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## Description: The mission of Apache Flagon is the creation and maintenance of software related to thin-client behavioral logging capability useful for business analytics, usage analytics, usability and user testing ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing with healthy community participation Issues for the board: Not at this time ## Membership Data: Apache Flagon was founded 2023-03-21 (2 years ago) There are currently 19 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Evan Jones on 2024-07-10. - Ryan Thenhaus was added as committer on 2025-02-08 ## Project Activity: The Community voted to migrate our current Git repos to a monorepo structure. PMC worked with committers to accomplish this and test. The Community also updated and modernized the Flagon website build process with Github actions as a runner. Finally, minor maintenance actions were performed on a product x product basis. ## Community Health: Ryan Thenhaus was added as a committer on 02082025, though no new PMC members were nominated. Overall, community interfaces have increased on lists. Additionally, the community (PMC + Committers) have self-organized regular (weekly) project interfaces. In turn, this has resulted in numerous tickets and PRs and significantly more traffic on maintenance threads (in particular). While the community remains small, the community is very much a community.
## Description: The mission of Apache Flagon is the creation and maintenance of software related to thin-client behavioral logging capability useful for business analytics, usage analytics, usability and user testing ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing with low activity Issues for the board: None at this time Note : (no official Apache Releases have any dependencies on ElasticSearch--it remains a worked example in the repos only, but not distributed through releases). ## Membership Data: Apache Flagon was founded 2023-03-21 (2 years ago) There are currently 18 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Evan Jones on 2024-07-10. - No new committers. Last addition was Evan Jones on 2024-02-13. ## Project Activity: The project documentation and website has seen major improvements. There is always more to document, but a lot of stale information has been removed or updated. On the product side, we’ve seen some minor development. Most notably adding support for web sockets and improving test coverage. ## Community Health: Community growth was slow in the current period, however, it is growing nonetheless. Recently, we have had some members cross pollinate with the CNCF’s Open telemetry project. Open telemetry offers widely adopted standards that apply to a lot of our core functions. The PMC is currently exploring how integrating with the Open telemetry ecosystem can foster better community health. We are also aware that some community members have discussed OpenSearch integrations. We have struggled this period to get community members to converse on lists.
## Description: The mission of Apache Flagon is the creation and maintenance of software related to thin-client behavioral logging capability useful for business analytics, usage analytics, usability and user testing ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongiong with low activity Issues for the board: None at this time ## Membership Data: Apache Flagon was founded 2023-03-21 (2 years ago) There are currently 18 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Evan Jones on 2024-07-10. - No new committers. Last addition was Evan Jones on 2024-02-13. Note: Ryan Thenhaus was elected as a committer in Aug 2024. His ICLA is on file, but account creation was stalled, however, we have reached out to reinitiate account creation. ## Project Activity: The community has steadily contributed code to maintain current projects (UserALE.js && Distill), as well as new features to extend use-cases. Contributions have been made by additional contributors and new committers (Ryan Thenhaus). Overall, core Flagon products are well documented and maintained. Additional work with Kafka to for streaming use-cases and alternatives to ELK are planned also. ## Community Health: Community growth remains slow (it always has been), however, it is growing nonethelesss. Ryan Thenhaus was elected as a committer; he and other new contributors have contributed code to the project. Recently, I'm aware that some PMC and committers have met to discuss proposals for additional Distill features and a new version of UserALE.js (2.5.0). Notwithstanding, PMC is aware of drops in traffic on community boards--we will encourage that new release proposals be posted on dev@ to foster communication. Outside of releases we are starting to see fractioning within the community, where specific pockets of PMC and committers are working towards community goals, but not necessarily with the community, writ large.
## Description: The mission of Apache Flagon is the creation and maintenance of software related to thin-client behavioral logging capability useful for business analytics, usage analytics, usability and user testing ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing with low activity compared to major TLPs (though showing significant growth since leaving Incubator). Issues for the board: None at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Flagon was founded 2023-03-21. There are currently 18 committers and 11 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new committers. Last addition was Evan Jones on 2024-02-13. - Evan Jones was elected to PMC on on 2024-06-24 (follow-on actions in progress). ## Project Activity: Contributions have been steady this quarter and have included both new features and modernization/maintenance. Notably we have seen contributions from relatively new contributors on multiple products. Overall, there have been substantive contributions on both core Flagon products (UserALE.js and Distill), and supporting examples ((unreleased) ELK example). ## Community Health: Newer project contributors have been more active and have been taking on additional roles (both code and review contributions). More recent committers/PMC have also been showing significant leadership for new contributors. This corresponds to excellent, coordinated code development process, as well as emergent community building. Its clear that in the near term, we should expect to see new committers and increased involvement in community management by new committers and PMC.
@Christofer: follow up about Elasticsearch dependency
## Description: The mission of Apache Flagon is the creation and maintenance of software related to thin-client behavioral logging capability useful for business analytics, usage analytics, usability and user testing ## Project Status: Current project status: Apache Flagon is a New TLP Issues for the board: No issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Flagon was founded 2023-03-21 (a year ago) There are currently 18 committers and 11 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Jason Young on 2023-08-06. - Evan Jones was added as committer on 2024-02-13 ## Project Activity: Contributions have been steady this quarter on both Flagon Distill and UserALE.js projects. These have both kept code base consistent with security and market expectations, as well as have added additional features to highly marketable products (Distill). This quarter the community coordinated in the release of UserALE.js 2.4.0; this release recently passed successful VOTE as per ASF policies. Follow-on actions for distribution and announcement are forthcoming. Note as per comments from the last board report: the community provides Elasticsearch backend examples to support community growth and product adoption. However, these examples are not distributed as ASF releases, and are couched as examples. A few committers are working on other examples that utilize other ASF products such as Kafka and Beam. ## Community Health: Community activity has been consistent and PMC has been involved in discussions and VOTEs. 1 new committer was added this quarter. There are current ongoing discussions with some committers who may wish to transition to PMC role. Newer committers have also done a great job introducing the project to new potential contributors. We expect to see new committers and PMC in the next quarter.
## Description: The mission of Apache Flagon is the creation and maintenance of software related to thin-client behavioral logging capability useful for business analytics, usage analytics, usability and user testing ## Project Status: Current project status: Apache Flagon is a New TLP. Issues for the board: No issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Flagon was founded 2023-03-21 (10 months ago) There are currently 17 committers and 11 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Jason Young on 2023-08-06. - No new committers. Last addition was Jason Young on 2023-04-22. ## Project Activity: - Coordinated development activity among committers, PMC on new project features - Released new Product (Apache Flagon Distill) 12/3/2023 - PMC, Committers and Contributors are currently collaborating on updates to UserALE.js and modernizing the current ELK-stack back-end examples ## Community Health: Since the last reporting period the community has engaged in a variety of collaborative efforts and discussions. Most notably PMC, committers and contributors collaborated on updates to UserALE.js, Distill, and ELK-stack modernization projects. This has included teaching newer PMC and committers to lead releases, providing the project additional, engaged members who can lead and execute release processes consistent with the Apache Way. Additionally, the community has had governance discussions. VOTING is currently underway to bring in a long-time contributor into the project as a committer. While modest community growth at best, we believe that activity since the last report provides numerous indicators of community and project health.
## Description: The mission of Apache Flagon is the creation and maintenance of software related to thin-client behavioral logging capability useful for business analytics, usage analytics, usability and user testing ## Project Status: Current project status: New Issues for the board: None at this Time ## Membership Data: Apache Flagon was founded 2023-03-21 (7 months ago) There are currently 17 committers and 11 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - Jason Young was added to the PMC on 2023-08-06 - No new committers. Last addition was Jason Young on 2023-04-22. ## Project Activity: Apache Flagon has been focused on community development to push a new version of its behavioral logging engine UserALE.js and an initial release of Distill-a python analytical package for behavioral analysis of user workflows within thin client GUIs. A VOTE for the Distill 0.1.0 RC is currently underway by new release managers. - Community development on UserALE.js 2.4.0 RC - Community development on Distill 0.1.0 RC (initial release) ## Community Health: While contributions have been steady from committers and PMC, no new committers were added in the last quarter. However, we are seeing new community members get involved in the release process and packaging under guidance of more senior members, which is healthy. The community remains responsive and has been utilizing dev and private boards to perform community functions. PMC remains strong enough to VOTE on key issues. PMC members are seeing new users as well, and have been encouraging them to engage with the Apache community and contribute back.
@Christofer: pursue a roll call
## Description: The mission of Apache Flagon is the creation and maintenance of software related to thin-client behavioral logging capability useful for business analytics, usage analytics, usability and user testing ## Project Status: No issues at this time. Project is still a new TLP. ## Membership Data: Apache Flagon was founded 2023-03-21 (5 months ago) There are currently 17 committers and 11 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:5. Community changes, past quarter: - Jason Young was added as PMC on 2023-08-06 - No new committers in past quarter ## Project Activity: - Coordinated development activity among committers, PMC on new project features - As a community, committed to creating UserALE.js 2.4.0 release ## Community Health: The current community has been involved in discussions on governance (new PMC) as well as release planning, although development and contribution activity was slow sine the last report. A new PMC member was elected as per ASF guidelines and is being onboarded. The new PMC member is interested in learning how to become a release manager, which will grow the community stronger. The community expects UserALE.js 2.4.0 Release Candidates under vote in AUG. The community is also aware of users planning contributions to Distill in advance of initial ASF release. Beyond releases and training new release managers, the community will focus on recruiting additional committers in the next quarter.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Apache Flagon is the creation and maintenance of software related to thin-client behavioral logging capability useful for business analytics, usage analytics, usability and user testing ## Project Status: No issues at this time. Project is still a new TLP. ## Membership Data: Apache Flagon was founded 2023-03-21 (2 months ago) There are currently 17 committers and 10 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members (project graduated recently). - Jason Young was added as committer on 2023-04-22 - Some discussion of adding new PMC members ## Project Activity: - Coordinated development activity among committers, PMC on new project features - Coordinated on updating maintaining website and other utilities - Likely will release new version of UserALE.js, discuss plans for Distill ## Community Health: The current community maintains activity this month in addressing new PRs and issues, as well as coordinating on migration steps for other products and project resources (e.g., website). May was a slow month with respect to activity with some discussion on lists, and GitHub issues. Expect additional discussion in coming months about more infra modernization, and releases. Next we will focus on releases of our Python product Distill. We believe these steps will drive additional community growth. Furthermore, we will explore additional integration examples with Apache Superset, Apache Kafka, Apache Druid, and Streamlit to drive community growth.
## Description: The mission of Apache Flagon is the creation and maintenance of software related to thin-client behavioral logging capability useful for business analytics, usage analytics, usability and user testing ## Issues: No issues at this time ## Membership Data: Apache Flagon was founded 2023-03-21 (2 months ago) There are currently 17 committers and 10 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members (project graduated recently). - Jason Young was added as committer on 2023-04-22 - Some discussion of adding new PMC members ## Project Activity: - Coordinated development activity among committers, PMC on new project features - Completed major stepsto migrate Flagon from Incubator assets - Coordinated work to remove refs to Incubator from src, update website - Likely will release new version of UserALE.js, discuss plans for Distill ## Community Health: The current community has been active in addressing new PRs and issues, as well as coordinating on migration steps out of the incubator. Code clean-up for UserALE.js has completed and we will move toward our first official release as TLP. Next we will focus on release of our Python product Distill. We believe these steps will drive additional community growth. Furthermore, we will explore additional integration examples with Apache Superset, Apache Kafka, Apache Druid , and Streamlit to drive community growth.
## Description: Apache Flagon is an open-source, user behavioral analytics platform ## Issues: The Apache Flagon community is presently working through initial set-up and migration from the Apache Incubator, having been established as a TLP last Month (MAR 2023). PMC is working closely to close set-up actions. No other current or pressing issues to report. ## Membership Data: Apache Flagon was founded 2023-03-21 (21 days ago) There are currently 16 committers and 10 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members (project graduated recently). - Jason Young was recently onboarded as a Committer during the past month. ## Project Activity: - Development activity continues on UserALE.js (core product) - New PRs were received; they are under-review and under-discussion. - Source code is maintained - Next release is being planned for Apache Flagon UserALE.js ## Community Health: PMC has been very focused on TLP set-up actions; fewer topical discussion on product/features on Dev. Following infra migration, PMC will focus on new releases of UserALE.js, first official release of Distill product, and demonstrations of new integrations with other Apache products (i.e., Kafka, Superset, Druid). We believe these integrations will drive additional community growth. PMC is also cognizant of need to onboard additional PMC members and is actively discussing this with current committers.
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 thin-client behavioral logging capability useful for business analytics, usage analytics, usability and user testing; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Flagon Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Flagon Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to thin-client behavioral logging capability useful for business analytics, usage analytics, usability and user testing; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Flagon" 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 Flagon Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Flagon 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 Flagon Project: * Joshua Poore <poorejc@apache.org> * Lewis John McGibbney <lewismc@apache.org> * David Meikle <dmeikle@apache.org> * Tim Allison <tallison@apache.org> * Furkan Kamaci <kamaci@apache.org> * Steve York <pykors@apache.org> * Michelle Beard <msbeard@apache.org> * Robert Foley <rf@apache.org> * Austin Bennett <austin@apache.org> * Gedd Johnson <unclegedd@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Joshua Poore be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Flagon, 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. RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Flagon podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7F, Establish the Apache Flagon Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform
Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. None
2.
3.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
Apache Flagon passed a VOTE at IPMC to Graduate Flagon as a TLP. Awaiting
Board action.
Link to Thread:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/9fvnpbpwfrvm23zljjlnfmqvq4n4nss9
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Flagon has continued to interface with new users and contributors through
PRs, etc.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
The community has added a number of new features supporting
maintenance/modernization,
as well as additional use-case examples.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [X] Other: Awaiting Board action on IPMC Passed Graduation Resolution
### Date of last release:
2022-05-19 Apache Flagon UserALE.js 2.3.0
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- Kelsey Rassmann (6/2022)
- Kymani Brown (6/2022)
- Amir Ghaemi (6/2022)
- Austin Bennett (5/2022)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Mentors were very helpful throughout graduation
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) David Meikle
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform
Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Continue VOTE thread for Graduation on general@incubator
2.
3.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None at this time.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Note: Flagon reported in SEP 2022. No new major developments since then.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Began preparing Flagon Distill SW Grant for 1st Apache Release
Note: Flagon reported in SEP 2022.
### 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:
2022-05-19 Apache Flagon UserALE.js 2.3.0
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- Kelsey Rassmann (6/2022)
- Kymani Brown (6/2022)
- Amir Ghaemi (6/2022)
- Austin Bennett (5/2022)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Generally, Mentors remain supportive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) David Meikle
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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HugeGraph is a large-scale and easy-to-use graph database that supports
more than 100+ billion data
HugeGraph has been incubating since 2022-01-23.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Prepare first release at Apache
2. Grow user and dev community & increase the diversity
3. Enhance core product functionality as mentioned in the initial goals
### 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?
We help users participate in the community easily (like enhance issue
template and more guidance, use the "Projects" module to manage the
release progress and to-do items on GitHub)
And keep close contact with several potential committers (the next vote
will be held after the first release)
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Finished merging and unifying 4 sub-projects into the
"hugegraph-toolchain" project and enable a friendly code style check.
We have renamed package name to "org.apache" for "hugegraph-commons", and
are preparing to publish it to the maven, then modify other related joint
modules.
We support automatic selection of master node for task scheduler and
optimized the pipeline of website update, now it supports automatic
building and publishing. (improve the user experience).
### 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:
Not yet available
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2022-04-23 (April 28th)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, mentors help to remind the release schedule and planning. They tell us
the priority and possible obstacles in the release process.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes, 3rd parties are respecting and correctly using the podlings name and
brand.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (hugegraph) Lidong Dai
Comments:
- [ ] (hugegraph) Trista Pan
Comments:
- [X] (hugegraph) Xiangdong Huang
Comments:
- [X] (hugegraph) Yu Li
Comments: Hope we could have the first apache release in the next cycle
- [X] (hugegraph) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: It has been a long time since we prepared the first release
of Apache Incubator.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform
Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Continue VOTE thread for Graduation on general@incubator
2.
3.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None at this time.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Enrolled new committers (x4), including one new PPMC
2. Completed new CCLA, SW grant from University of Maryland
3. Addressed lingering issues raised in graduation VOTE (deprecated projects, unsubscribed PPMC)
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Onboarding new SW Grant (Distill) into project, driving toward release
2. New community driven developments
3. Continued Maintenance
### 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:
2022-05-19 Apache Flagon UserALE.js 2.3.0
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- Kelsey Rassmann (6/2022)
- Kymani Brown (6/2022)
- Amir Ghaemi (6/2022)
- Austin Bennett (5/2022)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.
Generally, Mentors remain supportive. Although JUL report was not signed by Mentors (was posted to Dev).
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?
Yes.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) David Meikle
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments: I was on summer vacation and did not have a chance to check the JUL report. It may be the reason for the other mentors as well.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform
Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Continue VOTE thread for Graduation on general@incubator
2. Retire STOUT, TAP products via INFRA
3. Move unsubscribed PPMC members to Emeritus
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None at this time.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. We are coordinating software gift from UMD for Flagon analytics
package (Distill), via CCLA (still under review by UMD for IP release)
2. CCLA will include at least 6 new committers and at least 1 PPMC member
3. Substantive PRs from User Base
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. UserALE.js 2.3.0 release currently under VOTE on general@incubator
2. Developments on analytical package (Distill) are currently being
tested on fork (awaiting CCLA execution)
### 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:
2021-06-03 Apache UserALE.js 2.2.0
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2021-03-26 (Gedd Johnson)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.
Mentors remain supportive, although some procedural questions RE
graduation actions (see above) have been unanswered
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) David Meikle
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform
Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13. Flagon has been incubating
since 2016-07-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Continue VOTE thread for Graduation on general@incubator
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None at this time.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- We expect 4 new committer VOTES in Q1 2022 following contributions into
Apache Repos.
- We are coordinating software gift from UMD for Flagon analytics package
(Distill), via CCLA.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- We have committed minor enhancements to UserALE.js and have maintained
the code base. We expect a new UserALE.js release (v 2.2.1) in Q1 2022.
- Developments on analytical package (Distill) are currently being tested
and will be committed to Apache repos in Q1 2022 (pending CCLA from UMD).
- Ongoing development and design on visualization (Apache Superset) and
continues.
### 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:
2021-06-03 Apache UserALE.js 2.2.0
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2021-03-26 (Gedd Johnson)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Mentors remain supportive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) David Meikle
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## InLong
Apache InLong is a one-stop data ingestion platform that provides
automatic,
secure and reliable data transmission capabilities. InLong supports both
batch and stream data processing at the same time, which offers great power
to
build data analysis, modeling and other real-time applications based on
streaming data.
InLong has been incubating since 2019-11-03.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1.Improve and optimize the system to solve the system shortboard
2.Promote the system, to let more people use and participate in the
community
3.Building a diverse community with open governance
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No issues.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Since the last report, about 11 new contributors have joined the
community (currently: 69), and some users have contributed some functional
improvements and bug fixes;
On October 31, an offline + online Inlong community building seminar was
held to discuss with a number of experts on how to do a good job in the
Inlong community
We communicated and discussed with multiple teams in the field of data
integration to jointly improve the feature set of data integration.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Since the last report, we have released versions 0.11.0 and 0.12.0. In
addition to further lowering the user threshold, including supporting all
modules of InLong to be deployed on Kubernetes, the official website has
been refactored, and document translation and collation have been carried
out to facilitate user access; in features of system features, in addition
to continuing to build functions for each module, we also completed the use
of Pulsar for full-process high-reliability data transmission, and add the
data audit function for the data link.
### 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:
2021-12-22
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
committer: healchow 2021-11-26
PPMC: aloyszhang 2021-11-25
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, our mentors are very helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes, all good here.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (inlong) Junping Du
Comments:
- [X] (inlong) Justin Mclean
Comments:
- [ ] (inlong) Sijie Guo
Comments:
- [ ] (inlong) Zhijie Shen
Comments:
- [ ] (inlong) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform
Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Continue VOTE thread for Graduation on general@incubator
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None at this time.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Onboarding new contributors within a large-scale university consortium.
We expect VOTES on new committers Q4 2020.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
We have committed minor enhancements to UserALE.js and have maintained
the code base.
Ongoing development and design on visualization (Apache Superset) and
analytics packages continues.
We expect a new UserALE.js release in Q4 2021.
### 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:
2021-06-03 Apache UserALE.js 2.2.0
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2021-03-26 (Gedd Johnson)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, Mentors are supportive.
Slow quarter, with focus on use-case and user community growth/training.
Expect to reinvigorate Graduation VOTE in 2021 Q4.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) David Meikle
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform
Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Currently discussing Graduation path (TLP, other TLP (e.g., Superset))
2. Continue VOTE thread for Graduation on general@incubator
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None at this time.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Have worked with two new user communities who intend on contributing to
Apache Flagon.
Currently assisting them in framing software grant to ASF.
Ongoing developments on multiple projects currently on Forks. Expect
commits to ASF in 2021 Q4.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Trained new committers (Gedd Johnson) on ASF release process.
Released UserALE.js 2.2.0
### 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:
2021-06-03 Apache UserALE.js 2.2.0
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2021-03-26 (Gedd Johnson)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, Mentors are supportive.
Slow quarter, with focus on use-case and user community growth.
Expect to reinvigorate Graduation VOTE in 2021 Q4.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) David Meikle
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform
Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Currently discussing Graduation path (TLP, other TLP (e.g., Superset))
2. Continue VOTE thread for Graduation on general@incubator
3. (see commentary under podling maturity section)
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None at this time.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
We have seen increased user and contributor engagement:
- in development, this quarter we have contributed 60 new commits to
UserALE.js alone, 15 of those were from 7 contributor PRs.
- we have seen an increase in visits to our GitHub UserALE.js from unique
users (https://tinyurl.com/4cmcnn9a)
- we have seen a marked increase in contributor/user issue discussion
(https://tinyurl.com/88wafvhk)
- we have also seen user/contributor participation in VOTEs (2.2.0 RC and
new PPMC VOTEs)
We have also included and are now onboarding a new committer and PPMC
member (see below).
### How has the project developed since the last report?
We added a range of new features and hardened our core product (e.g.,
UserALE.js). Development has been consistent.
New features in the last quarter will frame an upcoming release candidate
for UserALE.js v.2.2.0, and include:
- Redesigned logging pipelines
- Journey Tests
- Modernized Unit Tests
- Updated build pipeline
### 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:
We anticipate reviving a VOTE for graduation in 2021 Q2.
We have addressed most issues raised by IPMC during last graduation VOTE
(2020 Q4):
- [X] Add DISCLAIMER to subprojects to be retired (TAP, STOUT,
UserALE.pyqt5, user-ale)
- [ ] Make subprojects to be retired Read Only (in progress, but
non-blocking)
- [X] Add logo to https://apache.org/logos/?#flagon
- [X] Update UserALE.js release processes for consistency with Apache
policies for NPM Package Releases (see 2.1.1 release)
- [X] Get all committers subscribed to appropriate lists (might still be
missing one, but have contacted all)
### Date of last release:
2020-03-27 (UserALE.js 2.1.0)
Note: UserALE.js 2.1.1 has passed a successful release VOTE.
2.1.1 Release announcement is pending website update. Artifacts are
currently available on mirrors, GitHub, and NPM.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2021-03-26 (Gedd Johnson). ICLA has been received by Secretary. He
originates from one of our core user communities.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Mentors are supportive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
- To date, there are no known issues of 3rd Party misuse of brand
- 'Flagon' was cleared through the Apache PODLINGNAMESEARCH workflow.
- 'Flagon' branded graphics will conform to Apache's Trademark and
Branding policies.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) David Meikle
Comments: Great to see the community engagement.
- [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments: Thanks for the detailed report!
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform
Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Work with IPMC to approve draft graduation resolution
2. Add DISCLAIMER and make read-only subprojects to be retired (TAP,
STOUT, etc.)
3. Add logo to appropriate Apache outlet (logos.apache.org)
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No issues at this time.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Not significantly.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- We are working towards UserALE release 2.1.1
- We have been actively engaged with an expanding user base
- Core product source code is well maintained
- Preparing to complete outstanding graduation actions
### 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:
2020-03-27
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- Furkan (Mentor) 2019-07-24
- Tim Allison (Mentor) 2019-07-17
- Arthi Vezhavendan (PPMC) 2017-01-24
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
- Our mentors have been very supportive and responsive
- Our mentors have urged us to create a Graduation resolution
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
- To date, there are no known issues of 3rd Party misuse of brand
- 'Flagon' was cleared through the Apache PODLINGNAMESEARCH workflow.
- 'Flagon' branded graphics will conform to Apache's Trademark and
Branding policies.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments: Flagon was to do degree blokced from graduating within the
last ~3 months. I personally felt that the IMPC review of the DRAFT
graduation resolution could have been better handled by the IPMC. There
were a number of non-blocking items which were raised and which
eventually
impacted the motivation to graduate. It would be nice if Flagon could
graduate as ther podling has shown excellent underatanding of the
Apache
Way and it's patience to mature as a podling. I will work with the
Flagon
PPMC on the next steps as highlightes in the above report.
- [ ] (flagon) David Meikle
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Justin Mclean: Looking at the email discussion I can't see how it was
blocked,
a few minor things were raised that were easily fixed. All of the proposed
PMC members have still not signed up the the private list.
Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform
Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Work with IPMC to approve draft graduation resolution (blocking)
2. Update release practices to be consistent with NPM, Python registry
(non-blocking)
3. Push new UserALE.js release (non-blocking)
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
- No major issues at this time.
- However, the community has been affected by COVID impacts on certain
sectors.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- COVID has affected community engagement and onboarding new committers
- User base remains strong and continues to grow in specific markets
- We continue to train and socialize new committers
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Project maturity roadmaps & release plans are maintained
- Sub-projects are being migrated to Git Issues
- Core product source code is well maintained
- We continue to develop our analytical produce to expand interest
### 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:
2020-03-27
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- Furkan (Mentor) 2019-07-24
- Tim Allison (Mentor) 2019-07-17
- Arthi Vezhavendan (PPMC) 2017-01-24
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
- Our mentors have been very supportive and responsive
- Our mentors have urged us to create a Graduation resolution
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
- To date, there are no known issues of 3rd Party misuse of brand
- 'Flagon' was cleared through the Apache PODLINGNAMESEARCH workflow.
- 'Flagon' branded graphics will conform to Apache's Trademark and
Branding policies.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments: Flagon is very close to graduation. The podling status page
has been
updated to reflect reality
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/flagon.html
This has also been posted to the IMPC general@ channel
https://s.apache.org/q0k3q
- [X] (flagon) David Meikle
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform
Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Grow the Flagon Committer/Contributor/Community Base
2. Refine release processes for core analytic product (Distill)
3. Finalize (through vote) Flagon logo, get marketing approvals (e.g swag)
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
* Despite COVID impacts on our community, Flagon remains active
* No other issues
### How has the community developed since the last report?
* COVID has affected community engagement and onboarding new committers
* User base remains strong
* The community has rallied to participate in ApacheCon@Home
### How has the project developed since the last report?
* Project maturity roadmaps & release plans are maintained
* Sub-projects are being migrated to Git Issues
* Core product source code is well maintained
* The community has begun experimenting with OpenTelemetry to expand
interest
* We continue to develop our analytical produce to expand interest
### 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:
2020-03-17
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* Furkan (Mentor) 2019-07-24
* Tim Allison (Mentor) 2019-07-17
* Arthi Vezhavendan (PPMC) 2017-01-24
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
* Our mentors have been very supportive and responsive
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
* To date, there are no known issues of 3rd Party misuse of brand
* 'Flagon' was cleared through the Apache PODLINGNAMESEARCH workflow.
* 'Flagon' branded graphics will conform to Apache's Trademark and
Branding policies.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) David Meikle
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform
Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Grow the Flagon Committer/Contributor/Community Base
2. Refine release processes for core analytic product (Distill)
3. Finalize (through vote) Flagon logo, get marketing approvals (e.g swag)
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
* None at this time.
* Flagon will likely draft and vote on a graduation resolution this year.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Continued improving release processes and code base
2. Continued to generate a wide user base
3. Discussing collaborations for R&D applications
4. New potential committers are identified and will be introduced soon
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Project maturity roadmaps & release plans are maintained
2. Sub-projects are being migrated to Git Issues
3. Core product source code is well maintained
4. Analytical products are being refactored to grow user base
5. Continued attention and improvement in Apache Process
### 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:
2020-03-17
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* Furkan (Mentor) 2019-07-24
* Tim Allison (Mentor) 2019-07-17
* Arthi Vezhavendan (PPMC) 2017-01-24
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
* Our mentors have been very supportive and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
* To date, there are no known issues of 3rd Party misuse of brand
* 'Flagon' was cleared through the Apache PODLINGNAMESEARCH workflow.
* 'Flagon' branded graphics will conform to Apache's Trademark and
Branding policies.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) David Meikle
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Flagon is a behavioral logging platform for web pages and apps
Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Grow the Flagon Committer/Contributor/Community Base
2. Refine release processes for core analytic product (Distill)
3. Finalize (through vote) Flagon logo, get marketing approvals (e.g swag)
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
* None at this time. Following mentors' comments in last (Q3 2019)
report, Flagon will likely draft and vote on a graduation resolution in
the new year.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
* continued improving release processes and code base
* continued to generate a wide user base
* discussing collaborations for R&D applications
* new potential committers have been identified and will be introduced to
the community in the new year
### How has the project developed since the last report?
* Project maturity roadmaps & release plans (JIRA) are maintained
* JIRA boards continue to be maintained.
* Core product source code is well maintained
* Analytical products are being refactored to grow user base
* Continued attention and improvement in Apache Process
* Expect UserALE.js v 2.1.0 RC in Q1 2020
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [X] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
* 2019-08-21 Flagon UserALE.js (Incubating) 2.0.2
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* Furkan Kamaci (Mentor) 2019-07-24
* Tim Allison (Mentor) 2019-07-17
* Arthi Vezhavendan (PPMC) 2017-01-24
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
* Our mentors have been very supportive and
responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
* 'Flagon' was cleared through the Apache PODLINGNAMESEARCH
workflow.
* 'Flagon' branded images graphics are under development and
will conform to Apache's Trademark and Branding policies.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) David Meikle
Comments:
- [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Flagon is a behavioral logging platform for web pages and apps
Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Grow the Flagon Committer/Contributor/Community Base
2. Refine release processes for core analytic product (Distill)
3. Finalize (through vote) Flagon logo, post name change
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
* None at this time.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
* continued improving [release
processes](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLAGON/UserALE.js+Rel
ease+Management+Procedure) and code base
* continued to generate a wide user base
* discussing collaborations for R&D applications
* the community has organically grown with a new contributors
* the community has begun a refactoring of Flagon-Distill
### How has the project developed since the last report?
* Completed major updates to website and repos following name change
* Project maturity roadmaps & release plans (JIRA) are maintained
* JIRA boards continue to be maintained.
* Core product source code is well maintained
* Analytical products are being refactored as of report date
* Continued attention and improvement in Apache Process
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
* 2019-08-21 Flagon UserALE.js (Incubating) 2.0.2
* 2019-07-01 Flagon UserALE.js (Incubating) 2.0.0
* 2019-06-21 Flagon UserALE.js (Incubating) 1.0.0 (ReRelease)
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* Furkan Kamaci (Mentor) 2019-07-24
* Tim Allison (Mentor) 2019-07-17
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
* Flagon thanks its new Mentors for their engagement this quarter.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (Flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments: I think it is nearly time for the Flagon PPMC to draft a
graduation resolution. I've mentioned this on the mailing list and
received feedback on it. Recent releases prove that the release
process and quality of source code artifacts are no longer blocking
issues. I would like to see Flagon graduate in this next quarter.
- [X] (Flagon) David Meikle
Comments: Progress has been made with new mentors engaged and releases
starting to flow.
- [ ] (Flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
- [X] (Flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments: I agree that Apache Flagon is ready for graduation solution
as Lewis mentioned on the mailing list.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache Flagon is a generalized user behavioural logging platform for web
pages and thin-client applications
Apache Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13; Apache Flagon has
officially changed its name from Apache SensSoft.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Accelerate release frequency and reduce branch complexity in repos to
reduce adoption, contributor disincentives.
2. Grow the Apache Flagon Committer/Contributor/Community Base around our
core product Apache UserALE.js (Incubating)
3. Complete the issues highlighted at the Apache Flagon Roadmap [1]
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
Apache Flagon is currently suffering from unresponsive mentors:
* Dave Meikle has been active and engaged, aside from a prolonged outage
due to a long-term illness. We are grateful for Dave's help and assistance
since then.
* Lewis McGibbney has been uncharacteristically unresponsive on dev@,
private@, and to PM. Note that Lewis has been a champion for us and have
confidence that he will return to activity.
* Atri Sharma has been wholly inactive. We tried to report this in our
last Q1 report; when posted to dev@ for review, he maintained that he
didn't the ability to cast binding VOTEs as an excuse for
non-engagement. We softened the language in our Q1 report and encouraged
him to participate by providing guidance, mentorship, and engaging in
community VOTEs. We haven't heard from him since despite numerous requests
for help and support posted to private@
As a result of long periods of mentor absence:
* ReRelease of v1.0.0 (at IPMC ) was delayed until mentors (Dave) were
available to guide us through a potential copyright issue (resolved).
* Prolonged the process of our name change as we struggled to explore
Apache documentation and understand what we had to change (in process; HUGE
thanks to INFRA for assisting us with some of the details).
* Is presently impeding our release process (not enough binding VOTES)
after tightening release procedures, and working hard to clean up our
branch structure to increase this cadence.
* We have struggled to get timely IPMC sign-off on REPORTs and have been
unable to post these ourselves to the incubator wiki for lack of permission.
* We have had to abandon our prior NPM distribution as it was released by
a non-responsive mentor on their personal NPM account (we don't have
credentials). [2]
NOTE as of the date of REPORT (6/26/2019) our ReRelease of Apache Flagon
UserALE.js (Incubating) v1.0.0 has been under VOTE on general@ for 9 days
(6/17/2019). After community and PPMC VOTE, we needed +2 binding votes.
We received helpful comments from Justin McLean, but despite numerous
reminders to VOTE, we still have yet to receive the last +1 binding VOTE
from IPMC. We are concerned that without active mentors, our release
cadence will remain slow and unresponsive to user communities.
With Dave Meikle's help, we will be searching for two additional mentors
so that our community is self sufficient. We recommend dropping Atri Sharma
from the project for non-participation.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
The community has:
* improved release processes and code base to expedite future releases
[3,4]
* gathered a wide base of users that are eagerly anticipating UserALE.js
v2.0.0 via NPM (under VOTE within the community as of this date).
* discussed with external parties research applications with university
research labs in machine learning and social computing.
* the community has organically grown with a new contributor, who is
participating in VOTEs
* the community expects to complete major updates to documentation on
website and READMEs, in early JUL 2019. Wiki updates will complete shortly
thereafter.
Despite consistent challenges to our community throughout 2018, we are
showing signs of growth, continue to have a relevant project, and are well
postured to accelerate growth in the coming quarters. We remain committed
to learning and adopting the Apache Way.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
* Completed migration to GitBox Repos
* Project maturity roadmaps (Wiki) and version release plans (JIRA)
continue to be maintained.
* JIRA boards continue to be maintained.
* Core product source code for front-end and back-end assets has been
steadily maintained and modernized.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2018-03-14
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Arthi Vezhavendan was added to Committer base on 2017-01-24
Dave Meikle was added to PPMC on 2018-11-24
Atri Sharma was added to PPMC on 2018-11-24
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks?
See mentorship issues above.
We are now aware that we can lean on general@ or INFRA for support
without permission and have deepened our knowledge of Apache processes so
that committers are more self-sufficient.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) Dave Meikle
Comments: Great to have two releases out post the name change. Now we
need to work on improving the mentor situation and on building the
community.
- [ ] (flagon) Atri Sharma
Comments:
[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLAGON/Roadmaps
[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/useralejs
[3] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/flagon/
[4] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLAGON/UserALE.js+Release+Manage
ment+Procedure
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Justin Mclean: All PPMC members in the roster have permission to edit the
incubator report, you don't need to rely on mentors for that. For extra mentors
please ask on the incubator list.
Apache SensSoft is a generalized user behavioral logging platform for web pages and thin-client applications Apache SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) Committer/Community Base. 2. Complete our Podling name change 3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap [1] Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? * We have completed our PODLINGNAMESEARCH workflow and our new name Apache Flagon has been approved by VP of marketing [2]. * We have posted tickets to change the name of our core assets (JIRA, Website, GitBox Repos) [3], to coincide with changing website text, other content-based references to Apache SensSoft. * We are preparing for additional releases, immediately following our full transition to the Apache Flagon Namesake (UserALE.js v. 2.0.0, 2.1.0; poss. Flagon 1.0.0). How has the community developed since the last report? * The community has been: - discussing reaching out to other open source projects to identify other potential communities (analytical technologies) to drive developments, as well as increase interest in the Podling. - discussing research applications with university research labs in machine learning and social computing. - discussing adoption of the technology with interested entities and identifying/eliminating barriers to adoption. - updating documentation on wiki and READMEs to improve community growth How has the project developed since the last report? * Project maturity roadmaps (Wiki) and version release plans (JIRA) continue to be maintained. * JIRA boards continue to be maintained * Core products have been maintained for modernization and for security posture. * New features have been added to enhance adoption and make Apache SensSoft competitive with open-source business analytics services (e.g., OWA). How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. * Despite challenges posed by dispersion of the original committers, the project is finding its footing again and continues to be desirable for consumption and relevant amidst alternatives. The impending name change is an opportunity for rebranding and acceleration of community growth. [X] Initial setup [X] Working towards first release [X] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: 2018-03-14 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Arthi Vezhavendan was added to Committer base on 2017-01-24 Dave Meikle was added to PPMC on 2018-11-24 Atri Sharma was added to PPMC on 2018-11-24 Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling through the cracks? * Lewis McGibbney has been extremely helpful and has actively participated in our PODLINGNAMESEARCH. * Dave Meikle has actively participated in our PODLINGNAMESEARCH process and has pledged to assist in growing the community following a determination of our PODLINGNAMESEARCH results. * Atri Sharma has offered his mentorship, but is not yet elected to IPMC, and has not been able to offer binding votes. Signed-off-by: [ ](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney Comments: [X](senssoft) Dave Meikle Comments: [ ](senssoft) Atri Sharma Comments: [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmaps <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmaps> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-154 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-154> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-18100 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-18100> IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Extending release process to other parts of the SensSoft software
stack.
2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) Committer/Community Base.
3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap [1]
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
Following a successful VOTE in favor of changing the Podling name [2],
the community submitted 12 nominations for new Podling names [2]. The names
are collected for easy reference on our confluence space [3]. The community
downselected the names [2] JIRA tickets have been written to track
progress on research on PODLINGNAMESEARCH board [4].
How has the community developed since the last report?
The community has been:
- discussing reaching out to other open source projects to identify other
potential communities (analytical technologies) to drive developments, as
well as increase interest in the Podling.
- discussing research applications with university research labs in
machine learning and social computing.
- the community has onboarded 2 new Mentors—Dave Meikle and Atri Sharma
- updating documentation on wiki and READMEs to improve community growth
How has the project developed since the last report?
Project maturity roadmaps (Wiki) and version release plans (JIRA)
continue
to be maintained.
JIRA boards continue to be maintained
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-03-14
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Arthi Vezhavendan was added to Committer base on 2017-01-24
Dave Meikle was added to PPMC on 2018-11-24
Atri Sharma was added to PPMC on 2018-11-24
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks?
Chris Mattmann and Paul Ramirez have been removed as mentors in the last
month.
Lewis McGibbney has been extremely helpful and has actively participated
in our PODLINGNAMESEARCH.
New mentors are awaiting a determination of our PODLINGNAMESEARCH and
will assist in growing the community.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
[X](senssoft) Dave Meikle
Comments:
[ ](senssoft) Atri Sharma
Comments:
[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmaps
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmaps>
[2]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9a971fee3b17ac401cf76b16e5dc026c10a2995
91ee93329117a3cec@%3Cdev.senssoft.apache.org%3E
<https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9a971fee3b17ac401cf76b16e5dc026c10a299
591ee93329117a3cec@%3Cdev.senssoft.apache.org%3E>
[3]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/PODLINGNAMESEARCH
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/PODLINGNAMESEARCH>
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SENSSOFT-312
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SENSSOFT-312>
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache SensSoft is a generalized user behavioral logging platform for web
pages and
thin-client applications
Apache SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Extending release process to other parts of the SensSoft software
stack.
2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) Committer/Community Base.
3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmaps
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
The community submitted 12 nominations for new Podling names. The names
are collected for easy reference on our confluence space [1].
JIRA tickets have been written to track progress on research on
PODLINGNAMESEARCH board [2].
How has the community developed since the last report?
The community has been:
-discussing reaching out to other open source projects to identify other
potential communities (analytical technologies) to drive developments,
as well as increase interest in the Podling.
-discussing research applications with university research labs in
machine learning and social computing.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Project maturity roadmaps (Wiki) and version release plans (JIRA)
continue to be maintained. JIRA boards continue to be maintained
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-03-14
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Arthi Vezhavendan was added to PPMC and Committer base on 2017-01-24
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks?
Chris Mattmann and Paul Ramirez have been removed as mentors in the last
month.
Lewis McGibbney has been extremely helpful and has actively participated
in our NAMESEARCH.
Signed-off-by:
[X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
[1]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/PODLINGNAMESEARCH
[2]
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/SENSSOFT/issues/SENSSOFT-308?filter=
allopenissues
}}}
Apache SensSoft is a generalized user behavioral logging platform for web
pages and thin-client applications
Apache SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Extending release process to other parts of the SensSoft software
stack.
2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) Committer/Community Base.
3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmaps
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The community will begin the process of voting on a new project name this
month.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Several community members have started new employment opening
opportunities for community growth. No new community members have come
onboard.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Project maturity roadmaps (Wiki) and version release plans (JIRA)
continue to be maintained.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-03-14
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Arthi Vezhavendan was added to PPMC and Committer base on 2017-01-24
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.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
Comments:
[X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments: Hopefully this report has been submitted just in time for
the deadline.
The SensSoft Podling is coping well under pressing conditions with an
ongoing activity which seeks to essentially rebrand the podling. Once
we find a new identity,
I will be working to drive the SensSoft towards graduation. I have
also expressed my desire to onboard one other mentor. Hopefully the
IPMC has the capacity to rise to that request.
[X](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
Comments: Approved.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Extending release process to other parts of the SensSoft software stack.
2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) Committer/Community Base.
3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmaps
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Yes. In the last Quarter, a number of core Apache SensSoft committers
changed organization. While the Apache SensSoft team will use this as an
opportunity to organically grow the committer/community based, these
departures have caused branding concerns for the organization that
initiated the Apache SensSoft software gift to Apache—The Charles Stark
Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper). Specifically, in referencing an
affiliation with the ‘Apache SensSoft’ project at different organizations,
an Apache SensSoft committer received the following request from Draper:
“We flagged your signature for review by Draper legal since SENSOFTtm and
Software as a Sensor (R) are Draper-owned trademarks. As you know, the main
purpose of trademarks is to avoid customer confusion. We believe that the
use of SENSOFT or SOFTWARE AS A SENSOR in [another company’s] employee
signature block may lead to confusion as to the source and owner of the
SENSOFT product. While we appreciate your acknowledgement that Draper owns
SOFTWARE AS A SENSOR and SENSOFT technology, and the good will behind your
intentions to promote technology you worked on while at Draper, in order to
preserve the Draper trademarks we respectfully request that you either:
-Remove any reference of SENSOFT or SOFTWARE AS A SENSOR from your BAE
signature block; OR -Indicate in the signature directly following SENSOFT
the following: “SENSOFTtm and SOFTWARE AS A SENSOR are trademarks owned by
the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.” NOTE: SENSOFT refers to
SENSSOFT (SENSOFT is a misspelling) The committer in question has
corresponded Draper and raised the issue that ‘Apache SensSoft’ refers to a
public open source project, where ‘Software as a Sensor’ and ‘SENSSOFT’
refer to Draper proprietary technology, as well as citing the terms of the
Software Gift. Draper is steadfast in asserting rights now that committers
formerly at Draper are now at other employers. While this affects the
Apache SensSoft community’s ability to grow through outreach and publicity,
we do not believe we require Legal assistance from the ASF. Rather, in
discussion with both Draper and Apache SensSoft PPMC/Champions, the path of
least resistance appears to be to change the Apache SensSoft project name.
The PPMC will initiate a vote on @dev for changing the name. If it passes,
a subsequent vote will determine the projects new name. In the meantime,
committers will begin removing references to Software as a Sensor(tm) from
project documentation.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Several community members have started new employment opening opportunities
for community growth in the last quarter. No new community members have
come onboard.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Development continues at a sustainable level. Several major improvements
have been made to make the Apache SensSoft stack deployable at various
levels of scale, including major improvements to documentation and
examples, and testing procedures. Project maturity roadmaps (Wiki) and
version release plans (JIRA) continue to be maintained.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-03-14
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Arthi Vezhavendan was added to PPMC and Committer base on 2017-01-24
Signed-off-by:
[ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
Comments:
[X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments: There are several issues identified above which, as would be
expected, have somewhat stunted sustained growth. SensSoft is still
however on track to graduation with motivation for graduation still
present. The above report was produced by a PPMC member this time
around, NOT the mentoring team.
[X](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Dave Fisher - I've pointed the podling to the suitable name search and
reminded them that they need to look into more than the name
of the project. They need to check their product names like UserAle,
TAP, Distill and Stout.
SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Extending release process to other parts of the SensSoft software stack.
2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) community.
3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmap
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?
The community successfully delivered the first Incubating release for
UserALE.js. No new community members have come onboard. Several members of
the community VOTE'd on the UserALE.js 1.0.0 release candidate.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Development continues at a sustainable level.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-03-14
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Arthi Vezhavendan was added to PPMC and Committer base on 2017-01-24
Signed-off-by:
[ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
Comments:
[X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
[ ](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
Comments:
SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Moving towards the first Incubating release of the source code and other
release artifacts to NPM/Bower, etc. 2. Grow the Apache SensSoft
(Incubating) community. 3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft
Roadmap https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmap
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?
The community continues development via the scrum method. We are aiming for
the generation of the first release candidate for UserALE.js. No new
community members have come onboard with development swamping the mailing
lists. SensSoft is currently being worked into a NASA ACCESS proposal which
we hope will further community use and development.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project is making sustainable progress. Project members are driving
towards generation of a release candidate for UserALE.js 0.1.0.
How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own
commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Arthi Vezhavendan was added to PPMC and Committer base on 2017-01-24
Signed-off-by:
[ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
Comments:
[X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
[ ](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
Comments:
SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Moving towards the first Incubating release of the source code and other
release artifacts to NPM/Bower, etc.
2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) community.
3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmap
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?
The community continues development via the scrum method,
sprinting towards the generation of the first release candidate
for UserALE.js. No new community members have come onboard with
development swamping the mailing lists.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project is making sustainable progress. Project members
are driving towards generation of a release candidate for
UserALE.js 0.1.0.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Arthi Vezhavendan was added to PPMC and Committer base on 2017-01-24
Signed-off-by:
[ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
Comments:
[X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
[ ](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
- Drew Farris (shepherd): One mentor active on the mailing lists.
SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Moving towards the first Incubating release of the source code and other
release artifacts to NPM/Bower, etc.
2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) community.
3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmap
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?
The community has been following a scrum method, sprinting
towards the generation of the first release candidate for
UserALE.js. This is showing a solid basis for growth and
is working well. Josh Poore (project lead) recently demo'd
SensSoft to a NASA Earth Science Data Systems Working Group
focused on Search Relevancy. SensSoft is actively being evaluated
and used within several prototypes at NASA JPL.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project is making sustainable progress. Project members
are driving towards generation of UserALE.js 0.1.0 which is
great.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Arthi Vezhavendan was added to PPMC and Committer base on 2017-01-24
Signed-off-by:
[ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
Comments:
[X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
[X](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
Comments:
SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Moving towards the first Incubating release of the source code and other
release artifacts.
2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) community.
3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmap
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?
The community has been stable and working well towards
the commons goals identified within the Roadmap.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project has reached a stage where our first Incubating
VOTE'ing process is very close. The community has been working
well towards strategic release-oriented goals.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[x] Initial setup
[x] 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?
Arthi Vezhavendan was added to PPMC and Committer base on 2017-01-24
Signed-off-by:
[ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
Comments:
[X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
[ ](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Drew Farris (shepherd):
Two mentors active on the mailing lists. Development activity present on
mailing lists. Progress towards first release observed.
SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Moving towards the first Incubating release of the source code and other
release artifacts.
2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) community.
3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmap
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?
SensSoft has seen increased uptake in ongoing DARPA projects meaning that
there is increased opportunity for adoption as the Podling matures and
aims for the first incubating release.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The PPMC have developed a stunning/killer Website which embeds a demo:
http://senssoft.incubator.apache.org
The codebase has seen a bunch of commits and we are ready to move towards
the first incubating release.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Arthi Vezhavendan was added to PPMC and Committer base on 2017-01-24
Signed-off-by:
[ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
[X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
[ ](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Moving towards the first Incubating release of the source code and other
release artifacts.
2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) community.
3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmap
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 community has not grown over and above the list of initial committers.
Draper Labs are doing a bunch of social media outreach and are also demo'ing
SensSoft at a number of Human/Computer + UI/UX Events so we hope this will
change.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project has seen loads of activity on Jira and the mailing list. All code
has been licensed under ALv2.0 with NOTICE's, DISCLAIMER's, etc now being
committed across the SensSoft software suite. Jira is very busy. We are
utilizing builds.apache.org for all projects builds... this is part of the aim
to move towards CI for the SensSoft stack.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
[X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
[ ](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Drew Farris (shepherd): One mentor active within the past month. Active
JIRA/Developers Mailing Lis
SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Establishing our Users mailing list and getting incubating releases
to the user community
2. Completing the initial build on our website(s) (in progress)
3. Consolidating our Quick Start deployment guides on Apache infrastructure
(Confluence, website) that allow for an end-to-end deployment of data
collection services with containers for assets (Docker Images) for
speedy deployment (in progress)
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. Community members have been working with DoD and Industry partners to
bring them on as contributors to the project (ex. Other industry leaders
in HCI/UX offerings for DoD have begun offering SensSoft products as
part of their technical offerings).
2. The community has established a Twitter feed (@ApacheSensSoft) and are
growing our community by following others (e.g., Kitware, etc.)
3. Community members from Draper Labs have made arrangements to present at
uie21 and the emetrics summit as exhibitors to capture community
followers in the UI/UX and business analytics communities.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. The transition to Apache Infrastructure is complete!!!
2. We have moved over all our development tickets into Apache Jira. All
development is now taking place @Apache which is great.
3. We are working on new patches and version releases for TAP, UserAle.js,
Distill products (sub projects under SENSSOFT), which will now be
visible through commits.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[X](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
[X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
[X](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Chris Mattmann:
Project has primarily being Championed by Lewis John McGibbney. Lots of
lots of JIRA activity and mailing list activity from the Draper
contributors, including Joshua Poore. Doing a good job starting up.
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
XXXX-XX-XX
SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Ensure that Software grant/CCLA are submitted to secretary@
2. Port all infrastructure and community over to the ASF Incubator
infrastructure.
3. Grow the Senssoft community and work towards incubating releases.
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?
Senssoft has only literally arrived in the Incubator. Podling
bootstrapping is currently underway. CCLA was received by secretary@
and all CLAs have been submitted and received as well. We are ready
to begin incubating.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Project repos have been established at the ASF and the community
are undertaking QA in order to have them writable.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
[X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
[X](senssoft) Chris Mattmann