Incubator PMC report for March 2017

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 64 podlings incubating.  In the month of February we had 7
releases and no changes in IPMC roster.

* Community

  New IPMC members:

  - None

  People who left the IPMC:

  - None

* New Podlings

  - Gobblin

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

  - Griffin
  - Pony Mail
  - Sirona

* Graduations

  The board has motions for the following:

  - None

* Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  February:

  - 2017-02-02  Apache Guacamole 0.9.11
  - 2017-02-08  Apache SystemML 0.12.0
  - 2017-02-12  Apache Singa 1.1.0
  - 2017-02-15  Apache mynewt 1.0.0-b2
  - 2017-02-20  Apache RocketMQ 4.0.0
  - 2017-02-25  Apache Juneau 6.1.0 
  - 2017-02-27  Apache HAWQ 2.1.0.0

* Legal / Trademarks

  - A great discussion happened regarding the IP clearance and missing SGA
    around MADLib.  It demonstrates the needs to ensure that proper provenance
    is in place.

* Credits

  - Report Manager: John D. Ament, Marvin Humphrey

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                       Table of Contents
AriaTosca
Atlas
Gearpump
Hivemall
HTrace
log4cxx2
Mnemonic
MRQL
MXNet
Myriad
ODF Toolkit
Omid
OpenWhisk
Pirk
Pony Mail
Quickstep
Ratis
RocketMQ
SAMOA
Singa
Sirona
Spot
Streams
Taverna
Tephra
Trafodion
Wave
Weex

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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. Grow the community and enroll new committers.
  2. Have frequent Release cycles to be compliant with the Apache Way.
  3. Update ARIA website according to ASF guideline(Include release process
     for ARIA-TOSCA Project).
  4. Publish "How To Contribute" guide at ARIA-TOSCA Website.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

  None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Most of the project discussions are now happening on mailing lists.
  
How has the project developed since the last report?

  TOSCA parser migrated into ASF
  CI on Appveyor, Jenkins
  Sphinx documentation added to the project
  CLIs of workflow engine and parser coalesced
  TOSCA CSAR packager added
  APIs for workflows, operations
  Workflow engine task retry support
  Workflow engine execution cancel support

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [X] Working towards first release
  [ ] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  No release yet

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  Project is still operating with the initial set of committers.

Signed-off-by:

  [X](ariatosca) Suneel Marthi
     Comments:
     
       Podling activity has been consistent and discussions are now happening
       on the mailing lists.

  [X](ariatosca) John D. Ament
     Comments:
     
       Podling activity peaks and dives.  Would like to see more on-list
       chatter.

  [ ](ariatosca) Jakob Homan
     Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

   Drew Farris (shepherd): 2 mentors active on mailing lists, evidence of healthy
     development activity. Consider a separate jira/commits list to encourage
     discussion among humans on the dev list. 

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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. PODLINGNAMESEARCH-118 [1] was
     opened to track this.

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. No new committers or PPMC additions since last time. About 4 new
     contributors have been added since the last report. The current number
     of contributors is around 74.
  2. The activity on the atlas-dev mailing list stands at an average of
     around 800 messages per month between December and February [2]

How has the project developed since the last report?

   1. 0.7.1 (incubating) release of Apache Atlas was made on 30th January
      2017 [3]. In addition, a 0.8 release is being planned and community is
      focussed on this.
   2. New features such as an improved API layer, more performance
      improvements, UI enhancements to create new entities etc are being
      planned in the 0.8 release. In addition, there are proposals to bring a
      new Business Glossary feature.
   3. A total of 238 issues were reported between Dec 1st 2016 and Feb
      28th 2017. 160 issues have been resolved in the same time [4][5]

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [ ] Community building
  [X] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2017-01-30: 0.7.1-incubating [3]

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  The PPMC voted and elected 3 new members as committers to the project on
  2016-10-20: Madhan Neethiraj, Jeffrey Hagelberg and Vimal Sharma.

Links:
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-118
[2] http://markmail.org/search/?q=atlas#query:atlas%20list%3Aorg.apache.atlas.dev+page:1+state:facets
[3] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a63701573703d464c963e1cad9b93c0038c1826f841982b50d08c515@%3Cdev.atlas.apache.org%3E
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20ATLAS%20AND%20created%20%3E%3D%202016-12-01%20AND%20created%20%3C%3D%202017-02-28
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20ATLAS%20AND%20status%20in%20(Resolved%2C%20Closed)%20AND%20resolved%20%3E%3D%202016-12-01%20AND%20resolved%20%3C%3D%202017-02-28

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](atlas) Arun Murthy
     Comments:
  [X](atlas) Chris Douglas
     Comments:
  [ ](atlas) Jakob Homan
     Comments:
  [ ](atlas) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
     Comments:

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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. Release on a regular schedule.
  2. Continue to evolve community interest and support.
  3. Integrate within Apache Beam and Akka-stream 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 Docker integration improvement.
  - Applied for Google Summer of Code 2017 and we already have students
    interested in our project.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  - 34 issues created and 34 issues resolved.
  - Added finite stream and session windows support.
  - Akka-stream feature branch has been merged into master.
  - Continued integration within Apache Beam (Gearpump Runner).
    14 issues resolved.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [X] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2016-11-30 *and we plan to make next release in early March*.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  - No new committers or PMC members elected yet.

Signed-off-by:

  [X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
     Comments:
  [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
     Comments:
  [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
     Comments:
  [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
     Comments:
  [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
     Comments:

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Griffin

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

  Justin McLean:
  
    No report and seems slow to get started / no web site or code imported
    yet / low email traffic.
  
  Uma Maheswara Rao G: 
   
    Seems slow in getting in to Apache Way process and mentors guiding on that. 
    There were confusions on report timings and mentors dropped heads-up mail on that.
    Hope to see next report on time. 

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Hivemall

Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive
UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.

Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Create the first Apache release
  2. Community growth (committers and users)
  3. Documentation improvements 

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

  Help would be required for IP clearance (being ready)

How has the community developed since the last report?

  * Merged contributions from two external contributors.
  * Mailing list activity (Jan-Feb): @dev: 78 messages
     https://lists.apache.org/trends.html?dev@hivemall.apache.org:2017-01
     https://lists.apache.org/trends.html?dev@hivemall.apache.org:2017-02 
      - The number of messages decreased in Feb because we changed 
        JIRA/github notification addresses to issues@hivemall.apache.org
  * Github watchers/stars are gradually increasing: 
     52 stars as of Feb 28 (was 38 on Dec 26)
     https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall
  * Twitter account @ApacheHivemall followers are gradually increasing: 
     52 followers as of Feb 28 (was 33 on Dec 26)
  * Submitted a talk to Apache BigData, Miami.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Worked hard towards the first Apache release.
  
  * Documentation enrichment (e.g., Hivemall on Apache Spark)
     http://hivemall.incubator.apache.org/userguide/
    
  Since the last report (January 2017), we have  
    * Opened 40 JIRA issues
    * Closed 13 JIRA issues
       as seen in bit.ly/hivemall-jira-may
    * Created 36 Pull Requests     
      https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20created%3A2017-01-01..2017-02-28
    * Merged 33 Pull Requests    
      https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20closed%3A2017-01-01..2017-02-28
    
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [x] Working towards first release
  [x] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  No release yet 
  (planning the first Apache release in Q1 ~ Early Q2, 2017)

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  None

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](hivemall) Reynold Xin
     Comments:  
  [X](hivemall) Markus Weimer
     Comments:  
  [ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng
     Comments:  
  [X](hivemall) Daniel Dai
     Comments:  

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HTrace

HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.

HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Continue to grow the 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?

  Mailing lists have been quiet.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Development has been quiet.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [x] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2016-10-06

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2016-10-03

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](htrace) Jake Farrell
     Comments:
  [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
     Comments:
  [ ](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
     Comments:
  [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
     Comments:
  [x](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
     Comments:
  [x](htrace) Michael Stack
     Comments:

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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 is an ongoing discussion since first quarter 2016 about how to deal
  with this project, because no release happened yet and there's only little
  activity regarding development and support. Especially no release is a
  problem for incubating projects.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  One support question, no new project members.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Robert Middleton finished his attempt to move the project to use C++
  smart pointers instead of the former used custom implementation. That
  work needs to be tested and integrated upstream, but there's no time plan
  currently on when this will be done.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

  It seems this project has run its course in the incubator. The Logging PMC
  needs to decide what to do with the project.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [ ] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [X] Other: pretty much dormant

Date of last release:

  2008-04-03 was the last official, pre-incubation 0.10.0

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?



Signed-off-by:

  [X](log4cxx2) Ralph Goers
     Comments:

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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 many 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, SerDe-less and native-direct computing high
performance applications.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Apache releases: we have release version 0.4.0-incubating
  2. Integrated with Hadoop as Mapreduce Input/Output formatters.
  3. Introduced Mnemonic to potential developers and users.

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 Dec. Since then

  * Two more developers are going to contribute code.
  * We need to encourage more discussion on the dev list in the coming months

How has the project developed since the last report?

  * Upgraded MemChunkHolder/MemBufferHolder to DurableChunk/DurableHolder
  * Provided mnemonic-hadoop-mapreduce module with testcases
  * and other bugfixes, features, improvements

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [ ] Community building
  [*] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2017-01-24

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  None

Signed-off-by:

  [X](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt
     Comments:
     
        One year milestone as podling this month. Community growth has been
        slow and activity dominated by one to two committers. Not clear how
        active the mentors are in helping the podling - only two mentors
        signed off on the report last quarter.

  [X](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell
     Comments:

        Mentors have not been active, including myself. We may want to 
        solicit new or additional mentors for this podling. 

  [ ](mnemonic) James Taylor
     Comments:
  [ ](mnemonic) Henry Saputra
     Comments:

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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,
Flink, and Storm.

MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Increase the number of active committers
  2. Increase adoption, expand user community, and increase user list activity

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

  None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  One new MRQL committer was accepted since our last report.  He developed
  the new evaluation mode for MRQL that runs on top of Apache Storm.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  There was very little activity on JIRA since our last report.  The
  resolved issues on JIRA included various bug fixes and performance
  improvements.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [X] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2016-03-02

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2016-12-22

Signed-off-by:

  [X](mrql) Alan Cabrera
     Comments:
  [ ](mrql) Edward J. Yoon
     Comments:
  [ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din
     Comments:

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MXNet

A Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep Learning

MXNet has been incubating since 2017-01-23.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Move the code and website to Apache Infrastructure.
  2. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for dependable
     release cycles in line with Apache development process.
  3. 

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

  PPMC to discuss adding in some community members who asked to join while
  the Incubator vote was in progress.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Project is still getting set up in Incubator.

How has the project developed since the last report?
 
  Project is still getting set up, all proposed committers have submitted
  their ICLAs.
 
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [X] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [ ] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

 No Release yet

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  Project is being set up with the initial set of committers.

Signed-off-by:

  [X](mxnet) Sebastian Schelter
     Comments:
  [X](mxnet) Suneel Marthi
     Comments:
  [X](mxnet) Markus Weimer
     Comments:
  [X](mxnet) Henri Yandell
     Comments:

        As project already exists in the public, this incubation is about
        moving the development over without stopping the momentum of the
        project, and then learning about the Apache development processes.
        Previous conversations were Slack/GitHub-issue based, so making
        decisions on the email list will be the first likely adaptation. A
        dependency on ZeroMQ will be the primary discussion point for a first
        release at Apache.  PPMC list is still low on subscriptions, with
        less than half of the PPMC members subscribed.

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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. Nurture dwindling developer community
  2. Expand Myriad user base, get feedback from production deployments
  3. Release new versions (0.3 in progress) with new features

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

  Participation is dropping, as developers are busy with other projects. When
  should we consider retiring from the incubator?

How has the community developed since the last report?

  * dev@ mailing list had 41 messages since the last report. 1 new user, 4
    continuing users, 3 committers
  * Bi-weekly dev syncs with 0-2 participants. Most cancelled due to lack of
    attendance. Minutes at http://s.apache.org/8kF

How has the project developed since the last report?

  * 1 PR and 1 JIRA closed.
  * PRs #95, #96 and #100 are iterating. We can do a 0.3 release after they
    merge.
  * DC/OS Universe PR is in review, needs a walkthrough doc:
    https://github.com/mesosphere/universe/pull/841

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [X] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2016-06-20 myriad-0.2.0-incubating

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2016-06-16 Yuliya Feldman

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
     Comments:
  [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
     Comments:
  [ ](myriad) Ted Dunning
     Comments:
  [x](myriad) Luciano Resende
     Comments:

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ODF Toolkit

Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents

ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Get companies backing up the project as part of a commercial story, to
     get a long-term momentum
  2. Do recurrent releases - some semi-automation would be helpful - for the
     3rd party users

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

  We have a lack of active mentors. Sam Ruby resigned due to switch of
  personal focus.  Mentors have not signed the past two reports, not answering
  on direct mail. Overworked?

  A general issue of the project is that it 'just' a toolkit of an office
  file format, which in addition is far from leading on the business market,
  so likely never being used by the mass market - a very niche product.

  Still the toolkit seems to be working well for most common use cases, but
  is repeatedly updated by developers on changes of the ODF, like Red Hat
  developers enhancing the ODF validator as part of LibreOffice regression
  tests (e.g. out-of-the-box running on http://odf-validator.rhcloud.com/)
  most often quite ahead of one of the international ODF Plugfests -
  http://odfplugfest.org/2016-paris/programme/. 

  Since there are still some game changing features in the pipeline (e.g.
  collaboration) which are expected to strengthen the acceptance and develop
  the community but on the other hand the mentorship / infrastructure of the
  project could be better, a decision needs to be made on the future.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  A company stated their commitment to the ODF toolkit and works on
  contribution to the project.

  We are working on the next release including the fixes and planning a
  follow-up release adding new features.

How has the project developed since the last report?
  Problem with Windows build bots were solved. 

  Build tested with JDK 6 to 8 under Windows and Linux with JDK 8.

  Preparing a release after a long time to allow newcomers to rely on
  state-of-the-art features.  

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [x] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2013-06-22, just started one

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2015-10-05 - Damjan Jovanovic for Commiter/PPMC
  
Signed-off-by:

  [ ](odftoolkit) Rob Weir
     Comments:
  [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
     Comments:
  [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
     Comments:
  [X](odftoolkit) Tom Barber
     Comments:
      Clearly the project has some operational issues, both in active PMC members and mentors.
      I'll work with Svante on trying to setup regular releases and some marketing to try and 
      attract new members and we'll see where we go from there.


IPMC/Shepherd 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?

  Started integration with Apache Phoenix community.
  Omid presented in the SF HBase community event in Dec.
  Omid paper accepted in FAST 2017

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Started working in the next release.
  Quarter Stats (from: 2016-12-01 to: 2017-02-28):

    +---------------------------------------------+
    |   Metric                          | counts  |
    +---------------------------------------------+
    | # of msgs in dev list             |   36    |
    | Active Contributors (incl mentors)|    6    |
    | Jira New Issues                   |    4    |
    | Resolved Issues                   |    2    |
    | Pull Requests merged              |    0    |
    | Pull Requests proposed            |    0    |
    +---------------------------------------------+

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [X] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2016-06-24

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  At incubation acceptance (2016-03-28)

Signed-off-by:

  [X](omid) Alan Gates
     Comments:
     
       Activity on this podling remains low but it is good to see a few
       issues files and resolved and the report filed on time and without
       prodding by the mentors.

  [ ](omid) Lars Hofhansl
     Comments:
  [ ](omid) Flavio P. Junqueira
     Comments:
  [ ](omid) Thejas Nair
     Comments:
  [ ](omid) James Taylor
     Comments:

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OpenWhisk

OpenWhisk is an open source, distributed Serverless computing platform able
to execute application logic (Actions) in response to events (Triggers) from
external sources (Feeds) or HTTP requests governed by conditional logic
(Rules). It provides a programming environment supported by a REST API-based
Command Line Interface (CLI) along with tooling to support packaging and
catalog services.

OpenWhisk has been incubating since 2016-11-23.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Moving github repos under the Apache Github Org (organization move,
     repository renames), first 2 repos. moved; issues identified and being
     worked.
  2. Working to redirect openwhisk.incubator.apache.org to openwhisk.org,
     update openwhisk.org to be Apache compliant (pre-req is repo. move
     completion so that we can generate site via Jenkins/Apache tooling)
  3. Working through project incubation checklists on CWIKI
      Compliance Checklist for OpenWhisk.org website

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

  - Travis CI takes hours to process a PR on Apache Org; whereas it takes
    minutes under current OpenWhisk org.
    - The root cause is that Apache has 185 repos enable with Travis[1], but
      only an allocation of 30 concurrent builds. OpenWhisk typically needs 5
      concurrent build slots by itself continually.
  - Many of the OpenWhisk’s repos. have cross-build dependencies (primarily
    for Travis CI tests) this may will cause issues as repos. are brought
    over 1 at a time if forwarding links are not preserved by GitHub.
  - There may be issues with Committers in China being able
    to enable 2FA since it does not work with their cell phones and the
    alternative encryption tool seems to be blocked. Investigating with 
    infra.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  - Committers have begun enable 2FA for GitHub and enable cross-
    authentication to their Apache accounts using GitBox.
  - “dev", “private” email list traffic continues to be healthy; positive
    discussion of a few new code feature/change topics
  - GitHub project “Stars” = 1144 (up from 1024 last month).
    - a few new contributors in package deployment tool repo.
    - more active discussions occurring on “dev” list.
  - Created new public Slack Team (openwhisk-team.slack.com). includes
    channels:
    - “general” for general project questions and help
    - “dev” channel where notifications of all OpenWhisk GitHub Issues are
      posted.
    - “dev-pr” channel where notifications of all OpenWhisk GitHub Pull
      Requests are posted.
    - Note: all development related discussions are directed to our “dev”
      mailing list.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  - Updating existing project code scan tools used in Travis CI to check for
    ASF license header in files.
  - Confluence WIKI
    (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/OpenWhisk+Project+Wiki)
    added pages for:
    - Accessing Apache GitHub as a Committer
    - GitHub How to Submit Pull Requests
    - Developer Best Practices
  - Active discussion on:
    - Configuration through environment vs. Consul KV
    - vanity urls for web actions
    - Exposing garbage collector for nodejs runtime
  - New features: webactions, official support for annotations
  - New repo.: https://github.com/openwhisk/openwhisk-GitHubSlackBot
     - This bot is designed to post updates to Slack when a GitHub pull
       request is ready to merge or a list of pull requests are under review
       for certain days and haven't merged.
  - Submissions to “dev” list for new articles, use cases (new contribs.)
  - New features: webactions, official support for annotations
  - Multiple sessions submitted for ApacheCon NA. In addition, submitted for
    panel talk and lightning talks.

Date of last release:

  - No release yet

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  - Ioana Baldini, new committer 2017-02-09
  - Justin Berstler, new committer 2017-02-20

Signed-off-by:

  [X](openwhisk) Felix Meschberger
     Comments:
  [ ](openwhisk) Isabel Drost-Fromm
     Comments:
  [X](openwhisk) Sergio Fernández
     Comments:
     
       Podling still struggling with landing on ASF infrastructure, although
       slowly making progress.

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Pirk

Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR).

Pirk has been incubating since 2016-06-17.

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?

  Yes. The Pirk community participation and growth has stalled over the last
  few months.  Recently, there's been discussion on the mailing lists about
  retiring Pirk for now.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  The Pirk community has not developed since the last report - no new
  contributors or committers have been added

How has the project developed since the last report?

  The project has stalled - the existing community has not been active nor
  has the community grown.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

  The podling will not be seeing any activity in the near future, and the
  consensus has been to retire the podling for now.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [ ] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [X] Other:

Date of last release:

  October 9, 2016

When were the last committers or PPMC 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
     Comments:
  [x](pirk) Joe Witt
     Comments:
     
        As noted in the report and observed in the community contributions
        and discussion have stalled. Discussions to prompt engagement have
        revealed that availability to contribute for much of the original
        team is no longer available.  It is my opinion that retirement should
        be pursued given the range of community growth for the past few
        months and stated lack of intent to turn that around soon.

  [x](pirk) Josh Elser
     Comments:
     
        It's sad to see the discussion about the low recent activity quickly
        change into a a discussion about retirement. I was hoping that the
        previously active podling members would have taken some steps to
        grow, but it seems like their priorities have shifted elsewhere. Pirk
        had been doing quite well and is very interesting software; it's a
        shame to see it moving to retirement.  Sounds like retirement will be
        pursued in the coming month.

  [X](pirk) Suneel Marthi
     Comments:
     
        Based on recent discussions on Mailing lists the consensus has been
        to retire Pirk for now, in large part due to unavailability of the
        full set of initial committers that can steer this project forward.

  [X](pirk) Tim Ellison
     Comments:
     
        Pirk had a very promising start, with the community exhibiting all
        the right behaviors, including being able to gain consensus on an
        early initial release.  The initial committers are critical to the
        future of Pirk due to their specialist knowledge, and there has not
        been sufficient time to fully grow new members who can cover their
        role.  With their withdrawl it is unfortunate but inevitable that
        Pirk be retired.  The discussion is taking place on the dev list as
        expected.

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Quickstep

Quickstep is a high-performance database engine that is designed to exploit
the full potential of hardware that is packed in modern servers. The initial
effort targets single-node in-memory environments.

Quickstep has been incubating since 2016-03-29.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Building a Quickstep community.
  2. More adoption of the Quickstep technology.
  3. No releases so far.

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?

  Members of the community have become more aware about the release process.
  The details about the release process that we plan to use are well
  documented so that future releases will be smooth and more frequent.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  We are working on our first release. Since the last report, we have done
  the following: 

  * We have made several changes to the code base. Some highlights are:
    Cleaning up the third party library code as per the Apache hygiene,
    improve the code performance by adding several novel features.
  * Preparation for release: Created scripts and step by step procedural
    documentation for how to make a Quickstep release.
  * Scripts have been added to the main repo while documentation is on
    confluence.
  * We went through several release candidates.
  * During this period, we identified some usability issues on our supported
    platforms and fixed them.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [X] Working towards first release
  [ ] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  November 2016.

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](quickstep) Konstantin Boudnik
     Comments:
  [x](quickstep) Julian Hyde
     Comments:

        Lots of effort going into the first release - it's taken a while, but
        it's very welcome! The community is getting better at having
        discussions on the list (and not just about code). Have not seen many
        potential new committers so far, but the release should change that,
        and the project is starting to become more outward looking.

  [x](quickstep) Roman Shaposhnik
     Comments:
        good progress

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Ratis

Ratis is a java implementation for RAFT consensus protocol.

Ratis has been incubating since 2017-01-03.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Setup wiki, jenkins
  2. Make the first release. 
  3. Grow the community.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

  - None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  - One new contributor 


How has the project developed since the last report?

  - IP Clearance is completed
    (https://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/ratis.html)
  - Active development started in the community. 16 commits in last month.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup - Ip clearance, Git setup completed and development
      started. Next step is to get jenkins going.
  [ ] Working towards first release - Working towards first snapshot release.
      Need INFRA help for access.
  [ ] Community building - One new contributor
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  - None

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  - Initial set of committers / PPMC.

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](ratis) Chris Nauroth
     Comments:
  [X](ratis) Devaraj Das
     Comments:
  [ ](ratis) Jakob Homan
     Comments:
  [X](ratis) Uma Maheswara Rao G
     Comments:

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RocketMQ

RocketMQ is a fast, low latency, reliable, scalable, distributed, easy to use
message-oriented middleware, especially for processing large amounts of
streaming data.

RocketMQ has been incubating since 2016-11-21.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Make our first Apache release and vote in our first committer / PMC members –  COMPLETE
  2. Moving sub-projects from GitHub into the ASF
  3. Grow the community

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

  None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  * Increased mailing list activity: solutions and milestone plan are
    discussed and decided in mailing list.
  * More than 15+ new contributors from different organizations since
    podling.
  * Organized 1 hackathon in community, the attendees was more than 50+. The
    mainly contributors have subscribe our dev mailing list and begin to be
    familiar to Apache way. 
  * Star has increased to 516 from 0 since move repository from alibaba to
    apache.
  * Voted upon and invited 2 new committers in PPMC since entering podling.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  * The first release of RocketMQ as part of the Apache incubator on
    2017-2-22.
  * Since November 111 issues+ have been reported on JIRA site and 50 have
    been resolved or closed. The plus are all association with the future
    release version. Since November 70+ pull requests have been created and
    44+ pull requests have been closed. The 3 guys review mechanism was to
    be applied, we highly value the quality of the Apache project.
  * Created Travis CI, Sonar and Coveralls, project infrastructure for
    RocketMQ. Apply JIRA agile and kanban for RocketMQ committers.
  * Created the website: http://rocketmq.incubator.apache.org and some
    necessary document have been created such as user guide, developer
    guide, faq, etc.
  * There are more than 5+ Apache project integration are decided to be done
    in the future release, such as ignite, storm etc.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup - The initial setup went pretty well with assistance
      from John Ament and his Incubator documentation improvement efforts.
  [ ] Working towards first release - The podling has performed its first
      release as noted below
  [ ] Community building - Some contributors are beginning to participate.
      So far users have been slow to show up, so more effort on this front
      will be encouraged.
  [ ] Nearing graduation - Making progress, not there yet.
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2017-02-21

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  27 Feb 2017 - Roman Shtykh
  27 Feb 2017 - Zhen Dong Liu

Signed-off-by:

  [X](rocketmq) Bruce Snyder
     Comments:
  [ ](rocketmq) Brian McCallister
     Comments:
  [ ](rocketmq) Willem Ning Jiang
     Comments:
  [ ](rocketmq) Luke Han
     Comments:
  [X](rocketmq) Justin McLean
     Comments:
     
       Missing from issues above is moving [1] to inside the project.

1. https://github.com/rocketmq

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

  Drew Farris (shepherd): 4 mentors active on the mailing lists. Congratulations
    on the first incubator release. Healthy progress. 

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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 Flink, Apache
Storm, Apache Apex and Apache Samza.

SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Grow the developer base
  2. Grow the user base
  3. Add some more ML techniques

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 (December 2016 - February 2017):
  * @dev: 24 messages

  Jira issues backlog (December 2016 - February 2017):
  * Created:  2
  * Resolved: 0

  - We are organizing an internal workshop on SAMOA at Telefonica
    I+D with researchers of Orange Labs

  - We had a presentation of Apache Samoa at Paris Machine Learning
    Meetup and Hamburg Machine Learning Meetup

  - Bhupesh Chawda has presented Apache SAMOA in different venues
    with his presentation "Machine Learning Support in Apache Apex
    (Next Gen Hadoop) with Apache SAMOA"

  - We invited edi_bice who made several contributions last
    spring to become a committer.

  - We published a scientific paper using Apache Samoa and one of
    its machine learning techniques (Vertical Hoeffding Tree)
    presented in IEEE BigData Conference last December 2016.

  - We submitted a paper on SAMOA to a post-proceedings book of the
    workshops MUSE/MSM 2015/2016 in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  - We are looking into new ML techniques for development.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [X] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2016-09-30

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  None

Signed-off-by:

  [X](samoa) Alan Gates
     Comments:
     
       Activity on this podling remains low.  It is good to see a new
       committer being elected.  Shouldn't that be noted in the final section
       on when new committers and PMC members were elected?

  [ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan
     Comments:
  [ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar
     Comments:
  [ ](samoa) Ted Dunning
     Comments:

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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. Improve distributed training in SINGA V1.2
  2. Improve the documentation and add more examples
  3. Attract more contributors
 
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  66, 60, and 43 emails from dev@ list in December 2016, January
  2017 and February 2017 respectively.

  There are 67 new commits since the last report.

  One new committer (Li Boon Tan) was added.  
 
How has the project developed since the last report?
 
  We released the V1.1 version after the last report.  The following features
  were added after last report

  + Ease the installation process via Docker images, debian packages, conda
    packages and Amazon AMI  (CPU version)
  + Integrate with Jenkins for automatically generating convenient packages
    and updating the website.
  + Improve the model classes: adding debug mode, adding the Concat and Slice
    layers, and supporting model loading and saving via the Snapshot API
  + Add image_tool.py for image augmentation and rafiki sub-package for
    providing RESTFul APIs.
  + Enable Java binding (basic) for SINGA
  + Add examples pre-trained from Caffe, e.g., GoogleNet, and examples
    pre-trained from torch, e.g. ResNet
 
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

   [ ] Initial setup
   [ ] Working towards first release
   [X] Community building
   [ ] Nearing graduation
   [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2017-02-12

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  2017-02-26

Signed-off-by:

    [ ](singa) Daniel Dai
      Comments:
    [X](singa) Alan Gates
      Comments:
      
        On the maturity assessment I would say the community is in the
        "Community building" phase but not far from the "Nearing graduation"
        phase.

    [ ](singa) Ted Dunning
      Comments:
    [ ](singa) Thejas Nair
      Comments:

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Spot

Apache Spot is a solution stack that provides the capability to ingest IT
related telemetry (network flows, domain name service information and proxy
server logs) and provide unsupervised machine learning capabilities to
identify suspicious activity.  The information is organized and presented
using operational analytics so that a security analyst can investigate the
most suspicious connections. Apache Spot is built on an open data model using
Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop.

Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Move infrastructure and development to ASF (code, issues, mailing
     list, ...)
  2. Build diverse community
  3. Demonstrate ability to create releases

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?

  None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Based on initial feedback, process for issues was updated on the project
  website, with primary objective to facilitate the workflow and interaction
  with Community, and having diverse ownership of them until resolution.

  Slack channel has become very popular, however in order to adhere to ASF
  official communications channels, those conversations that involve quick
  question will be kept there, any extended discussion on code, pipeline, and
  architecture, are being ported to Dev mail list.
  
  There has been a concern to get continuous improvement of the UI on Apache
  Spot, committers have been working on process to get UX interviews that
  help to understand and address community and compliance needs.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  The project got a major architecture change in order to remove CSV’s,
  offload storage from the OS file system and instead leverage HDFS (for
  distributed architecture).

  Per community request through JIRA issue, and in order to facilitate the
  installation/adoption of the project for scale deployments, an installation
  script consolidating the ones that were built per pipeline component has
  been pulled to repository, it will reduce the complexity of porting files
  and configuration variables, by having a central point of deployment.

  Open Data Models, which serves as a framework for data sources
  normalization, initially for ingestion, was ported through its
  Specification to the project repository, this will bring more contributions
  to facilitate the design of the NoSQL table, and then determine technology
  selection through discussion and voting through mailing list.

February Metrics:

    +---------------------------------------------+
    |   Metric                          | counts  |
    +---------------------------------------------+
    | Active Contributors (incl mentors)|    14   |
    | Jira New Issues                   |    6    |
    | Resolved Issues                   |    1    |
    | Pull Requests merged              |    3    |
    | Pull Requests proposed            |    3    |
    +---------------------------------------------+

Date of last release:

  N/A

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  Last committer was elected on 2/24

How does the podling rate their own maturity?

  There was a strong focus on code delivery over the last quarter, towards
  Apache release, community adoption keeps growing, now by adding a layer of
  process for opening issues and commits, plus interaction over channels
  we're bringing contributions from others, towards Apache release.

Signed-off-by:

  [x](spot) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
     Comments:
  [ ](spot) Brock Noland
     Comments:
  [ ](spot) Andrei Savu
     Comments:
  [x](spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G
     Comments:


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Streams

Apache Streams is a lightweight server for ActivityStreams.

Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Community growth and PMC maturity.
  2. Demonstrate a consistent release schedule.
  3. Participation of project community within related standards-bodies
     and Apache projects.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

  The podling has satisfied all of the requirements as laid down in the Apache
  Maturity Model and is ready to graduate to TLP.

  The Apache Maturity Model Assessment for Streams can be found at:
  https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/STREAMS/Apache+Maturity+Model+Assessment+for+Streams

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Dev List 
  60 emails sent by 14 people, divided into 27 topics. 

  Web Page 
  844 Sessions, 631 Users, 2183 Pageviews.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Source Control 
  https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams

  Excluding merges, 5 authors have pushed 46 commits to master. On master,
  446 files have changed and there have been 22,388 additions and 13,129
  deletions.

  https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams-examples

  Excluding merges, 2 authors have pushed 29 commits to master and 2
  commits to all branches. On master, 79 files have changed and there
  have been 2655 additions and 2458 deletions.

  Team presently has a 0.5-incubating release candidate out for PPMC voting
  and will be pushing the same for IPMC vote the week of March 5, 2017.

  Since September 2016, the project has had 4 releases and has been having
  consistent activity.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [ ] Community building
  [X] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2016-12-26

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2016-10-27: Joey Frazee elected as committer / PPMC member
  2016-09-28: Suneel Marthi elected as mentor / PPMC member

Signed-off-by:

  [X](streams) Matt Franklin
     Comments:
     
        The podling has a small, but invested community from multiple
        different companies.  I agree with Suneel that we should consider
        graduation.

  [X](streams) Ate Douma
     Comments:
     
        Getting close to termination a little over 6 months ago because of
        lack of activity, the podling has remarkably revived and revitalized
        itself, and IMO now is in good shape, ready to graduate.    

  [X](streams) Suneel Marthi
     Comments:
     
        This podling is ready to graduate and has fulfilled all the criteria
        as laid down in the Apache Maturity Model Assessment.  The discussion
        to graduate the podling can start off once the in progress Streams
        0.5-incubating release is through.


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Taverna

Taverna is a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute
data-driven workflows.

Taverna has been incubating since 2014-10-20.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Project maturity evaluation
  2. IP/Licence Review
  3. Graduate!

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

  Reviewing licences and IP with a view to graduation.

  https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAVERNADEV/2016-09+License+review

How has the community developed since the last report?

  List has gone a bit more quiet, while activity on the 
  Gitter chat https://gitter.im/apache/taverna
  has remained at same level. Need to re-focus use of
  mailing list and community development.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Preparing maturity report, almost ready for graduation vote.
  Taverna has a lot of different code bases and we are reviewing
  what code we should remove from the repo while leaving a core set
  of modules for graduation.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [ ] Community building
  [x] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

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 PPMC members elected?

  2016-10-20 Committer
  2015-12-09 PPMC member

Signed-off-by:

  [x](taverna) Andy Seaborne
     Comments:

        Taverna dev@ has been quiet for this reporting period. The podling
        is trying to establish which parts of the total software grant to
        take through the incubator process into a TLP. There are still parts
        that have not been released or at a minimum checked for IP.

        The active PPMC membership is low and it would be better to work on
        community growth to provide a stable PMC as a TLP.

  [ ](taverna) Daniel J Debrunner
     Comments:
  [ ](taverna) Marlon Pierce
     Comments:
  [x](taverna) Stian Soiland-Reyes
     Comments:

        Activity has stalled a bit in the drive towards graduation, as some
        (perhaps tedious) IP review remains. Ambition levels might need
        adjustment, e.g. don't include all repositories in graduation to
        TLP.

  [ ](taverna) Suresh Marru
     Comments:
  [ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas
     Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

  johndament:
    The concerns about IP review may be valid, but there seems to be a disconnect
    on community graduation vs code graduation.

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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?

  - 1 new subscriber in dev mailing list since the last report
  - 25 new JIRAs filed since the last report
  - 0 external contributors submitted patches since the last report
  - 1 external contributor created a ticket in JIRA since the last report

How has the project developed since the last report?

  - Working on 0.11.0-incubating release
  - Released 0.10.0-incubating

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [x] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of the last release:

    2016-12-16

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  - None since coming to incubation

Signed-off-by:

  [X](tephra) Alan Gates
     Comments:
  [X](tephra) Andrew Purtell
     Comments:
  [ ](tephra) James Taylor
     Comments:
  [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl
     Comments:

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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.

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 declined slightly:
    503 messages in the codereview forum, 560@commits,
    246@dev, 871@issues and 26@user.
  * 217 people are following @trafodion on Twitter.
  * We are working towards our next release, 2.1.
  * Gunnar Tapper stepped down as the Release Manager on Feb. 5th
    and Sandhya Sundaresan volunteered on Feb. 9th to take over
    that role.
  * The community continues to be active in China, with
    some communications happening outside the Apache dev lists.
  * We had discussions about our readiness to graduate. Many
    people feel that we are ready, others felt that we should
    get more diverse contributors first.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  * 173 commits from 21 contributors.
  * 127 JIRAs filed and 112 resolved Dec 1 - Feb 27.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [X] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2016-07-07 2.0.1

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  in August 2016

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](trafodion) Devaraj Das
     Comments:
  [ ](trafodion) Enis Söztutar
     Comments:
  [x](trafodion) Michael Stack
     Comments:

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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?

  Pablo Ojanguren has accepted invitation to become committer.
  Community is discussing whether it have reached
  a sufficient level of stability to consider graduation.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  IP clearance got from SwellRT former copyright owners.
  In process to plan a release.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [X] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  March 2016

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 December 2016

Signed-off-by:

  [x](wave) Upayavira
     Comments:

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Weex

Weex is a framework for building Mobile cross-platform high performance UI.

Weex has been incubating since 2016-11-30.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Weex codebase has been migrated to Apache git repo.
  2. Weex website has been deployed to https://weex.incubator.apache.org/ in gitpubsub way.
  3. Made some guide for users and developers to Apache.

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?

  * Just a beginning in Apache.
  * 71 stars and 14 forks in our new Apache repo in GitHub.
  * Notice: We have stopped committing code to the old repo since Feb 24 2017 but there are still a lot of activities which need to be migrated here.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  * Weex codebase has been migrated to Apache git repo.
  * Travis-ci enabled for our new repo above.
  * Weex website has been deployed to https://weex.incubator.apache.org/ in gitpubsub way.
  * JIRA & Confluence space ready.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [x] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [ ] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  No

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  No

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](weex) Luke Han
     Comments:
  [ ](weex) Willem Jiang
     Comments:
  [ ](weex) Stephan Ewen
     Comments:
  [x](weex) Niclas Hedhman
     Comments: The project from a technical point of view is doing well. I am trying to get the participants really grok TheApacheWay, as there is still too much "corporate think" in the project, and things are done seemingly randomly. The GitHub workflow is also something that I worry about, since it makes the mailing list look like a commit log and not really a community discussion forum. There is some who listens and trying to get their colleagues to understand. This doesn't seem to be a language (Chinese) issue as much as a GitHub culture issue. These guys love GitHub issues and pull requests. But I am hopeful we will get there.