Community-led development "The Apache Way"
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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.