Incubator PMC report for May 2019
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 presently 50 podlings incubating. During the month of April,
podlings executed 10 distinct releases. We added two new IPMC members
and no IPMC members retired.
We have no new podlings this month. Three projects graduated last month
namely PLC4X, SkyWalking and Netbeans and several other podlings are
heading towards graduation in the next few months.
One of the podlings that failed to report last month, Milagro failed to
report again this month and the IPMC will discuss what to do. This is the
not first time this project has failed to report and it may not have a
working PPMC.
Two podlings Milagro and Toree have not submitted reports and will be asked
to report next month.
There were two IP clearances.
The new Podling clutch page is working well and documentation has been
created clearly explains what information is collected from where.
The incubator is providing a new service to podlings to provide feedback on
releases. So far no podlings have taken up this service.
Mentors are being actively encouraged to vote on their podling releases so
that the VOTEs show up on the general@ list with 3 +1 IPMC votes. While a
couple of podlings have managed to do this, most still need extra votes by
IPMC members outside their projects. The IPMC will need to look further
into this.
In a couple of cases, podlings canceled vote too early and were encouraged
to continue voting.
Incubator wiki is being deprecated, and it's been migrated to confluence.
Some of the pages were missed in the transfer and infra are looking into
why.
The new wiki space has been reorganised and the pages categorised for easier
navigation. A few minor issues have been encountered e.g. confluence
ignoring formatting but have been addressed. A few people have had permission
issues and because of this move mentor sign-off is a little lower than normal.
The reorganisation and cleanup of incubator web pages started last month
continues on.
* Community
New IPMC members:
- Arpit Agarwal
- Kevin Ratnasekera
People who left the IPMC:
None
* New Podlings
None
* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
- Milagro
- Toree
* Graduations
- Netbeans
- PLC4X
- SkyWalking
The board has motions for the following:
- Dubbo
* Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
April:
- DLab 2.1
- Druid 0.14.0
- Dubbo Spring Boot 2.7.1
- Livy 0.6.0
- NetBeans 11.0
- OpenWhisk Client JS 3.19.0
- OpenWhisk Composer 0.11.0
- Ratis 0.3.0
- ShardingSphere 4.0.0
- Singa 2.0.0
* IP Clearance
- Sling Journal-based Content Distribution
- IP clearance for SkyWalking RocketBot UI
* Legal / Trademarks
None
* Infrastructure
None, although it still unknown if infrastructure will allow
distribution of artefacts with IP or other serious issues.
* Miscellaneous
- Discussion of use of stack overflow
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Table of Contents
brpc
DataSketches
Doris
ECharts
Edgent
Heron
MXNet
PageSpeed
Pinot
Ratis
S2Graph
SDAP
Tamaya
Training
Tuweni
TVM
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brpc
brpc is an industrial-grade RPC framework for building reliable and
high-performance services.
brpc has been incubating since 2018-11-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. We begin to prepare an apache release, including prepare for unified
License/Copyright, clean dependencies.
2. We depend on npsr’ time, it is MPL/LGPL license, we need to find
another lib for it.
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?
Added two potential committers, they are huwenwei and wangweibing ,
they will participate in the work of first apache release , and take some
tasks already. .
How has the project developed since the last report?
There are many bugfix into the trunk.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Still in early stage
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
Still working on the first release
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2019/2. Jerrytan became a new member of PPMC
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Signed-off-by:
[X](brpc) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments: Improving steadily.
[ ](brpc) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
[X](brpc) Von Gosling
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Von Gosling: brpc community should pay more warm in the community building
except the first release.
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DataSketches
DataSketches is an open source, high-performance library of stochastic
streaming algorithms commonly called "sketches" in the data sciences.
Sketches
are small, stateful programs that process massive data as a stream and can
provide approximate answers, with mathematical guarantees, to
computationally
difficult queries orders-of-magnitude faster than traditional, exact
methods.
DataSketches has been incubating since 2019-03-30.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Finish IP Assignments
2. Code Migration
3. Perform a Release
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?
We have the key committers signed up. We are all learning how
to navigate in the Apache environment and how to find things.
How has the project developed since the last report?
This is our first report.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
Our DataSketches.GitHub.io site is quite active as we are
very active with new code and releases from this site.
For example, our latest release of sketches-core was yesterday,
25 April 2019.
We are a long way from being able to release from the migrated
Apache code base as it doesn't yet exist.
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
We have just signed up are initial list of committers.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Kenneth Knowles has been extremely helpful! Thank you!
Signed-off-by:
[X](datasketches) Liang Chen
Comments:
[X](datasketches) Kenneth Knowles
Comments: Initial set up has been a bit slow; that's on me
[X](datasketches) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Doris
Doris is a MPP-based interactive SQL data warehousing for reporting and
analysis.
Doris has been incubating since 2018-07-18.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Hold a Meetup to communicate with developers and users.
2. Prepare for the second Apache Release.
3. Grow the community encouraging patches and recognizing sustained
contributions by adding as Committers and PPMC members.
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?
There are 29 contributors now.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Excluding merges, 12 authors have pushed 75 commits to master and 233
commits to all branches.
On master, 253 files have changed and there have been 14,050 additions and
3,027 deletions.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2019-02-21
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
N/A.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Yes, our mentors have been helpful and responsive.
Signed-off-by:
[X](doris) Dave Fisher
Comments: Will need to start discussions about possible new committers.
[ ](doris) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
[ ](doris) Shao Feng Shi
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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ECharts
ECharts is a charting and data visualization library written in JavaScript.
ECharts has been incubating since 2018-01-18.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Apache domain name should be used for the Website.
echartsjs.com and echarts.baidu.com should redirect to
echarts.apache.org.
Currently they are not redirecting due to slow loading time in China.
We are working on with a CDN to improve the loading time in China.
2. Website Analytics information should be accessed by PPMC members.
We are going to create an Analytics account that can be accessed by PPMC
members.
3. Develop more committers from the community.
Currently there are some contributors in the community that have
contributed continuously and should be considered as new committers.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We haven't come to a conclusion whether we could use Baidu Tongji in the
Website,
which is a product quiet similar to Google Analytics.
We've consulted John Kinsella <jlkinsel@gmail.com> as our mentor
suggested, but got no reply. See
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/efa62d1ace0cc27f7ee4e47df94c346e863b6419f1d1e3ea6fe32c10@%3Cdev.echarts.apache.org%3E
My suggestion is to use both Baidu Tongji and Google Analytics. The
reason is that Baitu Tongji has only Chinese UI, while Google Analytics
may have the potential of losing some data in China since many Google products
are not accessible in China.
If IPMC and ASF Board are OK with it, we will start a vote for the plan.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have announced our first new committer from the community.
More people come to contribute in the community, in the forms of code
changes, document mending, and so on.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We released v4.2.1.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[x] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2019-03-21
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2019-04-03
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Yes.
Signed-off-by:
[X](echarts) John D. Ament
Comments: Glad to see issues getting unblocked as well as semi-recent
release.
[X](echarts) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments: Nice to see things getting unblocked. I think a Terms &
Conditions will be needed for my signoff on using Baidu's analytics
but I'm not against it.
[X](echarts) Dave Fisher
Comments: Thanks to Infra the issues blocking a full move to apache.org
domains are being addressed.
The change is to build a one off CDN in China.
[ ](echarts) Ted Liu
Comments:
Justin Mclean: Is Baidu analytics compliant with the GDPR (EU General Data
Protection Regulation)?
You might also want to see MXNet's report about needing an ICP filing when
setting up CDN in China. I assume infra is handling this?
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Edgent
Apache Edgent is a programming SDK 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. Re-creating a working community
2. Re-populating the PPMC
3. Replenishing the group of mentors
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
For the past months, there has been very few activity in the project
There have been a hand full of Emails from external peoples in the
last 3 months but the activity in the project has been solely by me
(Julian) and Christofer Dutz writing emails without getting any form
of response from the rest of the committers, PPMCs or mentors
Julian held a Talk on the conference buildingiot 2019 with very positive
response and we have an Edgent Meetup on May, 6. Where we hope to see
some new faces.
The main problem we have is that the only active people in the project
came in Late and are not that firm with the codebase. Currently, we
have a codebase for which we have a detailed understanding of the build,
but almost none of the code itself. Furthermore, there has been a lot of
activity in other projects and generally edge processing has developed
further in the recent years.
Thus, there is some discussion going on about the core or the aim of the
project to keep its significance and uniqueness.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Total, we have 82 subscribers to our mailing list, an increase of 5
since the last report.
* There has been one questions asked by users and little
discussions about these issues on the list
* On April, 4th, Julian Feinauer has Talked about Edgent on the building
iot 2019
* On May, 6th, a Edgent Meetup is planned in Frankfurt
How has the project developed since the last report?
* According to JIRA, 0 new issue were added and none were resolved in
the last 90 days
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
After the withdrawal of most of the active committers and PPCM members
currently a new committer, PPMC and mentor-base has to be built.
Currently we try to re-gain the focus of edgent to
Start to rebuild the community and resume development.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-12-14 Apache Edgent 1.2.0
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
In August 2017, we added Christofer Dutz as a new committer
and PPMC member.
In November 2018, we added Julian Feinauer as a new committer
and PPMC member.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
I just double checked, but it seems our mentors are not existent
there had been one or two issues where feedback was explicitly
asked for, but both the PPMC as well as all mentors remained silent.
Except Justin mentioning the absence of mentors. Christofer Dutz
joined as new Mentor and is active in the project.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](edgent) Luciano Resende
Comments:
[X](edgent) Justin Mclean
Comments:
[X](edgent) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Heron
A real-time, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine.
Heron has been incubating since 2017-06-23.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Making a new release with artifacts (more review required).
2. Making several Releases.
3. Continuing to grow the community.
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?
The community has been growing. Monthly meetups have been regularly and
successfully organized.
The April meetup was back in Twitter office and it was very successful.
Many discussions and works have been done by the community.
How has the project developed since the last report?
There have been bug fixes and feature improvements. Some to note are:
Set up new sub-project for Heron spouts by community
Bazel upgrade
Bug fixes in scripts of building artifacts
Review and improve packing algorithms
Fix memory leaks in binary components and add static/dynamic checks
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
4 new committers were elected and invited in Feb 2019.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Dave has been helpful on answering questions and voting for releases.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](heron) Jake Farrell
Comments:
[ ](heron) Julien Le Dem
Comments:
[X](heron) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments: Moving slowly but making progress. I would like to see more
email activity and less slack.
[X](heron) Dave Fisher
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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MXNet
A Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep Learning
MXNet has been incubating since 2017-01-23.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Increase diversity in contributors, committers, and PMC members — NEAR
COMPLETION.
2. Identify remaining ICLAs or SGAs that need signing – NEAR COMPLETION.
3. Revisit Apache Maturity Model Assessment — TODO
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
1. Community reached consensus on Gluon branding. In the context of the
Gluon API in MXNet, it would be mentioned as MXNet Gluon.
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/af7dcb430e2cedf23d1531e79877e8bf2b40ec392e40853a2d7015da@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E
2. Community addressed the IP/licensing issues discovered during previous
releases. Updated status can be found here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/MXNet+Source+Licenses
3. MXNet has significant user presence in China that are worth optimizing
for in terms of infrastructure. Setting up CDN in China requires ICP
filing.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* The number of GitHub contributors increased to currently 682
(2019-04-22; +4.4% since last report)
* Active discussions on user forums
https://discuss.mxnet.io/ (English, 1.6K registered users and 5.6K posts)
https://discuss.gluon.ai/ (Chinese, 6K registered users and 19.2K posts)
* Active blogs and social media presence
Medium (https://medium.com/apache-mxnet) w/ 1.3k followers (+30% since
last report).
Twitter account (https://twitter.com/ApacheMXNet) w/ 2k followers on
(+16% since last report)
Meetup group
(https://www.meetup.com/pro/deep-learning-with-apache-mxnet/) w/ 10
groups in 8 countries, 1998 members (+65% since last report)
(in China) Zhihu w/ 7.5k followers, WeChat official account w/ 3k
followers. (reported for the first time)
* Active video channels
YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/apachemxnet) w/ 627 subscriber
(+29% since last report)
Chinese YouTube channel
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjeLwTKPMlDt2segkZzw2ZQ) w/ 4.1k
subscribers (reported for the first time)
(in China) bilibili space (https://space.bilibili.com/209599371) w/ 13k
subscriber (reported for the first time)
* Highlights in MXNet ecosystem
MXNet Gluon book (www.d2l.ai, Dive into Deep Learning/D2L) released
v1.0.0-rc0 (https://github.com/d2l-ai/d2l-zh/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc0) in
Chinese and v0.6.0 (https://github.com/d2l-ai/d2l-en/releases/tag/v0.6.0)
in English. Dive into Deep Learning has 47.5K 28-day active users, and
has attracted 9.3K stars & 200+ contributors on GitHub. It has been adopted
as a textbook or reference book by 15+ universities in U.S., China, Spain,
and Australia, such as UC Berkeley.
GluonCV v0.4.0 release
(https://github.com/dmlc/gluon-cv/releases/tag/v0.4.0)
GluonNLP v0.6.0 release
(https://github.com/dmlc/gluon-nlp/releases/tag/v0.6.0)
MXNet Model Server v1.0.2 release
(https://github.com/awslabs/mxnet-model-server/releases/tag/v1.0.2)
GluonFace (https://github.com/THUFutureLab/gluon-face)
DeepInsight (https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface)
How has the project developed since the last report?
1) Released v1.4.0:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.4.0;
https://blogs.apache.org/mxnet/entry/apache-mxnet-1-4-is1
2) Started v1.4.1 patch release
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3bb49a1016fafd0840d14f099ce47c7a1822da45f7ca2187c0f03c64@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E;
Started roadmap discussion on
short-term 1.5.0 release
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/14619; Started roadmap
discussion on long-term 2.0 plan
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/9686;
3) Code donation from dmlc/mshadow. Community expressed the desire to
assimilate dmlc/mshadow code base into mxnet.
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c1ba34330b0eb52ef3a3a30da6d34964a35a01c
320e93067e94ed306@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E.
After discussion, DMLC
reached agreement to donate dmlc/mshadow code to mxnet, which is its sole
consumer.
4) Many ongoing projects: numpy-compatbile deep learning:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/projects/14; CPU performance
and quantization: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/projects/15;
Mixed precision GPU training (AMP):
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/14173, etc.
5) Github statistics of last month:
* March 24, 2019 – April 24, 2019: Excluding merges, 53 authors have
pushed 102 commits to master and 137 commits to all branches. On master,
495 files have changed and there have been 14,977 additions and 5,391
deletions.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[x] Initial setup
[x] Working towards first release
[x] Community building
[x] Nearing graduation
Date of last release:
2019-03-04 MXNet 1.4.0
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
As recent as 2019-04-12.
New committer since last report (+12):
Iblis Lin, Da Zheng, Steffen Rochel, Lin Yuan, Nicolas Modrzyk, Jackie
Wu, Aston Zhang, Ding Kuo, Patric Zhao, Kevin Qin, Jiajun Wu, Jeremie
Desgagne-Bouchard
New PPMC member (+1):
Qing Lan
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Mentors continue providing guidance and support.
Signed-off-by:
[x](mxnet) Henri Yandell
Comments: Noting that Gluon is a trademark of Microsoft + Amazon's.
[ ](mxnet) Markus Weimer
Comments:
[x](mxnet) Michael Wall
Comments:
[ ](mxnet) Bob Paulin
Comments:
[ ](mxnet) Jason Dai
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Justin Mclean: You might want to talk to eCharts as they are also setting
up a CDN with infra's help.
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PageSpeed
PageSpeed represents a series of open source technologies to help
make the web faster by rewriting web pages to reduce latency and
bandwidth.
PageSpeed has been incubating since 2017-09-30.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Get the project site in order
2. Start releasing
3. Engage more active developers, expanding the community
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 number of active developers is low, we are still working
to follow up on the recommendation to create a release.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- A first draft-release is being manually checked for policy compliance.
We expect
to be able to raise a thread on general soon to discuss/vote.
- There has been some discussion how to get the project site in-order,
and there's
a plan for that now (transfer modpagespeed.com to the AFS, duplicate
contents to
pagespeed.incubator.apache.org).
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Feb 2 2018 (Huibao Lin, elected as both committer and PMC member)
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Mentors have been helpful.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](pagespeed) Jukka Zitting
Comments:
[ ](pagespeed) Leif Hedstrom
Comments:
[X](pagespeed) Nick Kew
Comments:
[ ](pagespeed) Phil Sorber
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Pinot
Pinot is a distributed columnar storage engine that can ingest data in real-
time and serve analytical queries at low latency.
Pinot has been incubating since 2018-10-17.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Building community contribution
2. Establish a successful release cadence
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?
External contributors have made improvements to real-time segment
split-commit algorithm to minimize controller access to segment store
during segment commit phase. In addition they have also contributed
towards other bug fixes, especially in the real-time area.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- We made our first release Apache Pinot 0.1.0
- We have added and improved a lot more documentation
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[x] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2019-03-07
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Committer Xiang Fu, who was already in the incubator proposal, was added.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Yes mentors have been helpful and responsive
Signed-off-by:
[ ](pinot) Kishore Gopalakrishna
Comments:
[x](pinot) Jim Jagielski
Comments:
[ ](pinot) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
[ ](pinot) Olivier Lamy
Comments:
[x](pinot) Felix Cheung
Comments: great!
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Drew Farris (shepherd): Looking great. At least 3 mentors active,
observed development activity and interaction on the mailing lists.
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Ratis
Ratis is a java implementation for RAFT consensus protocol
Ratis has been incubating since 2017-01-03.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Establish a release cadence.
2. Podling name search.
3. Complete graduation template
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 new contributor has been added. Total 59 contributors currently.
20 committers (non-PPMC) and 19 PPMC members.
How has the project developed since the last report?
32 commits, Released 0.3.0 version.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Establish a release cadence
Date of last release:
2019-04-26
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2018-12-05
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Yes
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ratis) Jakob Homan
Comments:
[X](ratis) Uma Maheswara Rao G
Comments:
[ ](ratis) Devaraj Das
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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S2Graph
S2Graph is a distributed and scalable OLTP graph database built on Apache
HBase to support fast traversal of extremely large graphs.
S2Graph has been incubating since 2015-11-29.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Make the third release.
2. Attract more users and contributors.
3. Build the developer community in both size and diversity.
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?
* There were some discussions on the documentation of the project.
* There were some questions and answers from the community about the
migration tool.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Working on providing OpenAPI documentation for REST API.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-08-26
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
* Our mentor is very helpful and responsive.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](s2graph) Sergio Fernández
Comments:
[X](s2graph) Woonsan Ko
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SDAP
SDAP is an integrated data analytic framework for Big Science problems.
SDAP has been incubating since 2017-10-22.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make official SDAP (Incubating) Release
2. Improve/create user guide documentation
3. Improve committer participation
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?
Committership has been accepted by a community member. SDAP was presented
at a Data Science Workshop @ JPL
How has the project developed since the last report?
SDAP is still working towards its first release. Mentors have provided
some suggestions that will be taken into consideration for the Java parts
of the project, but the python release process also needs to be better
understood.
A new tool has been published that helps with reading the output produced
from the Matchup algorithm.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Maya Debellis was elected as a committer on 2019-02-08
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Yes, mentors have been helpful and responsive.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](sdap) Jörn Rottmann
Comments:
[X](sdap) Trevor Grant
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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.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Grow the PPMC from the existing community.
2. Make another Release
3. Blog about Tamaya
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to
be aware of?
We'd like to graduate soon.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No new committers or contributors added, but some
interaction via Github pull requests - thanks for the new possibilities.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Minor changes and SonarCloud integration, homepage improvements.
How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your
own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-05-28 0.3-incubating
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* 2018-12: Aaron Coburn
* 2018-12: William Lieurance
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling through
the cracks?
In the latter case, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.
A new mentor was introduced but did not yet send anything to mailing
lists.
Signed-off-by:
[X](tamaya) John D. Ament
Comments: The podling is likely in need of more mentors who can pay
closer attention if they want to survive (an additional mentor was added
but has yet to participate in the podling). I'm not sure how much of a
community is here to be honest, while development works well (slow, but
well) not seeing much consumer interaction.
[ ](tamaya) David Blevins
Comments:
[ ](tamaya) Kanchana Pradeepika Welagedara
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Training
The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various
Apache and non-Apache target projects.
Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Agree upon underlying technology stack and architecture for training
content
2. Develop first training topic contents
3. Set up our contribution process
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- no critical issues at this point in time
How has the community developed since the last report?
- The project has been set up recently, so there is an initial
activation/development towards a community.
- The dev mailing list is active. The total number of posts in March was
160 and in April 140
- Total number of subscribers is 32 (25 in March)
How has the project developed since the last report?
- The scope of the project deliverables and core procedures are still
under discussion (e.g. what makes a release?)
- We have had our first few commits. They were for infrastructure (e.g.
website) and repository structure
- We have been approached by a few more people wanting to donate content
and we hope to be able to accept it soon
- We actually have the first issue for an actual content donation (Apache
Way, ZooKeeper and Git) and hope to have it included soon, the first ones
will probably be slow while we work on processes and best practices
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[x] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
n.a.
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
n.a.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Signed-off-by:
[X](training) Justin Mclean
Comments:
[x](training) Craig Russell
Comments:
[X](training) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
[x](training) Lars Francke
Comments: Excited to finally discuss actual content!
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Tuweni
Apache Tuweni is a set of libraries and other tools to aid development of
blockchain and other decentralised software in Java and other JVM languages.
Apache Tuweni has been incubating since 2019-03-25.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Grow the community;
2. Have the works of the project comply with legal requirements of the
ASF;
3. Consistently releasing products;
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Currently there are no issues that require the involvement of either the
Incubator PMC or the ASF board.
How has the community developed since the last report?
As this is the first full month of the project incubating the development
of the community has been low.
The project started out with onboarding all parties showing interest
at the pre-incubation discussions in general@incubator.a.o.
The project consists of a healthy number of mentors and committers/PPMC
Members.
How has the project developed since the last report?
All required INFRA services have been put in play to have the community
collaborate.
The project is working on getting more body to the whole set of
information pages (website, wiki, etc.)
The project is working on getting its first release product vetted and
released, and is also working on getting the Incubator clutch details
up to date.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
Nothing has been released yet.
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
No new committers and or PPMC members have been elected since
bootstrapping the project.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks?
Our participating mentors have been very helpful sharing their insights in
a timely manner. Kudos to them!
Signed-off-by:
[x](tuweni) Jim Jagielski
Comments:
[X](tuweni) Dave Fisher
Comments: Good start! Already reviewing release candidates
[ ](tuweni) Kenneth Knowles
Comments:
[ ](tuweni) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
[x](tuweni) Michael Wall
Comments:
[X](tuweni) Furkan Kamaci
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TVM
TVM is a full stack open deep learning compiler stack for CPUs, GPUs, and
specialized accelerators. It aims to close the gap between the productivity-
focused deep learning frameworks, and the performance- or
efficiency-oriented
hardware backends.
TVM has been incubating since 2019-03-06.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Source code and website migration to ASF infra
2. Make the first Apache release
3. Continue to grow the community
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?
TVM community has welcomed one new committer in the past month
How has the project developed since the last report?
In the past month, 51 contributors have pushed 109 commits to master and
109 commits to all branches.
On master, 1,763 files have changed and there have been 44,070 additions
and 13,852 deletions.
See detailed monthly report
- Mar: https://discuss.tvm.ai/t/tvm-monthly-march-2019/2083
- April: https://discuss.tvm.ai/t/tvm-monthly-april-2019/2426
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[x] Initial setup
[x] Working towards first release
[x] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
not yet
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2019 April 22
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Mentors are very helpful in helping to set up the podling and provide
helpful guidance.
Signed-off-by:
[X] (tvm) Markus Weimer
Comments:
[ ](tvm) Byung-Gon Chun
Comments:
[ ](tvm) Sebastian Schelter
Comments:
[X](tvm) Henry Saputra
Comments:
[ ](tvm) Timothy Chen
Comments:
[X](tvm) Furkan Kamaci
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