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From: Roman Shaposhnik <roman@shaposhnik.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:12:04 -0800
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Subject: Re: Still need sign off from HAWQ, MADLib
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Done.

Thanks,
Roman.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 5:01 PM, John D. Ament <john.d.ament@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> Podlings,
>
> We still need to get sign off on two reports.   Please review these repor=
ts.
>
> Below is a draft:
>
> Incubator PMC report for January 2017
>
> 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 64 podlings incubating.  We had one new podling join.
> No
> changes in PMC membership.
>
> * Community
>
>   New IPMC members:
>
>   - None
>
>   People who left the IPMC:
>
>   - None
>
> * New Podlings
>
>   - Griffin
>
> * Graduations
>
>   The board has motions for the following:
>
>   - Ranger
>
> * Releases
>
>   The following releases entered distribution during the month of
>   December:
>
>   - Apache Mynewt    1.0.0-b1-incubating  2016-12-12
>   - Apache Edgent    1.0.0-incubating     2016-12-15
>   - Apache Tephra    0.10.0-incubating    2016-12-15
>   - Apache Fineract  0.5.0-incubating     2016-12-22
>   - Apache Streams   0.4.1-incubating     2016-12-26
>   - Apache Guacamole 0.9.10-incubating    2016-12-29
>
>
> * IP Clearance
>
>   - None
>
> * Legal / Trademarks
>
>   - The process for picking a new incubator logo has begun, we're expecti=
ng
> to
>     complete it in April.  Thanks to Sally for picking up the CFP!
>   - Incubator documentation updates are in progress, we are starting with
>     release management then will move into roles & responsibilities.
>
> * Infrastructure
>
>   - No issues, though its suspected some status on github as master for
>     OpenWhisk may be expected.
>
> * Miscellaneous
>
>   - N/A
>
> * Credits
>
>   - Report Manager: John D. Ament
>
> -------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
>
> * Still getting started at the Incubator
>
>   - NetBeans
>   - RocketMQ
>   - Traffic Control
>   - Weex
>
> * Not yet ready to graduate
>
>   No release:
>
>   - Annotator
>   - MADlib
>   - ODF Toolkit
>
>   Community growth:
>
>   - Gossip
>   - Horn
>   - Juneau
>   - Mynewt
>
>   Need Signoffs:
>
>   - HAWQ
>   - MADlib
>
> * Ready to graduate
>
>   The Board has motions for the following:
>
>   - Ranger
>
>   The following appear to be close from maturity model:
>
>   - Airflow
>   - BatchEE
>   - FreeMarker
>   - Metron
>
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
>   - DataFu
>   - Milagro
>   - SensSoft
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>                        Table of Contents
> Airflow
> Annotator
> BatchEE
> FreeMarker
> Gossip
> HAWQ
> Hivemall
> HORN
> Juneau
> MADlib
> Metron
> Mynewt
> NetBeans
> ODF Toolkit
> OpenWhisk
> RocketMQ
> Rya
> Spot
> Traffic Control
> Weex
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------
>
> Airflow
>
> Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used t=
o
> author and manage data pipelines.
>
> Airflow has been incubating since 2016-03-31.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Getting an Apache release out
>   2.
>   3.
>
> 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. We elected 1 new PPMC Member/Committer : Alex Van Boxel a.k.a.
>      alexvanboxel
>   2. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Oct 4 and D=
ec
>      31, inclusive), we grew our contributors from 191 to 224
>   3. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Oct 4 and D=
ec
>      31, inclusive), we resolved 202 pull requests (currently at 1263 clo=
sed
>      PRs)
>   4. One meet-up, hosted at WePay, was held by the community
>   5. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies
>      officially using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 74
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   See above
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   None.  First ASF release currently being discussed.
>
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
>
>   As mentioned on
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/Announcements#Announc=
ements-Nov28,2016
> ,
>   Alex Van Boxel joined the Apache Airflow PPMC/Committer group.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [X](airflow) Chris Nauroth
>   [x](airflow) Hitesh Shah
>   [ ](airflow) Jakob Homan
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Annotator
>
> Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and
> humans.
>
> Annotator has been incubating since 2016-08-30.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Publish a project roadmap to guide us towards a first release
>   2. Achieve active development cadence
>   3. Improve project description and clarify purpose on the web site
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>   Code contributions at Apache have not yet begun, although the community=
 is
>   coalescing.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   One (1) new contributor has expressed interest on the mailing list.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   The initial website is up and all repositories have been created.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   None
>
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
>
>   None since start of incubation
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](annotator) Nick Kew
>   [ ](annotator) Brian McCallister
>   [ ](annotator) Daniel Gruno
>   [X](annotator) Jim Jagielski
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> BatchEE
>
> BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and=
 a
> set of useful extensions for this specification.
>
> BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. some more activity probably (but since we are between specification
>      releases it was expected)
>   2. probably graduate
>   3.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>   No, BatchEE implements a JavaEE specification and its development cycle=
 is
>   pretty close to the specification, since there was no new version.  It =
is
> in
>   maintenance mode for now which was expected.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   Not much, BatchEE is stable and used with few container flavors (part o=
f
>   TomEE plus, used with tomee embedded, application composer, meecrowave,
> ...)
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   Fixes on CDI scopes.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2016-09-25
>
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofr=C3=A9
>   [ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
>   [X](batchee) Mark Struberg
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
>
> FreeMarker
>
> FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text out=
put
> based on templates. FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library =
for
> programmers.
>
> FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   We think that the project is getting ready for a successful
>   graduation, since during incubation we have cleared copyright and
>   trademark, migrated all the project's assets to the ASF Infra,
>   learned how to produce and publish releases (with 2 releases issued
>   during incubation), learned how to invite committers. But, the
>   project is still struggling to find a way to "convert" active users
>   into committers; there are several users that have expressed the
>   desire to be more involved and help the project, but this doesn't
>   materialize into consistent contributions. In order to facilitate
>   new contributions and attract new potential committers we are trying
>   to define new ideas/tasks that are useful to the project but can be
>   completed even by contributors who don't yet know the project in
>   depth. We also plan to make a non-backward-compatible branch which
>   is easier to contribute to because it removes the substantial
>   complexity caused by the legacy burden, and also allows adding
>   interesting new features that wouldn't be feasible with the backward
>   compatibility constraints set more than 12 years ago.
>
> 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 no changes.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   This was a more silent period, but Jira issues, pull request, Stack
>   Overflow questions were answered, some issues were fixed.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   2015-10-21 Nan Lei, committer (non-PMC)
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2016-06-26
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
>   [X](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
>   [X](freemarker) David E. Jones
>   [X](freemarker) Ralph Goers
>   [X](freemarker) Sergio Fern=C3=A1ndez
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Gossip
>
> Gossip is an implementation of the Gossip Protocol.
>
> Gossip has been incubating since 2016-04-28.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Create some tutorial videos and blog posts to educate people on Goss=
ip
>      Project
>   2. Focus on some critical technical improvements multi-node testing and
>      accrual failure detection that will be critical for adoption into ot=
her
>      projects
>
> 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?
>
>   - One contributor has been voted as a committer. There are 13 watches 2=
4
>     stars on github.
>   - Sean Busbey has stepped down as a mentor. Sean's early help was criti=
cal
>     to this hatchling. Thank you, Sean.
>   - Drew Farris has taken a role as a mentor.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   Some technical features were frozen out until we completed our first
>   release. Effort was spent on doing the first release (getting access, k=
ey
>   signing, correctly enabling RAT maven plugin etc). This was mostly
> one-time
>   effort.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   We are currently voting on our first release.
>
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
>
>   Chandresh Pancholi as added as a committer on 11/29/16
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [x](gossip) P. Taylor Goetz
>   [x](gossip) Josh Elser
>   [x](gossip) Drew Farris
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>   Josh Elser:
>
>     First release should be landing within 72*2 hrs. Hopefully this will
>     spawn a good cadence and attract more people to the, relatively quiet=
,
>     podling.
>
> --------------------
>
> HAWQ
>
> Apache HAWQ is a Hadoop native SQL query engine that combines the key
> technological advantages of MPP database with the scalability and
> convenience
> of Hadoop. HAWQ reads data from and writes data to HDFS natively.  HAWQ
> delivers industry-leading performance and linear scalability. It provides
> users the tools to confidently and successfully interact with petabyte ra=
nge
> data sets. HAWQ provides users with a complete, standards compliant SQL
> interface.
>
> HAWQ has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Expand the community, by adding new contributors and focusing on mak=
ing
>      sure that there's a much more robust level of conversations and
>      discussions happening around roadmaps and feature development on the
>      public dev mailing list
>   2. Infrastructure migration: create Jenkins projects that build HAWQ
>      binary, source tarballs, and run feature tests including at least
>      installcheck-good tests for each commit (HAWQ-127).
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be awa=
re
> of?
>
>   Everything seems to be smooth, nothing urgent at this time.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   1. The community becomes more open for discussion around the roadmap,
>      various features that committers are working on, infrastructure
>      enhancements for the project.
>   2. Two talks:
>      * The SQL-on-Hadoop engine that replaces traditional data warehouses=
:
>        HAWQ, China Open Source Conference Oct, 2016, Lei Chang
>      * Apache HAWQ on cloud: the easiest way to cloud from traditional da=
ta
>        warehouses, Big Data Technology Conferences, Dec, 2016, Lei Chang
>   3. Ed volunteered as an RM for the upcoming 2.1.0.0 release
>   4. Interesting discussions and work around Docker for HAWQ. HAWQ has an
>      account on docker hub: https://hub.docker.com/u/hawq/
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   1. Apache HAWQ 2.0.0.0 released.
>   2. HAWQ 2.1.0.0 release proposed:
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/HAWQ+Release+2.1.0.0-inc=
ubating+Release
>      * Critical HAWQ Register bug fixes
>      * Move HAWQ Ambari plugin to Apache HAWQ:   HAWQ-1013 RESOLVED
>      * Introduction of the PXF ORC support
>      * Many bug fixes
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   Oct 8, 2016
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   Two committers added: Hong Wu and Paul Guo
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>  [ ](hawq) Alan Gates
>  [ ](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik
>  [ ](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
>  [ ](hawq) Thejas Nair
>  [ ](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Hivemall
>
> Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive
> UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.
>
> Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Create the first Apache release
>   2. Community growth (committers and users)
>   3. Documentation improvements
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>   * We added 2 new committers since the last report from different
> organizations.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   * Merged two large contributions from external contributors.
>   * dev@ mailing list had 112 messages in this month as seen in
>     https://lists.apache.org/trends.html?dev@hivemall.apache.org:2016-12
>     No messages in users@ in this month.
>   * Github watchers/stars are gradually increasing: 38 stars as of Dec 26
>     https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall
>     Still the community migration is halfway as the original repository h=
as
>     475 stars.
>   * Twitter account @ApacheHivemall followers are gradually increasing: 3=
3
>     followers as of Dec 26
>   * Increased articles that mentions Apache Hivemall such as
>     https://dzone.com/articles/2016-the-year-in-big-data
>     http://gihyo.jp/dev/column/newyear/2017/hadoop-ecosystem (in Japanese=
)
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   * Worked towards the first Apache release in Q1, 2017.
>     Merged 2 out of 5 large pending pull request that is blockers for the
> release.
>     https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls
>   * Merged two large pull requests from external contributors.
>     Hivemall PMC invited them to Hivemall committers.
>     https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pull/11
>       (contribution by Takuya Kitazawa@Tokyo Univ)
>     https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pull/15
>       (contribution by Ryu-ichi Ito@Osaka Univ)
>   * Finished setup for TravisCI and Coveralls.
>   * Created 2 JIRA issues and resolved 3 issues in this month.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   No release yet (planning the first Apache release in Q1, 2017)
>
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
>
>   * Ryu-ichi Ito on Dec 28, 2016 - Committer (currently waiting for ICLA)
>   * Takuya Kitazawa on Dec 28, 2016 - Committer (currently waiting for IC=
LA)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](hivemall) Reynold Xin
>   [X](hivemall) Markus Weimer
>   [ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng
>   [ ](hivemall) Daniel Dai
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --------------------
> HORN
>
> HORN is a neuron-centric programming APIs and execution framework for lar=
ge-
> scale deep learning, built on top of Apache Hama.
>
> HORN has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Expand the community.
>   2. Create the first Apache release.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>   * No issue at this moment.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   * We added 1 new committer since the last report from different
>     organization.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   * Implemented Recurrent Neural Networks.
>   * Merged few trivial improvement pull requests.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
>
>   * 2016-12-12 New committers: Yeonhee Lee.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](horn) Luciano Resende
>   [ ](horn) Robin Anil
>   [x](horn) Edward J. Yoon
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> 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. Solicit user feedback/usage
>   3. Grow 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?
>
>   One new original committer from IBM submitted his ICLA and joined in
>   December.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   First release created.  Second release currently in the pipeline.
>   Infrastructure and website in place.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2016-10-25
>
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
>
>   n/a
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [X](juneau) Craig Russell
>   [ ](juneau) Jochen Wiedmann
>   [X](juneau) John D. Ament
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
>
> MADlib
>
> Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists.
>
> MADlib has been incubating since 2015-09-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Need guidance from Incubator PMC on how to resolve the BSD licensing
>      switch over to Apache License.  What should be the content of the
> license
>      headers for files that were previously BSD licensed and then granted=
 to
>      ASF?  Related legal-discuss threads:
>
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201609.mbox/%3=
CCALGG8z03zHhbFegXoi4fH+vXtF+9m7x6hak9RjKQjapuzi67gQ@mail.gmail.com%3E
>
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201603.mbox/%3=
C9D1AF43C-370B-4E58-B0EF-2E29D242F50B%40jaguNET.com%3E
>   2. Continue to produce regular Apache (incubating) releases.
>   3. Continue to execute and manage the project according to governance
> model
>      of the "Apache Way=E2=80=9D.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be awa=
re
> of?
>
>   1. Yes-please see #1 above and provide guidance.
>   2. The next release v1.10 will be the 4th as an incubating project.  Af=
ter
>      that, the community would ideally like to move towards top level
> status.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   1. Some related events in Q4 2016 and upcoming:
>      * Feb 4, 2017 - Presentation accepted at FOSDEM=E2=80=9917 Graph dev=
room.
>        Topic:  Graph Analytics on Massively Parallel Processing Databases
>        (Frank McQuillan)
>      * Dec 1, 2016 - MADLib community call.  Topic:  New features in R
>        interface and MADlib user survey results (hosted by Greg Chase, Or=
han
>        Kislal, Frank McQuillan)
>      * Nov 16, 2016 - Presentation at PGConf Silicon Valley.  Topic:
>        Distributed In-Database Machine Learning with Apache MADlib
>        (incubating) (Frank McQuillan)
>      * Nov 14, 2016 - Presentation at Apache Big Data Europe.  Topic:
>        Distributed In-Database Machine Learning with Apache MADlib
>        (incubating) (Roman Shaposhnik)
>   2. Material technical conversations on user/dev mailing lists and in th=
e
>      appropriate JIRAs and pull requests.
>   3. New contributors to the project have been working on KNN module and
>      Python interface.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   1. Active work in progress for 4th ASF release MADlib v10 scheduled for
> Jan
>      2017.  Features include: single source shortest path graph algorithm=
,
>      completely new module for encoding categorical variables, R interfac=
e
>      update, grouping support in elastic net and PCA, cross validation in
>      elastic net, verbose output option for decision tree visualization.
>   2. Mailing list activity in Q4:  227 postings to dev, 66 postings to us=
er.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   MADlib v1.9.1 on 9/19/16.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected:
>
>   Orhan Kislal on 9/7/16 and Nandish Jayaram on 9/7/16.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](madlib) Konstantin Boudnik
>   [ ](madlib) Ted Dunning
>   [ ](madlib) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Metron
>
> Metron is a project dedicated to providing an extensible and scalable
> advanced
> network security analytics tool. It has strong foundations in the Apache
> Hadoop ecosystem.
>
> Metron has been incubating since 2015-12-06.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Trigger a community discussion to graduate from incubation.  We have
>      received a lot of value from the incubation process and after speaki=
ng
>      to our mentors and going through the Apache Project Maturity Model w=
e
>      believe that we will soon be ready to graduate.
>   2. Vote to ratify our Development Guidelines and Process for Reporting
>      Issues
>   3. Vote to ratify our Release Process
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>   We refreshed our website to be more compliant with Apache policies
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   - We added 2 committers
>   - We had a clean Apache build
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   - We closed 63 PRs as of our last build
>   - We integrated with Apache Ambari to make the project easier to deploy
>   - We modified and re-voted on our Bylaws
>   - We successfully filed our Name Search Jira.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2016-11-14
>
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
>
>   2016-9-1
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [x](metron) Billie Rinaldi
>   [ ](metron) Chris Mattmann
>   [ ](metron) Owen O'Malley
>   [x](metron) P. Taylor Goetz
>   [ ](metron) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Mynewt
>
> Mynewt is a real-time operating system for constrained embedded systems
> like
> wearables, lightbulbs, locks and doorbells. It works on a variety of 32-b=
it
> MCUs (microcontrollers), including ARM Cortex-M and MIPS architectures.
>
> Mynewt has been incubating since 2015-10-20.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Make further point releases capable of producing a downloadable RTOS
>      image with support for multiple MCU architectures, peripherals, and
>      network connectivity protocols with the goal of the first major (1.0=
)
>      release in the first quarter of 2017. These point releases are inten=
ded
>      to demonstrate and solidify the repeatability, usability, and maturi=
ty
>      of process.
>   2. Continue to develop and execute policies that enable project
>      contributors to achieve self-governance.
>   3. Expand community - attract new project contributors, get users with
>      diverse backgrounds applying project to new use cases and encouragin=
g
>      adoption, grow committer 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?
>
>   1. Active mailing lists with increasing numbers of subscribers. 23 new
>      subscribers on dev@ mailing list since last report.
>   2. Increased participation by several new contributors through pull
>      requests for new MCU support, new BSP support, features, and test ca=
ses
>      and test results. Increased usage of the project for 3rd-party produ=
cts
>      or demos. Outreach continues via conferences, exhibits, one on one
>      meetings, tutorials, beta testers.
>   3. Vigorous discussions on feature proposals, code behavior analysis, A=
PI,
>      code usability, and implementation specifics on @dev mailing list.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   1. The first beta release of the first major release (1.0.0-b1) was
>      completed on December 13, 2016. A second beta is being considered
> before
>      the first release in Q1, 2017 to facilitate a smooth major release.
>   2. Planning: Issues including bug reports, features, and wish list
> captured
>      and tracked in ASF JIRA by members of the community.
>   3. Effort towards self governance: Voting successfully completed to gra=
nt
>      committer status to two new candidates since last report.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2016-12-13
>
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
>
>   2016-12-6
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](mynewt) Sterling Hughes
> [X](mynewt) Jim Jagielski
> [x](mynewt) Justin Mclean
> [ ](mynewt) Greg Stein
> [x](mynewt) P. Taylor Goetz
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> NetBeans
>
> NetBeans is a development environment, tooling platform and application
> framework.
>
> NetBeans has been incubating since 2016-10-01.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Licensing, i.e., identifying and solving GPL-related code.
>   2. Coming up with a process of contributing code that makes sense to
>      everyone.
>   3. Working on roadmaps, features, and plans together as a 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?
>
>   Our first vote for the new logo, still ongoing.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   The 1st (out of 12) repository has been cleared by Oracle legal /
> technical
>   review for donation.
>
>   Dependencies optionally downloaded from Maven Central instead of the
>   project's own public dependencies server.
>
>   Converted Git repositories pushed to GitHub by a community contributor.
>   These are not canonical since we are waiting for the Code Grant to be
>   signed.
>
>   First community member pull request on the GitHub repository.
>
>   Ticket created for a new website.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   No releases yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   No one has been elected so far.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [X](netbeans) Ate Douma
>   [X](netbeans) Bertrand Delacretaz
>   [ ](netbeans) Emmanuel Lecharny
>   [ ](netbeans) Daniel Gruno
>   [X](netbeans) Jim Jagielski
>   [ ](netbeans) Mark Struberg
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>   Drew Farris (shepherd):
>
>     6(!) Mentors active on mailing lists. Healthy progress over the past
>     couple months.
>
> --------------------
> ODF Toolkit
>
> Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation =
of
> OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 =3D=3D ODF) documents
>
> ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
>
> Most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Get companies backing up the project as part of a commercial story, =
to
>      get a long-term momentum
>   2. Do recurrent releases - some semi-automation would be helpful - for =
the
>      3rd party users
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>   A discussion has been started about the cancellation of the project due=
 to
>   lack of developers on the private odf-toolkit and private incubator lis=
t.
>
>   A general issue of the project is that it 'just' a toolkit of an office
>   file format, which in addition is far from leading on the business mark=
et,
>   so likely never being used by the mass market - a very niche product.
>
>   Still the toolkit seems to be working well for most common use cases, b=
ut
>   is repeatedly updated by developers on changes of the ODF, like Red Hat
>   developers enhancing the ODF validator as part of LibreOffice regressio=
n
>   tests (e.g. out-of-the-box running on http://odf-validator.rhcloud.com/=
)
>   most often quite ahead of one of the international ODF Plugfests -
>   http://odfplugfest.org/2016-paris/programme/.
>
>   Since there are still some game changing features in the pipeline (e.g.
>   collaboration) which are expected to strengthen the acceptance and deve=
lop
>   the community but on the other hand the mentorship / infrastructure of =
the
>   project could be better, a decision needs to be made on the future.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   We clarified on the ApacheCon Europe that a merge with the Open-XChange
>   fork is possible, which extended the original sources still using AL2 a=
nd
>   having done several releases with the new AL2 sources.
>
>   So, we are working on the next release including the fixes and planning=
 a
>   follow-up release adding new features.
>
>   Those features should be able to attract companies to back the project.
>
>   In addition, those will be used as reference implementation for the "OA=
SIS
>   Advanced Document Collaboration" subcommittee.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2013-06-22
>
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
>
>   2015-10-05 - Damjan Jovanovic for Commiter/PPMC
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
>   [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
>   [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> OpenWhisk
>
> OpenWhisk is an open source, distributed Serverless computing platform ab=
le
> to execute application logic (Actions) in response to events (Triggers) f=
rom
> external sources (Feeds) or HTTP requests governed by conditional logic
> (Rules). It provides a programming environment supported by a REST API-ba=
sed
> Command Line Interface (CLI) along with tooling to support packaging and
> catalog services.
>
> OpenWhisk has been incubating since 2016-11-23.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Moving github repos under the Apache Github Org
>   2. Setup jenkins infra server to automate website deployment
>   3. Review and update project
>      [checklist](http://incubator.apache.org/projects/openwhisk.html).
>
>   Some items should be mark done (around infra) and followup on committer
>   that there is a ICLA submitted. Additionally, we add links to the proje=
ct
>   page to their respctive areas on our .org site and/or newly created
>   COnfluence Wiki.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be awa=
re
> of?
>
>   - No issues so far
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   - dev and private mailing list establish and initial activity healthy
>   - New website deploy openwhisk.org with content from the Github repo
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   - TBD: gather stats from Github repos commits, issues and pull requests
>   - New in core: New API Auth Keys architecture, API Gateway experimental
>   - New in packages: Kafka Feed
>   - Added a "Dockerized" option for running the "wskdeploy" tool
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   - No release yet
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   - No one ha been elected or nominated yet.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](openwhisk) Felix Meschberger
> [ ](openwhisk) Isabel Drost-Fromm
> [ ](openwhisk) Sergio Fern=C3=A1ndez
>
>
> --------------------
> RocketMQ
>
> RocketMQ is a fast, low latency, reliable, scalable, distributed, easy to
> use
> message-oriented middleware, especially for processing large amounts of
> streaming data.
>
> RocketMQ has been incubating since 2016-11-21.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Confirm the IP review is complete
>   2. Make our first Apache release
>   3. Vote in our first committer / PMC 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?
>
>   * Contributors have begun to appear and contribute to the code base
>   * Discussions on dev@ mailing list is beginning
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   * User accounts created for new folks
>   * ICLA documents submitted and recognized
>   * SGA document submitted and recognized
>   * Mailing lists created
>   * Git repo created
>   * Source code has been imported
>   * Work has begun on the code base using git pull requests
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   No releases yet
>
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
>
>   No elections have taken place yet
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [x](rocketmq) Bruce Snyder
>   [ ](rocketmq) Brian McCallister
>   [ ](rocketmq) Willem Ning Jiang
>   [ ](rocketmq) Luke Han
>   [x](rocketmq) Justin McLean
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Rya
>
> Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /r=C4=93=C9=99/) is a cloud-based RDF triple sto=
re that
> supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system bui=
lt
> on top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and
> query processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across
> multiple
> nodes.  Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a
> conventional query mechanism for RDF data.
>
> Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Have more releases as part of the Apache Foundation
>   2. Increase diversity of contributors.
>   3. Continue to harden and develop core Rya features to improve user
>      experience
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be awa=
re
> of?
>
>   No
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   * New committer and PPMC member, David Lotts,  was invited and accepted=
 to
>     join Apache Rya PPMC.
>   * Committer Caleb Meier joined Rya PPMC.
>   * Sean Busbey resigned as mentor
>   * Billie Rinaldi became a mentor for Rya
>   * Talk on Rya at Accumulo Summit, October 11, 2016
>   * PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the repository
> continue
>     to be received
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   * We had the first successful release as part of the ASF
>   * Resolved an incompatible-licensed geospatial dependency so we can hav=
e
>     the successful ASF release - we refactored the code to isolate an
>     optional module
>   * Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered
>   * Committed features: implemented new commands for Rya console: AddUser
>     (give perimssions to users for the tables associated with Rya instanc=
e),
>     RemoveUser , Uninstall, LoadStatementsFile. Added merge tool to allow
>     cloning between Mongo and Accumulo instances. Added initial Spark
>     support.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2016-10-28
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> * New committer and PPMC member David Lotts elected on Oct 25, 2016
> * New PPMC member Caleb Meier elected on Jan 3rd, 2017
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [x](rya) Josh Elser
>   [ ](rya) Edward J. Yoon
>   [ ](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
>   [x](rya) Billie Rinaldi
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>   Josh Elser
>
>     The podling put in a substantial amount of work to get their first
>     release out. We noticed that their geospatial indexing support was
>     bringing in a bunch of incompatibly licensed deps. Multiple members m=
ade
>     an effort to both understand the problem and the potential to address
> it.
>     I was/am very happy both with their patience, effort, and concern tha=
t
>     was given to the problem. It was a good sign that they will pay
> attention
>     to these kinds of problems on their own in the future (self-governing=
).
>
> --------------------
>
> Spot
>
> Apache Spot is a solution stack that provides the capability to ingest
> network related telemetry (network flows, domain name service information
> and
> proxy server logs) and provide unsupervised machine learning capabilities=
 to
> identify suspicious activity.  The information is organized and presented
> using operational analytics so that a security analyst can investigate th=
e
> most suspicious connections. Apache Spot is built on an open data model
> using
> Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop.
>
> Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Move infrastructure and development to ASF (code, issues, mailing
> list, ...)
>   2. Build diverse community
>   3. Demonstrate ability to create releases
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be awa=
re
> of?
>
>   Please elaborate on the process for code scanning and IP reviews. On th=
e
>   last report this was brought to attention but no communication was
>   received.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   Community interaction continues ramping, as new adopters of the project
>   have been posting questions through Twitter and Slack. Now opening issu=
es
>   over ASF JIRA, and expanding to other geographies such as Latin America
> and
>   Europe.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   Repo was moved last December, committers have worked over the last mont=
h
>   establishing a process, to get contributions reviewed and voted, which
> also
>   will give give the opportunity to get ICLA individuals voted as members=
 of
>   the project.
>
>   In addition, we have been working on the new structure of the project
>   webpage, and new documentation schema facilitating both project
> information
>   and documentation on the same site.
>
>   Last but not least,  a convocatory  to discuss roadmap options and proj=
ect
>   objectives for Q1 and Q2 will be launched, it will be posted on project
>   webpage and social media.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   N/A
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>  [ ](spot) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
>  [ ](spot) Brock Noland
>  [ ](spot) Andrei Savu
>  [ ](spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Traffic Control
>
> Traffic Control allows you to build a large scale content delivery networ=
k
> using open source.
>
> Traffic Control has been incubating since 2016-07-12.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Licenses and legal details. Traffic Control is a project made up of
>      several different components, and includes or depends on an extensiv=
e
>      list of software. We are working on making sure all source files hav=
e
>      the right headers, all the licenses of included software are
> compatible
>      and the LICENSE and NOTICE are correct.
>   2. Enhance automation to facilitate committer voting on new releases.
>   3. Enhance documentation to ease ramp-up time for new community members=
.
>
> 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?
>
>   We hosted a 2 day user / dev meetup in the Bay Area in October that was
>   attended by 16 people representing 5 companies.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   All code has been move to Apache git. All new issues are being opened
>   in Apache JIRA. All email communications have been moved to to Apache
>   email lists. Our website has been moved to
>   http://trafficcontrol.incubator.apache.org/ .
>
>   Since the last report (October 2016), we have
>
>   * Merged 145 Pull Requests with 314 commits from 19 contributors
>   * Opened 83 JIRA issues
>   * Closed 45 JIRA issues
>   * Seen 81 messages on the dev@ list in December (before December we
>     had commit messages going to dev@ as well, so those numbers are not
>     indicative of dev communications)
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   None yet. We are addressing issues with release 1.8-incubating RC5.
>
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
>
>   No new committers or PPMC members yet.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [X](trafficcontrol) Phil Sorber
>   [x](trafficcontrol) Eric Covener
>   [ ](trafficcontrol) Daniel Gruno
>   [ ](trafficcontrol) J. Aaron Farr
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>   Drew Farris (shepherd):
>
>     Healthy activity on mailing lists, one mentor active.
>
> --------------------
> Weex
>
> Weex is a framework for building Mobile cross-platform high performance U=
I.
>
> Weex has been incubating since 2016-11-30.
>
> This is our first report. Weex community is really excited about joining
> Apache community and getting organized.  Most of us are newbie of
> international open source community, Thanks everybody in ASF for your
> patience and encouragement.
>
> Most notable progress this first month;
>
>   1. 7 members of Weex team have submitted ICLAs.
>   2. SGA & CCLA have been signed and have been mailed to secretary, of AS=
F.
>   3. Project maillist & JIRA have been activated &  we have volunteer JIR=
A
>      administrator. Our setup issue on JIRA[1]
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>   * Code repository need be set up.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   * Weex Github star number was reached 10k on December 21.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   Since our Apache code repository haven=E2=80=99t been setup, the projec=
t have not
>   been developed in Apache Way yet. But our pre-Apache development proces=
s
>   are ongoing. Several bugs have been fixed and some new features have be=
en
>   added (detail of information [2]). We will migrate code to Apache repo =
as
>   soon as possible.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   None
>
> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
>
>   None
>
> [1]:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WEEX-1
> [2]:https://github.com/alibaba/weex/releases/tag/v0.9.4
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](weex) Luke Han
>   [ ](weex) Willem Jiang
>   [ ](weex) Stephan Ewen
>   [x](weex) Niclas Hedhman
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>   Niclas Hedhman:
>
>     The development on the previous GitHub project is progressing at high
>     speed. But we have an understanding that moving to ASF repos is of th=
e
>     highest importance for the next month.