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HTrace

21 Mar 2018

HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.

HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. -
 2. -
 3. -

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

The HTrace podling has seen no code activity in months. Discussion of
sending it to the Attic have been circulating for some time as well.
After literally no activity again over the last few months, it looks like
it is time to progress with sending HTrace to the Attic.

How has the community developed since the last report?

It has not.

How has the project developed since the last report?

It has not.

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
 [X] Other: No actiity.

Date of last release:

 2016-03-04

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 2016-10-03

Signed-off-by:

 [ ](htrace) Jake Farrell
    Comments:
 [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
    Comments:
 [X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
    Comments: In our January 2018 report we mentioned that
    "HTrace is very quiet. There is opportunity to continue
    work if we engage with projects already using HTrace. If that does not
    happen, we should retire the podling." We should therefore retire the podling.
 [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
    Comments:
 [ ](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
    Comments:
 [ ](htrace) Michael Stack

17 Jan 2018

HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.

HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. Continue to grow the Apache HTrace community 2. Further engagement with
 projects integrating Apache HTrace 3. Continue to develop and release stable
 Apache HTrace incubating artifacts

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?

Several months of stagnation have raised repeated conversations about retiring
HTrace. If nothing materializes before the end of Q1 2018 HTrace will be
retired.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 Mailing lists continue quiet (bar the above noted conversations).

How has the project developed since the last report?

 No development.

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:

 2016-09-15

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 2016-10-03

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](htrace) Jake Farrell
     Comments:
  [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
     Comments:
  [x](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
     Comments: HTrace is very quiet. There is
   opportunity to continue work is we engage with projects already using
   HTrace. If that does not happen, we should retire the podling.
  [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
     Comments:
  [x](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
     Comments:
  [X](htrace) Michael Stack
     Comments:

20 Sep 2017

HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.

HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. Continue to grow the Apache HTrace community
 2. Continue to explore projects integrating Apache HTrace
 3. Continue to develop and release stable Apache HTrace incubating artifacts

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?

 In a DISCUSSION thread on our dev list [1], one of us suggested
 moving the podling htrace to the attic because of inactivity.

 A healthy back and forth suggested that we are not
 dead yet, that we cut back our scope radically, and
 that we give it another try before calling it quits.

1. https://s.apache.org/9ybr

How has the community developed since the last report?

 Mailing lists continue quiet (bar the above noted thread).

How has the project developed since the last report?

 No development.

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:

 2016-10-06

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 2016-10-03

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](htrace) Jake Farrell
     Comments:
  [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
     Comments:
  [x](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
     Comments: I think the following comment resonates on the mailing list
     "...A healthy back and forth suggested that we are not dead yet,
     that we cut back our scope radically, and that we give it another
     try before calling it quits." I think HTrace may have a good opportunity
     to come back to life if the above cut backs are implemented.
  [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
     Comments:
  [x](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
     Comments:
  [X](htrace) Michael Stack
     Comments:

21 Jun 2017

HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.

HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. Continue to grow the Apache HTrace community
 2. Continue to explore projects integrating Apache HTrace
 3. Continue to develop and release stable Apache HTrace incubating artifacts

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?

 There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 Mailing lists have been quiet.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 We are on track to make an HTrace 4.3 release.

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:

 2016-10-06

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 2016-10-03


Signed-off-by:

 [x](htrace) Jake Farrell
    Comments:
 [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
    Comments:
 [ ](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
    Comments:
 [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
    Comments:
 [x](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
    Comments:
 [x](htrace) Michael Stack
    Comments:

15 Mar 2017

HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.

HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. Continue to grow the Apache HTrace community
 2. Continue to explore projects integrating Apache HTrace
 3. Continue to develop and release stable Apache HTrace incubating artifacts

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

 There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 Mailing lists have been quiet.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 Development has been quiet.

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:

 2016-10-06

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 2016-10-03

Signed-off-by:

 [ ](htrace) Jake Farrell
    Comments:
 [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
    Comments:
 [ ](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
    Comments:
 [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
    Comments:
 [x](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
    Comments:
 [x](htrace) Michael Stack
    Comments:

21 Dec 2016

HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.

HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. Continue to grow the Apache HTrace community
 2. Continue to explore projects integrating Apache HTrace
 3. Continue to develop and release stable Apache HTrace incubating
    artifacts

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

 There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 Mailing lists have been quiet. Little activity during this period.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 Released htrace-4.2.0 and added a new committer.

Date of last release:

 htrace-4.2.0 October 6th, 2016

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 +Mike Drob (mdrob) October 3rd, 2016 - Committer+PMC Member

Signed-off-by:

 [x](htrace) Jake Farrell
 [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
 [ ](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
 [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
 [x](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
 [x](htrace) Michael Stack

21 Sep 2016

Apache HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed
systems written in java.

Apache HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. Continue to grow the Apache HTrace community
 2. Continue to explore projects integrating Apache HTrace
 3. Continue to develop and release stable Apache HTrace incubating
    artifacts

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

 There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 * The dev@htrace mailing list continues to see new comers which is great.
 * Although a GSoC-related project was not successfully completed, the
   Apache Kudu and Apache HTrace communities have made contact. This is
   part of the drive to have more projects integrate Apache HTrace.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 * A discussion thread is currently ongoing to release HTrace 4.2. This
   will include over 40 issues addressed and may even be our last incubating
   release before we attempt to graduate.

Date of last release:

 * htrace-4.1.0-incubating on March 5th, 2016

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 * None this period. Last added committer: Abraham Elmahrek - 2.11.15

Signed-off-by:

 [X](htrace) Jake Farrell
 [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
 [X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
 [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
 [x](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
 [x](htrace) Michael Stack

15 Jun 2016

HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.

HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Continue to grow the HTrace community
  2. Continue to explore projects integrating HTrace
  3. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

  There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 * GSoC student, Nisala Mendis, mentored by Colin McCabe working on
   making an Apache Kudu (incubating) SpanReceiver

How has the project developed since the last report?

 * 18 issues resolved since last report
 * YCSB integrated HTrace

Date of last release:

  * htrace-4.1.0-incubating on March 5th, 2016

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  * None this period. Last added committer: Abraham Elmahrek - 2.11.15


Signed-off-by:

  [X](htrace) Jake Farrell
  [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
  [ ](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
  [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
  [X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
  [x](htrace) Michael Stack

20 Apr 2016

HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.

HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. Continue to grow the HTrace community
 2. Continue to explore projects integratiing HTrace
 3. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts

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?

 * YCSB community are working on integrating HTrace.
 * Google Summer of Code 2016 projects for Apache HTrace are being planned.
   There are proposals such as
   * distributed tracing for s3 and other alternative Hadoop FS
   * Kudu span receiver
   * integrating HTrace into Hadoop YARN
   * HTrace'ing in Apache Nutch

How has the project developed since the last report?

 * +70 issues were fixed and released as part of 4.1.0-incubating.
   * Improved htraced a lot in Web-UI, robustness, metrics and logging
   * Added Docker support for development
 * Added Documentation for developers

Date of last release:

 * htrace-4.1.0-incubating on March 5th, 2016

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 * None this period. Last added committer: Abraham Elmahrek - 2.11.15

Signed-off-by:

 [X](htrace) Jake Farrell
 [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
 [X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
 [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
 [X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
 [ ](htrace) Michael Stack

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

 John D. Ament (johndament):

   This podling's come pretty far.  Maybe time to graduate soon?

16 Dec 2015

HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems.

HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. Continue to grow the HTrace community
 2. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts
 3. Continue to explore the integration of the HTrace framework into
    other Apache products

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?

 39 subscribers to dev@ (up from 38) and about 200 messages
 since last report (up from 55 in previous period though many
 are build 'failures')

How has the project developed since the last report?

 About 65 issues resolved since last report contributed
 by 5 different contributors.

Date of last release:

 htrace-incubating-4.0.0 on Sept 14th, 2015
 htrace-incubating-4.0.1 on Sept 27th, 2015

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 None this period. Last added committer: Abraham Elmahrek - 2.11.15

Signed-off-by:

 [X](htrace) Jake Farrell
 [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
 [ ](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
 [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
 [X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
 [X](htrace) Michael Stack

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

16 Sep 2015

HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems.

HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Continue to grow the HTrace community
  2. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts
  3. Continue to explore the integration of the HTrace framework into
  other Apache products

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?

  38 subscribers to dev@ (up from 32) and about 55 messages
  since last report (down from 120 on previous period)

  At least three new contributors have showed up in this
  period.


How has the project developed since the last report?

 About 47 issues resolved since last report contributed
 by 6 different contributors.

 New GUI

 Working on new htrace-4.0 API with fixes to make htrace
 easier to host with a release inside the next few weeks.


Date of last release:

  None for this period.
  Last release was htrace-3.2.0 Jun 2, 2015

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  Committer: Abraham Elmahrek - 2.11.15

Signed-off-by:

  [X](htrace) Jake Farrell
  [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
  [X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
  [X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
  [X](htrace) Michael Stack

17 Jun 2015

HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.

HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Continue to grow the HTrace community
  2. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts
  3. Continue to explore the integration of the HTrace framework into
  other Apache products

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

  None

How has the community developed since the last report?

 A few new folks have showed up on the dev and user lists of late.

 Lively dev discussion on lists about:

 * The 3.2.0 release.
 * HTrace and CI
 * HTrace and JDK7 minimum
 * A meeting and discussion of GUI going forward
 * How to accommodate github pull requests

 Apache HTrace (Incubating) was presented at HBaseCon, May 7th in
 San Francisco by Colin McCabe and Abraham Elmahrek

 32 subscribers on dev@ and 120 messages since last report.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 About 36 JIRAs resolved since our last report.

Date of last release:

  htrace-3.2.0 Jun 2, 2015 The release was release managed
  by Abraham Elmahrek

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 Abraham Elmahrek was elected to become an HTrace committer
 on Wed, 11 Feb, 2-15.

Signed-off-by:

  [X](htrace) Jake Farrell
  [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
  [ ](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
  [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
  [X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
  [x](htrace) Michael Stack

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

  jda: Not a ton of traffic on the mailing list, but active enough for
  a podling.  Considering how new they are, I think they're in good shape
  and may want to begin thinking about graduation.

18 Mar 2015

HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.

HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. Continue to grow the HTrace community
 2. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts
 3. Continue to explore the integration of the HTrace framework into other
    Apache products

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?

 There has been a bunch of mailing list activity relating directly to issue
 3 above e.g. better integration of HTrace into HBase/HDFS.  HTrace is
 being represented at ApacheCon 2015 NA in April with a presentation
 "Introducing Apache HTrace: An End-to-End Tracing Framework for
 Distributed Systems - Colin McCabe, Cloudera - http://sched.co/2P8Q

How has the project developed since the last report?

 The codebase has seen about 30 odd commits since last reporting.  Jira
 continues to see activity which is encouraging as HTrace community
 progresses towards next incubating release.

Date of last release:

 2015-20-01 htrace-3.1.0-incubating

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 Abraham Elmahrek was elected to become an HTrace committer on
 Wed, 11 Feb, 2-15.

Signed-off-by:

 [X](htrace) Jake Farrell
 [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
 [X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
 [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
 [X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
 [X](htrace) Michael Stack

18 Feb 2015

HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.

HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. Continue to grow the HTrace community
 2. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts
 3. Continue to explore the integration of the HTrace framework into other
    Apache products

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

 Around January 20th HTrace successfully made the first release whilst in
 the Apache Incubator.  This was the outcomes of no-less than 10 release
 candidates and as many VOTE's.  In all every release candidate was very
 well managed with HTrace community providing excellent feedback to the
 release manager. Rather than then entire 10 release candidate exercise
 being a pain point for the community, it appears to have strengthened all
 involved. Well done HTrace.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 It is early incubating days for HTrace. The community has attracted in
 particular a new member who is doing a sterling job on a new UI for
 HTrace. Additionally it should be noted that the entire
 htrace-3.1.0-incubating release effort has certainly brought the existing
 community on leaps and bounds.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 The project has progressed significantly. In fact, it was highlighted on
 at least one occasion that documentation supporting a release candidate
 should be further clarified/improved due to the dynamic progressive nature
 of the HTrace codebase. As an early incubating project this is accepted as
 a positive move.

Date of last release:

 2015-20-01

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 ???

Signed-off-by:

 [X](htrace) Jake Farrell
 [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
 [X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
 [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
 [X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
 [X](htrace) Michael Stack

21 Jan 2015

HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.

HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Make our first release from incubator
  2. Move dependent projects over to the incubator version
  3. Continue to grow user and contributor base; i.e. grow the community.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

  None

How has the community developed since the last report?

  * 141 messages on dev@htrace
  * 42 issues resolved and 11 open

How has the project developed since the last report?

  * This is our first report.
  * We are fully moved over to Apache Infrastructure now (thanks in
    particular to Jake Farrell for help here).
  * We have our first htrace website published.
  * Development of an easy to deploy htraced trace sink and visualization is
    moving along nicely.
  * An htrace receiver for Apache Flume was contributed.
  * We have put up 5 release candidates for our 1st podling release with a
    6th on its way.

Date of last release:

  None as yet.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 None since initial setup.

Signed-off-by:

  [X](htrace) Jake Farrell
  [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
  [X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
  [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
  [X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
  [X](htrace) Michael Stack

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

 John D. Ament (johndament):

   The podling is working through its first release slowly.  First release
   is always the hardest.  Good activity for a new podling on the lists,
   still waiting on the board report though.