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Hama

15 Apr 2020

Terminate the Apache Hama Project

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best interest
 of the Foundation to continue the Apache Hama project due to
 inactivity;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Hama project is hereby
 terminated; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with oversight
 over the software developed by the Apache Hama Project; and be it
 further

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Hama" is hereby
 terminated; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Hama PMC is hereby terminated.

 Special Order 7C, Terminate the Apache Hama Project, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

15 Apr 2020 [Chia-Hung Lin / Craig]

No report was submitted.

18 Mar 2020 [Chia-Hung Lin / Roman]

No report was submitted.

@Dave: inform Hama about next steps for Attic resolution

19 Feb 2020 [Chia-Hung Lin / Craig]

No report was submitted.

@Ted: begin Attic process with Hama

15 Jan 2020 [Chia-Hung Lin / Rich]

No report was submitted.

18 Dec 2019 [Chia-Hung Lin / Myrle]

No report was submitted.

@Ted: pursue Attic resolution for Hama

20 Nov 2019 [Chia-Hung Lin / Shane]

No report was submitted.

16 Oct 2019 [Chia-Hung Lin / Shane]

No report was submitted.

18 Sep 2019 [Chia-Hung Lin / Ted]

No report was submitted.

@Ted: pursue Atticking

21 Aug 2019 [Chia-Hung Lin / Ted]

No report was submitted.

@Ted: pursue a report for Hama

15 May 2019 [Chia-Hung Lin / Shane]

## Description:
 - Apache Hama is a framework for Big Data analytics based on the Bulk
   Synchronous Parallel paradigm

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:

- Wiki was moved from MoinMoin to Confluence
- Some development related to the new features were committed

## Health report:

 - At this stage it looks ok as some tasks are underway, though the
   traffic is not very high

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Behroz Sikander on Mon Feb 01 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 18 committers.
 - Last committer addition was YoungWoo Kim at Sun May 20 2018

## Releases:

 - Last release was hama-0.7.1 on Sun Mar 13 2016

@Myrle: follow up about report

20 Mar 2019 [Chia-Hung Lin / Roman]

## Description:
 - Apache Hama is a framework for Big Data analytics based on the Bulk
   Synchronous Parallel paradigm

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:

 - Start discussion future roadmap
 - Move from git-wp to gitbox

## Health report:

 - In spite of low activities, this might be enough at this point. A
   few tasks had been initiated, and discussion with respect to the
   future development.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Behroz Sikander on Mon Feb 01 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 18 committers.
 - Last committer addition was YoungWoo Kim at Sun May 20 2018

## Releases:

 - Last release was hama-0.7.1 on Sun Mar 13 2016

@Shane: write up a proposal for PMC to show that they are exercising oversight

20 Feb 2019 [Chia-Hung Lin / Shane]

No report was submitted.

@Phil: pursue a report for Hama

16 Jan 2019 [Chia-Hung Lin / Isabel]

## Description:
 - Apache Hama is a framework for Big Data analytics based on the Bulk
   Synchronous Parallel paradigm

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:

 - HAMA-1005 umbrella ticket is created.

## Health report:

 - Mailing list is in low traffic.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Behroz Sikander on Mon Feb 01 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 18 committers.
 - Last committer addition was YoungWoo Kim at Sun May 20 2018

## Releases:

 - Last release was hama-0.7.1 on Sun Mar 13 2016

@Isabel: follow up -- are there enough PMC members?

19 Dec 2018 [Chia-Hung Lin / Rich]

No report was submitted.

21 Nov 2018 [Chia-Hung Lin / Rich]

## Description:
 - Apache Hama is a framework for Big Data analytics based on the Bulk
   Synchronous Parallel paradigm

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:

 - A branching for further componentization core module is underway, preparing
   for 0.8.0 release.

## Health report:

 - One new committer joined the community.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Behroz Sikander on Mon Feb 01 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 18 committers.
 - Last committer addition was YoungWoo Kim at Sun May 20 2018

## Releases:

 - Last release was hama-0.7.1 on Sun Mar 13 2016

@Rich: follow up with the PMC and get a report next month

15 Aug 2018 [Chia-Hung Lin / Bertrand]

## Description:
 - Apache Hama is a framework for Big Data analytics based on the Bulk
   Synchronous Parallel paradigm

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:

 - A branching for further componentization core module is underway, preparing
   for 0.8.0 release.

## Health report:

 - One new committer joined the community.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Behroz Sikander on Mon Feb 01 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 18 committers.
 - Last committer addition was YoungWoo Kim at Sun May 20 2018

## Releases:

 - Last release was hama-0.7.1 on Sun Mar 13 2016

20 Jun 2018 [Chia-Hung Lin / Shane]

## Description:
 - Apache Hama is a framework for Big Data analytics based on the Bulk
   Synchronous Parallel paradigm

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:

 - A branching for further componentization core module is underway, preparing
   for 0.8.0 release.

## Health report:

 - One new committer joined the community.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Behroz Sikander on Mon Feb 01 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 18 committers.
 - New committer:
     - YoungWoo Kim was added as a committer on Sun May 20 2018

## Releases:

 - Last release was hama-0.7.1 on Sun Mar 13 2016

16 May 2018 [Chia-Hung Lin / Phil]

No report was submitted.

@Phil: pursue a report for Hama

18 Apr 2018 [Chia-Hung Lin / Isabel]

## Description:
 - Apache Hama is a framework for Big Data analytics based on the Bulk
Synchronous Parallel paradigm

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
 - The project currently focuses on making the system more componentization.

## Health report:
 - Mailing list has little traffic at the moment.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 4 months
 - Last PMC addition was Behroz Sikander on Mon Feb 01 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 17 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was JongYoon Lim at Tue Sep 13 2016

## Releases:

 - Last release was hama-0.7.1 on Sun Mar 13 2016

21 Mar 2018 [Chia-Hung Lin / Phil]

No report was submitted.

@Phil: pursue a report for Hama

21 Feb 2018 [Chia-Hung Lin / Chris]

No report was submitted.

@Chris: pursue a report for Hama

20 Dec 2017

Change the Apache Hama Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Edward J. Yoon
 (edwardyoon) to the office of Vice President, Apache Hama; and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Edward J. Yoon from the office of Vice President, Apache Hama; and

 WHEREAS, the Community of the Apache Hama project has chosen to
 recommend Chia-Hung Lin (chl501) as the successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Edward J. Yoon is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache Hama; and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Chia-Hung Lin be and hereby is appointed
 to the office of Vice President, Apache Hama, 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.

 Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Hama Project Chair, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

20 Dec 2017 [Edward J. Yoon / Chris]

## Description:
 - Apache Hama is a framework for Big Data analytics based on the Bulk
   Synchronous Parallel paradigm

## Issues:
 - the PMC didn't manage to report in the last 3 board calls for reports.

## Activity:
 - the activity in the project is low. However new contributors have showed up
   in the mailing list and started creting Jira issues.

## Health report:
 - the community is not doing very good. Most of the committers / PMC members
   do not seem to have enough cycles to contribute to the project. We have
   raised awareness about the chance for Apache Hama to go Attic, calling out
   for new contributors. We have seen some positive responses from potential
   new contributors. We also have voted (submitted for this next board
   meeting) for a new PMC chair.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Behroz Sikander on Mon Feb 01 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 17 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was JongYoon Lim at Tue Sep 13 2016

## Releases:

 - Last release was hama-0.7.1 on Sun Mar 13 2016

15 Nov 2017 [Edward J. Yoon / Mark]

No report was submitted.

@Rich: follow up with PMC

18 Oct 2017 [Edward J. Yoon / Chris]

No report was submitted.

20 Sep 2017 [Edward J. Yoon / Shane]

No report was submitted.

16 Aug 2017 [Edward J. Yoon / Rich]

No report was submitted.

@Rich: follow up to see if the project is still viable

19 Jul 2017 [Edward J. Yoon / Chris]

No report was submitted.

@Chris: pursue a report for Hama; is a new chair needed?

21 Jun 2017 [Edward J. Yoon / Mark]

No report was submitted.

17 May 2017 [Edward J. Yoon / Mark]

No report was submitted.

15 Mar 2017 [Edward J. Yoon / Jim]

Apache Hama(TM) is a framework for Big Data analytics which uses the
Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) computing model, which was established
in 2012 as a Top-Level Project of The Apache Software Foundation.

## Issues:

- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:

- Hama community is going inactive. We discussed about this issue, 3 PMC
 members said that they still have a interest in contribute this project.
 We'll discuss more about how to manage the community in the future.

## Health report:

- Received few user-list emails and one subproject proposal. There's no
 active improvement progress.

## PMC changes:

- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Behroz Sikander on Mon Feb 01 2016

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 17 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was JongYoon Lim at Tue Sep 13 2016

## Releases:

- Last release was hama-0.7.1 on Mon Mar 14 2016

## Mailing list activity:

- The framework has been stabilized in term of functionality. We need to let
 more users find more bugs and find more use cases.

- dev@hama.apache.org:
  - 115 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
  - 11 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)

- user@hama.apache.org:
  - 184 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
  - 9 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

27 Feb 2017 [Edward J. Yoon / Bertrand]

No report was submitted.

@Bertrand: pursue a report for Hama

16 Nov 2016 [Edward J. Yoon / Bertrand]

## Description:

 - Apache Hama is a framework for Big Data analytics which uses the Bulk
Synchronous Parallel (BSP) computing model, which was established in 2012 as
a Top-Level Project of The Apache Software Foundation.

## Issues:

 - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:

 - "Apache Hama: An Emerging BSP Computing Framework for Big Data
Applications" has accepted at IEEE ACCESS
 - We elected new committer JongYoon Lim

## Health report:

 - The jira and mailing list traffic decreasing. We are continuing
effort to making community healthier.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Behroz Sikander on Mon Feb 01 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 17 committers.
 - JongYoon Lim was added as a committer on Tue Sep 13 2016

## Releases:

 - Last release was hama-0.7.1 on Mon Mar 14 2016

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@hama.apache.org:
    - 114 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 36 emails sent to list (69 in previous quarter)

 - user@hama.apache.org:
    - 186 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 2 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

17 Aug 2016 [Edward J. Yoon / Isabel]

## Description:

 - Apache Hama is a framework for Big Data analytics which uses the Bulk
Synchronous Parallel (BSP) computing model, which was established in 2012 as
a Top-Level Project of The Apache Software Foundation.

## Issues:

 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:

 - Added float 32/16 writable
 - Migrated Hama streaming github project

## Health report:

 - The community has been somewhat inactive recently (maybe effect of
state-of-the-art cheap clouds?), but I'm (edward) working on neural
networks, streaming analytics using Hama on real products, and expect
we'll grow again.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Behroz Sikander on Mon Feb 01 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 16 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Behroz Sikander at Wed Feb 03 2016

## Releases:

 - Last release was hama-0.7.1 on Mon Mar 14 2016

## Mailing list activity:

The mailing list is inactive at the moment, but will reopen as soon as something exciting happens.

 - dev@hama.apache.org:
    - 115 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 75 emails sent to list (116 in previous quarter)

 - user@hama.apache.org:
    - 187 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 1 emails sent to list (13 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

18 May 2016 [Edward J. Yoon / Marvin]

Apache Hama is a framework for Big Data analytics which uses the Bulk
Synchronous Parallel (BSP) computing model, which was established in 2012 as
a Top-Level Project of The Apache Software Foundation.

## Issues:

 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:

 - GSoC student works on integrating with Apache Beam and benchmarking w/
other Apache projects.
 - There're a few contributions for support cloud storage and Async
messaging from contributors.

## Health report:

 - We've been working steadily to grow our community, and almost reached the
first 1.0.
 - user@ community should be increased.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Behroz Sikander on Mon Feb 01 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 16 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Behroz Sikander at Wed Feb 03 2016

## Releases:

 - hama-0.7.1 was released on Mon Mar 14 2016

## Mailing list activity:

 - Community is small and stable.

 - dev@hama.apache.org:
    - 114 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 131 emails sent to list (88 in previous quarter)

 - user@hama.apache.org:
    - 186 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 27 emails sent to list (11 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 8 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

17 Feb 2016 [ChiaHung Lin / Rich]

## Description:

   Hama is an efficient and scalable general-purpose BSP computing engine.

## Issues:

 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:

 - The community is still being baked and relatively small but getting
stabilized.
 - There's effort to integrate Hama with beam (dataflow) project from
outside the community.

## Health report:

 - We preparing 0.7.1 release that contained updates and bug fixes.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - Behroz Sikander was added to the PMC on Thu Jan 28 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 15 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Minho Kim at Thu Jun 11 2015

## Releases:

 - Last release was 0.7.0 on Sun Jun 14 2015

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@hama.apache.org:
    - 113 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
    - 96 emails sent to list (146 in previous quarter)

 - user@hama.apache.org:
    - 186 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 24 emails sent to list (44 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

18 Nov 2015

Change the Apache Hama Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Chia-Hung Lin
 (chl501) to the office of Vice President, Apache Hama, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Chia-Hung Lin from the office of Vice President, Apache Hama, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Hama project
 has chosen to recommend Edward J. Yoon (edwardyoon) as the successor to
 the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Chia-Hung Lin is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache Hama, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Edward J. Yoon be and hereby is appointed
 to the office of Vice President, Apache Hama, 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.

 Special Order 7B, Change the Apache Hama Project Chair, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

18 Nov 2015 [ChiaHung Lin / Sam]

## Description:

   Hama is an efficient and scalable general-purpose BSP computing engine.

## Issues:

 - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:

 - We provided the booth space for Apache Hama at Samsung OSS Conference 2015.
 - Migrated SVN to GIT.

## Health report:

 - We've got some bugs reported and we're planning next minor release.
 - but still small community with a few companies.


## PMC changes:

 - Currently 9 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
 - Last PMC addition was Andronidis Anastasios on Thu Mar 13 2014.

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 15 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months.
 - Last committer addition was Minho Kim at Thu Jun 11 2015.

## Releases:

 - Last release was 0.7.0 on Sun Jun 14 2015.

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@hama.apache.org:
    - 110 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
    - 147 emails sent to list (340 in previous quarter)

 - user@hama.apache.org:
    - 186 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
    - 37 emails sent to list (62 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 9 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months.
 - 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months.

19 Aug 2015 [ChiaHung Lin / Sam]

# Description:
   Hama is an efficient and scalable general-purpose BSP computing engine.

## Activity:
 - Release v0.7.1 once the bug HAMA-963 is fixed.
 - Plan DNN platform on top of Apache Hama.

## Health report:
 - Subscribers in dev is slightly increased and that in user is
relative stable. Although Hama released a new version v0.7.0 on Jun,
the community is relative small that accounts for the current traffic
in health report.

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
 - Currently 15 committers and 9 LDAP committee group members.
 - No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
 - Last LDAP committee group addition was Yexi Jiang at Thu Mar 13 2014
 - Minho Kim was added as a committer on Thu Jun 11 2015

## Releases:
 - 0.7.0 was released on Sat Jun 13 2015

## Mailing list activity:
 - dev@hama.apache.org:
    - 107 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 361 emails sent to list (483 in previous quarter)
 - user@hama.apache.org:
    - 182 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 62 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
 - 15 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 17 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

20 May 2015 [ChiaHung Lin / Greg]

Project Status
--------------

Apache Hama is planning to release 0.7.0, features include:

Support Mesos and Yarn.
Kyro serialization for messages.
Queue manager for incoming/ outgoing message bundles.

Community
---------

The last PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013
The last committer addition: 13 Jun, 2014

Community Objectives
--------------------

Before moving to 1.x, fault tolerance would be the main objective goal.

Releases
--------

The last release of Hama (0.6.4) was on 5th March 2014

18 Mar 2015 [ChiaHung Lin / Greg]

Project Status
--------------

Following patches are merged into repository.

Reduce memory footprint and increase performance per vertex (HAMA-919)
Support YARN module for hadoop 2.x stable version (HAMA-848)

Community
---------

The last PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013
The last committer addition: 13 Jun, 2014

Community Objectives
--------------------

Before moving to 1.x, fault tolerance would be the main objective goal.

Releases
--------

The last release of Hama (0.6.4) was on 5th March 2014

18 Feb 2015 [ChiaHung Lin / Sam]

No report was submitted.

19 Nov 2014 [ChiaHung Lin / Greg]

Project Status
--------------

Patch HAMA-907 related to Max-Flow Algorithm is merged to trunk.
HAMA-919 is purposed to improve memory efficiency and increase performance.
FT is still in progress.

Community
---------

dev@ list: 110
user@ list: 184

The last PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013
The last committer addition: Aug 19, 2014

Community Objectives
--------------------

Before moving to 1.x, fault tolerance would be the main objective goal.

Releases
--------

The last release of Hama (0.6.4) was on 5th March 2014.

20 Aug 2014 [ChiaHung Lin / Jim]

Apache Hama is a BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing framework
on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific
computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.

Project Status
--------------

Refactoring for fault tolerance is still in progress.
New users are helping improve web UI, and RPC performance.

Community
---------

The last PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013
The last committer addition: 13 Jun, 2014

Community Objectives
--------------------

Before moving to 1.x, fault tolerance would be the main objective goal.

Releases
--------

The last release of Hama (0.6.4) was on 5th March 2014.

@Jim: board report is a bit sparse; can this be improved for next report?

21 May 2014 [ChiaHung Lin / Greg]

Apache Hama is a BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing framework
on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific
computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.

Project Status
--------------

Currently a new refactoring is underway which would address the
shortage of current framework such as fault tolerance computation.

Community
---------

The last PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013
The last committer addition: Sep 9, 2013

Community Objectives
--------------------

Before moving to 1.x, fault tolerance would be the main objective goal
at which the entire community aims.

Releases
--------

The last release of Hama (0.6.4) was on 5th March 2014.

19 Mar 2014

Change the Apache Hama Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Edward J. Yoon
 to the office of Vice President, Apache Hama, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
 of Edward J. Yoon from the office of Vice President, Apache Hama,
 and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Hama
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Chia-Hung Lin as the successor
 to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Edward J. Yoon is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
 of Vice President, Apache Hama, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Chia-Hung Lin be and hereby is
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Hama, 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.

 Special Order 7E, Change the Apache Hama Project Chair, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

19 Feb 2014 [Edward J. Yoon / Jim]

Apache Hama is a BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing framework
on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific
computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.

Releases

The last release of Hama (0.6.3) was on 11th October 2013.

Overall Project Activity since last report

Traffic on the lists is stable, and we're continuously receiving
contributions and questions from new users and committers. Developers
are working on scalability issues.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

The last PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013
The last committer addition: Sep 9, 2013

How has the community developed since the last report?

No significant difference since the last report.

dev@ subscribers: from 94 -> 97 (+3 since last report)
user@ subscribers: from 173 -> 176 (+3 since last report)

20 Nov 2013 [Edward J. Yoon / Bertrand]

Apache Hama is a pure BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing framework on
top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific
computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.

Project Status:

 * The Hama project has no board-level issues at this time.

Releases:

 * October 11, 2013 - Hama 0.6.2 has released.

Community:

 * The last Hama PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013
 * The last Hama committer addition: Sep 9, 2013
 * Kenneth Xian's presentation have been accepted for China Hadoop Summit 2013
 * Edward's presentation have been accepted for The 10th Advaned Computing Conference 2013

Mailing lists:

 * 94 subscribers on dev
 * 173 subscribers on user

21 Aug 2013 [Edward J. Yoon / Roy]

Apache Hama is a pure BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing
framework on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive
scientific computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.

Project Status:

 * The Hama project has no board-level issues at this time.

Releases:

 * June 26, 2013 - Hama 0.6.2 has released.

Community:

 * Last PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013
 * Last committer addition: Jun 11, 2013
 * Yexi Jiang and MaoYuan Xian was voted into the committer.
 * MaoYuan Xian joined Hama PMC.
 * Edward, Suraj is mentoring 3 GSoC students.
 * Edward's Hama (BSP) talk will be presented at 2013 Hadoop In Seoul
and 2014 SIAM conference.
 * Mailing list activity was somewhat light. A few bugs have been
reported by users and a couple of patches submitted.

Mailing lists:

 * 100 subscribers on dev
 * 165 subscribers on user

15 May 2013 [Edward J. Yoon / Greg]

Apache Hama is a pure BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing
framework on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive
scientific computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.

Project Status:

 * The Hama project has no board-level issues at this time.

Releases:

 * April 01, 2013 - Hama 0.6.1 has released.

Community:

 * Martin Illecker (Hama Pipes contributor) was voted into the
committer and PMC.
 * Users and Volunteers are increasing, but Development was inactive
since the last board report.
 * Edward is participate in GSoC 2013 mentoring program.

Mailing lists:

 * 94 subscribers on dev
 * 163 subscribers on user

20 Feb 2013 [Edward J. Yoon / Sam]

Apache Hama is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel computing engine on top of
HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific
computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.

Releases:

 * We’re preparing 0.6.1 new release.

Community:

 * user@ and dev@ MLs activities are continuously raising. Currently
160 users, 98 devs.
 * Thomas Jungblut has requested to go Emeritus from the Hama PMC.
 * New committer (Mikalaj Parafeniuk) and pmc (Apurv Verma) are being
   voted.

Development:

 * We’re mainly improving scalability and performance of BSP computing
   engine.
 * We're preparing integration with Hadoop 2.0, Mesos, and Bigtop.

Issues:

 * No Board level issues at this time.

21 Nov 2012 [Edward J. Yoon / Ross]

Apache Hama is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel computing engine on top of
HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific
computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.

Releases:

 * A new release is being voted.

Community and Development:

 * No new committers or PMC members voted in.
 * Users mailbox size has increased. There have been a number of new
users on the mailing lists.
  * User: 183 messages.
  * Dev: 599 messages.
  * Commit: 123 messages.
 * Tommaso will talk at ApacheCon EU 2012 about Hama and Machine Learning.
 * Few interesting projects on top of Hama began from academic and
industry labs. (query language, advanced analytics, ..., etc).

Issues:

 * No Board level issues at this time.

15 Aug 2012 [Edward J. Yoon / Rich]

Apache Hama is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel computing engine on top of
HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific
computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.

Releases:

* No releases were made since the last board report.

Community and Development:

* Implemented Fault-Tolerant BSP system.
* New Contributors (from diverse university and industry
organizations) are increasing.
* User&Dev subscribers are both increased.
* No new committer, 1 new PMC member voting.

Issues:

None at this time.

25 Jul 2012 [Edward J. Yoon / Greg]

Apache Hama is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel computing engine on top of
HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific
computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.

Releases:

 * Hama 0.5 released on 05 July, 2012.

Community and Development:

 * Apurv Verma has been elected as a new committer.
 * Finished Hama migration to TLP.
 * Mailing list activity decreased during TLP migration.
 * User subscribers are increased, Dev subscribers are same.

Issues:

None at this time.

(Hama)

20 Jun 2012 [Edward J. Yoon / Bertrand]

Apache Hama is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel computing engine on top of
HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific
computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.

Releases:

 * Hama 0.4-incubating released on 06 Mar, 2012.

Community and Development:

 * No new committers.
 * Currently we are preparing new release.
 * Working on documentation and website improvement.
 * Hama participated in GSoC 2012 program, we've got 7 proposals and 1
   of them are accepted.

Infrastructure:

 * We are still in progress of migrating from incubator to new TLP.

16 May 2012

Establish the Apache Hama Project

 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 a distributed
 computing framework based on the Bulk Synchronous Parallel model.

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
 Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Hama Project",
 be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
 Foundation; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Hama Project be and hereby is
 responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
 related to a distributed computing framework based on
 the Bulk Synchronous Parallel model; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Hama" 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 Hama Project, and to have primary responsibility
 for management of the projects within the scope of
 responsibility of the Apache Hama 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 Hama Project:

   * ChiaHung Lin              <chl501@apache.org>
   * Thomas Jungblut           <tjungblut@apache.org>
   * Edward J. Yoon            <edwardyoon@apache.org>
   * Suraj Menon               <surajsmenon@apache.org>
   * Tommaso Teofili           <tommaso@apache.org>
   * Steve Loughran            <stevel@apache.org>

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Edward J. Yoon
 be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Hama, to
 serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
 Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
 death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
 or until a successor is appointed; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Hama PMC be and hereby is
 tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
 encourage open development and increased participation in the
 Apache Hama Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Hama Project be and hereby
 is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
 Incubator Hama podling; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
 Incubator Hama podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
 Project are hereafter discharged.

 Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache Hama Project, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

21 Mar 2012

Hama was accepted into Incubator on 20 May 2008. Hama is a distributed
computing framework based on BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing
techniques for massive scientific computations.

Top 2 or 3 things to resolve prior to graduation

 - Grow the community size.
 - Making a ready-to-use release.

Issues for the Incubator PMC or ASF Board

 - None.

Community development

 - Increased contributions from new people interested in Hama.
   Apurv Verma and Suraj Menon did contributed great efforts to our project.
 - Looking forward to participate in GSOC 2012 and invite new committers.

Project development

 - Prepared Hama 0.4.0-incubating and benchmarked its performance
   (The concept is proofed).
 - This release includes a lot of new features and improvements and
   is currently being voted.
   - Stabilized barrier synchronization.
   - Support Muli-tasks.
   - Input/Output Formatter like MapReduce.

Signed off by mentor: tommaso

21 Dec 2011

Hama was accepted into Incubator on 20 May 2008. Hama is a distributed
computing framework based on BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing
techniques for massive scientific computations.

== Top 2 or 3 things to resolve prior to graduation ==

* Grow the community size.

== Issues for the Incubator PMC or ASF Board ==

None.

== Community development ==

* Increased committers divergence.
* Accounts were created for two new committers.

== Project development ==

* Many new features (Counters, Combiners, I/O interface, YARN module) are
added.
* Some bug and performance issues are fixed.

26 Oct 2011

Hama was accepted into Incubator on 20 May 2008. Hama is a distributed
computing framework based on BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing
techniques for massive scientific computations.

== Top 2 or 3 things to resolve prior to graduation ==

* Invite new active committers

== Issues for the Incubator PMC or ASF Board ==

None.

== Community development ==

* Now we have 3 people ready to become committers (ChiaHung Lin, Thomas
Jungblut, Miklos Erdelyi).
* 'Miklos Erdelyi' has contributed graph computing framework on top of BSP.

== Project development ==

* Now we support multi-task.
* Migrated from Forrest to Maven site.
* Some bug and performance issues are fixed.
* Plan to integrate with Hadoop nextGen.

21 Sep 2011

Hama was accepted into Incubator on 20 May 2008. Hama is a distributed
computing framework based on BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing
techniques for massive scientific computations.

== Top 2 or 3 things to resolve prior to graduation ==

* Invite new active committers

== Issues for the Incubator PMC or ASF Board ==

None.

== Community development ==

* Now we have 3 people ready to become committers (ChiaHung Lin, Thomas
Jungblut, Miklos Erdelyi).
* 'Miklos Erdelyi' has contributed graph computing framework on top of BSP.

== Project development ==

* Now we support multi-task.
* Migrated from Forrest to Maven site.
* Some bug and performance issues are fixed.
* Plan to integrate with Hadoop nextGen.

15 Jun 2011

Hama was accepted into Incubator on 20 May 2008. Hama is a distributed
computing framework based on BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing
techniques for massive scientific computations.

== Top 2 or 3 things to resolve prior to graduation ==

* Invite new active committers

== Issues for the Incubator PMC or ASF Board ==

None.

== Community development ==

* Mailing list shows increased usage from previous report.
* 'Chiahung lin' is actively involves in our community and research area of
hama fault-tolerant design.
* 'Miklos Erdelyi' has contributed some performance improvements.
* One of GSoC students, 'Thomas Jungblut' has excellently finished
implementing his GSoC project, and also has started to contribute major
parts in our project.
* Steve Loughran has became a mentor

== Project development ==

* We've made our first release under the Apache Incubator.
* Switched from Ant to Maven.
* Some new features are added e.g., web UI for job monitoring, examples,
messages bundle.
* Some bug and performance issues are fixed.

16 Mar 2011

Hama was accepted into Incubator on 20 May 2008. Hama is a distributed
computing framework based on BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing
techniques for massive scientific computations.

== Top 2 or 3 things to resolve prior to graduation ==

 * Complete first release
 * Invite new active committers

== Issues for the Incubator PMC or ASF Board ==

None.

== Community development ==

 * Mailing list shows increased usage from previous report
 * Chia-Hung Lin has contributed a part in the development of master-slave
communications
 * Tommaso Teofili has became a mentor
 * We made the plan for GSoC 2011

== Project development ==

 * The initial release is being voted
 * Random Communication Benchmark tool is added
 * Dozens of bugs fixed

15 Dec 2010

Description:

Hama was accepted into Incubator on 20 May 2008. Hama is a distributed
computing framework based on BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing
techniques for massive scientific computations.

Top 2 or 3 things to resolve prior to graduation:

 * Complete first release
 * Invite new active committers
 * Recruit more mentors

Issues for the Incubator PMC or ASF Board:

None.

Community development:

 * Mailing list shows increased usage from previous report
 * Filipe Manana has contributed a great part in the development of BSP
computing engine
 * A number of new individuals have expressed an interest in contributing in
various areas
 * Hama workshop accepted at IEEE CloudCom 2010

Project development:

 * Our plan is now much more detailed
 * Work on creating the initial release
 * Maven building support added

22 Sep 2010

Hama was accepted into Incubator on 20 May 2008. Hama is a distributed
scientific package on Hadoop for massive matrix and graph data.

Recent Activity:

* We designed the User-Interface primarily for BSP programming.
* We made a Job Client, Job Manage System for BSP computing framework.
 Currently, it works on local system, but we're working hard for distributed
 system.
* We made an BSP examples, e.g., Pi Estimator, Serialize Printing

The following is planned for next reporting period:

* We'll freeze the features and release a beta when all issues for 0.2
 version are fixed.

Before this project can graduate we need to encourage more participation in
the project and grow the community.

16 Jun 2010

Hama was accepted into Incubator on 20 May 2008. Hama is a distributed
scientific package on Hadoop for massive matrix and graph data.

We're trying to implement the M/R alternative, a new computation framework
for matrix/graphs based on BSP. We are doing this because the Hadoop M/R
model isn't suitable for the complex numerical/relational data processing
since it requires heavy communications among computing nodes.

Recently we made a progress in the design of the overall architecture, and
the development of the BSP cluster with programming interfaces. And, HAMA
project has drawn many interests from Hadoopers.

We are now focusing on the very first release of Hama to graduate from
incubator.

17 Mar 2010

Hama has been incubating since 19 May, 2008. It is a distributed scientific
computational package based on Hadoop Map/Reduce and BSP.

Recent Activity:

* We'd implemented, introduced the BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) package
* Added a new committer, Hyunsik Choi

The following is planned for next reporting period:

* More documentations
* Re-factoring for improving the design of existing code

Before this project can graduate we need to encourage more participation in
the project and grow the community.

16 Dec 2009

Hama has been incubating since 19 May, 2008. It is a parallel matrix
computational package based on Hadoop Map/Reduce.

Recent developments:

* We implemented BSP(Bulk Synchronous Parallel) library on top of the
Hadoop.
* We were re-architecting the computing engine based on BSP to solve a
problem of performance and locality of sub-blocks in distributed system.

Required before graduation:

* Recently, the community and patch contribution is increasing. However, we
need more committer/reviewers who are capable of proofing algorithm.
* We need more documentation (We are preparing to submit a paper to the
USENIX) and education about linear algebra and graph algorithm.

Signed off by mentor: brett

23 Sep 2009

Hama has been incubating since 19 May, 2008. It is a parallel matrix
computational package based on Hadoop Map/Reduce.

Recent developments:

* We implemented EigenValue Decomposition, based on Map/Reduce computing
model
* We start considering about another computing model based Bulk Synchronous
 Parallel on Hadoop
* We start preparing a paper of this project

Required before graduation:

* More practical examples of matrix manipulation
* Increase community size and activity
* First Apache release


----

Kato
Kato was accepted into the Incubator on 6 November 2008.

Kato is a project to develop the Specification, Reference Implementation,
and TCK for JSR 326: the JVM Post-mortem Diagnostics API

Recent Activity:

* A JVMTI agent has been contributed by Paul Sobek along with an
 implementation of the API.
* The JSR specification document has been written and is building.
* The JSR specification has been submitted to the JCP as an EDR.
* The project is being built on the ASF's hudson server.

The following is planned for next reporting period:

* Our first release of the RI, demos and TCK.

Before this project can be graduated we need to produce a usable
implementation of the API and more useful tools to encourage adoption and
participation of a much needed community.

17 Jun 2009

Hama has been incubating since 19 May, 2008. It is a parallel matrix
computational package based on Hadoop Map/Reduce.

Recent developments:

* We implemented the matrix norm and transpose methods.

Required before graduation:

* More practical examples of matrix manipulation
* Increase community size and activity
* First Apache release

18 Mar 2009

Hama has been incubating since 19 May, 2008. It is a parallel matrix
computational package based on Hadoop Map/Reduce.

Recent developments:

* We constructed interfaces of matrix and vector.
* We implemented sparse/dense matrix-matrix multiplication and dot
products.
* We implemented shell and user can use shell to manage matrices.
* We start implementation of the sparse matrix and sparse graph which is a
graph with sparse matrix.

Required before graduation:

* More practical examples of matrix manipulation
* Increase community size and activity
* First Apache release

17 Dec 2008

Hama has been incubating since 19 May, 2008. It is a parallel matrix
computational package based on Hadoop Map/Reduce.

Development activity is medium from mainly two developer, we focus on
proofing/benchmarking current code/algorithm recently. A number of inactive
initial contributors stepped down from the project. And, 'Saumel Guo' joined
to hama project as a new committer.

 * We are looking for more mathmathicians/committers
 * We will plan for our first release

17 Sep 2008

Hama is a parallel matrix computational package based on Hadoop.

Incubating since: 19 May 2008

* The Hama website was published.
* The automated CI server for Hama integration builds was installed.
* The users were beginning to evaluate/report the function and perfomance
of the Hama.

We need to make a guide for the users and developers.


=== Empire-db ===

Apache Empire-db is an Open Source relational data persistence component
which allows database vendor independent dynamic query definition as well as
safe and simple data retrieval and updating. Empire-db entered the incubator
on July 8th, 2008

- we've finalized migration from sf.net to apache
- commits are coming in
- issue tracker is being used
- first release tries to go through the incubator
- no new additions to the committer roster or ppmc

20 Aug 2008

Hama is a parallel matrix computational package based on Hadoop. The project
entered incubation on May 19th, 2008.

We are currently working to prepare the first release of Apache Hama in the
Apache Incubator. The first release Roadmap is planned. The number of dev
subscribers has increased. We should have a page about becoming
contributors. We will likely be adding a new project member soon. CCLA sent
for KRIBB and NHN's contribution.

16 Jul 2008

Incubating since: 19 May 2008

The intial donation of Hama from the google project was done, but we should
firstly discuss and define the architecture before collaboration.

IPMC comments: "Before collaboration"? Shouldn't that be done
collaboratively?

* Hama has been approved by technical commitee at NHN.
 * But, Some people (Joosun, Changhee) are still waiting for make entries
in a CCLA.
 * The 128-node Hama test cluster was configured at the Korean Research
Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB).
* We (see http://wiki.apache.org/hama/ScaLAPACK) met Prof. Choi J., who is
a member of the ScaLAPACK team.
 * The Hama is also good fit with block algorithms using two-dimensional
grids.

25 Jun 2008

Incubating since: 19 May 2008

Mailing lists, subversion repository, and JIRA setup was completed.

Software Grant Agreement (Initial code owners are chanwit and me) was sended
for the intial donation of Hama code from the google project.

ICLAs were sent, But We are still waiting for the arrival of CCLAs.