what we doing:

 * We're receiving contributions from new contributors Elmulod and Zachary :-)
  * Development of project website.
  * Initial code import from Apache Hama ML package.

TODO:

  * System Architecture and Programming APIs design.

Below is the full report example:

--------------------
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:

  1. Finding contributors
  2. Make the community more active
  3. Do more 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?

  There's no significant change since the last month.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Several few fixes have been done.

Date of last release:

  2014-08-09 batchee-0.2-incubating

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  during incubation. We got a few contributions though.

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](batchee) Mark Struberg
  [ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
  [X](batchee) Romain Manni-Bucau

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


--------------------

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-----Original Message-----
From: Zachary Jaffee [mailto:zij@case.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 11:17 PM
To: dev@horn.incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

I can take this, just let me know what I need to do.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Edward J. Yoon <ed...@apache.org>
wrote:

> Hi forks,
>
> Periodically (3 months), we have to report our status to the IPMC.
> Since we missed first report, we need to report next month. Who can
> take this? Any volunteer is welcome.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>
> Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:21 AM
> Subject: Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review
> To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
>
>
> > * Did not report, expected next month
> >
> >   - BatchEE
> >   - Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer (2 months late)
> >   - Cotton (2 months late)
> >   - DataFu
> >   - HORN
> >   - ODF Toolkit
> >   - Ripple (4 months late)
>
> A disappointingly large number of podlings did not report this month.  It
> is
> probably worth looking into what is up with CMDA, Cotton and Ripple.
>
> > --------------------
> > Myriad
>
> >   1. Determine the best way to take github pull requests or ReviewBoard
> patch
> >      (chains) and apply/commit them to the Myriad git repo. We're
> looking at
> >      Mesos' apply-review.sh script, but I wonder if there's something
> else
> >      out there we should be considering. Is there a way to make github
> >      'Merge' integration just work, even through the mirror?
>
> I suggest that Myriad developers ask on infrastructure-dev@apache about
> this.
>
> >   3. Prepare our first release under Apache. We'll update the code's
> >      copyright/namespace and packaging, but we still need to learn the
> other
> >      elements of the Apache release process. Is this "DRAFT" still the
> best
> >      resource?
> https://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html
>
> The releasemanagement.html page is bloated and outdated, but there is no
> central resource which has supplanted it.
>
> Efforts are underway to address the state of Apache's policy documentation.
>
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
> >   [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
> >   [ ](myriad) Ted Dunning
> >   [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende
>
> Can we get please get sign-off for Myriad?  They turned in a very thorough
> report this month.
>
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](openaz) Emmanuel Lecharny
> >   [ ](openaz) Colm O Heigeartaigh
> >   [ ](openaz) Hadrian Zbarcea
> >
> > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >
> >   P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz):
> >
> >     The OpenAz report is pretty sparse and has not been signed off
> >     by any of the podling's mentors. dev@ mailing list activity is
> >     extremely low (15 messages in the past 3 months). I would recommend
> >     the top priority be for the project to expand the community.
>
> The deadline for Mentor sign-off is Tuesday end of day.  If a report has no
> sign-off it will be removed from the report.
>
> I really hope that we can get OpenAZ and Myriad signed off.
>
> Marvin Humphrey
>
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>
>
> --
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>



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Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Posted by Zachary Jaffee <zi...@case.edu>.
I can take this, just let me know what I need to do.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Edward J. Yoon <ed...@apache.org>
wrote:

> Hi forks,
>
> Periodically (3 months), we have to report our status to the IPMC.
> Since we missed first report, we need to report next month. Who can
> take this? Any volunteer is welcome.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>
> Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:21 AM
> Subject: Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review
> To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
>
>
> > * Did not report, expected next month
> >
> >   - BatchEE
> >   - Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer (2 months late)
> >   - Cotton (2 months late)
> >   - DataFu
> >   - HORN
> >   - ODF Toolkit
> >   - Ripple (4 months late)
>
> A disappointingly large number of podlings did not report this month.  It
> is
> probably worth looking into what is up with CMDA, Cotton and Ripple.
>
> > --------------------
> > Myriad
>
> >   1. Determine the best way to take github pull requests or ReviewBoard
> patch
> >      (chains) and apply/commit them to the Myriad git repo. We're
> looking at
> >      Mesos' apply-review.sh script, but I wonder if there's something
> else
> >      out there we should be considering. Is there a way to make github
> >      'Merge' integration just work, even through the mirror?
>
> I suggest that Myriad developers ask on infrastructure-dev@apache about
> this.
>
> >   3. Prepare our first release under Apache. We'll update the code's
> >      copyright/namespace and packaging, but we still need to learn the
> other
> >      elements of the Apache release process. Is this "DRAFT" still the
> best
> >      resource?
> https://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html
>
> The releasemanagement.html page is bloated and outdated, but there is no
> central resource which has supplanted it.
>
> Efforts are underway to address the state of Apache's policy documentation.
>
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
> >   [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
> >   [ ](myriad) Ted Dunning
> >   [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende
>
> Can we get please get sign-off for Myriad?  They turned in a very thorough
> report this month.
>
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> >   [ ](openaz) Emmanuel Lecharny
> >   [ ](openaz) Colm O Heigeartaigh
> >   [ ](openaz) Hadrian Zbarcea
> >
> > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >
> >   P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz):
> >
> >     The OpenAz report is pretty sparse and has not been signed off
> >     by any of the podling's mentors. dev@ mailing list activity is
> >     extremely low (15 messages in the past 3 months). I would recommend
> >     the top priority be for the project to expand the community.
>
> The deadline for Mentor sign-off is Tuesday end of day.  If a report has no
> sign-off it will be removed from the report.
>
> I really hope that we can get OpenAZ and Myriad signed off.
>
> Marvin Humphrey
>
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>
>
> --
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>



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Case Western Reserve University Class of 2017
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Secretary | Recruitment Chair | Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity
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Fwd: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Posted by "Edward J. Yoon" <ed...@apache.org>.
Hi forks,

Periodically (3 months), we have to report our status to the IPMC.
Since we missed first report, we need to report next month. Who can
take this? Any volunteer is welcome.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review
To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>


> * Did not report, expected next month
>
>   - BatchEE
>   - Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer (2 months late)
>   - Cotton (2 months late)
>   - DataFu
>   - HORN
>   - ODF Toolkit
>   - Ripple (4 months late)

A disappointingly large number of podlings did not report this month.  It is
probably worth looking into what is up with CMDA, Cotton and Ripple.

> --------------------
> Myriad

>   1. Determine the best way to take github pull requests or ReviewBoard patch
>      (chains) and apply/commit them to the Myriad git repo. We're looking at
>      Mesos' apply-review.sh script, but I wonder if there's something else
>      out there we should be considering. Is there a way to make github
>      'Merge' integration just work, even through the mirror?

I suggest that Myriad developers ask on infrastructure-dev@apache about this.

>   3. Prepare our first release under Apache. We'll update the code's
>      copyright/namespace and packaging, but we still need to learn the other
>      elements of the Apache release process. Is this "DRAFT" still the best
>      resource? https://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html

The releasemanagement.html page is bloated and outdated, but there is no
central resource which has supplanted it.

Efforts are underway to address the state of Apache's policy documentation.

> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
>   [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
>   [ ](myriad) Ted Dunning
>   [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende

Can we get please get sign-off for Myriad?  They turned in a very thorough
report this month.

> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](openaz) Emmanuel Lecharny
>   [ ](openaz) Colm O Heigeartaigh
>   [ ](openaz) Hadrian Zbarcea
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>   P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz):
>
>     The OpenAz report is pretty sparse and has not been signed off
>     by any of the podling's mentors. dev@ mailing list activity is
>     extremely low (15 messages in the past 3 months). I would recommend
>     the top priority be for the project to expand the community.

The deadline for Mentor sign-off is Tuesday end of day.  If a report has no
sign-off it will be removed from the report.

I really hope that we can get OpenAZ and Myriad signed off.

Marvin Humphrey

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Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Posted by Ted Dunning <te...@gmail.com>.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>
wrote:

> >   [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
> >   [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
> >   [ ](myriad) Ted Dunning
> >   [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende
>
> Can we get please get sign-off for Myriad?  They turned in a very thorough
> report this month.


Signed.  And I will heckle other mentors off-list.

Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Posted by Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>.
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
>   - BatchEE
>   - Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer (2 months late)
>   - Cotton (2 months late)
>   - DataFu
>   - HORN
>   - ODF Toolkit
>   - Ripple (4 months late)

A disappointingly large number of podlings did not report this month.  It is
probably worth looking into what is up with CMDA, Cotton and Ripple.

> --------------------
> Myriad

>   1. Determine the best way to take github pull requests or ReviewBoard patch
>      (chains) and apply/commit them to the Myriad git repo. We're looking at
>      Mesos' apply-review.sh script, but I wonder if there's something else
>      out there we should be considering. Is there a way to make github
>      'Merge' integration just work, even through the mirror?

I suggest that Myriad developers ask on infrastructure-dev@apache about this.

>   3. Prepare our first release under Apache. We'll update the code's
>      copyright/namespace and packaging, but we still need to learn the other
>      elements of the Apache release process. Is this "DRAFT" still the best
>      resource? https://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html

The releasemanagement.html page is bloated and outdated, but there is no
central resource which has supplanted it.

Efforts are underway to address the state of Apache's policy documentation.

> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
>   [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
>   [ ](myriad) Ted Dunning
>   [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende

Can we get please get sign-off for Myriad?  They turned in a very thorough
report this month.

> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](openaz) Emmanuel Lecharny
>   [ ](openaz) Colm O Heigeartaigh
>   [ ](openaz) Hadrian Zbarcea
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>   P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz):
>
>     The OpenAz report is pretty sparse and has not been signed off
>     by any of the podling's mentors. dev@ mailing list activity is
>     extremely low (15 messages in the past 3 months). I would recommend
>     the top priority be for the project to expand the community.

The deadline for Mentor sign-off is Tuesday end of day.  If a report has no
sign-off it will be removed from the report.

I really hope that we can get OpenAZ and Myriad signed off.

Marvin Humphrey

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Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Posted by Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea <hz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please add Brooklyn to the Graduations section. It's already added to the
> Board agenda.

Done -- thanks!

Marvin Humphrey

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Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Posted by Hadrian Zbarcea <hz...@gmail.com>.
Please add Brooklyn to the Graduations section. It's already added to 
the Board agenda.

Thanks,
Hadrian

On 10/12/2015 03:11 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> Incubator PMC report for October 2015
>
> 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 44 podlings currently undergoing incubation.
>
> * Community
>
>    New IPMC members:
>
>    - Josh Elser
>    - Sterling Hughes
>
> * New Podlings
>
>    - MADlib
>    - Rya
>    - Unomi
>
> * Graduations
>
>    The board has motions for the following:
>
      - Brooklyn
>    - Calcite
>
> * Releases
>
>    The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
>
>    - 2015-09-06 Apache Kylin 1.0-incubating
>    - 2015-09-14 Apache Brooklyn 0.8.0-incubating
>    - 2015-09-14 Apache HTrace-4.0.0-incubating
>    - 2015-09-15 Apache TinkerPop 3.0.1-incubating
>    - 2015-09-16 Apache Groovy 2.4.5-incubating
>    - 2015-09-21 Apache Sentry-1.6.0-incubating
>    - 2015-09-22 Apache AsterixDB Hyracks 0.2.16-incubating
>
> * IP Clearance
>
>    - Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp donated POI Visio, an extension module for
>      Apache POI. It adds support for the Microsoft Visio .vsdx xml-based file
>      format. (Current Apache POI Visio support only handled the older binary
>      .vsd format). Post-import, the component will be known as XDGF.
>
> * Infrastructure
>
>    - It seems that an incorrect date in the Board meeting calendar caused the
>      report reminders to fire a week early, requiring manual cleanup after the
>      correct date was established.  There was discussion of migrating the
>      reminders and other Incubator bookkeeping to Whimsy.
>
> * Miscellaneous
>
>    - At the height of Corinthia's crisis, several committers resigned.  The
>      mailing lists have since gone silent.  Some IPMC members followed up but
>      those efforts do not appear to have been successful.
>    - A vote to retire the Droids podling is pending.
>    - Various proposals to change the Incubator have been discussed on
>      general@incubator.  The one generating the most responses, mostly in
>      opposition, is a proposal which would lessen the role of Mentors with
>      business affiliations to podlings during Incubator entry and exit votes.
>      None of the other proposals have gotten any traction.
>    - A proposal regarding the Incubator formulated during ApacheCon EU was
>      discussed on board@apache.
>
> * Credits
>
>    - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey
>
> -------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
>
> * Still getting started at the Incubator
>
>    - HAWQ
>    - MADlib
>
> * Not yet ready to graduate
>
>    No release:
>
>    - Apex
>    - FreeMarker
>    - Geode
>    - Myriad
>    - OpenAZ
>
> * Ready to graduate
>
>    - Groovy
>
>    The Board has motions for the following:
>
>    - Calcite
>
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
>    - BatchEE
>    - Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer (2 months late)
>    - Cotton (2 months late)
>    - DataFu
>    - HORN
>    - ODF Toolkit
>    - Ripple (4 months late)
>
> * Report reviewed but not signed off by Mentors, expected next month
>
>    - Wave
>
> * Likely to retire
>
>    - Droids
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>                         Table of Contents
> Apex
> FreeMarker
> Geode
> Groovy
> HAWQ
> MADlib
> Myriad
> ODF Toolkit
> OpenAz
> Wave
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------
> Apex
>
> Apex is an enterprise grade native YARN big data-in-motion platform that
> unifies stream processing as well as batch processing.
>
> Apex has been incubating since 2015-08-17.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>    1. Release Apex-Core, and Apex-Malhar at least twice.
>    2. Grow contributors beyond the initial set.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>    None. Thanks for continual support.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>    The community is very engaged with the development of the project. There
>    have been 485 messages on dev@.
>
>    The community voted and selected the APEX logo which is put on the brand
>    new project website at http://apex.incubator.apache.org/
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>    Various metrics are as follows:
>    +---------------------------------------------------+
>    |   Metric                         | Core  | Malhar |
>    +---------------------------------------------------+
>    | Non Merge Commits                |  88   |   33   |
>    | Contributors                     |  17   |    9   |
>    | Jira Issues                      |  94   |   30   |
>    | Resolved Issues                  |  30   |    4   |
>    +---------------------------------------------------+
>
>    The project is still using the Atlassian instance of JIRA. The migration to
>    Apache JIRA is underway.
>
>    The first release of the project under ASF banner (3.2.0) is targeted to be
>    branched off at the end of September.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>    No release under ASF-Incubation code base as yet. Apex-Core, Apex-Malhar
>    were last launched on July end in pre Apache days.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>    Committers and Mentors came about via incubation proposal.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>    [X](apex) Chris Nauroth
>    [ ](apex) Alan Gates
>    [X](apex) Hitesh Shah
>    [X](apex) Justin Mclean
>    [X](apex) P. Taylor Goetz
>    [ ](apex) Ted Dunning
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
>
> --------------------
> FreeMarker
>
> FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text output
> based on templates. FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library for
> programmers.
>
> FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>    1. Finding contributors
>    2. Do the first release from ASF
>    3. Further infrastructure migrations (move issues to Jira, web site)
>
> 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?
>
>    There's no significant change since the last month.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>    The IP clearance process is now complete given that:
>
>    1) Software License Agreements have been collected (and have been filed by
>       the ASF Secretary) for the former copyright owners that are no more
>       active and involved in the project.
>    2) Contributor License Agreements have been collected (and have been filed
>       by the ASF Secretary) for the main contributors of the project, that are
>       now committers of the incubating project
>    3) Notices in the project mailing lists and website have been published to
>       announce that the project is now incubating at ASF and to invite
>       potential contributors to participate in the new home
>    4) License headers have been updated to reflect the new copyright
>
>    Git repositories were migrated to ASF, and development now goes at ASF.
>
>    GitHub integration was configured so that we can receive pull requests.
>
>    Mailing lists were officially moved over to ASF
>
>    Jira was created and marked as the official issue tracker, though old
>    issues weren't yet migrated.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>    There was no release from the Incubator yet
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>    We only have the initial committers and initial PMC members yet.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>    [X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
>    [ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
>    [ ](freemarker) David E. Jones
>    [ ](freemarker) Ralph Goers
>    [ ](freemarker) Sergio Fernández
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Geode
>
> Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent
> access to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed butt
> architectures.
>
> Geode has been incubating since 2015-04-27.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>    1. Have our first Apache (incubating) release (currently blocked on us
>       solving JGroups licensing issues) GEODE-77.
>    2. Expanding the community to include contributors and committers outside
>       of Pivotal.
>    3. Execute and manage the project according to governance model required by
>       the "Apache Way"
>
> 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 has elected Nitin Lamba as its first Release Manager.
>    - Project website is being revamped.
>    - In September 73 issues were created and 26 resolved, bringing the total
>      to 382 created and 164 resolved.
>    - There was 1 pull requests to github in the last 30 days, for a total of
>      19 pull requests.
>    - There were 319 messages on the dev list and 32 messages on the user list.
>    - There are now 128 subscribers on the user and 117 on the dev list.
>
>    - Events and Conferences:
>      In September:
>
>      Four talks at "Apache: Big Data Europe"
>      - An introduction to Apache Geode (incubating)
>      - Building a highly scalable open-source Real-time Streaming Analytics
>        system using Spark SQL, Apache Geode (incubating), SpringXD and Apache
>        Zeppelin (incubating)
>      - Implementing a Highly Scalable In-Memory Stock Prediction System with
>        Apache Geode (incubating), R and Spring XD
>      - Apache Geode (incubating):  The First Six Months
>
>    Two talks at SpringOne:
>      - Implementing a highly scalable Stock prediction system with R, GemFire
>        and Spring XD <http://s.apache.org/gOc>
>      - Building Highly-Scalable Spring Applications with In-Memory,
>        Distributed Data Grids <http://s.apache.org/LHS>
>
>    Geode clubhouse: Building Effective Apache Geode Applications with Spring
>    Data GemFire (Sept 8th)
>
>    Geode clubhouse (roundtable):  Sept 30th
>
>    Meetup in Cork Ireland: http://s.apache.org/HV1
>    Meetup in London: http://s.apache.org/sOM
>
>    Upcoming in October:
>
>      Geode Clubhouse: Transactions (Oct 6th)
>      Geode Clubhouse: Roundtable (Oct ?)
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>    - A wiki page has been setup to track the first release:
>      http://s.apache.org/2d6
>    - 11 items have been identified to reach the first release.
>    - Almost all unit tests now pass on feature/GEODE-77 branch (The JGroups
>      feature branch).
>    - Good progress has also been made on stabilizing CI, by fixing various
>      intermittent failures in integration tests.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>     N/A - Just nightly builds.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>    [x](geode) Konstantin Boudnik
>    [ ](geode) Chip Childers
>    [ ](geode) Justin Erenkrantz
>    [ ](geode) Jan Iversen
>    [ ](geode) Chris Mattmann
>    [ ](geode) William A. Rowe Jr.
>    [ ](geode) Henry Saputra
>    [ ](geode) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Groovy
>
> Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the Java platform.
> Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-
> typing and static compilation capabilities, aimed at multiplying developers’
> productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax. It
> integrates smoothly with any Java program, and immediately delivers to your
> application powerful features, including scripting capabilities, Domain-
> Specific Language authoring, runtime and compile-time meta-programming and
> functional programming.
>
> Groovy has been incubating since 2015-03-17.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>    No issues left before graduating.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>    No particular issue, but our mentors suggested we think about graduating.
>    We still have to launch the vote, but the consensus is positive already.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>    I've started collecting the number of subscribers on the users and dev
>    lists starting last July (numbers from early July till end of September).
>    Groovy users have been continuing to subscribe to our mailing-lists on a
>    regular basis.
>
>           Early   end of   end of    end of
>           July    July     August    September
>    Users: 249     259      273       274
>    Dev:   152     156      163       164
>
>    The download numbers, which are also an interesting indicator to see how
>    much a project is used, are still on an upward trend.
>
>    Here are the figures totaling downloads from both Maven Central and Bintray
>    since the Groovy project entered the incubator (full numbers from September
>    not yet available):
>
>    March April May   June   July   August
>    643k  759k  877k  1.15M  1.29M  1.34M
>
>    The download numbers doubled since Groovy entered the incubator.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>    Since the last report 3 months ago, we managed to make two releases.
>
>      1. Groovy 2.4.4 on July 9th, patching an important security issue,
>         but the release wasn't yet compliant with all the good practices
>         in terms of licenses & copyright information
>
>      2. Groovy 2.4.5 on September 17th, we fixed all the problems of the
>         previous release, and we took the opportunity to do a "release party"
>         during the SpringOne2GX conference in Washington, DC, to spread the
>         knowledge of the new release process across the team, as well as with
>         our partners from JFrog.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>    2015-09-17: Groovy 2.4.5
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>    We've welcomed a new committer to the project: Keegan Witt.  Keegan is also
>    known in our community for his work with the Maven integration for Groovy
>    (the GMavenPlus project)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>    [ ](groovy) Andrew Bayer
>    [x](groovy) Konstantin Boudnik
>    [x](groovy) Bertrand Delacretaz
>    [X](groovy) Jim Jagielski
>    [x](groovy) Emmanuel Lecharny
>    [ ](groovy) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>    Emmanuel Lecharny:
>
>      Nothing special. They get it, it's now time for them to graduate, IMHO. As
>      a mentor, it's a pleasure to follow this podling.
>
> --------------------
> HAWQ
>
> HAWQ is an advanced enterprise SQL on Hadoop analytic engine built around a
> robust and high-performance massively-parallel processing (MPP) SQL framework
> evolved from Pivotal Greenplum Database.
>
> HAWQ has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>    1. Produce our first Apache Release
>    2. Finalize infrastructure Migration and ICLAs from committers
>    3. Expand the community, increase dev list activity and adding new
>       committers/pmc members
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>    We have only just started the incubation, everything seems to be starting
>    up, nothing urgent at this time.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>    This is our first report, after having been approved for incubation roughly
>    2 wks ago.
>
>    1. Most of the core contributors have completed their ICLA's and have
>       established apache ids.
>    2. Several presentations and meetups at ApacheCon EU and Strata aimed at
>       growing interest in the project
>    3. Formal announcements from Pivotal and press briefings related to the
>       move of the project into Apache aimed at growing awareness and interest
>       in the project.
>    4. Outreach to parties that have expressed interest previously in our open
>       source initiatives
>    5. Still very much at the early stages of community development, we're just
>       starting to get rolling.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>    This is our first report, after having been approved for incubation roughly
>    2 wks ago.
>
>    1. Initial code drop has been provided to Apache
>    2. Core infrastructure has been setup including: mailing lists, git, jira,
>       wiki, website
>    3. 62 messages on our developer list, 3 messages on our user list
>    4. 16 jiras filed, 10 open, 1 reopened, 4 resolved, 1 closed - 1 issue
>       unassigned
>    5. 7 commits in total, including initial commit
>    6. Most discussed items on the mailing list:
>        - addressing issues with getting jira configured to allow issues to be
>          assigned to users
>        - discussion of usage of alternate communication channels, e.g. chat.
>        - discussion of RTC vs CTR models for dev process
>
> Date of last release:
>
>    We have not had a release yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>    Most of the initial list of committers have been onboarded, but there are
>    still a few more outstanding.  We have not yet added any new members on top
>    of the initial committer list.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>    [X](hawq) Alan Gates
>    [x](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik
>    [x](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
>    [ ](hawq) Owen O'Malley
>    [ ](hawq) Thejas Nair
>    [ ](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
>
> --------------------
> MADlib
>
> Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists.
>
> MADlib has been incubating since 2015-09-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>    1. Produce a first Apache release.
>    2. Finalize infrastructure migration and ICLAs from committers.
>    3. Expand the community, increase dev list activity and add new
>       committers/pmc members.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>    Just started incubation, nothing specific to report at this time.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>    We are approximately 2 weeks into the incubation process.
>
>      1. So still at early stage.
>      2. Most of the core contributors have completed their ICLA's and have
>         established apache ids.
>      3. Several presentations and meet-ups at ApacheCon EU and Strata NYC to
>         discuss MADlib move to ASF governance.
>      4. Formal announcements from Pivotal, press briefings and blogs related
>         to the move of the project into Apache aimed at growing awareness and
>         interest in the project.  Specialty press have picked up the story and
>         reported widely.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>    Early activity:
>
>    1. Initial code drop provided to Apache
>    2. Core infrastructure is in the process of being migrated from existing
>       infrastructure: mailing lists, git, jira, wiki, website
>
> Date of last release:
>
>    No release yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>    Most of initial list of committers have been on-boarded, some still
>    outstanding.  No new members added on top of the initial committer list.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>    [x](madlib) Konstantin Boudnik
>    [ ](madlib) Ted Dunning
>    [ ](madlib) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Myriad
>
> Myriad enables co-existence of Apache Hadoop YARN and Apache Mesos together
> on the same cluster and allows dynamic resource allocations across both
> Hadoop and other applications running on the same physical data center
> infrastructure.
>
> Myriad has been incubating since 2015-03-01.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>    1. Determine the best way to take github pull requests or ReviewBoard patch
>       (chains) and apply/commit them to the Myriad git repo. We're looking at
>       Mesos' apply-review.sh script, but I wonder if there's something else
>       out there we should be considering. Is there a way to make github
>       'Merge' integration just work, even through the mirror?
>    2. Vote in and onboard new committers. Two are in progress, one from a new
>       contributing organization.
>    3. Prepare our first release under Apache. We'll update the code's
>       copyright/namespace and packaging, but we still need to learn the other
>       elements of the Apache release process. Is this "DRAFT" still the best
>       resource? https://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>    None beyond the above-mentioned.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>    - Mailing list traffic has significantly increased from 60-80
>      messages/month in April-July to 171 in August and 227 in September. Some
>      of that could be JIRA integration, but we still have 17 unique human
>      authors now, up from 13 in July.
>    - Increasing participation in our biweekly community syncs. We now get
>      around 7-11 participants, up from the 5-8 we were getting in May-July.
>      See minutes at: http://s.apache.org/8kF
>
>    - Wiki: Ruth has done a wonderful job populating and organizing the wiki
>      from our scattered docs. Now we have 24 wiki pages describing use cases,
>      architecture, installation/configuration, administration, and the REST
>      API. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MYRIAD/Myriad+Home
>    - Website under development, with awesome Myriad logo.
>      https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYRIAD-144 preview at
>      http://klucar.github.io/myriad-site/
>    - We started a #myriad IRC channel on Freenode, and are in the process of
>      integrating it with ASFBot.
>      https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-10485
>    - Well-attended talk by Mohit and Santosh at MesosCon.
>      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU2VE08fOD4
>    - Swapnil, Sarjeet, and Mitra won 1st place in freestyle category at docker
>      global hack day for docker based multi-tenant YARN/Myriad clusters.
>      https://blog.docker.com/2015/09/docker-global-hack-day-3-winners/
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>    - Finally got the SGA from Paypal and migrated our source to Apache git!
>      Still need to figure how to integrate it into our commit workflow.
>    - Resolved 14 JIRAs: http://s.apache.org/3dc
>    - Merged the following PRs (from the old github repo)
>        * Multi-project build changes (PR#108)
>        * Improved unit testing (PR#112)
>        * Myriad Logo update (PR#113)
>        * Dynamically configurable NM Ports (PR#102)
>        * Fine-grained scaling (PR#91)
>        * Upgrade to Hadoop 2.7 (PR#116)
>        * Complete Myriad HA Implementation (PR#123)
>        * Run MyriadExecutor as NodeManager AuxService (PR#118,123)
>
> Date of last release:
>
>    Santosh will release manage the Myriad 0.1.0 release, our first release
>    under Apache. We created a 0.1.0 version tag in JIRA, and targeted some
>    pre-release issues for Apache copyright/namespace changes. We'll try to
>    merge in some outstanding PRs, but there are no other feature blockers, so
>    we hope to cut our first release candidate this month.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>    - One new committer has been privately nominated and voted in, awaiting
>      IPMC Board approval. Then he/she still has to accept the invitation.
>    - Another is in the midst of voting this week.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>    [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
>    [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
>    [ ](myriad) Ted Dunning
>    [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
>
> --------------------
> ODF Toolkit
>
> Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
> OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>    Rob Weir (robweir):
>
>      No report submitted, though I did remind the PPMC.   I sense some "report
>      fatigue" since they missed the July report deadline, submitted then in
>      time for August, but lacked a mentor sign off, and then submitted again in
>      September and did get sign off.
>
>    Drew Farris (drew):
>
>      Kudos to robweir activity as a mentor, however this project could use
>      another mentor. Generally little traffic or activity.
>
> --------------------
> OpenAz
>
> Tools and libraries for developing Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC)
> Systems in a variety of languages.
>
> OpenAz has been incubating since 2015-01-20.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>    1. Confirm 1.0.0 as the first release
>    2. Get website up to attract more attention
>    3. Vote to confirm if any JIRA's are needed to be closed for 1st 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?
>
>    n/a
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>    Preparing for v1.0.0 release
>
> Date of last release:
>
>    XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>    no new since initial
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>    [ ](openaz) Emmanuel Lecharny
>    [ ](openaz) Colm O Heigeartaigh
>    [ ](openaz) Hadrian Zbarcea
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>    P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz):
>
>      The OpenAz report is pretty sparse and has not been signed off
>      by any of the podling's mentors. dev@ mailing list activity is
>      extremely low (15 messages in the past 3 months). I would recommend
>      the top priority be for the project to expand the community.
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Wave
>
> A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication.
> It can be used like email, chat, or a document.
>
> Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>    Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
>
>      Wave's report was deliberately not signed off by its Mentors.  Mentor
>      Upayavira engaged the Wave community about the possibility of retiring.
>      The community preferred to continue; a timeline for making an incubating
>      release was discussed.
>
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Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Posted by "John D. Ament" <jo...@apache.org>.
I do see one error, possibly not a big deal.  Romain added the BatchEE
podling's report on 10/13, but never updated the other sections to reflect
that the podling did report.  Perhaps this was intentional.

FWIW, Romain is not listed as a mentor at
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/batchee.html but could easily become
one.  He's already an IPMC member.  I'm not sure if we count the report or
not in this case.  In addition, the report is a bit sparse.

On a separate topic, I consider BatchEE to be a mature enough podling.
Mature in the sense that continued incubation isn't going to provide the
podling further value, they understand the ASF.  Their issues seem more
technical than procedural.  It's hard to attract contributors to a JSR
implementation, most people I know cannot distinguish between the
application server and the components that make it up.

John



On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 1:46 AM Ted Dunning <te...@gmail.com> wrote:

> filed.
>
> Will sned to mailing list now.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Ted Dunning <te...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > I will file shortly.
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:15 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <
> > bdelacretaz@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Marvin Humphrey <
> marvin@rectangular.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > ...Ted has certainly earned his money there this month....
> >>
> >> Definitely - there was nothing hidden behind my comment, it's just
> >> that it's good to make sure the report is filed in time for the board
> >> meeting (and I'm your shepherd this month, for the board report).
> >>
> >> -Bertrand
> >>
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Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Posted by Ted Dunning <te...@gmail.com>.
filed.

Will sned to mailing list now.



On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Ted Dunning <te...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I will file shortly.
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:15 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <
> bdelacretaz@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>
>> wrote:
>> > ...Ted has certainly earned his money there this month....
>>
>> Definitely - there was nothing hidden behind my comment, it's just
>> that it's good to make sure the report is filed in time for the board
>> meeting (and I'm your shepherd this month, for the board report).
>>
>> -Bertrand
>>
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Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Posted by Ted Dunning <te...@gmail.com>.
I will file shortly.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:15 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacretaz@apache.org
> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>
> wrote:
> > ...Ted has certainly earned his money there this month....
>
> Definitely - there was nothing hidden behind my comment, it's just
> that it's good to make sure the report is filed in time for the board
> meeting (and I'm your shepherd this month, for the board report).
>
> -Bertrand
>
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Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Posted by Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com> wrote:
> ...Ted has certainly earned his money there this month....

Definitely - there was nothing hidden behind my comment, it's just
that it's good to make sure the report is filed in time for the board
meeting (and I'm your shepherd this month, for the board report).

-Bertrand

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Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Posted by Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:53 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz
<bd...@apache.org> wrote:

> I just noticed that this report hasn't been posted to the board's
> agenda - the board meeting is tomorrow.

If Ted doesn't get to it, I plan to post it to the Board's agenda just before
the 24 hour deadline.

This month has been extremely busy for the IPMC Chair. During my term as
Chair, the most time consuming, draining part of the job was dealing with the
Board.  Ted has certainly earned his money there this month.  He has shown
exactly the qualities that earned my support for him as Chair in the first
place, and I'm delighted with the result.

Nevertheless, in the future, I think we should be filing earlier, which means
that we should negotiate a smaller window for whoever occupies the Chair to
exercise their editorial prerogative. It's not cool to make a habit of
dropping late reports on the Board just before the meeting, and our report is
particularly large.

The report has been in a coherent form since Monday of last week, and as of
last Wednesday had been reviewed by the Incubator community for 2 days. There
will be months where the Report Manager does not manage to hold tightly to the
schedule, but in general, I think our expectation should be:

1.  The report should ordinarily be filed on time, on the Wednesday one week
    before the Board meeting.
2.  If the Chair has not filed the report by Saturday, someone else should
    file it.

Marvin Humphrey

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Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Posted by Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>.
Hi,

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com> wrote:
> Incubator PMC report for October 2015..

I just noticed that this report hasn't been posted to the board's
agenda - the board meeting is tomorrow.

-Bertrand

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Re: Draft Report October 2015 - please review

Posted by Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net>.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com> wrote:
>
>   - It seems that an incorrect date in the Board meeting calendar caused the
>     report reminders to fire a week early, requiring manual cleanup after the
>     correct date was established.  There was discussion of migrating the
>     reminders and other Incubator bookkeeping to Whimsy.

It actually is more than that[1]: Marvin (the bot) is no more.

- Sam Ruby

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