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Timeline

Wed August 07	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun August 11	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun August 11	Summary due by end of day
Tue August 13	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed August 14	Report submitted to Board
Wed August 21	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Dave Fisher	S2Graph
Dave Fisher	Training
Drew Farris	Ratis
Drew Farris	SDAP
Justin Mclean	Toree
P. Taylor Goetz	Doris
P. Taylor Goetz	PageSpeed
P. Taylor Goetz	Tuweni
Timothy Chen	DataSketches
Timothy Chen	Edgent
Timothy Chen	Tamaya
	ECharts
	Heron
	Pinot
	Livy
	Amaterasu

Incubator PMC report for August 2019

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

TODO add arrative

Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

Graduations

list podling here

The board has motions for the following:

Your podling here?

Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of July:

Credits

Table of Contents

DataSketches
Doris
ECharts
Edgent
Heron
PageSpeed
Pinot
Ratis
S2Graph
SDAP
Tamaya
Toree
Training
Tuweni
Livy

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:

Our vote letter on general@ has no responses from IPMC for over 72 hours And at least one of our 3 Mentors is on vacation for the next 2 weeks. This lack of response is crippling our ability to move forward.
Continue to perfect the release process.
After we get this first release, we need to finish migrating the remaining repos.

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

Yes. #1 above. We only have 3 Mentors and we need all 3 to vote, Yet, only 2 have participated so far, and one of them is now on vacation for the next 2 weeks.

How has the community developed since the last report?

None. We can't get off first base with our first release!

How has the project developed since the last report?

We continue to evolve the project and make commits.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

When we entered incubation.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

2 of our Mentors have been responsive when they are not otherwise unavailable (vacation, work, etc.)

Signed-off-by:

(datasketches) Liang Chen
Comments:
(datasketches) Kenneth Knowles
Comments:
(datasketches) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(doris) Dave Fisher
Comments:
(doris) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
(doris) Shao Feng Shi
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(echarts) John D. Ament
Comments:
(echarts) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments:
(echarts) Dave Fisher
Comments:
(echarts) Ted Liu
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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 unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Re-creating a working community
Re-populating the PPMC
Replenishing the group of mentors

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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).

Julian started an Approach for „Edgent Next“. This is a suggestion to re-activate activities in the edgent community and integrate it as a middle layer between several other IoT or Edge relared Projects.

This was also announced on the new iot@apache.org mailto:iot@apache.org Mailing list but on both lists no feedbackl was responded yet.

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 have been four 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 July 16th Julian Feinauer started a discussion About „Edgent Next“ on the edgent and iot Mailing lists

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
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?

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:
(edgent) Justin Mclean
Comments:
(edgent) Christofer Dutz
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(heron) Jake Farrell
Comments:
(heron) Julien Le Dem
Comments:
(heron) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments:
(heron) Dave Fisher
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(pagespeed) Jukka Zitting
Comments:
(pagespeed) Leif Hedstrom
Comments:
(pagespeed) Nick Kew
Comments:
(pagespeed) Phil Sorber
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(pinot) Kishore Gopalakrishna
Comments:
(pinot) Jim Jagielski
Comments:
(pinot) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
(pinot) Olivier Lamy
Comments:
(pinot) Felix Cheung
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(ratis) Jakob Homan
Comments:
(ratis) Uma Maheswara Rao G
Comments:
(ratis) Devaraj Das
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(s2graph) Sergio Fernández
Comments:
(s2graph) Woonsan Ko
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

SDAP

SDAP is an integrated data analytic center for Big Science problems.

SDAP has been incubating since 2017-10-22.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(sdap) Jörn Rottmann
Comments:
(sdap) Trevor Grant
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(tamaya) John D. Ament
Comments:
(tamaya) David Blevins
Comments:
(tamaya) Kanchana Pradeepika Welagedara
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Toree

Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely access Apache Spark.

Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(toree) Luciano Resende
Comments:
(toree) Julien Le Dem
Comments:
(toree) Ryan Blue
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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 unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Grow the community to get more & faster reviews and content 2. Improve the technology stack 3. Get more content

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

no critical issues at this point in time

How has the community developed since the last report?

The dev mailing list activity has died down a bit. The total number of posts in May was 165, June 66, July 36
Total number of subscribers to the dev list is 31 (-1 since last report)

How has the project developed since the last report?

We have delivered our first release during which we ironed out a few issues: https://s.apache.org/jclr6
We decided upon a logo which was created by Daniel Gruno after we reached out to Central Services. Thank you very much for your help!
We had more content donations (ZooKeeper, Ignite, GitHub, Spark)
The ZooKeeper community helped us review the ZooKeeper contribution which was greatly improved due to their reviews. Thank you!
A few of the Training members will be present at both ApacheCons this year and there will be multiple talks about the project

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:

2019-07-13: Apache Training (incubating) - Navigating the ASF Incubator Process 1.0, Announcement: https://s.apache.org/h8bct It can be viewed online here: https://s.apache.org/wl3w2

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

n.a.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

- [ ] (training) Justin Mclean
Comments:
- [x] (training) Craig Russell
Comments:
- [ ] (training) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
- [X] (training) Lars Francke
Comments: