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Posted to dev@streams.apache.org by "John D. Ament" <jo...@apache.org> on 2016/06/05 14:28:21 UTC
Re: [2ND DRAFT] Incubator PMC Board Report - June 2016
Some in line commentary. I've also included in the to podlings I've made
comments on.
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 10:11 AM John D. Ament <jo...@apache.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> Please find the current draft of the board report below. Its still
> missing sign off from mentors on several projects.
>
> John
>
> Incubator PMC report for June 2016
>
> 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 56 podlings currently undergoing incubation. We have one
> podling planning to graduate this month and added two podlings to the
> roster. May was a generally quiet month, adding a single IPMC member,
> and completing four releases.
>
> * Community
>
> New IPMC members:
>
> - Joe Witt
>
> People who left the IPMC:
>
>
>
> * New Podlings
>
> - Pony Mail
> - Fluo
>
>
> * Graduations
>
> The board has motions for the following:
>
> - Twill (Pending)
>
> * Releases
>
> The following releases entered distribution during the month of
> May:
>
> - 2016-05-05 Apache Mynewt 0.8.0
> - 2016-05-24 Apache Tephra 0.8.0
> - 2016-05-24 Apache CommonsRDF 0.2.0
> - 2016-05-24 Apache Mnemonic 0.1.2
>
> * IP Clearance
>
>
>
> * Legal / Trademarks
>
> - A comment on a recent Podling Name Search indicated that there was a
> desire
> to have PNS's come later on during incubation. Many IPMC members seem
> to believe
> that they should happen earlier. An email requesting clarification has
> been
> sent.
>
> * Infrastructure
>
> - Multiple former podlings are reporting delays in being converted to
> TLPs.
>
> * Miscellaneous
>
> - The CMDA podling is now 2 months behind. In response to the lack of
> activity,
> a mentor has begun retirement discussions with the podling.
>
> * Credits
>
> - Report Manager: John D. Ament
>
> -------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
>
> * Still getting started at the Incubator
>
> - Fluo
> - Gossip
> - Pony Mail
>
> * Not yet ready to graduate
>
> No release:
>
> - Airflow
> - Gearpump
> - iota
> - log4cxx2
> - Quarks
> - Quickstep
> - Streams
> - Toree
>
> Community growth:
>
> - Atlas
> - CommonsRDF
> - HTrace
> - Mnemonic
> - MRQL
> - Myriad
> - Omid
> - OpenAz
> - Ranger
> - SAMOA
> - Singa
> - Taverna
> - Tephra
> - Trafodion
> - Wave
>
> * Ready to graduate
>
> The Board has motions for the following:
>
> - Twill (Pending)
>
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
> - Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer (2 months)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Table of Contents
> Airflow
> Atlas
> CommonsRDF
> Fluo
> Gearpump
> Gossip
> HTrace
> iota
> log4cxx2
> Mnemonic
> MRQL
> Myriad
> Omid
> OpenAz
> Pony Mail
> Quarks
> Quickstep
> Ranger
> SAMOA
> Singa
> Streams
> Taverna
> Tephra
> Toree
> Trafodion
> Wave
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------
> 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. Releases
> 2. Grow up user and contributor communities
> 3. Improve and extend documentation and samples on the website
>
> 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?
>
> * Since our last podling report 1 month ago, we grew
> our contributors from 137 to 148
> * Since our last podling report 1 month ago, we
> accepted/merged 51 PRs
> * We voted on the following matters according to Apache guidelines:
> * We voted to make all current and future committers part of the PPMC
> * We voted in a new committer and PPMC member : Steven Yvinec-Kruyk
> and
> he accepted
> * We voted in a commit policy of "RTC with a +1 vote from a committer
> other than the author (assuming no vetos)"
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * All resources have been created and all migrations are complete - code
> donation included
> * The website is in progress
>
> Date of last release:
>
> N/A - we are still working out releases as we are new to Apache.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> On May 20, 1 committer/PPMC member(Steven Yvinec-Kruyk) was elected and
> he
> accepted.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](airflow) Chris Nauroth
> [x](airflow) Hitesh Shah
> [x](airflow) Jakob Homan
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Atlas
>
> Apache Atlas is a scalable and extensible set of core foundational
> governance
> services that enables enterprises to effectively and efficiently meet their
> compliance requirements within Hadoop and allows integration with the
> complete
> enterprise data ecosystem
>
> Atlas has been incubating since 2015-05-05.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Podling name search is pending.
> 2. Expand the community and add more committers.
> 3. The upcoming release for Atlas (0.7-incubating) will be nearly 6
> months
> since the last one. We would like to improve on this by making more
> frequent releases, and also encourage the community to discuss in
> release roadmaps etc.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> No specific issues at this time to report.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> 1. The user/dev community show increasing interests. In the last two
> months, the average number of messages has increased to more than 900
> messages per month, from an average of 400 per month in the last
> report.
> 2. Around 7 contributors were added, number of contributors is at 49
> currently. Community is more widespread with more organizations
> participating in the project.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. We are working towards a 0.7-incubating release around the next month.
> This release will include several new features to make Atlas
> enterprise
> ready including: Authentication and authorization support, High
> availability, deeper integrations with other Hadoop components
> including Hive, HDFS, Falcon etc., Entity versioning, support for
> rolling upgrade, support for creating business taxonomies, enhanced
> user interface, better performance etc.
> 2. There are more strategic contributions coming in to make the system
> agnostic to the underlying graph database version, and improve
> horizontal scalability.
> 3. A total of 216 issues were reported between April 1st 2016 and May
> 30th
> 2016. 84 have been resolved in the same time.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-12-31 - 0.6-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 1. Suma Shivaprasad was added as a PPMC member on 2016-05-03.
> 2. Hemanth Yamijala was added as a committer on 2016-04-14 and PPMC
> member
> on 2016-04-29.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](atlas) Arun Murthy
> [ ](atlas) Chris Douglas
> [x](atlas) Jakob Homan
> [ ](atlas) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --------------------
> CommonsRDF
>
> Commons RDF is a set of interfaces and classes for RDF 1.1 concepts and
> behaviours. The commons-rdf-api module defines interfaces and testing
> harness. The commons-rdf-simple module provides a basic reference
> implementation to exercise the test harness and clarify API contracts.
>
> CommonsRDF has been incubating since 2015-03-06.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Find concrete target goals that could make the project viable as a
> Commons component.
> 2. Work with key target communities (Apache Jena and Eclipse RDF4J) to
> ensure Commons RDF meets potential user requirements and expectations
> towards next versions of the Commons API.
> 3. Re-engage and grow the Commons RDF community base.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> More key people (Andy Seaborne this time) has left the podling due
> lack of time. Mentor Rob Vesse has also resigned for the
> same reason.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Community have been compacted with the lost of some key people. We still
> aim to attract a more broader RDF community, both in and out of ASF.
>
> Mailing list stats:
>
> dev@commonsrdf traffic
> Mar 2016: 45
> Apr 2016: 75
> May 2016: 18
>
>
> Jira stats for last 90 days:
> Created: 7
> Resolved: 6
>
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Project's development has resumed the work in the last weeks, being able
> to cast a 0.2.0-incubating release https://s.apache.org/rd0E
>
> Achieving such milestone has reactivated the discussion about the future
> of the project. All options have been put on the table, even retiring
> the podling; but currently the most likely option looks to be graduating
> as a Apache Commons component.
>
> Rather than the original plan of aiming for each RDF frameworks to adapt
> Commons RDF, the project is now experimenting with its own integration
> bindings in the style of Commons VFS. Discussions will continue in the
> next weeks.
>
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-05-24 apache-commonsrdf-0.2.0-incubating
>
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](commonsrdf) John D Ament
> [X](commonsrdf) Gary Gregory
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Fluo
>
> Fluo is a distributed system for incrementally processing large data sets
> stored in Accumulo.
>
> Fluo has been incubating since 2016-05-17.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Attract new contributors.
> 2. Establish an Apache website for Fluo that makes it easy for new users
> and contributors to get started.
> 3. Do a release. We should be able to start working on our first release
> as soon as we are fully established on Apache infrastructure
>
> 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 is the same as when it started incubation a few weeks ago.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> This is the first Fluo report. We are trying to get established within
> Apache infrastructure. Mailing lists are setup. Need to import code.
> We
> are working with INFRA to explore using Github for issue tracking. See
> INFRA-11900.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Never
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Never
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](fluo) Billie Rinaldi
> [ ](fluo) Drew Farris
> [X](fluo) Josh Elser
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> John Elser:
> Not much to report here. Podling members are working with INFRA to get
> the existing
> codebase+issue tracker content ported. Still spinning up.
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Make initial Apache branded release and release on a regular schedule.
> 2. Continue to evolve community interest and support.
> 3. Integrate within Beam and akka-streams frameworks.
>
> 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?
>
> - Good discussion on dev mailing list related to features, bugs and logo
> - Increased participation and interest from developers to provide new
> sources and examples
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Package renaming completed.
> - New logos submitted - reasonable number to finally vote on.
> - Continued integration within Apache Beam (Gearpump Runner). PR
> submitted.
> - Continued integration within akka-streams (Gearpump Materializer). PR
> submitted.
> - Release pending this month. Over a dozen JIRA's fixed.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No release yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
> [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
> [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
> [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Gossip is a system to form peer-to-peer networks using the gossip protocol
>
> Gossip has been incubating since 2016-05.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Establish an Apache website for Gossip that makes it easy for new
> users
> and contributors to get started.
> 2. Facilitate discussions and build the protocol specification and
> implementation
> 3. Produce a usable release
>
> 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 is the same as when it started incubation a few weeks ago.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> This is our first report. We have imported the code from github. We are
> online. We have had good discussions on the dev list that have spawned a
> couple of tickets. One is in the review stage now. Taylor has been an
> enormous help.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Never
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Never
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](gossip) P. Taylor Goetz
> [x](gossip) Josh Elser
> [X](gossip) Sean Busbey
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Sean Busbey:
> Community def still bootstrapping, but has done a good job of making
> progress once infra was in place.
>
> --------------------
> HTrace
>
> HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
> written in java.
>
> HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Continue to grow the HTrace community
> 2. Continue to explore projects integrating HTrace
> 3. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * GSoC student, Nisala Mendis, mentored by Colin McCabe working on
> making an Apache Kudu (incubating) SpanReceiver
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * 18 issues resolved since last report
> * YCSB integrated HTrace
>
> Date of last release:
>
> * htrace-4.1.0-incubating on March 5th, 2016
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> * None this period. Last added committer: Abraham Elmahrek - 2.11.15
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](htrace) Jake Farrell
> [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
> [ ](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
> [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
> [ ](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
> [x](htrace) Michael Stack
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> iota
>
> Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.
>
> iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Complete code upload
> 2. Continue discussion on requirements started by Anatole Tresch
> 3. Need to add additional committer (Barbara Gomes)
>
> 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?
>
> Presentation at ApacheCon 2016 - good suggestions from Anatole Tresch in
> moving iota forward. Have additional potential committer
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Code is now being uploaded as well as requirements documents
>
> Date of last release:
>
> None
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
> [X](iota) Justin Mclean
> [ ](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Justin Mclean (jmclean):
> Slow start and still low activity on mailing list.
> Web site now has content and there is some code in git.
> IMO keep on monthly reports until that changes.
>
> --------------------
> log4cxx2
>
> Logging for C++
>
> log4cxx2 has been incubating since 2013-12-09.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Create a release
> 2. Activate some community
> 3.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> There was a discussion in the first quarter of the year to move the
> project to attic unless it is able to release in the next few months. No
> release happened since then.
>
> The project would like to have some kind of maintenance mode within
> Apache, where things like community growth and releases are not that
> important, as long there's a bit of support provided and "anyone" is
> still
> alive. The problem with attic is the read-only state of the repo, which
> makes it impossible to do anything (even if it's rare).
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Not grown and only a few mails on the dev list in the last two months.
> No support requests the last two months.
>
> Bill Rowe stepped in as a mentor.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The build process using autotools on Linux has been fixed and there was a
> discussion about supported build tools, because currently the project
> heavily relies on the unsupported cpptasks framework. While there was no
> actual result, the common focus was on dropping cpptasks and ANT for the
> build of the software and use autoconf and/or cmake instead.
>
> Additionally, one project member was willing to make himself more
> familiar
> with the release process, but there was no progress reported in the last
> month.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2008-04-03 was the last official, pre-incubation 0.10.0
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](log4cxx2) Ralph Goers
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> I have explained that there is no "maintenance mode" for a standalone
> project.
> However, if the project can demonstrate that it can produce a release
> and has
> enough people to maintain the project then it can rejoin the logging
> project
> where it can essentially exist in maintenance mode much like log4php is.
>
> The project moved to the incubator because there were people who said
> they
> wanted to get involved with the project and were willing to get involved.
> To date, one person has been actively involved but not enough to produce
> a
> release. One other person was involve in a discussion on the release
> process.
>
>
If Bill has stepped in as mentor, please make sure to update podlings.xml
and projects/log4cxx2.xml to reflect this. We'll want to ensure he's
signing off on reports.
>
> --------------------
> Mnemonic
>
> Mnemonic is a Java based non-volatile memory library for in-place
> structured
> data processing and computing.
>
> Mnemonic has been incubating since 2016-03-03.
> On 05/24/2016, we released our first official build at
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/mnemonic/0.1.2-incubating/
>
> Various metrics for May are as follows: (5/3-5/31/2016)
> +------------------------------------------+
> | Metric | counts |
> +------------------------------------------+
> | Non Merge Commits | 23 |
> | Contributors | 3 |
> | Jira New Issues | 18 |
> | Resolved Issues | 18 |
> | Pull Requests merged | 0 |
> | Pull Requests proposed | 0 |
> +------------------------------------------+
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Apache releases: Community voted and released
> Mnemonic-0.1.2-incubating
> 2. Expand and build strong community, keep active dev list discussions
> 3. Develop new features: We are working in Native computing layer design
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Yanping and Gary presented Mnemonic project at ApacheCon Big Data
> Conference. Yanping presented at In-Memory Computing Summit. Both talks
> were well received. Several developers approached us to ask additional
> details on how Mnemonic worked for Spark. They are interested to see if
> we
> are able to successfully integrate Mnemonic into other projects.
>
> While we are focusing on develop new features, we will try to contact
> other projects' communities to explore integration opportunities. As the
> official release is done this month, for the next 3 months we expect
> integration activities will be increased.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have been focusing the first Apache release over the past weeks.
>
> We also explored ideas on design native computing layer which will
> further
> enhance durable Java object model on large non-volatile memory.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-05-24
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No election, the project is still in early stage of developing.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt
> [X](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell
> [ ](mnemonic) James Taylor
> [ ](mnemonic) Henry Saputra
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> MRQL
>
> MRQL is a query processing and optimization system for large-scale,
> distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop, Hama, Spark, and
> Flink.
>
> MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Increase the number of active committers
> 2. Increase adoption, expand user community, and increase user list
> activity
>
> 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 were no new developers or new committers since our last report.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We had a new release on March 2nd. It included various bug fixes and
> performance improvements. The most important new feature in the new
> release is support for incremental query processing in MRQL streaming,
> called Incremental MRQL. There was very little activity on JIRA after the
> release (only 4 JIRA issues were reported and fixed).
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-03-02
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2014-04-17
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](mrql) Alan Cabrera
> [x](mrql) Edward J. Yoon
> [ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
Fixing 4 tickets sounds like a good small release to follow up on your last
release. Any plans to cut it?
>
> --------------------
> 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. Develop project roadmap for longer term community/user engagement.
> 2. Release frequently - 0.2.0 is underway, but has taken ~6 months since
> last release.
> 3. Expand community - users/contributors/committers.
>
> 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?
>
> * dev@ mailing list experienced a low in March, but picked up traffic
> leading up to 0.2.0 release. 141 messages since the last report.
> * 5 new members on the dev@ mailing list. 2 new contributors.
> * Myriad was presented at ApacheCon Vancouver and at couple of other
> meetups. Talks submitted at various conferences.
> * Bi-weekly dev syncs happening steadily. Approx. 4-7 members
> participate. Minutes at http://s.apache.org/8kF
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Myriad 0.2.0 out for PPMC voting. DarinJ is driving the release.
> * 12 commits since 4/1.
> * 13 JIRAs fixed/resolved.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-12-09 myriad-0.1.0-incubating released
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-10-05 Darin J
> 2015-10-14 Swapnil Daingade
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
> [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
> [X](myriad) Ted Dunning
> [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Ted Dunning:
> Seems kind of low activity, but with dedicated cadre.
>
>
You may want to have stats that compare to the last report, not just raw
numbers. 141 messages since the last report may sound good, but if there
were 200 messages between the past 2 reports that means there was actually
a decrease. Those are the kind of stats you'll want to report.
> --------------------
> Omid
>
> Omid is a flexible, reliable, high performant and scalable ACID
> transactional framework that allows client applications to execute
> transactions on top of MVCC key/value-based NoSQL datastores (currently
> Apache HBase) providing Snapshot Isolation guarantees on the accessed data.
>
> Omid has been incubating since 2016-03-28.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Code and documentation successfully moved into the Apache
> infrastructure (See
> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-omid.git &
> http://omid.incubator.apache.org/)
> 2. Prepared release guide
> (
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OMID/Omid+Release+process),
> first release (0.8.2) under Apache
> (
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OMID/Omid+Release+0.8.2.0)
> and upload binaries to Maven Central
> 3. Active collaboration started with another Apache community: Apache
> Hive
>
> 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?
>
> * Talk submitted to Hadoop Summit. It was accepted and will be
> presented on 2016-06-29
> * The Hive community is using Omid to integrate with HBase for their
> metastore requirements
> * First contact with the Apache Phoenix community for a possible
> integration of Omid as a transaction manager for the SQL layer Phoenix
> provides
> * Quarter Stats (from: 2016-05-17 -project moved into Apache- to:
> 2016-06-03):
> +---------------------------------------------+
> | Metric | counts |
> +---------------------------------------------+
> | # of msgs in dev list | 303 |
> | Active Contributors (incl mentors)| 6 |
> | Jira New Issues | 27 |
> | Resolved Issues | 31 |
> | Pull Requests merged | 9 |
> | Pull Requests proposed | 12 |
> +---------------------------------------------+
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> N/A, this is the first report since joining the Apache Incubation program
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-06-03
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> At incubation acceptance (2016-03-28)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](omid) Daniel Dai (Champion)
> [ ](omid) Alan Gates
> [ ](omid) Lars Hofhansl
> [ ](omid) Flavio P. Junqueira
> [ ](omid) Thejas Nair
> [ ](omid) James Taylor
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
Its not clear what you mean by "at incubation acceptance" for your last
committers/PMC members.
>
> --------------------
> OpenAz
>
> OpenAz
>
> OpenAz is a project to create tools and libraries to enable the
> development of Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) Systems in a
> variety of languages. In general the work is at least consistent with
> or actually conforming to the OASIS XACML Standard.
>
> OpenAZ has been incubating since 01-2015.
>
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Increasing community involvement: We are focusing on getting
> information published on the website to aid the acquisition and
> orientation of new contributors, as well increasing the number of
> committers, in order to reduce individual member workload, reduce
> reliance on any particular member, and to increase project velocity.
> David Ash was voted in as a committer last month. There are several
> other committers that may be added in the near future.
> 2. Merging the source code from AT&T, JP Morgan and Oracle and creating
> POMs. AT&T and JP Morgan source code has been merged and POMs created,
> it needs uploading into the Apache repository. AT&T and JP Morgan
> ICLAs
> were received, but Oracle is taking more time. The IP clearance is on
> it's way.
> 3. Get our first release done.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> None. The efforts to revive the project seem to be paying off and
> discussions are gaining traction.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Pam Dragosh, David Ash and Ajith Nair are the active committers at this
> point. The project intends to reboot the PPMC which may include removing
> some of the initial commiters who are no longer active. There are,
> however, several contributors who could be potentially added as
> committers
> in the future.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Ongoing collective effort to improve project documentation, marketing
> material for better visbility and adoption.
> 2. A pending contribution towards PEP implementation is being reviewed
> and
> we plan to merge in these changes soon.
> 3. We are looking into design feedback/comments from Nextlabs - a XACML
> service provider. We hope to incorporate many of these in the coming
> weeks.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> N/A
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> One new committer, David Ash, was elected Tuesday, May 3rd.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](openaz) Emmanuel Lecharny
> [x](openaz) Colm O Heigeartaigh
> [ ](openaz) Hadrian Zbarcea
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Emmanuel Lecharny:
> This is encouraging ! I'm very pleased with what happened
> in the past last weeks, with some new committer voted in,
> and some increasing activity going on.
>
>
> --------------------
> 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 the community
> 2. Teach newcomers the Apache Way
> 3. Build towards the first release
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> None at present.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Just getting started with bootstrapping the podling. Mailing lists have
> been set up, temporary web site and code repositories ditto. We are
> working on onboarding the new non-Apache committers in the community and
> having people familiarize themselves with the project.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> N/A
>
> Date of last release:
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No new committers have been elected just yet, as we just got started.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
> [X](ponymail) John D Ament
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --------------------
> Quarks
>
> Apache Quarks is a programming model and micro-kernel style runtime that
> can
> be embedded in gateways and small footprint edge devices enabling local,
> real-time, analytics on the continuous streams of data coming from
> equipment, vehicles, systems, appliances, devices and sensors of all kinds
> (for example, Raspberry Pis or smart phones). Working in conjunction with
> centralized analytic systems, Apache Quarks provides efficient and timely
> analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the center to the edge.
>
> Quarks has been incubating since 2016-02-29.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Create and expand a diverse community of contributors and committers
> around Quarks project
> 2. Create the first Apache release of Quarks
> 3. Complete the product name search and select a suitable name
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> Due to trademark concerns with "Quarks", the Quarks PPMC voted to change
> the project's name. A renaming discussion and public vote was held on the
> dev mailing list. The voting results are being discussed privately by the
> PPMC.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> We have added two new committers and PPMC members, Kathy Saunders and
> Queenie Ma. Kathy has taken the lead on the name search process for
> Quarks, and her positive attitude and helpfulness are an incredible asset
> for the Quarks community. Queenie has contributed content to the website
> and is a frequent participant in community discussions. The Quarks
> community is still small, as Quarks has just recently incubated,
> therefore
> we aim to continue growing our list in the near future.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * According to JIRA, the project has added 27 new issues in May, and 22
> issues have been resolved.
> * On May 12, several Quarks contributors hosted an "Apache Quarks on
> Raspberry Pi" webcast where they showed how to use Quarks to work with
> real sensor data on a Raspberry Pi, and demonstrated a smart sprinkler
> application using Quarks.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Quarks is still new, so we haven't created an Apache release as of yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> In May, we added two new committers and PPMC members, Kathy Saunders and
> Queenie Ma.
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](quarks) Daniel Debrunner
> [ ](quarks) Luciano Resende
> [X](quarks) Katherine Marsden
> [X](quarks) Justin Mclean
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Quickstep
>
> Modern servers pack enough storage and computing power that just a decade
> ago was spread across a modest-sized cluster. Given that we are on a
> technological path to continue to increase the storage and compute
> densities
> of individual server nodes, we must complement methods that focus on
> '''scaling-out''' by also developing methods to '''scale-in''' to fully
> exploit the hardware capabilities that is packed in each server node. The
> initial phase of the Quickstep project focuses on this scaling-in aspect.
> Quickstep uses novel methods for organizing data (including columnar and
> hybrid storage organization), template metaprogramming for vectorized query
> execution, and a query execution paradigm that separate control-flow from
> data-flow. Collectively, these methods achieve high performance on
> contemporary servers with multi-socket, multi-core processors and large
> main
> memory configurations. To keep the project focused, the project’s initial
> target is interactive in-memory data warehousing workloads in single-node
> settings. In the near future we plan to expand from this initial
> single-node
> focus to a distributed setting. Early results indicate that Quickstep is
> over an order-of-magnitude faster than existing platforms including Spark
> 2.0 and PostgreSQL 9.6 Beta1 (that now has parallel query processing).
>
> Quickstep has been incubating since 2016-03-29.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Acquire early adopters
> 2. Acquire early adopters
> 3. Acquire early adopters
> (We know it is that important!)
>
> 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?
>
> We were incubated into Apache recently, and the developers are actively
> learning about the Apache way from our mentors.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have fully transitioned to the ASF for all development work.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No release yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](quickstep) Konstantin Boudnik
> [x](quickstep) Julian Hyde
> [ ](quickstep) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Julian Hyde (jhyde):
>
> Getting development onto ASF git took a while, but I think we're there.
> I'll work with the project to refine the "Acquire early adopters" goal
> into more concrete outreach steps.
>
> --------------------
> Ranger
>
> The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
> comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.
>
> Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Increase the community participants for Apache Ranger
> 2. Re-organize documentation for easier access to end-users, new users
> and
> contributors.
> 3. Integration of Apache Ranger with other Apache Initiatives
>
> 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. Mailing list activity since last report (April-01-2016 to
> May-31-2016):
> @dev 1090
> @user 118
> @commit 174
> 2. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after April-01-2016
> before Mar-31-2016):
> Created: 94
> Resolved: 92
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Released one minor releases :
> 0.5.3 released on 05/31/2016
> 2. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.6.0
> a. Working on fixing bugs in the current 0.6.0 features
>
> Date of last release:
>
> May-31-2016
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 1. Colm O hEigeartaigh has been added as committer on April 19, 2016
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](ranger) Alan Gates
> [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
> [x](ranger) Jakob Homan
> [ ](ranger) Owen O'Malley
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
This looks very promising. See my notes about mailing list stats and
comparing over past quarters.
>
> --------------------
> SAMOA
>
> SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the
> most
> common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification,
> clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop
> new algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines
> (DSPEs). It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on
> several DSPEs such as Apache Storm, Apache Flink, and Apache Samza.
>
> SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Grow the community
> 2. Elect new PMC members
> 3. Release more often
>
> 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?
>
> Mailing list activity (March 2016 - May 2016):
> * @dev: 202 messages
>
> Jira issues backlog (March 2016 - May 2016):
> * Created: 3
> * Resolved: 9
>
> We have a number of new users showing up on the mailing list, which is
> encouraging.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> After the decision taken by the community to drop support for S4, we
> removed the support for S4. We fixed automatic build issues, we
> simplified
> input from HDFS, and we worked on adding support for Apache Gearpump.
> Two
> talks were given to advertise Apache SAMOA, one at ApacheCon NA Big Data
> by Nicolas Kourtellis, and another one at the "J on the beach" conference
> by Albert Bifet.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-07-21
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](samoa) Alan Gates
> [ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan
> [ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar
> [X](samoa) Ted Dunning
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Alan Gates:
> I sent a mail to the community poking on the long wait since
> the last release and whether they think there will be a release
> soon. I also expressed my concern on not having added any
> committers and asked if there were any contributors who looked
> like they might be a good candidate for committership.
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Grow the community. We anticipate stronger growth of the community
> when
> the upcoming, major release (v1.0) is available. SINGA v1.0 will have
> new programming abstractions and be able to run on heterogeneous
> hardware (e.g., using Cuda and OpenCL). It will also have improved
> usability in terms of installation and training new models, etc (see
> details below).
> 2. Clean and improve existing documentations. We plan to replace the
> website template with a better one.
> 3. Focus on Rafiki --- SINGA-based deep learning as a service.
>
> 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 Github repository has scored 602 stars and 205 forks.
>
> There were 107, 73 and 37 emails from dev@ list in March 2016, April
> 2016
> and May 2016 respectively.
>
> There were 9, 35, and 30 commits in March 2016, April 2016 and May 2016.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> In April 2016, we released our third version, i.e. v0.3.0, with the
> following major features:
>
> * Training on GPU cluster
> * Python wrapper improvements
> * New SGD updaters
> * Remove several dependencies for single node training.
> * Heterogeneous training with CPU and GPU.
> * Support cuDNNv4.
>
> In May, we started working on the first major release (v1.0) with the
> following notable features(http://singa.apache.org/develop/schedule.html
> ):
>
> * Cross-platform
> * Support heterogeneous hardware: CUDA, OpenCL
> * Enhance programming abstraction, focusing on Tensor as core
> abstraction.
> * Python binding, cloud integration (Spark, Hadoop, etc.)
> * Runtime optimization.
>
> We are working on a system called Rafiki which uses SINGA to provide deep
> learning as a service and has the following features:
>
> * Sharing of pre-training models
> * Visualizing training progress
> * Configuring model via GUI (web browsers)
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-04-20
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](singa) Daniel Dai
> [X](singa) Alan Gates
> [X](singa) Ted Dunning
> [ ](singa) Thejas Nair
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Alan Gates:
> I sent an email to the community sharing my concerns about the slow
> progress of adding new committers and asking if they had any
> contributors
> that looked like they might be ready for committership.
>
> Ted Dunning:
> The trend in dev mailing list traffic is worrisome as well. The
> opposite
> trend in JIRA volume is curious.
>
>
> --------------------
> Streams
>
> Apache Streams (incubating) unifies a diverse world of digital profiles
> and online activities into common formats and vocabularies, and makes
> these datasets accessible across a variety of databases, devices, and
> platforms for streaming, browsing, search, sharing, and analytics
> use-cases.
>
> Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Community growth and PMC maturity.
> 2. Demonstrate a consistent release schedule.
> 3. Participation of project community within related standards-bodies and
> Apache projects.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> # of contributors submitting and reviewing pull requests and
> participating
> in discussions is still too low. Getting the attention of developers who
> work with social datasets and highlighting the ways that adopting and
> contributing to streams could provide value for their projects remains
> our
> biggest challenge and opportunity in community growth.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Several recently in-active project contributors participated again this
> quarter.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> http://streams.incubator.apache.org has been completely overhauled, and
> following several talks given at ApacheCon NA 2016, a new blog post, and
> a
> renewed focus on marketing we’re beginning to see a payoff in the form of
> a consistent level of unique visitors, according to google analytics.
>
> 25 Issues resolved + 4 Issues resolved by open pull requests
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-04-26
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-02-23: Robert Douglas elected as committer / PMC member
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](streams) Matt Franklin
> [ ](streams) Ate Douma
> [ ](streams) Craig McClanahan
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
Needs mentor sign off, or feedback on how to improve from the mentors.
>
>
> --------------------
> 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 issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Project maturity evaluation
> 2. Releasing main code base (RC under vote)
> 3. Engaging user/devops community
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> ASF guidance on US export ECCN cryptography registration
> https://www.apache.org/dev/crypto.html
> has not yet been updated for the 2010 rule changes, confusion
> around this classification caused Taverna delays.
>
> Lack of active mentors - would appreciate another volunteer.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Two new GSOC students now active.
>
> 2-3 other new potential contributors discussing new work.
>
> A total of 4 ICLAs registered - however these folks need
> further encouragement and guidance to submit regular pull
> requests.
>
> dev@taverna mailing lists stats:
>
> Mar 2016: 312
> Apr 2016: 102
> May 2015: 184
>
> users@taverna:
>
> Mar 2016: 12
> Apr 2016: 6
> May 2015: 1
>
> JIRA issues over last 90 days:
>
> 49 created
> 25 resolved
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Preparations for release of the main workflow engine has had focus,
> including build stability across platforms,
> documentation update and US Export classifications of
> encryption items (which caused some delays).
>
> Taverna Engine/Command Line Release candidate now under vote.
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/Zpt11soyc7qf2so
>
> Traffic on users@ show interest mainly on Taverna Server, so
> this component should probably be the development
> focus after GSOC.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-03-11 taverna-osgi-0.2.1-incubating
> 2016-03-11 taverna-language-0.15.1-incubating
>
> Currently in [VOTE]:
> taverna-engine, taverna-common-activities, taverna-commandline
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/Zpt11soyc7qf2so
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-12-04
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](taverna) Andy Seaborne
> [ ](taverna) Daniel J Debrunner
> [ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas
> [ ](taverna) Suresh Marru
> [ ](taverna) Marlon Pierce
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Andy Seaborne:
> There is still a lack of active mentors. I'm dipping in when I can.
>
>
If this is a general feeling, please reach out on the incubator lists to
try to attract more mentors.
>
> --------------------
> Tephra
>
> Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top of
> Apache HBase and other storage engines.
>
> Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Complete project setup
> 2. Regular releases
> 3. Improve community engagement
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> 1) Apache Tephra now powers ACID transactions in Apache Phoenix (since
> v4.7.0).
> 2) We presented Apache Tephra as a part of the Apache Phoenix talk at
> HBaseCon 2016.
> 3) We also presented a more elaborate version of the above talk at
> PhoenixCon 2016.
> 4) We are making progress towards setting up of Project page.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1) We had our first release (0.8.0-incubating) since incubation.
> 2) We have added support for Apache HBase v1.2 in the latest release
> (0.8.0-incubating).
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-05-31
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None since the May 2016 report
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](tephra) Alan Gates
> [X](tephra) Andrew Purtell
> [ ](tephra) Henry Saputra
> [X](tephra) James Taylor
> [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Toree
>
> Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely
> access Apache Spark. It enables interactive workloads between applications
> and a Spark cluster. As a Jupyter Notebook extension, it provides the user
> with a preconfigured environment for interacting with Spark using Scala,
> Python, R or SQL.
>
> Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Resolve LGPL dependency: This is in progress, and hopefully we will
> have the dependency license changed to a license that is compatible
> with AL2.
> 2. Make a release: nearing completion
> 3. Grow a diverse community: We should put some emphasis on growing the
> community and making it diverse (the rule is at least three
> independent
> contributors)
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> TOREE-262 - Progress on removal of LGPL dependency
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters
> 2. Still working on transitioning users from Spark Kernel project into
> Toree.
> 3. More external contributions being made
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Contrinue working with JeroMQ community to further their transition
> into MPL v2 and away from LGPL. 3 committers to go.
> 2. Substantial effort in our build system to make Apache compliant
> releases.
> 3. Addressing issues opened by community
>
> Date of last release:
>
> None since incubation.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No new additions since incubation
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](toree) Luciano Resende
> [ ](toree) Reynold Xin
> [ ](toree) Hitesh Shah
> [ ](toree) Julien Le Dem
>
Needs mentor sign off.
>
> --------------------
> Trafodion
>
> Trafodion is a webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or
> operational workloads on Hadoop.
>
> Trafodion has been incubating since 2015-05-24.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Develop community and bring in more diverse contributors.
> 2. Finish our second release, including convenience binaries and
> support for Apache HBase 1.x without a commercial distribution.
> 3. Continue the momentum and become more integrated with the
> rest of the Apache community.
>
> 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?
>
> * Participation in public lists has been steady:
> 722 messages in the codereview forum, 1045@commits,
> 689@dev, 1294@issues and 240@user.
> * Upcoming release 2.0 was verified by several new users.
> * Release 2.0 is being actively discussed in the dev forum.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * For our second release in incubation, Trafodion 2.0 release
> candidate 3 has passed an internal vote. It was submitted for
> a vote in the incubator PMC on May 31. Many thanks go to Steve
> Varnau, the release manager!
> * Added documentation in form of HTML and PDF manuals.
> * 314 commits from 28 contributors.
> * 171 JIRAs filed and 165 resolved in the last three months.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-01-11
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> RuoYu Zuo was announced as a new committer in February.
> The last PMC members were announced in November 2015.
> We expect to add an additional committer soon.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](trafodion) Devaraj Das
> [ ](trafodion) Enis Söztutar
> [ ](trafodion) Michael Stack
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
I've already sent a note due to direct feedback I received. One note, it
seems like there's potential that items the community wanted covered aren't
actually in the report. Also, this needs mentor sign off.
>
> --------------------
> 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.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Growing community
> 2. Improving code base.
>
> 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 had a few discussions regarding technical developments.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Made some code improvements
> - Introduced GitHub based pull requests as accepted way for change
> submissions.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> March 2016
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> February 2016
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](wave) Christian Grobmeier
> [x](wave) Upayavira
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Upayavira:
> Wave is a slow moving, but functioning, project. It needs to attract
> additional developers to focus on attracting new developers in order
> to be able to exit the incubator.
>