[Incubator Wiki] Update of "February2018" by Justin Mclean

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add and sign off PLC4X report

  
  Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
  
-   1.
-   2.
-   3.
+   1. 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.
+   2. Making our first release.
  
  Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
  aware of?
  
+ In order to get access to some of the specifications the ASF will eventually 
+ have to become Members of some external foundations: OPC, EtherCat, Modbus … 
+ these memberships usually have a free level, that allows us to use the 
+ specifications but doesn’t result in any regular costs. We will have to discuss 
+ these details with the ASF and the other foundations.
  
+ 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?
  
- 
- 
- How has the project developed since the last report?
+ How has the community developed since the last report?
  
+ We have finished the process of getting setup at Apache.
  
- How would you assess the podling's maturity?
- Please feel free to add your own commentary.
+ The Podling Name Search has been resolved successfully 
+ (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-136)
  
+ In of January a list of about 40 different companies, which have indicated 
+ interest in PLC4X in personal discussions have been directly contacted 
+ regarding our project, some have subscribed to our mailing lists.
+ A small number of new people have been popping up on our mailing lists.
+ 
+ On 23rd of January Christofer Dutz had a talk PLC4X at the Nortec 2018 
+ conference in Hamburg (Production industry conference) 
+ (https://www.nortec-hamburg.de/).
+ 
+ We have continuing our onboarding of new Apache committers (extended emails 
+ with a lot of explanations on why we are doing things the way we are)
+ Testing coverage has been improved over the initial code base.
+ 
+ With Beckhoff, we managed to get a first major PLC vendor to support us with 
+ software as well as technical support. We hope on this having a signal-effect 
+ on other vendors.
+ 
+ How has the project developed since the last report?
+ 
+ Test coverage and SonarQube reported issues have been addressed hereby greatly 
+ increasing the quality of the initial POC code.
+ 
+ A lot of code and architecture reviews have been done which lead to great 
+ improvements in the API itself.
+ 
+ We have started work on a RawSocket Netty transport which is a requirement to 
+ implement protocols that are IP based, but are not TCP or UDP.
+ 
+ We have started work on implementing a driver for the Beckhoff ADS protocol.
+ (Beckhoff has been very helpful with providing Specs and Support for setting
+ up a test environment.)
+ 
+ How would you assess the podling's maturity?
+ Please feel free to add your own commentary.
+ 
-   [ ] Initial setup
+   [X] Initial setup
-   [ ] Working towards first release
+   [X] Working towards first release
-   [ ] Community building
+   [X] Community building
    [ ] Nearing graduation
    [ ] Other:
  
  Date of last release:
  
-   XXXX-XX-XX
+   None yet
  
  When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  
- 
+   None elected beyond initial committers.
  
  Signed-off-by:
  
    [ ](plc4x) Greg Trasuk
       Comments:
-   [ ](plc4x) Justin Mclean
+   [X](plc4x) Justin Mclean
       Comments:
    [ ](plc4x) Luciano Resende
       Comments:

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