Sentry Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role based authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop cluster. Sentry has been incubating since 2013-08-08. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Build community and add new committers 2. Continue to release at regular intervals 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? Sentry User Meetup group has nearly 50 members. The project's first meetup is planned for the end of Oct. We have 23 sign ups on the dev list. How has the project developed since the last report? We have migrated all of the infrastructure to ASF. The website is up and running. Podling name search has been successfully completed. Project had its first release since starting incubation. On the development front, a number of new JIRAs have been filed and are being actively worked on. Date of last release: 2013-09-25 (1.2.0-incubating) When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Last committers and PMC members were elected when the project entered incubation.