Community-led development "The Apache Way"
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## Description: The mission of Apache Daffodil is the creation and maintenance of an implementation of the Data Format Description Language standard and related software used to convert between fixed format data and more readily processed forms such as XML or JSON. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Daffodil was founded on 2021-02-16 (a year ago). There are currently 14 committers and 13 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Shane Dell was added as committer on 2021-12-17 - Shane Dell was added to the PMC on 2021-12-19 ## Project Activity: Daffodil-VSCode (data debugger) RC1 is currently in evaluation for release as version 1.0.0. Daffodil 3.2.1, a patch release with updated dependencies to fix the log4j vulnerabilities, was released in December 2021. We are pleased we were able to respond to this important issue with a release within 2 weeks. Daffodil 3.3.0 is under discussion for release soon since our user/developer community needs the fixes in it. Our goal for odd-number releases is to drive down the JIRA issues count; however, we identified several new issues so the issue count has remained roughly the same. ## Community Health: We have added our first new committer/PMC member since becoming a Top Level Project a year ago. We are receiving steady contributions to both the newer VSCode debugger extension and the Daffodil code base.
## Description: The mission of Apache Daffodil is the creation and maintenance of software related to an implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and more readily processed forms such as XML or JSON ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Daffodil was founded 2021-02-16 (10 months ago) There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Brandon Sloane on 2021-02-16. - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: Daffodil VSCode Data Debugger - new repository, we brought in new code base to the project following process, first release of this new tool is in preparation. Daffodil primary library - Release v3.2.0 released on 2021-12-06. This is our second post-incubator release. ## Community Health: A big increase in dev activity from new contributors working on the new Daffodil VSCode Data Debugger. Steady contribution on the main daffodil library as well.
## Description: The mission of Apache Daffodil is the creation and maintenance of software related to an implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and more readily processed forms such as XML or JSON ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Daffodil was founded 2021-02-16 (7 months ago) There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Brandon Sloane on 2021-02-16. - No new committers were added. Contributions were added from 4 new contributors. ## Project Activity: In the past quarter development work was on changes toward the next release of Daffodil. We are starting the ip-clearance process for incorporating a new code base which is to become part of Daffodil. This is a VSCode-based interactive data format debugger for DFDL schemas. When complete this will add several additional new contributors/committers. The project's suggested roadmap, (always subject to change based on contributors desires) has been updated on our wiki. ## Community Health: There is some slowdown in activity on the project this quarter which we believe is seasonal and/or due to the lack of a Daffodil release this quarter.
## Description: Apache Daffodil is an implementation of Data Format Description Language (DFDL) that uses data descriptions (called DFDL Schemas) to convert data from native formats into more easily processed forms such as XML, JSON, or the structures carried by data-processing fabrics. Daffodil is also able to serialize or "unparse" data back into its native format. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Daffodil was founded 2021-02-16 (5 months ago). There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members (project graduated recently). - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: This is our fourth board report since graduation to a TLP. We will shift now to quarterly pace for these reports. First TLP release, version 3.1.0, was announced on May 19, 2021. The community has submitted at least one topic for ApacheCon. ## Community Health: We have 3 new contributors who have expressed interest and started work. They have had PRs accepted and merged already, and will start being part of releases starting with the next release which we expect to be 3.2.0. Our hope is of course that they will stay engaged and become committers. Our stats look healthy across the board this month.
## Description: Implementation of Data Format Description Language (DFDL) used to convert data from native formats into more easily processed forms such as XML, JSON, or the structures carried by data-processing fabrics. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Daffodil was founded 2021-02-16 (4 months ago) There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members (project graduated recently). - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: This is our third board report since graduation to a TLP. The project continues to move towards its first TLP release which will be 3.1.0. The major features needed are in place including * the first version of the C-code generator - a new lightweight, small-footprint C-code generator that we hope will attract new contributors * raw validation output * command-line debugger improvements ## Community Health: We have 3 new contributors who have expressed interest and started work. Our hope is of course that they will stay engaged and become committers. Our stats look healthier this month across the board.
## Description: Apache Daffodil Project Report ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Daffodil was founded 2021-02-16 (2 months ago) There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members (project graduated recently). - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: This is our second board report after graduation from incubator. - We are still working on the first TLP release which will be Daffodil 3.1.0, We are about a week or two from where we can start that process. ## Community Health: The stats system appears to be not including anything for March on the graphics. It shows zero emails for users mailing list for March, when pony mail shows 20 messages in the archives. The Pull-Request stats look better, and are more reflective of our activity level. The Daffodil project hasn't slowed down in the past quarter (part of which was while we were still incubating). Many new features and contributions from across our active developers. These will all fold into our next release. It remains a priority for us to attract more developers and users for Apache Daffodil. Being a TLP will help this.
## Description: Apache Daffodil implements the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) for parsing (and unparsing) rich structured binary and text data described using DFDL schemas. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Daffodil was founded 2021-02-16 (16 days ago) There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - Olabusayo Kilo added to PMC - as part of graduation process - No new committers were added, though one PPMC member decided to just be a committer going forward as TLP for now. This also happened as part of the graduation process. ## Project Activity: This is our first board report after graduation from incubator. - Last prior release was Daffodil 3.0.0 (incubator) released Nov 2020. - We are still working on the first TLP release which will be Daffodil 3.1.0, but we are a few weeks from where we can start that process. - We had a good press release and activity around the graduation to TLP. (Many thanks to Sally K. for leading us through this. We actually got complements like "what a great press release". and people were happy we delayed things a couple days to get their statements included.) ## Community Health: The project hasn't slowed down in the past quarter (part of which was while we were still incubating). Many new features and contributions from across our developers. User list traffic is sparse, but not abnormally so. We have users who even agreed to be listed on the press release as Daffodil users (I speak of Perspecta Labs), but who have created zero traffic on users@daffodil mailing list. It seems this means some users are successful with daffodil without need of support which is encouraging with respect to software quality. (That said, we will prod them to particpate in the users list.) We continue to need to attract new developers and users for Apache Daffodil. Being a TLP will help this.
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 an implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and more readily processed forms such as XML or JSON. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Daffodil Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Daffodil Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to an implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and more readily processed forms such as XML or JSON; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Daffodil" 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 Daffodil Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Daffodil 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 Daffodil Project: * Brandon Sloane <btsloane@apache.org> * Christofer Dutz <cdutz@apache.org> * Dave Fisher <wave@apache.org> * Dave Thompson <dthompson@apache.org> * John Interrante <jinterrante@apache.org> * John Wass <jw3@apache.org> * Joshua Adams <jadams@apache.org> * Kevin Ratnasekera <djkevincr@apache.org> * Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle@apache.org> * Steve Lawrence <slawrence@apache.org> * Taylor Wise <vtguy08@apache.org> * Olabusayo Kilo <olabusayo@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Mike Beckerle be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Daffodil, 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 Daffodil Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Daffodil podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Daffodil podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Daffodil Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language
(DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Increase community growth and participation beyond Owl (main
priority)
2. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provide extra
functionality
3. Continue frequent release schedule
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
* None
### How has the community developed since the last report?
* Pull requests merged from three first-time contributors (one non-Owl)
* Continued involvement in mailing lists
* dev: 167 emails sent by 22 people, divided into 43 topics,
49 subscribers (+17)
* users: 14 emails sent by 5 people, divided into 9 topics,
59 subscribers (+16)
* Owl is continuing to encourage other companies with known Daffodil
interests to make public contributions and increase involvement
* Smooks (https://www.smooks.org) 2.0.0-M2 has been released with
Daffodil integration
### How has the project developed since the last report?
* Released Daffodil 3.0.0
* 44 commits merged from 10 different contributors
* 55 issues created, 54 issues resolved
* Changes include SAX support, ability to stream data larger than
available memory, reduced memory usage, improved diagnostics, and
numerous bug fixes
* Upcoming changes include support for parser/unparser code generation
and improved validation with new APIs and plugability
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2020-11-20
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* 2020-06-15 - John Interrante (PPMC)
* 2019-11-26 - Olabusayo Kilo (Committer)
* 2019-06-20 - Brandon Sloane (PPMC)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
* Yes, recently helped to find a third mentor which should help the
release process.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
* No known cases of a 3rd party incorrectly using the Daffodil
name/brand
* Podling name search has been completed and approved by Brand
Management Committee:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-147
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (daffodil) Dave Fisher
Comments:
- [X] (daffodil) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
- [X] (daffodil) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description
Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Increase community growth and participation beyond Owl (main
priority)
2. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provide extra
functionality
3. Continue frequent release schedule
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
- None
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- Pull requests merged from four first-time contributors (three
non-Owl)
- Continued involvement in mailing lists
- dev: 38 postings, 32 subscribers (5 new)
- users: 58 postings, 43 subscribers (2 new)
- Owl is actively encouraging other companies with known Daffodil
interests to make public contributions and increase involvement
- Smooks (https://www.smooks.org) 2.0.0-M1 has been released with
Daffodil integration
- Apache NiFi integration has been improved by Nteligen
- Mike Beckerle will give a presentation on Daffodil at ApacheCon
@Home 2020
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Released Daffodil 2.7.0
- 22 commits merged from 8 different contributors
- Changes primarily include bug fixes and code cleanup
- 38 issues created, 49 issues resolved
- Design proposals complete and development making progress for large
streaming capabilities and memory requirement reduction--main focus
for the next release
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2020-07-14
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- 2020-06-15 - John Interrante (PPMC)
- 2019-11-26 - Olabusayo Kilo (Committer)
- 2019-06-20 - Brandon Sloane (PPMC)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
- Yes
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
- No known cases of a 3rd party incorrectly using the Daffodil
name/brand
- Podling name search has been completed and approved by Brand
Management Committee:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-147
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (daffodil) Dave Fisher
Comments:
- [X] (daffodil) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language
(DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Increase community growth and participation beyond Owl (formerly
Tresys) (main priority)
2. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provide extra
functionality
3. Continue frequent release schedule
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
- None
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- Pull requests merged from three first-time non-Owl contributors
- Continued involvement in the mailing lists
- dev: 78 postings, 5 new subscribers
- users: 96 postings, 4 new subscribers
- Owl is actively encouraging other companies with known Daffodil
interests to make contributions and increase involvement.
- Nteligen has two student summer interns starting Daffodil-related
projects next week. Anticipating initial on-list activity to begin
soon
- Daffodil has been integrated into Smooks (https://www.smooks.org) by
outside developers
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Released Daffodil 2.6.0
- 56 commits merged from 7 different contributors
- Changes include thread-safe API improvements, cleanups based on
SonarCloud scans, improved validation of of input XML,
newVariableInstance feature, and many important misc bug fixes
- 59 issues created, 61 issues resolved
- Initial discussions and planning/ramping up on the proposed
code-generation runtime.
- New proposals and plans in place to improve Daffodil streaming
capabilities and memory requirement reduction--main focus for the
next release
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2020-04-24
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- 2019-11-26 - Olabusayo Kilo (Committer)
- 2019-06-20 - Brandon Sloane (PPMC)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
- Yes
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
- No known cases of a 3rd party incorrectly using the Daffodil
name/brand.
- Podling name search has been completed and approved by Brand
Management Committee:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-147
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (daffodil) Dave Fisher
Comments: A new PPMC member is being added which increases the
diversity of the podling.
- [X] (daffodil) Christofer Dutz
Comments: Would love to see some more content on the mailing
list that would implicate what some people are currently working
on. From an outside view it is sometimes difficult where movement
is currently happening.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description
Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Increase community growth and participation beyond Tresys
(main priority)
2. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provide extra
functionality (NiFi and Drill are current priorities)
3. Continue frequent release schedule
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
- None
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- Continued mailing lists discussions, with a handful of new faces
asking questions on the users@ mailing list, hopefully some of these
can be converted to developers
- Struggling to get active involvement outside of Tresys. We are
actively working with known users of Daffodil to encourage
contributions, including virtual meetings and making time to help
spin up with the codebase
- An outside developer has shown interest in contributing to the
code-generation runtime. Hoping to spin up that user shortly and
start getting contributions.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Released Daffodil 2.5.0
- 29 commits merged from 5 different contributors
- 44 issues created, 29 issues resolved, focus was primarily on large
features rather than bug burn down.
- Significant improvement to DFDL schema compilation time
- Incorporated SonarCloud static analysis to help verify code quality
- Lots of refactoring to improve code quality and type safety
- Created a container to streamline a repeatable release process
- Looking like next release will be sometime in March
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2020-01-12
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- 2019-11-26 - Olabusayo Kilo (Committer)
- 2019-06-20 - Brandon Sloane (PPMC)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
- Yes
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
- No known cases of a 3rd party incorrectly using the Daffodil
name/brand.
- Podling name search has been completed and approved by Brand
Management Committee:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-147
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (daffodil) Dave Fisher
Comments: Community growth is the main issue blocking graduation.
Other than that the podling is in good shape following the Apache Way.
- [X] (daffodil) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language
(DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Increase community growth and participation from outside Tresys
(main priority)
2. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provide
extra functionality (Apache PLC4X, NiFI, and Drill are potential
goals)
3. Establish a frequent release schedule
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
- None
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- Voted to add a new Committer, on boarding now.
- Daffodil talk at ApacheCon NA 2019
- Daffodil attendance at Podling SharkTank at ApacheCon NA 2019
- Daffodil talk at BarCamp at ApacheCon NA 2019
- Attended Hackathon at ApacheCon NA 2019, led to collaboration with
Apache PLC4X/code generation and planned collaboration with Apache
Drill
- Discussions have continue with relative frequency on users@ and dev@
mailing lists, which more new people popping up in discussions
- Planning to submit a talk for the DC Roadshow in March when CFP opens
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- 25 commits merged from 4 different contributors
- 50 issues created, 28 issues resolved--lagging in keeping up with
new bugs, but focus has been on bigger features rather than bug
fixes for this release
- Nearing next release, expected in early December. Major features
include user defined functions, support for BLOBs and files larger
than 2GB, and fixed schema compilation performance regression with
ultimate goal of improving schema compilation speed.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2019-07-12
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- 2019-11-26 - Olabusayo Kilo (Committer)
- 2019-06-20 - Brandon Sloane (PPMC)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
- Yes
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
- No known cases of a 3rd party incorrectly using the Daffodil
name/brand.
- Podling name search has been completed and approved by Brand
Management Committee:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-147
### Signed-off-by:
- [x] (daffodil) Dave Fisher
Comments: Community growth beyond Tresys has been difficult.
- [ ] (daffodil) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language
(DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Increase community growth and participation from outside Tresys
(main priority)
2. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provide
extra functionality
3. Establish a frequent release schedule
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
- None
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- Voted to add two new PPMC members. One accepted and has been added.
One declined due to CLA concerns
- Accepted for talk at ApacheCon NA 2019
- Accepted for Podling SharkTank at ApacheCon NA 2019
- Gained a new involved contributor with multiple improvements and
bug fixes
- Outside contributor released tutorials related to DFDL and Daffodil
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Released Apache Daffodil (incubating) 2.4.0
- 42 commits merged from 5 different contributors
- 54 issues created, 57 issues resolved--improvements made at keeping
up with new bugs
- Greatly improved compatibility with IBM DFDL implementation
- Added new features to continue to meet DFDL specification
- Added new extensions to be proposed as additions to future DFDL
versions
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
Daffodil PPMC members are attendeding ApacheCon NA and are scheduled
for a talk and are taking place in the podling shark tank. Plan to
search out other opportunties at the conference to grow our community.
### Date of last release:
- 2019-07-12
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- 2019-06-20 - Brandon Sloane (PPMC and comitter)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, mentors have been helpful and responsive.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (daffodil) Dave Fisher
Comments: Once some more PPMC from other entities are brought onboard
the podling will be ready to graduate.
- [X] (daffodil) Christofer Dutz
Comments: I also hope the acna19 participation will help attract new
people.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language
(DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Increase community growth and participation (high priority)
2. Establish a frequent release schedule
3. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provide
extra functionality
### 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?
- Continued community support of user developing Daffodil/DFDL
training materials
- Continued community support of Apache PLC4X to develop DFDL schemas
- Presented talk at Apache Roadshow DC 2019
- Presented talk at Cross Domain Technical Forum 2019
- Submitted a talk for ApaheCon North America 2019
- Continued contributions from 1 new contributor
- Lost a mentor but got a new one
- Increased discussions/proposals with community for new Daffodil
features (e.g. lookahead, enumerations, character encoding)
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- 29 commits merged from 4 different contributors
- 55 issues creates, 52 issues resolved
- Greatly improved interoperability with IBM DFDL implementation,
primarily related to separator behavior
- Merged in new enumeration and TypeValueCalc feature
- Many miscellaneous bug fixes
- The next release is likely within the next month or two
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2019-02-26
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
None, same as project incubation
### Have your mentors been helpful?
Yes, no issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [x] (daffodil) Dave Fisher
Comments: Podling is trying to grow the community.
- [X] (daffodil) Christofer Dutz
Comments: Great seeing new people being voted in. And wasn't Brandon
Sloane voted in to the PPMC some time around 2019-05-31?
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON. Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Increase community growth and participation 2. Establish a frequent release schedule 3. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provide extra functionality 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? - A user is developing a DFDL/Daffodil class, leading to many good discussions on the users@ mailing list - Apache PLC4X has developed a DFDL schema and used Daffodil as a means to parse Industrial IoT data - Continued discussions and investigations to integrate Daffodil with Apache NiFi - Mike Beckerle gave a talk at a local Meetup in December, leading to some discussions on the users@ list - Steve Lawrence is scheduled to give a talk at the Apache Roadshow in DC, March 25 - Contributions made from two first time Daffodil contributors How has the project developed since the last report? - 44 commits from 5 different developers - 62 issues created, 57 issues resolved How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [X] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: 2019-02-26 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? - None, same as project incubation 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. - We have one inactive mentor, but the addition of a new mentor should help with that Signed-off-by: [X](daffodil) John D. Ament Comments: [X](daffodil) David Fisher Comments: The project is doing well with the code and helping users. Focus on community growth is now required. Thank you CDutz for mentoring! [X](daffodil) Christofer Dutz Comments: Just started out being a mentor for Daffodil a week ago ... IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description
Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and
XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase community growth and participation
2. Establish a frequent release schedule
3. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provided extra
functionality
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- None, though an extra mentor would be beneficial. We currently only
have 2 mentors.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- A couple questions were asked and answered on StackOverflow on
DFDL schema development using Daffodil
- Increased activity on the users@ mailing list from 4
non-committers, with topics such as potential bugs and DFDL schema
design best practices
- Mike Beckerle gave a Daffodil talk at ApacheCon Montreal
- Steve Lawrence gave a Daffodil talk at a local Meetup
- Mike Beckerle is scheduled to give a talk at a local Meetup in
December
- Steve Lawrence submitted a talk to the Apache Roadshow in DC,
which is now postponed
- Created a logo and twitter account: @ApacheDaffodil
- Updated Apache Spark integration, will be presented at a Meetup
for feedback and potential community growth
- Updated Apache NiFi integration and created a pull request with
Apache NiFi. Received positive feedback.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- 22 commits from 4 different developers
- 25 issues created, 46 issues resolved
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-09-05
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- None, same as project incubation
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.
- No issues
Signed-off-by:
[ ](daffodil) John D. Ament
Comments:
[X](daffodil) David Fisher
Comments: I'm seeing good user discussions about features and how to
use Daffodil. I'd like to see more on how to develop.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language
(DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase community growth and participation
2. Establish a frequent release schedule
3. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provided extra
functionality
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- None, though an extra mentor would be beneficial. We currently only
have 2 mentors.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Received and merged new features from two new outside users
- Mike Beckerle was accepted for a talk on Daffodil at ApacheCon
- Steve Lawrence was accepted for a talk on Daffodil at a local Meetup
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Second release as an Apache incubator was completed (version 2.2.0)
- 42 commits from 6 different developers, including fairly large
features and refactoring
- 22 issues created, 49 issues resolved
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-09-05
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- None, same as project incubation
Signed-off-by:
[X](daffodil) John D. Ament
Comments: Agree with Dave on all points.
[X](daffodil) David Fisher
Comments: Development is going well. Community building will need
some focus. The podling could use an additional Mentor.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language
(DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase community growth and participation
2. Establish a frequent release schedule
3. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provided extra
functionality
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- None, previous legal issues regarding Open Grid Forum license were
clarified (LEGAL-369)
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Starting community building, including conversations on the user@ and
dev@ lists from a handful of outside users requesting some support and
information on Daffodil for DFDL schema creation.
- Mike Beckerle was accepted for a talk on Daffodil at ApacheCon
- Received two bug fix contributions from an outside user, who was able
to spin up and make contributions quickly
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Created our first release as an Apache incubator
- All website and wiki documentation is up to date
- Had 14 commits from 5 different developers over the past three months
- Still under active development, though upcoming features are large
and take time to implement
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-05-14
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- None, same as project incubation
Signed-off-by:
[ ](daffodil) John D. Ament
Comments:
[X](daffodil) David Fisher
Comments: Project is making progress. Another Mentor would be helpful.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language
(DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Complete first Apache release as an Incubator
2. Broaden base of contributors and build the community (e.g. work with
other Apache projects where Daffodil could provide extra functionality)
3. Improve documentation on setting up a development environment to ease the
addition of new developers
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
- Outstanding legal issue regarding Open Grid Forum document inclusion in
Daffodil (LEGAL-369)
How has the community developed since the last report?
- No new committers. However, we have had activity from a couple outside users
on the mailing lists asking about Daffodil capabilities/usage
How has the project developed since the last report?
- All SGA/CLAs have been submitted (from Tresys, IBM, and NCSA), all code
relicensed to ASF, and package namespace switched to org.apache.daffodil
- Development pace has continued without any notable issues
- The first release candidate was created in February 2018. However, bugs were
found that required an rc2 release. Those issues were resolved, but issues
related to the LICENSE and NOTICE files were raised in the rc2 release vote.
This is expected to require an rc3 release, planned to start voting in early
March.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-09-06 - 2.0.0 (pre-Apache release)
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- None, same as project incubation
Signed-off-by:
[X](daffodil) John D. Ament
Comments: Project is moving in the right direction, and aiming for their first ASF release.
[X](daffodil) David Fisher
Comments:
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description
Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Obtain remaining SGA from NCSA
2. First release as an Apache Incubator
3. Broadening base of contributors and building the community
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- None
How has the community developed since the last report?
- No additional committers or community growth, however activity on the
dev@daffodil list has increased, with multiple design discussions,
code reviews, and project discussions taking place.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- All tickets from the old JIRA system were successfully transferred to
ASF JIRA
- IBM has submitted their SGA. We are now only waiting on an SGA from
NCSA, who we believe is very close to submission. Once that is in, we
believe all necessary SGA's and CLA's will have been submitted and we
can begin the process of relicensing the Daffodil codebase to Apache
v2 and switching the package namespace to org.apache.daffodil
- Development pace has increased, with multiple issues, commits, and
pull requests having gone through the new Daffodil Code Contributor
Workflow
- Continuous integration has been enabled via TravisCI GitHub
Integration
- Migrated repository to GitBox
- A website has been developed based on the Apache Incubator Website
template. Still need to enable automatic building/publishing--
manually publishing for now.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
- None
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- None, same as project incubator inception
Signed-off-by:
[X](daffodil) John D. Ament
Comments: Solid on list communication. Waiting on SGAs to be processed to relicense the code. Podling executed a non-ASF release in the interim.
[X](daffodil) David Fisher
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Drew Farris (shepherd): Both mentors active on the mailing list. Project is still getting set up yet showing healthy mailing list activity.
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language
(DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Obtaining SGAs
2. Establishing new apache-centric infrastructure
3. Broadening base of contributors
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- Only that chasing the SGAs down is going to take some time, though
this may be typical.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Users: No change.
- Developers/Contributors: No change.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Completed setup of the git repo.
- Started process of transfer of existing JIRA
tickets to Apache.
- Established our contributor/branch workflow and
published to wiki.
- Submitted Tresys SGA.
- Progress is being made on obtaining organizational
SGAs from NCSA and IBM.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- No changes yet - same as at our project incubator
inception
Signed-off-by:
[X](daffodil) John D. Ament
Comments:
[X](daffodil) David Fisher
Comments:
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language
(DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. obtaining SGAs
2. establishing new apache-centric infrastructure
3. broadening base of contributors
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- Only that chasing the SGAs down is going to take some time, though
this may be typical.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Users:
(1) The Open Grid Forum's DFDL workgroup mailing list has had inquiries
and questions about Daffodil - using it and creating DFDL schemas.
We will start redirecting such to our incubator users mailing list,
as soon as we're ready.
(2) A large software company has demonstrated a prototype integration of
Daffodil into their commercial product. Of note: they did this without
any support contact to Daffodil developers.
- Developers/Contributors: One new outside developer has been setup, and has
started a project modifying the Daffodil code-base. This is still in the pre-Apache
context, and we've no idea if they'll want to contribute back. But it does show
both interest and that the technical barriers to entry for new developers to be
productive are surmountable.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- A final consistent release/build of the legacy (pre-Apache) code-base
is over, all project efforts going forward can be Apache focused
once we have infrastructure setup.
- Progress is being made on obtaining the individual and organizational
SGAs.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
(none yet) XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- No changes yet - same as at our project incubator inception
Signed-off-by:
[X](daffodil) John D. Ament
Comments: Podling is still bootstrapping, looking for some feedback from legal on approaches due to public sector relationship.
[X](daffodil) David Fisher
Comments:
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Initial setup (finalize infrastructure setup, get SGAs in place, move code/documentation/bugs/etc. over to Apache infrastructure, modify licenses)
2. Establish guidelines regarding release cycles, code reviews, bug management, etc.
3. Work to grow the community to establish a diversity of backgrounds and expertise
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?
N/A
How has the project developed since the last report?
N/A
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[X](daffodil) John D. Ament
Comments:
[X](daffodil) David Fisher
Comments: Just starting off.