Celebrating 20 years of community-led development "The Apache Way"
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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.