Incubator PMC report for September 2016

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

There are 61 podlings currently undergoing incubation -- an all-time high.

* Community

  No IPMC roster changes this month.

* New Podlings

  - Annotator
  - AriaTosca

* Graduations

  None this month.

* Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  August:

  - 2016-08-01 Apache Pony Mail 0.9.incubating
  - 2016-08-02 Apache Mnemonic 0.2.0-incubating
  - 2016-08-03 Apache Eagle 0.3.0-incubating
  - 2016-08-09 Apache Datafu (incubating) 1.3.1
  - 2016-08-10 Apache Gearpump 0.8.1-incubating
  - 2016-08-20 Apache Ranger (incubating) 0.6.1
  - 2016-08-22 Apache Metron 0.2.0BETA-incubating
  - 2016-08-22 Apache Beam 0.2.0-incubating
  - 2016-08-24 Apache CarbonData 0.1.0-incubating
  - 2016-08-29 Apache Pirk 0.1.0-incubating

* IP Clearance

  None this month.

* Legal / Trademarks

  - The Fluo podling grappled with how to handle the fluo.io domain, io.fluo
    Maven group ID, and the fluo-io GitHub organization.  Existing high
    profile domains which contain our trademarks (accumulosummit.com,
    stratahadoopworld.com, search.maven.org, etc.) had contributed to
    misunderstandings about to what extent Fluo could have a two-pole
    presence split across fluo.apache.org and a fluo.io entity outside Apache
    control.  Members of the IPMC made it clear that Fluo's graduation would
    be contingent on resolving this issue.

  - The Guacamole podling received guidance on how to integrate with Docker:
    either participate in the Infra-supported offering
    (<hub.docker.com/r/apache>), or treat Docker as a downstream distribution
    channel and create a customized offering in compliance with
    release/branding/incubation/etc policies.

* Miscellaneous

  - The OpenAZ podling has retired.

  - The recurring discussion as to whether the Incubator is too full came
    back for another installment.  Mentoring for healthy podlings seems to
    scale well, but other aspects such as release checking and cleaning up
    after troubled podlings present more difficulty.

* Credits

  - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey / John D. Ament

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

  - AriaTosca
  - Traffic Control

* Not yet ready to graduate

  No release:

  - DistributedLog
  - Edgent
  - Fineract
  - HTrace
  - Juneau
  - log4cxx2
  - PredictionIO
  - SensSoft
  - Toree

  Community growth:

  - CarbonData
  - CommonsRDF
  - Gearpump
  - Mnemonic
  - Myriad
  - Omid
  - Pirk
  - Pony Mail
  - Singa
  - SAMOA
  - Tephra
  - Trafodion
  - Wave

* Ready to graduate

  - Atlas
  - Ranger
  - Taverna

* Considering retirement

  - Streams

* Did not report, expected next month

  - Quickstep
  - Tamaya

* No Mentor signoff, report removed

  - MRQL

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                       Table of Contents
AriaTosca
Atlas
CarbonData
CommonsRDF
DistributedLog
Edgent
Fineract
Gearpump
HTrace
Juneau
log4cxx2
Mnemonic
Myriad
Omid
Pirk
Pony Mail
PredictionIO
Quickstep
Ranger
SAMOA
SensSoft
Singa
Streams
Tamaya
Taverna
Tephra
Traffic Control
Trafodion
Toree
Wave

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AriaTosca

ARIA TOSCA project offers an easily consumable Software Development Kit(SDK)
and a Command Line Interface(CLI) to implement TOSCA(Topology and
Orchestration Specification of Cloud Applications) based solutions.

AriaTosca has been incubating since 2016-08-27.

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

  1. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for dependable
     release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development
     process.
  2. Grow the community around the project.
  3. Migrate existing users to apache mailing lists, redirect the present
     external project links to Apache.

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

  None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  The project is still being setup in Apache Incubator and is presently.

  Received Software Grant Agreement (SGA) from Gigaspaces.

  The mailing lists, Jira, Github Repo, Incubator podling, Confluence Wiki
  have been setup for the project.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  This would be the first report for AriaTosca.
  The project is presently being setup in Incubator.

Date of last release:

  None

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  Project is being established in incubator with the proposed initial set of
  committers.

Signed-off-by:

  [X](ariatosca) Suneel Marthi
  [X](ariatosca) John D. Ament
  [X](ariatosca) Jakob Homan

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Atlas

Apache Atlas is a scalable and extensible set of core foundational governance
services that enables enterprises to effectively and efficiently meet their
compliance requirements within Hadoop and allows integration with the
complete enterprise data ecosystem.

Atlas has been incubating since 2015-05-05.

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

  1. Podling name search is pending.

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

  No specific issues at this time to report.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  1. We have added 4 new committers since the last report from different
     organizations. Around 15 new contributors were added since the last
     report.  The current number of contributors is around 60.
  2. The activity on the atlas-dev mailing list stands at around 900 messages
     per month between June and August. [1]

How has the project developed since the last report?

  1. A major release, 0.7-incubating, was made in the month of July.
     This release added several new features to make Atlas enterprise
     ready including: Authentication and authorization support, High
     availability, deeper integrations with other Hadoop components
     including Hive, HDFS, Falcon etc., Entity versioning, Kafka message
     versioning, support for creating business taxonomies, enhanced
     user interface, better performance etc.
  2. Work is proceeding in 0.8-incubating to stabilize many of these
     features and also add several strategic improvements including
     abstractions to the underlying graph database to make it easier
     to move to later versions, rolling upgrades, etc.
  3. A total of 302 issues were reported between June 1st 2016 and August
     31st 2016. 266 issues were resolved in the same time frame [2],[3]

Date of last release:

  2016-07-09: 07-incubating [4]

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  1. The PPMC voted and elected 4 new members as committers to
     the project on 2016-07-05: Tom Beerbower, Keval Bhatt,  David
     Kantor and Darshan Kumar.

[1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-atlas-dev/
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-1149?jql=project%20%3D%20ATLAS%20AND%20created%20%3E%3D%202016-06-01%20AND%20created%20%3C%3D%202016-08-31
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-775?jql=project%20%3D%20ATLAS%20AND%20resolved%20%3E%3D%202016-06-01%20AND%20resolved%20%3C%3D%202016-08-31
[4] https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201607.mbox/%3CCAAbv78fuzCv51E4Pn8fg7nwkJyOUQo9z2WNhsiz2EstbTvj1Gw@mail.gmail.com%3E

Signed-off-by:

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

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CarbonData

Apache CarbonData is a new Apache Hadoop native file format for faster
interactive query using advanced columnar storage, index, compression and
encoding techniques to improve computing efficiency, in turn it will help
speedup queries an order of magnitude faster over PetaBytes of data.

CarbonData has been incubating since 2016-06-02.

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

  1. Prepare new releases
  2. Increase both dev and user communities
  3. Publish and update website to promote CarbonData

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

  None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  The community activity increased: many new users started to use and
  test CarbonData, we had more than 100 new issues created during Aug; One
  user formally deployed CarbonData to their business system, the
  query efficiency speeded up 50 times (the user is the biggest internet
  finance company in China)

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Code donation has been done and all resources have been created by INFRA
  (git, github mirror, mailing list, Jira, ...).

  We also created the Jenkins CI jobs.

  We did the first release (0.1.0-incubating) and we are preparing a new one.

  We're also working on the website (with improved look'n feel).

  We're also preparing some talks and presentations about CarbonData.

Date of last release:

  2016-08-27

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  2016-07-15

Signed-off-by:

  [X](carbondata) Henry Saputra
  [X](carbondata) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
  [X](carbondata) Uma Maheswara Rao G

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CommonsRDF

Commons RDF is a set of interfaces and classes for RDF 1.1 concepts and
behaviours.  The commons-rdf-api module defines interfaces and testing
harness.  The commons-rdf-simple module provides a basic reference
implementation to exercise the test harness and clarify API contracts.

CommonsRDF has been incubating since 2015-03-06.

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

  1. Work with key target communities (Apache Jena and Eclipse RDF4J) to
     ensure Commons RDF meets potential user requirements and expectations
     towards next versions of the Commons API.
  2. Engage wider RDF community
  3. Graduate to Apache Commons

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

  None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  The community has been fairly quiet during the summer.

  Mailing list stats:

  dev@commonsrdf traffic
  Jun 2016: 10
  Jul 2016: 21
  Aug 2016: 3

  Jira stats for last 90 days:
  Created: 5
  Resolved: 1

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Building on the idea of Commons VFS-style integration
  we have added branches that add bindings for
  Eclipse RDF4j (formerly Open RDF Sesame),
  Apache Jena and JSON-LD-Java.
  https://github.com/apache/incubator-commonsrdf/branches

  This has raised interest within Jena
  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-1015

  We should now be moving towards a 0.3.0 release,
  and working towards graduation to Apache Commons PMC,
  we are adapting the build to be more compatible with the
  Commons release process https://commons.apache.org/releases/

Date of last release:

  2016-05-24 apache-commonsrdf-0.2.0-incubating

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  None

Signed-off-by:

  [X](commonsrdf) John D Ament
  [ ](commonsrdf) Gary Gregory
  [X](commonsrdf) Lewis J McGibbney

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DistributedLog

DistributedLog is a high-performance replicated log service. It offers
durability, replication and strong consistency, which provides a fundamental
building block for building reliable distributed systems.

DistributedLog has been incubating since 2016-06-24.

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

  1. Getting an Apache release out
  2. Improve general documentation
  3. Grow user base

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

  There is currently no issue.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  1. A few people began actively to involve in the project discussion
  2. Some project ideas have been initiated and discussed on the mailing list

How has the project developed since the last report?

  1. The wiki has been filled up with development and contribution
     information.
  2. The existing website content has been pushed to asf-site branch and
     live under http://distributedlog.incubator.apache.org. The new website
     has been discussed.
  3. The pom file was updated to follow Apache's principle and the status
     page is updated.
  4. Various project ideas are under developing.

Date of last release:

  N/A

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  N/A

Signed-off-by:

  [X](distributedlog) Flavio Junqueira
  [X](distributedlog) Chris Nauroth
  [X](distributedlog) Henry Saputra

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Edgent

  Apache Edgent is a programming model and micro-kernel style runtime that
  can be embedded in gateways and small footprint edge devices enabling
  local, real-time, analytics on the continuous streams of data coming from
  equipment, vehicles, systems, appliances, devices and sensors of all kinds
  (for example, Raspberry Pis or smart phones). Working in conjunction with
  centralized analytic systems, Apache Edgent provides efficient and timely
  analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the center to the edge.

  Edgent has been incubating since 2016-02-29.

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

  1. Create and expand a diverse community of contributors and committers
     around Edgent project
  2. Set up new build system, allowing us to remove code dependencies from
     our repository
  3. Create the first Apache release of Edgent

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

  No

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Significant progress has been made on a new build system, using  Gradle.
  One of the goals is to remove third party code, so we can work toward a
  release.

  The community has been active and participating in voting.  Heavy commit
  activity, but light Jira activity, recently as the name change was
  implemented in the code, documentation and web site.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  According to JIRA, the project has added the following:

  * June: 29 new issues; 22 issues resolved.
  * July: 20 new issues; 15 issues resolved.
  * August: 7 new issues; 7 issues resolved.

  August activity was largely build and renaming activities, tracked under a
  few Jira issues.

  The name for the project was changed from Apache Quarks to Apache Edgent.
  The new name went through a suitable name search and was approved.  The
  infrastructure, code and documentation changes have been completed.

  A logo was voted on and chosen, and a wiki was set up for the Edgent
  community.

Date of last release:

  We have not created an Apache release as of yet.  We need to complete build
  changes and licensing work to create a release.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  In May, we added two new committers and PPMC members, Kathy Saunders and
  Queenie Ma.

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](edgent) Daniel Debrunner
  [ ](edgent) Luciano Resende
  [X](edgent) Katherine Marsden
  [X](edgent) Justin Mclean

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Fineract

Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.

Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.

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

  1. Getting a first release out – we are still inhibited by Hibernate issues
     which are more deeply rooted than we realized.
  2. Moving the community from the Mifos infrastructure to the Apache
     infrastructure – most discussions are taking place out of public view.
  3. Resolving the questions around introduction of a rework of the original
     code – in particular repository/infrastructure/release questions which
     result from the microservice architecture.


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

  The person who creates and submits the board reports will cease to perform
  this task until the code rework is ready to be introduced to the community.
  It is possible that this will endanger the board reports.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Several prospective new committers have recently joined the Mifos community
  through Google Summer of Code and as new partners that we are working to
  add as committers to the Apache Fineract.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  We have tried and failed to produce an apache release again.  A release was
  produced by the mifos community outside of apache and announced on the
  apache fineract user list.

  The release included work intended to move us closer to apache policies.
  In particular, the removal of Hibernate annotations from the code uncovered
  a circular dependency in the data structure which was not caught in
  testing.  Two production systems from early adopters are out-of-service
  today.

Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  Jim Jagielski was added as a mentor.

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
  [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
  [X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
  [ ](fineract) Jim Jagielski

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

  Roman Shaposhnik:

    I'll be following up with the community on the report generation point
    which clearly needs to be clarified.

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Gearpump

Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the micro-service
Actor model.

Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.

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

  1. Make initial Apache branded release and release on a regular schedule.
  2. Continue to evolve community interest and support.
  3. Integrate with Apache Beam and akka-streams frameworks.

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

  None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Increased community contribution on integration with Apache Cassandra.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  We released Apache Gearpump 0.8.1-incubating, which is Gearpump's first
  release as an Apache incubator project.

  Integration within Apache Beam (Gearpump Runner) has been merged into a
  feature branch.

  Continued integration within akka-streams (Gearpump Materializer). Three
  PRs committed.

  28 issues created and 18 resolved.

Date of last release:

  2016-08-16

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  No new committers or PMC members elected yet.

Signed-off-by:

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

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

  Justin Mclean:
  
    PPMC are looking for additional mentors.

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HTrace

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

Apache HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.

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

  1. Continue to grow the Apache HTrace community
  2. Continue to explore projects integrating Apache HTrace
  3. Continue to develop and release stable Apache HTrace incubating
     artifacts

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

  There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  * The dev@htrace mailing list continues to see new comers which is great.
  * Although a GSoC-related project was not successfully completed, the
    Apache Kudu and Apache HTrace communities have made contact. This is
    part of the drive to have more projects integrate Apache HTrace.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  * A discussion thread is currently ongoing to release HTrace 4.2. This
    will include over 40 issues addressed and may even be our last incubating
    release before we attempt to graduate.

Date of last release:

  * htrace-4.1.0-incubating on March 5th, 2016

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  * None this period. Last added committer: Abraham Elmahrek - 2.11.15

Signed-off-by:

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

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Juneau

Apache Juneau is a toolkit for marshalling POJOs to a wide variety of content
types using a common framework, and for creating sophisticated self-
documenting REST interfaces and microservices using VERY little code.

Juneau has been incubating since 2016-06-24.

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

  1. Build up community with non-IBM and non-Salesforce contributors.
  2. Release a version of the product to spark external interest in the
     project.
  3. Need to determine where built libraries will be hosted for download.

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

  None.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  No new members in August.  The hope is that a release of the product will
  spark interest.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Website is now running.
  Jira is now running and accepting bug reports.
  Jenkins is now running and producing builds.
  Confluence space has been created with articles for developers to get
    started contributing.
  Passes apache-rat check.

Date of last release:

  None.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?



Signed-off-by:

  [ ](juneau) Craig Russell
  [ ](juneau) Jochen Wiedmann
  [X](juneau) John D. Ament

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log4cxx2

Logging for C++. N.B. This is a reboot of the Log4cxx podling which
previously graduated.

log4cxx2 has been incubating since 2013-12-09.

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

  1. Create a release
  2. Activate some community
  3.

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

  There was a discussion in the first quarter of the year to move the
  project to attic unless it is able to release in the next few months. No
  release happened since then.

  There was a discussion about some kind of "maintenance mode" where releases
  and community growth doesn't matter much. As that mode doesn't exist, it
  has been suggested to release, graduate from incubator and just live along
  other logging projects and in a comparable state like log4cxx.

  Currently it seems that there's only one official project member with
  commit access left answering mails. Even though that member and some
  contributors worked on being able to create a release in the past, contrary
  to expectations that project member didn't find the time to deal with a
  release as necessary.

  It seems most likely that if a release doesn't happen until the next report
  is due, it won't at all anymore. At least not by that one left member.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  One new contributor took quite some time to look and fix the release
  process.  Two support mails from users, no new project members.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Robert Middleton took quite some time to look at the build and release
  process on Windows and Linux in the last two months and came to the
  conclusion that the current Maven based process for both seems broken.
  He provided a shell based alternative for the release and CMAKE build
  starting points, which hasn't been merged into or tested by the project
  yet.

Date of last release:

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

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?



Signed-off-by:

  [X](log4cxx2) Ralph Goers

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

  Drew Farris:
  
    One mentor active within in the past month. There is a single active
    committer and minor progress towards a release. The current build system
    is proving problematic for the contributor involved.  There is some
    discussion about moving to the attic and this seems appropriate

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Mnemonic

Apache Mnemonic is an advanced hybrid memory storage oriented library, we've
proposed a non-volatile/durable Java object model and durable computing
service that bring several advantages to significantly improve the
performance of massive real-time data processing/analytics. developers are
able to use this library to design their cache-less and SerDe-less high
performance applications.

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

  1. Apache releases: we have release version 0.2.0-incubating
  2. Encouraging community participation and contribution
  3. Invented Durable Computing Model and Service on top of Durable Object
     Model

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

  No.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Our last report was in April. Since then

  * Twelve new contributors have joined and seven contributors have submitted
    their patches.
  * We need to encourage more discussion on the dev list in the coming months

How has the project developed since the last report?

  * Added memory service and testcases
  * Added computing service and testcases
  * Re-organized sub-modules
  * Added Apache Rat and Checkstyle to ensure compliance
  * Added release.sh, runall.sh script tools
  * Supported Docker dev. construction
  * Removed the dependency of customized 3rd party library
  * Removed the dependency of special version of nvml
  * Constructed project website (WIP)
  * Supported discrete addressing for memory service
  * and other bugfixes, features, improvements

Date of last release:

  2016-08-02

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  None

Signed-off-by:

  [X](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt
  [X](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell
  [x](mnemonic) James Taylor
  [ ](mnemonic) Henry Saputra

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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. Expand user/contributor/committer community
  2. Gather more support from Hadoop and Mesos vendors
  3. Release new versions (0.3 in planning), with more enterprise features

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

  None.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  * dev@ mailing list picked up traffic (153 messages in June) around the
    0.2.0 release. 236 messages since the last report.
  * 6 new members on the dev@ mailing list. 3 new patch contributors.
  * Bi-weekly dev syncs with 2-5 participants. Some cancelled due to lack of
    attendance. Minutes at http://s.apache.org/8kF
  * Myriad to be presented at HadoopWorld/Strata NYC and a talk submitted for
    ApacheCon BigData EU.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  * Myriad 0.2.0 released. Myriad 0.3.0 in development/planning.
  * 10 commits since 6/1. 8 JIRAs resolved.

Date of last release:

  2016-06-20 myriad-0.2.0-incubating

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  2016-06-16 Yuliya Feldman

Signed-off-by:

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

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Omid

Omid is a flexible, reliable, high performant and scalable ACID transactional
framework that allows client applications to execute transactions on top of
MVCC key/value-based NoSQL datastores (currently Apache HBase) providing
Snapshot Isolation guarantees on the accessed data.

Omid has been incubating since 2016-03-28.

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

  1. Boost project dissemination in the Apache community.
  2. Collaborate/integrate Omid with other Apache projects.
  3. Get positive feedback from other projects currently integrating/using
     Omid.

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

  N/A

How has the community developed since the last report?

  * Omid presented at Hadoop Summit 2016 in San Jose. Some attendants
    manifested interest and asked for future plans of integrating Omid with
    Apache Phoenix.
  * First contact with Apache DistributedLog community for a possible
    integration with Omid.
  * Blog entry on Apache Omid ready to be published in Yahoo's hadoop blog
    site.
  * Quarter Stats (from: 2016-06-01 to: 2016-08-31):
    +---------------------------------------------+
    |   Metric                          | counts  |
    +---------------------------------------------+
    | # of msgs in dev list             |  204    |
    | Active Contributors (incl mentors)|    6    |
    | Jira New Issues                   |   10    |
    | Resolved Issues                   |   12    |
    | Pull Requests merged              |    7    |
    | Pull Requests proposed            |   10    |
    +---------------------------------------------+

How has the project developed since the last report?

  First version of Omid released under the Apache incubator program. It has
  also been integrated with the Apache Hive project.F

Date of last release:

  2016-06-24

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  At incubation acceptance (2016-03-28)

Signed-off-by:

  [X](omid) Alan Gates
  [ ](omid) Lars Hofhansl
  [x](omid) Flavio P. Junqueira
  [ ](omid) Thejas Nair
  [x](omid) James Taylor

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Pirk

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

Pirk has been incubating since 2016-06-17. The initial code for Pirk was
granted on 2016-07-11.

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

  1. Grow the community to establish diversity of background and expertise.
  2. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for dependable
     release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development
     process.
  3. Add to and improve the Pirk user documentation and examples both on the
     website and in the codebase

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

  None.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  We have officially welcomed two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel
  Marthi, both also mentors). The mailing list activity, pull requests, and
  page views to the Apache Pirk website (via Google Analytics) have also
  greatly increased since the last report.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  The project completed it's first release, 0.1.0-incubating, since the last
  report and provided a release guide on its website documenting the process.
  Additionally, the project has ensured that all dependencies are compliant
  with the Apache License version 2.0 and that all code and documentation
  artifacts have the correct Apache licensing markings and notice. The
  project has also undertaken a refactor of some of the initial packages and
  provided initial streaming implementations.

Date of last release:

  August 29, 2016

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  Pirk elected two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel Marthi, both
  mentors) on August 18, 2016.

Signed-off-by:

  [x](pirk) Billie Rinaldi
  [ ](pirk) Joe Witt
  [X](pirk) Josh Elser
  [X](pirk) Suneel Marthi
  [X](pirk) Tim Ellison

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

  Josh Elser:
  
    Extremely happy to see the first release completed so soon after
    entering incubation. Very pleased with the interaction and
    responsiveness at PPMC and IPMC levels during the vote process. They are
    well on their way.

  Suneel Marthi:
  
    I must add that the first release candidate was put out for PPMC/IPMC
    Vote in less than a month since the initial code was pushed to the
    apache github repo.

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Pony Mail

Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that
can be integrated with many email platforms.

Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.

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

  1. Grow the community
  2. Make contributions easier (lower the bar for hacking on code/docs/UI)
  3. Increase awareness of the project

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

  None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Slight uptick in active members of the community, we now count roughly 10
  active people participating either on the mailing list or IRC.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Work has begun on a redesign of the UI, allowing for contributions more
  easily.  This is codenamed 'coffee and cake', and is expected to reach a
  usable phase in a month or two.

Date of last release:

  2016-08-02

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  None since inception. See graduation info point 1.  The codebase needs to
  be more accessible before contributions can occur.

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
  [X](ponymail) John D. Ament

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PredictionIO

PredictionIO is an open source Machine Learning Server built on top of state-
of-the-art open source stack, that enables developers to manage and deploy
production-ready predictive services for various kinds of machine learning
tasks.

PredictionIO has been incubating since 2016-05-26. The initial code for
PredictionIO was granted on 2016-06-16. A second grant of PredictionIO
Templates is in the works and anticipated to be complete in September 2016.

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

  1. Establish a formal release schedule and process, allowing for dependable
     release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache way.
  2. Grow the community to establish diversity of background.
  3. Transition remaining former PredictionIO users from google-groups to ASF
     mailing lists.

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

  None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  1. Users have begun to migrate from the old Google group to the Apache user
     list
  2. Three new contributors have become active and have been making
     consistently acceptable contributions and are on path to becoming
     committers.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  1. The old Prediction.io docs site has been migrated to
     http://predictionio.incubator.apache.org
  2. About seven templates from the original PredictionIO have been ported to
     Apache PredictionIO, pending a decision on a 2nd grant. The pending 2nd
     grant will not block a PredictionIO release.

Date of last release:

  No releases have been made yet. Present activities are focussed towards a
  planned first Apache Release in September 2016.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  Paul Li was elected as committer and PMC member on Aug 30, 2016.

Signed-off-by:

  [X](predictionio) Andrew Purtell
  [x](predictionio) James Taylor
  [ ](predictionio) Lars Hofhansl
  [ ](predictionio) Luciano Resende
  [ ](predictionio) Xiangrui Meng
  [X](predictionio) Suneel Marthi

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Ranger

The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform.

Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.

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

  1. Increase the community participants for Apache Ranger
  2. Re-organize documentation for easier access to end-users, new users and
     contributors.
  3. Integration of Apache Ranger with other Apache Initiatives

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

  None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  1. Mailing list activity since last report (June-01-2016 to August-31-2016):
            @dev          1423
            @user          124
            @commit        294

  2. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after June-01-2016
     before August-31-2016):
            Created:        155
            Resolved:       168

  3. Adding more community members to involve in Apache Ranger
        * Added new contributors: Suneel Marthi
        * Apache Hawq community is working with Ranger to build a
          authorization engine for Apache Hawq (RANGER-782)

How has the project developed since the last report?

  1. Released one major release :
        0.6.0 released on 07/18/2016

  2. Released one minor release :
        0.6.1 released on 08/20/2016

  3. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.7.0
     a. Working on scoping of the release and features

Date  of last release:

  August-20-2016

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  1. Gautam Borad has been added as committer on June-29-2015

Signed-off-by:

  [X](ranger) Alan Gates
  [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
  [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
  [X](ranger) Jakob Homan
  [ ](ranger) Owen O'Malley

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

  Drew Farris:
  
    Three mentors active. New release available in August.  Community
    growth. Discussion of Graduation Steps. A healthy podling.

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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 Storm, Apache S4, and Apache Samza.

SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.

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

  1. Perform another release
  2. Grow the developer base
  3. Grow the user base

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

  None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Mailing list activity (June 2016 - August 2016):
  * @dev: 77 messages

  Jira issues backlog (June 2016 - August 2016):
  * Created:  1
  * Resolved: 0

  We have had interest from both the Apex and Gearpump communities.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  We have been preparing a second release of the project, which was delayed
  due to some minor issues in the RC and then the summer break for most
  developers.

Date of last release:

  2015-07-21

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  None

Signed-off-by:

  [X](samoa) Alan Gates
  [ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan
  [ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar
  [ ](samoa) Ted Dunning

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SensSoft

SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform

SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.

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

  1. Establishing our Users mailing list and getting incubating releases
     to the user community
  2. Completing the initial build on our website(s) (in progress)
  3. Consolidating our Quick Start deployment guides on Apache infrastructure
     (Confluence, website) that allow for an end-to-end deployment of data
     collection services with containers for assets (Docker Images) for
     speedy deployment (in progress)

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

  No

How has the community developed since the last report?

  1. Community members have been working with DoD and Industry partners to
     bring them on as contributors to the project (ex. Other industry leaders
     in HCI/UX offerings for DoD have begun offering SensSoft products as
     part of their technical offerings).
  2. The community has established a Twitter feed (@ApacheSensSoft) and are
     growing our community by following others (e.g., Kitware, etc.)
  3. Community members from Draper Labs have made arrangements to present at
     uie21 and the emetrics summit as exhibitors to capture community
     followers in the UI/UX and business analytics communities.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  1. The transition to Apache Infrastructure is complete!!!
  2. We have moved over all our development tickets into Apache Jira. All
     development is now taking place @Apache which is great.
  3. We are working on new patches and version releases for TAP, UserAle.js,
     Distill products (sub projects under SENSSOFT), which will now be
     visible through commits.

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

  N/A

Signed-off-by:

  [X](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
  [X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
  [X](senssoft) Chris Mattmann

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

 Chris Mattmann:
 
   Project has primarily being Championed by Lewis John McGibbney. Lots of
   lots of JIRA activity and mailing list activity from the Draper
   contributors, including Joshua Poore. Doing a good job starting up.

Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  XXXX-XX-XX

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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. Grow the community. One committer was added in July, more would be
     nominated soon after releasing V1.0.  We are also expanding the user
     base by participating in meetups of local organizations, including
     PyDataSG.
  2. Optimize V1 release in terms of memory and efficiency for both
     stand-alone training and distributed training.
  3. Add more examples and tutorials to attract users, including deployment
     on Android phones.

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

  No

How has the community developed since the last report?

  There were 187, 100 and 69 emails from dev@ list in June 2016, July 2016
  and August 2016 respectively.  The number of commits has increased 50%
  (about 200 commits) since last report.  One new committer was added.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  We have been working on V1.0 since the last release. The vote for releasing
  V1.0 has been sent to the general mailing list.

  The new version has major improvements in term of programming abstraction
  and usability. Some features are listed here,

  * Support heterogeneous hardware: CPP for CPU, CUDA for Nvidia GPU, OpenCL
    for other devices (including AMD GPUs)
  * New programming abstractions supporting complex deep learning models
  * Re-write the Python binding and provide running examples
  * Cross-platform (Linux and Mac OSX)
  * Upgrade the Cudnn library version to V5 for running RNN models
  * New website for documentation

Date of last release:

  2016-04-20

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  2016-07-20

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](singa) Daniel Dai
  [X](singa) Alan Gates
  [ ](singa) Ted Dunning
  [ ](singa) Thejas Nair

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Streams

Apache Streams (incubating) unifies a diverse world of digital profiles
and online activities into common formats and vocabularies, and makes
these datasets accessible across a variety of databases, devices, and
platforms for streaming, browsing, search, sharing, and analytics use-cases.

Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20.

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

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

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

  No commits or mailing list activity since the last report.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  No commits or mailing list activity since the last report.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  No commits or mailing list activity since the last report.

  No issues resolved

Date of last release:

  2015-04-26

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  2015-02-23: Robert Douglas elected as committer / PMC member

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](streams) Matt Franklin
  [X](streams) Ate Douma
  [ ](streams) Craig McClanahan

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

  Ate Douma:
  
    As indicated in the report, the activity and community of the project
    has dwindled down to practically zero.  As a consequence I've now raised
    the question on the dev list if better to retire the project. Unless
    this triggers some serious activity and interest from the community, I
    expect an actual vote to retire before the next board report.   

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Tamaya

Tamaya is a highly flexible configuration solution based on an modular,
extensible and injectable key/value based design, which should provide a
minimal but extendible modern and functional API leveraging SE, ME and EE
environments.

Tamaya has been incubating since 2014-11-14.

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

   John D. Ament:
   
     The project continues to struggle.  I'm not sure its recoverable as an
     ASF project at this time.  May make sense to reboot in an external
     resource, e.g. GitHub, build a true community, and then come back.

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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 and graduation
  2. Complete IP/license review of unreleased repositories
  3. Further engaging user/devops community

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

  Preparing to graduate.

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

  The community is moving towards graduation, by preparing a
  Graduation Maturity Assessment
  https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAVERNADEV/2016-03+Taverna+Graduation+Maturity+Assessment

  While we wished we could have released all of Taverna's git repositories
  through the Incubator before graduating, we realize that with limited
  developer time, getting all of them to a cleanly releasable state
  could remove focus from development of the core repositories.

  As we an important point of Incubator releases is to ensure the project
  understands the ASF release process, including release review and voting,
  IP management and licensing compatibility; as well as accepting
  contributions. We believe we have gained that after 3 release votes
  https://archive.apache.org/dist/incubator/taverna/source/
  and 7 GSOC/student contributors.

  We have however identified the need for a License Review of the remaining
  git repositories that have not yet been formally released through the
  Apache Incubator (e.g. to ensure ASF file headers), which we are now
  completing:
  https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAVERNADEV/2016-09+License+review

  We might consider not including all of these repositories as we move
  towards graduation - we already have an alternative home
  https://github.com/taverna-extras for dormant extensions.

  dev@taverna mailing lists stats:

  Jun 2016: 347
  Jul 2016: 221
  Aug 2016: 170

  users@taverna:

  Jun 2016: 4
  Jul 2016: 2
  Aug 2016: 4

  JIRA issues over last 90 days:

  34 created
  12 resolved


How has the project developed since the last report?

  We have seen an upsurge in activity with
  two successful GSOC projects as well as several
  new plugins from other students. Some of them have shown interest
  in continued contributions, which we must take into account
  for proposing new committers.

  This have admittedly taken some focus from the committers
  from the incubator graduation path - so we're now
  putting effort back into finishing our License Review.


Date of last release:

  2016-07-01 taverna-engine-3.1.0-incubating
  2016-07-01 taverna-common-activities-2.1.0-incubating
  2016-07-01 taverna-commandline-3.1.0-incubating

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  2015-12-04


Signed-off-by:

  [x](taverna) Andy Seaborne
  [ ](taverna) Daniel J Debrunner
  [ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas
  [ ](taverna) Suresh Marru
  [ ](taverna) Marlon Pierce

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

  Andy Seaborne:

    The Taverna podling is hindered by a lack of active mentors (myself
    included) - the project has appealled to general@ on a couple of
    occasions

    3 of the 4 active contributors are from one institution and contribution
    is related to EU project commitments.  The codebase is large and has a
    long history.  One option is to identify a "core" and move out the rest
    until such time as they are sustainable.  More active PMC/commiters
    would be a big boost.

    The comment from the last report applies:

      Drew Farris (shepherd):

        Little mentor activity on the mailing lists, could use another
        active mentor. Healthy activity in the community.

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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?

  - 12 subscribers in dev mailing list
  - 5 new JIRAs filed since last report
  - 2 new contributors submitted patches

How has the project developed since the last report?

  - Working on 0.9.0 release

Date of last release:

  2016-05-31

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  - None since coming to incubation

Signed-off-by:

  [X](tephra) Alan Gates
  [X](tephra) Andrew Purtell
  [X](tephra) Henry Saputra
  [x](tephra) James Taylor
  [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl

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Toree

Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely
access Apache Spark. It enables interactive workloads between applications
and a Spark cluster. As a Jupyter Notebook extension, it provides the user
with a preconfigured environment for interacting with Spark using Scala,
Python, R or SQL.

Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.

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

  1. Resolve LGPL dependency: Great news! The team has just merged a PR and
     removed the LGPL license in favor of MPL
     (https://github.com/zeromq/jeromq/pull/358)
  2. Make a release: 0.1.x branch should be ready for release. Master has
     moved to start support for Spark 2.0
  3. Grow a diverse community: We should put some emphasis on growing the
     community and making it diverse (the rule is at least three independent
     contributors) We have 1 major independent contributor (mariusvniekerk)
     and at least 2 minor ones
     (https://github.com/apache/incubator-toree/graphs/contributors)

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

  TOREE-262 - Progress on removal of LGPL dependency - Awaiting MPL release
  of JeroMQ. Will update branches to remove caveats re: LGPL once the JeroMQ
  release is available.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  1. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters
  2. Still working on transitioning users from Spark Kernel project into
     Toree. Making significant progress here.
  3. More external contributions being made. Community member
     2mariusvniekerk key in porting Toree to work on Spark 2.0. Sitting on
     PR 56. Working with committer to finish up some details and will merge
     when ready. This is a significant contribution.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  1. JeroMQ community has finalized work to transition to MPL. Waiting for
     maven release.
  2. Addressing issues opened by community

Date of last release:

  None since incubation.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  No new additions since incubation

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](toree) Luciano Resende
  [ ](toree) Reynold Xin
  [x](toree) Hitesh Shah
  [ ](toree) Julien Le Dem

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Traffic Control

Traffic Control allows you to build a large scale content delivery network
using open source.

Traffic Control has been incubating since 2016-07-12.

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

  1. Software grant from Comcast and others active in the current
     github.com/Comcast project to ASF. Discussion between Comcast and ASF
     legal on-going, this is blocking all other progress.

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

  See above issue 1.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Established apache.org accounts for all of the initial committers.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  - Setup git repo and mailing lists.
  - Started Software Grant process.

Date of last release:

  We released 1.6.0 on 2016-07-29 under the old process, because the release
  process (candidates and votes) had already started before our official
  entry in the incubator. We have started release 1.7.0 under the old process
  as well, since we don't have the necessary ASF infrastructure in place, and
  this is pending the SGA.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  2016-07-12 - initial committer list.

Signed-off-by:

  [X](trafficcontrol) Phil Sorber
  [X](trafficcontrol) Eric Covener
  [ ](trafficcontrol) Daniel Gruno
  [ ](trafficcontrol) J. Aaron Farr

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Trafodion

Trafodion is a webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or
operational workloads on Hadoop.

Trafodion has been incubating since 2015-05-24.

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

  1. Develop community and bring in more diverse contributors.
  2. Continue the momentum and become more integrated with the
     rest of the Apache community.
  3. Continue to create software releases and to find a release
     manager for the next one.

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

  * None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  * Participation in public lists has been relatively steady:
    789 messages in the codereview forum, 752@commits,
    483@dev, 1240@issues and 101@user.
  * We released Trafodion 2.0.0 (source and some binaries) and
    Trafodion 2.0.1 (source and convenience binaries).
    Steve Varnau was the release manager for both releases.
  * We announced two new committers and three new PPMC members:
    * Gunnar Tapper (committer and PPMC member), July 5
    * Steve Varnau (existing committer, now also a PPMC member),
      Aug 18
    * Ming Liu (committer and PPMC member), Aug 19
  * We have seen increased activity in China.
  * We are working on a roadmap for the next release, Atanu Mishra
    has volunteered to coordinate it.
  * Community members speaking at public events:
    * Rohit Jain talked at Data Day Seattle on 7/23
    * Rao Kakarlamudi talked at the Milpitas Big Data meetup on 8/5

How has the project developed since the last report?

  * Some highlights of Trafodion 2.0.0:
    * Support for Apache HBase 1.0 and Hadoop distros CDH 5.4, HDP 2.3
    * Elasticity (adding/removing nodes from a Trafodion instance)
    * DDL operations are now transaction-protected
    * BLOB/CLOB support (preview)
    * ALTER COLUMN for all column attributes
    * Support for GBK character set in Hive tables
  * 249 commits from 24 contributors.
  * 180 JIRAs filed and 123 resolved June 1 - Aug 30.

Date of last release:

  2016-07-07 2.0.1

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  in August (committers and PPMC members)

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](trafodion) Devaraj Das
  [ ](trafodion) Enis Söztutar
  [X](trafodion) Michael Stack

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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?

  - We have ongoing community discussion about how to bring in new developers
    to ensure sustainability of the project.

  A votation session has been scheduled (Sept 28th) to decide if Wave's fork
  Swellrt is brought/merged into Wave. This would bring SwellRT active
  developers into Wave and it could facilitate use of Wave by new developers
  thanks to a new API, removing GWT legacy code.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  - Made some code improvements

Date of last release:

  March 2016

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  February 2016

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](wave) Christian Grobmeier
  [X](wave) Upayavira

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

  Upayavira:

    Once more Wave is on the brink of retirement. However, this time, an
    offer has been made of code from SwellRT, which is a fork of Wave itself,
    and a concall has been scheduled for interested parties to discuss
    whether it is a go-er. It is my (limited) understanding that many of the
    complexity issues in the Wave code that have prevented community
    development have been resolved in SwellRT. I will watch to see where this
    goes, if anywhere.