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Re: [DRAFT] Incubator PMC Board Report - November 2016
All,
Not a lot has changed in the podling report. We still have 7 podlings
missing sign off from mentors. Please review your podlings quickly and
provide them feedback.
John
On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 9:22 AM John D. Ament <jo...@apache.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> Please find the current board report below. As usual I've done my best to
> categorize podlings, but please feel free to edit the report and make
> changes as fit.
>
> I added two new categories for it this month - podlings that seem to have
> become stagnant, and podlings that seem to have completed all steps
> required to graduate (would be good to run the maturity model against them).
>
> We still have a few reports requiring sign off - so please mentors review
> and sign off:
>
> Toree
> Sirona
> Metron
> Joshua
> Hivemall
> Fineract
> DistributedLog
> DataFu
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
>
>
> - John
>
>
>
> -----------------------
>
> Incubator PMC report for November 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 currently 63 podlings incubating - no change from last month.
> The Geode podling has begun discussions around graduation. There were two
> new IPMC members added this past month. The IPMC approved 17 releases this
> month as well.
>
> * Community
>
> New IPMC members:
>
> - Felix Meschberger
> - Stephan Ewen
>
> People who left the IPMC:
>
> - None
>
> * New Podlings
>
> - None
>
> * Graduations
>
> The board has motions for the following:
>
> - None
>
> * Releases
>
> The following releases entered distribution during the month of
> October:
>
> - Apache Unomi 1.1.0-incubating 2016-10-03
> - Apache Impala 2.7.0-incubating 2016-10-04
> - Apache Fluo 1.0.0-incubating 2016-10-05
> - Apache Htrace 4.2.0-incubating 2016-10-07
> - Apache PredictionIO 0.10.0-incubating 2016-10-07
> - Apache Pirk 0.2.0-incubating 2016-10-09
> - Apache HAWQ 2.0.0.0-incubating 2016-10-10
> - Apache CarbonData 0.1.1-incubating 2016-10-11
> - Apache Metron 0.2.1BETA-incubating 2016-10-13
> - Apache Geode 1.0.0-incubating 2016-10-15
> - Apache Mnemonic 0.3.0-incubating 2016-10-21
> - Apache Juneau 6.0.0-incubating 2016-10-24
> - Apache Fineract 0.4.0-incubating 2016-10-25
> - Apache Fluo Recipes 1.0.0-incubating 2016-10-27
> - Apache Rya 3.2.10-incubating 2016-10-28
> - Apache S2Graph 0.1.0-incubating 2016-10-30
> - Apache Beam 0.3.0-incubating 2016-10-31
>
>
> * IP Clearance
>
> - None
>
> * Legal / Trademarks
>
> - Incoming podlings are pushing more for GitHub as master approaches.
> - In addition, the usage of GitHub Issues continues to be asked.
> - Better alignment between all impacted parties is needed for both of
> these.
>
> * Infrastructure
>
> - While the loss of a server is never convenient, the report manager
> gives huge kudos to the infra team for replacing the moin-moin wiki server
> quickly, avoiding much impact on this months report.
>
> * Miscellaneous
>
> - None
>
> * Credits
>
> - Report Manager: John D. Ament
>
> -------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
>
> * Still getting started at the Incubator
>
> - AriaTosca
> - Guacamole
> - Hivemall
> - iota
> - NetBeans
> - Spot
> - Toree
>
>
> * Not yet ready to graduate
>
> Stagnant:
>
> - Metron
> - Sirona
>
> No release:
>
> - Blur
> - Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
> - DistributedLog
> - Edgent
> - Joshua
>
>
> Community growth:
>
> - DataFu
> - Fineract
> - Fluo
> - Impala
> - PredictionIO
> - S2Graph
> - Streams
> - Unomi
>
>
> * Potentially Ready to Graduate
>
> - BatchEE
> - Beam
> - CarbonData
> - Eagle
> - Geode
> - Slider
> - SystemML
> - Tamaya
>
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
> - Annotator
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Table of Contents
> AriaTosca
> Beam
> Blur
> CarbonData
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
> DataFu
> DistributedLog
> Eagle
> Edgent
> Fineract
> Fluo
> Guacamole
> Hivemall
> Impala
> iota
> Joshua
> Metron
> NetBeans
> PredictionIO
> S2Graph
> Sirona
> Slider
> Spot
> Streams
> SystemML
> Tamaya
> Toree
> Unomi
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------
> AriaTosca
>
> ARIA TOSCA project offers an easily consumable Software Development
> Kit(SDK)
> and a Command Line Interface(CLI) to implement TOSCA(Topology and
> Orchestration Specification of Cloud Applications) based solutions.
>
> AriaTosca has been incubating since 2016-08-27.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Finalize migration of existing ARIA code, including Parser-NG with
> TOSCA and TOSCA for NFV profiles, and workflow engine to the ASF repo.
> 2. Create and publish release process for ARIA-TOSCA Project, release
> process will include Parser, TOSCA profiles, Workflow Engine, CLI.
> 3. Publish "How To Contribute" guide at ARIA-TOSCA Website.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
> There's an INFRA jira we created over a month ago which has yet to be
> addressed - please see here
> INFRA-12733 - Ability to create a Sprint Board for AriaTosca WAITING
> FOR USER
>
> It is not entirely critical for the project's progress, but it could be
> helpful if we indeed get a sprint board and the other things requested in
> that issue.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> Preparing TOSCA DSL training materials
> Confluence space initialized
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Created master branch
> 2. CI on travis enabled for the project
> 3. Initial workflow engine code migrated to ASF repo
> 4. Preparing migrating Parser code to ASF repo
> 5. Various task executors have been implemented
>
>
> Date of last release:
> None
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Project is being established in incubator with the proposed initial set
> of
> committers.
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>
> [X](ariatosca) Suneel Marthi
> [X](ariatosca) John D. Ament
> [ ](ariatosca) Jakob Homan
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Beam
>
> Apache Beam is an open source, unified model and set of language-specific
> SDKs for defining and executing data processing workflows, and also data
> ingestion and integration flows, supporting Enterprise Integration Patterns
> (EIPs) and Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). Beam pipelines simplify the
> mechanics of large-scale batch and streaming data processing and can run on
> a number of runtimes such as Apache Flink, Apache Gearpump, Apache Apex,
> Apache Spark, and Google Cloud Dataflow. Beam also brings SDKs in different
> languages, allowing users to easily implement their data integration
> processes.
>
> Beam has been incubating since 2016-02-01.
>
> The most important issue to address in the move towards graduation:
> 1. Make it easier for the Beam community to to learn, use, and grow by
> expanding and improving the Beam documentation, code samples, and 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?
> * 441 closed/merged pull requests
> * High engagement on dev and user mailing lists (742 / 179 messages)
> * Several public talks, articles, and videos including:
> - @Scale San Jose (“No shard left behind: APIs for massive parallel
> efficiency in Apache Beam”)
> - Strata + Hadoop World NYC (“Learn stream processing with Apache
> Beam”)
> - Paris Spark Meetup (“Introduction to Apache Beam”)
> - Hadoop Summit Melbourne (“Stream/Batch processing portable across
> on-prem (Spark, Flink) and Cloud with Apache Beam”)
> - Hadoop User Group Taipei (“Stream Processing with Beam and Google
> Cloud Dataflow”)
> - Data Science Lab London (“Apache Beam: Stream and Batch Processing;
> Unified and Portable!”)
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> Major developments on the project since last report include the following:
> * Second and third incubating release (0.2.0 and 0.3.0) and a release guide
> [1]
> * New DirectRunner support for testing streaming pipelines[2]
> * Continued improvements to the Flink, Spark, and Dataflow runners
> * Added support for new IO connectors, including MongoDB, Kinesis, and JDBC
> with Cassandra, MQTT support pending in pull requests
> * Addition of the Apache Apex runner on a feature branch, and continued
> work on the Apache Gearpump runner and Python SDK feature branches. [3]
> * Continued reorganization and refactoring of the project
> * Continued improvements to documentation and testing
>
> [1]: http://beam.incubator.apache.org/contribute/release-guide/
> [2]: http://beam.incubator.apache.org/blog/2016/10/20/test-stream.html
> [3]: http://beam.incubator.apache.org/contribute/work-in-
> progress/#feature-branches
>
> Dates of last releases:
> * 2016/08/07 - 0.2.0-incubating
> * 2016/10/31 - 0.3.0-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> The following committers were elected on 2016/10/20:
> * Thomas Weise
> * Jesse Anderson
> * Thomas Groh
>
> Signed-off-by:
> [X](beam) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> [ ](beam) Venkatesh Seetharam
> [ ](beam) Ted Dunning
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> --------------------
> Blur
>
> Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data
> in a cloud computing environment.
>
> Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Greater community involvement.
> 2. Produce releases.
> 3.
>
> 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?
>
> Subscriptions: user@ - 62[+1]; dev@ - 78[-1]
> The community involvement has not really changed over the past few
> months.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Not much has changed, a few bug fixes.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2014-07-29
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2014-07-28
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](blur) Doug Cutting
> [X](blur) Patrick Hunt
> [ ](blur) Tim Williams
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> CarbonData
>
> Apache CarbonData is a new Apache Hadoop native file format for faster
> interactive query using advanced columnar storage, index, compression and
> encoding techniques to improve computing efficiency, in turn it will help
> speedup queries an order of magnitude faster over PetaBytes of data.
>
> CarbonData has been incubating since 2016-06-02.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Prepare a couple of new releases
> 2. Increase the communities
> 3. Prepare 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?
>
> The community activity increased: many new users started to use and test
> CarbonData, we had more than 300 issues created till Nov; Two new finance
> enterprises have formally deployed CarbonData to their business
> system,and
> the query performance speeded up 10-70 times in comparison to old system
> (both are bank enterprise in China).
>
> We finished 2nd Meetup in Beijing on 29th Oct, and CarbonData has
> increased
> 10+ contributors in last month.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Code donation has been done and all resources have been created by
> INFRA(git, github mirror, mailing list, Jira, ...).
>
> We also created the Jenkins CI jobs, and preparing org website.
>
> We did the 2nd release (0.1.1-incubating) in Oct and we are preparing a
> new
> one(0.2.0) in Nov.
>
> We have finished 2 technical talks in Bay area with Databricks, Alluxio
> in
> last month for discussing ecosystem integration with Spark and Alluxio.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-10-10
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> We elected a new committer Kumar Vishal on 2016-10-15.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](carbondata) Henry Saputra
> [X](carbondata) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> [ ](carbondata) Uma Maheswara Rao G
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
>
> CMDA provides web services for multi-aspect physics-based and phenomenon-
> oriented climate model performance evaluation and diagnosis through the
> comprehensive and synergistic use of multiple observational data,
> reanalysis
> data, and model outputs.
>
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer has been incubating since 2015-05-08.
>
> The achievements in October of 2016 are:
>
> 1. Drafted the Apache CMDA project web page
> 2. Developed a mechanism to keep track of user id in each service call
> 3. Designed a mechanism to define a workflow, to execute a workflow, to
> collect the result and provenance from the workflow execution.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. To facilitate workflow scenarios in which a scientist can chain two or
> more services;
> 2. To develop a suite of science use cases;
> 3. To demonstrate the use of provenance in recommendation of data, users,
> and services.
>
> 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?
>
> A climate scientist Frank Lee has joined the project to develop science
> use
> cases. The priority has been shifted to helping him in adding new source
> data files and modifying the software to accommodate these new data
> files.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The issues that we found from our 2016 Caltech/JPL climate summer school
> have been addressed. Examples are: a mechanism to capture and store user
> id
> for provenance data collection, and removal of some functionalities that
> are not meant for users that do not have login accounts on our website.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall
> [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Gregory D. Reddin
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> DataFu
>
> DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in
> higher
> level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides functions
> for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream
> sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop
> jobs
> for incremental data processing in MapReduce.
>
> DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Resolve NOTICE and LICENSE issues for binary distributions
> 2. Continued releases
> 3. Increased committer 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?
>
> * No updates
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Released 1.3.1. Now using ASF-associated signing key. Feedback from
> previous release addressed.
> * Website updated alongside 1.3.1 release.
> * Cleaned up release instructions.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-08-10
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> July 2016 (Eyal Allweil)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
> [ ](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
> [ ](datafu) Ted Dunning
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> DistributedLog
>
> DistributedLog is a high-performance replicated log service. It offers
> durability, replication and strong consistency, which provides a
> fundamental
> building block for building reliable distributed systems.
>
> DistributedLog has been incubating since 2016-06-24.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1.Continue to grow the community, and increase diversity of community.
> 2.Improve documentation, including documentation of project and
> processes.
> 3.Successful 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?
>
> 1. Increase in contributions from community.
> - 8 created and 4 resolved issues in community JIRA in October.
> 2. Lots of engagement on documentation.
> - Enhance existing documents,
> - Setup guides for developers and committers.
> 3. Increased traffic on the mailing list, in particular, due to committers
> engaging more actively with contributors.
> - we have 35 people subscribed mail list.
> - 125 messages to distributedlog mail list in October.
>
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Documentation has improved for project build and project deployment.
> Added more information on community page.
> New added pages:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DL/Developer+Guide
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DL/Committer+Guide
> 2. Involved more discussion of new ideas and bring in new features.
> Include major discussions like 'transaction support', 'batch commit',
> "EventStore" . etc.
> 3. First release expected on November, and repackaging of the project
> under apache namespace are being discussed.
> - Pull requests for repackaging.
> - The major blocker is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DL-2. We
> were expecting to let DL depends on an official bk version.
>
>
> Date of last release:
> NA
>
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> NA
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](distributedlog) Flavio Junqueira
> [ ](distributedlog) Chris Nauroth
> [ ](distributedlog) Henry Saputra
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Eagle
>
> Eagle is a Monitoring solution for Hadoop to instantly identify access to
> sensitive data, recognize attacks, malicious activities and take actions in
> real time.
>
> Eagle has been incubating since 2015-10-26.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Jira, PR are all populated with good description so that people can
> reference in the future.
> 2. Massive improvement on unit test, now it becomes stable and build
> status is closed monitored in README
> 3. Community has one more discussion about graduation and all are with
> positive feedback, and we are going through the graduation steps.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> Nil
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> - Presented in conference: QCon Shanghai
> - More active contributors from YHD.com participate in large feature
> development
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - 0.5 version is being in active development. This version will include
> big improvement in application management and alert engine.
> - Job monitoring feature is ready including map/reduce and spark job
> - Standalone alert engine which is highly scalable and user friendly in
> that user does not need code to configure alerting rules
> - UI is completely rewritten to expose metadata to end user and user can
> define data source, stream and policy etc.
> - Cluster health monitoring is ready, including hdfs health indicator,
> hbase health indicator etc.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-07-19, and 0.5 release is being prepared
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> - Jinhu Wu 2016-09-10
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](eagle) Owen O'Malley
> [X](eagle) Henry Saputra
> [x](eagle) Julian Hyde
> [ ](eagle) P. Taylor Goetz
> [ ](eagle) Amareshwari Sriramdasu
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Edgent
>
> Edgent is a stream processing programming model and lightweight runtime to
> execute analytics at devices on the edge or at the gateway.
>
> Edgent 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 the Edgent project
> 2. Create the first Apache release of Edgent
> 3. Document a repeatable release process.
>
> 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?
>
> * A well attended meetup in Plano, TX about Apache Edgent was held on
> September 9th
> "Sensor Data Analytics Acceleration with Apache Edgent"
> http://www.meetup.com/DFW-Sensor-Technology/events/233150402/
>
> * A presentation about Apache Edgent was presented on October 21st @
> Open Source India 2016
> Approximately 400 attendees were present.
>
> * A presentation about Apache Edgent, Streaming Analytics and Weather
> Company Data was presented at World of Watson in Las Vegas on October 26th.
>
> * A demo about Apache Edgent was presented at World of Watson in Las
> Vegas on October 24th.
> "IoT Device Events to Streaming Analytics in 15 Minutes with Bluemix"
>
> * For the months of September and October four new community members
> either subscribed to the edgent-dev mailing list, or opened JIRAs.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * A new build system was created using Gradle. The initial contribution
> for this work came from two community contributors. The follow up work was
> done by committers.
>
> According to JIRA, the project has added the following:
>
> * September: 11 new issues; 15 issues resolved.
>
> * October: 46 new issues; 23 issues resolved.
>
> * October activity was almost exclusively due to readying for the first
> Edgent release.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> * We have not created an Apache release, but are working on one to be
> ready soon. During the September and October time period we made build
> changes and handled licensing work and are poised to create our first
> release.
>
> 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:
>
> [ ](edgent) Daniel Debrunner
> [x](edgent) Luciano Resende
> [X](edgent) Katherine Marsden
> [X](edgent) Justin Mclean
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Fineract
>
> Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
>
> Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. With the first official incubation release out, we want to work on
> getting frequent successful incubation releases shipped to the community on
> a monthly basis.
> 2. Adding new committers and contributors to the project along with
> empowering volunteers and support partner organizations in the community to
> contribute to the codebase while using the project infrastructure.
> 3. Resolving the questions around introduction of a rework of the
> original code – in particular repository/infrastructure/release questions
> which result from the microservice architecture
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * With the first official incubation release out, we look add several new
> committers who have worked on modules and features that will soon be merged
> into the release.
> * The community is more involved and engaged in asking questions on the
> developer and user mailing lists. We are working to ensure that all
> inquiries are actively addressed and more discussions regarding
> functionality and design occur on the mailing lists.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Our first release was made on October 25, 2016. We received 4 binding
> votes from the community.
> * Significant work was led by the Mifos core development team to address
> the licensing issues with a dependency on Hibernate and replacing it with
> OpenJPA - details on the code changes made and the challenges overcome can
> be found at https://youtu.be/C4lXtXY-MY4
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-10-25
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-05-05
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
> [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
> [ ](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> 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 and users
> 2. Additional releases
> 3.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> None at this time.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * Two talks at the Accumulo Summit mentioned Fluo:
> *
> http://accumulosummit.com/program/talks/tips-for-writing-fluo-applications/
> *
> http://accumulosummit.com/program/talks/indexing-strategies-for-searching-semantic-networks/
> * Hadoop Weekly Issue #191 mentioned Fluo's release
> * Website traffic is up after the first release according to Google
> Analytics
> * Created Twitter Account : http://twitter.com/apachefluo
> * Recent release of Rya which uses Fluo
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Successfully made first release and two more releases :
> * https://fluo.apache.org/release/fluo-recipes-1.0.0-incubating/
> * https://fluo.apache.org/release/fluo-1.0.0-incubating/
> *
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/0d02022b544fef972dabcfbbf59381fc811fe3d0843f7052568cd56e@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E
> * Created Fluo Tour (easy, hands on introduction) :
> https://fluo.apache.org/tour/
> * Completed Podling Namesearch :
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-109
> * fluo.io now redirects to fluo.apache.org
> * The fluo-io GitHub org was renamed to astralway
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-10-28
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Never
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](fluo) Billie Rinaldi
> [x](fluo) Drew Farris
> [x](fluo) Josh Elser
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> JE: The podling is definitely finding their legs in creating and releasing
> software, but very little progress has been made on growing the community
> (no prospective members).
> I am also happy with the state of trademarks for the podling.
>
> --------------------
> Guacamole
>
> Guacamole is an enterprise-grade, protocol-agnostic, remote desktop
> gateway.
> Combined with cloud hosting, Guacamole provides an excellent alternative to
> traditional desktops. Guacamole aims to make cloud-hosted desktop access
> preferable to traditional, local access.
>
> Guacamole has been incubating since 2016-02-10.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. **Making the first Guacamole release under the Apache Incubator**
> 2. Encouraging community participation and contribution
> 3. Accepting additional committers
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> It is clear that the continuing lack of a release is a major obstacle to
> community development, especially given outstanding pull requests which
> cannot be merged due to pre-release code freeze.
>
> We believe that the source and documentation are finally up-to-date with
> respect to Apache and the Incubator, and that we are ready to move
> forward
> with the procedures surrounding the release. Any assistance in navigating
> our first release would be greatly appreciated.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Community participation has remained roughly the same as last report.
> Mailing
> list participation is active but unchanged. Since last report, we have
> received an additional 3 pull requests, and have engaged the
> contributors for
> code review. Code looks good, and response to feedback has been
> professional,
> but merge is blocked until we can get the first release out of the way.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> All outstanding issues which were aimed at the project's first release
> (0.9.10-incubating) have been completed, as have all bugs discovered
> during
> testing. We have made preparatory changes to the project website with the
> release in mind.
>
> The project's old SourceForge forums have finally been closed, replaced
> by
> the mailing lists. The forums have been left in read-only mode for the
> sake
> of reference, with a stickied announcement notifying users of the move.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-12-18 (0.9.9, prior to Apache Incubator)
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> The most recent committer, Frode Langelo, was accepted into the
> project by VOTE on 2016-04-03, with the required ICLA received on
> 2016-04-05.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](guacamole) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> [ ](guacamole) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](guacamole) Olivier Lamy
> [ ](guacamole) Jim Jagielski
> [ ](guacamole) Greg Trasuk
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Hivemall
>
> Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive
> UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.
>
> Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Create the first Apache release
> 2. Community growth
> 3. IP clearance
>
> 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?
>
> * Presented a talk in Hadoop Summit Tokyo on Oct 26.
> * Still in progress at migrating the repository/community to ASF infra
> on
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMALL-8
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * We setup JIRA and managed issues on
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMALL/
> * We build the project site on
> http://hivemall.incubator.apache.org/
> * Documentation updates has been made
> http://hivemall.incubator.apache.org/userguide/
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No release yet
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](hivemall) Reynold Xin
> [ ](hivemall) Markus Weimer
> [ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --------------------
> Impala
>
> Impala is a high-performance C++ and Java SQL query engine for data stored
> in
> Apache Hadoop-based clusters.
>
> Impala has been incubating since 2015-12-03.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Community growth
> 2. Transition of user documentation to Apache hosting
> 3. Migration of pre-commit continuous integration testing to
> publicly-available 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?
>
> Our last report was in August. Since then, we have five new
> contributors who have authored patches, while two relatively recent
> contributors who were active before August have continued their
> involvement by authoring new patches. Traffic to our developer mailing
> list has grown by about 60%.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> There have been 241 commits since the last report.
>
> Our status website now has 16 of the 17 listed work items complete. We
> had our first Apache release and have a wiki page describing how to
> perform the release in detail. We scrubbed our code using the RAT tool
> for copyright notices not compliant with the ASF rules. We wrote
> guidelines for contributors on how to become a committer and added a
> new committer. All developer documentation has now moved to the
> Apache-hosted wiki.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-10-05
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-08-18
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](impala) Tom White
> [ ](impala) Todd Lipcon
> [ ](impala) Carl Steinbach
> [ ](impala) Brock Noland
>
> 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. Building the developer community
> 2. Outreach at events outside the Apache ecosystem to inform and invite
> participation in the project
> 3. Getting an alpha release out by the end of this year based on the
> current 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?
>
> Increased user interest with 4 individuals that are contributing in spurts
> of activity. This needs to become consistent.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Some improvements in the core engine, performers and the build process
>
> Date of last release:
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None but we are working on a proposal to add a new committer (a
> contributor that has made significant contributions in the last 6 months)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
> [X](iota) Justin Mclean
> [X](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Justin Mclean:
> I have some concerns re progress of this poddling:
> - The on list PPMC activity is low and there may be discussions happening
> off list.
> - There is little progress towards making an Apache release.
> - I'm not sure there are 3 active PPMC members.
>
> --------------------
> Joshua
>
> Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit.
>
> Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Creating our first release.
> 2. Continue to build the community
> 3. Identify specific users and use cases.
>
> 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 have added a few new members.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> A new release is imminent; we just need to pull the trigger. We have put
> together over sixty "language packs" that will be released in a
> no-dependency version and a Docker container.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Forthcoming.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> John Hewitt (August 13, 2016)
> Max Thomas (pending)
> Michael Hedderich (pending)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
> [ ](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
> [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
> [ ](joshua) Henri Yandell
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> --------------------
> Metron
>
> Metron integrates a variety of open source big data technologies
> in order to offer a centralized tool for security monitoring and analysis.
> Metron provides capabilities for log aggregation, full packet capture
> indexing, storage, advanced behavioral analytics and data enrichment, while
> applying the most current threat-intelligence information to security
> telemetry within a single platform.
> Metron has been incubating since 12-08-2015
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> Graduation.
> - Building a diverse community of developers for Metron
> - Getting security practitioners to provide feedback on requirements
> - Make an Apache release
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to
> be aware of
> - We are currently preparing our third Apache build of Metron
> - We held a community demo of our project
>
>
> * How has the community developed since the last report
> We added 1 new committers:
> Otto Fowler
>
> * How has the project developed since the last
> report
> - We closed on 35 more Jiras and made our code base more compliant and
> introduced several important features.
> Signed-off-by:
> [ ](metron) Billie Rinaldi
> [ ](metron) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](metron) Owen O'Malley
> [ ](metron) P. Taylor Goetz
> [ ](metron) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
>
> --------------------
> NetBeans
>
> NetBeans is a development environment, tooling platform and application
> framework.
>
> NetBeans has been incubating since 2016-10-01.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Licensing, i.e., identifying and solving GPL-related code.
> 2. Coming up with a process of contributing code that makes sense to
> everyone.
> 3. Working on roadmaps, features, and plans together as a 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?
>
> Mailing lists and Wiki set up.
>
> Discussions about voting, the CCLA/SGA, are taking place in the private
> mailing list, all other discussions in dev mailing list.
>
> We want as many discussions as possible in dev mailing list, i.e., as
> public as possible.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Apache NetBeans Proposal has been published and accepted into
> incubation.
>
> Apache Transition plan, listing everything needing to be done,
> including proposed milestones, is being worked on:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Apache+Transition
>
> CCLA and SGA have been provided in draft form by Oracle and have been
> approved by ASF. Currently they're in the process of being approved and
> signed by Oracle.
>
> Once that's done, experiments with migrating hg.netbeans.org/releases
> to Apache Git can proceed.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No releases yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No one has been elected so far.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](netbeans) Ate Douma
> [X](netbeans) Bertrand Delacretaz
> [X](netbeans) Emmanuel Lecharny
> [ ](netbeans) Daniel Gruno
> [X](netbeans) Jim Jagielski
> [x](netbeans) Mark Struberg
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> PredictionIO
>
> PredictionIO is an open source Machine Learning Server built on top of
> state-of-the-art open source stack, that enables developers to manage and
> deploy production-ready predictive services for various kinds of machine
> learning tasks.
>
> PredictionIO has been incubating since 2016-05-26. The initial code for
> PredictionIO was granted on 2016-06-16. A second grant of PredictionIO
> templates and SDKs was granted on 2016-09-20.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Establish a formal release schedule and process, allowing for
> dependable release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache way.
> 2. Grow the community to establish diversity.
> 3. Migrate the remainder of former PredictionIO users from google-groups
> to
> ASF mailing lists.
>
> 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. Both user and development mailing list are seeing increased activity.
> 2. Users requesting features are coming forward with code contributions.
> There have been discussions regarding future roadmap and
> development on the mailing lists.
> 3. The ecosystem around engine templates is slowly gaining traction again
> on Apache infrastructure. There are discussions around engine templates.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. The first Apache release has been released on 2016-10-17.
> 2. The second software grant has been issued and recorded by ASF. Seven
> templates
> and five SDKs are now transferred to Apache.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Apache PredictionIO 0.10.0-incubating on 2016-10-17
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Paul Li was elected as committer and PMC member on Aug 30, 2016.
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](predictionio) Andrew Purtell
> [ ](predictionio) James Taylor
> [ ](predictionio) Lars Hofhansl
> [ ](predictionio) Luciano Resende
> [ ](predictionio) Xiangrui Meng
> [X](predictionio) Suneel Marthi
>
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> S2Graph
>
> S2Graph is a distributed and scalable OLTP graph database built on Apache
> HBase to support fast traversal of extremely large graphs.
>
> S2Graph has been incubating since 2015-11-29.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Make a release
> 2. Attract users and contributors
> 3. Foster more and diverse 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?
>
> * Held two sessions on S2Graph: usecases
> * Deview: https://deview.kr/2016/schedule#session/160
> * TechPlanet:
> http://techplanet.skplanet.com/eng/speaker_track2.html#spk_trk2_5
>
> * Started to discuss overhauling the website layout and contents
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * The first Apache release has been released on 2016-11-01.
>
> * 30 issues are created, 32 issues are resolved.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Apache S2Graph 0.1.0-incubating on 2016-11-01.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](s2graph) Andrew Purtell
> [ ](s2graph) Seetharam Venkatesh
> [X](s2graph) Sergio Fernández
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Sirona
>
> Monitoring Solution.
>
> Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Increase community/visibility
> 2. Get a bit more dynamic
> 3.
>
> 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?
>
> Not much
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Some enhancements around the javaagent for short time living JVM use cases.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-11-03
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](sirona) Olivier Lamy
> [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
> [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
> [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Slider
>
> Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and
> manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters.
>
> Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Apache Slider community/PPMC has voted to move portions of Slider into
> Apache Hadoop YARN as modules. It is possible that the remaining
> pieces
> will be moved at a later point in time or become obsolete or evolve to
> work closely with YARN. Slider PPMC will decide what makes the most
> sense as we progress through this exciting time.
> 2. Getting more external users
> 3. Growth of a diverse set of developers/committers/PMC members is also
> crucial towards the final state of Slider
>
> 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 Apache Hadoop YARN community/PMC and Apache Slider community/PPMC
> had decided to move portions of Slider into YARN, to make fast and
> significant
> progress on: YARN-4692 - [Umbrella] Simplified and first-class support for
> services in YARN. As a result, the Slider Core module (including
> Application
> Master, Client and Java unit tests) has been rolled into an Apache Hadoop
> YARN feature branch as a hadoop-yarn-slider-core module.
> This effort is being captured in: YARN-5079 : Native YARN framework layer
> for services. All the migrations are happening in a branch (namely
> yarn-native-services) created of off Hadoop trunk. As a result of this,
> we are already seeing interest in the Hadoop committers/PMC, who have
> started to contribute and submit patches to Slider.
>
> In order to support existing users of Slider, and to provide seamless
> migration, there will be sufficient overlap between the time when a stable
> state of long running services support is available in some future version
> of YARN and the time till an independent Slider release is available. The
> community/PPMC will also determine the future state of Slider as we
> navigate through these changes.
>
> The discussions on the Slider and YARN community DLs can be viewed here -
>
> https://s.apache.org/0hoh
> https://s.apache.org/MncV
>
> For the benefit of those who would like to use Slider Core from the
> Hadoop codebase, but continue to use classic Slider Agent and legacy
> app-packages, a new branch (yarn-native-services) has been created
> in classic Slider repo. This branch retains only the Agent (python) code
> and the App Packages. It adds Slider Core module as a Hadoop
> dependency. This allows users to consume the latest of Slider Core.
> Future classic Slider releases can be made purely off of this branch.
>
> Additionally an effort is being made to create an agent-less provider for
> legacy app-packages, which could help users to completely migrate to
> Hadoop codebase for creating long-running services with Slider. Expectation
> from app-package owners would be to make minor modification of their
> packages. Primary changes would be to shed the dependency on python
> Agent code, effectively making packages much simpler than what they
> look like today in classic Slider.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> There has been fewer bug fixes on the classic Slider side as most of
> the focus has been on developing features on native YARN services in
> the Hadoop codebase. Work continues on support for complex services
> (assemblies) and agent-less applications in Slider. The efforts on Slider
> Core will continue in the new services branch created in YARN. Few
> key features which were merged to classic Slider as well were -
> SLIDER-875 - Ability to create an Uber application package with
> capability to deploy and manage as a single business app, and
> SLIDER-1107 - Generate app configuration files in AM. Several issues
> identified by Coverity scans were resolved as well. Additionally few
> patches were contributed by the community fixing functional and
> performance issues. Slider community plans to ship a release in the
> next quarter with all these features and bug fixes.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-06-28 slider-0.91.0-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-07-07: Yu (Thomas) Liu
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](slider) Arun C Murthy
> [ ](slider) Devaraj Das
> [X](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> [X](slider) Mahadev Konar
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Spot
>
> Apache Spot is a solution stack that provides the capability to ingest
> network related telemetry (network flows, domain name service information
> and
> proxy server logs) and provide unsupervised machine learning capabilities
> to
> identify suspicious activity. The information is organized and presented
> using operational analytics so that a security analyst can investigate the
> most suspicious connections. Apache Spot is built on an open data model
> using
> Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop.
>
> Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> - Move infrastructure and development to ASF (code, issues, mailing
> list, …)
> - Build diverse community
> - Demonstrate ability to create releases
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> We currently have a hard dependency via our LDA implementation that
> requires a GPL license. A rewrite is in progress to move the code from
> LDA-C to Spark LDA.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> This is first report after accepting Apache Spot to incubator and we
> still
> have not transitioned everything to ASF. We do however see increased
> interest in the project, primarily on our Slack channel.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> This is first report.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> N/A
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](spot) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> [ ](spot) Brock Noland
> [ ](spot) Andrei Savu
> [ ](spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> --------------------
> 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?
>
> The project is now on a monthly reporting schedule to monitor effective
> progress in growing the community
> and active participation.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> dev@streams.incubator.apache.org
> 115 emails (up >100%) sent by 16 people (+1), divided into 36 topics (up
> 400%).
>
> http://streams.incubator.apache.org
> 196 Sessions (up ~60%), 247 Users (up ~35%), 1110 Pageviews (up >100%).
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams-master
> Excluding merges, 4 authors (+3) have pushed 32 commits (up ~375%) to
> master.
> On master, 22 files (up 250%) have changed.
>
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams
> Excluding merges, 7 authors (+6) have pushed 106 commits (up >1000%) to
> master.
> On master, 868 files (up >1000%) have changed.
>
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams-examples
> Excluding merges, 3 authors (+2) have pushed 7 commits (+1) to master.
> On master, 24 files have changed.
>
> 52 Issues closed for the upcoming 0.4-incubating release
> 35 new Issues opened (+28)
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-10-03 : 0.3-incubating release
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-10-27: Joey Frazee elected as committer / PPMC member
> 2016-09-28: Suneel Marthi elected as mentor / PPMC member
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](streams) Ate Douma
> [X](streams) Matt Franklin
> [X](streams) Suneel Marthi
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Suneel Marthi: Healthy community activity, following the 0.3 release on
> Oct 3, 0.4 release is presently in the works and work has been scoped out
> for the 0.5 release.
> Ate Douma: the Streams podling is getting back on track, making good
> progress:
> * new community participants
> * good mailing list discussions
> * elected a new committer and ppmc member (Joey)
> * a new release candidate 0.4-incubating is in progress
>
> --------------------
> SystemML
>
> SystemML provides declarative large-scale machine learning (ML) that aims
> at
> flexible specification of ML algorithms and automatic generation of hybrid
> runtime plans ranging from single node, in-memory computations, to
> distributed
> computations running on Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Spark.
>
> SystemML has been incubating since 2015-11-02.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> - Grow SystemML community: increase mailing list activity,
> increase adoption of SystemML for scalable machine learning, encourage
> data scientists to adopt DML and PyDML algorithm scripts, respond to
> user feedback to ensure SystemML meets the requirements of real-world
> situations, write papers, and present talks about SystemML.
> - Continue to produce releases.
> - Increase the diversity of our project's contributors and 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?
> Our mailing list from August through October had 375 messages on a wide
> range
> of topics. We have gained 4 new contributors to the main project since
> August
> 1st. Our website has been redesigned with the help of several design
> engineers
> and we have commits from 3 new contributors to the website project. On
> GitHub,
> the project has been starred 417 times and forked 156 times.
>
> Niketan Pansare gave a talk with the title "Apache SystemML - Declarative
> Machine Learning at Scale" on October 7th in the CS graduate seminar at UC
> Merced. Matthias Boehm gave a talk on "Compressed Linear Algebra for
> Large-
> Scale Machine Learning" at TU Dresden on August 30th. We presented the
> papers
> "Compressed Linear Algebra for Large-Scale Machine Learning" (research
> paper +
> poster) and "SystemML: Declarative Machine Learning on Spark" (industry
> paper)
> at VLDB'16. The "Compressed Linear Algebra for Large-Scale Machine
> Learning"
> paper won the VLDB 2016 Best Paper Award. We gave two 90 minute tutorials
> at the
> BOSS'16 workshop, co-located with VLDB'16, and our paper "SPOOF:
> Sum-Product
> Optimization and Operator Fusion for Large-Scale Machine Learning" has
> been
> accepted at CIDR'17.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> The main project has had 213 commits since August 1. The website project
> has
> had 51 commits since August 1. Since August 1, 241 issues have been
> reported
> on our JIRA site and 137 issues have been resolved or closed. 79 pull
> requests
> have been created since August 1, and 72 pull requests have been closed.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-06-15 (version 0.10.0-incubating)
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-05-07 Glenn Weidner
> 2016-05-07 Faraz Makari Manshadi
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](systemml) Luciano Resende
> [ ](systemml) Patrick Wendell
> [ ](systemml) Reynold Xin
> [ ](systemml) Rich Bowen
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Tamaya
>
> Tamaya is a highly flexible configuration solution based on an modular,
> extensible and injectable key/value based design, which should provide a
> minimal but extendible modern and functional API leveraging SE, ME and EE
> environments.
>
> Tamaya has been incubating since 2014-11-14.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Extend Community
> 2. Improve Documentation and release base components
> 3. Graduate als TLP in 2017 after next releases
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> After our next releases and improving our homepage we'd like to graduate
> as a TLP in 2017.
>
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> We have increasing feedback of use cases to be covered and also a few
> bug reports, so Tamaya is used by developers and companies.
> Additionally we are doing regular bi-weekly hangouts and have defined a
> well defined roadmap to release and restructure our project.
> Apart from that we gathered feedback from JavaOne 2016: official
> Configuration JSR proposal and Anatole had a talk there.
>
> The conflicts that arose in the past seem to be solved as some of the
> mentors and early committers have left the project. Since we've
> established our hangouts we have the feeling of beeing more connect and
> able to work towards a common goal.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Apart from the main project we established new repositories to hold
> extensions and sandbox modules. In order to get rid of the problematic
> webpage generation we decided to start from scratch.
> In addition to making the API more smooth, we try to keep the base
> repository/project as lean as possible and prepare a next release.
> Due to various technical issues (infrastructure behaves differently from
> local builds and checkouts) we did not meet our deadline on getting a
> release out by the end of October.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-04-06
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Phil Ottlinger at 2016-04-24.
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](tamaya) John D. Ament
> [ ](tamaya) David Blevins
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> johndament:
> While the podling has had issues in the past around community growth, I
> am seeing them operate more consistently, with clear open discussions. I
> believe they're operating well and should be ready to graduate soon, if not
> already.
>
> --------------------
> 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. Make a release: The community is working on RC from 0.1.x branch.
> Master
> has moved to start support for Spark 2.0. Currently working on RC3.
> 2. 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) In progress. Project elected new PPMC member.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
> of?
>
> NONE, previous issue with LGPL dependency has been RESOLVED as the JeroMQ
> dependency has now been released as MPL license.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters
> 2. No worries about transitioning from old Spark Kernel code.
> 3. More external contributions being made. Mainly focused on master to
> stabilize Spark 2.0 support
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Working on 1st release. Got an RC3 going on for a vote
> 2. 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
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Drew Farris (shepherd): Two Mentors active on the mailing lists. Healthy
> activity and progress towards release observed on the mailing lists.
>
> --------------------
> Unomi is a reference implementation of the OASIS Context Server
> specification
> currently being worked on by the OASIS Context Server Technical Committee.
> It
> provides a high-performance user profile and event tracking server.
>
> Unomi has been incubating since 2015-10-05.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Continued releases, and updated dependencies
> 2. Grow up user and contributor communities, seeing more contribution/PR
>
> 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 are still targeting the development of the user community. For that,
> we
> discussed about improving and polishing the website. Today, it's obvious
> that it's not easy to understand what Unomi can do and actually does. The
> purpose is to give more use cases and introduction on the mailing list.
> Some small improvements have been performed in that way.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The second Apache Unomi 1.1.0-incubating has been released.
>
> We updated key dependencies and provided new features in
> addition of the bug fixes. We also fixed the LGPL issue in the binary
> distribution.
> The Unomi rules and conditions engine has been improved as well.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-10-03
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](unomi) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> [ ](unomi) Bertrand Delacretaz
> [ ](unomi) Chris Mattmann
>