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WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to workflow automation and scheduling that can be used to author and manage data pipelines. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Airflow Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Airflow Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to workflow automation and scheduling that can be used to author and manage data pipelines; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Airflow" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Airflow Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Airflow Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Airflow Project: * Alex Guziel <saguziel@apache.org> * Alex Van Boxel <alexvanboxel@apache.org> * Arthur Wiedmer <arthur@apache.org> * Ash Berlin-Taylor <ash@apache.org> * Bolke de Bruin <bolke@apache.org> * Chris Riccomini <criccomini@apache.org> * Dan Davydov <davydov@apache.org> * Fokko Driesprong <fokko@apache.org> * Hitesh Shah <hitesh@apache.org> * Jakob Homan <jghoman@apache.org> * Jeremiah Lowin <jlowin@apache.org> * Joy Gao <joygao@apache.org> * Kaxil Naik <kaxilnaik@apache.org> * Maxime Beauchemin <maximebeauchemin@apache.org> * Siddharth Anand <sanand@apache.org> * Sumit Maheshwari <msumit@apache.org> * Tao Feng <tfeng@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Bolke de Bruin be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Airflow, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Airflow Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Airflow podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Airflow podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7F, Establish the Apache Airflow Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to
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. Once we make a release with the licensing fix we will move forward with
graduation.
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?
1. Since our last podling report 1 month ago (i.e. between September 4 &
October 1, inclusive), we grew our contributors from 548 to 580 (32 new
contributors)
2. Since our last podling report 1 month ago (i.e. between September 4 &
October 1, inclusive), we resolved 151 pull requests (currently at 3114
closed PRs)
3. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies
officially using Apache Airflow has risen from 193 to 206, 13 new from
the last podling report 1 month ago.
How has the project developed since the last report?
See above : 151 PRs resolved, 32 new contributors, & 13 new companies
officially using it.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[x] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-08-27
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Tao Feng on Aug 3
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
One of our mentors is pretty active and helpful, one of our mentors has
never been involved, and one is in the middle.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](airflow) Chris Nauroth
Comments:
[x](airflow) Hitesh Shah
Comments:
[x](airflow) Jakob Homan
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to
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.Once we make a release with the licensing fix we will move forward
with graduation.
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. Since our last podling report 1 month ago (i.e. between August 5 &
September 4, inclusive), we grew our contributors from 512 to 548 (36 new
contributors)
2. Since our last podling report 1 month ago (i.e. between August 5 &
September 4, inclusive), we resolved 129 pull requests (currently at 2963
closed PRs)
3. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies
officially
using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 193, 10 new from the last
podling report 1 month ago.
How has the project developed since the last report?
See above : 129 PRs resolved, 36 new contributors, & 10 new companies
officially using it. We also released 1.10.0, our 4th Apache Release while
in the incubator as seen on https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow/ #history
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[x] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-08-27
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Kaxil Naik on May 7 & Tao Feng on Aug 3
Signed-off-by:
[ ](airflow) Chris Nauroth
Comments:
[ ](airflow) Hitesh Shah
Comments:
[x](airflow) Jakob Homan
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to
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.Once we make a release with the licensing fix we will move forward with
graduation.
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. Since our last podling report 5 months ago (i.e. between March
28 & August 5, inclusive), we grew our contributors from 427 to 512
2. Since our last podling report 5 months ago (i.e. between March
28 & August 5, inclusive), we resolved 554 pull requests (currently at
2834 closed
PRs)
3. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies
officially
using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 183, 34 new from the last
podling
report 5 months ago.
How has the project developed since the last report?
See above : 554 PRs resolved, 85 new contributors, & 34 new companies
officially using it. We have also added 2 new committers : Kaxil Naik on
May 7 & Tao Feng on Aug 3.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[x] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-12-15
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2 new committers : Kaxil Naik on May 7 & Tao Feng on Aug 3
Signed-off-by:
[ ](airflow) Chris Nauroth
Comments:
[ ](airflow) Hitesh Shah
Comments:
[ ](airflow) Jakob Homan
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to 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. Once we make a release with the licensing fix we will move forward with graduation. 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. Since our last podling report 1.5 months ago (i.e. between Feb 8 & March 28, inclusive), we grew our contributors from 375 to 427 2. Since our last podling report 1.5 months ago (i.e. between Feb 8 & March 28, inclusive), we resolved 152 pull requests (currently at 2280 closed PRs) 3. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies officially using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 149, 17 new from the last podling report 1.5 months ago. How has the project developed since the last report? See above : 152 PRs resolved, 52 new contributors, & 17 new companies officially using it. How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [ ] Community building [x] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: 2018-01-02 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2017-11-30 joygao a.k.a Joy Gao (committer/PMC) Signed-off-by: [ ](airflow) Chris Nauroth Comments: [x](airflow) Hitesh Shah Comments: [x](airflow) Jakob Homan Comments: Ready for graduation IPMC/Shepherd notes: I checked into the licensing issue and it is resolved, but it seems that a release will be needed before graduation. Dave Fisher
Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to
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. We have had 4 releases and are working toward our 5th. We are getting better at releases.
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 had our forth official release 1.9.0 on Jan 2, 2018.
2. Since our last podling report 4 months ago (i.e. between Sept 25 & Feb 8,
inclusive), we grew our contributors from 315 to 385
3. Since our last podling report 4 months ago (i.e. between Sept 25 & Feb 8,
inclusive), we resolved 331 pull requests (currently at 2128 closed PRs)
4. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies officially
using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 132, 18 new from the last podling
report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
See above : 331 PR resolved, 70 new contributors, & 18 new companies
officially using it.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[x] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-01-02
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2017-11-30 joygao a.k.a Joy Gao (committer/PMC)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](airflow) Chris Nauroth
Comments:
[x](airflow) Hitesh Shah
Comments:
[x](airflow) Jakob Homan
Comments: Ready for graduation
Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to
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. We are working on our 4th apache release 1.9.0 and are getting better at releases
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 had our third official release 1.8.2 on Aug 7th 2017.
2. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between July
5 & Sept 25, inclusive), we grew our contributors from 280 to 315
4. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between July
5 & Sept 25, inclusive), we resolved 167 pull requests (currently at 1797 closed
PRs)
5. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies
officially using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 114, 16 new from the last podling report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
See above : 167 PR resolved, 35 new contributors, & 16 new companies officially using it.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[x] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-08-07
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2017-01-01 fokko a.k.a Fokko Driespong (committer/PMC)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](airflow) Chris Nauroth
Comments:
[x](airflow) Hitesh Shah
Comments:
[ ](airflow) Jakob Homan
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
A quick look at this month's email and it looks like Airflow is ready to graduate.
Dave Fisher
Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to
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. We are working on our third apache release 1.8.2 to get more experience
with the process
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 had our second official release. 1.8.1 on May 9th 2017.
2. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Apr 1 and July
5, inclusive), we grew our contributors from 256 to 280
4. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Apr 1 and July
5, inclusive), we resolved 151 pull requests (currently at 1630 closed
PRs)
5. A new meet-up group formed in Tokyo, Japan - they held their first
meet-up on May 11.
6. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies
officially using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 98, 15 new from
last podling report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
See above : 151 PR resolved, 24 new contributors, & 15 new companies
officially using it.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[x] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-05-09
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
As mentioned on
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/Announcements#Announcements-Mar14,2017
Alex Guziel joined the Apache Airflow PPMC/Committer group.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](airflow) Chris Nauroth
Comments:
[X](airflow) Hitesh Shah
Comments:
[ ](airflow) Jakob Homan
Comments:
Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to
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. We are working on our second apache release 1.8.1 to get more experience
with the process
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 had our first official release. 1.8.0 on March 19th 2017.
2. We elected 1 new PPMC Member/Committer: Alex Guziel (a.k.a saguziel)
3. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Jan 1 and Mar
31, inclusive), we grew our contributors from 224 to 256
4. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Jan 1 and Mar
31, inclusive), we resolved 216 pull requests (currently at 1479 closed
PRs)
5. Three meet-ups, one in San Francisco, CA hosted by Clover Health, one in
New York, NY hosted by Blue Apron and one in San Jose, CA hosted by PayPal
were held by the community.
6. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies
officially using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 83.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. As noted above, 216 pull requests were merged since our last report
(i.e. between Jan 1 and Mar 31, inclusive).
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
The Airflow community continues to grow, and we have successfully created
our first Apache release. We want to continue on this momentum and create
another release to solidify our process and tools around it, but we feel
we are nearing graduation. We are open to feedback and guidance to make
sure we can do so.
Date of last release:
2017-03-19
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
As mentioned on
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/Announcements#Announcements-Mar14,2017
Alex Guziel joined the Apache Airflow PPMC/Committer group.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](airflow) Chris Nauroth
Comments:
[x](airflow) Hitesh Shah
Comments:
[x](airflow) Jakob Homan
Comments:
Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to
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 Dec
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 Dec
31, inclusive), we resolved 202 pull requests (currently at 1263 closed
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#Announcements-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
Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to 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? We discovered a private Gitter channel for committers that was created during the days when the Git project was owned by Airbnb. When the Github project’s ownership moved to the ASF, so did that of all the Gitter channels. We killed the channel - all committers left the channel and can no longer even see/discover it. How has the community developed since the last report? 1. We elected 2 new PPMC Members/Committers (Li Xuanji a.k.a. Zodiac & Sumit Maheshwari a.k.a. msumit) 2. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Jul 7 and Oct 4, inclusive ), we grew our contributors from 160 to 191 3. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Jul 7 and Oct 4, inclusive ) , we merged >142 pull requests 4. Two meet-ups (One for HUG Warsaw, the other an Airflow meet-up @Stripe HQ in SF) and several public talks (e.g. DataDaySeattle, PyData SF) were held by the community 5. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 58 How has the project developed since the last report? 1. Podling name search approved : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-110 2. Very active discussion list, public Gitter channels and JIRA (more than 500 issues) Date of last release: None. First ASF release currently being discussed. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? As mentioned on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/Announcements, 1. On Aug 16, Sumit Maheshwari (a.k.a. msumit) was elected to the PPMC and Committer group 2. On Aug 19, Li Xuanji (a.k.a. zodiac) was elected to the PPMC and Committer group Signed-off-by: [x](airflow) Chris Nauroth [x](airflow) Hitesh Shah [x](airflow) Jakob Homan
Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to 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. Podling name search has to happen. 3. Verify distribution rights Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? We've done a lot of work on distribution rights (3), but we need to wrap it up. We've been pushing out our release due to stability concerns and the need for a testing framework How has the community developed since the last report? - Since our last podling report 1 month ago, we grew our contributors from 148 to 160. - In June 2016 we had 56 commits. - We organized a meet up at WePay. We also had one before at Airbnb. - We had several committers meetings. - 1 new committer. 2 offers were given but 1 was declined. How has the project developed since the last report? - Migrated all files to contain Apache 2.0 license headers. - Replaced charting library that was non-Apache 2.0 compliant (a large effort). - Release Airflow incubator website, and added appropriate branding and disclaimers. Date of last release: None (had a non-Apache release on 2016-06-13)* * Release was discussed and approved here: https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201605.mbox/%3CEF1D08AF-80DD-4614-BC74-BBCED9251BE1@gmail.com%3E When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2016-05-20 Signed-off-by: [X](airflow) Chris Nauroth [x](airflow) Hitesh Shah [x](airflow) Jakob Homan
Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to
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. Releases
2. Grow up user and contributor communities
3. Improve and extend documentation and samples on the website
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?
* Since our last podling report 1 month ago, we grew
our contributors from 137 to 148
* Since our last podling report 1 month ago, we
accepted/merged 51 PRs
* We voted on the following matters according to Apache guidelines:
* We voted to make all current and future committers part of the PPMC
* We voted in a new committer and PPMC member : Steven Yvinec-Kruyk and
he accepted
* We voted in a commit policy of "RTC with a +1 vote from a committer
other than the author (assuming no vetos)"
How has the project developed since the last report?
* All resources have been created and all migrations are complete - code
donation included
* The website is in progress
Date of last release:
N/A - we are still working out releases as we are new to Apache.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
On May 20, 1 committer/PPMC member(Steven Yvinec-Kruyk) was elected and he
accepted.
Signed-off-by:
[X](airflow) Chris Nauroth
[x](airflow) Hitesh Shah
[x](airflow) Jakob Homan
Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to 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. Continued releases 2. Grow up user and contributor communities 3. Improve and extend documentation and samples on the website 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? * Since we applied to the incubator in March 17 (proposal email), we grew our contributors from 100 to 137 * Since we applied to the incubator in March 17 (proposal email), we accepted/merged 119 PRs * Dev mailing lists activity increased How has the project developed since the last report? * All resources have been created (website, Jira, git & github mirror, ...) but not all migrations are complete * The code donation (and Pull Request migration) is in progress * The website is in progress * The previous wiki has been migrated to confluence, Jira is now used instead of the old Github issues, and the old google group is being EOLd on May 2 as users migrate to the dev mailing list Date of last release: N/A - we are still working out releases as we are new to Apache. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? N/A - we are still new to Apache and have not gotten to the point of electing new committers/PMC members. Signed-off-by: [ ](airflow) Chris Nauroth [X](airflow) Hitesh Shah [x](airflow) Jakob Homan