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January 2012 Incubator Board Report
A number of substantive issues came up during the past month.
First, and although it was raised on the private list and therefore details
won't be part of the public report, we advise the Board that there is
substantial discussion regarding changing the Incubator VP, which has been
held for almost 8 years by the current VP.
Second, there is a dispute, both in the abstract and concretely, regarding
whether or not the ASF, via the Incubator, may play host to a community that
has forked a compatibly licensed codebase. Roy suggested that, in the
specific case:
> The VOTE was based on misleading information. The Incubator PMC should
declare it
> void and request a new proposal. The existing Bloodhound podling should
be
> placed on hold until this is sorted out.
Greg has said, more recently, that "the Bloodhound and Trac communities
already have a new non-fork plan and are executing on that now, on the
bloodhound-dev mailing list." If that comes to pass, perhaps no further
attention from the PMC and Board will be required on this issue. If not,
we'll have to revisit the specific case.
However, Bill Rowe has requested that the Incubator PMC formally put the
general matter to the Board: what policy do or should we have regarding a
community that wishes to fork a suitably licensed codebase and come to the
ASF? If so, what is that policy? Or is that decision still a matter to be
determined situationally by the Incubator PMC? For whatever it is worth,
the latter is the opinion of the Incubator VP, who recalls that more than
one successful ASF project started elsewhere and came to the ASF as a fork,
and not without some complaint from members of the outside community (e.g.,
Apache Felix).
Third, there was a lot of discussion surrounding a couple of Incubator
issues: 1) podlings being comfortably settled in the Incubator, and not
being focused enough on graduation; 2) Mentors being insufficiently active,
and thus not providing either proper guidance or oversight. We definitely
need to address these issues, promoting both Mentor involvement and
graduation from the Incubator. And, finally, Jukka spent time reviewing the
status of many of the older podlings, and recommending an action.
Perhaps not coincidentally, ACE, Gora and Bean Validation Framework are all
in graduation mode. But, meanwhile, Bloodhound (the podling previously
mentioned), DeviceMap and Flex have joined.
Below are podling reports. Sam Ruby has already reviewed the original list
prior to posting, and requested that specific posts not be provided to the
Board, as he was unhappy with their status:
Kato: has been in limbo for years due to Oracle. The podling needs to
decide what to do, or terminate
Bloodhound, HISE, JSPWiki and Openmeetings: missing
VXQuery: not signed off by a Mentor
Although initially requested to be excluded, the Celix and Tashi reports
were revised to provide at least some graduation guidance, and so their
reports are included, below.
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Any23
Any23 is defined as a Java library, a Web service and a set of command line
tools to extract and validate structured data in RDF format from a variety
of Web documents and markup formats. Any23 is what it is informally named an
RDF Distiller.
A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation
1. Port Any23 code to ASF infrastructure and update license headers
2. Develop a strong community with organizational diversity and with
strong connections to other relevant ASF communities.
3. At least one Any23 incubating release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC), Tika PMC, or ASF Board wish/need
to be aware of?
Yes, all of the code has been ported from Google Code to the ASF. Thanks to
Daniel Shahaf and Michele Mostarda for
leading the charge here.
How has the community developed since the last report?
All ASF karma has been granted on the repository, and we've received a few
JIRA issues, but not from outside
the core set of PPMC members as of yet. The team needs to respond to Paolo
Castagna's points regarding RDF
frameworks and collaboration, and will hopefully do so this month.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Any23 was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on October 1, 2011.
We have Jenkins CI builds going thanks to Lewis John McGibbney, code up and
running at the ASF thanks to Michele
and to Daniel, so we're all set to really get kicking!
--------------------
Celix
Celix is an implementation of the OSGi Specification in C.
Celix entered incubation on November 2, 2010.
Over the last few months lots of work has been put into integrating APR and
updating the Celix code base to the proposed code style. This code style has
partially been documented on [1]. Also some effort has been put into
updating the source for Visual Studio, even though not yet finished some
interesting and helpful patches where submitted and applied.
In Oktober an event was held to create more awareness for services, OSGi and
Celix in the Dutch embedded community. The attendance was great, and a
follow-up will be planned. Also, in November a talk was given at the
ApacheCon.
As listed below, one of the most important issues is the slow growth of the
Celix community. With the current discussion about poddlings and how long a
poddling is in the incubator, we are discussing a plan how we can move to a
more diverse community and be able to graduate. This plan will be included
in the next board report.
Most important issues are:
* Improve robustness (APR, error handling etc), resulting in a first release
* Generate awareness and grow a community!
--------------------
Chukwa
Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring large
distributed systems. Chukwa is built on top of the Hadoop Distributed File
System (HDFS), HBase and Map/Reduce framework and inherits Hadoop's
scalability and robustness. Chukwa also includes a ?exible and powerful
toolkit for displaying, monitoring and analyzing results to make the best
use of the collected data.
* Updated LICENSE and NOTICE files to comply with IPMC requests
* Updated Hadoop dependency to Hadoop 1.0.0
* Vote in progress for Chukwa 0.5.0 Release Candidate 3
When Chukwa 0.5.0 is officially released, Chukwa will complete all required
goals to graduate incubation.
--------------------
Cordova
December was a busy month. Lots of updates to the code base and our working
toolchain.
We would particularly like to thank infra for all the work getting us setup
with git. We really appreciate the effort and valuable discussion
surrounding it. It is this sort of attention to community that makes us
grateful to be members of the Apache community.
* shipped 1.3 with full windows phone support (NOTE: this was not an ASF
release; this is next for us)
* BlackBerry Playbook support
* started migration to Cordova name
* git migration complete
* battery events api
(http://docs.phonegap.com/en/1.3.0/phonegap_events_events.md.html#Events)
* first version of the project web site up
Graduation concerns:
* Complete the migration to Apache infrastructure
* Make an official Apache release
* Grant committership to new contributors
--------------------
Deft
Deft is a non-blocking, asynchronous, event driven high performance web
framework running on the JVM. The project entered incubation on 2011-07-08.
The most important issues to address in moving to graduation:
1. Prepare an initial incubation release.
2. Attract more committers, and other community members.
3. Secure the previously used URL, "deftserver.org".
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
- Not at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- There have been no significant developments.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Outstanding tasks are still being worked on.
--------------------
DeltaSpike
(incubating since December 2011)
DeltaSpike will consist of a number of portable CDI extensions that provide
useful features for Java application developers. The goal of DeltaSpike is
to create a de-facto standard of CDI-Extensions that is developed and
maintained by the community.
There are currently no issues requiring IPMC or Board attention.
Since our last report on December 12, 2011, we have accomplished the
following:
- Finished the discussion about coding conventions and added the
corresponding checkstyle rules
- Finished the discussion on the first features
- Finished infrastructure topics together with the infrastructure team (GIT
repository, nightly builds with Jenkins, Sonar setup)
(Only the JIRA plug-in for GIT is missing because there are issues with
using it side by side with the plug-in for SVN)
- Most initial committers signed their ICLA and got their account
- Started discussions on the next features
- Started with the build structure
- Started with the test-infrastructure
- Started to migrate core feature contributions from Seam3 and CODI
- Started to add information to the Wiki to help new folks getting involved
- Started discussions about tools for our documentation and website
- Started with the status page (based on
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/website.html)
Upcoming major goals:
- Finish test-infrastructure to allow in-container tests
- Finish the setup for the documentation and the website
- Finish the discussions for all features which will be part of the first
release
Top 2 or 3 things to resolve before graduation:
1. Build community
2. Create at least one release
3. Create Documentation
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DirectMemory
(incubating since October 2011)
Apache DirectMemory is a multi layered cache implementation featuring
off-heap memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of
a large number of java objects without affecting jvm garbage collection
performance.
A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation.
1) closed - Branding requirements have been met and modified logos and
artwork have been published
2) Understanding process/decision making guidelines (new committer process
is undergoing testing, release process still yet to be worked out)
Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware
of
- None - we are going well even having lost one mentor (but always hope
he'll keep in touch ;)
How has the community developed since the last report
- Tasks and proposals contributed by non-committers
- The team is voting a new committer
How has the project developed since the last report.
- Some examples are being added to the code base including another
interesting integration with Apache Solr
--------------------
EasyAnt
Easyant is a build system based on Apache Ant and Apache Ivy. Incubating
since 2011-01-31.
Towards graduation, we need to:
* Create a release
* Build a community
Since the last report:
* no particular progress on the diversity of the community
* very little activity on the developper mailing list
--------------------
Empire-db
Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows
developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application development
than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow highly efficient
database operations in combination with a maximum of compile-time-safety and
DBMS independence. Empire-db has entered Incubation in August 2008.
Activity since last report:
* Last month we voted for graduation, submitted our resolution which was
revoked because of a copy-paste issue
* A fixed resolution will be submitted for this month's board meeting
--------------------
Flex
Flex is an application framework for building Flash-based applications.
Entered incubation December 30th, 2011.
The podling is just getting started, accounts and infrastructure are being
created.
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Giraph
Giraph is a large-scale, fault-tolerant, Bulk Synchronous Parallel
(BSP)-based graph processing framework that runs on Hadoop. Giraph
entered the incubator in August 2011.
Project developments:
* Sebastian Schelter, and Claudio Martella were added to the PPMC
* Review Board in frequent use and high traffic on dev and commit lists
* ICLA on file from all committers
Next steps:
* Adding new committers.
* Making a release.
--------------------
Kafka
(introduced to Apache incubator on Jul 4, 2011)
Kafka provides an extremely high throughput distributed publish/subscribe
messaging system. Additionally, it supports relatively long term persistence
of messages to support a wide variety of consumers, partitioning of the
message stream across servers and consumers, and functionality for loading
data into Apache Hadoop for offline, batch processing.
A list of the most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation
1. Invite diverse new active committers
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
We incurred significant overhead during our first release; see
http://apache.markmail.org/message/rsxjgrrufc6khlqy?q=list:org%2Eapache%2Ein
cubator%2Egeneral+from:%22junrao%22 for reference. Firstly, there is no good
example to follow for a new podling. Secondly, the licensing rules are
complex and the documentation is not enough for a new podling to understand.
This gets more complicated since different IPMC members have different views
and apply those rules slightly differently. This delays releases and causes
overhead to the team. We hope that some of these things can be addressed to
make the process easier to other projects.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Activities in the mailing list increased 4x since the last report. Several
patches from non-committers have been submitted, reviewed and committed.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have successfully completed the first release of Kafka after joining the
incubator. This releases adds the end-to-end compression feature and
mirroring support in Kafka. In addition to this, it also fixes more than 40
issues.
--------------------
Kitty
Incubating since 2010-10-03
Description
Kitty is a command line JMX Client written in Groovy.
It is a lightweight, production focused, application server performance
diagnostic and management utility.
The three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1) The community around this project is absent, looking at the amount of
mails sent to the mailing list in the past months
2) The lack of a "Product Owner" who can prioritise stories/tasks, leaving
the developers without a clue about the functionalities to implement
3) The code is a port from another language (Jython), and the history of
the past project seems lost, so there isn't any reference about how the
actual code should work. Also, there is no test (acceptance criteria) in
support of that nor for the new features to implement.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware
of?
What seems relevant to me at the moment is the lack of communication
between the committers;
it would be fine if there was a clear statement about who is still
interested and who is not in participating in the project, and how to
reorganise the now shrunken team, if still there is one.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Sadly, the community hasn't develop at all; even worse, we faced the loss
of some members who were actively involved in the project
development/management.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Jira is not updated, leaving a shade of uncertainty about what has been
fixed and what is still in progress since the last report.
It seems that the last update was done in October, the 4th, with a fix
regarding the correct navigation through the server tree in a file-system
fashion.
--------------------
Lucy
Lucy is a loose port of the Apache Lucene search engine library, written in
C
and targeted at dynamic language users.
Lucy was voted into the Incubator on July 22, 2010.
Progress since the last report:
* Added new Committers/PPMC-members Nick Wellnhofer and Logan Bell.
* Made substantial improvements in committer diversity.
* Released version 0.2.2
* Technical developments:
* Added several new classes relating to Unicode text processing.
* Improved clustering support.
* Finished eliminating Perl-licensed dependencies, resolving LEGAL-86.
* Set up per-commit build-and-test buildbot.
* Finished porting Clownfish compiler to C.
Top priorities prior to graduation:
* None. We will likely be discussing graduation as soon as version 0.3.0
is released.
Issues for Incubator PMC or ASF Board:
* None at this time.
--------------------
Mesos
Mesos is a scalable cluster manager that can dynamically share resources
between multiple
computing frameworks, including Hadoop, Spark and MPI.
Mesos entered incubation on December 23, 2010.
Progress since the last report:
* Shooting for an end of January release. Hope to call a release vote by
early next week.
* Internal Twitter repo almost eliminated (all code being developed through
Apache).
* Documentation added (in anticipation of end of month release).
* Support for Mac OS X Lion almost complete (expected to be included in end
of month release).
* New autotools support almost complete (expected to be included in of end
of month release).
* Mesos provided replicated log deployed in production (and optimized).
* New web UI, including task history viewing, committed.
* Features and bug fixes contributed by 3+ new contributors.
Top priorities prior to graduation:
* Making our first release (we want to do that this month).
* Adding more committers to the project from the various developers that
have contributed to Mesos.
Issues for Incubator PMC or ASF Board:
* None at this time.
--------------------
ODFToolkit
The ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation,
scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF)
documents. Unlike other approaches which rely on runtime manipulation of
heavy-weight editors via an automation interface, the ODF Toolkit is
lightweight and ideal for server use.
* ODF Toolkit entered incubation on Aug 1st, 2011.
* Most important issues to address.
1) Successful podling release.
2) Growing the community, increasing diversity of committers
* Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware
of
None at this time.
* How has the community developed since the last report
We have a new committer: Oliver Rau.
* How has the project developed since the last report.
1) With the help of mentor, Jenkins support for the build is ready.
2) We are voting for the candidate (RC7) of the first release.
--------------------
Oozie
Oozie is a workflow management and scheduler primarily for Hadoop based
jobs.
Oozie entered the incubation on July 11, 2011.
* A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation:
* Make the first Oozie release from Apache incubation.
* Further improve the documentations: user, development for quicker
adoption
* Establish the formal release process.
* Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware
of:
* No issues.
* How has the community developed since the last report:
* Oozie dev/users are active in the email lists (1152 Email in oozie-dev
and in oozie-user 212).
* Around 7 new developers are contributing to the process and coding.
* 84 JIRAs were created since last report.
* How has the project developed since the last report.
* A lot of new features are added. Fixed a lot of bugs too. Nearly 85
JIRAs were closed/resolved in last three months.
* Oozie product web page is improved and more usable. Further
improvement is ongoing on.
* The process has started for cutting the first release from Apache.
--------------------
Tashi
Tashi has been incubating since September 2008.
The Tashi project aims to build a software infrastructure for cloud
computing
on massive internet-scale datasets (what we call Big Data). The idea is to
build a cluster management system that enables the Big Data that are stored
in
a cluster/data center to be accessed, shared, manipulated, and computed on
by
remote users in a convenient, efficient, and safe manner.
Tashi originally encompassed just the tools to manage virtual machines
using Xen and QEMU, but has been merged with Zoni, which manages the
physical aspects of a cluster like power control, network settings and
handing out physical machines.
Development activities have included:-
* Accounting server has been added to the codebase
* Primitive scheduler changes
* bug fixes
* Add support for user choice of dense packing or not
* Guard against starting more than one VM with
persistent disk
* Client changes
* Check syntax of user commands
* Add support for querying available images
* Add support for querying image size
* Add support for copying of images
* QEMU VMM changes
* bug fixes
* Reserve some memory for the host itself
* Make scratch location configurable
* Live migrations take a long time, eliminate
some timeout values
* Cluster manager changes
* bug fixes
* Reduce network traffic
* Move accounting functions to new accounting server
* Branched off new stable version and release candidate
* Audit compliance with Incubator policies
The project is still working toward building a larger user and development
community. User groups have been identified in Ireland, Slovenia and Korea,
Malaysia, as well as the United States.
Items to be resolved before graduation:
* A stable branch exists which could be a release candidate, but
the codebase is large and test hardware is currently in
short supply. We are confident that the code in the stablefix
branch will work if running QEMU emulation, Pickle or sqlite
data storage, primitive scheduler. Xen, other data stores and
schedulers have not been tested recently.
* Develop community diversity (Committers currently at Telefonica,
Google and CMU)
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Re: January 2012 Incubator Board Report
Posted by Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>.
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Re: January 2012 Incubator Board Report
Posted by Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>.
Hi,
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:27 PM, sebb <se...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 January 2012 06:09, Noel J. Bergman <no...@devtech.com> wrote:
>> Cordova
>
> Does not appear to mention anywhere that the previous name was
> Callback which is a strange omission.
The renaming was mentioned already in the December report.
Anyway, for clarity we'll include a short note about the previous name
in future reports.
BR,
Jukka Zitting
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Re: January 2012 Incubator Board Report
Posted by sebb <se...@gmail.com>.
On 12 January 2012 06:09, Noel J. Bergman <no...@devtech.com> wrote:
> A number of substantive issues came up during the past month.
>
> First, and although it was raised on the private list and therefore details
> won't be part of the public report, we advise the Board that there is
> substantial discussion regarding changing the Incubator VP, which has been
> held for almost 8 years by the current VP.
>
> Second, there is a dispute, both in the abstract and concretely, regarding
> whether or not the ASF, via the Incubator, may play host to a community that
> has forked a compatibly licensed codebase. Roy suggested that, in the
> specific case:
>
>> The VOTE was based on misleading information. The Incubator PMC should
> declare it
>> void and request a new proposal. The existing Bloodhound podling should
> be
>> placed on hold until this is sorted out.
>
> Greg has said, more recently, that "the Bloodhound and Trac communities
> already have a new non-fork plan and are executing on that now, on the
> bloodhound-dev mailing list." If that comes to pass, perhaps no further
> attention from the PMC and Board will be required on this issue. If not,
> we'll have to revisit the specific case.
>
> However, Bill Rowe has requested that the Incubator PMC formally put the
> general matter to the Board: what policy do or should we have regarding a
> community that wishes to fork a suitably licensed codebase and come to the
> ASF? If so, what is that policy? Or is that decision still a matter to be
> determined situationally by the Incubator PMC? For whatever it is worth,
> the latter is the opinion of the Incubator VP, who recalls that more than
> one successful ASF project started elsewhere and came to the ASF as a fork,
> and not without some complaint from members of the outside community (e.g.,
> Apache Felix).
>
> Third, there was a lot of discussion surrounding a couple of Incubator
> issues: 1) podlings being comfortably settled in the Incubator, and not
> being focused enough on graduation; 2) Mentors being insufficiently active,
> and thus not providing either proper guidance or oversight. We definitely
> need to address these issues, promoting both Mentor involvement and
> graduation from the Incubator. And, finally, Jukka spent time reviewing the
> status of many of the older podlings, and recommending an action.
>
> Perhaps not coincidentally, ACE, Gora and Bean Validation Framework are all
> in graduation mode. But, meanwhile, Bloodhound (the podling previously
> mentioned), DeviceMap and Flex have joined.
>
> Below are podling reports. Sam Ruby has already reviewed the original list
> prior to posting, and requested that specific posts not be provided to the
> Board, as he was unhappy with their status:
>
> Kato: has been in limbo for years due to Oracle. The podling needs to
> decide what to do, or terminate
> Bloodhound, HISE, JSPWiki and Openmeetings: missing
> VXQuery: not signed off by a Mentor
>
> Although initially requested to be excluded, the Celix and Tashi reports
> were revised to provide at least some graduation guidance, and so their
> reports are included, below.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Any23
>
> Any23 is defined as a Java library, a Web service and a set of command line
> tools to extract and validate structured data in RDF format from a variety
> of Web documents and markup formats. Any23 is what it is informally named an
> RDF Distiller.
>
> A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
> graduation
>
> 1. Port Any23 code to ASF infrastructure and update license headers
> 2. Develop a strong community with organizational diversity and with
> strong connections to other relevant ASF communities.
> 3. At least one Any23 incubating release
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC), Tika PMC, or ASF Board wish/need
> to be aware of?
>
> Yes, all of the code has been ported from Google Code to the ASF. Thanks to
> Daniel Shahaf and Michele Mostarda for
> leading the charge here.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> All ASF karma has been granted on the repository, and we've received a few
> JIRA issues, but not from outside
> the core set of PPMC members as of yet. The team needs to respond to Paolo
> Castagna's points regarding RDF
> frameworks and collaboration, and will hopefully do so this month.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Any23 was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on October 1, 2011.
>
> We have Jenkins CI builds going thanks to Lewis John McGibbney, code up and
> running at the ASF thanks to Michele
> and to Daniel, so we're all set to really get kicking!
>
> --------------------
> Celix
>
> Celix is an implementation of the OSGi Specification in C.
>
> Celix entered incubation on November 2, 2010.
>
> Over the last few months lots of work has been put into integrating APR and
> updating the Celix code base to the proposed code style. This code style has
> partially been documented on [1]. Also some effort has been put into
> updating the source for Visual Studio, even though not yet finished some
> interesting and helpful patches where submitted and applied.
>
> In Oktober an event was held to create more awareness for services, OSGi and
> Celix in the Dutch embedded community. The attendance was great, and a
> follow-up will be planned. Also, in November a talk was given at the
> ApacheCon.
>
> As listed below, one of the most important issues is the slow growth of the
> Celix community. With the current discussion about poddlings and how long a
> poddling is in the incubator, we are discussing a plan how we can move to a
> more diverse community and be able to graduate. This plan will be included
> in the next board report.
>
> Most important issues are:
>
> * Improve robustness (APR, error handling etc), resulting in a first release
> * Generate awareness and grow a community!
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Chukwa
>
> Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring large
> distributed systems. Chukwa is built on top of the Hadoop Distributed File
> System (HDFS), HBase and Map/Reduce framework and inherits Hadoop's
> scalability and robustness. Chukwa also includes a ?exible and powerful
> toolkit for displaying, monitoring and analyzing results to make the best
> use of the collected data.
>
> * Updated LICENSE and NOTICE files to comply with IPMC requests
> * Updated Hadoop dependency to Hadoop 1.0.0
> * Vote in progress for Chukwa 0.5.0 Release Candidate 3
>
> When Chukwa 0.5.0 is officially released, Chukwa will complete all required
> goals to graduate incubation.
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Cordova
Does not appear to mention anywhere that the previous name was
Callback which is a strange omission.
> December was a busy month. Lots of updates to the code base and our working
> toolchain.
>
> We would particularly like to thank infra for all the work getting us setup
> with git. We really appreciate the effort and valuable discussion
> surrounding it. It is this sort of attention to community that makes us
> grateful to be members of the Apache community.
>
> * shipped 1.3 with full windows phone support (NOTE: this was not an ASF
> release; this is next for us)
> * BlackBerry Playbook support
> * started migration to Cordova name
> * git migration complete
> * battery events api
> (http://docs.phonegap.com/en/1.3.0/phonegap_events_events.md.html#Events)
> * first version of the project web site up
>
> Graduation concerns:
>
> * Complete the migration to Apache infrastructure
> * Make an official Apache release
> * Grant committership to new contributors
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Deft
>
> Deft is a non-blocking, asynchronous, event driven high performance web
> framework running on the JVM. The project entered incubation on 2011-07-08.
>
> The most important issues to address in moving to graduation:
>
> 1. Prepare an initial incubation release.
> 2. Attract more committers, and other community members.
> 3. Secure the previously used URL, "deftserver.org".
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
> of?
> - Not at this time.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> - There have been no significant developments.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> - Outstanding tasks are still being worked on.
>
>
> --------------------
>
> DeltaSpike
>
> (incubating since December 2011)
>
> DeltaSpike will consist of a number of portable CDI extensions that provide
> useful features for Java application developers. The goal of DeltaSpike is
> to create a de-facto standard of CDI-Extensions that is developed and
> maintained by the community.
>
> There are currently no issues requiring IPMC or Board attention.
>
> Since our last report on December 12, 2011, we have accomplished the
> following:
>
> - Finished the discussion about coding conventions and added the
> corresponding checkstyle rules
> - Finished the discussion on the first features
> - Finished infrastructure topics together with the infrastructure team (GIT
> repository, nightly builds with Jenkins, Sonar setup)
> (Only the JIRA plug-in for GIT is missing because there are issues with
> using it side by side with the plug-in for SVN)
> - Most initial committers signed their ICLA and got their account
> - Started discussions on the next features
> - Started with the build structure
> - Started with the test-infrastructure
> - Started to migrate core feature contributions from Seam3 and CODI
> - Started to add information to the Wiki to help new folks getting involved
> - Started discussions about tools for our documentation and website
> - Started with the status page (based on
> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/website.html)
>
> Upcoming major goals:
>
> - Finish test-infrastructure to allow in-container tests
> - Finish the setup for the documentation and the website
> - Finish the discussions for all features which will be part of the first
> release
>
> Top 2 or 3 things to resolve before graduation:
>
> 1. Build community
> 2. Create at least one release
> 3. Create Documentation
>
>
> --------------------
>
> DirectMemory
>
> (incubating since October 2011)
>
> Apache DirectMemory is a multi layered cache implementation featuring
> off-heap memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of
> a large number of java objects without affecting jvm garbage collection
> performance.
>
> A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
> graduation.
>
> 1) closed - Branding requirements have been met and modified logos and
> artwork have been published
> 2) Understanding process/decision making guidelines (new committer process
> is undergoing testing, release process still yet to be worked out)
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware
> of
>
> - None - we are going well even having lost one mentor (but always hope
> he'll keep in touch ;)
>
> How has the community developed since the last report
>
> - Tasks and proposals contributed by non-committers
> - The team is voting a new committer
>
> How has the project developed since the last report.
> - Some examples are being added to the code base including another
> interesting integration with Apache Solr
>
>
> --------------------
>
> EasyAnt
>
> Easyant is a build system based on Apache Ant and Apache Ivy. Incubating
> since 2011-01-31.
>
> Towards graduation, we need to:
> * Create a release
> * Build a community
>
> Since the last report:
> * no particular progress on the diversity of the community
> * very little activity on the developper mailing list
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Empire-db
>
> Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows
> developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application development
> than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow highly efficient
> database operations in combination with a maximum of compile-time-safety and
> DBMS independence. Empire-db has entered Incubation in August 2008.
>
> Activity since last report:
> * Last month we voted for graduation, submitted our resolution which was
> revoked because of a copy-paste issue
> * A fixed resolution will be submitted for this month's board meeting
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Flex
>
> Flex is an application framework for building Flash-based applications.
>
> Entered incubation December 30th, 2011.
>
> The podling is just getting started, accounts and infrastructure are being
> created.
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Giraph
>
> Giraph is a large-scale, fault-tolerant, Bulk Synchronous Parallel
> (BSP)-based graph processing framework that runs on Hadoop. Giraph
> entered the incubator in August 2011.
>
> Project developments:
>
> * Sebastian Schelter, and Claudio Martella were added to the PPMC
> * Review Board in frequent use and high traffic on dev and commit lists
> * ICLA on file from all committers
>
> Next steps:
> * Adding new committers.
> * Making a release.
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Kafka
>
> (introduced to Apache incubator on Jul 4, 2011)
>
> Kafka provides an extremely high throughput distributed publish/subscribe
> messaging system. Additionally, it supports relatively long term persistence
> of messages to support a wide variety of consumers, partitioning of the
> message stream across servers and consumers, and functionality for loading
> data into Apache Hadoop for offline, batch processing.
>
> A list of the most important issues to address in the move towards
> graduation
>
> 1. Invite diverse new active committers
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
> of?
>
> We incurred significant overhead during our first release; see
> http://apache.markmail.org/message/rsxjgrrufc6khlqy?q=list:org%2Eapache%2Ein
> cubator%2Egeneral+from:%22junrao%22 for reference. Firstly, there is no good
> example to follow for a new podling. Secondly, the licensing rules are
> complex and the documentation is not enough for a new podling to understand.
> This gets more complicated since different IPMC members have different views
> and apply those rules slightly differently. This delays releases and causes
> overhead to the team. We hope that some of these things can be addressed to
> make the process easier to other projects.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Activities in the mailing list increased 4x since the last report. Several
> patches from non-committers have been submitted, reviewed and committed.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have successfully completed the first release of Kafka after joining the
> incubator. This releases adds the end-to-end compression feature and
> mirroring support in Kafka. In addition to this, it also fixes more than 40
> issues.
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Kitty
>
> Incubating since 2010-10-03
>
> Description
> Kitty is a command line JMX Client written in Groovy.
> It is a lightweight, production focused, application server performance
> diagnostic and management utility.
>
> The three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> 1) The community around this project is absent, looking at the amount of
> mails sent to the mailing list in the past months
> 2) The lack of a "Product Owner" who can prioritise stories/tasks, leaving
> the developers without a clue about the functionalities to implement
> 3) The code is a port from another language (Jython), and the history of
> the past project seems lost, so there isn't any reference about how the
> actual code should work. Also, there is no test (acceptance criteria) in
> support of that nor for the new features to implement.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware
> of?
> What seems relevant to me at the moment is the lack of communication
> between the committers;
> it would be fine if there was a clear statement about who is still
> interested and who is not in participating in the project, and how to
> reorganise the now shrunken team, if still there is one.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
> Sadly, the community hasn't develop at all; even worse, we faced the loss
> of some members who were actively involved in the project
> development/management.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
> Jira is not updated, leaving a shade of uncertainty about what has been
> fixed and what is still in progress since the last report.
> It seems that the last update was done in October, the 4th, with a fix
> regarding the correct navigation through the server tree in a file-system
> fashion.
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Lucy
>
> Lucy is a loose port of the Apache Lucene search engine library, written in
> C
> and targeted at dynamic language users.
>
> Lucy was voted into the Incubator on July 22, 2010.
>
> Progress since the last report:
>
> * Added new Committers/PPMC-members Nick Wellnhofer and Logan Bell.
> * Made substantial improvements in committer diversity.
> * Released version 0.2.2
> * Technical developments:
> * Added several new classes relating to Unicode text processing.
> * Improved clustering support.
> * Finished eliminating Perl-licensed dependencies, resolving LEGAL-86.
> * Set up per-commit build-and-test buildbot.
> * Finished porting Clownfish compiler to C.
>
> Top priorities prior to graduation:
>
> * None. We will likely be discussing graduation as soon as version 0.3.0
> is released.
>
> Issues for Incubator PMC or ASF Board:
>
> * None at this time.
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Mesos
>
> Mesos is a scalable cluster manager that can dynamically share resources
> between multiple
> computing frameworks, including Hadoop, Spark and MPI.
>
> Mesos entered incubation on December 23, 2010.
>
> Progress since the last report:
>
> * Shooting for an end of January release. Hope to call a release vote by
> early next week.
> * Internal Twitter repo almost eliminated (all code being developed through
> Apache).
> * Documentation added (in anticipation of end of month release).
> * Support for Mac OS X Lion almost complete (expected to be included in end
> of month release).
> * New autotools support almost complete (expected to be included in of end
> of month release).
> * Mesos provided replicated log deployed in production (and optimized).
> * New web UI, including task history viewing, committed.
> * Features and bug fixes contributed by 3+ new contributors.
>
> Top priorities prior to graduation:
>
> * Making our first release (we want to do that this month).
> * Adding more committers to the project from the various developers that
> have contributed to Mesos.
>
> Issues for Incubator PMC or ASF Board:
>
> * None at this time.
>
>
> --------------------
>
> ODFToolkit
>
> The ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation,
> scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF)
> documents. Unlike other approaches which rely on runtime manipulation of
> heavy-weight editors via an automation interface, the ODF Toolkit is
> lightweight and ideal for server use.
>
> * ODF Toolkit entered incubation on Aug 1st, 2011.
>
> * Most important issues to address.
> 1) Successful podling release.
> 2) Growing the community, increasing diversity of committers
>
>
> * Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware
> of
> None at this time.
>
> * How has the community developed since the last report
> We have a new committer: Oliver Rau.
>
> * How has the project developed since the last report.
> 1) With the help of mentor, Jenkins support for the build is ready.
> 2) We are voting for the candidate (RC7) of the first release.
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Oozie
>
> Oozie is a workflow management and scheduler primarily for Hadoop based
> jobs.
>
> Oozie entered the incubation on July 11, 2011.
>
> * A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
> graduation:
> * Make the first Oozie release from Apache incubation.
> * Further improve the documentations: user, development for quicker
> adoption
> * Establish the formal release process.
>
> * Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware
> of:
> * No issues.
>
> * How has the community developed since the last report:
> * Oozie dev/users are active in the email lists (1152 Email in oozie-dev
> and in oozie-user 212).
> * Around 7 new developers are contributing to the process and coding.
> * 84 JIRAs were created since last report.
>
> * How has the project developed since the last report.
> * A lot of new features are added. Fixed a lot of bugs too. Nearly 85
> JIRAs were closed/resolved in last three months.
> * Oozie product web page is improved and more usable. Further
> improvement is ongoing on.
> * The process has started for cutting the first release from Apache.
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Tashi
>
> Tashi has been incubating since September 2008.
>
> The Tashi project aims to build a software infrastructure for cloud
> computing
> on massive internet-scale datasets (what we call Big Data). The idea is to
> build a cluster management system that enables the Big Data that are stored
> in
> a cluster/data center to be accessed, shared, manipulated, and computed on
> by
> remote users in a convenient, efficient, and safe manner.
>
> Tashi originally encompassed just the tools to manage virtual machines
> using Xen and QEMU, but has been merged with Zoni, which manages the
> physical aspects of a cluster like power control, network settings and
> handing out physical machines.
>
> Development activities have included:-
> * Accounting server has been added to the codebase
> * Primitive scheduler changes
> * bug fixes
> * Add support for user choice of dense packing or not
> * Guard against starting more than one VM with
> persistent disk
> * Client changes
> * Check syntax of user commands
> * Add support for querying available images
> * Add support for querying image size
> * Add support for copying of images
> * QEMU VMM changes
> * bug fixes
> * Reserve some memory for the host itself
> * Make scratch location configurable
> * Live migrations take a long time, eliminate
> some timeout values
> * Cluster manager changes
> * bug fixes
> * Reduce network traffic
> * Move accounting functions to new accounting server
> * Branched off new stable version and release candidate
> * Audit compliance with Incubator policies
>
> The project is still working toward building a larger user and development
> community. User groups have been identified in Ireland, Slovenia and Korea,
> Malaysia, as well as the United States.
>
> Items to be resolved before graduation:
> * A stable branch exists which could be a release candidate, but
> the codebase is large and test hardware is currently in
> short supply. We are confident that the code in the stablefix
> branch will work if running QEMU emulation, Pickle or sqlite
> data storage, primitive scheduler. Xen, other data stores and
> schedulers have not been tested recently.
> * Develop community diversity (Committers currently at Telefonica,
> Google and CMU)
>
>
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Re: January 2012 Incubator Board Report
Posted by "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" <ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>.
On Jan 11, 2012, at 10:39 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Any23
>>
> ...
>> Yes, all of the code has been ported from Google Code to the ASF.
>> Thanks to Daniel Shahaf and Michele Mostarda for leading the
>> charge here.
>
> To clarify: I'm not a member of the Any23 community; I only participated
> here as a member of Infra.
We appreciate your help and I still am happy that I gave you credit in the
report regardless.
Cheers,
Chris
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Re: January 2012 Incubator Board Report
Posted by Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012, at 01:09, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> Below are podling reports. Sam Ruby has already reviewed the original list
> prior to posting, and requested that specific posts not be provided to the
> Board, as he was unhappy with their status:
>
> Kato: has been in limbo for years due to Oracle. The podling needs to
> decide what to do, or terminate
> Bloodhound, HISE, JSPWiki and Openmeetings: missing
> VXQuery: not signed off by a Mentor
>
Perhaps to state the obvious, but: Mentors and PPMCers of the above
projects, please relay the above to your dev lists.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Any23
>
...
> Yes, all of the code has been ported from Google Code to the ASF.
> Thanks to Daniel Shahaf and Michele Mostarda for leading the
> charge here.
To clarify: I'm not a member of the Any23 community; I only participated
here as a member of Infra.
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