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DRAFT report September 2016
Greetings,
Please review this draft report.
The MoinMoin wiki is slow and unreliable today. If your wiki update doesn't
go through, feel free to reply on this thread and I will integrate your
changes.
Remaining tasks:
* The following podlings need signoff:
- Fineract
- log4cxx
- MRQL
- Myriad
- Toree
- Trafodion
- Wave
* The narrative and the Legal/Trademarks/Infrastructure/Misc sections need
to be fleshed out with summaries from August's conversations on
general@incubator. (Ted)
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the report!
Marvin Humphrey
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Incubator PMC report for September 2016
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
< narrative >
* Community
No IPMC roster changes this month.
* New Podlings
- Annotator
- AriaTosca
* Graduations
None this month.
* Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
August:
- 2016-08-01 Apache Pony Mail 0.9.incubating
- 2016-08-02 Apache Mnemonic 0.2.0-incubating
- 2016-08-03 Apache Eagle 0.3.0-incubating
- 2016-08-09 Apache Datafu (incubating) 1.3.1
- 2016-08-10 Apache Gearpump 0.8.1-incubating
- 2016-08-20 Apache Ranger (incubating) 0.6.1
- 2016-08-22 Apache Metron 0.2.0BETA-incubating
- 2016-08-22 Apache Beam 0.2.0-incubating
- 2016-08-24 Apache CarbonData 0.1.0-incubating
- 2016-08-29 Apache Pirk 0.1.0-incubating
* IP Clearance
None this month.
* Legal / Trademarks
* Infrastructure
* Miscellaneous
* Credits
- Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey / John D. Ament
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
- AriaTosca
- Traffic Control
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
- DistributedLog
- Edgent
- Fineract
- HTrace
- Juneau
- log4cxx2
- PredictionIO
- SensSoft
- Toree
Community growth:
- Atlas
- CarbonData
- CommonsRDF
- Gearpump
- Mnemonic
- MRQL
- Myriad
- Omid
- Pirk
- Pony Mail
- Singa
- SAMOA
- Tephra
- Trafodion
- Wave
* Ready to graduate
- Ranger
- Taverna
* Considering retirement
- Streams
* Did not report, expected next month
- Quickstep
- Tamaya
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Table of Contents
AriaTosca
Atlas
CarbonData
CommonsRDF
DistributedLog
Edgent
Fineract
Gearpump
HTrace
Juneau
log4cxx2
Mnemonic
MRQL
Myriad
Omid
Pirk
Pony Mail
PredictionIO
Quickstep
Ranger
SAMOA
SensSoft
Singa
Streams
Tamaya
Taverna
Tephra
Traffic Control
Trafodion
Toree
Wave
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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. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for dependable
release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development
process.
2. Grow the community around the project.
3. Migrate existing users to apache mailing lists, redirect the present
external project links to Apache.
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 project is still being setup in Apache Incubator and is presently.
Received Software Grant Agreement (SGA) from Gigaspaces.
The mailing lists, Jira, Github Repo, Incubator podling, Confluence Wiki
have been setup for the project.
How has the project developed since the last report?
This would be the first report for AriaTosca.
The project is presently being setup in Incubator.
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
[X](ariatosca) Jakob Homan
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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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.
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. We have added 4 new committers since the last report from different
organizations. Around 15 new contributors were added since the last
report. The current number of contributors is around 60.
2. The activity on the atlas-dev mailing list stands at around 900 messages
per month between June and August. [1]
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. A major release, 0.7-incubating, was made in the month of July.
This release added 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, Kafka message
versioning, support for creating business taxonomies, enhanced
user interface, better performance etc.
2. Work is proceeding in 0.8-incubating to stabilize many of these
features and also add several strategic improvements including
abstractions to the underlying graph database to make it easier
to move to later versions, rolling upgrades, etc.
3. A total of 302 issues were reported between June 1st 2016 and August
31st 2016. 266 issues were resolved in the same time frame [2],[3]
Date of last release:
2016-07-09: 07-incubating [4]
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
1. The PPMC voted and elected 4 new members as committers to
the project on 2016-07-05: Tom Beerbower, Keval Bhatt, David
Kantor and Darshan Kumar.
[1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-atlas-dev/
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-1149?jql=project%20%3D%20ATLAS%20AND%20created%20%3E%3D%202016-06-01%20AND%20created%20%3C%3D%202016-08-31
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-775?jql=project%20%3D%20ATLAS%20AND%20resolved%20%3E%3D%202016-06-01%20AND%20resolved%20%3C%3D%202016-08-31
[4] https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201607.mbox/%3CCAAbv78fuzCv51E4Pn8fg7nwkJyOUQo9z2WNhsiz2EstbTvj1Gw@mail.gmail.com%3E
Signed-off-by:
[ ](atlas) Arun Murthy
[X](atlas) Chris Douglas
[x](atlas) Jakob Homan
[ ](atlas) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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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 new releases
2. Increase both dev and user communities
3. Publish and update website to promote CarbonData
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 100 new issues created during Aug; One
user formally deployed CarbonData to their business system, the
query efficiency speeded up 50 times (the user is the biggest internet
finance company in China)
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.
We did the first release (0.1.0-incubating) and we are preparing a new one.
We're also working on the website (with improved look'n feel).
We're also preparing some talks and presentations about CarbonData.
Date of last release:
2016-08-27
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2016-07-15
Signed-off-by:
[X](carbondata) Henry Saputra
[X](carbondata) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[X](carbondata) Uma Maheswara Rao G
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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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. 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.
2. Engage wider RDF community
3. Graduate to Apache Commons
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 has been fairly quiet during the summer.
Mailing list stats:
dev@commonsrdf traffic
Jun 2016: 10
Jul 2016: 21
Aug 2016: 3
Jira stats for last 90 days:
Created: 5
Resolved: 1
How has the project developed since the last report?
Building on the idea of Commons VFS-style integration
we have added branches that add bindings for
Eclipse RDF4j (formerly Open RDF Sesame),
Apache Jena and JSON-LD-Java.
https://github.com/apache/incubator-commonsrdf/branches
This has raised interest within Jena
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-1015
We should now be moving towards a 0.3.0 release,
and working towards graduation to Apache Commons PMC,
we are adapting the build to be more compatible with the
Commons release process https://commons.apache.org/releases/
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
[ ](commonsrdf) Gary Gregory
[X](commonsrdf) Lewis J McGibbney
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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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. Getting an Apache release out
2. Improve general documentation
3. Grow user base
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
There is currently no issue.
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. A few people began actively to involve in the project discussion
2. Some project ideas have been initiated and discussed on the mailing list
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. The wiki has been filled up with development and contribution
information.
2. The existing website content has been pushed to asf-site branch and
live under http://distributedlog.incubator.apache.org. The new website
has been discussed.
3. The pom file was updated to follow Apache's principle and the status
page is updated.
4. Various project ideas are under developing.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[ ](distributedlog) Flavio Junqueira
[X](distributedlog) Chris Nauroth
[X](distributedlog) Henry Saputra
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Edgent
Apache Edgent 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 Edgent provides efficient and timely
analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the center to the edge.
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 Edgent project
2. Set up new build system, allowing us to remove code dependencies from
our repository
3. Create the first Apache release of Edgent
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?
Significant progress has been made on a new build system, using Gradle.
One of the goals is to remove third party code, so we can work toward a
release.
The community has been active and participating in voting. Heavy commit
activity, but light Jira activity, recently as the name change was
implemented in the code, documentation and web site.
How has the project developed since the last report?
According to JIRA, the project has added the following:
* June: 29 new issues; 22 issues resolved.
* July: 20 new issues; 15 issues resolved.
* August: 7 new issues; 7 issues resolved.
August activity was largely build and renaming activities, tracked under a
few Jira issues.
The name for the project was changed from Apache Quarks to Apache Edgent.
The new name went through a suitable name search and was approved. The
infrastructure, code and documentation changes have been completed.
A logo was voted on and chosen, and a wiki was set up for the Edgent
community.
Date of last release:
We have not created an Apache release as of yet. We need to complete build
changes and licensing work to create a 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
[ ](edgent) Luciano Resende
[X](edgent) Katherine Marsden
[X](edgent) Justin Mclean
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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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. Getting a first release out – we are still inhibited by Hibernate issues
which are more deeply rooted than we realized.
2. Moving the community from the Mifos infrastructure to the Apache
infrastructure – most discussions are taking place out of public view.
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?
The person who creates and submits the board reports will cease to perform
this task until the code rework is ready to be introduced to the community.
It is possible that this will endanger the board reports.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Several prospective new committers have recently joined the Mifos community
through Google Summer of Code and as new partners that we are working to
add as committers to the Apache Fineract.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have tried and failed to produce an apache release again. A release was
produced by the mifos community outside of apache and announced on the
apache fineract user list.
The release included work intended to move us closer to apache policies.
In particular, the removal of Hibernate annotations from the code uncovered
a circular dependency in the data structure which was not caught in
testing. Two production systems from early adopters are out-of-service
today.
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Jim Jagielski was added as a mentor.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
[ ](fineract) Greg Stein
[ ](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
[ ](fineract) Jim Jagielski
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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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 with Apache 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?
Increased community contribution on integration with Apache Cassandra.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We released Apache Gearpump 0.8.1-incubating, which is Gearpump's first
release as an Apache incubator project.
Integration within Apache Beam (Gearpump Runner) has been merged into a
feature branch.
Continued integration within akka-streams (Gearpump Materializer). Three
PRs committed.
28 issues created and 18 resolved.
Date of last release:
2016-08-16
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:
Justin Mclean:
PPMC are looking for additional mentors.
--------------------
HTrace
Apache HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed
systems written in java.
Apache HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to grow the Apache HTrace community
2. Continue to explore projects integrating Apache HTrace
3. Continue to develop and release stable Apache 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?
* The dev@htrace mailing list continues to see new comers which is great.
* Although a GSoC-related project was not successfully completed, the
Apache Kudu and Apache HTrace communities have made contact. This is
part of the drive to have more projects integrate Apache HTrace.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* A discussion thread is currently ongoing to release HTrace 4.2. This
will include over 40 issues addressed and may even be our last incubating
release before we attempt to graduate.
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:
[X](htrace) Jake Farrell
[ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
[X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
[ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
[x](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
[x](htrace) Michael Stack
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Juneau
Apache Juneau is a toolkit for marshalling POJOs to a wide variety of content
types using a common framework, and for creating sophisticated self-
documenting REST interfaces and microservices using VERY little code.
Juneau has been incubating since 2016-06-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Build up community with non-IBM and non-Salesforce contributors.
2. Release a version of the product to spark external interest in the
project.
3. Need to determine where built libraries will be hosted for download.
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 new members in August. The hope is that a release of the product will
spark interest.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Website is now running.
Jira is now running and accepting bug reports.
Jenkins is now running and producing builds.
Confluence space has been created with articles for developers to get
started contributing.
Passes apache-rat check.
Date of last release:
None.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](juneau) Craig Russell
[ ](juneau) Jochen Wiedmann
[X](juneau) John D. Ament
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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log4cxx2
Logging for C++. N.B. This is a reboot of the Log4cxx podling which
previously graduated.
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.
There was a discussion about some kind of "maintenance mode" where releases
and community growth doesn't matter much. As that mode doesn't exist, it
has been suggested to release, graduate from incubator and just live along
other logging projects and in a comparable state like log4cxx.
Currently it seems that there's only one official project member with
commit access left answering mails. Even though that member and some
contributors worked on being able to create a release in the past, contrary
to expectations that project member didn't find the time to deal with a
release as necessary.
It seems most likely that if a release doesn't happen until the next report
is due, it won't at all anymore. At least not by that one left member.
How has the community developed since the last report?
One new contributor took quite some time to look and fix the release
process. Two support mails from users, no new project members.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Robert Middleton took quite some time to look at the build and release
process on Windows and Linux in the last two months and came to the
conclusion that the current Maven based process for both seems broken.
He provided a shell based alternative for the release and CMAKE build
starting points, which hasn't been merged into or tested by the project
yet.
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:
[ ](log4cxx2) Ralph Goers
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Drew Farris:
One mentor active within in the past month. There is a single active
committer and minor progress towards a release. The current build system
is proving problematic for the contributor involved. There is some
discussion about moving to the attic and this seems appropriate
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Mnemonic
Apache Mnemonic is an advanced hybrid memory storage oriented library, we've
proposed a non-volatile/durable Java object model and durable computing
service that bring several advantages to significantly improve the
performance of massive real-time data processing/analytics. developers are
able to use this library to design their cache-less and SerDe-less high
performance applications.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Apache releases: we have release version 0.2.0-incubating
2. Encouraging community participation and contribution
3. Invented Durable Computing Model and Service on top of Durable Object
Model
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 April. Since then
* Twelve new contributors have joined and seven contributors have submitted
their patches.
* We need to encourage more discussion on the dev list in the coming months
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Added memory service and testcases
* Added computing service and testcases
* Re-organized sub-modules
* Added Apache Rat and Checkstyle to ensure compliance
* Added release.sh, runall.sh script tools
* Supported Docker dev. construction
* Removed the dependency of customized 3rd party library
* Removed the dependency of special version of nvml
* Constructed project website (WIP)
* Supported discrete addressing for memory service
* and other bugfixes, features, improvements
Date of last release:
2016-08-02
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None
Signed-off-by:
[X](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt
[X](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell
[x](mnemonic) James Taylor
[ ](mnemonic) Henry Saputra
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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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?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
There were no new developers or new committers since our last report.
There are two UTA students who are developing code for the MRQL project as
part of their Master's thesis, but they have not participated in the MRQL
community yet. One is working on implementing MRQL streaming with Apache
Storm and he is scheduled to complete it by the end of the year. The other
student is working on MRQL data visualization.
How has the project developed since the last report?
There were 8 JIRA issues reported from which 6 have already been resolved.
The main work during this period was on algebra-based and source-level
debugging of MRQL queries. Basically, MRQL query results are annotated
with lineage information that links each result value with the input data
that were used to calculate the value. We hope that this debugger will be
a valuable tool for developing and understanding MRQL queries.
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
[ ](mrql) Edward J. Yoon
[ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
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. Expand user/contributor/committer community
2. Gather more support from Hadoop and Mesos vendors
3. Release new versions (0.3 in planning), with more enterprise features
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 picked up traffic (153 messages in June) around the
0.2.0 release. 236 messages since the last report.
* 6 new members on the dev@ mailing list. 3 new patch contributors.
* Bi-weekly dev syncs with 2-5 participants. Some cancelled due to lack of
attendance. Minutes at http://s.apache.org/8kF
* Myriad to be presented at HadoopWorld/Strata NYC and a talk submitted for
ApacheCon BigData EU.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Myriad 0.2.0 released. Myriad 0.3.0 in development/planning.
* 10 commits since 6/1. 8 JIRAs resolved.
Date of last release:
2016-06-20 myriad-0.2.0-incubating
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2016-06-16 Yuliya Feldman
Signed-off-by:
[ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
[ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
[ ](myriad) Ted Dunning
[ ](myriad) Luciano Resende
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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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. Boost project dissemination in the Apache community.
2. Collaborate/integrate Omid with other Apache projects.
3. Get positive feedback from other projects currently integrating/using
Omid.
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?
* Omid presented at Hadoop Summit 2016 in San Jose. Some attendants
manifested interest and asked for future plans of integrating Omid with
Apache Phoenix.
* First contact with Apache DistributedLog community for a possible
integration with Omid.
* Blog entry on Apache Omid ready to be published in Yahoo's hadoop blog
site.
* Quarter Stats (from: 2016-06-01 to: 2016-08-31):
+---------------------------------------------+
| Metric | counts |
+---------------------------------------------+
| # of msgs in dev list | 204 |
| Active Contributors (incl mentors)| 6 |
| Jira New Issues | 10 |
| Resolved Issues | 12 |
| Pull Requests merged | 7 |
| Pull Requests proposed | 10 |
+---------------------------------------------+
How has the project developed since the last report?
First version of Omid released under the Apache incubator program. It has
also been integrated with the Apache Hive project.
Date of last release:
2016-06-24
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
At incubation acceptance (2016-03-28)
Signed-off-by:
[X](omid) Alan Gates
[ ](omid) Lars Hofhansl
[ ](omid) Flavio P. Junqueira
[ ](omid) Thejas Nair
[x](omid) James Taylor
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Pirk
Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR).
Pirk has been incubating since 2016-06-17. The initial code for Pirk was
granted on 2016-07-11.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community to establish diversity of background and expertise.
2. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for dependable
release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development
process.
3. Add to and improve the Pirk user documentation and examples both on the
website and in the codebase
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 officially welcomed two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel
Marthi, both also mentors). The mailing list activity, pull requests, and
page views to the Apache Pirk website (via Google Analytics) have also
greatly increased since the last report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project completed it's first release, 0.1.0-incubating, since the last
report and provided a release guide on its website documenting the process.
Additionally, the project has ensured that all dependencies are compliant
with the Apache License version 2.0 and that all code and documentation
artifacts have the correct Apache licensing markings and notice. The
project has also undertaken a refactor of some of the initial packages and
provided initial streaming implementations.
Date of last release:
August 29, 2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Pirk elected two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel Marthi, both
mentors) on August 18, 2016.
Signed-off-by:
[x](pirk) Billie Rinaldi
[ ](pirk) Joe Witt
[X](pirk) Josh Elser
[X](pirk) Suneel Marthi
[X](pirk) Tim Ellison
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Josh Elser:
Extremely happy to see the first release completed so soon after
entering incubation. Very pleased with the interaction and
responsiveness at PPMC and IPMC levels during the vote process. They are
well on their way.
Suneel Marthi:
I must add that the first release candidate was put out for PPMC/IPMC
Vote in less than a month since the initial code was pushed to the
apache github repo.
--------------------
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. Make contributions easier (lower the bar for hacking on code/docs/UI)
3. Increase awareness of the project
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?
Slight uptick in active members of the community, we now count roughly 10
active people participating either on the mailing list or IRC.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Work has begun on a redesign of the UI, allowing for contributions more
easily. This is codenamed 'coffee and cake', and is expected to reach a
usable phase in a month or two.
Date of last release:
2016-08-02
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None since inception. See graduation info point 1. The codebase needs to
be more accessible before contributions can occur.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
[X](ponymail) John D. Ament
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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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 is in the works and anticipated to be complete in September 2016.
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 of background.
3. Transition remaining 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. Users have begun to migrate from the old Google group to the Apache user
list
2. Three new contributors have become active and have been making
consistently acceptable contributions and are on path to becoming
committers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. The old Prediction.io docs site has been migrated to
http://predictionio.incubator.apache.org
2. About seven templates from the original PredictionIO have been ported to
Apache PredictionIO, pending a decision on a 2nd grant. The pending 2nd
grant will not block a PredictionIO release.
Date of last release:
No releases have been made yet. Present activities are focussed towards a
planned first Apache Release in September 2016.
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
[x](predictionio) James Taylor
[ ](predictionio) Lars Hofhansl
[ ](predictionio) Luciano Resende
[ ](predictionio) Xiangrui Meng
[X](predictionio) Suneel Marthi
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
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 (June-01-2016 to August-31-2016):
@dev 1423
@user 124
@commit 294
2. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after June-01-2016
before August-31-2016):
Created: 155
Resolved: 168
3. Adding more community members to involve in Apache Ranger
* Added new contributors: Suneel Marthi
* Apache Hawq community is working with Ranger to build a
authorization engine for Apache Hawq (RANGER-782)
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Released one major release :
0.6.0 released on 07/18/2016
2. Released one minor release :
0.6.1 released on 08/20/2016
3. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.7.0
a. Working on scoping of the release and features
Date of last release:
August-20-2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
1. Gautam Borad has been added as committer on June-29-2015
Signed-off-by:
[X](ranger) Alan Gates
[ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
[ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
[X](ranger) Jakob Homan
[ ](ranger) Owen O'Malley
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Drew Farris:
Three mentors active. New release available in August. Community
growth. Discussion of Graduation Steps. A healthy podling.
--------------------
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 S4, and Apache Samza.
SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Perform another release
2. Grow the developer base
3. Grow the user 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?
Mailing list activity (June 2016 - August 2016):
* @dev: 77 messages
Jira issues backlog (June 2016 - August 2016):
* Created: 1
* Resolved: 0
We have had interest from both the Apex and Gearpump communities.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have been preparing a second release of the project, which was delayed
due to some minor issues in the RC and then the summer break for most
developers.
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
[ ](samoa) Ted Dunning
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
SensSoft
SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Establishing our Users mailing list and getting incubating releases
to the user community
2. Completing the initial build on our website(s) (in progress)
3. Consolidating our Quick Start deployment guides on Apache infrastructure
(Confluence, website) that allow for an end-to-end deployment of data
collection services with containers for assets (Docker Images) for
speedy deployment (in progress)
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?
1. Community members have been working with DoD and Industry partners to
bring them on as contributors to the project (ex. Other industry leaders
in HCI/UX offerings for DoD have begun offering SensSoft products as
part of their technical offerings).
2. The community has established a Twitter feed (@ApacheSensSoft) and are
growing our community by following others (e.g., Kitware, etc.)
3. Community members from Draper Labs have made arrangements to present at
uie21 and the emetrics summit as exhibitors to capture community
followers in the UI/UX and business analytics communities.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. The transition to Apache Infrastructure is complete!!!
2. We have moved over all our development tickets into Apache Jira. All
development is now taking place @Apache which is great.
3. We are working on new patches and version releases for TAP, UserAle.js,
Distill products (sub projects under SENSSOFT), which will now be
visible through commits.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[X](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
[X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
[X](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Chris Mattmann:
Project has primarily being Championed by Lewis John McGibbney. Lots of
lots of JIRA activity and mailing list activity from the Draper
contributors, including Joshua Poore. Doing a good job starting up.
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
XXXX-XX-XX
--------------------
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. One committer was added in July, more would be
nominated soon after releasing V1.0. We are also expanding the user
base by participating in meetups of local organizations, including
PyDataSG.
2. Optimize V1 release in terms of memory and efficiency for both
stand-alone training and distributed training.
3. Add more examples and tutorials to attract users, including deployment
on Android phones.
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?
There were 187, 100 and 69 emails from dev@ list in June 2016, July 2016
and August 2016 respectively. The number of commits has increased 50%
(about 200 commits) since last report. One new committer was added.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have been working on V1.0 since the last release. The vote for releasing
V1.0 has been sent to the general mailing list.
The new version has major improvements in term of programming abstraction
and usability. Some features are listed here,
* Support heterogeneous hardware: CPP for CPU, CUDA for Nvidia GPU, OpenCL
for other devices (including AMD GPUs)
* New programming abstractions supporting complex deep learning models
* Re-write the Python binding and provide running examples
* Cross-platform (Linux and Mac OSX)
* Upgrade the Cudnn library version to V5 for running RNN models
* New website for documentation
Date of last release:
2016-04-20
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2016-07-20
Signed-off-by:
[ ](singa) Daniel Dai
[X](singa) Alan Gates
[ ](singa) Ted Dunning
[ ](singa) Thejas Nair
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?
No commits or mailing list activity since the last report.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No commits or mailing list activity since the last report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
No commits or mailing list activity since the last report.
No issues resolved
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
[X](streams) Ate Douma
[ ](streams) Craig McClanahan
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Ate Douma:
As indicated in the report, the activity and community of the project
has dwindled down to practically zero. As a consequence I've now raised
the question on the dev list if better to retire the project. Unless
this triggers some serious activity and interest from the community, I
expect an actual vote to retire before the next board report.
--------------------
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.
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
John D. Ament:
The project continues to struggle. I'm not sure its recoverable as an
ASF project at this time. May make sense to reboot in an external
resource, e.g. GitHub, build a true community, and then come back.
--------------------
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 and graduation
2. Complete IP/license review of unreleased repositories
3. Further engaging user/devops community
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Preparing to graduate.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The community is moving towards graduation, by preparing a
Graduation Maturity Assessment
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAVERNADEV/2016-03+Taverna+Graduation+Maturity+Assessment
While we wished we could have released all of Taverna's git repositories
through the Incubator before graduating, we realize that with limited
developer time, getting all of them to a cleanly releasable state
could remove focus from development of the core repositories.
As we an important point of Incubator releases is to ensure the project
understands the ASF release process, including release review and voting,
IP management and licensing compatibility; as well as accepting
contributions. We believe we have gained that after 3 release votes
https://archive.apache.org/dist/incubator/taverna/source/
and 7 GSOC/student contributors.
We have however identified the need for a License Review of the remaining
git repositories that have not yet been formally released through the
Apache Incubator (e.g. to ensure ASF file headers), which we are now
completing:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAVERNADEV/2016-09+License+review
We might consider not including all of these repositories as we move
towards graduation - we already have an alternative home
https://github.com/taverna-extras for dormant extensions.
dev@taverna mailing lists stats:
Jun 2016: 347
Jul 2016: 221
Aug 2016: 170
users@taverna:
Jun 2016: 4
Jul 2016: 2
Aug 2016: 4
JIRA issues over last 90 days:
34 created
12 resolved
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have seen an upsurge in activity with
two successful GSOC projects as well as several
new plugins from other students. Some of them have shown interest
in continued contributions, which we must take into account
for proposing new committers.
This have admittedly taken some focus from the committers
from the incubator graduation path - so we're now
putting effort back into finishing our License Review.
Date of last release:
2016-07-01 taverna-engine-3.1.0-incubating
2016-07-01 taverna-common-activities-2.1.0-incubating
2016-07-01 taverna-commandline-3.1.0-incubating
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:
The Taverna podling is hindered by a lack of active mentors (myself
included) - the project has appealled to general@ on a couple of
occasions
3 of the 4 active contributors are from one institution and contribution
is related to EU project commitments. The codebase is large and has a
long history. One option is to identify a "core" and move out the rest
until such time as they are sustainable. More active PMC/commiters
would be a big boost.
The comment from the last report applies:
Drew Farris (shepherd):
Little mentor activity on the mailing lists, could use another
active mentor. Healthy activity in the community.
--------------------
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. Regular releases
2. Improve community engagement
3. Increase adoption
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?
- 12 subscribers in dev mailing list
- 5 new JIRAs filed since last report
- 2 new contributors submitted patches
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Working on 0.9.0 release
Date of last release:
2016-05-31
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- None since coming to incubation
Signed-off-by:
[X](tephra) Alan Gates
[X](tephra) Andrew Purtell
[X](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: Great news! The team has just merged a PR and
removed the LGPL license in favor of MPL
(https://github.com/zeromq/jeromq/pull/358)
2. Make a release: 0.1.x branch should be ready for release. Master has
moved to start support for Spark 2.0
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) We have 1 major independent contributor (mariusvniekerk)
and at least 2 minor ones
(https://github.com/apache/incubator-toree/graphs/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 - Awaiting MPL release
of JeroMQ. Will update branches to remove caveats re: LGPL once the JeroMQ
release is available.
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. Making significant progress here.
3. More external contributions being made. Community member
2mariusvniekerk key in porting Toree to work on Spark 2.0. Sitting on
PR 56. Working with committer to finish up some details and will merge
when ready. This is a significant contribution.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. JeroMQ community has finalized work to transition to MPL. Waiting for
maven release.
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
--------------------
Traffic Control
Traffic Control allows you to build a large scale content delivery network
using open source.
Traffic Control has been incubating since 2016-07-12.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Software grant from Comcast and others active in the current
github.com/Comcast project to ASF. Discussion between Comcast and ASF
legal on-going, this is blocking all other progress.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
See above issue 1.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Established apache.org accounts for all of the initial committers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Setup git repo and mailing lists.
- Started Software Grant process.
Date of last release:
We released 1.6.0 on 2016-07-29 under the old process, because the release
process (candidates and votes) had already started before our official
entry in the incubator. We have started release 1.7.0 under the old process
as well, since we don't have the necessary ASF infrastructure in place, and
this is pending the SGA.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2016-07-12 - initial committer list.
Signed-off-by:
[X](trafficcontrol) Phil Sorber
[X](trafficcontrol) Eric Covener
[ ](trafficcontrol) Daniel Gruno
[ ](trafficcontrol) J. Aaron Farr
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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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. Continue the momentum and become more integrated with the
rest of the Apache community.
3. Continue to create software releases and to find a release
manager for the next one.
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 relatively steady:
789 messages in the codereview forum, 752@commits,
483@dev, 1240@issues and 101@user.
* We released Trafodion 2.0.0 (source and some binaries) and
Trafodion 2.0.1 (source and convenience binaries).
Steve Varnau was the release manager for both releases.
* We announced two new committers and three new PPMC members:
* Gunnar Tapper (committer and PPMC member), July 5
* Steve Varnau (existing committer, now also a PPMC member),
Aug 18
* Ming Liu (committer and PPMC member), Aug 19
* We have seen increased activity in China.
* We are working on a roadmap for the next release, Atanu Mishra
has volunteered to coordinate it.
* Community members speaking at public events:
* Rohit Jain talked at Data Day Seattle on 7/23
* Rao Kakarlamudi talked at the Milpitas Big Data meetup on 8/5
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Some highlights of Trafodion 2.0.0:
* Support for Apache HBase 1.0 and Hadoop distros CDH 5.4, HDP 2.3
* Elasticity (adding/removing nodes from a Trafodion instance)
* DDL operations are now transaction-protected
* BLOB/CLOB support (preview)
* ALTER COLUMN for all column attributes
* Support for GBK character set in Hive tables
* 249 commits from 24 contributors.
* 180 JIRAs filed and 123 resolved June 1 - Aug 30.
Date of last release:
2016-07-07 2.0.1
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
in August (committers and PPMC members)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](trafodion) Devaraj Das
[ ](trafodion) Enis Söztutar
[ ](trafodion) Michael Stack
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
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 have ongoing community discussion about how to bring in new developers
to ensure sustainability of the project.
A votation session has been scheduled (Sept 28th) to decide if Wave's fork
Swellrt is brought/merged into Wave. This would bring SwellRT active
developers into Wave and it could facilitate use of Wave by new developers
thanks to a new API, removing GWT legacy code.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Made some code improvements
Date of last release:
March 2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
February 2016
Signed-off-by:
[ ](wave) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](wave) Upayavira
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Re: DRAFT report September 2016
Posted by Hemanth Yamijala <yh...@gmail.com>.
Hello Marvin,
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 2:26 AM, Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Please review this draft report.
>
> The MoinMoin wiki is slow and unreliable today. If your wiki update doesn't
> go through, feel free to reply on this thread and I will integrate your
> changes.
>
> Remaining tasks:
>
> * The following podlings need signoff:
> - Fineract
> - log4cxx
> - MRQL
> - Myriad
> - Toree
> - Trafodion
> - Wave
> * The narrative and the Legal/Trademarks/Infrastructure/Misc sections need
> to be fleshed out with summaries from August's conversations on
> general@incubator. (Ted)
>
> Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the report!
>
> Marvin Humphrey
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Incubator PMC report for September 2016
>
> The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
> codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
>
> < narrative >
>
> * Community
>
> No IPMC roster changes this month.
>
> * New Podlings
>
> - Annotator
> - AriaTosca
>
> * Graduations
>
> None this month.
>
> * Releases
>
> The following releases entered distribution during the month of
> August:
>
> - 2016-08-01 Apache Pony Mail 0.9.incubating
> - 2016-08-02 Apache Mnemonic 0.2.0-incubating
> - 2016-08-03 Apache Eagle 0.3.0-incubating
> - 2016-08-09 Apache Datafu (incubating) 1.3.1
> - 2016-08-10 Apache Gearpump 0.8.1-incubating
> - 2016-08-20 Apache Ranger (incubating) 0.6.1
> - 2016-08-22 Apache Metron 0.2.0BETA-incubating
> - 2016-08-22 Apache Beam 0.2.0-incubating
> - 2016-08-24 Apache CarbonData 0.1.0-incubating
> - 2016-08-29 Apache Pirk 0.1.0-incubating
>
> * IP Clearance
>
> None this month.
>
> * Legal / Trademarks
>
>
>
> * Infrastructure
>
>
>
> * Miscellaneous
>
>
>
> * Credits
>
> - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey / John D. Ament
>
> -------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
>
> * Still getting started at the Incubator
>
> - AriaTosca
> - Traffic Control
>
> * Not yet ready to graduate
>
> No release:
>
> - DistributedLog
> - Edgent
> - Fineract
> - HTrace
> - Juneau
> - log4cxx2
> - PredictionIO
> - SensSoft
> - Toree
>
> Community growth:
>
> - Atlas
As submitted in the report, we did have a reasonable growth in Atlas
in terms of both contributors and committers since the last report.
They span multiple organizations too. We, however, still need to
clarify on the Podling name search before we can be ready for
graduation. Can you please let us know if this assessment seems valid?
> - CarbonData
> - CommonsRDF
> - Gearpump
> - Mnemonic
> - MRQL
> - Myriad
> - Omid
> - Pirk
> - Pony Mail
> - Singa
> - SAMOA
> - Tephra
> - Trafodion
> - Wave
>
> * Ready to graduate
>
> - Ranger
> - Taverna
>
> * Considering retirement
>
> - Streams
>
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
> - Quickstep
> - Tamaya
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Table of Contents
> AriaTosca
> Atlas
> CarbonData
> CommonsRDF
> DistributedLog
> Edgent
> Fineract
> Gearpump
> HTrace
> Juneau
> log4cxx2
> Mnemonic
> MRQL
> Myriad
> Omid
> Pirk
> Pony Mail
> PredictionIO
> Quickstep
> Ranger
> SAMOA
> SensSoft
> Singa
> Streams
> Tamaya
> Taverna
> Tephra
> Traffic Control
> Trafodion
> Toree
> Wave
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------
> 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. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for dependable
> release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development
> process.
> 2. Grow the community around the project.
> 3. Migrate existing users to apache mailing lists, redirect the present
> external project links to Apache.
>
> 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 project is still being setup in Apache Incubator and is presently.
>
> Received Software Grant Agreement (SGA) from Gigaspaces.
>
> The mailing lists, Jira, Github Repo, Incubator podling, Confluence Wiki
> have been setup for the project.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> This would be the first report for AriaTosca.
> The project is presently being setup in Incubator.
>
> 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
> [X](ariatosca) 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.
>
> 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. We have added 4 new committers since the last report from different
> organizations. Around 15 new contributors were added since the last
> report. The current number of contributors is around 60.
> 2. The activity on the atlas-dev mailing list stands at around 900 messages
> per month between June and August. [1]
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. A major release, 0.7-incubating, was made in the month of July.
> This release added 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, Kafka message
> versioning, support for creating business taxonomies, enhanced
> user interface, better performance etc.
> 2. Work is proceeding in 0.8-incubating to stabilize many of these
> features and also add several strategic improvements including
> abstractions to the underlying graph database to make it easier
> to move to later versions, rolling upgrades, etc.
> 3. A total of 302 issues were reported between June 1st 2016 and August
> 31st 2016. 266 issues were resolved in the same time frame [2],[3]
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-07-09: 07-incubating [4]
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 1. The PPMC voted and elected 4 new members as committers to
> the project on 2016-07-05: Tom Beerbower, Keval Bhatt, David
> Kantor and Darshan Kumar.
>
> [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-atlas-dev/
> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-1149?jql=project%20%3D%20ATLAS%20AND%20created%20%3E%3D%202016-06-01%20AND%20created%20%3C%3D%202016-08-31
> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-775?jql=project%20%3D%20ATLAS%20AND%20resolved%20%3E%3D%202016-06-01%20AND%20resolved%20%3C%3D%202016-08-31
> [4] https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201607.mbox/%3CCAAbv78fuzCv51E4Pn8fg7nwkJyOUQo9z2WNhsiz2EstbTvj1Gw@mail.gmail.com%3E
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](atlas) Arun Murthy
> [X](atlas) Chris Douglas
> [x](atlas) Jakob Homan
> [ ](atlas) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
>
> 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 new releases
> 2. Increase both dev and user communities
> 3. Publish and update website to promote CarbonData
>
> 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 100 new issues created during Aug; One
> user formally deployed CarbonData to their business system, the
> query efficiency speeded up 50 times (the user is the biggest internet
> finance company in China)
>
> 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.
>
> We did the first release (0.1.0-incubating) and we are preparing a new one.
>
> We're also working on the website (with improved look'n feel).
>
> We're also preparing some talks and presentations about CarbonData.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-08-27
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-07-15
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](carbondata) Henry Saputra
> [X](carbondata) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> [X](carbondata) Uma Maheswara Rao G
>
> 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. 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.
> 2. Engage wider RDF community
> 3. Graduate to Apache Commons
>
> 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 has been fairly quiet during the summer.
>
> Mailing list stats:
>
> dev@commonsrdf traffic
> Jun 2016: 10
> Jul 2016: 21
> Aug 2016: 3
>
> Jira stats for last 90 days:
> Created: 5
> Resolved: 1
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Building on the idea of Commons VFS-style integration
> we have added branches that add bindings for
> Eclipse RDF4j (formerly Open RDF Sesame),
> Apache Jena and JSON-LD-Java.
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-commonsrdf/branches
>
> This has raised interest within Jena
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-1015
>
> We should now be moving towards a 0.3.0 release,
> and working towards graduation to Apache Commons PMC,
> we are adapting the build to be more compatible with the
> Commons release process https://commons.apache.org/releases/
>
> 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
> [ ](commonsrdf) Gary Gregory
> [X](commonsrdf) Lewis J McGibbney
>
> 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. Getting an Apache release out
> 2. Improve general documentation
> 3. Grow user base
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> There is currently no issue.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> 1. A few people began actively to involve in the project discussion
> 2. Some project ideas have been initiated and discussed on the mailing list
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. The wiki has been filled up with development and contribution
> information.
> 2. The existing website content has been pushed to asf-site branch and
> live under http://distributedlog.incubator.apache.org. The new website
> has been discussed.
> 3. The pom file was updated to follow Apache's principle and the status
> page is updated.
> 4. Various project ideas are under developing.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> N/A
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](distributedlog) Flavio Junqueira
> [X](distributedlog) Chris Nauroth
> [X](distributedlog) Henry Saputra
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Edgent
>
> Apache Edgent 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 Edgent provides efficient and timely
> analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the center to the edge.
>
> 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 Edgent project
> 2. Set up new build system, allowing us to remove code dependencies from
> our repository
> 3. Create the first Apache release of Edgent
>
> 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?
>
> Significant progress has been made on a new build system, using Gradle.
> One of the goals is to remove third party code, so we can work toward a
> release.
>
> The community has been active and participating in voting. Heavy commit
> activity, but light Jira activity, recently as the name change was
> implemented in the code, documentation and web site.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> According to JIRA, the project has added the following:
>
> * June: 29 new issues; 22 issues resolved.
> * July: 20 new issues; 15 issues resolved.
> * August: 7 new issues; 7 issues resolved.
>
> August activity was largely build and renaming activities, tracked under a
> few Jira issues.
>
> The name for the project was changed from Apache Quarks to Apache Edgent.
> The new name went through a suitable name search and was approved. The
> infrastructure, code and documentation changes have been completed.
>
> A logo was voted on and chosen, and a wiki was set up for the Edgent
> community.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> We have not created an Apache release as of yet. We need to complete build
> changes and licensing work to create a 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
> [ ](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. Getting a first release out – we are still inhibited by Hibernate issues
> which are more deeply rooted than we realized.
> 2. Moving the community from the Mifos infrastructure to the Apache
> infrastructure – most discussions are taking place out of public view.
> 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?
>
> The person who creates and submits the board reports will cease to perform
> this task until the code rework is ready to be introduced to the community.
> It is possible that this will endanger the board reports.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Several prospective new committers have recently joined the Mifos community
> through Google Summer of Code and as new partners that we are working to
> add as committers to the Apache Fineract.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have tried and failed to produce an apache release again. A release was
> produced by the mifos community outside of apache and announced on the
> apache fineract user list.
>
> The release included work intended to move us closer to apache policies.
> In particular, the removal of Hibernate annotations from the code uncovered
> a circular dependency in the data structure which was not caught in
> testing. Two production systems from early adopters are out-of-service
> today.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Jim Jagielski was added as a mentor.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
> [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
> [ ](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
> [ ](fineract) Jim Jagielski
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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 with Apache 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?
>
> Increased community contribution on integration with Apache Cassandra.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We released Apache Gearpump 0.8.1-incubating, which is Gearpump's first
> release as an Apache incubator project.
>
> Integration within Apache Beam (Gearpump Runner) has been merged into a
> feature branch.
>
> Continued integration within akka-streams (Gearpump Materializer). Three
> PRs committed.
>
> 28 issues created and 18 resolved.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-08-16
>
> 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:
>
> Justin Mclean:
>
> PPMC are looking for additional mentors.
>
> --------------------
> HTrace
>
> Apache HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed
> systems written in java.
>
> Apache HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Continue to grow the Apache HTrace community
> 2. Continue to explore projects integrating Apache HTrace
> 3. Continue to develop and release stable Apache 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?
>
> * The dev@htrace mailing list continues to see new comers which is great.
> * Although a GSoC-related project was not successfully completed, the
> Apache Kudu and Apache HTrace communities have made contact. This is
> part of the drive to have more projects integrate Apache HTrace.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * A discussion thread is currently ongoing to release HTrace 4.2. This
> will include over 40 issues addressed and may even be our last incubating
> release before we attempt to graduate.
>
> 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:
>
> [X](htrace) Jake Farrell
> [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
> [X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
> [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
> [x](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
> [x](htrace) Michael Stack
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Juneau
>
> Apache Juneau is a toolkit for marshalling POJOs to a wide variety of content
> types using a common framework, and for creating sophisticated self-
> documenting REST interfaces and microservices using VERY little code.
>
> Juneau has been incubating since 2016-06-24.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Build up community with non-IBM and non-Salesforce contributors.
> 2. Release a version of the product to spark external interest in the
> project.
> 3. Need to determine where built libraries will be hosted for download.
>
> 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 new members in August. The hope is that a release of the product will
> spark interest.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Website is now running.
> Jira is now running and accepting bug reports.
> Jenkins is now running and producing builds.
> Confluence space has been created with articles for developers to get
> started contributing.
> Passes apache-rat check.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> None.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](juneau) Craig Russell
> [ ](juneau) Jochen Wiedmann
> [X](juneau) John D. Ament
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> log4cxx2
>
> Logging for C++. N.B. This is a reboot of the Log4cxx podling which
> previously graduated.
>
> 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.
>
> There was a discussion about some kind of "maintenance mode" where releases
> and community growth doesn't matter much. As that mode doesn't exist, it
> has been suggested to release, graduate from incubator and just live along
> other logging projects and in a comparable state like log4cxx.
>
> Currently it seems that there's only one official project member with
> commit access left answering mails. Even though that member and some
> contributors worked on being able to create a release in the past, contrary
> to expectations that project member didn't find the time to deal with a
> release as necessary.
>
> It seems most likely that if a release doesn't happen until the next report
> is due, it won't at all anymore. At least not by that one left member.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> One new contributor took quite some time to look and fix the release
> process. Two support mails from users, no new project members.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Robert Middleton took quite some time to look at the build and release
> process on Windows and Linux in the last two months and came to the
> conclusion that the current Maven based process for both seems broken.
> He provided a shell based alternative for the release and CMAKE build
> starting points, which hasn't been merged into or tested by the project
> yet.
>
> 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:
>
> [ ](log4cxx2) Ralph Goers
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Drew Farris:
>
> One mentor active within in the past month. There is a single active
> committer and minor progress towards a release. The current build system
> is proving problematic for the contributor involved. There is some
> discussion about moving to the attic and this seems appropriate
>
> --------------------
> Mnemonic
>
> Apache Mnemonic is an advanced hybrid memory storage oriented library, we've
> proposed a non-volatile/durable Java object model and durable computing
> service that bring several advantages to significantly improve the
> performance of massive real-time data processing/analytics. developers are
> able to use this library to design their cache-less and SerDe-less high
> performance applications.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Apache releases: we have release version 0.2.0-incubating
> 2. Encouraging community participation and contribution
> 3. Invented Durable Computing Model and Service on top of Durable Object
> Model
>
> 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 April. Since then
>
> * Twelve new contributors have joined and seven contributors have submitted
> their patches.
> * We need to encourage more discussion on the dev list in the coming months
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Added memory service and testcases
> * Added computing service and testcases
> * Re-organized sub-modules
> * Added Apache Rat and Checkstyle to ensure compliance
> * Added release.sh, runall.sh script tools
> * Supported Docker dev. construction
> * Removed the dependency of customized 3rd party library
> * Removed the dependency of special version of nvml
> * Constructed project website (WIP)
> * Supported discrete addressing for memory service
> * and other bugfixes, features, improvements
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-08-02
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt
> [X](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell
> [x](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?
>
> No
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> There were no new developers or new committers since our last report.
> There are two UTA students who are developing code for the MRQL project as
> part of their Master's thesis, but they have not participated in the MRQL
> community yet. One is working on implementing MRQL streaming with Apache
> Storm and he is scheduled to complete it by the end of the year. The other
> student is working on MRQL data visualization.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> There were 8 JIRA issues reported from which 6 have already been resolved.
> The main work during this period was on algebra-based and source-level
> debugging of MRQL queries. Basically, MRQL query results are annotated
> with lineage information that links each result value with the input data
> that were used to calculate the value. We hope that this debugger will be
> a valuable tool for developing and understanding MRQL queries.
>
> 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
> [ ](mrql) Edward J. Yoon
> [ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Expand user/contributor/committer community
> 2. Gather more support from Hadoop and Mesos vendors
> 3. Release new versions (0.3 in planning), with more enterprise features
>
> 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 picked up traffic (153 messages in June) around the
> 0.2.0 release. 236 messages since the last report.
> * 6 new members on the dev@ mailing list. 3 new patch contributors.
> * Bi-weekly dev syncs with 2-5 participants. Some cancelled due to lack of
> attendance. Minutes at http://s.apache.org/8kF
> * Myriad to be presented at HadoopWorld/Strata NYC and a talk submitted for
> ApacheCon BigData EU.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Myriad 0.2.0 released. Myriad 0.3.0 in development/planning.
> * 10 commits since 6/1. 8 JIRAs resolved.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-06-20 myriad-0.2.0-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-06-16 Yuliya Feldman
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
> [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
> [ ](myriad) Ted Dunning
> [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Boost project dissemination in the Apache community.
> 2. Collaborate/integrate Omid with other Apache projects.
> 3. Get positive feedback from other projects currently integrating/using
> Omid.
>
> 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?
>
> * Omid presented at Hadoop Summit 2016 in San Jose. Some attendants
> manifested interest and asked for future plans of integrating Omid with
> Apache Phoenix.
> * First contact with Apache DistributedLog community for a possible
> integration with Omid.
> * Blog entry on Apache Omid ready to be published in Yahoo's hadoop blog
> site.
> * Quarter Stats (from: 2016-06-01 to: 2016-08-31):
> +---------------------------------------------+
> | Metric | counts |
> +---------------------------------------------+
> | # of msgs in dev list | 204 |
> | Active Contributors (incl mentors)| 6 |
> | Jira New Issues | 10 |
> | Resolved Issues | 12 |
> | Pull Requests merged | 7 |
> | Pull Requests proposed | 10 |
> +---------------------------------------------+
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> First version of Omid released under the Apache incubator program. It has
> also been integrated with the Apache Hive project.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-06-24
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> At incubation acceptance (2016-03-28)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](omid) Alan Gates
> [ ](omid) Lars Hofhansl
> [ ](omid) Flavio P. Junqueira
> [ ](omid) Thejas Nair
> [x](omid) James Taylor
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Pirk
>
> Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR).
>
> Pirk has been incubating since 2016-06-17. The initial code for Pirk was
> granted on 2016-07-11.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Grow the community to establish diversity of background and expertise.
> 2. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for dependable
> release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development
> process.
> 3. Add to and improve the Pirk user documentation and examples both on the
> website and in the codebase
>
> 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 officially welcomed two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel
> Marthi, both also mentors). The mailing list activity, pull requests, and
> page views to the Apache Pirk website (via Google Analytics) have also
> greatly increased since the last report.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The project completed it's first release, 0.1.0-incubating, since the last
> report and provided a release guide on its website documenting the process.
> Additionally, the project has ensured that all dependencies are compliant
> with the Apache License version 2.0 and that all code and documentation
> artifacts have the correct Apache licensing markings and notice. The
> project has also undertaken a refactor of some of the initial packages and
> provided initial streaming implementations.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> August 29, 2016
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Pirk elected two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel Marthi, both
> mentors) on August 18, 2016.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](pirk) Billie Rinaldi
> [ ](pirk) Joe Witt
> [X](pirk) Josh Elser
> [X](pirk) Suneel Marthi
> [X](pirk) Tim Ellison
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Josh Elser:
>
> Extremely happy to see the first release completed so soon after
> entering incubation. Very pleased with the interaction and
> responsiveness at PPMC and IPMC levels during the vote process. They are
> well on their way.
>
> Suneel Marthi:
>
> I must add that the first release candidate was put out for PPMC/IPMC
> Vote in less than a month since the initial code was pushed to the
> apache github repo.
>
> --------------------
> 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. Make contributions easier (lower the bar for hacking on code/docs/UI)
> 3. Increase awareness of the project
>
> 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?
>
> Slight uptick in active members of the community, we now count roughly 10
> active people participating either on the mailing list or IRC.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Work has begun on a redesign of the UI, allowing for contributions more
> easily. This is codenamed 'coffee and cake', and is expected to reach a
> usable phase in a month or two.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-08-02
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None since inception. See graduation info point 1. The codebase needs to
> be more accessible before contributions can occur.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
> [X](ponymail) John D. Ament
>
> 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 is in the works and anticipated to be complete in September 2016.
>
> 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 of background.
> 3. Transition remaining 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. Users have begun to migrate from the old Google group to the Apache user
> list
> 2. Three new contributors have become active and have been making
> consistently acceptable contributions and are on path to becoming
> committers.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. The old Prediction.io docs site has been migrated to
> http://predictionio.incubator.apache.org
> 2. About seven templates from the original PredictionIO have been ported to
> Apache PredictionIO, pending a decision on a 2nd grant. The pending 2nd
> grant will not block a PredictionIO release.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No releases have been made yet. Present activities are focussed towards a
> planned first Apache Release in September 2016.
>
> 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
> [x](predictionio) James Taylor
> [ ](predictionio) Lars Hofhansl
> [ ](predictionio) Luciano Resende
> [ ](predictionio) Xiangrui Meng
> [X](predictionio) Suneel Marthi
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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 (June-01-2016 to August-31-2016):
> @dev 1423
> @user 124
> @commit 294
>
> 2. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after June-01-2016
> before August-31-2016):
> Created: 155
> Resolved: 168
>
> 3. Adding more community members to involve in Apache Ranger
> * Added new contributors: Suneel Marthi
> * Apache Hawq community is working with Ranger to build a
> authorization engine for Apache Hawq (RANGER-782)
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Released one major release :
> 0.6.0 released on 07/18/2016
>
> 2. Released one minor release :
> 0.6.1 released on 08/20/2016
>
> 3. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.7.0
> a. Working on scoping of the release and features
>
> Date of last release:
>
> August-20-2016
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 1. Gautam Borad has been added as committer on June-29-2015
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](ranger) Alan Gates
> [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
> [X](ranger) Jakob Homan
> [ ](ranger) Owen O'Malley
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Drew Farris:
>
> Three mentors active. New release available in August. Community
> growth. Discussion of Graduation Steps. A healthy podling.
>
> --------------------
> 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 S4, and Apache Samza.
>
> SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Perform another release
> 2. Grow the developer base
> 3. Grow the user 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?
>
> Mailing list activity (June 2016 - August 2016):
> * @dev: 77 messages
>
> Jira issues backlog (June 2016 - August 2016):
> * Created: 1
> * Resolved: 0
>
> We have had interest from both the Apex and Gearpump communities.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have been preparing a second release of the project, which was delayed
> due to some minor issues in the RC and then the summer break for most
> developers.
>
> 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
> [ ](samoa) Ted Dunning
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> SensSoft
>
> SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
>
> SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Establishing our Users mailing list and getting incubating releases
> to the user community
> 2. Completing the initial build on our website(s) (in progress)
> 3. Consolidating our Quick Start deployment guides on Apache infrastructure
> (Confluence, website) that allow for an end-to-end deployment of data
> collection services with containers for assets (Docker Images) for
> speedy deployment (in progress)
>
> 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?
>
> 1. Community members have been working with DoD and Industry partners to
> bring them on as contributors to the project (ex. Other industry leaders
> in HCI/UX offerings for DoD have begun offering SensSoft products as
> part of their technical offerings).
> 2. The community has established a Twitter feed (@ApacheSensSoft) and are
> growing our community by following others (e.g., Kitware, etc.)
> 3. Community members from Draper Labs have made arrangements to present at
> uie21 and the emetrics summit as exhibitors to capture community
> followers in the UI/UX and business analytics communities.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. The transition to Apache Infrastructure is complete!!!
> 2. We have moved over all our development tickets into Apache Jira. All
> development is now taking place @Apache which is great.
> 3. We are working on new patches and version releases for TAP, UserAle.js,
> Distill products (sub projects under SENSSOFT), which will now be
> visible through commits.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
> [X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
> [X](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Chris Mattmann:
>
> Project has primarily being Championed by Lewis John McGibbney. Lots of
> lots of JIRA activity and mailing list activity from the Draper
> contributors, including Joshua Poore. Doing a good job starting up.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> --------------------
> 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. One committer was added in July, more would be
> nominated soon after releasing V1.0. We are also expanding the user
> base by participating in meetups of local organizations, including
> PyDataSG.
> 2. Optimize V1 release in terms of memory and efficiency for both
> stand-alone training and distributed training.
> 3. Add more examples and tutorials to attract users, including deployment
> on Android phones.
>
> 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?
>
> There were 187, 100 and 69 emails from dev@ list in June 2016, July 2016
> and August 2016 respectively. The number of commits has increased 50%
> (about 200 commits) since last report. One new committer was added.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have been working on V1.0 since the last release. The vote for releasing
> V1.0 has been sent to the general mailing list.
>
> The new version has major improvements in term of programming abstraction
> and usability. Some features are listed here,
>
> * Support heterogeneous hardware: CPP for CPU, CUDA for Nvidia GPU, OpenCL
> for other devices (including AMD GPUs)
> * New programming abstractions supporting complex deep learning models
> * Re-write the Python binding and provide running examples
> * Cross-platform (Linux and Mac OSX)
> * Upgrade the Cudnn library version to V5 for running RNN models
> * New website for documentation
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-04-20
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-07-20
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](singa) Daniel Dai
> [X](singa) Alan Gates
> [ ](singa) Ted Dunning
> [ ](singa) Thejas Nair
>
> 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?
>
> No commits or mailing list activity since the last report.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> No commits or mailing list activity since the last report.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> No commits or mailing list activity since the last report.
>
> No issues resolved
>
> 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
> [X](streams) Ate Douma
> [ ](streams) Craig McClanahan
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Ate Douma:
>
> As indicated in the report, the activity and community of the project
> has dwindled down to practically zero. As a consequence I've now raised
> the question on the dev list if better to retire the project. Unless
> this triggers some serious activity and interest from the community, I
> expect an actual vote to retire before the next board report.
>
> --------------------
> 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.
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> John D. Ament:
>
> The project continues to struggle. I'm not sure its recoverable as an
> ASF project at this time. May make sense to reboot in an external
> resource, e.g. GitHub, build a true community, and then come back.
>
> --------------------
> 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 and graduation
> 2. Complete IP/license review of unreleased repositories
> 3. Further engaging user/devops community
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> Preparing to graduate.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> The community is moving towards graduation, by preparing a
> Graduation Maturity Assessment
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAVERNADEV/2016-03+Taverna+Graduation+Maturity+Assessment
>
> While we wished we could have released all of Taverna's git repositories
> through the Incubator before graduating, we realize that with limited
> developer time, getting all of them to a cleanly releasable state
> could remove focus from development of the core repositories.
>
> As we an important point of Incubator releases is to ensure the project
> understands the ASF release process, including release review and voting,
> IP management and licensing compatibility; as well as accepting
> contributions. We believe we have gained that after 3 release votes
> https://archive.apache.org/dist/incubator/taverna/source/
> and 7 GSOC/student contributors.
>
> We have however identified the need for a License Review of the remaining
> git repositories that have not yet been formally released through the
> Apache Incubator (e.g. to ensure ASF file headers), which we are now
> completing:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAVERNADEV/2016-09+License+review
>
> We might consider not including all of these repositories as we move
> towards graduation - we already have an alternative home
> https://github.com/taverna-extras for dormant extensions.
>
> dev@taverna mailing lists stats:
>
> Jun 2016: 347
> Jul 2016: 221
> Aug 2016: 170
>
> users@taverna:
>
> Jun 2016: 4
> Jul 2016: 2
> Aug 2016: 4
>
> JIRA issues over last 90 days:
>
> 34 created
> 12 resolved
>
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have seen an upsurge in activity with
> two successful GSOC projects as well as several
> new plugins from other students. Some of them have shown interest
> in continued contributions, which we must take into account
> for proposing new committers.
>
> This have admittedly taken some focus from the committers
> from the incubator graduation path - so we're now
> putting effort back into finishing our License Review.
>
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-07-01 taverna-engine-3.1.0-incubating
> 2016-07-01 taverna-common-activities-2.1.0-incubating
> 2016-07-01 taverna-commandline-3.1.0-incubating
>
> 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:
>
> The Taverna podling is hindered by a lack of active mentors (myself
> included) - the project has appealled to general@ on a couple of
> occasions
>
> 3 of the 4 active contributors are from one institution and contribution
> is related to EU project commitments. The codebase is large and has a
> long history. One option is to identify a "core" and move out the rest
> until such time as they are sustainable. More active PMC/commiters
> would be a big boost.
>
> The comment from the last report applies:
>
> Drew Farris (shepherd):
>
> Little mentor activity on the mailing lists, could use another
> active mentor. Healthy activity in the community.
>
> --------------------
> 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. Regular releases
> 2. Improve community engagement
> 3. Increase adoption
>
> 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?
>
> - 12 subscribers in dev mailing list
> - 5 new JIRAs filed since last report
> - 2 new contributors submitted patches
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Working on 0.9.0 release
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-05-31
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> - None since coming to incubation
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](tephra) Alan Gates
> [X](tephra) Andrew Purtell
> [X](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: Great news! The team has just merged a PR and
> removed the LGPL license in favor of MPL
> (https://github.com/zeromq/jeromq/pull/358)
> 2. Make a release: 0.1.x branch should be ready for release. Master has
> moved to start support for Spark 2.0
> 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) We have 1 major independent contributor (mariusvniekerk)
> and at least 2 minor ones
> (https://github.com/apache/incubator-toree/graphs/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 - Awaiting MPL release
> of JeroMQ. Will update branches to remove caveats re: LGPL once the JeroMQ
> release is available.
>
> 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. Making significant progress here.
> 3. More external contributions being made. Community member
> 2mariusvniekerk key in porting Toree to work on Spark 2.0. Sitting on
> PR 56. Working with committer to finish up some details and will merge
> when ready. This is a significant contribution.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. JeroMQ community has finalized work to transition to MPL. Waiting for
> maven release.
> 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
>
> --------------------
> Traffic Control
>
> Traffic Control allows you to build a large scale content delivery network
> using open source.
>
> Traffic Control has been incubating since 2016-07-12.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Software grant from Comcast and others active in the current
> github.com/Comcast project to ASF. Discussion between Comcast and ASF
> legal on-going, this is blocking all other progress.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
> of?
>
> See above issue 1.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Established apache.org accounts for all of the initial committers.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Setup git repo and mailing lists.
> - Started Software Grant process.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> We released 1.6.0 on 2016-07-29 under the old process, because the release
> process (candidates and votes) had already started before our official
> entry in the incubator. We have started release 1.7.0 under the old process
> as well, since we don't have the necessary ASF infrastructure in place, and
> this is pending the SGA.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-07-12 - initial committer list.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](trafficcontrol) Phil Sorber
> [X](trafficcontrol) Eric Covener
> [ ](trafficcontrol) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](trafficcontrol) J. Aaron Farr
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Continue the momentum and become more integrated with the
> rest of the Apache community.
> 3. Continue to create software releases and to find a release
> manager for the next one.
>
> 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 relatively steady:
> 789 messages in the codereview forum, 752@commits,
> 483@dev, 1240@issues and 101@user.
> * We released Trafodion 2.0.0 (source and some binaries) and
> Trafodion 2.0.1 (source and convenience binaries).
> Steve Varnau was the release manager for both releases.
> * We announced two new committers and three new PPMC members:
> * Gunnar Tapper (committer and PPMC member), July 5
> * Steve Varnau (existing committer, now also a PPMC member),
> Aug 18
> * Ming Liu (committer and PPMC member), Aug 19
> * We have seen increased activity in China.
> * We are working on a roadmap for the next release, Atanu Mishra
> has volunteered to coordinate it.
> * Community members speaking at public events:
> * Rohit Jain talked at Data Day Seattle on 7/23
> * Rao Kakarlamudi talked at the Milpitas Big Data meetup on 8/5
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Some highlights of Trafodion 2.0.0:
> * Support for Apache HBase 1.0 and Hadoop distros CDH 5.4, HDP 2.3
> * Elasticity (adding/removing nodes from a Trafodion instance)
> * DDL operations are now transaction-protected
> * BLOB/CLOB support (preview)
> * ALTER COLUMN for all column attributes
> * Support for GBK character set in Hive tables
> * 249 commits from 24 contributors.
> * 180 JIRAs filed and 123 resolved June 1 - Aug 30.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-07-07 2.0.1
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> in August (committers and PPMC members)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](trafodion) Devaraj Das
> [ ](trafodion) Enis Söztutar
> [ ](trafodion) Michael Stack
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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 have ongoing community discussion about how to bring in new developers
> to ensure sustainability of the project.
>
> A votation session has been scheduled (Sept 28th) to decide if Wave's fork
> Swellrt is brought/merged into Wave. This would bring SwellRT active
> developers into Wave and it could facilitate use of Wave by new developers
> thanks to a new API, removing GWT legacy code.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Made some code improvements
>
> Date of last release:
>
> March 2016
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> February 2016
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](wave) Christian Grobmeier
> [ ](wave) Upayavira
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
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Re: DRAFT report September 2016
Posted by Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>.
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Marvin Humphrey
<ma...@rectangular.com> wrote:
> ...The MoinMoin wiki is slow and unreliable today...
FWIW when that happens I often see updates actually going through, but
the page taking a lot of time to come back showing them. Opening the
same URL in a new browser tab often shows my changes quickly.
(haven't checked today yet, but soon...hehe ;-)
-Bertrand
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Re: DRAFT report September 2016
Posted by Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org>.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Please review this draft report.
>
> The MoinMoin wiki is slow and unreliable today. If your wiki update doesn't
> go through, feel free to reply on this thread and I will integrate your
> changes.
Thanks Marvin!
> --------------------
> 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. Getting a first release out – we are still inhibited by Hibernate issues
> which are more deeply rooted than we realized.
> 2. Moving the community from the Mifos infrastructure to the Apache
> infrastructure – most discussions are taking place out of public view.
> 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?
>
> The person who creates and submits the board reports will cease to perform
> this task until the code rework is ready to be introduced to the community.
> It is possible that this will endanger the board reports.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Several prospective new committers have recently joined the Mifos community
> through Google Summer of Code and as new partners that we are working to
> add as committers to the Apache Fineract.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have tried and failed to produce an apache release again. A release was
> produced by the mifos community outside of apache and announced on the
> apache fineract user list.
>
> The release included work intended to move us closer to apache policies.
> In particular, the removal of Hibernate annotations from the code uncovered
> a circular dependency in the data structure which was not caught in
> testing. Two production systems from early adopters are out-of-service
> today.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Jim Jagielski was added as a mentor.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
> [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
> [X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
> [ ](fineract) Jim Jagielski
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
(rvs) I'll be following up with the community on the report generation
point which
clearly needs to be clarified.
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Re: DRAFT report September 2016
Posted by Upayavira <uv...@odoko.co.uk>.
Apologies for my delay. With the following comment I sign off on Wave:
"Once more Wave is on the brink of retirement. However, this time, an
offer has been made of code from SwellRT, which is a fork of Wave
itself, and a concall has been scheduled for interested parties to
discuss whether it is a go-er. It is my (limited) understanding that
many of the complexity issues in the Wave code that have prevented
community development have been resolved in SwellRT. I will watch to see
where this goes, if anywhere."
On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, at 09:56 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Please review this draft report.
>
> The MoinMoin wiki is slow and unreliable today. If your wiki update
> doesn't
> go through, feel free to reply on this thread and I will integrate your
> changes.
>
> Remaining tasks:
>
> * The following podlings need signoff:
> - Fineract
> - log4cxx
> - MRQL
> - Myriad
> - Toree
> - Trafodion
> - Wave
> * The narrative and the Legal/Trademarks/Infrastructure/Misc sections
> need
> to be fleshed out with summaries from August's conversations on
> general@incubator. (Ted)
>
> Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the report!
>
> Marvin Humphrey
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Incubator PMC report for September 2016
>
> The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
> codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
>
> < narrative >
>
> * Community
>
> No IPMC roster changes this month.
>
> * New Podlings
>
> - Annotator
> - AriaTosca
>
> * Graduations
>
> None this month.
>
> * Releases
>
> The following releases entered distribution during the month of
> August:
>
> - 2016-08-01 Apache Pony Mail 0.9.incubating
> - 2016-08-02 Apache Mnemonic 0.2.0-incubating
> - 2016-08-03 Apache Eagle 0.3.0-incubating
> - 2016-08-09 Apache Datafu (incubating) 1.3.1
> - 2016-08-10 Apache Gearpump 0.8.1-incubating
> - 2016-08-20 Apache Ranger (incubating) 0.6.1
> - 2016-08-22 Apache Metron 0.2.0BETA-incubating
> - 2016-08-22 Apache Beam 0.2.0-incubating
> - 2016-08-24 Apache CarbonData 0.1.0-incubating
> - 2016-08-29 Apache Pirk 0.1.0-incubating
>
> * IP Clearance
>
> None this month.
>
> * Legal / Trademarks
>
>
>
> * Infrastructure
>
>
>
> * Miscellaneous
>
>
>
> * Credits
>
> - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey / John D. Ament
>
> -------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
>
> * Still getting started at the Incubator
>
> - AriaTosca
> - Traffic Control
>
> * Not yet ready to graduate
>
> No release:
>
> - DistributedLog
> - Edgent
> - Fineract
> - HTrace
> - Juneau
> - log4cxx2
> - PredictionIO
> - SensSoft
> - Toree
>
> Community growth:
>
> - Atlas
> - CarbonData
> - CommonsRDF
> - Gearpump
> - Mnemonic
> - MRQL
> - Myriad
> - Omid
> - Pirk
> - Pony Mail
> - Singa
> - SAMOA
> - Tephra
> - Trafodion
> - Wave
>
> * Ready to graduate
>
> - Ranger
> - Taverna
>
> * Considering retirement
>
> - Streams
>
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
> - Quickstep
> - Tamaya
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Table of Contents
> AriaTosca
> Atlas
> CarbonData
> CommonsRDF
> DistributedLog
> Edgent
> Fineract
> Gearpump
> HTrace
> Juneau
> log4cxx2
> Mnemonic
> MRQL
> Myriad
> Omid
> Pirk
> Pony Mail
> PredictionIO
> Quickstep
> Ranger
> SAMOA
> SensSoft
> Singa
> Streams
> Tamaya
> Taverna
> Tephra
> Traffic Control
> Trafodion
> Toree
> Wave
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------
> 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. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for
> dependable
> release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development
> process.
> 2. Grow the community around the project.
> 3. Migrate existing users to apache mailing lists, redirect the present
> external project links to Apache.
>
> 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 project is still being setup in Apache Incubator and is presently.
>
> Received Software Grant Agreement (SGA) from Gigaspaces.
>
> The mailing lists, Jira, Github Repo, Incubator podling, Confluence
> Wiki
> have been setup for the project.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> This would be the first report for AriaTosca.
> The project is presently being setup in Incubator.
>
> 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
> [X](ariatosca) 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.
>
> 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. We have added 4 new committers since the last report from different
> organizations. Around 15 new contributors were added since the last
> report. The current number of contributors is around 60.
> 2. The activity on the atlas-dev mailing list stands at around 900
> messages
> per month between June and August. [1]
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. A major release, 0.7-incubating, was made in the month of July.
> This release added 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, Kafka message
> versioning, support for creating business taxonomies, enhanced
> user interface, better performance etc.
> 2. Work is proceeding in 0.8-incubating to stabilize many of these
> features and also add several strategic improvements including
> abstractions to the underlying graph database to make it easier
> to move to later versions, rolling upgrades, etc.
> 3. A total of 302 issues were reported between June 1st 2016 and August
> 31st 2016. 266 issues were resolved in the same time frame [2],[3]
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-07-09: 07-incubating [4]
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 1. The PPMC voted and elected 4 new members as committers to
> the project on 2016-07-05: Tom Beerbower, Keval Bhatt, David
> Kantor and Darshan Kumar.
>
> [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-atlas-dev/
> [2]
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-1149?jql=project%20%3D%20ATLAS%20AND%20created%20%3E%3D%202016-06-01%20AND%20created%20%3C%3D%202016-08-31
> [3]
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-775?jql=project%20%3D%20ATLAS%20AND%20resolved%20%3E%3D%202016-06-01%20AND%20resolved%20%3C%3D%202016-08-31
> [4]
> https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201607.mbox/%3CCAAbv78fuzCv51E4Pn8fg7nwkJyOUQo9z2WNhsiz2EstbTvj1Gw@mail.gmail.com%3E
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](atlas) Arun Murthy
> [X](atlas) Chris Douglas
> [x](atlas) Jakob Homan
> [ ](atlas) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
>
> 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 new releases
> 2. Increase both dev and user communities
> 3. Publish and update website to promote CarbonData
>
> 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 100 new issues created during Aug;
> One
> user formally deployed CarbonData to their business system, the
> query efficiency speeded up 50 times (the user is the biggest internet
> finance company in China)
>
> 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.
>
> We did the first release (0.1.0-incubating) and we are preparing a new
> one.
>
> We're also working on the website (with improved look'n feel).
>
> We're also preparing some talks and presentations about CarbonData.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-08-27
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-07-15
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](carbondata) Henry Saputra
> [X](carbondata) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> [X](carbondata) Uma Maheswara Rao G
>
> 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. 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.
> 2. Engage wider RDF community
> 3. Graduate to Apache Commons
>
> 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 has been fairly quiet during the summer.
>
> Mailing list stats:
>
> dev@commonsrdf traffic
> Jun 2016: 10
> Jul 2016: 21
> Aug 2016: 3
>
> Jira stats for last 90 days:
> Created: 5
> Resolved: 1
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Building on the idea of Commons VFS-style integration
> we have added branches that add bindings for
> Eclipse RDF4j (formerly Open RDF Sesame),
> Apache Jena and JSON-LD-Java.
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-commonsrdf/branches
>
> This has raised interest within Jena
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-1015
>
> We should now be moving towards a 0.3.0 release,
> and working towards graduation to Apache Commons PMC,
> we are adapting the build to be more compatible with the
> Commons release process https://commons.apache.org/releases/
>
> 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
> [ ](commonsrdf) Gary Gregory
> [X](commonsrdf) Lewis J McGibbney
>
> 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. Getting an Apache release out
> 2. Improve general documentation
> 3. Grow user base
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> There is currently no issue.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> 1. A few people began actively to involve in the project discussion
> 2. Some project ideas have been initiated and discussed on the mailing
> list
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. The wiki has been filled up with development and contribution
> information.
> 2. The existing website content has been pushed to asf-site branch and
> live under http://distributedlog.incubator.apache.org. The new
> website
> has been discussed.
> 3. The pom file was updated to follow Apache's principle and the status
> page is updated.
> 4. Various project ideas are under developing.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> N/A
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](distributedlog) Flavio Junqueira
> [X](distributedlog) Chris Nauroth
> [X](distributedlog) Henry Saputra
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Edgent
>
> Apache Edgent 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 Edgent provides efficient and
> timely
> analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the center to the edge.
>
> 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 Edgent project
> 2. Set up new build system, allowing us to remove code dependencies
> from
> our repository
> 3. Create the first Apache release of Edgent
>
> 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?
>
> Significant progress has been made on a new build system, using
> Gradle.
> One of the goals is to remove third party code, so we can work toward a
> release.
>
> The community has been active and participating in voting. Heavy
> commit
> activity, but light Jira activity, recently as the name change was
> implemented in the code, documentation and web site.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> According to JIRA, the project has added the following:
>
> * June: 29 new issues; 22 issues resolved.
> * July: 20 new issues; 15 issues resolved.
> * August: 7 new issues; 7 issues resolved.
>
> August activity was largely build and renaming activities, tracked
> under a
> few Jira issues.
>
> The name for the project was changed from Apache Quarks to Apache
> Edgent.
> The new name went through a suitable name search and was approved. The
> infrastructure, code and documentation changes have been completed.
>
> A logo was voted on and chosen, and a wiki was set up for the Edgent
> community.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> We have not created an Apache release as of yet. We need to complete
> build
> changes and licensing work to create a 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
> [ ](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. Getting a first release out – we are still inhibited by Hibernate
> issues
> which are more deeply rooted than we realized.
> 2. Moving the community from the Mifos infrastructure to the Apache
> infrastructure – most discussions are taking place out of public
> view.
> 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?
>
> The person who creates and submits the board reports will cease to
> perform
> this task until the code rework is ready to be introduced to the
> community.
> It is possible that this will endanger the board reports.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Several prospective new committers have recently joined the Mifos
> community
> through Google Summer of Code and as new partners that we are working
> to
> add as committers to the Apache Fineract.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have tried and failed to produce an apache release again. A release
> was
> produced by the mifos community outside of apache and announced on the
> apache fineract user list.
>
> The release included work intended to move us closer to apache
> policies.
> In particular, the removal of Hibernate annotations from the code
> uncovered
> a circular dependency in the data structure which was not caught in
> testing. Two production systems from early adopters are out-of-service
> today.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Jim Jagielski was added as a mentor.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
> [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
> [ ](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
> [ ](fineract) Jim Jagielski
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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 with Apache 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?
>
> Increased community contribution on integration with Apache Cassandra.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We released Apache Gearpump 0.8.1-incubating, which is Gearpump's first
> release as an Apache incubator project.
>
> Integration within Apache Beam (Gearpump Runner) has been merged into a
> feature branch.
>
> Continued integration within akka-streams (Gearpump Materializer).
> Three
> PRs committed.
>
> 28 issues created and 18 resolved.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-08-16
>
> 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:
>
> Justin Mclean:
>
> PPMC are looking for additional mentors.
>
> --------------------
> HTrace
>
> Apache HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed
> systems written in java.
>
> Apache HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Continue to grow the Apache HTrace community
> 2. Continue to explore projects integrating Apache HTrace
> 3. Continue to develop and release stable Apache 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?
>
> * The dev@htrace mailing list continues to see new comers which is
> great.
> * Although a GSoC-related project was not successfully completed, the
> Apache Kudu and Apache HTrace communities have made contact. This is
> part of the drive to have more projects integrate Apache HTrace.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * A discussion thread is currently ongoing to release HTrace 4.2. This
> will include over 40 issues addressed and may even be our last
> incubating
> release before we attempt to graduate.
>
> 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:
>
> [X](htrace) Jake Farrell
> [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
> [X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
> [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
> [x](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
> [x](htrace) Michael Stack
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Juneau
>
> Apache Juneau is a toolkit for marshalling POJOs to a wide variety of
> content
> types using a common framework, and for creating sophisticated self-
> documenting REST interfaces and microservices using VERY little code.
>
> Juneau has been incubating since 2016-06-24.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Build up community with non-IBM and non-Salesforce contributors.
> 2. Release a version of the product to spark external interest in the
> project.
> 3. Need to determine where built libraries will be hosted for download.
>
> 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 new members in August. The hope is that a release of the product
> will
> spark interest.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Website is now running.
> Jira is now running and accepting bug reports.
> Jenkins is now running and producing builds.
> Confluence space has been created with articles for developers to get
> started contributing.
> Passes apache-rat check.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> None.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](juneau) Craig Russell
> [ ](juneau) Jochen Wiedmann
> [X](juneau) John D. Ament
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> log4cxx2
>
> Logging for C++. N.B. This is a reboot of the Log4cxx podling which
> previously graduated.
>
> 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.
>
> There was a discussion about some kind of "maintenance mode" where
> releases
> and community growth doesn't matter much. As that mode doesn't exist,
> it
> has been suggested to release, graduate from incubator and just live
> along
> other logging projects and in a comparable state like log4cxx.
>
> Currently it seems that there's only one official project member with
> commit access left answering mails. Even though that member and some
> contributors worked on being able to create a release in the past,
> contrary
> to expectations that project member didn't find the time to deal with a
> release as necessary.
>
> It seems most likely that if a release doesn't happen until the next
> report
> is due, it won't at all anymore. At least not by that one left member.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> One new contributor took quite some time to look and fix the release
> process. Two support mails from users, no new project members.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Robert Middleton took quite some time to look at the build and release
> process on Windows and Linux in the last two months and came to the
> conclusion that the current Maven based process for both seems broken.
> He provided a shell based alternative for the release and CMAKE build
> starting points, which hasn't been merged into or tested by the project
> yet.
>
> 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:
>
> [ ](log4cxx2) Ralph Goers
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Drew Farris:
>
> One mentor active within in the past month. There is a single active
> committer and minor progress towards a release. The current build
> system
> is proving problematic for the contributor involved. There is some
> discussion about moving to the attic and this seems appropriate
>
> --------------------
> Mnemonic
>
> Apache Mnemonic is an advanced hybrid memory storage oriented library,
> we've
> proposed a non-volatile/durable Java object model and durable computing
> service that bring several advantages to significantly improve the
> performance of massive real-time data processing/analytics. developers
> are
> able to use this library to design their cache-less and SerDe-less high
> performance applications.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Apache releases: we have release version 0.2.0-incubating
> 2. Encouraging community participation and contribution
> 3. Invented Durable Computing Model and Service on top of Durable
> Object
> Model
>
> 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 April. Since then
>
> * Twelve new contributors have joined and seven contributors have
> submitted
> their patches.
> * We need to encourage more discussion on the dev list in the coming
> months
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Added memory service and testcases
> * Added computing service and testcases
> * Re-organized sub-modules
> * Added Apache Rat and Checkstyle to ensure compliance
> * Added release.sh, runall.sh script tools
> * Supported Docker dev. construction
> * Removed the dependency of customized 3rd party library
> * Removed the dependency of special version of nvml
> * Constructed project website (WIP)
> * Supported discrete addressing for memory service
> * and other bugfixes, features, improvements
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-08-02
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt
> [X](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell
> [x](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?
>
> No
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> There were no new developers or new committers since our last report.
> There are two UTA students who are developing code for the MRQL project
> as
> part of their Master's thesis, but they have not participated in the
> MRQL
> community yet. One is working on implementing MRQL streaming with
> Apache
> Storm and he is scheduled to complete it by the end of the year. The
> other
> student is working on MRQL data visualization.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> There were 8 JIRA issues reported from which 6 have already been
> resolved.
> The main work during this period was on algebra-based and source-level
> debugging of MRQL queries. Basically, MRQL query results are annotated
> with lineage information that links each result value with the input
> data
> that were used to calculate the value. We hope that this debugger will
> be
> a valuable tool for developing and understanding MRQL queries.
>
> 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
> [ ](mrql) Edward J. Yoon
> [ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Expand user/contributor/committer community
> 2. Gather more support from Hadoop and Mesos vendors
> 3. Release new versions (0.3 in planning), with more enterprise
> features
>
> 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 picked up traffic (153 messages in June) around the
> 0.2.0 release. 236 messages since the last report.
> * 6 new members on the dev@ mailing list. 3 new patch contributors.
> * Bi-weekly dev syncs with 2-5 participants. Some cancelled due to lack
> of
> attendance. Minutes at http://s.apache.org/8kF
> * Myriad to be presented at HadoopWorld/Strata NYC and a talk submitted
> for
> ApacheCon BigData EU.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Myriad 0.2.0 released. Myriad 0.3.0 in development/planning.
> * 10 commits since 6/1. 8 JIRAs resolved.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-06-20 myriad-0.2.0-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-06-16 Yuliya Feldman
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
> [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
> [ ](myriad) Ted Dunning
> [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Boost project dissemination in the Apache community.
> 2. Collaborate/integrate Omid with other Apache projects.
> 3. Get positive feedback from other projects currently
> integrating/using
> Omid.
>
> 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?
>
> * Omid presented at Hadoop Summit 2016 in San Jose. Some attendants
> manifested interest and asked for future plans of integrating Omid
> with
> Apache Phoenix.
> * First contact with Apache DistributedLog community for a possible
> integration with Omid.
> * Blog entry on Apache Omid ready to be published in Yahoo's hadoop
> blog
> site.
> * Quarter Stats (from: 2016-06-01 to: 2016-08-31):
> +---------------------------------------------+
> | Metric | counts |
> +---------------------------------------------+
> | # of msgs in dev list | 204 |
> | Active Contributors (incl mentors)| 6 |
> | Jira New Issues | 10 |
> | Resolved Issues | 12 |
> | Pull Requests merged | 7 |
> | Pull Requests proposed | 10 |
> +---------------------------------------------+
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> First version of Omid released under the Apache incubator program. It
> has
> also been integrated with the Apache Hive project.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-06-24
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> At incubation acceptance (2016-03-28)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](omid) Alan Gates
> [ ](omid) Lars Hofhansl
> [ ](omid) Flavio P. Junqueira
> [ ](omid) Thejas Nair
> [x](omid) James Taylor
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Pirk
>
> Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR).
>
> Pirk has been incubating since 2016-06-17. The initial code for Pirk was
> granted on 2016-07-11.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Grow the community to establish diversity of background and
> expertise.
> 2. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for
> dependable
> release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development
> process.
> 3. Add to and improve the Pirk user documentation and examples both on
> the
> website and in the codebase
>
> 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 officially welcomed two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel
> Marthi, both also mentors). The mailing list activity, pull requests,
> and
> page views to the Apache Pirk website (via Google Analytics) have also
> greatly increased since the last report.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The project completed it's first release, 0.1.0-incubating, since the
> last
> report and provided a release guide on its website documenting the
> process.
> Additionally, the project has ensured that all dependencies are
> compliant
> with the Apache License version 2.0 and that all code and documentation
> artifacts have the correct Apache licensing markings and notice. The
> project has also undertaken a refactor of some of the initial packages
> and
> provided initial streaming implementations.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> August 29, 2016
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Pirk elected two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel Marthi, both
> mentors) on August 18, 2016.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](pirk) Billie Rinaldi
> [ ](pirk) Joe Witt
> [X](pirk) Josh Elser
> [X](pirk) Suneel Marthi
> [X](pirk) Tim Ellison
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Josh Elser:
>
> Extremely happy to see the first release completed so soon after
> entering incubation. Very pleased with the interaction and
> responsiveness at PPMC and IPMC levels during the vote process. They
> are
> well on their way.
>
> Suneel Marthi:
>
> I must add that the first release candidate was put out for PPMC/IPMC
> Vote in less than a month since the initial code was pushed to the
> apache github repo.
>
> --------------------
> 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. Make contributions easier (lower the bar for hacking on
> code/docs/UI)
> 3. Increase awareness of the project
>
> 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?
>
> Slight uptick in active members of the community, we now count roughly
> 10
> active people participating either on the mailing list or IRC.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Work has begun on a redesign of the UI, allowing for contributions more
> easily. This is codenamed 'coffee and cake', and is expected to reach
> a
> usable phase in a month or two.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-08-02
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None since inception. See graduation info point 1. The codebase needs
> to
> be more accessible before contributions can occur.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
> [X](ponymail) John D. Ament
>
> 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 is in the works and anticipated to be complete in September
> 2016.
>
> 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 of background.
> 3. Transition remaining 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. Users have begun to migrate from the old Google group to the Apache
> user
> list
> 2. Three new contributors have become active and have been making
> consistently acceptable contributions and are on path to becoming
> committers.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. The old Prediction.io docs site has been migrated to
> http://predictionio.incubator.apache.org
> 2. About seven templates from the original PredictionIO have been
> ported to
> Apache PredictionIO, pending a decision on a 2nd grant. The pending
> 2nd
> grant will not block a PredictionIO release.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No releases have been made yet. Present activities are focussed towards
> a
> planned first Apache Release in September 2016.
>
> 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
> [x](predictionio) James Taylor
> [ ](predictionio) Lars Hofhansl
> [ ](predictionio) Luciano Resende
> [ ](predictionio) Xiangrui Meng
> [X](predictionio) Suneel Marthi
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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 (June-01-2016 to
> August-31-2016):
> @dev 1423
> @user 124
> @commit 294
>
> 2. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after
> June-01-2016
> before August-31-2016):
> Created: 155
> Resolved: 168
>
> 3. Adding more community members to involve in Apache Ranger
> * Added new contributors: Suneel Marthi
> * Apache Hawq community is working with Ranger to build a
> authorization engine for Apache Hawq (RANGER-782)
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Released one major release :
> 0.6.0 released on 07/18/2016
>
> 2. Released one minor release :
> 0.6.1 released on 08/20/2016
>
> 3. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.7.0
> a. Working on scoping of the release and features
>
> Date of last release:
>
> August-20-2016
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 1. Gautam Borad has been added as committer on June-29-2015
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](ranger) Alan Gates
> [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
> [X](ranger) Jakob Homan
> [ ](ranger) Owen O'Malley
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Drew Farris:
>
> Three mentors active. New release available in August. Community
> growth. Discussion of Graduation Steps. A healthy podling.
>
> --------------------
> 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 S4, and Apache Samza.
>
> SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Perform another release
> 2. Grow the developer base
> 3. Grow the user 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?
>
> Mailing list activity (June 2016 - August 2016):
> * @dev: 77 messages
>
> Jira issues backlog (June 2016 - August 2016):
> * Created: 1
> * Resolved: 0
>
> We have had interest from both the Apex and Gearpump communities.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have been preparing a second release of the project, which was
> delayed
> due to some minor issues in the RC and then the summer break for most
> developers.
>
> 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
> [ ](samoa) Ted Dunning
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> SensSoft
>
> SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
>
> SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Establishing our Users mailing list and getting incubating releases
> to the user community
> 2. Completing the initial build on our website(s) (in progress)
> 3. Consolidating our Quick Start deployment guides on Apache
> infrastructure
> (Confluence, website) that allow for an end-to-end deployment of
> data
> collection services with containers for assets (Docker Images) for
> speedy deployment (in progress)
>
> 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?
>
> 1. Community members have been working with DoD and Industry partners
> to
> bring them on as contributors to the project (ex. Other industry
> leaders
> in HCI/UX offerings for DoD have begun offering SensSoft products as
> part of their technical offerings).
> 2. The community has established a Twitter feed (@ApacheSensSoft) and
> are
> growing our community by following others (e.g., Kitware, etc.)
> 3. Community members from Draper Labs have made arrangements to present
> at
> uie21 and the emetrics summit as exhibitors to capture community
> followers in the UI/UX and business analytics communities.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. The transition to Apache Infrastructure is complete!!!
> 2. We have moved over all our development tickets into Apache Jira. All
> development is now taking place @Apache which is great.
> 3. We are working on new patches and version releases for TAP,
> UserAle.js,
> Distill products (sub projects under SENSSOFT), which will now be
> visible through commits.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
> [X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
> [X](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Chris Mattmann:
>
> Project has primarily being Championed by Lewis John McGibbney. Lots
> of
> lots of JIRA activity and mailing list activity from the Draper
> contributors, including Joshua Poore. Doing a good job starting up.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> --------------------
> 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. One committer was added in July, more would be
> nominated soon after releasing V1.0. We are also expanding the user
> base by participating in meetups of local organizations, including
> PyDataSG.
> 2. Optimize V1 release in terms of memory and efficiency for both
> stand-alone training and distributed training.
> 3. Add more examples and tutorials to attract users, including
> deployment
> on Android phones.
>
> 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?
>
> There were 187, 100 and 69 emails from dev@ list in June 2016, July
> 2016
> and August 2016 respectively. The number of commits has increased 50%
> (about 200 commits) since last report. One new committer was added.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have been working on V1.0 since the last release. The vote for
> releasing
> V1.0 has been sent to the general mailing list.
>
> The new version has major improvements in term of programming
> abstraction
> and usability. Some features are listed here,
>
> * Support heterogeneous hardware: CPP for CPU, CUDA for Nvidia GPU,
> OpenCL
> for other devices (including AMD GPUs)
> * New programming abstractions supporting complex deep learning models
> * Re-write the Python binding and provide running examples
> * Cross-platform (Linux and Mac OSX)
> * Upgrade the Cudnn library version to V5 for running RNN models
> * New website for documentation
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-04-20
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-07-20
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](singa) Daniel Dai
> [X](singa) Alan Gates
> [ ](singa) Ted Dunning
> [ ](singa) Thejas Nair
>
> 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?
>
> No commits or mailing list activity since the last report.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> No commits or mailing list activity since the last report.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> No commits or mailing list activity since the last report.
>
> No issues resolved
>
> 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
> [X](streams) Ate Douma
> [ ](streams) Craig McClanahan
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Ate Douma:
>
> As indicated in the report, the activity and community of the project
> has dwindled down to practically zero. As a consequence I've now
> raised
> the question on the dev list if better to retire the project. Unless
> this triggers some serious activity and interest from the community,
> I
> expect an actual vote to retire before the next board report.
>
> --------------------
> 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.
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> John D. Ament:
>
> The project continues to struggle. I'm not sure its recoverable as
> an
> ASF project at this time. May make sense to reboot in an external
> resource, e.g. GitHub, build a true community, and then come back.
>
> --------------------
> 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 and graduation
> 2. Complete IP/license review of unreleased repositories
> 3. Further engaging user/devops community
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> Preparing to graduate.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> The community is moving towards graduation, by preparing a
> Graduation Maturity Assessment
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAVERNADEV/2016-03+Taverna+Graduation+Maturity+Assessment
>
> While we wished we could have released all of Taverna's git
> repositories
> through the Incubator before graduating, we realize that with limited
> developer time, getting all of them to a cleanly releasable state
> could remove focus from development of the core repositories.
>
> As we an important point of Incubator releases is to ensure the project
> understands the ASF release process, including release review and
> voting,
> IP management and licensing compatibility; as well as accepting
> contributions. We believe we have gained that after 3 release votes
> https://archive.apache.org/dist/incubator/taverna/source/
> and 7 GSOC/student contributors.
>
> We have however identified the need for a License Review of the
> remaining
> git repositories that have not yet been formally released through the
> Apache Incubator (e.g. to ensure ASF file headers), which we are now
> completing:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAVERNADEV/2016-09+License+review
>
> We might consider not including all of these repositories as we move
> towards graduation - we already have an alternative home
> https://github.com/taverna-extras for dormant extensions.
>
> dev@taverna mailing lists stats:
>
> Jun 2016: 347
> Jul 2016: 221
> Aug 2016: 170
>
> users@taverna:
>
> Jun 2016: 4
> Jul 2016: 2
> Aug 2016: 4
>
> JIRA issues over last 90 days:
>
> 34 created
> 12 resolved
>
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have seen an upsurge in activity with
> two successful GSOC projects as well as several
> new plugins from other students. Some of them have shown interest
> in continued contributions, which we must take into account
> for proposing new committers.
>
> This have admittedly taken some focus from the committers
> from the incubator graduation path - so we're now
> putting effort back into finishing our License Review.
>
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-07-01 taverna-engine-3.1.0-incubating
> 2016-07-01 taverna-common-activities-2.1.0-incubating
> 2016-07-01 taverna-commandline-3.1.0-incubating
>
> 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:
>
> The Taverna podling is hindered by a lack of active mentors (myself
> included) - the project has appealled to general@ on a couple of
> occasions
>
> 3 of the 4 active contributors are from one institution and
> contribution
> is related to EU project commitments. The codebase is large and has
> a
> long history. One option is to identify a "core" and move out the
> rest
> until such time as they are sustainable. More active PMC/commiters
> would be a big boost.
>
> The comment from the last report applies:
>
> Drew Farris (shepherd):
>
> Little mentor activity on the mailing lists, could use another
> active mentor. Healthy activity in the community.
>
> --------------------
> 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. Regular releases
> 2. Improve community engagement
> 3. Increase adoption
>
> 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?
>
> - 12 subscribers in dev mailing list
> - 5 new JIRAs filed since last report
> - 2 new contributors submitted patches
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Working on 0.9.0 release
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-05-31
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> - None since coming to incubation
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](tephra) Alan Gates
> [X](tephra) Andrew Purtell
> [X](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: Great news! The team has just merged a PR
> and
> removed the LGPL license in favor of MPL
> (https://github.com/zeromq/jeromq/pull/358)
> 2. Make a release: 0.1.x branch should be ready for release. Master has
> moved to start support for Spark 2.0
> 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) We have 1 major independent contributor
> (mariusvniekerk)
> and at least 2 minor ones
> (https://github.com/apache/incubator-toree/graphs/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 - Awaiting MPL
> release
> of JeroMQ. Will update branches to remove caveats re: LGPL once the
> JeroMQ
> release is available.
>
> 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. Making significant progress here.
> 3. More external contributions being made. Community member
> 2mariusvniekerk key in porting Toree to work on Spark 2.0. Sitting
> on
> PR 56. Working with committer to finish up some details and will
> merge
> when ready. This is a significant contribution.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. JeroMQ community has finalized work to transition to MPL. Waiting
> for
> maven release.
> 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
>
> --------------------
> Traffic Control
>
> Traffic Control allows you to build a large scale content delivery
> network
> using open source.
>
> Traffic Control has been incubating since 2016-07-12.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Software grant from Comcast and others active in the current
> github.com/Comcast project to ASF. Discussion between Comcast and
> ASF
> legal on-going, this is blocking all other progress.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware
> of?
>
> See above issue 1.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Established apache.org accounts for all of the initial committers.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Setup git repo and mailing lists.
> - Started Software Grant process.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> We released 1.6.0 on 2016-07-29 under the old process, because the
> release
> process (candidates and votes) had already started before our official
> entry in the incubator. We have started release 1.7.0 under the old
> process
> as well, since we don't have the necessary ASF infrastructure in place,
> and
> this is pending the SGA.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2016-07-12 - initial committer list.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](trafficcontrol) Phil Sorber
> [X](trafficcontrol) Eric Covener
> [ ](trafficcontrol) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](trafficcontrol) J. Aaron Farr
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Continue the momentum and become more integrated with the
> rest of the Apache community.
> 3. Continue to create software releases and to find a release
> manager for the next one.
>
> 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 relatively steady:
> 789 messages in the codereview forum, 752@commits,
> 483@dev, 1240@issues and 101@user.
> * We released Trafodion 2.0.0 (source and some binaries) and
> Trafodion 2.0.1 (source and convenience binaries).
> Steve Varnau was the release manager for both releases.
> * We announced two new committers and three new PPMC members:
> * Gunnar Tapper (committer and PPMC member), July 5
> * Steve Varnau (existing committer, now also a PPMC member),
> Aug 18
> * Ming Liu (committer and PPMC member), Aug 19
> * We have seen increased activity in China.
> * We are working on a roadmap for the next release, Atanu Mishra
> has volunteered to coordinate it.
> * Community members speaking at public events:
> * Rohit Jain talked at Data Day Seattle on 7/23
> * Rao Kakarlamudi talked at the Milpitas Big Data meetup on 8/5
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Some highlights of Trafodion 2.0.0:
> * Support for Apache HBase 1.0 and Hadoop distros CDH 5.4, HDP 2.3
> * Elasticity (adding/removing nodes from a Trafodion instance)
> * DDL operations are now transaction-protected
> * BLOB/CLOB support (preview)
> * ALTER COLUMN for all column attributes
> * Support for GBK character set in Hive tables
> * 249 commits from 24 contributors.
> * 180 JIRAs filed and 123 resolved June 1 - Aug 30.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-07-07 2.0.1
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> in August (committers and PPMC members)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](trafodion) Devaraj Das
> [ ](trafodion) Enis Söztutar
> [ ](trafodion) Michael Stack
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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 have ongoing community discussion about how to bring in new
> developers
> to ensure sustainability of the project.
>
> A votation session has been scheduled (Sept 28th) to decide if Wave's
> fork
> Swellrt is brought/merged into Wave. This would bring SwellRT active
> developers into Wave and it could facilitate use of Wave by new
> developers
> thanks to a new API, removing GWT legacy code.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Made some code improvements
>
> Date of last release:
>
> March 2016
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> February 2016
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](wave) Christian Grobmeier
> [ ](wave) Upayavira
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
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