Incubator PMC report for October 2013

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

The Incubator grew to 39 podlings this month.

Mailing list activity on general@incubator went back up after light months
in July and August.

* Community

  New IPMC members:

    Tammo van Lessen
    Christian Müller

  People who left the IPMC:

    (None)

* New Podlings

  The Incubator has voted in four new podlings.

    * Aurora is a scheduler that provides all of the primitives necessary
      to quickly deploy and scale stateless and fault tolerant services in
      a datacenter.

    * Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime
      computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing
      of data.

    * BatchEE will be an ALv2-licensed implementation of the JBatch
      Specification which is defined as JSR-352 (for version 1.0).

    * Usergrid is a multi-tenant Backend-as-a-Service stack for web &
      mobile applications, based on RESTful APIs.

* Graduations

  The board has motions for the following:

    Chukwa
    jclouds

* Releases

  The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

    Sep 11 Apache Ambari 1.2.5-incubating
    Sep 27 Apache Drill 1.0.0-m1-incubating
    Sep 24 Apache Spark 0.8.0-incubating
    Sep 25 Apache Sentry 1.2.0-incubating
    Sep 27 Apache Blur 0.2.0-incubating
    Oct 03 Apache Marmotta 3.1.0-incubating

  It took 1-8 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.

    Release                             RC VOTE start  Third IMPC +1   Days
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Apache Ambari 1.2.5-incubating      Sep 04         Sep 10          6
    Apache Drill 1.0.0-m1-incubating    Sep 11         Sep 18          7
    Apache Spark 0.8.0-incubating       Sep 17         Sep 23          6
    Apache Sentry 1.2.0-incubating      Sep 19         Sep 24          5
    Apache Blur 0.2.0-incubating        Sep 18         Sep 19          1
    Apache Marmotta 3.1.0-incubating    Sep 24         Oct 02          8

* Miscellaneous

  * Allura's release candidate, which spent weeks waiting for IPMC
    feedback, was ultimately withdrawn after flaws were discovered.

  * Commons-monitoring seems likely to enter the Incubator.  The name is
    still under discussion.

  * A question about old Chukwa binary artifacts was resolved by
    reaffirming that the ASF makes no guarantees about convenience
    binaries.

  * The Incubator paid elevated attention to trademarks this month.

  * Old controversies about what criteria to apply when adding personnel to
    a proposed podling finally bit an unlucky live podling candidate
    (Usergrid).  Hopefully it will never happen again.

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

* Still getting started at the Incubator

  Storm

* Not yet ready to graduate

  No release:

    MetaModel
    Olingo
    Samza
    Stratos
    VXQuery

  Community growth:

    Celix
    ODF Toolkit
    Sentry

* Ready to graduate

  Chukwa
  Helix
  jclouds
  Marmotta

* Did not report, expected next month

  DeviceMap
  Ripple

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                       Table of Contents
Celix
Chukwa
DeviceMap
Helix
jclouds
Marmotta
MetaModel
ODF Toolkit
Olingo
Ripple
Samza
Sentry
Spark
Storm
Stratos
VXQuery

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Celix

Celix is an OSGi like implementation in C with a distinct focus on
interoperability between Java and C.

Celix has been incubating since 2010-11-02.

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

  1. Grow the community
  2. Find more committers
  3. Publish a new release

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

  None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Several new people are working on additional code for the project. One
  person is working on a GSoC project, someone else is working on a new
  remote services protocol and is actively communicating over the list and
  using jira to post patches. Overall this is an increase in activity.

  The Native-OSGi project is still progressing, but rather slow. So there
  isn't anything new on that end. Celix is still the reference
  implementation, so I still expect this to be a great drive for Celix, for
  the code as well as the committers.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  As mentioned above, a student is working on a GSoC project and has
  implemented an Event Admin which will be included in Celix. Also a
  additional Remote Services implementation based on shared memory is being
  made.

  Work for a new release is still ongoing, the focus is slightly changing,
  one of the main users has requested a release. Since they don't use
  Win32, Win32 support can be stripped from the release plan and postponed
  to a later release.

Date of last release:

  16-12-2012

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  2013-01-07 Roman Shaposhnik joins as a mentor.
  2012-03-20 Pepijn elected as committer.

Signed-off-by:

  [x](celix) Marcel Offermans
  [ ](celix) Karl Pauls

Shepherd notes:



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Chukwa

Chukwa is a log collection and analysis framework for Apache Hadoop
clusters.

Chukwa has been incubating since 2010-07-14.

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

  1. Update DNS entry for chukwa.apache.org
  2. Update mailing list location
  3. Update chukwa source and website to the new url.

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

  Chukwa has been voted to graduate to TLP in September in
  general@incubator.  This will be the last incubator report.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Community has been stable and adding new features to Chukwa.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  New heatmap feature and updating to work with  being developed.  New
  demux parser improvement for configuring reducer parser has been
  developed.

Date of last release:

  2012-01-26

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  2012-09-06

Signed-off-by:

  [X](chukwa) Alan Cabrera
  [ ](chukwa) Anthony Elder
  [ ](chukwa) Bernd Fondermann
  [X](chukwa) Jukka Zitting

Shepherd notes:



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DeviceMap

Apache DeviceMap is a data repository containing device information, images
and other relevant information for all sorts of mobile devices, e.g.
smartphones and tablets. While the focus is initially on that data, APIs
will also be created to use and manage it.

Shepherd notes:

  Dave Fisher (wave):

    I see good activity recently. It looks like it took DeviceMap quite
    awhile to get started, but the community has grown and it looks like
    they are working towards a release. Mentors are active. I'm not sure
    why they have not reported. (Oct 6)

  Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
  
    Podling did not report, expected next month.

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Helix

Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework used to build
distributed systems and provides automatic partition management, fault
tolerance and elasticity.

Helix has been incubating since 2012-10-14.

We feel that we are ready for graduation and have started the discussion
internally. We need to update the status page with new committers and also
resolve trade mark.Our processes are continuing to improve and adoption is
increasing both inside and outside of LinkedIn.

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?

  - Added Kanak Biscuitwala as a committer
  - Receiving external contribution in developing JavaScript bindings for
    Helix (see https://github.com/sudowork/node-helix-participant)
  - Steady activity on the mailing list


How has the project developed since the last report?

  - Making progress on 0.7.0, a release that examines and rethinks every
    interaction that Helix exposes to increase ease of use. We hope to
    release this month.
  - Introduced new coding style guidelines, and simplified the code review
    process with new scripts
  - Increased documentation of the development process on JIRA pages
  - Actively populating the developer wiki and increased the amount of
    documentation on the project website
  - Received a patch integrating Helix with YARN, to automate management of
    YARN containers.

Date of last release:

  2013-05-30 (0.6.1-incubating)

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  - Kanak Biscuitwala (committer) - 2013-09-20

Signed-off-by:

  [X](helix) Patrick Hunt
  [X](helix) Olivier Lamy
  [ ](helix) Mahadev Konar
  [ ](helix) Owen O'Malley

Shepherd notes:

  Roman Shaposhnik (rvs):
  
    A very solid project on the clear path to graduation.

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jclouds

A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of
supported cloud providers using one API

jclouds has been incubating since 2013-04-29.

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

  The jclouds IPMC graduation vote passed on Sep 23rd, 2013.

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

  The jclouds community is looking forward to the next ASF Board meeting
  and hopes to be confirmed as a TLP.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  jclouds held its first committer vote as an Apache project and is proud
  to have Zack Shoylev on board!

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Our second incubating release was successful, with no issues related to
  ASF process or guidelines raised. The remaining trademark and IP issues
  have been resolved, and changes to the project website to bring it in
  line with ASF guidelines successfully made. The project also held a
  successful vote to adopt a set of Bylaws.

  With those items completed and a new committer on board, the jclouds PPMC
  proceeded to a graduation vote, which was passed and confirmed by the
  IMPC.  Andrew Bayer was elected as the first project PMC chair and will
  thus be proposed as Vice President, Apache jclouds.

Date of last release:

  2013-08-28 (1.6.2-incubating)

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  2013-08-08 (Zack Shoylev as committer)

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](jclouds) Brian McCallister
  [ ](jclouds) Tom White
  [ ](jclouds) Henning Schmiedehausen
  [X](jclouds) David Nalley
  [ ](jclouds) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
  [ ](jclouds) Mohammad Nour El-Din
  [X](jclouds) Olivier Lamy
  [ ](jclouds) Tomaz Muraus
  [ ](jclouds) Suresh Marru
  [ ](jclouds) Carlos Sanchez

Shepherd notes:



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Marmotta

An Open Platform for Linked Data.

Marmotta has been incubating since 2012-12-03.

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

  1. Check whether Marmotta is a suitable name
     (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-39)
  2. PPMC & IPMC discussion and vote about gratuation
  3. Graduate tasks

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

  No such issues.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  * The NOTICE&LICENSE issues from last time are now properly solved.
  * The 3.1.0-incubating release was rescheduled to "after summer
    vacation time" and prepared in late September (released October 3rd).
  * Traffic on dev@marmotta.i.a.o was decreasing over the summer
    months, but is rising again in September during the preparation of
    the last release.
  * We are starting to get bug reports from non-committers in JIRA
    while traffic on users@marmotta.i.a.o is slowly evolving.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  * The 3.1.0-incubating release has been accepted on October 3rd.
  * The project was explicitly recommended for graduation after the
    last report in July (<http://s.apache.org/LIF8>)
    but we wanted to have another release before graduation to stabilize
    the release process and and have another check of the N&L by the
    incubator community.
  * Consequently the discussion graduation is being resumed after the
    release, trying the do it by the end of October if no new issues
    appear.

Date of last release:

  2013-10-03 (3.1.0-incubating)

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  2013-05-21 (Raffaele Palmieri, committer&PPMC)
  2013-06-24 (Peter Ansell, committer&PPMC)

So no new committers and/or PPMC member since the last report.

Signed-off-by:

  [X](marmotta) Fabian Christ
  [ ](marmotta) Nandana Mihindukulasooriya
  [X](marmotta) Andy Seaborne

Shepherd notes:

  Andrei Savu (asavu):

    Project is on track for graduation. Nothing jumped out at me as
    requiring any special attention. Good luck guys!

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MetaModel

MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for
exploration and querying of different types of datastores.

MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12.

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

  1. More contributors to increase diversity of the community
  2. Make first release under ASF umbrella
  3. Looking forward to setup CI builds under ASF infra

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

 None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Ankit Kumar has taken the role of being release engineer for our first
  ASF release.

  A draft for bylaws for the project has been added to the wiki, we are
  discussing and finalizing the details.

  We are still not seeing a lot of involvement from new contributors, but
  expect that a release will give us more users and thus involvement from
  more newcomers.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  The primary focus has been on making our first release under ASF
  umbrella.  The work is coming along well and we have a practical TODO
  list of less than 5 points now.

Date of last release:

  None

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 June 2013

Signed-off-by:

  [X](metamodel) Henry Saputra
  [X](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar
  [X](metamodel) Matt Franklin
  [ ](metamodel) Noah Slater

Shepherd notes:

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ODF Toolkit

Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents.

ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.

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

  1. Grow the community, especially attracting new developers.
  2. Address issues of too much code development happening outside of
     Apache
  3. Hold an informal graduation readiness vote

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

  It has recently been pointed out that the project status page on the
  Incubator project site is out of date, we hope to update that shortly.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Higher feed-back from the users mailing list, but no new developers.

  Discussion has started, but without much conclusion, of whether we should
  aim for TLP status, or merge into an existing TLP with similar alignment,
  such as POI or OpenOffice.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Clear unnecessary dependency from the Clarizza project.

Date of last release:

  2013-06-22

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  Not for a long while...

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
  [X](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
  [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov

Shepherd notes:

  Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
  
    Report not filed in time for shepherd review.

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Olingo

Apache Olingo provides libraries which enable developers to implement
OData producers and OData consumers. While starting with an initial
code base implementing OData version 2.0 it is also a clear goal to
start implementing a library for OData 4.0 once the OData standard is
published at OASIS. The focus within the community is currently on the
Java technology but it is up to the community to discuss if other
environments find interest.

Olingo has been incubating since 2013-07-08.

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

  1. Make the first release
  2. Work on documentation
  3. Grow community

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?

  - Committers actively working on making the release. Effort is
    coordinated by Jira and mailing list.
  - Committers are in mailing list contact with mentors and infrastructure
    to extend infrastructure setup (e.g. Jenkins, KEYS files ...).
  - Some committers have started with KEY signing. This is in progress to
    get all committers involved.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  - There is currently no feature development
  - Instead committers do concentrate on making the first release
  - A release candidate is available and discussed by community on mailing
    list
  - Release voting has started
  - Documentation on web site is growing and will be published as soon as
    the first release is available

Date of last release:

  - not released so far

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  - n/a

Signed-off-by:

  [X](olingo) Alan Cabrera
  [X](olingo) Dave Fisher
  [X](olingo) Florian Müller

Shepherd notes:

  Raphael Bircher (rbircher):

    Apache Olingo goes direction first release. They allready use mailing
    list in a good way. It looks like they allready knows how to work with
    lazy consensus.  The Mentors are active in a good way. Well, the
    documentation is poor at the moment. But the project knows this problem
    and work on it.  Looking forward for a release.

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Ripple

Ripple is a browser based mobile phone emulator designed to aid in the
development of HTML5 based mobile applications. Ripple is a cross platform
and cross runtime testing/debugging tool. It currently supports such
runtimes as Cordova, WebWorks aand the Mobile Web.

Shepherd notes:

  Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
  
    Podling did not report, expected next month.

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Samza

Samza is a stream processing system for running continuous computation on
infinite streams of data.

Samza has been incubating since 2013-07-30.

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

  1. Bring in new community members
  2. Make a release
  3. Cement ASF way to community.

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

  None.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Community development continues. Chris Riccomini presented Samza to YARN
  Dev User Group with great interest.  Similar talks planned for Bay Area
  and London Hadoop User Groups this month.  Interest (and patches)
  continue to begin to appear.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Several JIRAs opened and committed.  Ready to start working on first
  release.

Date of last release:

  None.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  None.

Signed-off-by:

  [X](samza) Chris Douglas
  [ ](samza) Arun Murthy
  [X](samza) Roman Shaposhnik

Shepherd notes:



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Sentry

Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role
based authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop
cluster.

Sentry has been incubating since 2013-08-08.

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

  1. Build community and add new committers
  2. Continue to release at regular intervals

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?

  Sentry User Meetup group has nearly 50 members. The project's first
  meetup is planned for the end of Oct. We have 23 sign ups on the dev
  list.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  We have migrated all of the infrastructure to ASF. The website is up and
  running.  Podling name search has been successfully completed. Project
  had its first release since starting incubation. On the development
  front, a number of new JIRAs have been filed and are being actively
  worked on.

Date of last release:

  2013-09-25 (1.2.0-incubating)

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  Last committers and PMC members were elected when the project entered
  incubation.


Signed-off-by:

  [X](sentry) Arvind Prabhakar
  [X](sentry) Joe Brockmeier
  [X](sentry) David Nalley
  [ ](sentry) Olivier Lamy
  [X](sentry) Patrick Hunt
  [ ](sentry) Thomas White

Shepherd notes:

  Matt Franklin (mfranklin):

    No issues.  Looks like the project is off to a great start.

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Spark

Spark is an open source system for fast and flexible large-scale data
analysis. Spark provides a general purpose runtime that supports
low-latency execution in several forms.

Spark has been incubating since 2013-06-19.

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

  1. Move JIRA over to Apache (still haven't gotten success from INFRA
     on this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6419)
  2. Add more committers under Apache process
  3. Make further Apache releases

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

  We still need some help importing our JIRA -- see INFRA-6419. For some
  reason we've had a lot of trouble with this. It should be easier now
  because Apache's JIRA was updated and now matches our version.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  We made the Spark 0.8.0 release, which was the biggest so far, with 67
  developers from 24 organizations contributing. The release shows how far
  our community has grown -- our 0.6 release last October had only 17
  contributors, and our 0.7 release in February had 31. Most of the
  contributors are now external to the original UC Berkeley team.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  We made the Spark 0.8.0 release mentioned above, which so far seems to
  be doing well. It brings a number of deployability features, improved
  Python support, and a new standard library for machine learning; see
  http://spark.incubator.apache.org/releases/spark-release-0-8-0.html
  for what's new in the release.

Date of last release:

  2013-09-25

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  June 2013

Signed-off-by:

  [X](spark) Chris Mattmann
  [ ](spark) Paul Ramirez
  [ ](spark) Andrew Hart
  [ ](spark) Thomas Dudziak
  [ ](spark) Suresh Marru
  [X](spark) Henry Saputra
  [X](spark) Roman Shaposhnik

Shepherd notes:

  Dave Fisher (wave):
  
    Very active community on a fast track. Good report. Get your JIRA over
    and you are getting close.  (Oct. 7)

  Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
  
    Report not filed in time for shepherd review.

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Storm

Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime
computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of
data.

Storm has been incubating since 2013-09-18.

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

  1. Transition community to new infrastructure and mailing lists
  2. Test and mature the Netty message passing implementation so all future
     releases do not include 0mq transport (which is LGPL)
  3. Make a release under Apache

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

  We are still waiting for ICLA's from Flip Kromer and David Lao.

  We are waiting for infrastructure to be set up so we can switch mailing
  lists and code hosting over to Apache.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  A few more users have been added to the Powered By page. Otherwise, we've
  received a steady amount of new patches and messages on the mailing list.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  A software grant has been filed by Nathan Marz for the project. Also, all
  contributor agreements Nathan has collected pre-Apache have been
  submitted to Apache. All committers except for two have filed ICLA's and
  CCLA's.

  We are making one last release via the old route during the transition
  into the incubator (0.9.0). We have switched development to an
  Apache-like consensus-driven approach and have made lots of progress on
  closing pull requests (as well as getting committers active in
  discussions, merging, and managing release process).

Date of last release:

  None

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  N/A, this is the first status report.

Signed-off-by:

  [X](storm) Ted Dunning
  [X](storm) Arvind Prabhakar
  [X](storm) Devaraj Das
  [X](storm) Matt Franklin
  [X](storm) Benjamin Hindman

Shepherd notes:



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Stratos

Stratos will be a polyglot PaaS framework, providing developers a
cloud-based environment for developing, testing, and running scalable
applications, and IT providers high utilization rates, automated resource
management, and platform- wide insight including monitoring and billing.

Stratos has been incubating since 2013-06-20.

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

  1. Moving all Stratos related trademarks from WSO2 to Apache. Certain
     WSO2 technologies such as StratosLive still bear the Stratos name.
     These have to be resolved in the near future. We are in the process of
     sorting these out.
  2. Get the first Apache Stratos (incubating) release out, and in the
     process ensure all ASF release requirements are met.
  3. Build the community

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

  - none -

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Three new committers & PMC members have been added to the project. (In
  Stratos, committers are also invited to join the PMC). Six Google
  Hangouts were held in order to educate the community about the project &
  the technical details/architecture in the project. A Cloud BarCamp is
  being organized for end of October to enable the Stratos community
  members as well as other Apache cloud project community members to meet
  up & exchange ideas & build synergy. Community members have also written
  several blog posts. The project has also seen a number of new
  contributors who have started actively participating in the project.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Code has been refactored to get rid of non ASL 2.0 compatible third party
  library dependencies.  Package names have been changed. License files
  added. Several bugs have been fixed. Builds have been made available for
  review & testing. In anticipation of the first release, the project has
  made available several RC packs to get community feedback. Documentation
  has been added to the wiki. The project site has been properly setup. The
  roadmap discussions are currently taking place on the dev list.

Date of last release:

  - none -

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  2013-09-23

Signed-off-by:

  [x](stratos) Afkham Azeez
  [ ](stratos) Anthony Elder
  [x](stratos) Chip Childers
  [ ](stratos) Marlon Pierce
  [ ](stratos) Mohammad Nour
  [ ](stratos) Noah Slater

Shepherd notes:

  Roman Shaposhnik (rvs):

    Stratos appears in a solid shape and working on its first incubator
    release. That said, their report is late which makes it difficult for
    the shepherding work to feel complete. I will try to ping some of the
    mentors.

  Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
  
    Report not filed in time for shepherd review.

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VXQuery

A standards compliant parallel XML Query processor.

VXQuery has been incubating since 2009-07-06.

The most important issue to address in the move towards graduation is
still the first release. The third release candidate is currently up
for vote on vxquery-dev. So far there at 4 positive votes.

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

  We are still a little low on mentors, but since Ant Elder has agreed
  to help out, the situation has improved.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Steven Jacobs has been voted in as a committer.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Benchmarking data and queries have been added to the project. A
  number of issues discovered when running the benchmark have been fixed.

  Steven contributed an integration with Lucene.

  A new release candidate has been created and is currently being voted on.

Date of last release:

  never

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  2013-09-19

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](vxquery) Sanjiva Weerawarana
  [ ](vxquery) Radu Preotiuc-Pietro
  [x](vxquery) Jochen Wiedmann
  [ ](vxquery) Ant Elder

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