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. Continue to grow the Sentry community 2. Initiate graduation discussion with community and address any potential concerns raised 3. Update project status page, website etc 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 is growing. Several new members have started actively contributing to the project. New contributors made a significant contribution in patches as well as release activity. The user group meetup at NYC was well attended. Community members presented Apache Sentry at various community meetups around the world, include Hadoop group meetup in Hydrabad, India and ApacheCon Europe in Budapest, Hungary How has the project developed since the last report? A number of new features implemented in the master codeline. The sentry community is working towards removing some of the non Apache dependencies in order to avoid any potential concerns for the graduation processes. Date of last release: 2014-08-19 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Arun Suresh and Tuong Truong have been added as a committer as announced on 9/1/2014. No new PPMC members