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Incubator PMC report for Sep 2013
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
It's been another relatively quiet and smooth month for the Incubator.
* Community
New IPMC members:
Ben Hindman
Jake Farrell
Andrei Savu
People who left the IPMC:
(None)
* New Podlings
(None)
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
Curator
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
Aug 15 Apache Falcon (incubating) v0.3
Aug 27 Apache jclouds 1.6.2-incubating
It took 5-8 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.
Release RC VOTE start Third IMPC +1 Days
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Apache Falcon (incubating) v0.3 Aug 07 Aug 12 5
Apache jclouds 1.6.2-incubating Aug 18 Aug 26 8
However, the first incubating release for Allura has now been waiting since
at least August 28 (13 days as of this writing) with only 1 IPMC vote cast
so far. Two rounds of polite pings have yet to scare up additional votes.
* Miscellaneous
* Several proposals are in various states of preparation. Two seem close
to launching an entry VOTE: Storm, "a distributed, fault-tolerant, and
high-performance realtime computation system that provides strong
guarantees on the processing of data", and Aurora, "a service scheduler
used to schedule jobs onto Apache Mesos."
* Tashi's developers are currently running a community retirement vote. It
seems likely that the podling will be retired within the next few weeks.
* VXQuery is being pressured to show progress by some IPMC members and
defended by others.
* The tradition of sending a "welcome" email to new podlings once their
mailing lists are set up has been quietly introduced. Such mails are
cross-posted to the podling's dev list and general@incubator. This is
another offshoot of the "Incubator Ombud" discussions which began a few
months ago, like the WhatToExpect wiki page.
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
Samza
Sentry
Spark
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
Allura
Drill
Kalumet
MetaModel
MRQL
Olingo
Tajo
Wave
Community growth:
Falcon
Provisionr
S4
Streams
Other/unspecified:
Open Climate Workbench
* Ready to graduate
Curator
* Did not report
(None)
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Table of Contents
Allura
Curator
Drill
Falcon
Kalumet
MetaModel
MRQL
Olingo
Open Climate Workbench
Provisionr
S4
Samza
Sentry
Spark
Streams
Tajo
Wave
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Allura
Forge software for the development of software projects, including source
control systems, issue tracking, discussion, wiki, and other software project
management tools.
Allura has been incubating since 2012-06-25.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Streamline release process (including voting)
2. Continue to grow community
3. Move project development to ASF hardware
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No.
How has the community developed since the last report?
A merge request from long ago was improved and merged. Daniel Hinojosa,
SourceForge Community manager, introduced himself and a flyer he is working
on to promote Allura. A few emails on the users list. All other commit
and email activity has been from existing PPMC members.
Developers from SourceForge continue to move their internal discussions to
public forums when possible. Ticket updates now go to the mailing list, and
more discussions and sharing of plans are occurring on the mailing list and
IRC.
How has the project developed since the last report?
First release has been created and approved by PPMC, after a few weeks of
tweaks and voting. It is now pending IPMC approval. Infra has helped us
get https://forge-allura.apache.org/ up, so we will be able to migrate our
wiki, tickets, etc. to it.
Allura has gained an import infrastructure, bulk export, wiki macros for
youtube and gittip, more extension points, SCM log view and API
improvements and a variety of other assorted fixes & improvements.
Date of last release:
As of Sep 3, our first release is pending IPMC votes.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-04-11
Signed-off-by:
[ ](allura) Ross Gardler
[ ](allura) Greg Stein
[ ](allura) Jim Jagielski
Shepherd notes:
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Curator
Curator - ZooKeeper client wrapper and rich ZooKeeper framework
Curator has been incubating since 2013-03-11.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
none - graduation vote succeeded
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
Vote to graduate as a TLP was successful on both dev@ and general@ [1][2]
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Iannois Canellos added as a new committer
* Vote to graduate as a TLP was successful on both dev@ and general@ [1][2]
How has the project developed since the last report?
2 successful releases
Date of last release:
2013-08-08
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-07-13
Signed-off-by:
[ ](Curator) Enis Söztutar
[x](Curator) Luciano Resende
[ ](Curator) Mahadev Konar
[x](Curator) Patrick Hunt
[1] http://s.apache.org/6S3
[2] http://s.apache.org/Tnf
Shepherd notes:
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Apache: Project Drill
Apache Drill is a distributed system for interactive analysis of large-scale
datasets that is based on Google's Dremel. Its goal is to efficiently process
nested data, scale to 10,000 servers or more and to be able to process
petabyes of data and trillions of records in seconds.
Drill has been incubating since 2012-08-11.
Three Issues to Address in Move to Graduation:
1. Continue to attract new developers and and early users with a variety of
skills and viewpoints
2. Continue to develop deeper community skills and knowledge by building
additional releases
3. Demonstrate community robustness by rotating project tasks among
multiple project members
The community has made significant progress on items 1 and 2.
Issues to Call to Attention of PMC or ASF Board:
none
How community has developed since last report:
The most important activity is the run up to the Milestone 1 release.
Additional events include:
* Apache Drill project website redesigned to have a new look:
http://incubator.apache.org/drill/
* Interactive "How to Run Drill" demo added to the Apache Drill wiki:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DRILL/Demo+HowTo
Mailing list discussions:
Subscriptions to the Drill mailing lists have risen to 383. There has
been active and increasing participation in discussions on the developer
mailing list, including new participants and developers. Participation on
the user list is growing although still small; mainly activity takes
place on developer mailing list.
Activity summary for the dev mailing list:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-drill-dev/
* September to date 05/010/2013: 397(mainly jira; some discussion)
* August 2013, 394 (jira, focused discussions)
* July 2013,370 (jira; focused discussions)
* June 2013,297 (jira, focused discussions)
Recent topics on the dev mailing list have included:
* Usability and introductory tutorials
* SQL semantics and extensions to type inference cases
* Implementation of various storage engines, including Parquet and ORC.
* Optimizer rewrites and operator implementations.
Code
For details of code commits, see http://bit.ly/14YPXN9
There has been a very significant ramp up of code commits during this
quarter, as shown in this chart from GitHub:
Ten contributors have participated in this GitHub code activity; there
have been 77 forks of the Apache Drill project on GitHub which is a good
indicator of strong interest outside the group of core contributors.
Recent code commits include but not limited to:
* full end-to-end execution of queries
* reorganization of the source tree to simplify initial user experience
* a number of new operators for the execution engine
* a pro tempore query optimizer that allows a physical plans to be
generated
* the entire code generation framework
* Value Vector implementation
Community Interactions
The weekly Drill hangout continues, conducted remotely through Google
hangouts Tuesday mornings 9am Pacific Time to keep core developers in
contact in realtime despite geographical separation.
The community stays in touch through @ApacheDrill Twitter ID, and by
postings on various blogs including Apache Drill User
http://drill-user.org/
Viability of community is also apparent through interest in next meet-up
event for the Bay Area Apache Drill User group in late September, which
is already attracting a robust audience. Volunteers are coming forward
from audience members of presentations, such as the Drill workshop in
July (see following).
Presentations
There have been presentations and a Drill workshop from community members
at conferences and meet-ups.
Several Drill contributors have other talks scheduled with different
meetups in the upcoming months.
Sample presentations (out of many):
* Drill talks by @mhausenblas at Hive London and in Paris in June
* Talk on Apache Drill by @mhausenblas and @ted_dunning at Berlin
Buzzwords
* Apache Drill hands-on workshop by @ted_dunning and @intjesus at OSCON
in Portland, Oregon USA in July for ~40 participants.
* Apache Drill project featured by panelist @tshiran in Aug for the
"Hadoop + SQL" Hive Data Think Tank event in California Bay Area.
* Next meeting for the Bay Area Apache Drill User group is planned for
September with talk and demo by Steve Phillips
Slides
Slides from Drill presentations posted online such as at slideshare get a
large number of views.
Example:
OSCON Apache Drill workshop posted 1 Aug 2013 by Ted Dunning and
Jacques Nadeau, 436 views.
Articles
Examples of articles on Apache Drill since last report include:
* Article by @mhausenblas and @intjesus "Introduction to Apache Drill:
Interactive Ad-Hoc Query for Large-scale Datasets" Michael Hausenblas
and Jacques Nadeau. Big Data. June 2013, 1(2): 100-104.
doi:10.1089/big.2013.0011. http://bit.ly/15101Y7
* A blog post by @Ellen_Friedman reports on that Drill-via-Amazon-Cloud
event and includes links to slides: http://bit.ly/18aS3Lk
* Drill blog article by S. J. Vaughan-Nichols "Drilling into Big Data
with Apache Drill" in Aug: http://bit.ly/1309MXA
* A blog posting on Drill by T. Shiran as a prelude to the Hadoop + SQL
event by Hive Data Think Tank can be found here: http://bit.ly/1cvxn5D
Social Networking
@ApacheDrill Twitter entity is active and has grown by ~20%, to 437
followers.
How project has developed since last report:
1. Website homepage has a new design
2. Wiki has been updated
3. Significant code drops have been checked in from a number of developers
4. Started to create release candidates for the milestone one [first]
release of Drill
5. New developers are contributing.
6. Additional non-code contributors have become active and are being
encouraged
Signed-off-by:
[ ](drill) Ted Dunning
[X](drill) Grant Ingersoll
[X](drill) Isabel Drost-Fromm
Shepherd notes:
(Dave Fisher/wave)
I am concerned the podling is missing the DISCLAIMER in its source code
and on most web pages. There is a lot of activity but it does not seem
to include any drive to make any release. There is tremendous community
building activity. Heavy on community and light on Release/IP.
Rebuttal to shepherd notes: (Ted Dunning/tdunning)
I think that the Dave is substantially incorrect in his assessment that
there "does not seem to include any drive to make any release". This is
factually and patently incorrect. I have asked that the shepherd
reconsider this comment and retract it as it does not reflect the
substantial progress that the community is making towards a release.
(Isabel Drost-Fromm/ Apache Mahout, mentor Drill)
Dave, as for the missing disclaimer - there are still a few branding
issues with Drill. The project is currently on it's way to the first
release - for a discussion on an initial RC and issues related to it see
also http://markmail.org/thread/gl2z6dbcsjkbdelx In the process of
preparing this release a couple issues surfaced that seemed more
fundamental and are now in the process of being fixed. The Drill
community reacted very positively to the input they got and are
diligently fixing problems. Mentors provided several links both to
Apache-wide as well as Incubator-specific documentation on what needs to
be checked for an Apache release. The next RC will show how helpful that
turns out to be with fixing the existing problems.
(Grant Ingersoll, mentor)
Unlike most Incubator projects, Drill is starting from scratch code-wise
and community-wise and thus it will take longer to release, IMO. AFAICT,
the community has sustainable development underway. That being said, I
was just thinking it needed to do a release and then lo and behold there
was an RC and a vote. As Isabel points out, the community has responded
well to the feedback on the release. Once this release is out, I would
expect the community to release more often, but other than that, I think
the community is developing well, and is, in fact, doing some novel
community building things like Google Hangouts that are open to anyone
and which I think are very positive.
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Falcon
Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed for
data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and data
discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data and its
associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters.
Falcon has been incubating since 2013-03-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Add new and diverse committers
2. Build and grow community
3. Releases at frequent and regular intervals
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?
* In an effort to bring more contributors and users to the fold, we have
had a user meetup in Aug.
* More users have joined the falcon users group and mailing lists.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* First ever release of Falcon was made on Aug 15, 2013 (0.3-incubating)
* We have seen fairly heavy activity during the last month. 32 new JIRAs
were created since the last report and 18 of them have been resolved.
Date of last release:
2013-08-15 (0.3-incubating)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
At time of incubation. No new committers or PMC members elected since.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](falcon) Arun Murthy
[X](falcon) Chris Douglas
[ ](falcon) Owen O'Malley
[ ](falcon) Devaraj Das
[X](falcon) Alan Gates
Shepherd notes:
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Kalumet
Kalumet a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE
environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and
resources.
Kalumet has been incubating since 2011-09-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Release two versions (0.6-incubating and 0.7-incubating)
2. Refactoring of the model
3. Refactoring of the console
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None so far
How has the community developed since the last report?
We did a couple of informal presentations during events (JUG, JAX, etc). We
got good feedbacks, but the message is that users are waiting for a first
release to move forward.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The 0.6-incubating release is in the vote (3rd try), including the legal
files fixes identified during the previous vote.
Date of last release:
0.6-incubating in progress
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers or PMC members since the last report.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](kalumet) Jim Jagielski
[ ](kalumet) Henri Gomez
[X](kalumet) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[X](kalumet) Olivier Lamy
Shepherd notes:
(rvs) Look like project is on track. Nothing jumped out at me as requiring
any special attention. Mentors seem to be pretty engaged and steering the
project in the right direction.
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MetaModel
MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for
exploration and querying of different types of datastores.
MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. More contributors to increase diversity of the community
2. Make first release under ASF umbrella
3. Looking forward to setup CI builds under ASF infra
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have new contributions for JIRAs and lively discussions on dev list
about technical implementations.
@dev list has 26 members
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. We have merge mostly all issues from MetaModel old JIRA to ASF JIRAs
that we want to solve for MetaModel.
2. We have removed the component of the software that require incompatible
license with ASF 2.0 license (Microsoft Access module)
3. We have started discussion about first release under ASF.
4. We have updated the website (http://metamodel.incubator.apache.org) to
adhere to ASF Incubator guidelines.
Date of last release:
None
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
June 2013
Signed-off-by:
[x](metamodel) Henry Saputra
[x](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar
[ ](metamodel) Matt Franklin
[ ](metamodel) Noah Slater
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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 and Hama.
MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Complete the first release
a) Ensure proper transfer of code
b) Verify distribution rights
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
none
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have already addressed most issues that prevented us from releasing our
first release, which we now expect to take place in the next few weeks. We
believe that, after we make the first release available, we will get many
new users and contributors.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have switched to maven as our project management tool. We refactored the
source tree to make it compliant to maven; we created maven modules for
compilation; we used the maven assembly plugin to create binary and source
release artifacts; we updated the MRQL wiki page accordingly (getting
started, how to contribute/build/commit). We have sent a request to the ASF
Infrastructure to setup our project in Nexus so that we can deploy our
snapshots there. We need also to verify the copyright information. As soon
as we get these two tasks done, we will upload our first release on Nexus
and stage it for vote.
Date of last release:
none yet
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-03-13
Signed-off-by:
[X](mrql) Alan Cabrera
[ ](mrql) Anthony Elder
[ ](mrql) Alex Karasulu
[ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din
Shepherd notes:
(rvs) Project looks reasonably well off -- no major surprises. I was a
little bit surprised by a very low JIRA activity but on the other hand
they've got an exemplary Wiki and ML traffic is not too shabby either.
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Olingo
Apache Olingo provides libraries which enable developers to implement
OData producers and OData consumers. While starting with an initial
code base implementing OData version 2.0 it is also a clear goal to
start implementing a library for OData 4.0 once the OData standard is
published at OASIS. The focus within the community is currently on the
Java technology but it is up to the community to discuss if other
environments find interest.
Olingo has been incubating since 2013-07-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community
2. Make a first release
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- No
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Initial committers actively using the mailing list and
Jira to coordinate project activities
- Jira Issues and resolutions contributed (not only by committers)
- Committers actively working on the code base
- Committers contributed new features
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Infrastructure setup
-- Build Infrastructure established
- Code base preparation to be able to produce the
first release continued
-- Package name changes done
-- License Headers added
-- Code Cleanup + Bugfixes in progress
-- Readme and Notice files added to distribution
-- Discussion happened on what content should be
provided within the first release (binaries, sources,
javadoc, samples)
- Web Site enhanced / extended
- First proposals about contents for documentation available
Date of last release:
- No release so far
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[X](olingo) Alan Cabrera
[X](olingo) Dave Fisher
[X](olingo) Florian Müller
Shepherd notes:
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Open Climate Workbench
Apache Open Climate Workbench (Incubating) is an effort to develop software
that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of
different sources (the Earth System Grid Federation, the Coordinated Regional
Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the North
American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program) and temporal/spatial
scales with remote sensing data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The
toolkit includes capabilities for regridding, metrics computation and
visualization.
Open Climate Workbench has been incubating since 2013-02-15.
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?
No new committers or PPMC members added since the last report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Michael Joyce made the 0.2-incubating release after 1 release candidate
on August 18, 2013.
* Maziyar Boustani finished work on the new CLI for running evaluations.
* The initial work for the refactoring of the Core API has been completed.
* Cameron Goodale has completed some end-to-end tests that use the new
Core API.
* Shakeh Khudikyan and Andrew Hart have made multiple improvements to the
UI
* History/Results page for displaying results from previous runs.
* The community had a good discussion regarding JIRA component names. A new
system was agreed upon and put in place.
Date of last release: 18-AUG-2013
Signed-off-by:
[ ](openclimateworkbench) Chris Mattmann
[x](openclimateworkbench) Suresh Marru
[X](openclimateworkbench) Chris Douglas
[ ](openclimateworkbench) Nick Kew
Shepherd notes:
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Provisionr
Provisionr provides a service to manage pools of virtual machines on multiple
clouds.
Provisionr has been incubating since 2013-03-07.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Clearly define use-cases and scope
2. Build a community
3. Make a few more releases focused on usability
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?
No changes. We had more interactions on JIRA.
How has the project developed since the last report?
No major functional changes - refactoring core APIs.
Date of last release:
2013-07-02 (July 2, 2013)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers elected.
Signed-off-by:
[X](provisionr) Roman Shaposhnik
[X](provisionr) Tom White
[ ](provisionr) Mohammad Nour El-Din
Shepherd notes:
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S4
S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant, pluggable
platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for
processing continuous unbounded streams of data.
S4 has been incubating since 2011-09-26.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. The frequency of releases has been low in the past. Working to put out
more releases.
2. The community rise, to be more active and flourish.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?
There also was discussion related to “retirement”. Currently people of the
community stepped up and decided continue the project. As result, came up
with building community, providing more patches, implementing new features.
Moreover, Kurtt Lin wrote:
“Cheer up, guys. I'm seeing opportunities in this stream processing field
as well as in S4. What I haven’t mentioned is that, S4 had found
successful applications in our research group even back in the 0.3.0 days
and now in our start-up. We have built scalable real time search over
microblogs with some S4 features enhanced (the paper appears in 2013’s
EDBT proceedings, link is
http://www.edbt.org/Proceedings/2013-Genova/papers/edbt/a31-lin.pdf); we
also built a platform on top of S4 for detecting and analyzing real-time
traffic conditions, processing over hundreds of millions of records every
day. Now we plan to contribute to the community. I personally have
created and responded to some JIRAs, but I would like to do more.
Actually, I am ongoing proposing a design documentation of integrating S4
with Helix along the roadmap; this would help enhancing the elasticity
feature for S4. So, I suppose we could put the "retirement" discussion
aside? Give us the new comers some time perhaps a couple of months to see
what we can do to make the community healthier. Of course, some of us are
new; we shall ask for your help and guidance occasionally, please be
responsive (as what you are doing now), :) You all have done brilliant
jobs! :) “
One particular problem we have been having is with growth of the community.
Having said that in a recent e-mail thread, we have received very positive
feedback from some developers, so we would like to remain in incubation for
a little longer so that we can get some traction.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Was reported by March 2013 (Daniel Gómez Ferro).
When did the project last make any releases?
June 2013: S4 0.6.0 released.
Two patches are available now, due to 0.7 release 3 of 18 issues was
solved, the rest in progress.
How has the community developed since the last report?
In March, the dev mailing list was reasonably busy (132 messages) and then
that's dwindled to less than 35 per month since March. There was no
activity in git on August at all. A little in July, more in June. There has
been no change in the community. We have been seeing some traffic on the
mailing lists, mostly questions about how to use S4, but the code
contributions have been fairly minimal. However, some developers have
expressed interested in contributing so we expect to start receiving more
contributions in the near future. To grow the community, we plan to have a
closer interaction with other Apache projects like Gora and Helix.
Signed-off-by:
[x](s4) Patrick Hunt
[ ](s4) Arun Murthy
Shepherd notes:
(Dave Fisher/Wave) S4 knows how make releases. Is concerned about community
growth and think that may impede graduation. I think that they are
actually ready to graduate.
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Samza
Samza is a stream processing system for running continuous computation on
infinite streams of data.
Samza has been incubating since 2013-07-30.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Bringing in new contributors
2. Building an Apache community around the code
3. Doing a release
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?
Discussion lists have become active with numerous questions. First patch
from the community has been received and committed. Initial commiters are
very good about using public lists and seeking community input.
How has the project developed since the last report?
All initial bootstrapping has been completed and all requested
infrastructure is available and being used. Forty-nine JIRA issues have
been opened. First Incubation release could be considered in the next month
or two.
Date of last release:
None.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None yet. Project has just completed one full month of incubation, having
entered July 30.
Signed-off-by:
[X](samza) Chris Douglas
[ ](samza) Arun Murthy
[X](samza) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd notes:
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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. Get rest of the project infrastructure in place, namely build and webpage
2. Release at regular intrevals
3. Build 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?
This is the first board report for Sentry. There are 15 sign-ups on the dev
list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
This is the first board report for Sentry. At this time, the basic project
infrastructure is setup (git repo, review board, JIRA and wiki). Most
committers (also PPMC members) have their accounts and are subscribed to
the dev, commits and private lists. Few JIRAs have been filed and they are
being actively worked on.
Date of last release:
We have not done a release of Sentry since it started incubation.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
This is the first board report for Sentry. Last committers and PMC members
were elected when the project entered incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[X](sentry) Arvind Prabhakar
[X](sentry) Joe Brockmeier
[X](sentry) David Nalley
[X](sentry) Olivier Lamy
[X](sentry) Patrick Hunt
[X](sentry) Thomas White
Shepherd notes:
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Spark
Spark is an open source system for fast and flexible large-scale data
analysis. Spark provides a general purpose runtime that supports low-latency
execution in several forms.
Spark has been incubating since 2013-06-19.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make a first Apache release (we're in the final stages of this)
2. Move JIRA over to Apache (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6419)
3. Move development to Apache repo (in progress)
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We still need some help importing our JIRA, though Michael Joyce and INFRA
have looked into it (see <http://s.apache.org/fi>).
How has the community developed since the last report?
We're continuing to get a lot of great contributions to Spark. UC Berkeley
also recently hosted a two-day training on Spark and related technologies
(http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/3/) that was highly attended -- we sold out at
over 200 on-site attendees, and had 1000+ people watch online. User meetups
included a well-attended meetup on Shark (Hive on Spark) contributions at
Yahoo!.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We've made a lot of progress towards a first Apache release of Spark,
including changing the package name to org.apache.spark, documenting the
third-party licenses as required in LICENSE / NOTICE, and updating the
documentation to reflect the transition. This month we've also moved our
website to an apache.org domain (http://spark.incubator.apache.org) and
updated the branding there. Finally, on the code side, we have continued to
make bug fixes and improvements for the 0.8 release. Some recently merged
improvements include simplified packaging and Python API support for
Windows.
Date of last release:
No Apache releases yet
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
June 2013
Signed-off-by:
[x](spark) Chris Mattmann
[ ](spark) Paul Ramirez
[x](spark) Andrew Hart
[ ](spark) Thomas Dudziak
[x](spark) Suresh Marru
[x](spark) Henry Saputra
[x](spark) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd notes:
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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. Growing the active developer community
2. Making our second incubating release
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
The community has welcomed one new committer, Danny Sullivan, to the team.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Architectural discussions (e.g.: handling issues of condensing unusually
high volume/noisy streams, publisher identification, message splitting,
etc.) continue to happen on-list and provoke thoughtful responses. We have
also heard from a number of outside individuals about issues and questions
related to deployment of our first incubating release. Several of these
have turned into deeper relationships including the addition of Danny
Sullivan as a committer/PPMC member last month. Streams is now working to
create our second incubating release.
Date of last release:
2013-01-09
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-07-18
Signed-off-by:
[ ](streams) Matt Franklin
[ ](streams) Ate Douma
[ ](streams) Craig McClanahan
Shepherd notes:
(rvs) Look like project is on track. Nothing jumped out at me as requiring
any special attention, except it would be nice to have to have a second
release out (since the first release was done immediately after entering an
incubation).
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Tajo
Tajo is a distributed data warehouse system for Hadoop.
Tajo has been incubating since 2013-03-07.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. The first release
2. IP clearance check
3. Various committers
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
* The mailing list traffic grows.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Tajo is rapidly evolving and is being stable by core committers and
contributors.
* Since the last report, 45 issues have been resolved, and 58 issues have
been created.
* The logical planning and SQL parser are improved.
* Tajo cluster can be on standby mode for more interactive query processing
or on on-demand mode for sharing cluster resource by using Yarn.
* The overall query response times are significantly reduced.
* We've started to design the JIT and vectorized query engine.
* We've started to discuss the first Tajo release.
Date of last release:
Not Yet
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Not Yet
Signed-off-by:
[x](tajo) Chris Mattmann
[ ](tajo) Owen O'Malley
[ ](tajo) Alex Karasulu
Shepherd notes:
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Wave
Wave is rich, web-based, distributed, collaboration platform that allows
users to interact in near real time. The wave platform includes a
web-based user interface containing an rich-text. The system is
extendable though widgets, robots, and editor doodads. The Wave In a Box
implementation is developed in Java using a variety of web technologies
such as Websockets, Javascript, GWT, and supported by an operational
transform based conflict resolution algorithm.
Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make the initial release
2. Extend the community
3. Decide on the future of the existing codebase
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?
Following the busyness noted in the last report, the community has since
returned to a relatively quiet state. Last month, a second public
discussion (on Hangouts) was held, to extend Wave's public image. Some
experiments using volunteers from the community, to test out possible
changes to the OT algorithm, have been planned.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Following on from 0.4-RC3 being rejected at the Incubator list. Work on
0.4-RC4 has been completed (albeit fairly slowly), with a request for
review for RC4 posted to the Wave-dev list only a few days ago. This
addressed the remaining licensing problems, and merged in some of the trunk
development that had occurred in the meantime (new translations, federation
fixed).
Some questions have been asked about the future of the existing codebase
beyond the 0.4 release, with a rewrite looking preferred if enough
development time can be secured.
Date of last release:
N/A.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
The last 2 committers were elected around 30th June 2013.
Signed-off-by:
[X](wave) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](wave) Upayavira
Shepherd notes:
Mentor notes:
Ben Laurie and Vincent Siveton have stepped down as Mentors, leaving the
project with two active mentors. Currently this is not an issue.
(christian)