Podling Report Reminder - June 2019

[jm...@apache.org]

Dear podling,

This email was sent by an automated system on behalf of the Apache
Incubator PMC. It is an initial reminder to give you plenty of time to
prepare your quarterly board report.

The board meeting is scheduled for Wed, 19 June 2019, 10:30 am PDT.
The report for your podling will form a part of the Incubator PMC
report. The Incubator PMC requires your report to be submitted 2 weeks
before the board meeting, to allow sufficient time for review and
submission (Wed, June 05).

Please submit your report with sufficient time to allow the Incubator
PMC, and subsequently board members to review and digest. Again, the
very latest you should submit your report is 2 weeks prior to the board
meeting.

Candidate names should not be made public before people are actually
elected, so please do not include the names of potential committers or
PPMC members in your report.

Thanks,

The Apache Incubator PMC

Submitting your Report

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Your report should contain the following:

*   Your project name
*   A brief description of your project, which assumes no knowledge of
    the project or necessarily of its field
*   A list of the three most important issues to address in the move
    towards graduation.
*   Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might 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 does the podling rate their own maturity.

This should be appended to the Incubator Wiki page at:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/June2019

Note: This is manually populated. You may need to wait a little before
this page is created from a template.

Note: The format of the report has changed to use markdown.

Mentors
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Mentors should review reports for their project(s) and sign them off on
the Incubator wiki page. Signing off reports shows that you are
following the project - projects that are not signed may raise alarms
for the Incubator PMC.

Incubator PMC

Re: Podling Report Reminder - June 2019

[Stian Soiland-Reyes <st...@apache.org>]

On Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:37:42 -0000, jmclean@apache.org wrote:
> Dear podling,
> 
> This email was sent by an automated system on behalf of the Apache
> Incubator PMC. It is an initial reminder to give you plenty of time to
> prepare your quarterly board report.
> 
> The board meeting is scheduled for Wed, 19 June 2019, 10:30 am PDT.
> The report for your podling will form a part of the Incubator PMC
> report. The Incubator PMC requires your report to be submitted 2 weeks
> before the board meeting, to allow sufficient time for review and
> submission (Wed, June 05).
> 
> Please submit your report with sufficient time to allow the Incubator
> PMC, and subsequently board members to review and digest. Again, the
> very latest you should submit your report is 2 weeks prior to the board
> meeting.

Here's the draft report:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/June2019#taverna

Note that editing in the new wiki is quite.. challenging (3x scroll bars and page-down does not work!)
-- if you want comment here and I'll try to push the changes in before the deadline.


## Taverna

Taverna is a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute
data-driven workflows.

Taverna has been incubating since 2014-10-20.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Re-engage PPMC members
  2. Release IP-fixed repositories
  3. Graduate!


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

Whimsy detected some PPMC members where not signed up to private@taverna list,
as well as false negatives on emiritus mentors and alternative addresses.
Missing members have been requested added.  

(our private list is quiet except for PPMC voting)


### How has the community developed since the last report?

Active in March/April, quiet in May.


### How has the project developed since the last report?

Release candidate of Taverna Mobile was in progress based on GitHub release
mechanism, but this became challenging as its Android source code tend to
include a Gradle binary and don't have good release-helpers like in Maven.

This meant the Android release had to be delayed to be done "manually".


### 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
  - [x] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2018-01-18

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2018-02-26 (PPMC)

### Have your mentors been helpful?
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.

Mentor was not too attentive in April - sorry.





-- 
Stian Soiland-Reyes
The University of Manchester
https://www.esciencelab.org.uk/
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718