July Podling Report

[John McCane-Whitney <jo...@qredo.com>]

Hi Milagro!

We need to submit our July podling report by end of day this Wednesday 1st July

This is what I'm proposing:

-Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Continue to build relevant and useful crypto libraries and applications for decentralized networks in order to grow the ecosystem of users and contributors to the project.
2. Continue to improve compliance with the Apache Way. In particular to update the Milagro website and other project sites (e.g. Whimsy) in accordance with Apache policies.
3. Further releases to increase the scope of the Milagro project, extend the capability of existing releases and to demonstrate improved compliance with the Apache Way.

-Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

No significant issues, however, due to recent time constraints, several administrative aspects of the project still have not been dealt with (updating Whimsy, countersigning code signing keys, checking download links, confirming brand/trademark compliance etc.).  In addition to this, the private mailing list subscriber list needs clearing of any non-PPMC members and Kirk Baird still needs to be officially added to the list of committers.

-How has the community developed since the last report?

No change.

-How has the project developed since the last report?

Development has progressed on the Multi Party Computation (MPC library) working towards an official release.  The library has been successfully reviewed by the NCC Group and world renowned cryptographer Dr. Michael Scott. Their recommendations have been implemented and their reports will be added to the library prior to release.  There are plans to improve upon the library post release - in particular to extend the capability from a 2 of 2 threshold to an arbitrary m or n threshold.
Development has also progressed on the version of the core cryptographic library written in Rust.  More work is required for this to be in a release ready state.

-How would you assess the podling's maturity?

"Community building"

-Date of last release:

10th February 2010

-When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

February 2020

-Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

No issues.

-Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

No known issues, but further investigation is still required by the Milagro community.



Please let me know if you have any comments by midday Wednesday at the very latest.

Regards,

John
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Re: July Podling Report

[Justin Mclean <jm...@apache.org>]

Hi,

The incubator report will be submitted to the board on Wednesday 8th and I don't see any sign off from your mentors on the report, you might need to remind them to sign off your report.

Thanks,
Justin

RE: July Podling Report

[John McCane-Whitney <jo...@qredo.com>]

Thanks for the suggestion Giorgio, just uncertain about travelling/meeting due to the pandemic.

I did consider whether a virtual gathering might be best if there was enough interest.

It could possibly be used as an opportunity to review some admin issues with he mentors and discuss the future of the project.

Regards,

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giorgio Zoppi <gi...@gmail.com>
> Sent: 29 June 2020 17:33
> To: dev@milagro.incubator.apache.org
> Cc: dev@milagro.apache.org
> Subject: Re: July Podling Report
>
> El lun., 29 jun. 2020 a las 13:06, John McCane-Whitney (<jo...@qredo.com>)
> escribió:
>
> > Hi Milagro!
> >
> > We need to submit our July podling report by end of day this Wednesday
> > 1st July
> >
> > This is what I'm proposing:
> >
> > -Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
> >
> > 1. Continue to build relevant and useful crypto libraries and
> > applications for decentralized networks in order to grow the ecosystem
> > of users and contributors to the project.
> > 2. Continue to improve compliance with the Apache Way. In particular
> > to update the Milagro website and other project sites (e.g. Whimsy) in
> > accordance with Apache policies.
> > 3. Further releases to increase the scope of the Milagro project,
> > extend the capability of existing releases and to demonstrate improved
> > compliance with the Apache Way.
> >
> > 1. A meetup in London presenting your/our work might be helpful.
> Especially the new MPC library, that it is quite interesting.
> BR,
> Giorgio,
John McCane-Whitney
Director of Product
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Re: July Podling Report

[Giorgio Zoppi <gi...@gmail.com>]

El lun., 29 jun. 2020 a las 13:06, John McCane-Whitney (<jo...@qredo.com>)
escribió:

> Hi Milagro!
>
> We need to submit our July podling report by end of day this Wednesday 1st
> July
>
> This is what I'm proposing:
>
> -Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
>
> 1. Continue to build relevant and useful crypto libraries and applications
> for decentralized networks in order to grow the ecosystem of users and
> contributors to the project.
> 2. Continue to improve compliance with the Apache Way. In particular to
> update the Milagro website and other project sites (e.g. Whimsy) in
> accordance with Apache policies.
> 3. Further releases to increase the scope of the Milagro project, extend
> the capability of existing releases and to demonstrate improved compliance
> with the Apache Way.
>
> 1. A meetup in London presenting your/our work might be helpful.
Especially the new MPC library, that it is quite interesting.
BR,
Giorgio,