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Subject: Re: [DRAFT] August 2015 Board Report - Please Review
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Hello John,

Lens graduation vote passed as well. Can we include it in the report for "T=
he
board has motions for the following"?

Thanks
Amareshwari

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 6:00 AM, John D. Ament <johndament@apache.org>
wrote:

> All,
>
> I'd like to present the draft board report for additional community input=
.
> We have reports expected from 19 podlings, 12 reported, 7 did not.  Of th=
e
> 7 that did not report, I left in the shepherd comments on 2 (myself and
> Justin Mclean) who had some additional insights on the welfare of the
> podlings in question.
>
> There are multiple podlings without mentor sign off - Blur, ODF Toolkit,
> Twill and Sentry.  Its not too late to sign off, so if you can get those
> signatures in great.  If you cannot, or feel there is an issue with the
> report please bring it up and we'll need to move them to non-reporting.
>
> I've copied the current body below.
>
> =3D Incubator PMC report for August 2015 =3D
> =3D=3D=3D Timeline =3D=3D=3D
> ||Wed August 05 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
> ||Sun August 09 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
> ||Sun August 09 ||Summary due by end of day ||
> ||Tue August 11 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
> ||Wed August 12 ||Report submitted to Board ||
> ||Wed August 19 ||Board meeting ||
>
>
> =3D=3D=3D Shepherd Assignments =3D=3D=3D
> ||Andrei Savu ||AsterixDB ||
> ||Andrei Savu ||Kylin ||
> ||Drew Farris ||Blur ||
> ||John Ament ||Calcite ||
> ||John Ament ||Droids ||
> ||Justin Mclean ||BatchEE ||
> ||Matthew Franklin ||DataFu ||
> ||Matthew Franklin ||Tamaya ||
> ||Matthew Franklin ||Twill ||
> ||P. Taylor Goetz ||FreeMarker ||
> ||P. Taylor Goetz ||Trafodion ||
> ||Raphael Bircher ||Sirona ||
> ||Raphael Bircher ||Slider ||
> ||Ross Gardler ||Ripple ||
> ||Suresh Marru ||ODF Toolkit ||
> ||Suresh Marru ||REEF ||
> ||Suresh Marru ||TinkerPop ||
> ||Timothy Chen ||Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer ||
> ||Timothy Chen ||Kalumet ||
>
>
> =3D=3D=3D Report content =3D=3D=3D
> {{{
> Incubator PMC report for August 2015
>
> 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 43 podlings currently under incubation.
>
> * Community
>
>   New IPMC members:
>
>   Flavio Junquiero
>
>   People who left the IPMC:
>
>   (none)
>
> * New Podlings
>
>   No new podlings entered the incubator this month.
>
> * Graduations
>
>   The board has motions for the following:
>
>   Ignite
>
> * Releases
>
>   The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
>
>   2015-07-27 - apache-brooklyn-0.7.0-incubating
>   2015-07-24 - Apache-Twill-0.6.0-incubating
>   2015-07-23 - Apache-Zeppelin-0.5.0-incubating release
>   2015-07-22 - apache-ripple-emulator-0.9.30-incubating
>   2015-07-21 - apache-ignite-1.3.0-incubating
>   2015-07-21 - apache-samoa-0.3.0-incubating
>   2015-07-21 - apache-kylin-0.7.2-incubating
>   2015-07-16 - apache-tinkerpop-3.0.0-incubating
>   2015-07-16 - apache-usergrid-1.0.2-incubating
>   2015-07-16 - apache-nifi-0.2.0-incubating
>   2015-07-16 - apache-groovy-2.4.4-incubating
>   2015-07-16 - apache-lens-2.2.0-beta-incubating
>   2015-07-09 - apache-sentry-1.5.1-incubating
>   2015-07-09 - apache-atlas-0.5-incubating
>
> * IP Clearance
>
>   JBoss HornetQ code grant to the ActiveMQ PMC.
>
> * Legal / Trademarks
>
>
>
> * Infrastructure
>
>   Marvin board report reminders went out this month.  There was
>   much rejoicing.
>
> * Miscellaneous
>
>   * Report Manager: John D. Ament
>
> -------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
>
> * Still getting started at the Incubator
>
>   AsterixDB
>   Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
>   DataFu
>   FreeMarker
>
> * Not yet ready to graduate
>
>   No release:
>
>   Blur
>   Tamaya
>
>   Community growth:
>
>   Kylin
>   Trafodion
>   Twill
>
> * Ready to graduate
>
>   Calcite
>
>   The Board has motions for the following:
>
>   Ignite
>
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
>   BatchEE (Shepherd notes remaining)
>   Droids (Shepherd notes remaining)
>   Kalumet
>   REEF
>   Ripple
>   Slider
>   Tinkerpop
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>                        Table of Contents
> AsterixDB
> BatchEE (notes only)
> Blur
> Calcite
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
> DataFu
> Droids (notes only)
> FreeMarker
> Kylin
> ODF Toolkit
> Sirona
> Tamaya
> Trafodion
> Twill
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------
> AsterixDB
>
> Apache AsterixDB is a scalable big data management system (BDMS) that
> provides storage, management, and query capabilities for large collection=
s
> of semi-structured data.
>
> AsterixDB has been incubating since 2015-02-28.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Migrate issues from Google Code
>   2. Do an Apache release.
>   3. Grow community
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>   1. The most urgent issue right now is to migrate the issues from the
>      Google Code tracker to the ASF JIRA (INFRA-9954) as Google Code turn=
s
>      read-only on Aug 24. The issue was open with sporadic activity for
>      some time. Recently, the frequency of the interactions with infra ha=
s
>      increased significantly (thanks!), but the problem is not solved yet=
.
>   2. There was a discussion on the use of a Gerrit instance hosted at UCI
>      for code reviews in this project. After an initial assumption that
> this
>      was contrary to Apache policy and the subsequent
>      a) clarification on how Gerrit is being used (every AsterixDB commit
> is
>         explicitly made by a committer to the ASF git repo - not by
> Gerrit),
>      b) configuration of Gerrit that all notifications are sent the the
>         project's mailing list, and
>      c) addition of a step at Gerrit account creation that requires that =
an
>         ICLA is on file at the ASF
>      the current state of the discussion is that this is
>      a) not contrary to policy but also
>      b) not ideal as the regular workflow depends on non-ASF resources.
>      Ideally the code review tool would be hosted by infra, but capacity =
is
>      an issue.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   Getting more requests on opportunities to contribute and also some
>   contributions.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   - New website is up
>   - YARN support added
>   - Other development is ongoing
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   No Releases yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   No new elected PPMC and/or committers since entering incubator.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](asterixdb) Ate Douma
>   [ ](asterixdb) Chris Mattmann
>   [ ](asterixdb) Henry Saputra
>   [x](asterixdb) Jochen Wiedmann
>   [x](asterixdb) Ted Dunning
>
>
> --------------------
> 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.
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>   Justin Mclean:
>     Did not report (3rd time in a row). Low mailing list activity.
>
> --------------------
> Blur
>
> Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data
> in a cloud computing environment.
>
> Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1.  At this point we need to have more releases, more often.
>   2.
>   3.
>
> 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?
>
>   - Subscriptions: user@ - 55[-2]; dev@ - 67[0]
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   Many bug fixes, plus a release vote was called.  It did not pass due to
>   some licensing issues with a javascript library in a web application th=
at
>   is apart of the Blur project.  It has recently been resolved, we will
> call
>   a vote for a new release in the beginning of August.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2014-07-29 (The vote for the 0.2.4 release was called on 2015-07-02)
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   2014-07-28
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](blur) Doug Cutting
>   [ ](blur) Patrick Hunt
>   [ ](blur) Tim Williams
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Calcite
>
> Calcite is a highly customizable engine for parsing and planning queries =
on
> data in a wide variety of formats. It allows database-like access, and in
> particular a SQL interface and advanced query optimization, for data not
> residing in a traditional database. (Renamed from Optiq on 2014-09-30.)
>
> Calcite has been incubating since 2014-05-19.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Add more PPMC members.
>   2. Demonstrate community robustness by rotating project tasks among
>      multiple project members.
>   3. There is no third thing. We are almost ready to graduate.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>   None.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   The last report was in April. (We are reporting a month late, because
>   we missed the July report.)
>
>   In July, there were 148 messages on dev@, 37 commits, 44 issues
>   created, 39 issues resolved by 10 contributors.
>
>   Diversity is improving. The 1.4 release will be the first release for
>   which Julian Hyde was not release manager.
>
>   Julian Hyde won best lightning talk at XLDB 2015 in May with the talk
>   "Apache Calcite: One planner fits all".
>
>   Tom Barber spoke about Calcite at ApacheCon NA in April.
>
>   Collaborations with other Apache projects continue:
>
>   * Phoenix has built a remote JDBC driver using Calcite=E2=80=99s Avatic=
a
>     component.
>   * Phoenix is replacing their SQL parser & planner with Calcite.
>   * Samza is developing support for streaming SQL queries using
>     Calcite for parsing and planning.
>   * Kylin upgraded from 0.9.2 to 1.3.
>   * Collaboration with Hive and Drill continues.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   We completed releases 1.2 and 1.3, and are preparing 1.4.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2015-05-30 apache-calcite-1.3.0-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   2015-04-24 5 new committers
>   2014-12-31 1 new PPMC member
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [X](calcite) Ted Dunning
>   [X](calcite) Alan Gates
>   [X](calcite) Steven Noels
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>   Ted Dunning:
>
>     This is turning into a serious community. They should consider
>     graduation.
>
>
>   johndament:
>     Podling seems to be in good shape.  They may want to consider
>     beginning the graduation process.
>
> --------------------
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
>
> CMDA provides web services for multi-aspect physics-based and phenomenon-
> oriented climate model performance evaluation and diagnosis through the
> comprehensive and synergistic use of multiple observational data,
> reanalysis
> data, and model outputs.
>
> Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer has been incubating since 2015-05-08.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Start developing at the ASF
>   2. Start using ASF JIRA
>   3. Get code pushed to ASF Git repo
>
> 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?
>
>   See below
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   CMDA has not really gotten started at the ASF yet. Very little has
> changed
>   since the last report. The most important thing is getting the communit=
y
>   started. At the moment the CMDA JIRA is completely empty and the code
> base
>   has yet to be pushed to the git repo. Mailing list activity is largely
>   non-existent and there's no website up for the project yet. Hopefully
>   these hurdles will be crossed during this next month so that more activ=
e
>   develop can start for the project.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   None yet
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   None yet
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman
>   [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann
>   [X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce
>   [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall
>   [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Gregory D. Reddin
>
>
> --------------------
> DataFu
>
> DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in
> higher level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides
> functions for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRan=
k,
> stream sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides
> Hadoop jobs for incremental data processing in MapReduce.
>
> DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Do first release
>   2. Grow user and contributor base
>   3. Increased committer activity
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>   * Performing the initial release remains the most important milestone.
>     However, the majority of the known tasks for this have been completed=
.
>     The remaining tasks are related to documentation.  We are able to
>     generate a signed, versioned source release from the build system.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   * A couple new contributors have submitted patches.  One of these has
> been
>     committed and the other is nearly ready to be committed.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   * The build system has been updated to provide tasks for generating
>     signed, versioned source releases.  Documentation has been updated as
>     well with instructions on how to do this.
>   * Apache DataFu has been updated to run against Hadoop 2.  There was an
>     issue running the Hourglass integration tests against Hadoop 2, which
>     had been blocking this update.
>   * A couple new patches from two new contributors for Pig UDFs have been
>     submitted.  One of these is an improvement to the HyperLogLog UDF
>     cardinality estimator that makes it much more efficient.  The other i=
s
> a
>     helper for getting a tuple out of a bag.
>   * A patch has been submitted for a UDF to incrementally process
>     date-partitioned data in Pig.  This provides similar functionality th=
at
>     is available in Hourglass.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   * Not yet released
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   * November 2014
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
>   [X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
>   [X](datafu) Ted Dunning
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>   Ted Dunning:
>
>     The generation of signed releases on shared hardware has historically
>     raised serious security questions from infra. I think that this proce=
ss
>     needs to be vetted very carefully.
>
> --------------------
> Droids
>
> Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows t=
o
> create and extend existing droids (robots).
>
> Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09.
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>   johndament:
>     Did not report.  Podling seems to be in bad shape.  Prior reports
> indicated similar issues.
>
> --------------------
> FreeMarker
>
> FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text
> output
> 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:
>
>   1. IP clearance
>   2. Move to ASF infrastructure, especially the code repository
>   3. Finding contributors
>
> 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?
>
>   We are in early stage of incubation (like source code wasn't imported
>   yet), so there's no change.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   We have collected the required Software Grants and ICLA-s. We are worki=
ng
>   on the migration to the ASF infrastructure and preparing for the IP
>   clearance process.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   There was no release from the Incubator yet
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   We only have the initial comitters and inital PMC members yet.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
>   [ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
>   [ ](freemarker) David E. Jones
>   [X](freemarker) Ralph Goers
>   [ ](freemarker) Sergio Fern=C3=A1ndez
>
>
> --------------------
>
> Kylin
>
> Kylin is a distributed and scalable OLAP engine built on Hadoop to suppor=
t
> extremely large datasets.
>
> Kylin has been incubating since 2014-11-25.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Grow community to add more PPMC members, contributors
>   2. Rotate community tasks between PPMC members
>   3. Well manage features (streaming and batch) within coming releases
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>   * Nothing
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   1. In July, there were 610 messages on dev@, 52 issues created, 22
> issues
>      resolved
>   2. Qianhao Zhou has presented Apache Kylin
>      at China Hadoop Summit 2015 Shanghai on July 24, 2015
>   3. Debashis Saha and Luke Han has presented Apache Kylin
>      at Hadoop Summit 2015 San Jose on June 9, 2015
>   4. Hongbin Ma has presented Apache Kylin
>      at OSC (Open source innovation meetup) Shanghai on June 14, 2015
>   5. Fabian Wilckens has spoken about Apache Kylin
>      at Berlin BuzzWords on June 1, 2015
>   6. Medha Samant has presented Apache Kylin
>      at Drill Meetup Bayarea on May 26, 2015
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   1. Released 0.7.1 and 0.7.2, is preparing release 0.7.3
>   2. Cleanup and GC tool of cube build job
>   3. Early streaming features bring into 0.8 branch,
>      continuing refactoring to support lambda architecture
>   4. Metadata migration tool
>   5. Kafka as streaming source
>   6. In-memory cubing for streaming
>   7. Upgraded Calcite to 1.3 to support better SQL functions and bug fixe=
s
>   8. Bug fixes
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2015-07-21 v0.7.2-incubating released
>   2015-06-10 v0.7.1-incubating released (First Apache Release)
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   1. Two new mentors joined Apache Kylin PMC: Julian Hyde and Taylor Goet=
z
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](kylin) Owen O'Malley
>   [X](kylin) Ted Dunning
>   [X](kylin) Henry Saputra
>   [X](kylin) Julian Hyde
>   [X](kylin) P. Taylor Goetz
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>     Ted Dunning: This is a very active and inclusive community.
>
> --------------------
> 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.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Grow the community
>   2. Generate additional releases
>   3.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>   Very quiet.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   No new committers. New tickets have been raised by interested users.
>
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2014-06-02
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>  2012-10-29
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
>   [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
>   [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --------------------
> Sirona
>
> Monitoring Solution.
>
> Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Increase community
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>   Nothing.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   Not a lot.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   Ongoing incremental improvements and bug fixes.
>   Discussing/preparing a new release.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2014-06-26
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   None added since project has started
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
>   [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
>   [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
>   [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
>   [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
>
> --------------------
> 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 issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. We need more active contributors.
>   2. We =E2=80=8Bmust =E2=80=8Bprovide support for Java EE=E2=80=8B.=E2=
=80=8B
>   3. We =E2=80=8Bmust release more often.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
> =E2=80=8B  =E2=80=8B=E2=80=8BNo.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>   Streamlining all features and preparingthe first release took more
> =E2=80=8B  =E2=80=8Btime as=E2=80=8B originally suggested due to absences=
 of=E2=80=8B key people involved.
> =E2=80=8B  =E2=80=8BIt has shown that=E2=80=8B additional committers are =
urgently needed.
>   There were several =E2=80=8Bthat have shown interest,=E2=80=8B but unfo=
rtunately this
> =E2=80=8B  =E2=80=8Bdid not lead to=E2=80=8B =E2=80=8Badditional contribu=
tors.
>
>   We hope that presentations at ApacheCon,=E2=80=8B =E2=80=8BDevoxx and s=
everal other
> =E2=80=8B  =E2=80=8Bconferences as=E2=80=8B well as articles at JAXenter =
and more will
> =E2=80=8B  =E2=80=8Bhelp to improve the community until end of=E2=80=8B =
=E2=80=8Byear.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>   We have now an agreed core set of APIs and =E2=80=8Bextensions that pro=
vide a
>   healthy and usefule base for the future. The extensions are all
> =E2=80=8B  well tested=E2=80=8B and documented=E2=80=8B, so we should be =
able tome come up
> =E2=80=8B  if a good quality with our first release. The first release
>   0.1-incubating is now in the vote on PMC, so we are
>   now on track to further wider community awereness for our
>   project. Anatole has a article series on the topic in the
>   biggest=E2=80=8B German technical paper and also will blog regularly
> =E2=80=8B  on it, once the release is out. As a star spec lead his
>   network should definitively help to grow community then.=E2=80=8B
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   None. But first release is discussed in the PMC as of now=E2=80=8B,
>   so within the next 1-2 week it should be out=E2=80=8B.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> =E2=80=8B  =E2=80=8BSee last report (no new committers or PMC members).
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [X](tamaya) John D. Ament
>   [ ](tamaya) Mark Struberg
>   [ ](tamaya) Gerhard Petracek
>   [ ](tamaya) David Blevins
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>   johndament:
>     The small community came together quickly following existing ASF best
>     practices to get their first together.  Thank you especially to Justi=
n
>     Mclean for pre-reviewing the release to catch any issues.  Once Tamay=
a
>     gets through some community growth, they will be well functioning.
>
> --------------------
> Trafodion
>
> Trafodion is a webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or
> operational workloads on Hadoop.
>
> Trafodion has been incubating since 2015-05-24.
>
> Four most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Develop community and a deeper understanding of the Apache Way. Move
>      all communication to project public lists.
>   2. Complete wiki migration and website build.
>   3. Resolve remaining license conflicts.
>   4. Make our first Apache (incubating) 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?
>
>   * All issues are now discussed through JIRAs.
>   * An on boarding process for new contributors has been documented in th=
e
>     wiki.
>   * We have 30 contributors from more than 4 organizations.
>   * Accepted to present at ApacheCon in Budapest on September 30.
>   * At least 2 users have been guided through public lists as they try ou=
t
>     the product.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   * Website up at http://trafodion.incubator.apache.org/
>   * 5 pages added to the wiki at
>     https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TRAFODION/
>   * Daily builds are being done using a CI system outside of ASF
>     Infrastructure.
>   * 17 authors have made 29 commits to master in July. 165 files changed,
>     9518 lines additions, 5742 deletions.
>   * With migration from previous issue tracking system completed we have
>     1415 JIRAs created and 36 resolved in July 2015
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   We have not done a release of Trafodion since incubation.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   Steve Varnau elected as committer on July 16, 2015.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](trafodion) Andrew Purtell
>   [ ](trafodion) Devaraj Das
>   [ ](trafodion) Enis S=C3=B6ztutar
>   [ ](trafodion) Lars Hofhansl
>   [X](trafodion) Michael Stack
>   [X](trafodion) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> --------------------
> Twill
>
> Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop YARN that reduces the complexi=
ty
> of developing distributed applications, allowing developers to focus more
> on
> their business logic.
>
> Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Encouraging more contributions in open manner
>   2. More regular release cycles and roadmap
>   3. Increase adoptions
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>   * Need help from mentors to verify releases to get binding votes in dev
>     list before going to general incubator list
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   * New release 0.6.0-incubating on July 24, 2015
>   * 19 JIRA issues resolved since last report
>   * Add 2 new external contributors
>   * Add a new PPMC member
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   * Version 0.6.0-incubating is released
>   * Fixing issue to support MapR distribution
>   * Adding new PPMC member: Henry Saputra
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2015-07-24 0.6.0-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   2015-08-04 Henry Saputra
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](twill) Arun C Murthy
>   [ ](twill) Tom White
>   [ ](twill) Patrick Hunt
>   [ ](twill) Andrei Savu
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> -------------------------
>
> 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. Encourage more feature and direction discussions on the dev list
> rather
>      than jira.
>   2. Continue reporting on time
>   3. Improve release schedules
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be awa=
re
> of?
>
>   * Community has fixed all the issues raised except for the ongoing
> efforts
>     mentioned in the previous section.
>   * Community has released Sentry 1.5.1 after fixing the earlier release
>     issues.
>   * Making project direction more visible: Created a roadmap page on wiki=
,
>     so that there is one place every one can see what is community workin=
g
>     on or aspiring to work on.
>   * Project is now doing monthly reporting
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   We had 73 messages on dev list last month. (Got number from
>   http://markmail.org/list/org.apache.sentry.dev)
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   About 42 issues were created and about 46 resolved(Numbers from jira).
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2015-07-14
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   Colin Ma, Dapeng Sun, Guoquan Shen and Xiaomeng Huang were added as
>   committers on 12/24/2014. No new PPMC members have been added since the
>   project has entered the incubator.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](sentry) Arvind Prabhakar
>   [ ](sentry) Joe Brockmeier
>   [ ](sentry) David Nalley
>   [ ](sentry) Olivier Lamy
>   [ ](sentry) Patrick Hunt
>   [ ](sentry) Thomas White
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> }}}
>

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