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Incubator

16 Oct 2024 [Justin Mclean] ¶

Report was filed, but display is awaiting the approval of the Board minutes.

18 Sep 2024 [Justin Mclean] ¶

No report was submitted.

21 Aug 2024 [Justin Mclean] ¶

No report was submitted.

17 Jul 2024 [Justin Mclean] ¶

No report was submitted.

19 Jun 2024 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for June 2024

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 28 podlings incubating. In May, podlings executed 5
distinct releases and no IP clearances occurred. Several incubating
proposals have been discussed on the mailing list. At least one new podling
will be joining the incubator - OpenServerless. No podling graduated or
retired last month. One person retired from the IPMC.  Two podlings,
Liminal and Toree, failed to report and will be asked to report next month,
and a roll call will be performed. Liminal should probably retire at this
point. There was a discussion about the requirements of project download
pages and why they are needed, most of the other discussions were on
releases.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - None

### People who left the IPMC:
  - Rich Bowen

## New Podlings
 - Gravitino

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Liminal
 - Three

## Graduations
  - None

  The board has motions for the following:

  - None

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  May:
  - Answer 1.3.1
  - Fury 0.5.0
  - Fury 0.5.1
  - Stormcrawler 3.0
  - Streampark 2.1.4

## IP Clearance
- None

## Legal / Trademarks
N/A

## Infrastructure
N/A

## Miscellaneous
N/A

## Table of Contents
[Amoro](#amoro)
[Annotator](#annotator)
[Baremaps](#baremaps)
[GraphAr](#graphar)
[HertzBeat](#hertzbeat)
[KIE](#kie)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[StormCrawler](#stormcrawler)
[Teaclave](#teaclave)
[Training](#training)
[Uniffle](#uniffle)
[Wayang](#wayang)

15 May 2024 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for May 2024

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 28 podlings incubating. In March, podlings executed 4
distinct releases and no IP clearances occurred.
Several incubating proposals have been discussed on the mailing list, and
one podling (SDAP) graduated last month and one retired (Milagro). 5
podlings, Annotator, Liminal, Teaclave, Toree and Training failed to report
and will be asked to report next month. Liminal will probably retire.
Some projects are using ScanOSS to check for 3rd party code or AI-generated
code in the releases.
We discussed and voted to drop the requirement of having the word
incubating in podling repository names as this reduces the work required in
graduating, and was a hangover from old infrastructure. Any existing
incubating project can request this change.
In several release votes, issues were identified with a podling's website,
and they have been asked to improve them.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Han Xu

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
- None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
- Annotator
- Liminal
- Teaclave
- Toree
- Training

## Graduations
 - SDAP

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 April:
 - Hugegraph 1.3.0
 - Answer 1.3.0
 - Devlake 0.21.0
 - Baremaps 0.7.3

## IP Clearance
None

## Legal / Trademarks
N/A

## Infrastructure
N/A

## Miscellaneous
N/A

## Table of Contents
[Amoro](#amoro)
[Answer](#answer)
[DevLake](#devlake)
[Fury](#fury)
[GraphAr](#graphar)
[HertzBeat](#hertzbeat)
[HoraeDB](#horaedb)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[Pony Mail](#pony-mail)
[Seata](#seata)
[StormCrawler](#stormcrawler)
[StreamPark](#streampark)
[XTable](#xtable)

17 Apr 2024 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for April 2024

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 29 podlings incubating. In March, podlings executed
3 distinct releases and 2 IP clearances occurred.

Several incubating proposals have been discussed on the mailing list, and
several podlings graduated last month. SDAP is up for graduation this
month and the Milagro podling has retired. 4 podlings, Annotator, Pony Mail,
Liminal and Teaclave, failed to report and will be asked to report next
month.

An issue arose regarding the misuse of the trademarks of Apache AGE (a
graduated project), and it was asked where the incubator might have gone
wrong in this process. The incubator did pick up this issue, which delayed
graduation. Assurances were given that a 3rd party would stop using the name
AgeDB, but it seems they did not do that.

We decided to drop the requirement of having the word incubating in podling
domain names.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - Charles Zhang
  - Francis Chuang
  - Hao Ding
  - Hulk Lin
  - Hyukjin Kwon
  - Richard Zowalla
  - Yonglun Zhang
  - Zhang Yonglun

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings
 - Amoro
 - GraphAr
 - HertzBeat
 - StormCrawler

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - Annotator
  - Pony Mail
  - Liminal
  - Teaclave

## Graduations
  - Pekko
  - Celeborn
  - Paimon

  The board has motions for the following:

  - SDAP

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  March:
  - Pekko SBT Paradox 1.0.1
  - Sdap 1.2.0
  - Streampark 2.1.3

## IP Clearance
 - Pekko Connectors AWS SPI
 - PyHive

## Legal / Trademarks
 - N/A

## Infrastructure
 - N/A

## Miscellaneous

  w/r/t Pony Mail the following comment was added, but omitted since the
  podling did not report this month:
  [PJF] There is minimal activity but discussions on graduating PonyMail
  seem blocked by the fact that the community is small but that the tool is
  too important to retire.

## Table of Contents
[Amoro](#amoro)
[Fury](#fury)
[Gluten](#gluten)
[HoraeDB](#horaedb)
[HugeGraph](#hugegraph)
[Livy](#livy)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[ResilientDB](#resilientdb)
[StormCrawler](#stormcrawler)
[Teaclave](#teaclave)
[XTable](#xtable)

20 Mar 2024 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for March 2024

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 31 podlings incubating. In February, podlings executed
6 distinct releases and 1 IP clearance occurred.

Several incubating proposals have been discussed on teh mailing list and
several podlings have been proposed for graduation.
There has been some work on updating the website template for incubating
projects, and there was a discussion of dropping the requirement of having
incubating in podling domain names.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Robert Metzger

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
 - None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - None

## Graduations
 - list podling here

 The board has motions for the following:
 - Celeborn
 - Paimon
 - Pekko

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 February:
 - Answer 1.2.5
 - Celeborn 0.4.0
 - Paimon 0.7.0
 - Paimon 0.6.1
 - Pekko 1.0.3 M1
 - Pekko HTTP 1.0.1

## IP Clearance
 - Apache Arrow DataFusion Comet

## Legal / Trademarks
 N/A

## Infrastructure
 N/A

## Miscellaneous
 N/A

## Table of Contents
[Answer](#answer)
[Baremaps](#baremaps)
[Fury](#fury)
[Gluten](#gluten)
[HoraeDB](#horaedb)
[KIE](#kie)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[ResilientDB](#resilientdb)
[Uniffle](#uniffle)
[Wayang](#wayang)
[XTable](#xtable)

21 Feb 2024 [Justin Mclean] ¶

No report was submitted.

17 Jan 2024 [Justin Mclean] ¶

No report was submitted.

20 Dec 2023 [Justin Mclean] ¶

=== Report content ===
# Incubator PMC report for December 2023

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 28 podlings incubating. In December, podlings executed
5 distinct releases.

A new podling has joined the incubator HoraeDB, and there has been
discussion on several incubating proposals.

There was some cleanup of retired podlings.

The java-driver donation from the Cassandra project did not follow the
correct process.

Teaclave has not reported for some time, and a roll call will be undertaken.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Enrico Olivelli
 - Ismaël Mejía
 - Kent Yao
 - Rakesh Radhakrishnan

### People who left the IPMC:
 - none

## New Podlings
 - HoraeDB

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - KIE
 - Teaclave

## Graduations
 - None

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 November:
 - Answer 1.2.0
 - Opendal 0.42.0
 - Pekko connectors 1.0.1
 - Pekko persistence dynamodb 1.0.0
 - Pekko 1.0.2

## IP Clearance
 - Cassandra java-driver

## Legal / Trademarks
 N/A

## Infrastructure
 N/A

## Miscellaneous
 N/A

## Table of Contents
[Answer](#answer)
[Baremaps](#baremaps)
[Livy](#livy)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[Pony Mail](#ponymail)
[ResilientDB](#resilientdb)
[Uniffle](#uniffle)
[Wayang](#wayang)

15 Nov 2023 [Justin Mclean] ¶

No report was submitted.

18 Oct 2023 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for October 2023

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 24 podlings incubating. In September, podlings executed
6 distinct releases.

Datalab is retiring, and Liminal is discussing retirement. Two new podlings
have joined the incubator Answer and ResilientDB.

There has been discussion on several incubating proposals. A proposed
project Seata has been proposed; it may not be a good fit for the ASF,
but the project is responsive to address any IPMC concerns. A proposed
project OzHera may be too soon to join the Incubator as they don't have a
community.

There was some minor cleanup of outstanding Jira issues.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - Huxing Zhang
  - Sammi Chen

### People who left the IPMC:
  - none

## New Podlings
 - Answer
 - ResilientDB

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Livy
 - Pony Mail
 - Teaclave

## Graduations
  - none

  The board has motions for the following:

  - none

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  September:
  - Devlake 0.18.0
  - Opendal v0.40.0
  - Paimon 0.5.0
  - Pekko persistence JDBC 1.0.0
  - Pekko connectors 1.0.0
  - Wayang 0.7.1

## IP Clearance
  - kvrocks controller

## Legal / Trademarks
 - NA

## Infrastructure
 - NA

## Miscellaneous
 - NA

## Table of Contents
[Annotator](#annotator)
[DataLab](#datalab)
[HugeGraph](#hugegraph)
[Liminal](#liminal)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[Pekko](#pekko)

20 Sep 2023 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for September 2023

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 24 podlings incubating. In August, podlings executed 6
distinct releases.

Datalab has completed a retirement vote, while Liminal still needs to
submit the report, and we will take a PPMC roll call. As some inactive
projects are retiring, the number of absent reports each month is
decreasing.

There is a new project, Hexagon Toolkit, seeking a mentor, but the project
may have applied too early and needs to do more work on building a
community around the project first. IPMC members also provided other useful
feedback. Another new project, ResilientDB, a Blockchain Platform, also
seeks entry into the incubator. Several IPMC members have expressed
interest, and we may see it entering the incubator in the coming months.
There has also been some off-list discussion about several other projects
that wish to join the ASF via the Incubator.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - None

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings
  - None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - Liminal

## Graduations
  - None

  The board has motions for the following:
  - None.

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  August:

 - pekko-connectors-kafka 1.0.0
    - pekko-http 1.0.0
    - pekko-management 1.0.0
    - pekko-grpc 1.0.0
    - pekko-sbt-paradox 1.0.0
    - OpenDAL 0.39.0

## IP Clearance
- None

## Legal / Trademarks
- None

## Infrastructure
- None

## Table of Contents
[Baremaps](#baremaps)
[KIE](#kie)
[Liminal](#liminal)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[Uniffle](#uniffle)
[Wayang](#wayang)

16 Aug 2023 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for August 2023

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. There are
presently 24 podlings incubating.
This month we were missing a report from Liminal, which was also missed the
previous month. There were no graduations and no new proposals to the board
for graduation, although a couple were discussed. Tuweni voted to retire,
as did DataLab, despite discussing it becoming a TLP the month before.
ASF Marketing & Publicity have updated the Podling Publicity/Media
Guidelines.
The Wayang podling mistakenly made a release without involving the IPMC.
None of the mentors signed off the Devlake, NLPCraft, OpenDAL or
Streampark reports.
There was one IP clearance and podlings executed 8 distinct releases.
Discussion on the general list has been chiefly about podling releases.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Matthew de Detrich

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
 - None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Liminal

## Graduations
 - None

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 July:
 - Celeborn 0.3.0
 - Devlake 0.17.0
 - OpenDAL 0.38.0
 - OpenDAL 0.38.1
 - Pekko 1.0.0
 - Pekko 1.0.1
 - Uniffle 0.7.1
 - Wayang 0.7.0

## IP Clearance
 - Pekko HTTP CORS code donation

## Legal / Trademarks
 - N/A

## Infrastructure
 - N/A

## Miscellaneous
 - N/A

## Table of Contents
[Annotator](#annotator)
[Celeborn](#celeborn)
[DevLake](#devlake)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[OpenDAL](#opendal)
[Paimon](#paimon)
[PonyMail](#ponymail)
[SDAP](#sdap)
[StreamPark](#streampark)
[Toree](#toree)
[Training](#training)

19 Jul 2023 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for July 2023

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.  The Apache
Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases wishing
to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are presently 25 podlings incubating.
This month we were missing reports from Annotator, Liminal, Pony Mail and
Toree. Kvrocks has graduated, and there are no new proposals to the board
for graduation. podlings executed 3 distinct releases. Discussion on the
general list have mostly been about podling releases.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - None

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
- None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
- Annotator
- Liminal
- Pony Mail
- Toree

## Graduations
 - Kvrocks

 The board has motions for the following:
 - None

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 June:
 - OpenDAL 0.37.0
 - Paimon 0.4.0
 - Streampark 2.1.1

## IP Clearance

 - None

## Legal / Trademarks

 - N/A

## Infrastructure

 - N/A

## Table of Contents
[DataLab](#datalab)
[HugeGraph](#hugegraph)
[Liminal](#liminal)
[Livy](#livy)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[Pekko](#pekko)
[Pony Mail](#pony mail)
[Teaclave](#teaclave)
[Training](#training)

21 Jun 2023 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for June 2023

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are presently 26 podlings incubating.
This month we were missing reports from Toree and Training. SeaTunnel has
graduated, and Kvrocks have a proposal to the board for graduation.
podlings
executed 4 distinct releases.
Toree has had little activity in the past six months, and they have missed
many reports, a PPMC roll call will be taken and they asked if they should
consider retirement.
Datalab has initiated graduation discussions, but they may not be ready to
graduate yet as they don't seem in alignment with the Apache Way.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - None

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
- None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

- Toree
- Traning

## Graduations

- SeaTunnel

The board has motions for the following:

- Kvrocks

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 May:
 - Teaclave 0.5.1
 - SDAP 1.1.0
 - StreamPark 2.1.0
 - Kvrocks 2.4.0

## IP Clearance
- none

## Legal / Trademarks
- N.A

## Infrastructure
- N/A

## Table of Contents
[Baremaps](#baremaps)
[KIE](#kie)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[OpenDAL](#opendal)
[Paimon](#paimon)
[SDAP](#sdap)
[Toree](#toree)
[Training](#training)
[Uniffle](#uniffle)
[Wayang](#wayang)

17 May 2023 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for May 2023

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. There are
presently 27 podlings incubating. In March, podlings executed 4 distinct
releases. We added 1 new IPMC member. Spot and PageSpeed have retired.
Kvrocks has started the graduation discussion, SeaTunnel has resolved some
branding issues on the eve of graduation.
Some podlings' download pages have some problems with their checksum and
signatures, but this may be a hangover from moving from the mirror system
to the CDN and is being looked into.
The incubator site has had some minor updates to improve it language.
SDAP lacks active mentors, and only one mentor voted in the version
release, but the community seems to be involved. We'll ask the project to
ask for more mentors.

# Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Andrew Wetmore

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
 - None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - NLPCraft
 - SDAP
 - Toree
 - Training
 - Tuweni

## Graduations
 - None

 The board has motions for the following:

 - SeaTunnel

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 April:

 - Baremaps 0.7.1
 - DevLake 0.16.0
 - Teaclave 0.5.0
 - Uniffle 0.7.0

## IP Clearance
 - None

## Legal / Trademarks
 - N/A

## Infrastructure
 - N/A

## Miscellaneous
 - N/A

## Table of Contents
[Celeborn](#celeborn)
[DevLake](#devlake)
[Kvrocks](#kvrocks)
[OpenDAL](#opendal)
[Paimon](#paimon)
[StreamPark](#streampark)
[Teaclave](#teaclave)

19 Apr 2023 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for April 2023
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. There are
presently 29 podlings incubating. In March, podlings executed 4 distinct
releases. We added 2 new IPMC members, Flagon and Event Mesh graduated, and
no new podlings have been added, but a couple are under discussion.
IPMC cleaned up some podlings that are no longer active, Marvin-AI has
retired, and PageSpeed and Spot have completed the voting process for
retirement.
The release of Teaclave had some issues, including category X licensed code
and compiled code in the source release. This has been pointed out to them
before.
SeaTunnel is discussing graduation, and some minor issues were identified,
including reliance on off-list ephemeral communication.
Some podlings are participating in GSoC, and this should further promote
community development.
Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Ayush Saxena
 - Xinyu Zhou

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
- None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

- Annoator
- Liminal
- Teaclave
- Toree

## Graduations
 - Flagon
 - EventMesh

## Releases
 - Baremaps 0.7.1
 - Celeborn 0.2.1
 - SeaTunnel 2.3.1
 - Uniffle 0.7.0

## IP Clearance
 - None

## Legal / Trademarks
 - None

## Infrastructure
 - Infrastructure held a round table discussion on how the incubator can
help incubating projects.

## Miscellaneous
 Justin created a couple of games that may help podlings understand how
ASF projects operate.
 - http://incubator-game.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com
 - http://committer-journey.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com

## Table of Contents
[DataLab](#datalab)
[HugeGraph](#hugegraph)
[Livy](#livy)
[Training](#training)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[OpenDAL](#opendal)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[Pekko](#pekko)
[PonyMail](#ponymail)
[SeaTunnel](#seatunnel)

22 Mar 2023 [Justin Mclean / Bertrand] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for March 2023

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. The Apache
Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases wishing
to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are presently 31 podlings incubating. Podlings made 5 distinct
releases.
This month we were missing reports from Nemo, PageSpeed, Spot and Training.
There are votes underway to retire PageSpeed and Spot and Marvin-AI has
retired. Nemo and Training projects will be asked to report next month. The
Training project is discussing how to move forward.
Flagon and EventMesh have proposals to the board for graduation.  Two new
podlings Palimon and OpenDAL have joined the Incubator.
There is ongoing discussion around a few new projects and the graduation of
DataLab.

## Community

### New IPMC members:

 - Becket Qin
 - Yu Xiao

### People who left the IPMC:

 - Jim Jagielski

## New Podlings

- OpenDAL
- Paimon

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

- Nemo
- PageSpeed
- Spot
- Training

## Graduations
 - None

 The board has motions for the following:
 - EventMesh
 - Flagon

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 March:

- HugeGraph  1.0.0
- Kvrocks        2.3.0
- StreamPark  2.0.0
- DevLake       0.15.0
- NLPCraft      1.0.0

## IP Clearance

 - [Kylin]Accept donation of Kylin new Modeling System

## Legal / Trademarks

 N/A

## Infrastructure

 N/A

## Miscellaneous

 N/A

## Table of Contents
[Baremaps](#baremaps)
[KIE](#kie)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[OpenDAL](#opendal)
[Uniffle](#uniffle)
[Wayang](#wayang)

15 Feb 2023 [Justin Mclean / Willem] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for February 2023

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. The Apache
Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases wishing
to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are presently 31 podlings incubating. Podlings made 3 distinct
releases.
This month we were missing reports from Marvin-AI, NLPCraft, PageSpeed,
Toree and Training. They will be asked to report next month except for
Marvin-AI, who has voted to retire.
Annotator and Pony Mail have missed two reports and may need a roll call.
Flagon is ready to graduate but has not submitted a resolution. A vote for
EventMesh graduation is underway.
KIE has joined the Incubator. Discussion of a few new projects, including
HyperIoT and a quantum computing project, is ongoing. Heron has retired
from the Incubator.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - Brian Proffitt

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings

 - KIE

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - Marvin-AI
  - NLPCraft
  - PageSpeed
  - Toree
  - Training

## Graduations
  - None

  The board has motions for the following:

  - None

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  January:
  - SDAP 1.0.0
  - EventMesh 1.8.0
  - Liminal 0.0.5

## IP Clearance
  - [Arrow]Accept donation of datafusion-substrait crate

## Legal / Trademarks
 - N/A

## Infrastructure
 - N/A

## Miscellaneous
 - N/A

## Table of Contents
[Annotator](#annotator)
[Celeborn](#celeborn)
[DevLake](#devlake)
[Kvrocks](#kvrocks)
[Pony Mail](#pony mail)
[SDAP](#sdap)
[StreamPark](#streampark)
[Tuweni](#tuweni)

18 Jan 2023 [Justin Mclean / Sam] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for January 2023
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are presently 30 podlings incubating. Podlings made 4 distinct
releases.
This month we were missing reports from Annotator, Marvin-AI and PonyMail.
There will be asked to report next month. Marvin-AI has not responded to
the PPMC roll call, there has been little activity on the mailing list, and
the IPMC has initiated discussions to retire. There are also discussions on
retiring Heron. Annotator may need new mentors and has been advised to seek
help from the incubator.
We have three new volunteers as incubator shepherds, and it's looking good
so far.
Kyuubi, bRPC, Sedona, and Linkis graduated last month, and more podlings
may graduate in the next few months, including Flagon. Tuweni has started
graduation discussions, but because the community is highly dependent on a
single contributor, IPMC expressed concerns about the diversity of the
community. KIE has started a vote to join the incubator.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - None

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings
- None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

- Annoator
- Marvin-AI
- PonyMail

## Graduations
  - bRPC
  - Kyuubi
  - Linkis
  - Sedona

  The board has motions for the following:

  - none

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  December:
 - SeaTunnel 2.3.0
 - Sedona 1.3.1
 - EventMesh 1.7.0
 - Uniffle 0.6.1

## IP Clearance
- None

## Legal / Trademarks
- None

## Infrastructure

## Miscellaneous

## Credits

## Table of Contents
[Baremaps](#baremaps)
[Celeborn](#celeborn)
[DataLab](#datalab)
[EventMesh](#eventmesh)
[Flagon](#flagon)
[HugeGraph](#hugegraph)
[Liminal](#liminal)
[Livy](#livy)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[Pekko](#pekko)
[SeaTunnel](#seatunnel)
[StreamPark](#streampark)
[Teaclave](#teaclave)
[Uniffle](#uniffle)

21 Dec 2022 [Justin Mclean / Willem] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for December 2022

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are presently 34 podlings incubating.
Podlings made 6 distinct releases.

This month we were missing reports from  Spot, Marvin-AI and Uniffle. There
will be asked to report next month.
Nuttx and StreamPipes graduated last month.

We added a new IPMC member, and none retired.

This month we have a new proposal: KIE, this is an Umbrella Project, that
has 80 projects, although there are only 3 projects after splitting,
but it's still a challenge for the project and the incubator.
therefore, IPMC recommends incubating separately,
but the team is still controversial, let us see how to do it next.

Tuweni and Nemo start a graduation vote, but the Tuweni community faced a
diversity challenge with only one active contributor.
Nemo has been silent for two years,
but it has only become active in the past few months. IPMC is worried about
whether it can remain active after graduation.

## Community

### New IPMC members:

- Gang Li

### People who left the IPMC:

- None

## New Podlings

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

- Spot
- Uniffle
- Marvin-AI

## Graduations

- Nuttx
- StreamPipes

The board has motions for the following:

- Kyuubi
- bRPC
- Sedona
- Linkis

## Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of
November:

- Milagro  MPC v0.1
- Tuweni  2.3.1
- Kvrocks 2.2.0
- Kyuubi 1.6.1
- Sedona 1.3.0
- DataLab 2.2.0

## IP Clearance
- None

## Legal / Trademarks
- None

## Infrastructure
- None

## Miscellaneous
- None

## Credits

## Table of Contents
[Baremaps](#baremaps)
[brpc](#brpc)
[Celeborn](#celeborn)
[Kyuubi](#kyuubi)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[StreamPark](#streampark)
[Wayang](#wayang)

16 Nov 2022 [Justin Mclean / Sam] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for November 2022

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. There are
presently 36 podlings incubating. Podlings made 11 distinct releases. This
month we are only missing a report from Marvin-AI. This project has massed
several reports.
We held roll calls for projects that had difficulty reporting or low
activity, and some are discussing retirement. Some may need to be
encouraged further. Several projects that had been incubating for some time
were reminded that it was time to graduate or retire. There are discussions
or votes on graduation for bRPC, Flagon, Kyuubi, Linkis, Nemo,  Nuttx,
StreamPipes and Tuweni. Other projects are discussing graduation or
retirement on their lists.
Livy now has a new PPMC and has avoided retirement.
SDAP has determined they need to make a release before graduating.
Pekko (a fork of the Akka project) has joined the Incubator.
Following the recent board decision, we have removed the 72-hour waiting
time to add PPMC members.

## Community

### New IPMC members:

 - Claus Ibsen

### People who left the IPMC:

 None

## New Podlings

 - Celeborn
 - Baremaps

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - Marvin-AI.

## Graduations
 - None

 The board has motions for the following:

 - NuttX
 - StreamPipes

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 October:
 - Brpc 1.3.0
 - Devlake 0.14.0
 - Heron 0.20.5
 - Linkis 1.3.0
 - Nuttx 11.0.0
 - Pegasus 2.4.0
 - Seatunnel 2.2.0-beta
 - Seatunnel 2.3.0
 - Streampipes 0.70.0
 - Tuweni 2.3.0
 - Uniffle 0.6.0

## IP Clearance

 None

## Legal / Trademarks

 N/A

## Infrastructure

 N/A

## Miscellaneous

 N/A

## Table of Contents
[Baremaps](#baremaps)
[Celeborn](#celeborn)
[DevLake](#devlake)
[Heron](#heron)
[Kvrocks](#kvrocks)
[Linkis](#linkis)
[Livy](#livy)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[PageSpeed](#pagespeed)
[SDAP](#sdap)
[Sedona](#sedona)
[StreamPark](#streampark)
[Teaclave](#teaclave)
[Toree](#toree)
[Training](#training)
[Tuweni](#tuweni)

19 Oct 2022 [Justin Mclean / Sander] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for October 2022
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are presently 34 podlings incubating. Podlings made 4 distinct
releases.
This month we were missing reports from Livy, Spot, Teaclave, and
Marvin-AI. All projects will be asked to report next month. Milagro didn't
have the mentors' signoff and will also be asked to report next month. Pony
Mail hasn't had a mentor sign off for the last four reports but owing to
its unique nature, the report has been left in.
Voting for the Heron release was difficult（voting lasted for more than two
months, and even though they had six mentors, only one participated in the
vote. There is a discussion on their mailing list about them graduating.
The IPMC suggested graduating PonyMail, as the project members are ASF
members, and it felt the Incubator has nothing more to teach them.
This month, several new project proposals were discussed: Baremaps and
Celeborn (previously Datark) and Pekko. Pekko is a fork of the Akka project
just before its license changed from Apache 2 to the non open source
license Business Source License 1.1.) so it's a fork of a hostile license
change.
Hivemall has retired. Livy started a discussion on retirement. Some people
have expressed a desire to rebuild the Livy community, so it might be
possible to revive Livy.
A few podlings are already in the process of preparing for graduation.
The discussion around Sedona's graduation is premature, their release
version doesn't have a standard version of the disclaimer, and release
votes need a bit more detail.
SPAD and Heron has been encouraged to graduate.
Some Podlings shared their stories and the Apache experience in the
Incubator track at ApacheCon NA in New Orleans.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - None

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings
- None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - Livy
  - Marvin-AI
  - Milagro
  - Spot
  - Teaclave
  - Toree

## Graduations
  - MXNet

  The board has motions for the following:

  - None

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  November:

   - Kyuubi 1.6.0
   - Linkis 1.2.0
   - Devlake 0.12.0
   - Devlake 0.13.0

## IP Clearance
 - Flagon Distill refactor

## Legal / Trademarks
 - N/A

## Infrastructure
   - N/A

## Miscellaneous
   - N/A

## Credits

## Table of Contents
[Annotator](#annotator)
[DataLab](#datalab)
[EventMesh](#eventmesh)
[Flagon](#flagon)
[HugeGraph](#hugegraph)
[Liminal](#liminal)
[Livy](#livy)
[Marvin-AI](#marvin-ai)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[NuttX](#nuttx)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[Pony Mail](#pony mail)
[SDAP](#sdap)
[SeaTunnel](#seatunnel)
[Spot](#spot)
[StreamPark](#streampark)

21 Sep 2022 [Justin Mclean / Rich] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for September 2022

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 34 podlings incubating. Podlings made 5 distinct releases.

This month we were missing reports from  Livy, SDAP, Spot, Teaclave, and Toree. All will be asked to report next month.
Marvin-AI and PonyMaill don't have mentors' signoff and will also be asked to report next month. PonyMail has only one mentor and had three missed signoffs.

StreamPark has joined the Incubator, although have some X category dependencies issues, it's nice that the team has preliminary plans to address them.
Hivemall has passd retired VOTE. Some other podlings, like Livy, will retire next few months.

The SkyWalking community released a tool called skywalking-eyes. It's a full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and resolve dependencies' licenses.
Besides, it offers various language support. but be careful，
automated tools could help the project a lot and be a time saver for this work. but they can't fit all problems.

MxNet is about to graduate and it has tackled some branding issues on the eve of graduation.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
- Zhongyi Tan

### People who left the IPMC:
- None

## New Podlings
- StreamPark

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

- Livy
- Marvin-AI
- PonyMail
- SDAP
- Spot
- Teaclave
- Toree

## Graduations
 - MXNet
 The board has motions for the following:
 - MXNet

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 August:
- Sedona 1.2.1
- EventMesh 1.6.0
- DevLake 0.1.2.0
- SeaTunnel 2.1.3
- Kvrocks 2.1.0

## IP Clearance
- None

## Legal / Trademarks

## Infrastructure

## Miscellaneous

## Credits

Calvin Kirs

## Table of Contents
[Annotator](#annotator)
[brpc](#brpc)
[DataLab](#datalab)
[EventMesh](#eventmesh)
[Flagon](#flagon)
[Kvrocks](#kvrocks)
[Kyuubi](#kyuubi)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[PageSpeed](#pagespeed)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[PonyMail](#ponymail)
[Sedona](#sedona)
[StreamPipes](#streampipes)
[Training](#training)
[Uniffle](#uniffle)
[Wayang](#wayang)

17 Aug 2022 [Justin Mclean / Christofer] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for August 2022

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 34 podlings incubating. Podlings made 5 distinct
releases. ShenYu graduated last month, Crail has retired, and HiveMall is
still deciding on retirement. This month we were missing reports from
Annotator, DataLab, EventMesh, Flagon, Livy, Marvin-AI, Milagro, PageSpeed,
Pegasus, PonyMail, Sedona, Spot, Teaclave, Toree and Training. All will be
asked to report next month.

We are currently having an issue with podlings submitting reports and
getting mentor signoff, even when podlings have been reminded or noted as
needed to report in previous reports. This points to a lack of PPMC and
mentor engagement. Some podlings are having issues finalising retiring, and
some have very low activity. The IPMC will discuss what to do.

There was one IP clearance in July.

Some Podlings shared their stories and the Apache experience at ApacheCon
Asia.

Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - None

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings
- None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Annotator
 - DataLab
 - EventMesh
 - Flagon
 - Livy
 - Marvin-AI
 - Milagro
 - PageSpeed
 - Pegasus
 - PonyMail
 - Sedona
 - Spot
 - Teaclave
 - Toree
 - Training

## Graduations
 - ShenYu

## Releases
 - Linkis 1.1.2
 - EventMesh 1.5.0
 - DevLake 0.11.0
 - Brpc 1.2.0
 - Linkis 1.1.3

## IP Clearance
 - Arrow Flight SQL JDBC Driver

## Legal / Trademarks
 - N/A

## Infrastructure
 - N/A

## Miscellaneous
 - None

## Credits
  Calvin Kirs help put the report together.

## Table of Contents
[DevLake](#devlake)
[Heron](#heron)
[Linkis](#linkis)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[Tuweni](#tuweni)

20 Jul 2022 [Justin Mclean / Rich] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for July 2022

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 35 podlings incubating. Podlings made 4 distinct
releases. The Crail project retired, Doris and InLong graduated last month,
and Uniffle has joined the Incubator.

HiveMall started a retirement vote.

This month we were missing reports from Annotator, Livy, Marvin-AI,
Pegasus, Spot, and Teaclave. Spot, MarvinAI and Livy have missed more than
one report in a row and roll calls will be held. DataLab, EventMesh,
Flagon, Milagro and PonyMail don't have mentors' signoff and will also be
asked to report next month. ShenYu also missed a report but is up for
graduation. PonyMail has only one mentor and had twice missed signoff.

MXNet is working on some branding issues.

We discussed last year whether Livy was graduating or retiring, and the
community has shown some interest in continuing, but there continues to be
no activity.
There was a discussion about a retired project Ambari coming back to the
Incubator. As several ASF members were involved, it wasn't seen as being
needed, and it could go straight to being a top level project with the
approval of the board.

During the graduation discussion on ShenYu, several minor branding issues
were identified and corrected.

Several podlings have had talks accepted for both ApacheCon Asia and NA,
and we also have the Incubator track at ApachCon NA.

## Community

### New IPMC members:

  None

### People who left the IPMC:

  None

## New Podlings

- Uniffle

## Podlings that failed to report or did not have mentor signnoff, expected
next month

 - Annotator
 - Livy
 - Marvin-AI
 - Pegasus
 - Spot
 - Teaclave
 - DataLab
 - EventMesh
 - Flagon
 - Milagro
 - PonyMail
 - ShenYu

## Graduations
  - InLong
  - Doris

  The board has motions for the following:
  - ShenYu

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  June:
  - Apache Nuttx 10.3.0
  - Apache InLong 1.2.0
  - Apache Kyuubi 1.5.2
  - Apache SeaTunnel 2.1.2

## IP Clearance

  - none

## Legal / Trademarks

 - none

## Infrastructure

 - none

## Credits

 - Thanks to Calvin Kirs for putting the base report together.

## Table of Contents
[DevLake](#devlake)
[Hivemall](#hivemall)
[HugeGraph](#hugegraph)
[Kvrocks](#kvrocks)
[Liminal](#liminal)
[MXNet](#mxnet)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[NuttX](#nuttx)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[PonyMail](#ponymail)
[SDAP](#sdap)
[SeaTunnel](#seatunnel)
[Uniffle](#uniffle)

15 Jun 2022 [Justin Mclean / Christofer] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for June 2022

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. There are
presently 37 podlings incubating. Podlings made 3 distinct releases, and we
added one new IPMC member. MXNet started a graduation discussion, but some
branding issues have not been resolved, and their website is not entirely
in line with ASF branding policies. There were some privacy policy issues
also identified. The podling is addressing these issues. Someone who is not
on the PPMC seems to be driving the graduation.

Doris has amended its resolution after fixing some branding issues and
dropping some people from its proposed PMC that are contributing to a fork
of the project that may not be acting in the project's best interests.

InLong should graduate this month or next. A new proposal Uniffle (was
Firestorm) is being voted on; there was some concern that Firestorm may not
be a suitable podling name. Ambari may be coming back from the attic, and
it was discussed if the incubator is a place to do that.

NuttX had some trouble getting IPMC members to vote on its release. Crail
started a retirement vote, and some other podlings may need to consider
retiring, including Livy. Some podlings need some guidance on adding new
committers and PPMC members. With the board resolution on adding PMC
members, this may become less of an issue.

This month, we missed reports from Hivemall, Livy, Nemo, SDAP, and Spot.
Nemo has asked to report next month. Marvin-AI does not have signoff by
mentors and will also be asked to report next month. Most discussions on
the mailing list were around releases, new project proposals, graduations,
and finding new mentors.

There was some discussion about changing the chair due to previous reports
not being submitted. However, no one seems willing to become the chair.
This month, we've asked volunteers to do some of the tasks to not rely
solely on the chair to do all of the work and hopefully make other people
more familiar with the reporting process and tasks involved.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - Zhankun Tang

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings
- Devlake

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
- Hivemall
- Nemo
- SDAP
- Spot
- MarvinAI
- Livy

## Graduations
 - AGE

The board has motions for the following:
  - InLong

## Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of May:
  - Apache Linkis  1.1.1 - 2022-05.25
  - Apache Flagon-UserALE.js 2.3.0 - 2022-05-26
  - Apache MXNet  1.9.1 - 2022-05-28

## IP Clearance
N/A

## Legal / Trademarks
N/A

## Infrastructure
N/A

## Miscellaneous

## Credits
- John D. Ament for last incubator report and making this one easier to write
- Calvin Kirs for writing most of the report

## Table of Contents
[Crail](#crail)
[Kvrocks](#kvrocks)
[Kyuubi](#kyuubi)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[PonyMail](#ponymail)
[StreamPipes](#streampipes)
[Wayang](#wayang)
[DevLake](#devlake)

18 May 2022 [Justin Mclean / Christofer] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for May 2022

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 38 podlings undergoing incubation.  We have had 6 new
IPMC members, 2 members who have stepped down, and 3 new podlings since the
last report.  Since the Incubator PMC missed the last few reports, it was
decided to request all podlings to report and summarize the state of all
podlings in a single report.  Apologies for the longer report.

## Community

### New IPMC members:

 - Wenil Zheng
 - Zili Chen
 - Liang Zhang
 - Calvin Kirs
 - Xiaoqiao He
 - Xiaorui Wang

### People who left the IPMC:

 - Kevin A. McGrail
 - Jukka Zitting

## New Podlings

- DevLake
- Kvrocks
- Hugegraph was accepted in January, this is the first report since then
that we have reported.

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

  - Hivemall
  - Livy - pending a retirement discussion
  - Pegasus
  - PonyMail
  - SDAP

 ## Graduations

- Discussion has started to graduate AGE, MXNet

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Doris

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution as of
 April:
  - Apache Tuweni 2.1.0 - 2022-01-22
  - Apache ShenYu 2.4.2 - 2022-01-25
  - Apache DataLab 2.5.1 - 2022-01-27
  - Apache Linkis 1.0.3 - 2022-01-29
  - Apache Kyuubi 1.4.1 - 2022-01-31
  - Apache YuniKorn 0.12.2 - 2022-02-03
  - Apache AGE 0.7.0 - 2022-02-03
  - Apache InLong 1.0.0 - 2022-02-19
  - Apache Liminal 0.0.4 - 2022-03-06
  - Apache SeaTunnel 2.1.0 - 2022-03-20
  - Apache Tuweni 2.2.0 - 2022-03-18
  - Apache Doris Flink Connector 1.0.3 - 2022-03-19
  - Apache Doris Spark Connector 1.0.1 - 2022-03-20
  - Apache StreamPipes 0.69.0 - 2022-03-18
  - Apache MXNet 2.0.0.beta1.rc1 - 2022-03-21
  - Apache Kyuubi 1.5.0 - 2022-03-25
  - Apache EventMesh 1.4.0 - 2022-03-31
  - Apache AGEViewer 1.0.0 - 2022-04-04
  - Apache brpc 1.1.0 - 2022-04-11
  - Apache Linkis 1.1.0 - 2022-04-19
  - Apache ShenYu 2.4.3 - 2022-04-17
  - Apache Sedona 1.2.0 - 2022-04-17
  - Apache Doris 1.0.0 - 2022-04-17
  - Apaceh Teaclave trustzone-sdk-0.2.0 - 2022-04-18
  - Apache Teaclave 0.4.0 - 2022-04-17
  - Apache AGE 1.0.0 - 2022-04-20
  - Apache Kyuubi 1.5.1 - 2022-04-21
  - Apache Toree 0.5.0 - 2022-04-11
  - Apache InLong 1.1.0 - 2022-04-24
  - Apache Seatunnel 2.1.1 - 2022-04-25

## IP Clearance

- Apache ShardingSphere imported something called Charts
- Apache IoTDB imported a UDF Library

## Legal / Trademarks

## Infrastructure

- A patch was received during this reporting period to upgrade our report
reminders script to Python 3.  It will be tested with the next round of
Podling reports.

## Miscellaneous

- A discussion is currently going on about revamping our shepherd
process/responsibilities.
- A discussion is on going about rotating the chair.

## Credits

- John Ament served as Report Manager for this report.

## Table of Contents
[AGE](#age)
[Annotator](#annotator)
[brpc](#brpc)
[Crail](#crail)
[DataLab](#datalab)
[Doris](#doris)
[EventMesh](#eventmesh)
[Flagon](#flagon)
[Heron](#heron)
[HugeGraph](#hugegraph)
[InLong](#inlong)
[Kvrocks](#kvrocks)
[Kyuubi](#kyuubi)
[Liminal](#liminal)
[Linkis](#linkis)
[Marvin-AI](#marvin-ai)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[MXNet](#mxnet)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[NuttX](#nuttx)
[PageSpeed](#pagespeed)
[SeaTunnel](#seatunnel)
[Sedona](#sedona)
[ShenYu](#shenyu)
[Spot](#spot)
[StreamPipes](#streampipes)
[Teaclave](#teaclave)
[Toree](#toree)
[Training](#training)
[Tuweni](#tuweni)
[Wayang](#wayang)

20 Apr 2022 [Justin Mclean / Christofer] ¶

No report was submitted.

@Christofer: pursue a report for Incubator

16 Mar 2022 [Justin Mclean / Rich] ¶

No report was submitted.

16 Feb 2022 [Justin Mclean] ¶

No report was submitted.

19 Jan 2022 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for January 2022

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. There are
presently 37 podlings incubating. In December, podlings executed  8
distinct releases. We added no new IPMC members, and none retired. There
where 2 IP clearances. A couple of new podlings are under discussion, and
HugeGraph will be joining the Incubator. Hop graduated last month.

A couple of podlings are heading towards graduation in the next few months.
This month we were missing reports from BlueMarlin, EventMesh, Hivemall,
Livy, MXNet, SDAP, SeaTunnel, Spot, Training and they will be asked to
report next month. January is typically a month we get several missing
reports due to holidays. Hivemall, Livy, SDAP, Spot and Training have
failed to report several times in a row, a role call or other appropriate
action will be taken, including suggesting (in some cases), they should
retire from the Incubator. Spot did respond to its role call, and showed
interest in continuing. It does at least have 3 active PMC members but
little or no activity.

Discussion around Age graduating suggested it was a little too early. They
needed to correct several minor things, including considering a wider group
of committers and lowering their committer bar. The PMC composition
required a little work as well.

A discussion on bringing  log 4j 1.x to the Incubator took place, and it
was decided that the Incubator was not the right place for this project.
As usual, most discussions on the mailing list were on graduations,
releases, and new project proposals.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - None

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings
 - None, but vote underway for HugeGraph

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

## Graduations
 - Hop

 The board has motions for the following:
 - None

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 November:
 - Age 0.6.0
 - Brpc 1.0.0
 - EventMesh 1.3.0
 - InLong 0.12.0
 - Kyuubi 1.4.0
 - MXNet 1.9.0
 - Yunikorn 0.12.1
 - Wayang 0.6.0

## IP Clearance
 - Apache Arrow Julia library
 - Apache Maven - Mvndaemon

## Legal / Trademarks
 N/A

## Infrastructure
 N/A

## Miscellaneous
 N/A

## Table of Contents
[Annotator](#annotator)
[DataLab](#datalab)
[Flagon](#flagon)
[InLong](#inlong)
[Kyuubi](#kyuubi)
[Liminal](#liminal)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[NuttX](#nuttx)
[PageSpeed](#pagespeed)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[PonyMail](#ponymail)
[ShenYu](#shenyu)
[Teaclave](#teaclave)
[YuniKorn](#yunikorn)
[Linkis](#linkis)

15 Dec 2021 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for December 2021

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. There are
presently 38 podlings incubating. In November, podlings executed 7 distinct
releases. We added two new IPMC members, and none retired.
There was one IP clearance. A couple of new podlings are under discussion,
and SeaTunnel has joined the Incubator. There were no graduations last
month.

A couple of podlings are heading towards graduation in the next few months.
This month we were missing reports from Hivemall, Livy, PageSpeed, SDAP,
Spot and Training, and they will be asked to report next month. All
podlings mentioned have had a history of misisng the occasional report, and
most have low levels of activity. Training is discussing possible
retirement. Spot has very low activity levels and has missed multiple
reports. Since the last roll call only attracted 2 PPMC members, I've
requested another roll call and asked them if it is time to consider
retirement.

Multiple projects were asked to use the correct URL for their KEYS files.
A few projects have been using the WIP disclaimer a little too widely, and
their releases attracted -1 votes.
We usually had a top level project ask for a vote on their release and were
unable to help them.

In recent times some of the incubator reports have been submitted late and
board members have not had adequate time to review them.
To improve this situation:
- Report generation tools have been updated to be able to produce future
report templates
- One full year (2022) of report templates have been produced
- The dates due for all of 2022 Incubator reports have been published
- ISC calendar files have been produced for all of these dates in 2022

As usual, most discussions on the mailing list were around graduations,
releases, and new project proposals.


## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Xiangdong Huang
 - Guo William

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
 - SeaTunnel

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

## Graduations
 - none

 The board has motions for the following:
 - Hop

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 November:
 - Age 0.6.0
 - Annotator 0.2.0
 - Doris 0.15.0
 - Inlong 0.11.0
 - Nuttx 10.2.0
 - Pegasus 2.3.0
 - Sedona 1.1.1

## IP Clearance
 - Mvndaemon

## Legal / Trademarks
 N/A

## Infrastructure
 N/A

## Miscellaneous
 N/A

## Table of Contents
[AGE](#age)
[brpc](#brpc)
[Crail](#crail)
[Hop](#hop)
[Kyuubi](#kyuubi)
[Marvin-AI](#marvin-ai)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[StreamPipes](#streampipes)
[Toree](#toree)
[Wayang](#wayang)

17 Nov 2021 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for November 2021

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 37 podlings incubating. In September and October,
podlings executed 7 distinct releases. We added no new IPMC members, and
none retired.

There were 2 IP clearances, and no projects graduated in the last two
months.

A couple of podlings are heading towards graduation in the next few months.
We were missing reports from PageSpeed, SDAP, Toree and Training, all of
whom we'll ask to report next month. Livy's report was also missing and they
asked to report next month. The projects that failed to report in the last
report have reported this time.

Discussion on the IP clearance for Apache AsterixDB JDBC Driver continued.
The project will need to go through the IP clearance steps for this
donation before their next release. Another IP clearance was found to
contain code under a category X license.

Several projects were asked to correct links on their download pages, and a
script was created to check these pages. A couple of projects were asked to
add the incubator disclaimer to their website, and a couple of projects
were asked to clean up their distribution areas.

There is a discussion on Apache Hop graduating.

There were discussions around download pages, releases, and IP clearances
on the mailing list.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - none

### People who left the IPMC:
  - none

## New Podlings
  - none

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - Livy
  - PageSpeed
  - SDAP
  - Toree
  - Training

 ## Graduations
  - None

  The board has motions for the following:
  - None

## Releases
  The following releases entered distribution during the months of
  October and September:
  - BRPC 1.0.0
  - Hop 1.0.0
  - InLong 0.10.0
  - Kyuubi 1.3.0
  - Kyuubi 1.3.1
  - Sedona 1.1.0
  - Shenyu 2.4.1

## IP Clearance
  - Apache AsterixDB - JDBC Driver
  - Apache Daffodil VSCode Debugger

## Legal / Trademarks
  N/A

## Infrastructure
  N/A

## Table of Contents
[Annotator](#annotator)
[BlueMarlin](#bluemarlin)
[Flagon](#flagon)
[Hivemall](#hivemall)
[InLong](#inlong)
[Kyuubi](#kyuubi)
[Liminal](#liminal)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[NuttX](#nuttx)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[Pony Mail](#pony mail)
[ShenYu](#shenyu)
[Teaclave](#teaclave)
[YuniKorn](#yunikorn)

[DataLab](#datalab)
[Doris](#doris)
[EventMesh](#eventmesh)
[Heron](#heron)
[Kyuubi](#kyuubi)
[MXNet](#mxnet)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[Sedona](#sedona)
[Spot](#spot)
[Tuweni](#tuweni)

20 Oct 2021 [Justin Mclean] ¶

No report was submitted.

15 Sep 2021 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for September 2021

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 37 podlings incubating. In August, podlings executed 10
distinct releases. We added 2 new IPMC members, and none retired.

There was 1 IP clearance in August, and no projects graduated last month.

A couple of podlings are heading towards graduation in the next few months.
This month we were missing reports from Hivemall and Spot. Hivemall asked
to report next month, and Spot will be asked to report next month. The
three projects that failed to report last month have reported this month.

There was a  discussion on the IP clearance for Apache AsterixDB JDBC
Driver as all history had been removed and all headers replaced, making it
difficult to determine IP clearance.
A Maven IP clearance was discovered to contain category X licensed code.

It was a quiet month, and most discussions on the mailing list were around
releases, new mentors and IP clearances.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Madhawa Gunasekara
 - Xun Liu

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
 - None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Hivemall
 - Spot

## Graduations
 - None

 The board has motions for the following:
 - None

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 September:
 - Age 0.5.0
 - ShenYu 2.4.0
 - DataLab 2.5.0
 - EventMesh 1.2.0
 - Hop 0.99
 - Liminal 0.0.3
 - NLPCcraft 0.9.0
 - NLPCcraft Java client 0.9.0
 - Teaclave v0.3.0
 - YuniKorn 0.11.0

## IP Clearance
 - Apache Maven - Mvndaemon

## Legal / Trademarks
 - N/A

## Infrastructure
 - N/A

## Miscellaneous
 - N/A

## Table of Contents
[AGE](#age)
[Annotator](#annotator)
[brpc](#brpc)
[Crail](#crail)
[Hop](#hop)
[Kyuubi](#kyuubi)
[Linkis](#linkis)
[Marvin-AI](#marvin-ai)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[StreamPipes](#streampipes)
[Toree](#toree)
[Wayang](#wayang)

18 Aug 2021 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for July and August 2021

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are presently 37 podlings incubating. In June and August, podlings
executed 10 distinct releases. We added 2 new IPMC members, and none
retired.

There was 4 IP clearance in June and August. A couple of new podlings are
under discussion, and Kyuubi and Linkis have joined the Incubator. Pinot
graduated last month.

A couple of podlings are heading towards graduation in the next few months.
This month we were missing reports from Annotator, Milagro and Toree, and
they will be asked to report next month.

There was a lengthy discussion on the IP clearance for Terraform as
information around the donation, IP and licensing was initially unclear but
was eventually resolved.

There was also a discussion about IP provenance of files in the Tuweni
release and the Hop release.

Some updates were made to the podling retirement guide.

As usual, most discussions on the mailing list were around graduations,
releases, new project proposals and new mentors.


## Community

### New IPMC members:
- Ankit Singhal
- Wei-Chiu Chuang

### People who left the IPMC:
- none

## New Podlings
- Kyuubi

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
- Annotator
- Milagro
- Toree

## Graduations
- list podling here

The board has motions for the following:
- None

## Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 - August and July:
 - EventMesh 1.2.0
 - Flagon UserALE.js 2.1.1
 - Flagon UserALE.js 2.2.0
 - InLong 0.9.0
 - NLP Craft 0.8.0
 - Pegasus 2.2.0
 - StreamPipes 0.68.0
 - TeaClave Trustzone 0.1.0
 - Tuweni 2.0.0
 - YuniKorn 0.11.0

## IP Clearance
 - CloudStack Terraform Provider
 - CloudStack Go SDK
 - Arrow - experimental
 - Druid Helm Chart

## Legal / Trademarks
N/A

## Infrastructure
N/A

## Miscellaneous
N/A

## Table of Contents
[BlueMarlin](#bluemarlin)
[DataLab](#datalab)
[Doris](#doris)
[EventMesh](#eventmesh)
[Flagon](#flagon)
[Heron](#heron)
[InLong](#inlong)
[Liminal](#liminal)
[Livy](#livy)
[MXNet](#mxnet)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[NuttX](#nuttx)
[PageSpeed](#pagespeed)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[PonyMail](#ponymail)
[SDAP](#sdap)
[Sedona](#sedona)
[ShenYu](#shenyu)
[Teaclave](#teaclave)
[Training](#training)
[Tuweni](#tuweni)
[YuniKorn](#yunikorn)
[Kyuubi](#Kyuubi)

21 Jul 2021 [Justin Mclean] ¶

No report was submitted.

16 Jun 2021 [Justin Mclean] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 36 podlings incubating. In May, podlings executed 8
distinct releases. We added three new IPMC members, added one new podling
ShenYu, and one podling Weex retired.

There were no IP clearances in May. There are two new podlings under active
discussion, and no podlings graduated last month. This month there were no
misisng reports which is nice to see. Livy is discussing retirement.

Podlings cleaned up a few more podling release areas.

A podling needed to be reminded that 3 +1 PMC votes are required, and it's
a good idea to wait 72 hours before calling a release vote.

There was some discussion on making Helm releases and how that can work and
comply with ASF policies.

TubeMQ continued working on renaming itself to InLong.

The Incubator track for ApacheCon has been organised with two days of talks
on various subjects split into two groups on the Incubator (releases and
mentoring) and Incubating projects.

As usual, most discussions on the mailing list were around releases, new
project proposals, new mentors, and we also found out that Minecraft wasn't
working.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - Jeff Zhang
  - Nathan Hartman
  - Yu Li

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings
  - ShenYu

## Retired Podling
  - Weex

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - None

## Graduations
  - None

  The board has motions for the following:

  - None

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  May:
  - Age 0.4.0
  - Doris 0.14.0
  - Heron 0.20.0
  - Liminal 0.0.2
  - NLPCraft Java Client 0.7.5
  - NLPCraft  0.7.5
  - NuttX 10.1.0
  - Sedona 1.0.1

## IP Clearance
  - None

## Legal / Trademarks
 - Clarification on binary files in source releases, although it seems more
 of an issue to TLPs than podlings.

## Infrastructure
 - N/A

## Miscellaneous
 - N/A

## Table of Contents
[AGE](#age)
[brpc](#brpc)
[Crail](#crail)
[Hivemall](#hivemall)
[Hop](#hop)
[Livy](#livy)
[Marvin-AI](#marvin-ai)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[Pinot](#pinot)
[ShenYu](#shenyu)
[Spot](#spot)
[StreamPipes](#streampipes)
[Wayang](#wayang)

19 May 2021 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for May 2021

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 37 podlings incubating. In April, podlings executed 4
distinct releases. We added 5 new IPMC members, and none retired.

There was two IP clearances in April, and there was one new podling ShenYu,
and another is under active discussion. No podlings graduated last month. This
month we were missing reports from Livy, Pinot, and Weex.

Livy has missed five reports in a row, a roll call was taken for Livy, and two
PMC members responded. The IPMC will discuss retiring the project. A vote is
in progress to retire Weex.

MXNet has new outstanding trademark and branding issues. In a review of a
release of Doris, the IPMC found several serious trademark and branding
issues. The PMC is working on them, but it looks like the current trademark
owner wants to continue using the name, which means they're likely to confuse
users and risk Doris graduating.

In a review of a Liminal release, a dependency on an LGPL library chardet was
found. It turns out this is a common dependency and will impact several TLPs,
including Apache Airflow. The community is working out the best way to get
this dependency relicensed (which seems unlikely), replaced with something
else or making it optional. Good progress has been made, working with 3rd
parties.

An external project interviewed several IPMC members as part of a study to see
what makes projects successful.

The Incubator track for ApacheCon is being organised.

Further cleanup was done in removing old releases from current podlings. Still
to sort out their releases areas are Crail, Livy, MXNet, Nemo and Pinot. Some
old outstanding JIRAs were cleaned up, and there was a discussion on fixing up
retired podling websites.

As usual, most discussions on the mailing list were around releases, new
project proposals and selecting good names for podlings and finding new
mentors.


## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Atri Sharma
 - Jincheng Sun
 - Lidong Dai
 - Yu Li
 - Zhenxu Ke

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
 - ShenYu

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Livy
 - Pinot
 - Weex

## Graduations
 - None

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of April:
  - Flagon Useralejs 2.1.1
  - Hop 0.70
  - Pinot 0.7.1
  - Yunikorn 0.10.0

## IP Clearance
 - tika-helm
 - Ballista

## Legal / Trademarks

 Note that legal policy has been clarified and made clear that:
  - Jars containing compiled code cannot be include in source releases
  - Category b code in any form cannot be include in source releases

## Infrastructure
 - None

## Miscellaneous
 - None

## Table of Contents
[Annotator](#annotator)
[Doris](#doris)
[Heron](#heron)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[PageSpeed](#pagespeed)
[SDAP](#sdap)
[Sedona](#sedona)
[Spot](#spot)
[Toree](#toree)
[Training](#training)
[Tuweni](#tuweni)

21 Apr 2021 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for April 2021

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are presently 36 podlings incubating. In March, podlings executed 6
distinct releases. We added 2 new IPMC members, and none retired. There was
one IP clearance in March, and there were no new podlings. DolphinScheduler
graduated last month.
This month we were missing reports from Livy, Milagro, PageSpeed, Spot, and
Weex.  Livy, PageSpeed, and Spot have missed multiple reports, and roll
calls will be taken to check these projects are still viable. Weex is in
the process of retiring. Annotator and BlueMarlin do not have signoff by
mentors and will also be asked to report next month.
Pinot made a process error in making a release but will make sure it
doesn't happen again.
As with last month, MXNet still has outstanding trademark and branding
issues, but they are working on it. As noted in the previous report, they
are also having trouble getting IPMC votes on releases.
Some old Incubator JIRA issues were cleared up, and some Incubator web
pages updated.  Further cleanup was done in removing old releases from
retired podlings.
As usual, most discussions on the mailing list were around releases, new
project proposal and finding new mentors.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - Atri Sharma
  - Juan Pan

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings
  - None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - Livy
  - Milagro
  - PageSpeed
  - Spot
  - Weex

## Graduations
  - DolphinScheduler

  The board has motions for the following:
  - None

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  March:
  - Liminal 0.0.1
  - MXnet 1.8.0
 - MXnet 2.0.0
  - Pinot 0.7.0
  - Teaclave 0.2.0
  - TubeMQ 0.8.0

## IP Clearance
  - dubbo-go-pixiu

## Legal / Trademarks
  N/A

## Infrastructure
  N/A

## Miscellaneous
  N/A

## Table of Contents
[Annotator](#annotator)
[BlueMarlin](#bluemarlin)
[DataLab](#datalab)
[EventMesh](#eventmesh)
[Flagon](#flagon)
[Hivemall](#hivemall)
[Liminal](#liminal)
[MXNet](#mxnet)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[NuttX](#nuttx)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[PonyMail](#ponymail)
[Teaclave](#teaclave)
[Toree](#toree)
[TubeMQ](#tubemq)
[YuniKorn](#yunikorn)

17 Mar 2021 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for March 2021

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 37 podlings incubating. In February, podlings executed
5 distinct releases. We added no new IPMC members, and none retired. There
was one IP clearance in February, and there was one new podling, EventMesh.
Ratis and Daffodil graduated last month.

This month we were missing reports from Hivemall, Livy, PageSpeed, Spot,
Toree, Weex. Toree has missed more than one report in a row, and the IPMC
will take a roll call. NLPCraft will be asked to report again due to a
minimal report. SAMOA has been retired and Weex will be retired shortly.
Livy failed to report despite a recent roll call that received 3 PPMC
member reponses. Currently, Marvin-AI does not have signoff by
mentors and will also be asked to report next month if they don't get
signoff.

A vote to remove BlueMarlin from the Incubator was taken. This caused some
action on the project's part, and they have moved communication to the dev
list and the code to the ASF repository. Currently, they will be allowed to
continue in the Incubator.

MXNet still has several trademark and branding issues that need to be
resolved. MXNet is having trouble getting its mentors or IPMC members to
vote on its releases. This is possible due to continuing issues and
bandwidth required when dealing with this project.

A new proposal LXDB is under discussion.

Some retired podlings need some cleanup and be correctly retired, so the
public is aware of this. Some of the old release directories were removed.

Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases, new project
proposal, graduations and finding new mentors.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - none

### People who left the IPMC:
  - none

## New Podlings
 - EventMesh

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Hivemall
 - Livy
 - NLPCraft
 - PageSpeed
 - Spot
 - Toree
 - Weex

## Graduations
  - Daffodil
  - Ratis

  The board has motions for the following:

  - DolphinScheduler

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  March:
  - Age 0.3.0
  - DolphinScheduler 1.3.5
  - Livy 0.7.1
  - NLPcraft 0.7.4
  - Sedona 1.0.0

livy/0.7.1-incubating
## IP Clearance
  - gremlint for TinkerPop

## Legal / Trademarks
 - N/A

## Infrastructure
 - N/A

## Miscellaneous
 - N/A

## Table of Contents
[AGE](#age)
[brpc](#brpc)
[Crail](#crail)
[Doris](#doris)
[Hop](#hop)
[Marvin-AI](#marvin-ai)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[PonyMail](#ponymail)
[StreamPipes](#streampipes)
[Wayang](#wayang)

17 Feb 2021 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for February 2021

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are presently 39 podlings incubating. In January, podlings executed 4
distinct releases. We added no new IPMC members, and none retired. There
was one IP clearance in January, and there were no new projects. Goblin
graduated last month, and Ratis is up for graduation this month. There was
discussion about accepting EventMesh.

This month we were missing reports from Doris, Livy, NLPCraft,
PageSpeed, PonyMail, Toree, Wayang and Weex. Livy, PonyMail and Weex
have missed more than one report in a row. It not known why so many podlings
failed to report, but I would guess step time of year and world events.

The IPMC is waiting on the results of a roll call for BRPC. Roll calls have
been sent for Livy and PonyMail. Weex has been asked to consider retirement
(again) as they have failed to report several times in a row.

BlueMarlin has been asked to move communication to the dev list or be
retired from the IPMC.

S2Graph has been retired.

SAMOA did not respond to an email to consider retirement, and the Incubator
PMC will discuss retiring the project.

MXNet still has several trademark and branding issues that need to be
resolved. The releases containing Category X code still have been finally
removed. MXNet brought a release vote to the IPMC general list without the
required number of PPMC votes.

Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases and graduations
and finding new mentors. There were graduation discussions around Daffodil,
DolphinScheduler, Flagon, Goblin, and Ratis. There are vote currently underway
for accepting EventMesh, and graduating Daffodil and DolphinScheduler.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - None

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
 - None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Doris
 - Livy
 - NLPCraft
 - PageSpeed
 - PonyMail
 - Toree
 - Wayang
 - Weex

## Graduations
 - Goblin

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Ratis

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 January:
 - Heron 0.20.3
 - NLPcraft 0.7.3
 - Ratis 0.6.0
 - Hop 0.60

## IP Clearance
 - OpenWhisk IDE plugins

## Legal / Trademarks
 N/A

## Infrastructure
 N/A

## Miscellaneous
 N/A

## Table of Contents
[brpc](#brpc)
[DolphinScheduler](#dolphinscheduler)
[Heron](#heron)
[Pinot](#pinot)
[Pony Mail](#ponymail)
[Ratis](#ratis)
[SDAP](#sdap)
[Sedona](#sedona)
[Training](#training)
[Tuweni](#tuweni)

20 Jan 2021 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for January 2021

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 40 podlings incubating. In December, podlings executed
9 distinct releases. We added three new IPMC members, and none retired.
There was one IP clearance in December. We have one new project Wayang.
ECharts and DataSketches graduated last month, and Ratis and Flagon should
graduate next month.

Annotator and Liminal, which failed to report last month, have reported
this month. BRPC did not report again, and a role-call will be carried out
to see if there is still an active PMC. This month we were missing reports
from BRPC, Livy, PonyMail and Weex.

BlueMarlin still seems to be having some difficulty communicating on their
mailing lists. They have submitted a report this month which is a good
start.

Liminal has corrected the issue with its unapproved releases.

S2Graph will be retired shortly.

Weex, who was considering retirement, has managed to get the needed 3 +1
PPMC votes for a release and their release is now up for IPMC vote.

SAMOA currently has no mentors but given there's little, or no activity on
the mailing list and no commits for 9 months that's not a big issue. The
project will be encouraged to retire.

Andrew Wetmore went though and simplified the language on many incubator
site pages, including the policy page. There's a couple of missing links
that still need to be corrected.

The major licensing issue with MXNet has been resolved with permission
given to distribute it under the Apache 2.0 license. There are still
several trademark and branding issues that need to be resolved. The project
states it's nearing graduation, but IMO some work still needs to be done
before that can happen. Their last release failed to get the required
number of IPMC votes due to the difficultly in reviewing it. The previous
releases containing Category X code still have not been removed (see
INFRA-20442).

Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases and graduations.
There were graduation discussions around ECharts, Flagon, Ratis and Goblin.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Ming Wen
 - Maximilian Michels
 - Francois Papon

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
 - Wayang

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - BRPC
 - Livy
 - PonyMail
 - Weex

## Graduations
 - ECharts
 - DataSketches

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Gobblin

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 December:
 - DolphinScheduler 1.3.4
 - ECharts 5.0.0
 - Gobblin 0.15.0
 - NLPcraft java-client 0.7.2
 - Nemo 0.3
 - NuttX 10.0.0
 - NuttX 10.0.1
 - NuttX 9.1.1
 - TubeMQ 0.7.0

## IP Clearance
 - OpenWhisk IDE plugins

## Legal / Trademarks
 - MXNet license issue resolved
 - Trademark issues seem to be coming a more common issue with graduating
projects

## Infrastructure
 - ASF's GitHub actions limits are causing some projects issues but this
is being looked into by Infra.

## Miscellaneous
 - N/A

## Table of Contents
[Annotator](#annotator)
[BlueMarlin](#bluemarlin)
[DataLab](#datalab)
[Flagon](#flagon)
[Gobblin](#gobblin)
[Hop](#hop)
[Liminal](#liminal)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[MXNet](#mxnet)
[NuttX](#nuttx)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[Teaclave](#teaclave)
[TubeMQ](#tubemq)
[Wayang](#wayang)
[YuniKorn](#yunikorn)

16 Dec 2020 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for December 2020

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 41 podlings incubating. In November, podlings executed
10 distinct releases. We added one new IPMC member, and none retired. There
were two IP clearances in November. We have no new projects, although a
couple are under discussion, including Wayang. Superset and TVM graduated
last month and Warble was retired.

This month we were missing reports from Annotator, BRPC and Liminal.
Annotator has reached out to the IPMC, added a new mentor and will report
next month.

BlueMarlin report mentions an unexpected release, and they still seem to be
having trouble operating as an Apache project. One mentor has given up on
them due to lack of communication.

Liminal has failed to report several times, but there is ongoing activity
in the project. It also seems they are making unapproved releases which the
IPMC will follow up on.

There was still no response from S2Graph, and unless there any objections
they will be retired shortly.

Weex, who was considering retirement, tried to make a release and brought
the release to the IPMC without the needed 3 +1 votes. They were asked to
find the needed PPMC votes. It may be that they do not have enough of an
active PPMC to do this.

SAMOA currently has no mentors, and little or no activity and the IPMC is
considering retiring the project.

TubeMQ is considering renaming itself to something else.

NuttX made a release that was voted on the IPMC private list as it
contained some critical security fixes.

There was no visible progress made on MXNet issues, and this will be
discussed at the board meeting. An active mentor retired, and a new mentor
was added to help them.

Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases and graduations.
There were graduation discussions around ECharts, Flagon, DataSketches and
Goblin.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Lars George

### People who left the IPMC:
 - none

## New Podlings
 - none

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Annotator
 - BRPC
 - Liminal

## Graduations
 - Superset
 - TVM

The board has motions for the following:
 - DataSketches
 - ECharts

## Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of
November:
 - Daffodil 3.0.0
 - DolphinScheduler 1.3.3
 - NLPCraft 0.7.1
 - NLPCraft 0.7.2
 - NuttX 10.0.0
 - Pegasus 2.1.0
 - Pinot 0.6.0
 - Superset 0.38.0
 - TubeMQ 0.7.0
 - Tuweni 1.3.0

## IP Clearance
 - Apache APISIX ingress controller
 - Apache Arrow Julia library

## Legal / Trademarks
 - MXNet issues still unresolved.

## Infrastructure
 - N/A

## Miscellaneous
 - N/A

## Table of Contents
[AGE](#age)
[BlueMarlin](#bluemarlin)
[Crail](#crail)
[Daffodil](#daffodil)
[Hivemall](#hivemall)
[Hop](#hop)
[Livy](#livy)
[Marvin-AI](#marvin-ai)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[SAMOA](#samoa)
[Spot](#spot)
[StreamPipes](#streampipes)
[Toree](#toree)

18 Nov 2020 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for November 2020

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 46 podlings incubating. In October, podlings executed 8
distinct releases. We added 3 IPMC members and none retired. There was one
IP clearance in September. We have one new project Hop, and no projects
graduated last month. Superset was up for graduation last month, but it was
submitted just before the board meeting, and there wasn't time to review it.

This month we were missing reports from Annotator, BlueMarlin, Livy,
S2Graph, Toree and Warble. Livy, S2Graph, and Warble failed to report last
month and Annotator didn't get sign off from its mentors.

BlueMarlin has bootstrapped after a long delay, but still didn't report.
A role call for S2Graph got no response and the IPMC will consider retiring
the project. SDAP and Weex reported after missing several reports. Weex is
considering retirement and Warble will be retired.

A new proposal Alita-validator is being discussed.

Progress on MXNet issues is still slow, with most problems being on hold
waiting for NVIDIA or legal JIRA's to be resolved.  More branding and
trademark issues have been found, and their latest release didn't pass an
IPMC vote, and a new release is currently up for a vote. They needed a lot
of help with branding issues for an upcoming conference and were late in
asking for help. some irregularities where also found with roster and
the process for adding people to their PPMC.

NVIDIA has changed their licensing terms, but the terms are still
incompatible with the Apache license. It's likely that the legal JIRA
will be resolved as Category X and that will mean that the project
will need to remove some of it own non-compliant releases from Apache
infrastructure and ask 3rd parties to rename releases. The IPMC has had
further discussions on what to do about the project.

There was a discussion on what criteria should be used to remove a podling
from the IPMC.

Some minor changes were made to the distribution guidelines based on
feedback from various people.

We had a slightly odd request from an ASF sponsor about IP governance,
which seems to have been satisfactorily resolved.

Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases and graduations.
There were graduation discussions around ECharts, Flagon, Superset and TVM.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - Jerry Shao
  - Antoine Toulme
  - Imesha Sudasingha

### People who left the IPMC:
  None

## New Podlings
  Hop

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - Annotator
  - BlueMarlin
  - Livy
  - S2Graph
  - Toree
  - Warble

## Graduations
  - None last month

  The board has motions for the following:

  - Superset
  - TVM?

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  October:
  - DLab 2.4.0
  - Doris 0.13.0
  - NLPCraft 0.7.0
  - StreamPipes 0.67.0
  - TVM 0.7.0
  - Teaclave 0.1.0
  - TubeMQ 0.6.0
  - Tuweni 1.2.0

## IP Clearance
 - Apache Arrow Julia library

## Legal / Trademarks
   NVIDIA has changed their licensing terms, but the terms are still
incompatible with the Apache license.

## Infrastructure
  Infra added some documentation on setup up new podlings.

## Miscellaneous
  None

## Table of Contents
[DataSketches](#datasketches)
[DolphinScheduler](#dolphinscheduler)
[Doris](#doris)
[ECharts](#echarts)
[Heron](#heron)
[Hop](#hop)
[Liminal](#liminal)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[PageSpeed](#pagespeed)
[Pinot](#pinot)
[Ratis](#ratis)
[SDAP](#sdap)
[Sedona](#sedona)
[Training](#training)
[Tuweni](#tuweni)
[Weex](#weex)

21 Oct 2020 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for October 2020

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 46 podlings incubating. In September, podlings executed
9 distinct releases. We added one IPMC members and none retired. There was
one IP clearance in September.  IoTDB graduated last month.

This month we were missing reports from Livy, S2Graph, SDAP, Warble and
Weex. S2Graph, SDAP, Warble and Weex have all failed to report for several
months, and the podlings will be contacted to see about retirement.
For the third month, we've also seen more podlings needing to ask mentors
and IPMC members to vote on releases. This may be a result of the current
pandemic situation or a lack of mentor engagement or both, and it's hard to
know for sure.

MXNet progress on resolving issues is still slow, conversation with NVIDIA
about changing the licensing terms also seem to have stalled, and they
didn't meet their self imposed deadline to resolve the issue.  What to do
about this was discussed by the IPMC.

TVM made another release and is again proposing to graduate. There are also
graduation discussions around Flagon and Superset.

Progress on the policy changes to distributing releases on various
platforms has been made and documented on the Incubator web site. All
podlings notified of these new guidelines.

The Apache Training project gave commit rights to all Apache committers.
The incubator organised a track for Apache@home conference and gave several
talks. The talks have been recorded and posted on the ASF youtube channel.
Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases and graduations.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Keiichi Fujino

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
 - Hop

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

## Graduations
 - IoTDB

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Superset?

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 September:

## IP Clearance
 - Apache Cassandra Harry

## Legal / Trademarks
 - MXNet legal issues still unresolved

## Infrastructure
 - N/A

## Miscellaneous
 - N/A

## Table of Contents
[AGE](#age)
[APISIX](#apisix)
[BlueMarlin](#bluemarlin)
[DLab](#dlab)
[Flagon](#flagon)
[Gobblin](#gobblin)
[Liminal](#liminal)
[MXNet](#mxnet)
[NuttX](#nuttx)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[Pony Mail](#ponymail)
[Sedona](#sedona)
[Teaclave](#teaclave)
[TubeMQ](#tubemq)
[TVM](#tvm)
[YuniKorn](#yunikorn)

16 Sep 2020 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for September 2020

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. There are
presently 46 podlings incubating. In August, podlings executed 8 distinct
releases. We added one IPMC member and none retired. There were 2 IP
clearances in August. A couple of new podlings are still being discussed
and proposals prepared, one in particular Hop has generated interest. No
projects graduated last month.

This month we were missing reports from BlueMarlin, Liminal, S2Graph, SDAP,
Warble and Weex. All of these podlings failed to report last month and it
concerning that two of them are new podlings. Again all will be asked to
report next month. If they fail to report again, the IPMC will need to take
further action. This is the fourth time that Warble has failed to report,
and it will be recommended to the podling that it retires. Again we've also
seen more podlings needing to ask mentors and IPMC members to vote on
releases. This may be a result of the current pandemic situation or a lack
of mentor engagement.

MXNet progress on resolving issues seems to have been stalled. Conversation
with NVIDIA about changing the licensing terms also seem to have stalled.
An MXNet release was found to contain code that had not passed IP clearance
and further branding, trademarks and distribution issues have been uncovered.
At this point, I think the IPMC will need to discuss if the project should
continue to be in the incubator and if it can graduate in its current state.
Discussions on ECharts graduation uncovered several trademark, branding and
domain issues which are being dealt with by the project. Graduation of TVM
also run into several similar issues, most of which have been resolved.
However, it was determined that the project has not made enough
releases to be ready for graduation as it had only made 2 releases by a
single project manager.

No progress on the policy changes to distributing releases on various
platforms has been made. This initiative is currently stalled, and without
board intervention or ASF policy change, it may not progress further.

The incubator has organised a track for the upcoming Apache@home conference.

Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases, graduations and
new proposals.

Spot has sorted out its subscription/roster issues.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - Lee Moon Soo

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings
 - None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - BlueMarlin
  - Liminal
  - S2Graph
  - SDAP
  - Warble
  - Weex

## Graduations
  - None

  The board has motions for the following:

  - IoTDB?

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  August:
  - DolphinScheduler maven plugin 1.0.0
  - ECharts 4.9.0
  - IoTDB 0.10.1
  - MXNet 1.7.0
  - Superset 0.37.0
  - Toree 0.4.0
  - Tubemq 0.5.0
  - YuniKorn 0.9.0

## IP Clearance
  - MXNet MShadow
  - Dubbo Getty

## Legal / Trademarks
  -  MXNet outstanding legal issues

## Infrastructure
  - Changes to distribution policy

## Miscellaneous
  - N/A

## Table of Contents
[AGE](#age)
[brpc](#brpc)
[Crail](#crail)
[Daffodil](#daffodil)
[Hivemall](#hivemall)
[IoTDB](#iotdb)
[Marvin-AI](#marvin-ai)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[SAMOA](#samoa)
[Sedona](#sedona)
[Spot](#spot)
[StreamPipes](#streampipes)
[Superset](#superset)

19 Aug 2020 [Justin Mclean] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are presently 46 podlings incubating. In July, podlings executed 11
distinct releases. We added 1 IPMC member and none retired. There were no
IP clearances in June. A couple of new podlings are still being discussed
and proposals prepared. One projects APISIX graduated last month.

This month we were missing reports from BlueMarlin, Liminal, NLPCraft,
S2Graph, SDAP and Warble. Two podlings that failed to report are new which
is concerning. Weex was unable to get sign off by its mentors. All will be
asked to report next month. This is the third time that Warble has failed
to report. As with last month, it's uncertain why a large number of
podlings where unable to submit reports, but it's likely to be related to
current external events. We've also seen more podlings needing to ask
mentors and IPMC members to vote on releases and fewer mentors voting on
releases.

MXNet is slowing working on its issues with ASF release and distribution
policy. But as with last month report, more issues have been found. The
project has taken steps to correct items in both sets of issues, but there
are still some outstanding concerns. There has been a constructive
conversation with NVIDIA about changing the licensing terms to be
compatible with the Apache license, and another 3rd party (DJL / Amazon)
has MXNet corrected branding and trademark issues. But despite this
progress, the MXNet PPMC seems reluctant to fix these issues promptly and
not is not following advice given.

An objection to guidelines on distributing releases on various platforms
was brought up at the last minute (despite multiple conversations spanning
over a year being held on these guidelines). This initiative has stalled.
Technically the vote to approve these guidelines passed, but until the
person clarifies or removes their objection, it's unclear how to proceed.
The person did not respond to requests to clarify their objections. If this
can't be resolved, it may require the board to step in.

The Incubator has organised a track for the upcoming Apache@home conference.

Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases and on
graduations and new proposals.

SDAP sorted out its subscription/roster issues, but Spot still needs to do
so despite multiple reminders.

## Community

### New IPMC members:

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
 - Sedona

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - BlueMarlin
 - Liminal
 - NLPCraft
 - S2Graph
 - SDAP
 - Warble
 - Weex (failed to get mentor sign off)

## Graduations
 - APISIX

 The board has motions for the following:
 - None

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 July:
 - Annotator 0.1.0
 - Daffodil 2.7.0
 - DataSketches Hive 1.1.0
 - DolphinScheduler 1.3.1
 - NLPCraft 0.6.2
 - NuttX 9.1.0
 - Ratis 1.0.0
 - Ratis third party 0.5.0
 - Toree 0.4.0
 - Tuweni 1.1.0
 - Tvm v0.6.1

## IP Clearance
 - none

## Legal / Trademarks
 - Onging issues with MXNet (see INCUBATOR-253)

## Infrastructure
 - None

## Miscellaneous
 - None

## Table of Contents
[AGE](#age)
[Annotator](#annotator)
[DataSketches](#datasketches)
[DolphinScheduler](#dolphinscheduler)
[Doris](#doris)
[ECharts](#echarts)
[Heron](#heron)
[Livy](#livy)
[PageSpeed](#pagespeed)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[Pinot](#pinot)
[Ratis](#ratis)
[Sedona](#sedona)
[Toree](#toree)
[Training](#training)
[Tuweni](#tuweni)
[Weex](#weex)

15 Jul 2020 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for July 2020

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 45 podlings incubating. In June, podlings executed 8
distinct releases. We added no new IPMC members and two retired.

There was one IP clearance in June. There is one new podling Pegasus,
HBlock is still being discussed, and one new proposal is being prepared. No
projects graduated last month.

This month we were missing reports from AGE, Annotator, Livy, Warble
and  Weex. All will be asked to report next month. This is the second time
that Warble has failed to report. It's uncertain why a large number of
podling failed to report but it's likely to be related to current external
events.

As reported last month, MXNet podling releases and download page were not
in line with ASF release and distribution policy. Since then, further
issues have been found, as well as trademark and branding issues. The
project has taken steps to correct these issues, but there are still some
outstanding concerns. There may not be an active PPMC, as only two people
seem to be dealing with the issues.

There is currently an ongoing conversation on providing clear guidance to
podlings who want to distribute releases on various platforms. This
guidance has existed for some time but has been marked draft.

The Incubator will organise a track at the upcoming Apache@home conference.

A couple of mentors have been added and removed from projects.

Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases and release and
header policy graduations and new proposals.

Two podlings SDAP and Spot still need to sort out their roster and private
mailing list subscriptions. They have been reminded again to correct this.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  None

### People who left the IPMC:
  - Alan Gates
  - Henri Yandell

## New Podlings
  - Pegasus

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - AGE
  - Annotator
  - Livy
  - Warble
  - Weex

## Graduations
  - None

  The board has motions for the following:

  - APISIX

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  June:
  - TubeMQ 0.3.0
  - Pinot 0.4.0
  - DataSketches cpp 2.0.0
  - Pagespeed 1.14.36.1
  - DolphinScheduler 1.3.0
  - IoTDB 0.10.0
  - APISIX 1.4
  - Ratis 0.5.0

## IP Clearance
  - ShardingSphere ElasticJob

## Legal / Trademarks
  - MXNet has multiple trademark issues
  - There are several legal JIRAs about MXNet releases

## Infrastructure
 - N/A

## Miscellaneous
 -  N/A

## Table of Contents
[AGE](#age)
[Annotator](#annotator)
[APISIX](#apisix)
[BlueMarlin](#bluemarlin)
[DolphinScheduler](#dolphinscheduler)
[DLab](#dlab)
[Flagon](#flagon)
[Gobblin](#gobblin)
[Hivemall](#hivemall)
[Liminal](#liminal)
[Livy](#livy)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[MXNet](#mxnet)
[NuttX](#nuttx)
[PonyMail](#ponymail)
[Spot](#spot)
[Teaclave](#teaclave)
[TubeMQ](#tubemq)
[TVM](#tvm)
[Warble](#warble)
[Weex](#weex)
[YuniKorn](#yunikorn)

17 Jun 2020 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for June 2020

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 43 podlings incubating. In May, podlings executed nine
distinct releases. We added one new IPMC members and three retired.

There was one IP clearance in May. There are still two new podlings under
discussion or VOTE, and they are HBlock and Pegasus. Two projects, Hudi and
Iceberg, graduated last month.

At least one podling is heading towards graduation in this or the next
board report, the next one to graduate is likely to be APISIX. This month
we were missing reports from Liminal, Spot, Hivemall and Warble. Liminal and
Spot asked to report next month. Hivemall and Warble didn't report and will
be asked to report next month.

It was found that the MXNet podling's releases and download page were not
in line with ASF release and distribution policy. The project had been
distributing releases with Category X code and distributing unreleased
code. There has been a lengthy discussion both on legal-dicusss and the
incubator general list on this. The project has taken some small steps to
correct the issues but seems to be hesitant to do so and currently. These
issues are still publically unresolved. The Incubator PMC may need to take
further action on this.

A couple of established podlings seem to be having trouble following the
correct process for adding PPMC members. It's not clear why this is the
case as the process is well documented and simple.

Huddi graduated, but there was a small issue with its proposed PMC list
that was corrected. Iceberg also graduated, there was some discussion about
some issues with its license and notice files in its releases.

A couple of mentors have been added and removed from projects. Most on list
traffic was around releases and graduations.

Two podlings SDAP and Spot still need to sort out their roster and private
mailing list subscriptions.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - Wangda Tan

### People who left the IPMC:
  - Alan Gates
  - Joe Witt
  - Jakob Homan

## New Podlings
  - BlueMarlin

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Liminal
 - Hivemall
 - Spot
 - Warble

## Graduations
  - Iceberg
  - Hudi

  The board has motions for the following:

  - None

## Releases
  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  May:
  - APISIX 1.3
  - DLab 2.3.0
  - DataSketches 1.3.0
  - ECharts 4.8.0
  - Iceberg 0.8.0
  - IoTDB 0.9.3
  - Nuttx 9.0.0
  - StreamPipes 0.66.0
  - Yunikorn 0.8.0

## IP Clearance
  - ShardingSphere ElasticJob


## Legal / Trademarks
  Discussion on releases containing Category X code.

## Infrastructure
  None.

## Miscellaneous
  None.


## Table of Contents
[AGE](#age)
[brpc](#brpc)
[Crail](#crail)
[Daffodil](#daffodil)
[Dolphin Scheduler](#dolphinscheduler)
[IoTDB](#iotdb)
[Marvin-AI](#marvin-ai)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[Pinot](#pinot)
[S2Graph](#s2graph)
[SAMOA](#samoa)
[SDAP](#sdap)
[StreamPipes](#streampipes)
[Superset](#superset)

20 May 2020 [Justin Mclean] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. This monthly
report is in markdown so that it's easier to read. If you are not viewing
this in that format, it can be seen here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/May2020

There are presently 44 podlings incubating. In April, podlings executed 9
distinct releases. NLPCraft and Pagespeed releases are not yet in the
offical release area. We added three new IPMC members and one retired.

There where no IP clearances in April. There are still four new podlings
under discussion or VOTE; they are AgenisGraph (voted in but the name needs
to change), BlueMarlin, HBlock and Liminal (was Rainbow). One project,
ShardingSphere, graduated last month and one podling Tamaya retired. At
least one podling is heading towards graduation in the next few months, the
next one to graduate is likely to be Hudi. This month we were missing
reports from Pinot, S2Graph and SDAP. All podlings were contact and
no response so we will need to check if the PPMCs are active. PageSpeed
didn't get mentor sign off in time. All will be asked to report next month.

Last month Gobblin complained that they didn't get sign off from their
mentors and that the IPMC or board should do something about this. The
podling and mentors were reminded. The podling has been asked to check
with their mentors if this happens again. Without changing policy not to
require mentor sign off on reports, I'm not sure what more could be done.
We have reports missing sign off a couple of times a year.

There was a couple of discussions about the incubator disclaimer notice,
time limits to incubation and most on list traffic was around releases and
new podlings.

Three podlings MXNet, SDAP and Spot still need to sort out their roster and
private mailing list subscriptions.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Sean Busbey
 - Wangda Tan
 - Steve Blackmon

### People who left the IPMC:
 - Ted Dunning

## New Podlings
 - AgensGraph
 - Liminal

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Pinot
 - S2Graph
 - SDAP

## Graduations
 None.

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 April:
 - APISIX 1.2
 - Daffodil 2.6.0
 - Doris 0.12.0
 - IoTDB 0.9.2
 - NLPCraft 0.5.0
 - PageSpeed 1.14.36.1
 - Ratis Thirdparty 0.4.0
 - SAMOA 0.5.0
 - Superset 0.36.0

## IP Clearance
 None

## Legal / Trademarks
 N/A

## Infrastructure
 N/A

## Miscellaneous
 N/A

# Table of Contents
[DataSketches](#datasketches)
[DolphinScheduler](#dolphinscheduler)
[Doris](#doris)
[ECharts](#echarts)
[Gobblin](#gobblin)
[Heron](#heron)
[Hivemall](#hivemall)
[Livy](#livy)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[PageSpeed](#pagespeed)
[Ratis](#ratis)
[Toree](#toree)
[Training](#training)
[Tuweni](#tuweni)
[YuniKorn](#yunikorn)

15 Apr 2020 [Justin Mclean] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for April 2020

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
This monthly report is in markdown so that it's easier to read. If you are
not viewing this in that format, it can be seen here:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/April2020
There are presently 45 podlings incubating. In March, podlings executed 7
distinct releases. We added one new IPMC member, and there are a couple of
outstanding requests, no IPMC members retired.

There was one requested IP clearance. There are four new podlings under
discussion or VOTE; they are AgenisGraph, BlueMarlin, HBlock and Rainbow.
No projects graduated or retired last month. At least one podling is
heading towards graduation in the next few months, and ShardingSphere has a
resolution to graduate. All projected reported this month which is a
rarity, but one podling Gobblin failed to get sign off from it's mentors
and will be asked to report again next month.

It's nice to see that due to the covid-19 situation world-wide that things
are operating mostly as usual.

Three podlings MXNet, SDAP and Spot still need to sort out their roster and
private mailing list subscriptions and look lite they need to be reminded
again to correct this.

One IPMC member removed by the recent board proposal asked to join again
and was added back to the IPMC roster.

There was a discussion on graduating Apache ShardingSphere to become a Top
Level Project and the project corrected some minor branding and trademark
issues.

Regarding ShardingSphere, there was a discussion "Fork me on Github" the
outcome  of which is that wording should not be used, and the link to
GitHub be a no-follow one.

It was discovered that some podling download pages were not following
policy (in minor ways). Also, there has been a recent change to use
download.apache.org rather than using apache.org.dist for .sha and .asc
links. Some podlings have fixed these issues. However, in most cases,
podlings will fix this when they make a new release.

A number of podlings have also made releases but are missing download pages
on their web site; this issue is currently unresolved, and the podlings
need to be contacted.

The (reasonably frequent) topic on distributing binaries came up again,
once again underlining the need to have a clear policy around this.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Steve Blackmon

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
 - None, but several under discussion.

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - None

## Graduations
 - none

 The board has motions for the following:
 - ShardingSphere

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 March:
 - ECharts 4.7.0
 - Flagon useraleJS 2.1.0
 - Hudi 0.5.2
 - Nemo 0.2
 - Pinot 0.3.0
 - ShardingSphere 4.0.1
 - Tuweni 1.0.0

## IP Clearance
 - DotPulsar

## Legal / Trademarks
 - No issues

## Infrastructure
 - No issues

## Miscellaneous
 - None

Table of Contents
[Annotator](#Annotator)
[APISIX](#APISIX)
[DLab](#DLab)
[DolphinScheduler](#DolphinScheduler)
[Flagon](#Flagon)
[Gobblin](#Gobblin)
[Hivemall](#Hivemall)
[Hudi](#Hudi)
[Iceberg](#Iceberg)
[Livy](#Livy)
[Milagro](#Milagro)
[MXNet](#MXNet)
[NLPCraft](#NLPCraft)
[NuttX](#NuttX)
[Pony Mail](#ponymail)
[Teaclave](#teaclave)
[TubeMQ](#TubeMQ)
[TVM](#TVM)
[Weex](#Weex)
[YuniKorn](#YuniKorn)

18 Mar 2020 [Justin Mclean / Shane] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for March 2020

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

This monthly report is in markdown so that it's easier to read. If you are
not viewing this in that format, it can be seen here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/March2020

There are presently 45 podlings incubating. In February, podlings executed
9 distinct releases. We added no new IPMC members, but two will be added
shortly, and 2 IPMC members retired, a further 72 were removed by a board
resolution.

There was four requested IP clearance, some issue around previous IP
clearances have been resolved. We have one new podling this month NLPCraft;
another three are under discussion AgensGraph, HBlock and Rainbow. No
projects graduated last month. Taverna has retired from the Incubator and
Tamaya is discussing retirement. At least one podling is heading towards
graduation in the next few months. PageSpeed which didn't report last month
reported this month. Hivemall did not report and have indicated they will
report next month.

Most podlings have sorted out their private mailing lists. Three podlings
MXNet, SDAP and Spot are still working on it.

The board proposal to remove inactive IPMC members was passed, and they have
been removed; everything went smoothly. When they were removed, a few
projects found themselves with fewer mentors, and a couple of people have put
their hand up to help mentor them.

A discussion about the announce email format turned into a discussion about
release pages. Several podling that have made releases were discovered not
to have download pages, they have been asked to fix this. A script found
several other podlings with incorrect download links on download pages and
those podling are working on fixing those.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - None

### People who left the IPMC:
 - 72 IPMC members in board proposal
 - Jacopo Cappellato
 - Naomi Slater

## New Podlings
 - NLPCraft

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
- Hivemall

## Graduations
 - None

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 February:
 - APISIX 1.1
 - APISIX dashboard 1.0
 - BRPC 0.9.7
 - Dolphin Scheduler 1.2.1
 - Livy 0.7.0
 - MXNet 1.6.0
 - Milagro Crypto-C v2.0.1
 - PageSpeed 1.14.36.1
 - Ratis 0.5.0

## IP Clearance
 - Pulsar - DotPulsar
 - OpenWhisk - wskdebug
 - Atomos Codebase
 - Maven Wrapper

## Legal / Trademarks
 - N/A

## Infrastructure
 - Changes to /dist link has an impact on podling download pages.

## Miscellaneous
 - We also had a privacy request for the removal of personal information
 that was passed on to the privacy committee.

Table of Contents
[brpc](#brpc)
[Crail](#Crail)
[Daffodil](#Daffodil)
[DolphinScheduler](#DolphinScheduler)
[Hivemall](#Hivemall)
[IoTDB](#IoTDB)
[Marvin-AI](#Marvin-AI)
[Nemo](#Nemo)
[NuttX](#NuttX)
[PageSpeed](#PageSpeed)
[SAMOA](#SAMOA)
[ShardingSphere](#ShardingSphere)
[Spot](#Spot)
[StreamPipes](#StreamPipes)
[Superset](#Superset)
[TubeMQ](#TubeMQ)
[Warble](#Warble)
[YuniKorn](#YuniKorn)

19 Feb 2020 [Justin Mclean / Shane] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for February 2020

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

This monthly report is in markdown so that it's easier to read. If you are
not viewing this in that format, it can be seen here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/February2020
There are presently 46 podlings incubating. In January, podlings executed
11 distinct releases. We added three new IPMC members and sixteen IPMC
members retired. There was two requested IP clearance, one had an issue
and the problem with last months IP clearance has been resolved.
We have one new podling this month YuniKorn; another is under discussion
AgensGraph. No projects graduated last month. Myriad has retired, and
both Tamaya and Taverna are considering leaving the Incubator. At least
one podling is heading towards graduation in the next few months.

Two podlings did not report and will be asked to report again next month;
they include PageSpeed and Taverna. This is the second time Taverna has
failed to report and looking on their list they are discussing retiring
from the Incubator. PageSpeed reached out to say they will report next
month.

It was noticed that a dozen of so podlings were missing multiple PPMC
members signed up to their private mailing lists. Each podling was
contacted, and just about all of them have corrected this. Three podlings
MXNet, SDAP and Spot are still working on it.

Several IPMC members are not signed up to the IPMC private list and may not
be providing the oversight needed by their role. A board proposal has been
put forward to remove them from the IPMC.

These IPMC members have been emailed twice in the last month asking them to
sign up. About 30% of the people identified have responded, and have signed
up or asked to no longer be IPMC members. Most of them are ASF members, so
even if they were removed, they could ask to join again.

A dozen inactive mentors were contacted offlist and asked if they want to
continue in the role, several have responded they wish to step down, and a
couple have done so.

The IPMC roster was also cleaned up with the removal of several people who
had previously stood down or passed away.

TubeMQ is no longer having issues bootstrapping, but needed guidance with
their report.

We were contacted by a researcher from the University of California to sign
a letter of support for a project to study incubating projects. While the
Incubator is supportive of research like this, some concerns were raised
about the scope of the letter, and it was not signed.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Holden Karau
 - Jason Darrell
 - Trevor Grant

### People who left the IPMC:
 - Benson Margulies
 - Branko Čibej
 - Brett Porter
 - Brian Fitzpatrick
 - Carsten Ziegeler
 - Colm O hEigeartaigh
 - Doug Cutting
 - Felix Meschberger
 - Glen Daniels
 - Gregory D. Reddin
 - Isabel Drost-Fromm
 - Marvin Humphrey
 - Michael Stack
 - Rob Vesse
 - Ross Gardler
 - Till Westmann

## New Podlings
 - YuniKorn

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - PageSpeed
 - Taverna

## Graduations
 - none

 The board has motions for the following:
 - none

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 January:
 - APISIX 1.0
 - Crail 1.2
 - Daffodil 2.5.0
 - DataSketches Java 1.2.0
 - DolphinScheduler 1.2.0
 - ECharts 4.6.0
 - Hudi 0.5.1
 - IoTDB 0.9.1
 - Milagro Crypto C 2.0.1
 - ShardingSphere 4.0.0
 - Superset 0.35.2

## IP Clearance
 - airflow-on-k8s-operator
 - Maven Wrapper

## Legal / Trademarks
 none

## Infrastructure
 none

## Miscellaneous
 The font size on the incubator web site was increased.

## Credits

|----------------------------------------------------------------------
                      Table of Contents
[Annotator](#Annotator)
[DataSketches](#datasketches)
[DolphinScheduler](#DolphinScheduler)
[Doris](#Doris)
[ECharts](#ECharts)
[Heron](#Heron)
[Milagro](#Milagro)
[Myriad](#Myriad)
[NuttX](#NuttX)
[Pinot](#Pinot)
[Ratis](#Ratis)
[S2Graph](#S2Graph)
[SDAP](#SDAP)
[StreamPipes](#StreamPipes)
[Tamaya](#tamaya)
[Toree](#Toree)
[Training](#Training)
[TubeMQ](#TubeMQ)
[Tuweni](#Tuweni)

|----------------------------------------------------------------------

15 Jan 2020 [Justin Mclean / Craig] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for January 2020

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

This monthly report is in markdown so that it's easier to read. If you are
not viewing this in that format, it can be seen here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/January2020

There are presently 46 podlings incubating. In December, podlings executed
9 distinct releases. We added no new IPMC members and no IPMC members
retired. There was one requested IP clearance, but it has an outstanding
issue.

We have one new podling this month NuttX; another is under discussion
YuniKorn. The Druid project graduated last month. BatchEE exited the
incubator to become a subproject of Geronimo. At least one podling is
heading towards graduation in the next few months.

NuttX had a long useful discussion on it's entry into the incubator due to
a number of potential issues, all were discussed and sorted and the podling
has a good idea of what is expected to happen for it to graduate.

There was also discussion on YuniKorn name and if the ASF would get the
rights to that name. Cloudera's legal team have been involved.

New podlings are being asked to double check that they have permission to
use their name as it a lot of work for Infra to change podlings name.

Several podlings did not report and will be asked to report again next
month; they include Annotator, Milagro, Myriad and Taverna. Myriad is
discussing retirement. I would guess this is due to the holiday season,
despite warning being given and asking podling to get the reports in early.
We also had a large number of reports that needed manual fixing this month,
podlings in question have been reminded on how to format their reports.

Warble is in hibernation and has not been asked to report again as there's
nothing to report. At some point Infra will need to decide what to do with
this project.

TubeMQ is still having trouble bootstrapping and some of its mentors seem
missing, I've asked for mentors to respond on it private list and asked
what is happening on the dev list to move them forward. TubeMQ did report
late but the report wasn't accurate and was rejected and resubmitted.

The Incubator release area continued to be cleaned up.

The new branding/trademark question (added the podling report) has made
a number of podlings realise they were not paying attention to this and
has increased awareness of what is needed here. An open source site awarded
several podlings awards but had several branding and trademark issues.
These were quickly resolved.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 None

### People who left the IPMC:
 None

## New Podlings
 - NuttX

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Annotator
 - Milagro
 - Myriad
 - Taverna

## Graduations
 - Druid

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 December:
 - Crail 1.2
 - Dlab 2.2
 - Druid 0.16.1
 - ECharts 4.6.0
 - Hivemall 0.6.0
 - IOT DB  0.8.2
 - IoTDB 0.9.0
 - Tuweni 0.10.0
 - Tvm v0.6.0

## IP Clearance
 - airflow-on-k8s-operator to Airflow (not accepted yet)

## Legal / Trademarks
 - An open source site awarded several podlings awards but had several
 branding and trademark issues. These was quickly resolved.

## Infrastructure
 - JIRA tickets and cloning issues issue
 - Discussion about podling names and podlings changing names

## Miscellaneous
 - None

|----------------------------------------------------------------------
                      Table of Contents
[APISIX](#APISIX)
[DLab](#DLab)
[Flagon](#Flagon)
[Gobblin](#Gobblin)
[Hudi](#Hudi)
[Iceberg](#Iceberg)
[Livy](#Livy)
[MXNet](#MXNet)
[NuttX](#NuttX)
[PonyMail](#PonyMail)
[StreamPipes](#StreamPipes)
[Teaclave](#Teaclave)
[TubeMQ](#TubeMQ)
[TVM](#TVM)
[Weex](#Weex)

|----------------------------------------------------------------------

@DanielGruno: start graduation talks with Pony Mail

18 Dec 2019 [Justin Mclean / Shane] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

This monthly report is in markdown so that it's easier to read. If you are
not viewing this in that format, it can be seen here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/December2019

There are presently 45 podlings incubating. In December, podlings executed
13 distinct releases. We added no new IPMC members and no IPMC members
retired. There were one IP clearances.

We have one new podling this month StreamPipes; other is under discussion
NuttX and two others a possibility. No projects graduated last month. Omin
and Tephra exited the Incubator and became sub-projects of Phoenix. BatchEE
is trying to complete becoming a subproject of Geronimo. At least one
podling is heading towards graduation in the next few months. The Warble
podling did not submit reports and will be asked to report again next month.
TubeMQ has not been bootstrapped yet.

Weex is actively working on its branding issues mentioned last month.

Further work was done on cleaning up the incubator web site, including the
cookbook.

Podlings, have continued to use the new disclaimer policy, and this seems
to be working well. TVM asked the Incubator to review a release candidate
before making a release, and several issues were identified and fixed.
PageSpeed, which joined the Incubator in October 2017, also put its first
release up for a vote. A couple of releases needed IPMC prodding to get
votes, but most were quickly voted on.

Some statistics were generated, showing how many project enter and leave
and how long they stay in incubating to see if any trends were visible.
While the overall trend is up, there has been a decrease in podlings
joining the Incubator in the last couple of years. There may be a number of
reasons for this, including the outside perception of the ASF. It is likely
that the carrying capacity of the Incubator had been exceeded in years
before this. There have been 315 projects helped by the Incubator, and 77%
of them have graduated, most spend 1 1/2 years in incubation. There's been
more than a 1000 mentors.

The Incubator release area was cleaned up and old releases from retired and
graduated projects removed.

A new branding/trademark question was added the podling report and the
podling proposal as a few podling have not realised the importance of this.

A new top level project called Petri, was approved by the board. It's goal
is to help external projects go straight to TLP, not using the Incubating
process.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - None

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
 - StreamPipes

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Warble

## Graduations
 - None

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Druid

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 November:

 - ApiSix 0.9
 - Datasketches memory 1.2.0
 - Datasketches postgresql 1.3.0
 - ECharts 4.5.0
 - Heron  0.20.2
 - IoTDB 0.9.0
 - Pinot 0.2.0
 - Pinot 0.2.0
 - Ratis Thirdparty  0.3.0
 - ShardingSphere 4.0.0
 - Superset 0.35.0
 - Superset 0.35.1
 - Tamaya 0.4-incubating

## IP Clearance
 - Weex UI

## Legal / Trademarks
 - New podling branding/trademark questions

## Infrastructure
 - No issues

## Miscellaneous

|----------------------------------------------------------------------
                      Table of Contents
[Batchee](#Batchee)
[brpc](#brpc)
[Crail](#Crail)
[Daffodil](#Daffodil)
[DolphinScheduler](#DolphinScheduler)
[Druid](#Druid)
[Hivemall](#Hivemall)
[IoTDB](#IoTDB)
[Marvin-AI](#Marvin-AI)
[MesaTEE](#MesaTEE)
[Nemo](#Nemo)
[SAMOA](#SAMOA)
[APISIX](#APISIX)
[ShardingSphere](#ShardingSphere)
[Spot](#Spot)
[StreamPipes](#StreamPipes)
[Superset](#Superset)

|----------------------------------------------------------------------

## BatchEE

BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and a
set of useful extensions for this specification.

BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Project needs to finish its migration to Geronimo and exit incubator.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

 No

### How has the community developed since the last report?

 No change

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 Minor dependency upgrades

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [ ] Initial setup
 - [ ] Working towards first release
 - [ ] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [X] Other: exiting incubation in favor of a Geronimo subproject

### Date of last release:

 2017-12-01

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 2019-24-01

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 No answer.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

 No answer.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:  BatchEE is discussing move into Geronimo project, and I
    think it makes sense.
 - [ ] (batchee) Mark Struberg
    Comments:
 - [ ] (batchee) Olivier Lamy
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

20 Nov 2019 [Justin Mclean / Dave] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for November 2019

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

This monthly report is in markdown so that it's easier to read. If you are
not viewing this in that format, it can be seen here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/November2019

There are presently 48 podlings incubating. In October, podlings executed
13 distinct releases. We added one new IPMC members and no IPMC members
retired. There were 5 IP clearances. There were some discussions about the
IP clearance process.

We have two new podlings this month Apisix and TubeMQ. StreamPipes will
soon to be added. Other project Sparklyr was discussed but decided not to
enter incubation due to a large number of GPL licensed dependencies it had.
SINGA graduated last month. The Amaterasu project was retired after the
PPMC failed to respond to queries about its status. Edgent also retired.
Omid and Tephra have decided to "graduate" and become sub-projects of the
Phoenix project. A couple of podlings are heading towards graduation in the
next few months.

BatchEE has now failed to report twice in a row. Looking at the low
activity in the project, it may be time to considering retirement.
It seem there was an attempt to transfer the project to Geronimo but
It's unknown if that was completed. All other projects reported.

Graduation of Weex was discussed but was withdrawn after the project
realised it needed to do some more work around branding and community
growth.

Further ongoing work was done on cleaning up the incubator web site, but
there are still a number of pages that need to be reviewed and updated.

Podlings have continued to use the new disclaimer policy, and this has
reduced the friction in making releases. Extra votes from the wider IPMC
community are needed to get the 3 +1 votes, with not all mentors voting on
releases.

A new straight to top level project has been proposed called Petri as
another way of educating external projects and the Apache Way with the
option of them bypassing the Incubator and going straight to being a top
level project. It's still under consideration by the board. A FAQ is being
worked on, but it currently unknown what impact this might have on the
Incubator in the short or long term.

At ApacheCon Europe there was a Podling's Shark Tank, a talk on incubating
process and talks involving several incubating projects.

The podling reporting groups have been rearranged so that there is an
evener distribution of projects reporting each month.

A couple of mentors were added and removed from projects.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Evans Ye

### People who left the IPMC:
 - None

## New Podlings
 - Apisix
 - TubeMQ

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - BatchEE

## Graduations
 - SINGA

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 October:
 - Datasketches hive 1.0.0
 - Datasketches java 1.1.0
 - Datasketches pig 1.0.0
 - Datasketches postgresql 1.3.0
 - Doris 0.11.0
 - ECharts 4.4.0
 - Hudi 0.5.0
 - Iceberg 0.7.0
 - IoTdb 0.8.1
 - Milagro dta 0.1.0
 - Superset 0.34.1
 - Tuweni 0.9.0
 - Weex 0.28.0

## IP Clearance
 - ServiceComb toolkit contribution
 - ServiceComb osa-validator
 - python-dubbo
 - NetBeans - dukescript presenters
 - Weex Loader

## Legal / Trademarks
 - N/A

## Infrastructure
 - N/A

|----------------------------------------------------------------------
                      Table of Contents
[Annotator](#Annotator)
[APISIX](#APISIX)
[DataSketches](#DataSketches)
[DolphinScheduler](#DolphinScheduler)
[Doris](#Doris)
[ECharts](#ECharts)
[Heron](#Heron)
[PageSpeed](#PageSpeed)
[Pinot](#Pinot)
[Ratis](#Ratis)
[S2Graph](#S2Graph)
[SDAP](#SDAP)
[Tamaya](#Tamaya)
[Toree](#Toree)
[Training](#Training)
[Tuweni](#Tuweni)

|----------------------------------------------------------------------

16 Oct 2019 [Justin Mclean / Rich] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for October 2019

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

This monthly report is in markdown so that it's easier to read. If you are
not viewing this in that format, it can be seen here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/October2019

There are presently 48 podlings incubating. In September, podlings executed
8 distinct releases. We added no new IPMC members and no IPMC members
retired.

We have no new podling this month, but there are discussions on several
projects, including Apisix. A couple of podlings are heading towards
graduation in the next few months. Rya graduated last month, and SINGA
should graduate this month.

Several podlings Amaterasu, BatchEE, Omid and Tephra didn't submit a report
and have been asked to do so next month. Omid and Tephra have now failed to
report twice in a row. MesaTEE also failed to report but is just starting
up. Amaterasu's PPMC has failed to respond to Incubator inquiries and failed
to submit reports for many months and will be shut down. Annotator and SDAP
failed to get any mentor sign off and have been asked to report next month.

There were 3 IP clearances.

Further work was done on cleaning up the incubator web site.

Several podlings have now used the new disclaimer policy to good effect.

The new mentor guidance document has had some new content added to it, but
we still need to attract other mentors to work on it.

A new straight to top level project has been proposed called Petri as
another way of educating external projects and the Apache Way with the
option of them bypassing the Incubator and going straight to being a top
level project. It's currently unknown what impact this might have on the
Incubator short or long term.

At ApacheCon North America there was a Podling's Shark Tank and several
talks on incubating subjects and projects. There will be some incubator
related talks at the upcoming ApacheCon EU.

At ApacheCon NA meeting was held with ECharts contributors and a few other
people from other projects based in China to discuss some of the issues
they are having. The conversation was positive, and I believe everyone now
has a better understanding of the difficulties faced by these podlings.

There were discussions in ApacheCon NA and at Huawei Connect on several new
projects joining the Incubator.

There was a discussion on IP clearance process for Incubating projects
which a number of people seem confused about, and the Incubator needs to
provide better clarity around what needs to be done in the case where a
podling receives a code donation what still in incubation.

A complaint was received (sent to the board) that a podling with the help
of it's mentors and the incubator is looking into.

## Community

### New IPMC members:

 None

### People who left the IPMC:

 None

## New Podlings

 None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Amaterasu (will retire)
 - Annotator (no mentor sign off)
 - BatchEE
 - MesaTEE
 - Omid
 - Tephra
 - SDAP (no mentor sign off)

## Graduations
 - Rya

 The board has motions for the following:

 - SINGA

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 September:
 - DataSketches Cpp 1.0.0
 - DataSketches Java 1.0.0
 - Druid 0.16.0
 - Echarts 4.3.0
 - Flagon UserALE.js v2.0.2
 - MXNet 1.5.1
 - Ratis 0.4.0
 - Tuweni 0.8.2

## IP Clearance
 - Apache Weex - Weex CLI
 - Apache Pulsar - Pulsar Manager
 - Apache Weex - Weex Loader

## Legal / Trademark
 N/A

## Infrastructure
 N/A

## Miscellaneous
 N/A

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                      Table of Contents
[Annotator](#Annotator)
[DolphinScheduler](#dolphinscheduler)
[Flagon](#Flagon)
[Gobblin](#Gobblin)
[Hudi](#Hudi)
[Livy](#Livy)
[MesaTEE](#MesaTEE)
[Milagro](#Milagro)
[MXNet](#MXNet)
[TVM](#TVM)
[Weex](#Weex)
[Tamaya](#tamaya)

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## Annotator

Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and
humans.

Annotator has been incubating since 2016-08-30.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Release initial versions (should happen this week!)
 2. Increase activity from current committers and community.
 3. Demonstrate good governance through voting and learning the Incubator
 process (some more).

### 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?

 Community activity was quiet. However, code is underway for a first
 release to be ready in the coming week(s) which we hope will increase
 interest and activity.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 Code for a first release is hoped to be available in the coming days with
 more community members participating in review and critique.
 Additionally, work in the W3C's ARIA (accessibility) Working Group and on
 various browser vendor repositories has highlighted new annotation related
 activity and opportunity for this project. Sadly, we've mostly failed at
 raising awareness on the list, so the communities "radar" looks quieter
 than it should...

### 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:

 None yet, but we hope to release before the end of October 2019.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 No new committers nor PPMC members have been added since the last report.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 No check-ins with/from/by mentors in the last 3 months, but we should do
 one over email within this next quarter.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (annotator) Nick Kew
    Comments:
 - [ ] (annotator) Steve Blackmon
    Comments:
 - [ ] (annotator) Tommaso Teofili
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

18 Sep 2019 [Justin Mclean / Daniel] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for September 2019

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

This monthly report is in markdown so that it's easier to read. If you are
not viewing this in that format, it can be seen here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/September2019

There are presently 48 podlings incubating. In August, podlings executed
9 distinct releases. We added three new IPMC members and no IPMC members
retired.

We have two new podlings this month DolphinScheduler and MesaTEE. There have
been a couple of ongoing enquires about new projects, and some proposals are
being worked on. A couple of podlings are heading towards graduation in the
next few months. Druid was up for graduation last month but withdrew as
there's a trademark issue with its name.

Several podlings Amaterasu, Tamaya and Tephra didn't submit a report and
have been asked to do so next month. Tamaya has now failed to report twice
in a row.

Amaterasu has failed to report three times in a row. It looks like the
PPMC is missing and there's little or no activity on the list. One final
chance will be given to the project to explain what it status it and how it
hopes to graduate before it is asked to retire.

Omid and ShardingSphere submitted insufficient reports and will be
asked to report next month.

A few mentors have been added and removed in various projects.

There were 3 IP clearances.

The incubator web site menu was reorganized to group similar content
together, and further work was done on simplifying the language used on the
incubator policy page. A few other pages were also improved.

The new disclaimer policy accepted by the board last month has received
good feedback, and we've had a podling already make a release with it. The
board asked for some updated documentation on the new disclaimer, and that
was undertaken.

Some podlings are still struggling to get 3 +1 votes on their release by
mentors and other IPMC votes are needed to make releases. However, those
votes seem to be happing quite quickly with several IPMC members checking
releases.

A new mentor guidance document is n the process of being created, so far
not many mentors have contributed to this. Given the many years of
experience over many mentors, it would be nice to see mentors contribute to
this.  This document would help future mentors and podling deal with
everyday situations that come up that they may be unsure of how to deal
with.

The IPMC consider dropping that ASF member can join just back asking.
Looking at mentor it more than that mentors join this way go missing, other
than those who are voted it. Some IPMC member didn't think this was a good
idea, so the policy stands.

There was a long discussion on the requirement of IPMC vote on podling
release which included several suggested changes to policy and new ideas.
Consensus was not able to be reached on any changes, and the discussion has
stalled. The main issue being that PMC votes are needed on releases and
some IPMC members want to do away with IPMC votes on releases altogether.
A new  project was suggested as an experiment to try this out (exact details
still to be worked out), but so far that has not happened. It was even
suggested by a couple of IPMC members that a new incubator project be made.

It may be best to wait until we see the impact of the work in progress
disclaimer before revisiting the IPMC vote situation.

There will be a Podling's Shark Tank at the upcoming ApacheCON North
America and server talks on incubating subjects and projects.

ECharts is showing slow progress and thought they were ready to graduate
when they were not. A face to face meeting with several experienced IPMC
members has been organized at ApacheCon to get them back on the right track.

There was a discussion on the private on some podlings that probably
should be retired.

## Community

### New IPMC members:

 - Gian Merlino
 - Zhijie Shen
 - Jamie Mark Goodyear

### People who left the IPMC:

 None

## New Podlings

 DolphinScheduler
 MesaTEE

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - Amaterasu
 - Tamaya
 - Tephra

## Graduations
 - None

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Apache Rya
 - Apache SINGA

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 August:
 - Apache Flagon UserALE.js v2.0.2
 - DataSketches memory 1.1.0
 - Druid 0.15.1
 - IoTDB 0.8.0
 - Milagro crypto 1.0.0
 - Myriad 0.4.0
 - ShardingSphere 4.0.0
 - Superset 0.34.0
 - Tuweni 0.8.1

## IP Clearance
 - Apache Milagro - Decentralized Trust Authority
 - Apache Celix - Websocket pubsub admin
 - Apache Beam ZetaSQL Translator

## Legal / Trademarks
 None.

## Infrastructure
 None.

## Miscellaneous
 Nothing of interest.

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                      Table of Contents
[BRPC](#BRPC)
[Crail](#Crail)
[Daffodil](#Daffodil)
[DLab](#DLab)
[Druid](#Druid)
[Hivemall](#Hivemall)
[Iceberg](#Iceberg)
[IoTDB](#IoTDB)
[Marvin-AI](#Marvin-AI)
[Myriad](#Myriad)
[Nemo](#Nemo)
[Omid](#Omid)
[PonyMail](#PonyMail)
[SAMOA](#SAMOA)
[SDAP](#SDAP)
[ShardingSphere](#ShardingSphere)
[SINGA](#SINGA)
[Spot](#Spot)
[Superset](#Superset)
[Taverna](#Taverna)
[Toree](#Toree)
[Warble](#Warble)

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21 Aug 2019 [Justin Mclean / Roman] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for August 2019

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

This monthly report is in markdown so that it's easier to read. If you are
not viewing this in that format, it can be seen here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/August2019

There are presently 47 podlings incubating. In July, podlings executed 9
distinct releases. We added five IPMC members and no IPMC members retired.
We have no new podlings this month, but there have been a couple of enquires
about new projects, and some proposals are being worked on. A couple of
podlings are heading towards graduation in the next few months, including
Druid.

Some podlings Amaterasu, SDAP, Tamaya, Toree didn't submit a report and have
been asked to do so next month.

Two podlings that failed to report last month reported this month. However,
Amaterasu didn't report for a second time. A couple of podlings had
trouble getting previous months reports signed off have attracted new
mentors.

TVM also gained a new mentor. Some podlings are  reporting on or after the
deadline and not allowing time to discussing the content on list. The
quality of those reports may suffer as a result.

There were three IP clearances.

Apache Druid has brought up it graduation and may have an issue with its
name being the same as a project by another company. The problem is being
dealt with, but this may delay graduation depending on the outcome of those
discussions.

The Incubator made a podling release (MXNet) that contained stock photos of
unknown origin and licensing. Another release (from Tuweini) included
Category X (GPL) licensed software.

The incubator policy page has been cleaned up and updated to be easier to
understand. Anything that was guidelines and not policy has been removed.
This material was included elsewhere in the incubator and ASF websites, and
there was no need for the duplication. Podlings can always request to do
things in a different way as long as it is in line with the Apache Way.

Further work was done on a page outlining some of the issues are that
podlings might encounter during incubation and on the Incubator cookbook.
The incubator homepage was also updated to be more friendly and service
orientated.

There were several lengthy discussions of the role of the Incubator, and
its purpose, and while they were a little heated in a few places, they
were constructive.

There seems to be consensus on how the Incubator should handle podling
releases (see proposal below). It's thought that education of mentors
and podlings on the Apache Way is lacking. The Incubator will discuss what
can be done about that.

A couple of podlings have not been able to attract IPMC votes on their
releases in the usual 72 hours.

The missing incubator report wiki pages have been transferred to the new
wiki.

Based on several months discussion, the Incubator has a proposal for the
Board to consider.

*Summary*

The Incubator PMC has been discussing allowing podlings to make releases
which are not fully compliant with the ASF release policies.

Such releases would include a DISCLAIMER-WIP statement of being a "work in
progress", pointing to the specific issues that make them non-compliant.

The IPMC is seeking approval from the Board to proceed based on the details
of this proposal, below.

*Some Background*

The IPMC requires clarity from the Board if podlings need to follow ASF's
release policy and distribution policy while in incubation. This question
has been asked before, and the answer was unclear or strongly suggested
that podling releases must follow ASF policy. What is happening in practice
is that the IPMC allows releases with minor issues to go ahead and assumes
they will be fixed in a later release (before graduation) and stops
releases with any serious problem from going ahead (with an IPMC member or
two voting -1). A -1 vote is not a veto but usually stops a release,
there's only been a handful of successful releases with -1 votes. We have
consensus among IPMC members that allowing podling releases with
minor issues is a correct approach even it doesn't follow ASF policy.
Serious problems, such as; including GPL licensed software, including
compiled  code, or copyright violations, in a release are currently seen as
a reason to vote -1 on a release. Podlings do try and do the right thing
but about 1 in 5 podling releases has a problem like this. Historically
there's been a few releases with serious issues that have got legal and
Incubator VP approval to make a release on a one by one, once-off basis.
The Incubator wants to allow podling to make non compliant releases to
ease their progress through the incubating process. We've come up with
an alternate disclaimer that clearly states that the release may not be
compliant with ASF release or distribution policy and lists known issues.
The legal committee have confirmed that the the Incubator as a TLP needs
to follow release policy and can only make releases with issues if it
considered to be special in some way.

*Proposal*

The IPMC can allow non-compliant releases to be distributed without IPMC VP
or legal VP approval, based on a documented list of issues which are
acceptable for such non-compliant incubating releases. Such releases will
include an alternative "work in progress" DISCLAIMER-WIP to make users aware
of the issues . When this occurs, podlings document the issues as blocking
graduation and carry on incubating. They will not be allowed to graduate
until all such release issues have been fixed.

*Notes*

The IPMC and legal committee have come up with a well-defined list of those
issues. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-469

This list will be distributed to mentors, IPMC members and podlings so
that everyone's expectations are clear. This proposal does not change the
need for an IPMC vote on podling releases, which will be considered
separately.

The new DISPLACMER-WIP disclaimer can be found here:
https://incubator.apache.org/policy/incubation.html#disclaimers

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 - Julian Feinauer
 - Jamie Mark Goodyear
 - Venkat Ranganathan
 - Tianqi Chen
 - Tim Allison

### People who left the IPMC:
 None

## New Podlings
 None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Amaterasu
 - SDAP
 - Tamaya
 - Toree

## Graduations
 - Druid

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 July:
 - Flagon UserALE.JS 2.0.0
 - Weex 0.26.0
 - Daffodil 2.4.0
 - Dubbo 2.6.7 [1]
 - Mxnet 1.5.0
 - Rya 4.0.0
 - Heron 0.20.1
 - OpenWhisk Catalog 0.10.0
 - Apache Doris 0.10.0

 1. Has graduated so not sure why it was placed there, will follow up.

## IP Clearance
 - Celix - TCP pubsub admin
 - Celix - HTTP admin
 - ServiceComb Mesher

## Legal / Trademarks
 Legal has confirmed how podlings releases need to comply with policy.

## Infrastructure
 None.

## Miscellaneous
 - An IPMC member, Sharan Foga, completed a cultural analysis paper
   featuring several Apache Incubator projects. https://s.apache.org/8uaw3
 - It was confirmed that only VPs of TLP need to subscribe to board@
 - New cross-project IoT mailing list has been created

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                      Table of Contents
[DataSketches](#DataSketches)
[Doris](#Doris)
[ECharts](#ECharts)
[Edgent](#Edgent)
[Heron](#Heron)
[Livy](#Livy)
[Milagro](#Milagro)
[PageSpeed](#PageSpeed)
[Pinot](#Pinot)
[Ratis](#Ratis)
[S2Graph](#S2Graph)
[Training](#Training)
[Tuweni](#Tuweni)


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17 Jul 2019 [Justin Mclean / Danny] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for July 2019
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

This monthly report is in markdown so that it's easier to read. If you are
viewing this not in that format, it can be seen here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/July2019

There are presently 48 podlings incubating. In June, podlings executed 7
distinct releases. We added no new IPMC members and no IPMC members
retired. We have no new podlings this month. A couple of other podlings are
heading towards graduation in the next few months including OpenWhisk. A
couple of podlings failed to realise that they can submit their own reports
rather than having to reply on their mentors. DLab, for instance almost
failed to report for the second month, although they did have draft reports
on their mailing list for previous missed reports. Three podlings Amaterasu,
Livy and Tuweni didn't submit a report and have been asked to do so next
month. Three other reports currently do not have sign off BatchEE,
DataSketches and DLab.

There was one IP clearance.

Milagro is trying to reboot themselves, and it's good to see lots of new
activity, this seems a successful attempt so far, and they are working on a
release.

BatchEE has decided to leave the incubator and join the Geronimo project as
that seems a better fit for them than becoming their own TLP.

OpenWhisk has brought up graduation and has a few minor issues around
releases, communication and branding to address. This again points out the
challenges the incubator has when ASF policy may not be in line with modern
development workflows.

Zipkin decided that the incubator wasn't a good fit for them culturally and
left the incubator returning back to be OpenZipkin. They had a large amount
of work to do before they could graduate and some of the issues they faced
would have been difficult to solve. It would be fair to say that their
expectations were not correctly managed when entering the incubator.
There was some debate if a vote needed to be held by the IPMC to record
this, with some people objecting in strong terms.

The IPMC is still working on if podlings need to follow ASF's release
policy and distribution policy while in incubation. It seems that more
people think that the incubator does not have to follow policy. However,
the board has never granted an exception to the incubator for this, it's
not in its original charter or documented anywhere. Last months
proposal to do just this didn't get IPMC consensus.

In these threads, there were a number of good suggestions that could be
implemented to smooth the progression from podling to top level project for
some podlings. As usual, it's then difficult to get consensus on and
implement these ideas. Hopefully, all this will coalesce into some
action(s) and a new proposal (assuming one is needed) to be put forward to
the board next month.

It was clarified with Infra that they will allow distribution of artifacts
that don't follow policy, or rather they won't check and assume anything
voted on by the IPMC is OK to be distributed. In other words, it's the IPMC
responsibility.

Legal also clarified what they expected, and it's possibly a bit awkward as
they (perhaps unsurprisingly) expect a TLP to follow all release policy,
which includes any releases made by the IPMC. We have not been doing this.
They went further saying if the incubator is not considered a TLP, or is
somehow *special* then the legal committee has indicated what they would
allow in releases. This list is less restrictive than what has previously
been followed by the IPMC, but still includes some situations where the
incubator shouldn't approve a release.

It's considered that the incubator is a TLP so this still needs to be
resolved in some way and the conversation is now focused on this.

Possibly getting a bit ahead of itself, the incubator made two releases
that included issues that it would not usually release; inclusion of
compiled source code and dependency on Category X software.

Until this issue is resolved, I don't see an end to this issue re-occurring
every few years as it has done previously. This is confusing for podlings
as they get mixed or contradictory  answers to their questions depending
on who they ask, and the ASF policy documentation is heavy on the compliance
side. This situation also had a part to play in Zipkin leaving.

The IPMC needs to be clear up front that some podlings may need major
changes to how they operate, and they need to consider carefully if the ASF
is, in fact, a good fit for them. The incubator has started work on a page
outlining the expectations and what some of the issues are that they might
encounter. there may be some overlap with the recently created Incubator
cookbook.

A couple of podlings have not been able to attract IPMC votes on their
releases in the usual 72 hours.

A discussion has been started on changing the incubator DISCLAIMER text to
more accurately reflect that podling releases may not be in line with
policy. This has no legal standing but is informational.

Several podlings talks and talks about the incubator were accepted for
ApacheCon North America.

Some of the incubator wiki pages were missed in the transfer and infra are
looking into why.

A few more podlings have corrected PPMC members not been signed up to their
private lists.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
 None

### People who left the IPMC:
 None

## New Podlings
 None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Amaterasu
 - Livy
 - Tuweni

## Graduations
 - OpenWhisk

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 June:
 - Apache Doris 0.10
 - Apache Tuweni 0.8.0
 - Apache Flagon UserALE.js 1.0.0
 - Apache Druid 0.15.0
 - Apache OpenWhisk Runtime Node.js v1.14.0
 - Apache Training - Navigating the ASF Incubator Process 1.0
 - Apache OpenWhisk runtimes version 1.1.3.0 Released

## IP Clearance
 ServiceComb Toolkit project contribution

## Legal / Trademarks
 Legal has confirmed how podlings releases need to comply with policy.

## Infrastructure
 Infra has confirmed how podlings releases need to comply with policy.

## Miscellaneous
 None

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## Table of Contents
[Annotator](#Annotator)
[BatchEE](#BatchEE)
[BRPC](#BRPC)
[DataSketches](#DataSketches)
[DLab](#DLab)
[Flagon](#Flagon)
[Gobblin](#Gobblin)
[Hudi](#Hudi)
[Iceberg](#Iceberg)
[Milagro](#Milagro)
[MXNet](#MXNet)
[Rya](#Rya)
[TVM](#TVM)
[Weex](#Weex)

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19 Jun 2019 [Justin Mclean / Rich] ¶

# Incubator PMC report for June 2019

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

At the request of the board, this monthly report is in markdown so that
it's easier to read. Some podlings struggled to get their content in the
correct format. If you are viewing the report not in that format it can
seen here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/June2019
(minor changes exist)

There are presently 49 podlings incubating. During the month of May,
podlings executed 12 distinct releases. We added one new IPMC members and
three IPMC members retired.

We have no new podlings this month. One project graduated last month Dubbo
and a couple of other podlings are heading towards graduation in the next
few months.

Milagro which failed to report twice, reported this month and is again trying
to reboot themselves, they seem a bit more serious this time. Toree's report,
also missing last month, did report. 4 Podlings BRPC, DLab, and Iceberg didn't
submit a report and have been asked to do so next month.

Samoa is considering retiring.

There were no IP clearances.

The IPMC requires clarity from the board if podlings need to follow ASF's
release policy and distribution policy while in incubation.

*Some Background*

What is happening in practice is that the IPMC allows releases with minor
issues to go ahead and assumes they will be fixed in a later release
(before graduation) and stops  releases with any serious problem from going
ahead (with an IPMC member or two voting -1). A -1 vote is not a veto but
usually stops a release, there's only been a handful of successful releases
with -1 votes. I don't think anyone thinks that allowing releases with minor
issues to be released is an incorrect approach even if it doesn't follow policy,
even if some people have expressed an opinion that release must be "legal".
Serious problems, such as; including GPL licensed software, including compiled
code, or copyright violations, in a release is currently seen as a reason
to vote -1 on a release. Podlings do try and do the right thing but
about 1 in 5 podling releases has a problem like this. Historically
there's been a few releases with serious issues that have got legal and
incubator VP approval to make a release on a one by one, once-off basis.

These is a clear consensus that the IPMC wants to make this somehow easier
for podlings.

*Current Situation*

Recently it has been suggested by several people (including ex-board
members) that serious issues should be allowed in an IPMC release, and those
issues only need to be fixed before graduation. We've had several long
conversations about this and this seems to be unresolvable. I'll note there
have been previous conversions along the same lines recently and going
wayback, for instance in 2013, that also failed to get consensus.

Some people believe that podling releases do not have to follow policy and
most things are allowed until graduation and others say that ASF policy can be
ignored but releases must be legal, (which they may or may not realise is
stricter than what happens currently). This is damaging to the incubator and
causing confusion among podlings. This issue also seems to attract
commentary by non-IPMC members whose opinions, not in line with policy, are
spread outside the IPMC list. One podling is likely to leave the incubator,
in part, because of this situation.

*Actions*

Initially, this report contained a proposal, to try and improve this
situation, however, as it didn't have the consensus of the IPMC, it
has been removed.

From this discussion, The IPMC has identified a few things that can be
done, like improving the incubating DISCLAIMER, and coming up with clearer
guidance with the the help of the legal committee on exactly what a podling
release should follow.

But either of those solves the underlying issue. We have been given
contradictory guidance from the board in the past, which is making this
situation difficult. If the board could provide some clarity on what extent
that podling releases need to follow ASF policy, the IPMC would appreciate it.

*Current Challenges*

These policies live outside the incubator, and it's put in the difficult
position of ensuring that podlings (via their mentors) are following them
by the time they graduate. In some cases it seems that these are not been
clearly passed on, this may be due to time poor mentors, lack of policy
knowledge, overzealous automation, and/or a poor fit of ASF policies with
modern development workflows. Modern development workflows seem to bring
up more issues for the IPMC, with use of multiple GitHub repositories,
wider looser communities (causing possible branding and trademark issues),
and expected use of alternative means of distribution. While work has been
done, and continues on how these practices fit into the ASF landscape/policy,
some podlings are struggling with inconsistent guidance and lack of
documentation on this. The IPMC also needs to be clear up front that some
podlings may need to make major changes to how they do things to become
a TLP.

A while back the IPMC identified all of the mentors that were missing, and
not performing their duties, and ask them if they wanted to continue, most
of them stood down from the IPMC. During this process, it was found there
was a strong correlation between not signing off reports and missing
mentors. Looking at the reports being signing off there are currently 13
possibly inactive mentors. This number is a massive improvement over the
last time where we had over 70 inactive mentors and is a good indicator
that mentors are currently more engaged.

Some of the incubator wiki pages were missed in the transfer and infra are
looking into why.

Podlings were reminded that they to put their logos on
http://www.apache.org/logos/ about 1/3 of them responded and added their
logo.

A large number of Podlings didn't have their PPMC members or mentors signed
up to their private list. A few mentors and podlings have corrected this
and reminders to fix this situation has been sent to 20 podlings.

## Community

###  New IPMC members:
 - Arpit Agarwal

### People who left the IPMC:
 - Andy Seaborne
 - Mark Thomas
 - Stefan Bodewig

## New Podlings
 None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - BRPC
 - DLab
 - Iceberg
 - Marvin-AI

## Graduations
 - Dubbo

 The board has motions for the following:
 - None

## Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 May:
 - Apache Druid 0.14.1
 - Apache Druid 0.14.2
 - Apache MXNet  1.4.1
 - Apache Omid 1.0.1
 - Apache OpenWhisk Runtimes v1.13.0
 - Apache Ratis 0.3.0
 - Apache Weex 0.24.0
 - Apache Zipkin 2.13.0
 - Apache Zipkin 2.14.0
 - Apache Zipkin API 0.2.1
 - Apache Zipkin Dependencies  2.2.0
 - Apache Zipkin Layout Factory 0.0.5

## IP Clearance
 None

## Legal / Trademarks
 None

## Infrastructure
 None

## Miscellaneous
 - Discussion of the use of stack overflow resulted in a legal FAQ item
   being added
 - Page speed set up their web site
 - Discussion on SGA/CCLA and when they are needed
 - One incubating proposal was turned down as it didn't alight with ASF
   aims
 - New moderators add for general@ list

## Credits

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Table of Contents

[Crail](#Crail)
[Daffodil](#Daffodil)
[DataSketches](#DataSketches)
[Druid](#Druid)
[Hivemall](#Hivemall)
[IoTDB](#IoTDB)
[Marvin-AI](#Marvin-AI)
[Milagro](#Milagro)
[Myriad](#Myriad)
[Nemo](#Nemo)
[Omid](#Omid)
[OpenWhisk](#OpenWhisk)
[PonyMail](#PonyMail)
[SAMOA](#SAMOA)
[ShardingSphere](#ShardingSphere)
[SINGA](#SINGA)
[Spot](#Spot)
[Superset](#Superset)
[Taverna](#Taverna)
[Tephra](#Tephra)
[Toree](#Toree)
[Tuweni](#Tuweni)
[TVM](#TVM)
[Warble](#Warble)
[Zipkin](#Zipkin)

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@Craig: work with IPMC to clarify podling release policy

15 May 2019 [Justin Mclean / Rich] ¶

Incubator PMC report for May 2019

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 50 podlings incubating. During the month of April,
podlings executed 10 distinct releases. We added two new IPMC members
and no IPMC members retired.

We have no new podlings this month. Three projects graduated last month
namely PLC4X, SkyWalking and Netbeans and several other podlings are
heading towards graduation in the next few months.

One of the podlings that failed to report last month, Milagro failed to
report again this month and the IPMC will discuss what to do. This is the
not first time this project has failed to report and it may not have a
working PPMC.

Two podlings Milagro and Toree have not submitted reports and will be asked
to report next month.

There were two IP clearances.

The new Podling clutch page is working well and documentation has been
created clearly explains what information is collected from where.

The incubator is providing a new service to podlings to provide feedback on
releases. So far no podlings have taken up this service.

Mentors are being actively encouraged to vote on their podling releases so
that the VOTEs show up on the general@ list with 3 +1 IPMC votes. While a
couple of podlings have managed to do this, most still need extra votes by
IPMC members outside their projects. The IPMC will need to look further
into this.

In a couple of cases, podlings canceled vote too early and were encouraged
to continue voting.

Incubator wiki is being deprecated, and it's been migrated to confluence.
Some of the pages were missed in the transfer and infra are looking into
why.

The new wiki space has been reorganised and the pages categorised for easier
navigation. A few minor issues have been encountered e.g. confluence
ignoring formatting but have been addressed. A few people have had permission
issues and because of this move mentor sign-off is a little lower than normal.

The reorganisation and cleanup of incubator web pages started last month
continues on.

* Community

New IPMC members:
  - Arpit Agarwal
  - Kevin Ratnasekera

People who left the IPMC:
  None

* New Podlings
  None

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - Milagro
  - Toree

* Graduations
  - Netbeans
  - PLC4X
  - SkyWalking

The board has motions for the following:
  - Dubbo

* Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of
April:
 - DLab 2.1
 - Druid 0.14.0
 - Dubbo Spring Boot 2.7.1
 - Livy 0.6.0
 - NetBeans 11.0
 - OpenWhisk Client JS 3.19.0
 - OpenWhisk Composer 0.11.0
 - Ratis 0.3.0
 - ShardingSphere 4.0.0
 - Singa 2.0.0

* IP Clearance
 - Sling Journal-based Content Distribution
 - IP clearance for SkyWalking RocketBot UI

* Legal / Trademarks
  None

* Infrastructure
  None, although it still unknown if infrastructure will allow
  distribution of artefacts with IP or other serious issues.

* Miscellaneous
  - Discussion of use of stack overflow

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Table of Contents
brpc
DataSketches
Doris
ECharts
Edgent
Heron
MXNet
PageSpeed
Pinot
Ratis
S2Graph
SDAP
Tamaya
Training
Tuweni
TVM

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@Joan: follow up about reporting improvements for Incubator

17 Apr 2019 [Justin Mclean / Roman] ¶

Incubator PMC report for April 2019

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 53 podlings incubating. During the month of March,
podlings executed 10 distinct releases. We added two new IPMC members
and no IPMC members retired.

We have three new podlings this month, Apache DataSketches and Apache
Tuweni and Apache TVM. No projects graduated last month but several
podlings are heading towards graduation in the next few months.

All three of the podlings that failed to report last month submitted a
report this month.

Two podlings have not submitted reports and will be asked to report next
month. They are:
- Milagro
- MXNet

There was no IP clearance(s).

ECharts still has several issues that are outstanding (including the
echarts baidu website) and it's probably time to discuss how to
resolve this on the IPMC list.

Skywalking, on its second attempt, had a number of difficulties in cleaning up
rosters and getting PPMC members onto the private mailing list after
they proposed to graduate. Having a pre-graduation checklist may be useful
to make this process easier.

A shiny new Podling clutch page (and a new process behind it) have been updated
and changed to improve tracking of podlings progress.

The incubator is providing a new service to podlings to provide feedback on
releases. Podlings can bring up a discuss thread asking for feedback on a
release candidate rather than asking for it in a vote thread.

The release management documentation was updated to make it clear what to
do about non-ASF releases and encourage podings to bring those in line with
ASF release and distribution policy over time.

Having a smaller IPMC was discussed, it was suggested that anyone not
signed up to the private list to be removed from the IPMC. This was looked into
and people who make infrequent contributors are still helpful and make
useful contributions. What seems less helpful in some cases is "drive-by"
comments and the involvement of uninformed people on this list.

Mentors are being actively encouraged to vote on their podling releases, so
that the VOTEs show up on the general@ list with 3 +1 IPMC votes.

Incubator wiki is being deprecated, we've tried to migrate via the self help
migration tool but it has failed every time. There is a risk that it will
not be transferred by the deadline. This may have an impact on submitting
the next report to the board.

A large number of incubator pages have been updated to be simpler and
remove policy content that is explained elsewhere at the ASF. More is still
needed to be done here and it's an ongoing process.

An incubator cookbook has been created, which single page of explanations
and links that cover all phases of incubation and should become the
central point for all questions related to incubation.

There are other ongoing conversations about further changes to the IPMC and
how it operates. A couple of these conversations happened on the incubator
private list (and other lists) when they should probably be on the general
list so that all interested people can read and contribute.

* Community

 New IPMC members:
 - Kanchana Welagedara
 - Krzysztof Sobkowiak

 People who left the IPMC:
 None. Luke Han resigned from mentoring 4 podlings.

* New Podlings

 - DataSketches
 - Tuweni
 - TVM

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month are listed above

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:
 - NetBeans
 - PLC4X
 - Skywalking

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 March:
 - Echarts 4.2.1
 - Dubbo 2.7.1
 - Zipkin Brave for Apache Cassandra version 0.10.2
 - Pony Mail 0.11
 - Apache Myriad 0.3.0
 - PLC4X 0.3.1
 - Apache Pinot 0.1.0
 - Apache Dubbo 2.6.6
 - NetBeans parent 1
 - OpenWhisk CLI 0.10.0

* IP Clearance

 None

* Legal / Trademarks

 N/A

* Infrastructure

 N/A

* Miscellaneous

 - Discussion on withdrawing from Incubator
 - Include Incubator as part of community track at ApacheCon NA
 - A few podling distribution areas needed cleaning up included removing
 some graduated and retired podlings
 - SensSoft change its name to Flagon

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Amaterasu
Annotator
BatchEE
Gobblin
Hudi
Livy
NetBeans
PLC4X
Rya
SensSoft
Spot
Taverna
Training
TVM
Warble
Weex

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20 Mar 2019 [Justin Mclean / Shane] ¶

Incubator PMC report for March 2019

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 51 podlings incubating. During the month of February,
podlings executed 8 distinct releases. We added one new IPMC member
(and new candidates are being considered) and we've had one IPMC
member retire.

We have two new podlings this month, Apache Training and Apache Cava (name
will change). Unomi graduated last month and several podlings are heading
towards graduation in the next few months. There are currently a conversation
on accepting another new podling into the incubator.

BatchEE took a vote to go to Apache Geronimo or TLP and decided on TLP they
have given themselves until June to graduate.

Both of the podlings that failed to report this last month submitted a
report this month.

Three podlings have not submitted reports and will be asked to report them
next month.
They are:
- Spot
- Taverna
- Warble

Warble is mostly inactive but has plans to address this.

OpenWhisk failed to get sign off by any mentors and will be asked to
report next month.

There was one IP clearance.

As reported last month we have a problem with unapproved releases. Checking
other podlings showed several that are making unapproved releases or have
branding and trademark issues. Several where contacted and have fixed the
issue.

ECharts has several issues that are still outstanding but their mentors and
their PPMC are dealing with it.

A podling (Zipkin) went straight to the board with a complaint that the
incubator is unfriendly. (Their first release had a -1 IPMC vote for
including compiled code in a source release and was muddied by further
comments that were not pertinent to the -1 vote) Since then there has been
number of conversations on private and public lists about this (and other
issues) and it's brought up some old "the incubator is broken" threads.
The IPMC has been given many suggestions for improvement. Some of the
suggestions for incubator change are positive and are likely to show
benefits, some ignore recent improvements in the incubator and refer to how
the incubator was in the past, and a couple seem to have little basis in
fact. Several come from people who are not IPMC members or are not
currently actively involved in the IPMC. The IPMC is reviewing all these
suggestions and will evaluate them and other ideas to see what is possible
to implement in the near future without having a detrimental impact on all
current podlings and mentors.

Some of these discussion about IPMC interference have already had a cooling
effect of voting on releases and a couple of podlings needed to request
help on release voting. One release that was put up for IPMC vote,
seemingly without mentor input, and it contained several significant ASF
policy issues.

There were several discussions about podlings releasing software outside the
ASF (mostly on docker and GitHub) and ways of providing guidance to them to
comply with ASF's legal, release, distribution and trademark policy that
got a little derailed because of the above. It was noticed that GitHub is
publishing release candidates (and in fact any tag) as a release. I believe
Infra has reached out to GitHub to see what can be done to improve this.

* Community

 New IPMC members:
 Jan Piotrowski

 People who left the IPMC:
 Hyrum Kurt

* New Podlings

 Training
 Cava

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month are listed above

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 February:
 - MXNet 1.4.0
 - OpenWhisk Composer 0.10.0
 - Zipkin Brave for Apache Karaf 0.1.2
 - Daffodil 2.3.0
 - Dubbo OPS 0.1
 - Doris 0.9.0
 - Dubbo Spring Boot Project 2.7.0
 - PLC4X 0.3.0

* IP Clearance

 Apache Arrow Rust DataFusion

* Legal / Trademarks

 N/A

* Infrastructure

 N/A

* Miscellaneous

 A couple of mentors were found for podlings with less than 3 mentors.

 A few old unused incubator mailing lists were shut down.

 A discussion come up about short non-ASF domain names and hosting copies
 of ASF sites in China.

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BRPC
Crail
Daffodil
DLab
Druid
Dubbo
Hivemall
Hudi
Iceberg
IoTDB
Marvin-AI
Myriad
Nemo
Omid
OpenWhisk
Pinot
Pony Mail
SAMOA
ShardingSphere
SINGA
SkyWalking
Superset
Tamaya
Tephra
Training
Zipkin

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20 Feb 2019 [Justin Mclean / Roman] ¶

{{{
Incubator PMC report for February 2019

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 51 podlings incubating. During the month of January,
podlings executed 3 distinct releases. We added no new IPMC members and
had no IPMC members retire.

We have one new podling Hudi. No project graduated last month but several
podlings are heading towards graduation in the next few months.

BatchEE took a vote to go to Apache Geronimo or TLP and decided on TLP and
are back to being stuck in trying to graduate.

One podling failed to report this month BRPC and one podling failed to get
sign off from it mentors Tamaya. They been asked to report next month.

There was one IP clearance.

The mentor situation is continuing to improve. One of the mentors for the
new Hudi project realised he didn't have the time be be able to give to the
project and stood down. Thanks to him for being able to recognising that he
wasn't going to be an effective mentor. Other mentors stepped forward to do
the job.

We have a problem with unapproved releases. A spot check on some (not all)
projects reporting this month showed that five projects were making
unapproved releases. Hopefully that's a statical aberration, but it seems
likely that we probably have more codlings making unapproved releases than
this. This has been brought up one the general list and I see a few
projects have taken note of it.

Three of the projects Doris, Pinot and Sharding Sphere responded quickly
and removed the releases. SDAP is addressing the issue. ECharts is a little
reluctant to remove the releases due to the high use and popularity of the
project and is trying to find another way of resolving the situation.
Mentors are working with them to resolve the situation.

ECharts was also found to hosting a Chinese version of their incubating
site at echarts dot baidu dot com. The PPMC is also dealing with this.

A reminder to all incubating projects and mentors that all releases
and distributions advertised to the general public need to be approved by
the PPMC and IPMC. This includes docker, github, PyPi, npm and any
other platform for publishing releases, and also covers release candidates.
Nightly builds for project-internal use clearly marked as "snapshot" or
"prerelease" (or similar) can be made available to project contributors.
If in doubt please ask your mentors or on the incubator general list.

Superset has not made an Apache release but is making progress towards one.
They accidentally published a release candidate to GitHub but sorting
that out.

There was also an interesting discussion on binary releases on
legal-discuss that could have some impact on the incubator.

New new project creating ASF training material may either go to straight to
TLP or via the incubator. This did raise a few questions about how initial
committers are selected.

* Community

  New IPMC members:
  - None

  People who left the IPMC:
  - None

* New Podlings
  - Hudi

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - BRPC
 - Tamaya

* Graduations

  The board has motions for the following:
  - Unomi?

* Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  January:
  - Apache Dubbo 2.7.0
  - Apache SkyWalking 6.0.0-GA
  - Apache Dubbo Spring Boot 0.2.1 and 0.1.2

* IP Clearance
  - Apache Arrow Rust DataFusion

* Legal / Trademarks
  N/A

* Infrastructure
  N/A

* Miscellaneous
  - vote to shut down some old unused incubator lists
  - discussion on what to do with retired podling repositories

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                       Table of Contents
Doris
ECharts
Edgent
Heron
Hudi
Iceberg
IoTDB
PageSpeed
Pinot
Ratis
S2Graph
SDAP
ShardingSphere
Tamaya
Toree
Unomi

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16 Jan 2019 [Justin Mclean / Brett] ¶

{{{
Incubator PMC report for January 2019

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 51 podlings incubating. During the month of December,
podlings executed 8 distinct releases. We added 8 new IPMC members and
had no IPMC members retire. The mentor situation has continued to improve
but we still have a number of podlings with less than 3 mentors.

Apache Airflow graduated and several podlings are heading towards
graduation. An incubator exit interview was sent to Airflow and the IPMC
got some feedback on the incubating process. It highlighted a known
issue with releases that needs to be made clear to mentors and PPMCs (as a
number of podlings have recently run into the same issue). A discussion
will
be started soon about this.

Several new podlings are off to a slow start. BatchEE is still stuck in
performing the last graduation steps, but the PPMC have said they will get
to it in February.

One new podling Iceberg reported very late. Both podlings that failed to
report last month reported this month.

There were 2 IP clearances.

A meeting was held with Superset to discuss its issues and good progress
was made. The meeting notes were posted back to the dev list, teh project
still has not made an Apache release.

It was noticed that MXNet was also making unapproved releases and had some
branding and policy issues, the MXNet PPMC have taken action to fix some
the issues.

* Community

  New IPMC members:
  - Akira Ajisaka
  - Gang (Gary) Wang
  - Liang Chen
  - Lionel Liu
  - Makoto Yui
  - Mohammad Asif Siddiqui
  - Sijie Guo
  - Thomas Weise

  People who left the IPMC:
  - None

* New Podlings
  - None

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Iceburg

* Graduations

  The board has motions for the following:
  - None

* Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  December:
  - Nemo 0.1
  - Netbeans 10.0
  - Skywalking 6.0.0 beta
  - Druid 0.13.0
  - Gobblin 0.14.0
  - Crail 1.1
  - Airflow 1.10.1
  - Omid 1.0.0

* IP Clearance
  - Apache Arrow Parquet Rust Library
  - OpenWhisk Composer Python

* Legal / Trademarks
  See main section for note on MXNet.

* Infrastructure
  N/A

* Miscellaneous
  - There was discussion around establishing a project at the ASF to host
  and develop training and related materials for ASF projects.
  - A release checklist application was created and has had a few people
  take interest in it.

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                       Table of Contents
Amaterasu
Annotator
BatchEE
BRPC
Gobblin
Iceberg
IoTDB
Livy
Marvin-AI
Milagro
MXNet
NetBeans
Pinot
PLC4X
Rya
SensSoft
ShardingSphere
Weex

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@Phil: reach out to PPMC to see about improving the governance of the project.

19 Dec 2018 [Justin Mclean / Shane] ¶

{{{
Incubator PMC report for December 2018

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 52 podlings incubating. During the month of November,
podlings executed 11 distinct releases. We added 17 new IPMC members and
had 2 IPMC members retire.

Several podlings are heading towards graduation. We have also have several
new podlings with IotDB, Sharding Sphere, BRPC and Iceburg join our ranks
and two podlings Quickstep and ODF toolkit retire. ODF toolkit had spent 7
years in the incubator. Airflow look set to graduate and will be the 200th
active Apache project if no other TLP projects retire. BatchEE still seems
stuck in performing the last graduation steps.

Superset is slowly addressing its issues, but has still not made an Apache
release and has continued to make unofficial releases. A meeting has been
set up to try and sort out the issues as discussing them on the mailing
list doesn't seem to be working.

There were 2 IP clearances.

A number of podlings, despite prompting, failed to report and will be asked
to report next month.

The mentor situation has improved but we still have a number of podlings
(19) with less than 3 mentors.

An email was sent to the members list, to see if we can get more IPMC
members and several people stepped forward.

We also had a discussion about lowering the bar for IPMC members and seeing
how they potential candidates can be more easily recognised. While unusual
at the  ASF, we've asked people to self identify, they will still be voted
on by the IPMC, and several have come forward and have been voted in.
Several had more than enough merit and had gone unnoticed or looked over
by the IPMC and in a couple of cases were extremely obvious candidates.

As a result of both of these we have 17 new IPMC members and several new
mentors.

One podling had to be reminded that a NOTICE needs to be sent to the IPMC
for any new PPMC members.

Moderators of the incubator mailing list had gone missing and 3 new
moderators have been added. Some IPMC members had previously missed being
signed up the private email list as a result of this.

A large number (100+) of IPMC members are not signed up to the private mail
list, each was sent emails asking them to sign up. A couple asked to be
removed from IPMC but the majority of those contacted have not signed up.
There's probably not much more that can be done about this.

Podlings rosters are now (with a few exceptions) mostly up-to-date.

The default podling bylaws/guidelines were posted to the board list, some
minor changes were made and have been accepted. Graduating podlings will be
pointed to these guidelines rather than encouraged to write their own.

* Community

 New IPMC members:
  - Chris Lambertus
  - David Meikle
  - Felix Cheung
  - Furkan Kamaci
  - Ioannis Canellos
  - Jason Dai
  - John Kinsella
  - Kenneth Knowles
  - Kishore G
  - Koji Sekiguchi
  - Myrle Krantz
  - Paul King
  - Shaofeng Shi
  - Sheng Wu
  - Vinayakumar B
  - Von Gosling
  - Woonsan Ko

 People who left the IPMC:
 - Mark Dwayne Womack
 - Sean Busbey

* New Podlings
 - BRPC
 - Iceburg
 - IotDB
 - Sharding-Sphere

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Marvin-AI
 - Pinot

* Graduations
 - Apache Airflow

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 November:
 - PLC4X 0.2.0
 - Weex 0.20.0
 - MXNet version 1.3.1
 - NetBeans 1.6 HTML/Java API
 - Dubbo 2.6.5
 - Release Airflow 1.10.1
 - Heron 0.20.0
 - NetBeans 10.0
 - SkyWalking ersion 6.0.0
 - Toree 0.3.0
 - Ratis-thirdparty 0.1.0

* IP Clearance
 - OpenWhisk Composer Python
 - OpenWhisk Composer

* Legal / Trademarks
 Some issues around the use of CC licensed content need clarification.

* Infrastructure
 No issues.

* Miscellaneous
 - More discussion on reviewing binary releases.
 - UNICEF wants to bring an open source project to the ASF.

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                       Table of Contents
BRPC
Crail
Daffodil
Druid
Dubbo
Hivemall
Iceberg
IoTDB
Myriad
Nemo
Omid
OpenWhisk
Pony Mail
SAMOA
ShardingSphere
SINGA
SkyWalking
Spot
Superset
Taverna
Tephra
Warble
Zipkin

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21 Nov 2018 [Justin Mclean / Phil] ¶

= Incubator PMC report for November 2018 =

=== Timeline ===
||Wed November 07 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
||Sun November 11 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
||Sun November 11 ||Summary due by end of day ||
||Tue November 13 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
||Wed November 14 ||Report submitted to Board ||
||Wed November 21 ||Board meeting ||

=== Shepherd Assignments ===
||Dave Fisher ||Edgent ||
||Dave Fisher ||Tamaya ||
||Drew Farris ||Ratis ||
||Drew Farris ||Toree ||
||John Ament ||Heron ||
||John Ament ||Joshua ||
||Justin Mclean ||Doris ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Marvin-AI ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Unomi ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Warble ||
||Timothy Chen ||ECharts ||
||Timothy Chen ||SDAP ||
||Timothy Chen ||Zipkin ||
||[none] ||DLab ||
||[none] ||Livy ||
||[none] ||PageSpeed ||
||[none] ||Pinot ||
||[none] ||S2Graph ||
||[none] ||Weex ||

=== Report content ===
{{{
Incubator PMC report for November 2018

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 52 podlings incubating. During the month of October,
podlings executed 4 distinct releases (a low number) and there are a couple
of outstanding votes on releases for November. We added 3 new IPMC members.

Several podlings are heading towards graduation and several look like they
may retire. ServiceComb and Joshua graduated last month and we will welcome
several new podlings with votes or discussion underway for IotDB, Pinot,
Sharding-Sphere, Brpc and Iceburg. Annotator had a discussion where they
decided not to retire. BatchEE still seems stuck in performing the last
graduation steps.

Doris is taking steps to address its lack of discussion on the mailing list
and working on its first release.

MXNet had an excellent discussion around diversity and what it means to be
a committer.

Superset is slowly addressing its issues, but has not yet made an Apache
release and has continued to make unofficial releases. Its (new) mentor is
helping out with this and it has pointed out if they don't try a little
harder they may be removed from the incubator.

Unomi started graduation discussions, but run into some issues with PPMC
members missing ICLAs and its roster. It may be that IP clearance still
needs to be done.

Weex has improved with more discussion on the mailing list and discussion
and action about how to improve community growth.

Skywalking put up a discussion to graduation, but it may of been too soon,
given some irregularities with its roster and that they have only added one
committer/PPMC member during incubation but have had a large number of
contributions from many people.

Thanks to Edgenet for an honest and open assessment of where it is at.

Senssoft got a bit carried away and submitted a report when it didn't
need to. :-)

There were 6 IP clearances.

No podlings failed to report which is great to see.

The remaining missing mentors were contacted and those who didn't reply
were removed from the podlings roster. We currently have about half of the
podlings (23) with less than 3 mentors and 5 podlings only having one
mentor. To get all podlings back to 3 mentors (which seems the ideal
number) we would need 29 mentors volunteer. We're in the process of
drafting an email to the members list, to see if we can get more members to
step forward and become mentors. Several podlings have requested new
mentors but so far we've only had a few IPMC members step forward and take
on the role. (Podlings include Annotator, Dubbo, Hivemall, Superset and
Warble).

In September several incubator PMC members visited China to speak at the
Huawei Connect and COSCon'18 (where 3 different ASF incubator/Apache Ways
talks were given). Many of the talks had moderate attendance but were
streamed live to large numbers of people; one was live streamed to more than
1,000 people. Both conferences had ASF booths and we spoke to 100's of
people and gave away countless ASF stickers, pamphlets and other swag.

IPMC and board members also visited several companies; Alibaba, Huawei and
Tencent, to give talks, meet with developers contributing to ASF projects
and meet with executives to find out how these companies and the ASF can
work together. I was impressed to see Alibaba reached out to other people
contributing to the Apache Dubbo project and invited them along to the
meetings as well.

As a result of this a number of projects have a far better idea of how to
operate as an Apache project and the steps towards graduation. We are
likely to see several new (8-10) incubating projects arrive over the next
few months.

Thanks to Huawei, Alibaba and Kaiyuanshe for making this possible. Thanks
to Craig, Dave, Justin, Roman and Ross and others who gave up their time to
do this and also many thanks to the many local people who helped out at the
ASF booths, with translation of our talks and acting as guides to sometimes
bewildered and slightly confused ASF people.

Several podlings have not kept their rosters up-to-date, and this has
caused some graduation and access issues. Several of these podlings have
been contacted and asked to correct their rosters and a couple have done
so. The IPMC will keep an eye on podling reports and check that new
committers/PPMC have been added to the roster, but it would be best if the
podlings (and their mentors) take a more active role in doing this.

Some podlings are still having issues with creating initial accounts and
signing ICLAs. A proof of concept system for easy ICLA signing was made by
Daniel here https://icla.live/ .

What to do about podlings tasked with writing bylaws/guidelines is still
outstanding.

* Community

 New IPMC members:
 - Ioannis Canellos
 - Koji Sekiguchi
 - Jason Dai

 People who left the IPMC:

 - None

* New Podlings

 - Pinot

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - None

* Graduations

 - Apache Griffin

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 October:
 - Apache Plc4x 0.1.0
 - Apache Dubbo 2.6.4
 - Apache Skywalking 5.0.0 GA
 - Apache Weex 0.19.0

* IP Clearance

 - Apache Arrow Parquet Ruby Library
 - Apache Arrow C# Library
 - Apache Beam Euphoria API
 - Apache Beam Dataflow Java Worker
 - Arrow Parquet GLib Library
 - Mojohaus Maven Utilities, for the NetBeans podling

* Legal / Trademarks

 Discussion of what needed re ICLAs, CCLA and software grants
 (LEGAL-420).

* Infrastructure

 No issues.

* Miscellaneous
 - Discussion with UNICEF’s about bringing a project to the ASF.
 - Discussion on reviewing binary releases.
 - Question on mirror sites (redirection preferred).
 - Update to web site with guidelines for publicity for incubating projects.

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                       Table of Contents
DLab
Doris
ECharts
Edgent
Heron
Livy
Marvin-AI
PageSpeed
Pinot
Ratis
S2Graph
SDAP
Tamaya
Toree
Unomi
Warble
Weex
Zipkin
Senssoft

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17 Oct 2018 [Justin Mclean / Phil] ¶

= Incubator PMC report for October 2018 =

** FINAL ** ** DO NOT EDIT **

=== Timeline ===
||Wed October 03 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
||Sun October 07 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
||Sun October 07 ||Summary due by end of day ||
||Tue October 09 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
||Wed October 10 ||Report submitted to Board ||
||Wed October 17 ||Board meeting ||

=== Shepherd Assignments ===
||Dave Fisher ||DLab ||
||Dave Fisher ||ODF Toolkit ||
||Drew Farris ||Livy ||
||Drew Farris ||SensSoft ||
||John Ament ||MXNet ||
||John Ament ||ServiceComb ||
||Justin Mclean ||Milagro ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Gobblin ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Rya ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Zipkin ||
||Timothy Chen ||BatchEE ||
||Timothy Chen ||Doris ||
||Timothy Chen ||Weex ||
||[none] ||Airflow ||
||[none] ||Amaterasu ||
||[none] ||Annotator ||
||[none] ||Marvin-AI ||
||[none] ||NetBeans ||
||[none] ||PLC4X ||

=== Report content ===
{{{
Incubator PMC report for October 2018

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 52 podlings incubating. During the month of September,
podlings executed 10 distinct releases and there are several ongoing votes
on releases for October. We added 2 new IPMC members.

In September one podling Pulsar graduated and one podling Gearpump retired.

BatchEE still seems stuck in performing the last graduation steps and needs
some nudging over the line. Several other podlings are heading towards
graduation or retirement. There was one IP clearance.

The number of podlings (one) that didn't report has fallen from last month.
They have been asked to report next month. Of concern is Weex who failed to
respond to queries on both the dev and private list. There seem to be
little activity on the dev list other than GitHub traffic. One podling
Warble failed to get sign off from it's single mentor.

The situation with Milagro is concerning as they missed reporting many
times, the PPMC are inactive or didn't realise that they were on the PPMC
(they do now). Despite yet another strong suggestion to retire, they still
want to restart the project. It may be  difficult to do so as the project
never really got started at Apache and most of the initial committers
haven't signed ICLAs. They did however report this month.

The Superset podling (as reported last month) seems to have a few other
issues (see mailing list), but they are responding and fixing the issues
and a mentor (Jim) was sorting the situation out. However they are
continuing to make unapproved releases and Jim has retired as a mentor.
It's currently unclear if any of the other mentors are active.

MXNext had several new mentors added to help with diversity among it's
mentors.

An email was sent out to all inactive mentors and we've had 60% respond,
most of those who responded have indicated that will step down. So far 24
mentors have asked to be removed and it's likely that most of the 26 who
haven't responded are inactive and will need to be removed. Good news is 9
have asked to continue. This has left several podlings with only a one or
two active mentors, which is no change from before but now we know the true
situation. We have had a few people ask to be a mentor and several mentors
who were inactive, and who asked to stay on, have showed signs of increased
activity.

I just want to thank all the mentors for their past work and for those who
recognised that the best thing that they could do for their podling was to
step aside. Missing signing off 3 board reports in a row turns out to be a
useful metric as a proxy for mentor activity (about an 85% correlation).

In the discussion on what to do about podlings tasked with writing bylaws /
guidelines in their graduation proposal, there's general consensus that
podlings should be not asked to do this. A draft minimal default set of
guidelines has been created. This will be brought to the boards attention
in the next few weeks.

A new question has been added to the report asking podlings if they are
getting enough support from their mentors, hopefully this will identify
missing mentors earlier. A number of podling just copied and pasted from
previous reports and didn't notice this new question.

A small change to the incubator proposal template should help with podlings
taking too long to incubate or at least frame their expectations.

* Community

  New IPMC members:
  - Jason Dai
  - Xiangrui Meng

  People who left the IPMC:
  - None

* New Podlings

 - Marvin-AI
 - Zipkin

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - Weex (did not respond to queries)

* Graduations

  The board has motions for the following:
  - Joshua (to be posted)
  - ServiceComb

* Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  September:

  Tephra 0.15.0
  Daffodil 2.2.0
  Griffin 0.3.0
  Dubbo 2.6.3
  Mxnet 1.3.0
  Pulsar 2.1.0
  Skywalking 5.0.0
  Unomi 1.1.0
  Openwhisk 0.9.8 and 1.12.0

* IP Clearance

  Arrow Gandiva library

* Legal / Trademarks

  Due to a trademark issue, SensSoft has decided to change it's name.

* Infrastructure

  N/A.

* Miscellaneous

  release checklist created

* Credits

  None

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                       Table of Contents
Airflow
Amaterasu
Annotator
BatchEE
DLab
Doris
Gobblin
Livy
Marvin-AI
Milagro
MXNet
NetBeans
ODF Toolkit
PLC4X
Rya
SensSoft
ServiceComb
Warble
Zipkin

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19 Sep 2018 [Justin Mclean / Shane] ¶

= Incubator PMC report for September 2018 =

=== Timeline ===
||Wed September 05 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
||Sun September 09 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
||Sun September 09 ||Summary due by end of day ||
||Tue September 11 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
||Wed September 12 ||Report submitted to Board ||
||Wed September 19 ||Board meeting ||

=== Shepherd Assignments ===
||Dave Fisher ||Pony Mail ||
||Dave Fisher ||Tephra ||
||Drew Farris ||Omid ||
||Drew Farris ||S2Graph ||
||John Ament ||Doris ||
||John Ament ||SkyWalking ||
||Justin Mclean ||Gearpump ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Hivemall ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Superset ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Toree ||
||Timothy Chen ||Crail ||
||Timothy Chen ||OpenWhisk ||
||Timothy Chen ||Warble ||
||[none] ||Annotator ||
||[none] ||Daffodil ||
||[none] ||Druid ||
||[none] ||Dubbo ||
||[none] ||Griffin ||
||[none] ||Joshua ||
||[none] ||Milagro ||
||[none] ||Myriad ||
||[none] ||Nemo ||
||[none] ||PageSpeed ||
||[none] ||Pulsar ||
||[none] ||Quickstep ||
||[none] ||SAMOA ||
||[none] ||SINGA ||
||[none] ||SensSoft ||
||[none] ||Spot ||
||[none] ||Tamaya ||
||[none] ||Taverna ||
||[none] ||Zipkin ||

=== Report content ===
{{{
Incubator PMC report for September 2018

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 52 podlings incubating. During the month of August,
podlings executed 8 distinct releases and there are several ongoing votes
on releases for September. Some long standing release votes were resolved.
We added three new IPMC members.

Several podlings are heading towards graduation. We had one project,
Gossip, retire to the attic. BatchEE seems stuck in performing the last
graduation steps and needs some nudging over the line.

There were no IP clearances.

A number of podlings (3) that didn't report has decreased and Pony Mail has
finally reported. Senssoft has some issues that stoped it from reporting
but they are currently being addressed. Milagro has missed several reports
in a row and has failed to respond to queries to why this has occurred.
Gearpump have indicated they are discussing retiring.

Discussion continues about with to do about missing mentors and some
actions should be taken in the next month including contacting mentors and
asking if  they still want to continue in the role. This may result in a
number of mentors needing to be replaced, and currently it is not known what
mentor capacity the IPMC has. We've had a number of members join the IPMC
to mentor projects this month which is encouraging. Given the low levels of
activity on some projects (as indicated by sign off rates and a sampling
of email list activity) this is a serious issue for the IPMC.

There's also been discussion on some podlings spending too long in
incubation and hopefully that will lead to a few more graduations and
retirements in the near future.

Changes have been suggested to the podling report and incubator proposal
template that should help in small ways with the above situations.

A podling, Superset, has been making releases not in line with the Apache
release policy. I've asked the podling to correct this and it's mentors are
helping out with this and other issues. The podling has been almost 2 years
in incubation and has made a large number of "unofficial" releases (50+).

* Community

 New IPMC members:
 - Andriy Redko
 - Christofer Dutz
 - William Colen

 People who left the IPMC:
 None

* New Podlings

 - Zipkin
 - DLab
 - Marvin-AI

* Podlings that failed to report, (perhaps) expected next month

 - Gearpump (discussing retirement)
 - Milagro (no response and missing multiple reports in a row)

* Graduations

 None this month.

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 August:
 - ServiceComb Chassis 1.0.0
 - ServiceComb Service-Centre 1.0.0
 - Pulsar 2.1.0
 - Echarts 4.1.0
 - Toree 0.2.0
 - Openwhisk CLI 0.9.0
 - Airflow 1.10.0
 - Unomi 1.3.0

* IP Clearance

 None

* Legal / Trademarks

 No issues or discussions.

* Infrastructure

 No issues.

* Miscellaneous
 - Gossip podling was retired.
 - HAWQ graduated to TLP last month.
 - A DRAT prototype can be found here
   (http://drat-vm.apache.org:8080/proteus-new/)

* Credits
  None

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                       Table of Contents
Airflow
Annotator
Crail
Daffodil
Doris
Druid
Dubbo
Griffin
Hivemall
Myriad
Nemo
Omid
OpenWhisk
Pony Mail
Pulsar
Quickstep
S2Graph
SAMOA
SensSoft
SINGA
SkyWalking
Spot
Superset
Tamaya
Taverna
Tephra
Warble

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15 Aug 2018 [Justin Mclean / Rich] ¶

= Incubator PMC report for August 2018 =

=== Timeline ===
||Wed August 01 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
||Sun August 05 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
||Sun August 05 ||Summary due by end of day ||
||Tue August 07 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
||Wed August 08 ||Report submitted to Board ||
||Wed August 15 ||Board meeting ||

=== Shepherd Assignments ===
||Dave Fisher ||Joshua ||
||Dave Fisher ||SDAP ||
||Drew Farris ||Druid ||
||Drew Farris ||Tamaya ||
||John Ament ||PageSpeed ||
||John Ament ||S2Graph ||
||Justin Mclean ||Heron ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Annotator ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||SensSoft ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Unomi ||
||Timothy Chen ||Airflow ||
||Timothy Chen ||BatchEE ||
||Timothy Chen ||Doris ||
||[none] ||ECharts ||
||[none] ||Edgent ||
||[none] ||Gossip ||
||[none] ||Milagro ||
||[none] ||Pony Mail ||
||[none] ||Ratis ||
||[none] ||Spot ||
||[none] ||Toree ||

=== Report content ===
{{{
Incubator PMC report for August 2018

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 52 podlings incubating. During the month of July,
podlings executed 7 distinct releases and there are several ongoing votes
and releases for August. A couple of podlings need to ask again for IPMC
votes and some votes are still ongoing.  We added two new IPMC members.

The HAWQ project is graduating, and serval others are heading towards
graduation. We had one project, Gossip, in the process of retiring to the
attic. Joshua needs to be chased up as they voted to graduate but haven't
done so yet and failed to report.

There were two IP clearances.

Again a number of podlings (8) didn't report and Pony Mail has failed to
report for the 3rd time in a row. I'll reach out again to Pony Mail but it
may require board attention given that lists.apache.org runs off it.

One report (Airflow) is currently missing sign off but hopefully that will be
fixed by the time the board meets.

Independently I reached out to the the Spark project and they have improved
their LICENSE and NOTICE so the incubator should have less issues in
podlings copying what they were doing.

* Community

 New IPMC members:
 Ignasi Barrera
 Lars Francke

 People who left the IPMC:
 None

* New Podlings
 Doris

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 Annotator
 Joshua
 Milagro
 PageSpeed
 Pony Mail
 S2Graph
 SensSoft
 Tamaya
 Toree # submitted late, but included

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:
 HAWQ

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 August:
 Gobblin 0.12.0
 Amaterasu 0.2.0
 OpenWhisk 0.9.0
 Skywalking 5.0.0-beta2
 Ratis 0.2.0
 Mxnet 1.2.1
 Netbeans 9.0

* IP Clearance
 SCIMple
 brooklyn-ui-angular

* Legal / Trademarks
 None

* Infrastructure
 None

* Miscellaneous
 None

* Credits

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                      Table of Contents
Airflow
Annotator
BatchEE
Doris
Druid
ECharts
Edgent
Gossip
Heron
Joshua
Milagro
PageSpeed
Pony Mail
Ratis
S2Graph
SDAP
SensSoft
Spot
Tamaya
Unomi

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@Phil: follow up with IPMC on missing podling reports

18 Jul 2018 [Justin Mclean / Brett] ¶

= Incubator PMC report for July 2018 =

=== Timeline ===
||Wed July 04 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
||Sun July 08 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
||Sun July 08 ||Summary due by end of day ||
||Tue July 10 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
||Wed July 11 ||Report submitted to Board ||
||Wed July 18 ||Board meeting ||

=== Shepherd Assignments ===
||Dave Fisher ||Gossip ||
||Dave Fisher ||ODF Toolkit ||
||Drew Farris ||Livy ||
||Drew Farris ||ServiceComb ||
||John Ament ||NetBeans ||
||John Ament ||PLC4X ||
||Justin Mclean ||S2Graph ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||BatchEE ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Milagro ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Traffic Control ||
||Timothy Chen ||Annotator ||
||Timothy Chen ||HAWQ ||
||Timothy Chen ||SensSoft ||
||[none] ||Airflow ||
||[none] ||Amaterasu ||
||[none] ||Gobblin ||
||[none] ||MXNet ||
||[none] ||Rya ||
||[none] ||Weex ||

=== Report content ===
{{{
Incubator PMC report for July 2018

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 52 podlings incubating. During the month of June,
podlings executed 6 distinct releases and there are several ongoing votes
and releases for July.  We added no new IPMC members. No podlings are
graduating this month but there's dicussion about HAWQ graduating, and
many are heading towards graduation. We had one project, AriaTosca,
retire to the attic. There were no IP clearances.

A number of podlings didn't report and that may be due to less reminders
sent out this month. The three podlings that failed to report last month
also failed to report this month. Two responded (Druid and Spot) to why
last month, but lack of activity and response from Pony Mail is concerning.

Of note in June on the list there was discussions on
 - retirement and what to do with gitHub/gitbox repos
 - Gossip exiting the incubator

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - None

 People who left the IPMC:

 - None

* New Podlings

 - Doris

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - Airflow
 - Annotator
 - BatchEE
 - Druid
 - Gossip
 - Milagro
 - Pony Mail
 - S2Graph
 - SensSoft
 - Spot

* Graduations

 - None

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 June:
  - 2018/07/02 Goblin 0.12.0
  - 2018/06/22 Servicecomb 1.0
  - 2018/06/17 Pulsar 1.22.1
  - 2018/06/15 Singa 1.2.0
  - 2018/06/07 Traffic Control 2.2.0
  - 2018/06/05 Dubbo 2.6.2

 The Traffic Control release seems odd as they are a TLP.
 Seems to just be a timing issue as the vote was open before
 they become a TLP.

* IP Clearance

 None

* Legal / Trademarks

 None

* Infrastructure

 None

* Miscellaneous

 None

* Credits

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                      Table of Contents
Amaterasu
Gobblin
Gossip
HAWQ
Livy
MXNet
NetBeans
ODF Toolkit
PLC4X
Rya
ServiceComb
Traffic Control
Weex

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20 Jun 2018 [Justin Mclean / Rich] ¶

= Incubator PMC report for June 2018 =

=== Timeline ===
||Wed June 06 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
||Sun June 10 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
||Sun June 10 ||Summary due by end of day ||
||Tue June 12 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
||Wed June 13 ||Report submitted to Board ||
||Wed June 20 ||Board meeting ||

=== Shepherd Assignments ===
||Dave Fisher ||Myriad ||
||Dave Fisher ||Nemo ||
||Drew Farris ||Druid ||
||Drew Farris ||Superset ||
||John Ament ||S2Graph ||
||John Ament ||SINGA ||
||Justin Mclean ||Gearpump ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Dubbo ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Quickstep ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Tephra ||
||Timothy Chen ||AriaTosca ||
||Timothy Chen ||Daffodil ||
||Timothy Chen ||Taverna ||
||[none] ||Crail ||
||[none] ||Gossip ||
||[none] ||Griffin ||
||[none] ||Hivemall ||
||[none] ||Omid ||
||[none] ||OpenWhisk ||
||[none] ||Pony Mail ||
||[none] ||Pulsar ||
||[none] ||SAMOA ||
||[none] ||SkyWalking ||
||[none] ||Spot ||

=== Report content ===
{{{
Incubator PMC report for June 2018

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 52 podlings incubating. During the month of May,
podlings executed 7 distinct releases and there are several ongoing votes
and releases for June.  We added one new IPMC member. No podlings are
graduating this month, but many are heading towards graduation. We had one
project, Apache Slider, require to the attic. There were 5 IP clearances.

* Community

  New IPMC members:

  - Sharan Foga

  People who left the IPMC:

  - None

* New Podlings

  - None, but there are several threads on possible new podlings.

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month. All three project
have failed to report before.

  - Druid - Activity on list and reminders sent but no report. May need
  more active mentors. Will also follow up on non ASF releases.
  - Pony Mail - No report and almost no activity on list. Will check if
  there's still active mentors.
  - Spot - No report and almost no activity on list. Communication may be
  happening elsewhere.

* Graduations

  The board has motions for the following:

  - None

* Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of March:

  - 2018-05-15 Apache Daffodil 2.1.0
  - 2018-05-16 Apache Griffin 0.2.0
  - 2018-05-22 Apache MXNet 1.2.0
  - 2018-05-23 Apache Skywalking 5.0.0 beta
  - 2018-05-27 Apache Pulsar 2.0.0
  - 2018-05-29 Apache Netbeans 9.0
  - 2018-05-31 Apache Crail 1.0

  Vote passed but missing from release area:

  - 2018-05-29 Apache Omid 0.9.0
  - 2018-05-26 Apache Tephra 0.14.0

* IP Clearance
  - Apache Beam Go SDK
  - Dubbox documentation
  - Arrow Ruby Library
  - System Readiness Check Framework
  - Logback integration with OSGi Log 1.4

* Legal / Trademarks

 - None

* Infrastructure

  - None

* Miscellaneous

  - None

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                       Table of Contents
AriaTosca
Crail
Daffodil
Dubbo
Gearpump
Gossip
Griffin
Hivemall
Myriad
Nemo
Omid
OpenWhisk
Pulsar
Quickstep
S2Graph
SAMOA
SINGA
SkyWalking
Superset
Taverna
Tephra

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16 May 2018 ¶

Change the Apache Incubator Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed John D. Ament
 (johndament) to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 John D. Ament from the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Incubator
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Justin Mclean (jmclean) as the
 successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that John D. Ament is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache Incubator, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Justin Mclean be and hereby is appointed
 to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, 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 7G, Change the Apache Incubator Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

16 May 2018 [John D. Ament / Bertrand] ¶

Incubator PMC report for May 2018

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 52 podlings undergoing incubation.  This was an extremely quiet month within the incubator, no changes in the PMC structure, no new podlings, one podling planning to graduate and only one release executed.  We do have two additional podlings planning graduation, but likely they will go next month (June).  There is work ongoing to replace the present chair.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - None

 People who left the IPMC:

 - None

* New Podlings

 - None

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - Gossip - report received extremely late, but had no mentor sign off.  Prior comments from mentor (P. Taylor Goetz) are retained:
       Reminders sent for both April and May reports. When I brought up
       the possibility of retirement, several community members expressed interest
       in continuing incubation.
 - S2Graph - report received, but no mentor sign off

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Traffic Control

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 April:

 - 2018-04-02 Apache ServiceComb Java_Chassis 1.0.0-m1

* IP Clearance



* Legal / Trademarks



* Infrastructure



* Miscellaneous

 - A discussion began recently about how to deal with absent mentors.  No concrete work, but it seems one call out is to check on a mentor's pulse to see if they are still supporting their podlings.

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                      Table of Contents
Druid
Dubbo
ECharts
Edgent
Heron
Joshua
Nemo
PageSpeed
Ratis
SDAP
Slider
Tamaya
Toree
Unomi

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18 Apr 2018 [John D. Ament / Ted] ¶

Incubator PMC report for April 2018

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 53 podlings incubating. During the month of March,
podlings executed 5 distinct releases, 6 total artifacts.  We added 2 new IPMC
members.  While no podlings are graduating this month, many are heading towards
graduation based on below reports.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Jun Rao
 - Matt Sicker

 People who left the IPMC:

 - None

* New Podlings

 - None

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - Gossip - No on list activity, likely to retire.

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of March:

 - 2018-03-04 Apache Rya 3.2.12
 - 2018-03-05 Apache Pulsar 1.22.0
 - 2018-03-09 Apache SensSoft Useralejs 1.0.0
 - 2018-03-17 Apache HAWQ 2.3.0.0
 - 2018-03-27 Apache ServiceComb Service Center 1.0.0-m1
 - 2018-03-27 Apache ServiceComb Saga 0.1.0

* Infrastructure

 - An issue came up recently between the ECharts podling and Infrastructure
   that was communicated privately to mentors - not posted to any list.  In
   future, such problems should at least be reported to the private@incubator
   list to ensure they are archived.

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Airflow
Amaterasu
Annotator
BatchEE
Druid
Dubbo
ECharts
Gearpump
Gobblin
HAWQ
Hivemall
Livy
Milagro
MXNet
Nemo
NetBeans
ODF Toolkit
PLC4X
Pony Mail
Quickstep
Rya
SensSoft
ServiceComb
SINGA
Traffic Control
Weex

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21 Mar 2018 [John D. Ament / Ted] ¶

Incubator PMC report for March 2018

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 54 podlings under incubation.  We added 1 new IPMC member, 3 new podlings and executed on 4 releases.  The HTrace report indicates retirement in flight.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Timothy Chen

 People who left the IPMC:


* New Podlings

 - Druid
 - Dubbo
 - Nemo

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - Gearpump
 - Hivemall
 - Milagro
 - Pony Mail
 - Quickstep
 - SINGA

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Freemarker

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 February:

 - 2018-02-05 Apache Livy 0.5.0
 - 2018-02-15 Apache Netbeans 9.0 beta
 - 2018-02-19 Apache PonyMail 0.10.0
 - 2018-02-19 Apache MXNet 1.1.0

* IP Clearance



* Legal / Trademarks

 - See Daffodil's report related to open legal questions.
 - See SkyWalking's report for open questions around optional modules under discussion on legal lists.

* Infrastructure



* Miscellaneous



* Credits

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AriaTosca
Crail
Druid
Dubbo
ECharts
Griffin
HTrace
Myriad
Nemo
Omid
OpenWhisk
PLC4X
Pulsar
Quickstep
SAMOA
ServiceComb
SkyWalking
Slider
Spot
Superset
Taverna
Tephra

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21 Feb 2018 [John D. Ament / Bertrand] ¶

Incubator PMC report for February 2018

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 54 podlings incubating.  In the month of January, podlings executed five releases, we added four additional IPMC members; as well as one new podling and one retiring podling.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - David E. Jones
 - Kevin A. McGrail
 - Mark Thomas
 - Timothy Chen

 People who left the IPMC:

 - None

* New Podlings

 - ECharts

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - iota: no further reports expected, podling is retiring
 - Milagro: expecting podling to retire
 - Myriad: expecting podling to retire
 - Slider: A report was submitted, but missed mentor sign off.  The report indicates a move into Hadoop is going to happen soon.

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 January:

 - 2018-01-02 Apache Airflow 1.9.0
 - 2018-01-16 Apache Aria Tosca 0.2.0
 - 2018-01-17 Apache Taverna Server 3.1.0
 - 2018-01-22 Apache Traffic Control 2.1.0
 - 2018-01-27 Apache DataFu 1.3.3

* IP Clearance

 - Appreciations go out for ensuring that RocketMQ performs proper IP Clearance.  Similar reminders have gone out to DeltaSpike and TomEE.

* Legal / Trademarks

 - Multiple podlings have open tickets and emails in to legal to review open questions.  Assistance is requested to guide them, even if the answer is "work with your mentors to get an answer."

* Infrastructure

 - Work will need to begin to clean up remaining links into the retired Service Desk instance.

* Miscellaneous

 - Due to a typo by the VP Incubator, report reminders were sent out to podlings as of February 2017 instead of February 2018.  While most TLPs who incorrectly received the alerts questioned it via their dev lists, a couple of TLPs skipped on list communication and instead verified off list.

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Airflow
Crail
ECharts
Edgent
Heron
Joshua
Livy
PageSpeed
PLC4X
Ratis
S2Graph
SDAP
ServiceComb
SkyWalking
Spot
Tamaya
Toree
Unomi

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17 Jan 2018 [John D. Ament / Mark] ¶

Incubator PMC report for January 2018

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 53 podlings in the inubator.  We added two new podlings in
December, and executed four podling releases.  Two new PMC members joined, in
support of mentoring podlings.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Stefan Bodewig
 - Carl Johan Erik Edstrom

 People who left the IPMC:



* New Podlings

 - PLC4X
 - SkyWalking

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - Airflow - Report received, but not signed off.
 - Livy - Low on list activity.
 - Milagro - Low on list activity.
 - Myriad - Low on list activity.
 - Spot - Low on list activity.
 - Wave - Retirement vote under way.

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of December:

 - 2017-12-03 Apache MXNet 1.0.0
 - 2017-12-13 Apache BatchEE 0.5
 - 2017-12-14 Apache Edgent 1.2.0
 - 2017-12-17 Apache Pulsar 1.21.0

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Amaterasu
Annotator
BatchEE
Crail
DataFu
FreeMarker
Gobblin
Gossip
HAWQ
HTrace
MXNet
NetBeans
ODF Toolkit
PageSpeed
PLC4X
Pony Mail
Rya
SDAP
SensSoft
ServiceComb
SkyWalking
Traffic Control
Weex
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20 Dec 2017 [John D. Ament / Bertrand] ¶

Incubator PMC report for December 2017

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 53 podlings incubating.  In the month of November, we executed six releases, added one IPMC member and received the resignation of another (which is in flight until their sole podling retires).  We added two podlings to our roster, have a few more in the pipeline and have one podling planning to graduate this month.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Michael Semb Wever

 People who left the IPMC:

 - Upayavira (not processed in LDAP yet)

* New Podlings

 - Crail
 - Service Comb

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - Amaterasu - Activity stopped late November
 - HTrace - 0 on list activity
 - Pony Mail - Low activity, suspect just missed
 - Wave - Retiring
 - Myriad - Received report, no mentor sign off
 - Spot - Received report, no mentor sign off

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Trafodion

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 November:

 - 2017-11-01 Apache Freemarker      2.3.27
 - 2017-11-08 Apache Netbeans HTML4J 1.5
 - 2017-11-15 Apache Mnemonic        0.10.0
 - 2017-11-15 Apache MXNet           0.12.1
 - 2017-11-18 Apache Netbeans HTML4J 1.5.1
 - 2017-11-28 Apache Griffin         0.1.6


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AriaTosca
Crail
Daffodil
Gearpump
Griffin
Hivemall
Omid
OpenWhisk
PageSpeed
Pulsar
Quickstep
SAMOA
SDAP
SINGA
Superset
Taverna
Tephra
Trafodion

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15 Nov 2017 [John D. Ament / Chris] ¶

Incubator PMC report for November 2017

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

October was a quieter month in the incubator.  We executed 4 podling releases, had
no changes in staff.  One new podling joined, and are having graduation discussions
for two podlings.  We expect Mnemonic to fully graduate this month.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - None

 People who left the IPMC:

 - None

* New Podlings

 - SDAP

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - iota (discussing retirement)
 - Milagro
 - Myriad

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Guacamole
 - Impala
 - Mnemonic

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 October:

 - 2017-10-04 Apache Juneau 6.4.0
 - 2017-10-11 Apache Rya 3.2.11
 - 2017-10-13 Apache Pulsar 1.20.0
 - 2017-10-30 Apache MXNet 0.12.0

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Amaterasu
Daffodil
Edgent
Guacamole
Heron
Impala
Joshua
Milagro
PageSpeed
Ratis
S2Graph
Slider
Tamaya
Toree
Unomi

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18 Oct 2017 [John D. Ament / Brett] ¶

Incubator PMC report for October 2017

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 54 podlings incubating.  Podlings executed seven releases last month.  Two new IPMC members joined our fold and one new podling joined.  We presently have two or three podlings preparing to graduate this month.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Davor Bonaci
 - Jacques Le Roux

* New Podlings

 - PageSpeed

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - Gossip
 - Milagro (report filed, not signed off by mentors)
 - Myriad

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Mnemonic
 - PredictionIO
 - Juneau

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 September:

 - 2017-09-04 Apache Airflow 1.8.2
 - 2017-09-05 Apache MXNet 0.11.0
 - 2017-09-13 Apache Impala 2.10.0
 - 2017-09-13 Apache Mnemonic 0.9.0
 - 2017-09-21 Apache Tephra 0.13.0
 - 2017-09-27 Apache PredictionIO 0.12.0
 - 2017-09-29 Apache Unomi 1.2.0

* Legal / Trademarks

 - Multiple podlings have pending requests in to legal to clarify SGAs, ICLAs.  Prompt responses would be appreciated.

* Infrastructure

 - A change to the mlreq process caused delays in creation of mailing lists for PageSpeed.  Work is on going to migrate to a new process for these requests that is agreeable for IPMC members to execute on.

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Airflow
Amaterasu
Annotator
BatchEE
Daffodil
DataFu
FreeMarker
Gobblin
HAWQ
Heron
Juneau
Livy
MXNet
NetBeans
ODF Toolkit
Rya
SensSoft
Spot
Traffic Control
Weex

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20 Sep 2017 [John D. Ament / Phil] ¶

Incubator PMC report for September 2017

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 54 podlings incubating.  We executed nine podling releases and have one podling planning to graduate this month.  No changes to the PMC structure this month.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - None

 People who left the IPMC:

 - None

* New Podlings

 - Amaterasu
 - Daffodil

* Podlings that Retired

 - MRQL

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - Myriad
 - Spot

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - RocketMQ
 - Mnemonic (may be next month)

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 August:

 - 2017-08-01 Apache Juneau 6.3.1
 - 2017-08-01 Apache Tamaya 0.3.0
 - 2017-08-05 Apache Tamaya Extensions 0.3.0
 - 2017-08-08 Apache Pulsar 1.19.0
 - 2017-08-16 Apache HTrace 4.3.0
 - 2017-08-16 Apache Spot 1.0
 - 2017-08-17 Apache Fluo 1.0.0
 - 2017-08-23 Apache S2Graph 0.2.0
 - 2017-08-29 Apache Livy 0.4.0

* Legal / Trademarks

 - Thanks to hard work on both the Oracle and ASF side, the Netbeans team was able to get the first three repositories populated from a software grant.

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AriaTosca
Daffodil
Gearpump
Gobblin
Griffin
Heron
Hivemall
HTrace
Livy
Mnemonic
MRQL
Myriad
Omid
OpenWhisk
Pony Mail
Pulsar
Quickstep
SAMOA
SINGA
Spot
Superset
Taverna
Tephra
Trafodion
Wave

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16 Aug 2017 [John D. Ament / Mark] ¶

Incubator PMC report for August 2017

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 53 podlings incubating.  July was a quieter month for the incubator, summer holidays and what not.  We executed seven podling releases this month, one podling retired but otherwise no other changes.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - None

 People who left the IPMC:

 - None

* New Podlings

 - None

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - MRQL
 - Ratis

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

* Retirements

 The following podlings retired this month:

 - HORN

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 July:

 - 2017-07-06 Apache Gearpump 0.8.4
 - 2017-07-06 Apaceh Traffic Control 2.0.0
 - 2017-07-08 Apache Aria Tosca 0.1.0
 - 2017-07-11 Apahce HAWQ 2.2.0.0
 - 2017-07-18 Apache Griffin 0.1.5
 - 2017-07-18 Apache Aria Tosca 0.1.1
 - 2017-07-31 Apache Guacamole 0.9.13


* IP Clearance

 - We have begun work to clean up IP Clearance policies.  First is to make it clear that the preference is ICLAs and CCLAs over SGAs.  We have also seen better responsiveness after reasserting that the IPMC owns responsibility for all incoming code donations.

* Legal / Trademarks



* Infrastructure



* Miscellaneous

 - A general issue of VPs within other cross functional areas of the ASF reaching out to podlings has started to surface.  Specifically, I would like to request that the board supports a request that those areas should be reaching out to podlings directly with issues, escalating to the IPMC due to lack of follow through, rather than approaching the IPMC first.  The Security team's model is a perfect example of what to do.

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BatchEE
DataFu
Edgent
Fluo
Gobblin
Guacamole
Heron
Impala
iota
Joshua
Livy
MRQL
NetBeans
PredictionIO
Pulsar
S2Graph
Slider
Superset
Tamaya
Toree
Unomi

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@Brett: discuss board comments with incubator pmc

19 Jul 2017 [John D. Ament / Bertrand] ¶

Incubator PMC report for July 2017

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 57 podlings incubating.  Three podlings joined us this
month, two podlings have retired, one has graduated to a sub-project and the
board has resolutions for one (three?) podlings to become TLPs this month.
Podlings executed eight releases this past month.  We have added two new IPMC
members, neither an existing foundation member.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Steve Blackmon
 - Benjamin Young

* New Podlings

 - Heron
 - Livy
 - Pulsar

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - BatchEE  - Low on list activity
 - DataFu   - No on list activity, will follow up with a status request and
              potentially retirement
 - Gobblin  - No on list activity, will follow up with a status request
 - HORN     - Actively voting on retirement, no report expected
 - MRQL     - Discussing retirement, single developer mode
 - Netbeans - Moderate on list activity, no one stepped up to do report

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Fluo
 - MADlib
 - Streams

 The following podlings graduated into subprojects:

 - DistributedLog (BookKeeper)

* Retirements

 The following podlings retired this month:

 - Blur
 - Sirona

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 June:

 - 2017-06-09 Apache Weex 0.12.0
 - 2017-06-13 Apache TrafficControl 1.8.1
 - 2017-06-15 Apache Impala 2.9.0
 - 2017-06-17 Apache RocketMQ 4.1.0
 - 2017-06-18 Apache Tamaya 0.3
 - 2017-06-22 Apache Fluo Recipes 1.1.0
 - 2017-06-23 Apache Mnemonic 0.8.0
 - 2017-06-28 Apache Juneau 6.3.0

* Infrastructure

 - We need to continue to ensure that podlings are bootstrapped in proper
   sequence.  Recent changes to Whimsy have caused new steps to be added,
   but not communicated.  We will need infra help to support some of these
   new steps.
 - Thanks to the infra team, the Incubator website has been migrated to a
   new technology and has received a needed facelift.

* Miscellaneous

 - With the website migrated, work will begin to refresh the Incubator
   documentation.

* Credits

 - Special thanks to Dave Fisher for rejoining the shepherd community

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Airflow
Annotator
FreeMarker
Gossip
HAWQ
Juneau
Livy
MADlib
Milagro
MXNet
Myriad
ODF Toolkit
Pulsar
RocketMQ
Rya
SensSoft
Superset
Traffic Control
Weex

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21 Jun 2017 ¶

Change the Apache Incubator Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Ted Dunning
 (tdunning) to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Ted Dunning from the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Incubator
 project has chosen by vote to recommend John D. Ament
 (johndament) as the successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Ted Dunning is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache Incubator, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that John D. Ament be and hereby is appointed to
 the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, 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 Incubator Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

21 Jun 2017 [Ted Dunning] ¶

Incubator PMC report for June 2017

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

At the end of May, there were 60 podlings incubating.  Podlings executed six
releases this month.  The incubator brought in one new podling, and the board
has motions to graduate three podlings from the incubator.  One IPMC member
stepped down while two new IPMC members joined.

Many reports below were signed off by a single mentor.  The Incubator PMC
shall begin to plan for a way to address this.

* Community

New IPMC members:

- Bikas Saha
- Bob Paulin

People who left the IPMC:

- Par Niclas Hedhman

* New Podlings

- Superset

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

- HORN - No on list discussions recently.
- MRQL - No on list discussion in past 3 months, limited discussions prior to
that.
- Myriad - Discussing retirement
- Sirona - Likely to be retired or moved as a sub-project by next report

* Graduations

The board has motions for the following:

- Atlas
- MADlib
- Mynewt

* Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of May:

- 2017-05-01 Apache Trafodion 2.1.0
- 2017-05-04 Apache Mnemonic 0.7.0-incubating
- 2017-05-09 Apache Airflow 1.8.1
- 2017-05-09 Apache MADlib 1.11
- 2017-05-17 Apache Ratis 0.1.0-alpha
- 2017-05-30 Apache Tephra 0.12.0

* Infrastructure

- The Incubator has begun to migrate podling maintenance into Whimsy

* Miscellaneous

- The IPMC has elected a new chair, hopefully accepted at this month's board
meeting.


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AriaTosca
Atlas
Gearpump
Gobblin
Griffin
Hivemall
HTrace
iota
Joshua
Mnemonic
Omid
OpenWhisk
Pony Mail
Quickstep
SAMOA
Singa
Slider
Spot
Streams
Superset
Tamaya
Taverna
Tephra
Toree
Trafodion
Wave

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17 May 2017 [Ted Dunning] ¶

Incubator PMC report for May 2017

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 59 podlings incubating.  Podlings executed seven releases
in April, including the first release from ODF Toolkit in a long time.  One
IPMC member stepped down in April, and two new members joined.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Larry McCay
 - Ryan Blue

 People who left the IPMC:

 - Marvin Humphrey

* New Podlings

 - None

* Retired Podlings

 - Pirk

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - Gobblin
 - Horn
 - iota
 - Joshua
 - Sirona
 - Slider
 - Tamaya
 - Toree

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 April:

 - 2017-04-01 Apache Guacamole    0.9.12
 - 2017-04-02 Apache Gossip       0.1.2
 - 2017-04-10 Apache ODF Toolkit  0.6.2
 - 2017-04-13 Apache Mnemonic     0.6.0
 - 2017-04-24 Apache PredictionIO 0.11.0
 - 2017-04-28 Apache Gearpump     0.8.3
 - 2017-04-28 Apache Juneau       6.2.0

* Legal / Trademarks

 - Podlings struggle with their first releases.  There has been growing asks
   to revisit the binaries in source releases policy as a number of newer
   build tools rely on including a small JAR to ease the build process.
   Several IPMC members have voiced interest in following up with legal in
   this area.

* Infrastructure

 - There were small hiccups with the Metron graduation that may need some
   refinement between IPMC, Infrastructure and Trademarks/Press.
 - The other graduations and Pirk's retirement went smoothly.
 - In addition, thanks to some strong collaboration with Infrastructure we
   now have a podlings [AT] incubator DOT apache DOT org to better
   communicate with the podlings as a whole.

* Miscellaneous

 - The new podling logo has been announced to all podlings.  Some have
   already implemented the new logo and it looks much better on websites.
 - The new incubator website is being worked on, slowly.  We may start by
   simply porting the existing content and then refining policies.
 - We have refined our processes to communicate out that rosters should be
   maintained in Whimsy going forward.  A formal announcement should happen
   by ApacheCon.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: John D. Ament

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BatchEE
Blur
DistributedLog
Edgent
Fluo
Guacamole
Impala
MXNet
PredictionIO
Ratis
S2Graph
SystemML
Unomi
Weex

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19 Apr 2017 [Ted Dunning] ¶

Incubator PMC report for April 2017

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 64 podlings incubating.  We have had 1 IPMC member resign.
There were a total of 16 releases during this period.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - None

 People who left the IPMC:

 - Gianugo Rabellino

* New Podlings

 - None

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - BatchEE
 - HORN
 - MXNet
 - Sirona

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Fineract
 - Metron
 - CarbonData

 Already Graduated

 - Log4cxx2 (as a subproject to Logging)

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 March:

 - 2017-03-03 Apache SystemML 0.13.0
 - 2017-03-07 Apache TrafficControl 1.8.0
 - 2017-03-10 Apache MADLib 1.10.0
 - 2017-03-10 Apache DataFu 1.3.2
 - 2017-03-13 Apache Mnemonic 0.5.0
 - 2017-03-16 Apache Metron 0.3.1
 - 2017-03-16 Apache Tephra 0.11.0
 - 2017-03-17 Apache Atlas 0.8.0
 - 2017-03-19 Apache Airflow 1.8.0
 - 2017-03-19 Apache Streams 0.5
 - 2017-03-20 Apache Edgent 1.1.0
 - 2017-03-21 Apache Mynewt 1.0.0
 - 2017-03-23 Apache Slider 0.92.0
 - 2017-03-25 Apache Freemarker 2.3.26
 - 2017-03-25 Apache Quickstep 0.1.0
 - 2017-03-30 Apache Toree 0.1.0

* Legal / Trademarks

 - A new incubator logo has been selected.  We plan to roll out to podlings
   starting in April.

* Miscellaneous

 - We've begun the process to reflect usage of the roster tool in podling
   processes.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: John D. Ament, Marvin Humphrey

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Airflow
Annotator
DataFu
FreeMarker
Gobblin
Gossip
Griffin
HAWQ
Juneau
MADlib
Metron
Milagro
Mynewt
NetBeans
ODF Toolkit
Pony Mail
Ratis
RocketMQ
Rya
SensSoft
Traffic Control
Weex

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15 Mar 2017 [Ted Dunning / Chris] ¶

Incubator PMC report for March 2017

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 64 podlings incubating.  In the month of February we had 7
releases and no changes in IPMC roster.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - None

 People who left the IPMC:

 - None

* New Podlings

 - Gobblin

* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

 - Griffin
 - Pony Mail
 - Sirona

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 February:

 - 2017-02-02  Apache Guacamole 0.9.11
 - 2017-02-08  Apache SystemML 0.12.0
 - 2017-02-12  Apache Singa 1.1.0
 - 2017-02-15  Apache mynewt 1.0.0-b2
 - 2017-02-20  Apache RocketMQ 4.0.0
 - 2017-02-25  Apache Juneau 6.1.0
 - 2017-02-27  Apache HAWQ 2.1.0.0

* Legal / Trademarks

 - A great discussion happened regarding the IP clearance and missing SGA
   around MADLib.  It demonstrates the needs to ensure that proper provenance
   is in place.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: John D. Ament, Marvin Humphrey

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                      Table of Contents
AriaTosca
Atlas
Gearpump
Hivemall
HTrace
log4cxx2
Mnemonic
MRQL
MXNet
Myriad
ODF Toolkit
Omid
OpenWhisk
Pirk
Pony Mail
Quickstep
Ratis
RocketMQ
SAMOA
Singa
Sirona
Spot
Streams
Taverna
Tephra
Trafodion
Wave
Weex

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27 Feb 2017 [Ted Dunning / Brett] ¶

Incubator PMC report for February 2017

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 63 podlings incubating.  We had one new PMC member and had one podling retire.  There were seven podling releases in the month of January.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Markus Weimer

 People who left the IPMC:

 - N/A

* New Podlings

 - MXNet
 - Ratis

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

* Retiring Podlings

 - Climate Model Data Analyzer

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 January:

 - 2017-01-03 Apache Juneau 6.0.1
 - 2017-01-17 Apache Fineract 0.6.0
 - 2017-01-20 Apahce Impala 2.8.0
 - 2017-01-24 Apache Gossip 0.1.1
 - 2017-01-24 Apache Mnemonic 0.4.0
 - 2017-01-28 Apache Atlas 0.7.1
 - 2017-01-28 Apache Carbondata 1.0.0


* IP Clearance

 - Henri Yandell has stepped up to help revise the IP Clearance page,
   improve wording to not sound so closely tied to corporate donations.

* Miscellaneous

 - An updated format of the Incubator report will be rolling out in the
   March report.  A preview based on the February template can be found at
   https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/testpage
 - We have begun pushing a hard review of both active podlings and mentors
   associated.  A number of mentors have stepped down from their roles, and
   a few podlings have been contacted to begin thinking about retirement.
 - Report formatting continues to be an issue until a fix is applied to
   whimsy.
 - Report contents are much more robust this month, likely due to increased
   requests for input in podling reports.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: John D. Ament

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - MXNet
 - OpenWhisk
 - Ratis
 - RocketMQ

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 - DistributedLog
 - iota
 - Joshua
 - SensSoft
 - Toree

 Community growth:

 - CarbonData
 - Edgent
 - Fineract
 - Guacamole
 - Impala
 - PredictionIO
 - S2Graph
 - SystemML
 - Tamaya
 - Unomi

* In Danger

 - Blur
 - Sirona
 - Milagro
 - Toree

* Podlings that only received a single mentor sign off:

 - Blur
 - DataFu
 - Fineract
 - iota
 - Milagro
 - OpenWhisk
 - RocketMQ
 - Senssoft
 - Slider
 - Spot
 - Tamaya
 - Toree
 - Unomi

 This represents ~50% of all podlings.


* Ready to graduate

 The Board has motions for the following:

 - None

* Did not report, expected next month

 - ODF Toolkit (2 months in a row)
 - Sirona
 - Weex

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                      Table of Contents
Blur
CarbonData
DataFu
DistributedLog
Edgent
Fineract
Fluo
Guacamole
Impala
iota
Joshua
Milagro
MXNet
OpenWhisk
PredictionIO
Ratis
RocketMQ
S2Graph
SensSoft
Slider
Spot
SystemML
Tamaya
Toree
Unomi

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18 Jan 2017 [Ted Dunning / Bertrand] ¶

Incubator PMC report for January 2017

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are presently 64 podlings incubating.  We had one new podling join.  No
changes in PMC membership.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - None

 People who left the IPMC:

 - None

* New Podlings

 - Griffin

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Ranger

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 December:

 - Apache Mynewt    1.0.0-b1-incubating  2016-12-12
 - Apache Edgent    1.0.0-incubating     2016-12-15
 - Apache Tephra    0.10.0-incubating    2016-12-15
 - Apache Fineract  0.5.0-incubating     2016-12-22
 - Apache Streams   0.4.1-incubating     2016-12-26
 - Apache Guacamole 0.9.10-incubating    2016-12-29


* IP Clearance

 - None

* Legal / Trademarks

 - The process for picking a new incubator logo has begun, we're expecting to
   complete it in April.  Thanks to Sally for picking up the CFP!
 - Incubator documentation updates are in progress, we are starting with
   release management then will move into roles & responsibilities.

* Infrastructure

 - No issues, though its suspected some status on github as master for
   OpenWhisk may be expected.

* Miscellaneous

 - N/A

* Credits

 - Report Manager: John D. Ament

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - NetBeans
 - RocketMQ
 - Traffic Control
 - Weex

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 - Annotator
 - MADlib
 - ODF Toolkit

 Community growth:

 - Gossip
 - Horn
 - Juneau
 - Mynewt

* Ready to graduate

 The Board has motions for the following:

 - Ranger

 The following appear to be close from maturity model:

 - Airflow
 - BatchEE
 - FreeMarker
 - Metron

 Created a report, but did not receive mentor sign off:

 - ODF Toolkit
 - Spot

* Did not report, expected next month

 - DataFu
 - Milagro
 - SensSoft

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                      Table of Contents
Airflow
Annotator
BatchEE
FreeMarker
Gossip
HAWQ
Hivemall
HORN
Juneau
MADlib
Metron
Mynewt
NetBeans
OpenWhisk
RocketMQ
Rya
Traffic Control
Weex

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Rich: Still have a large number of podlings in the incubator; would like to hear from the incubator if this is a problem

Shane: It appears that the issue is the number of active Mentors.

Mark: In the past, problems were that the podlings were straining the structures of the Foundation; but now, this is not such an issue;

Ross: This discussion should focus on long term budget not mentoring

Sam: There are the two issues: budget and mentoring.

Jim: Seems to be a disconnect between board and IPMC; may need better communication.

@Jim: consolidate and take board's concerns to IPMC.

21 Dec 2016 [Ted Dunning / Jim] ¶

Incubator PMC report for December 2016

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 65 podlings incubating, another record high.
There were seven releases published in the month of November.
There were seven new IPMC members elected and one member who left.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Kasper Sørensen
 - Willem Ning Jiang
 - Luke Han
 - Par Niclas Hedhman
 - Jukka Zitting
 - Stian Soiland-Reyes
 - Kasper Sørensen

 People who left the IPMC:

 - Sean Busbey

* New Podlings

 - RocketMQ
 - OpenWhisk
 - Weex

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Beam
 - Eagle

 The following have already graduated into sub-projects:

 - CommonsRDF -> Apache Commons RDF

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 November:

 - Apache Ranger     0.6.2-incubating  2016-11-08
 - Apache Streams    0.4-incubating    2016-11-10
 - Apache SystemML   0.11.0-incubating 2016-11-12
 - Apache CommonsRDF 0.3.0-incubating  2016-11-15
 - Apache CarbonData 0.2.0-incubating  2016-11-19
 - Apache Metron     0.3.0-incubating  2016-11-28
 - Apache Gearpump   0.8.2-incubating  2016-11-28

* IP Clearance

 - None

* Legal / Trademarks

 - None

* Infrastructure

 - None

* Miscellaneous

 - Work has begun on updating Apache Incubator documentation to better align
   with current infrastructure requirements and provide better guidelines to
   new podlings on how to get setup.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: John D. Ament

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - Annotator
 - AriaTosca
 - NetBeans
 - OpenWhisk
 - Spot

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 - MRQL
 - Myriad
 - Pirk
 - SAMOA
 - Trafodion
 - Wave

 Community growth:

 - Atlas
 - Gearpump
 - Hivemall
 - HTrace
 - Mnemonic
 - Pony Mail
 - Quickstep
 - Singa
 - Tephra

* Ready to graduate

 - Ranger
 - Streams
 - Taverna

 The Board has motions for the following:

 - Beam
 - Eagle

* In trouble, further actions required

 - log4cxx2
 - Omid

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                      Table of Contents
Annotator
AriaTosca
Atlas
Gearpump
Hivemall
HTrace
log4cxx2
Mnemonic
MRQL
Myriad
NetBeans
Omid
OpenWhisk
Pirk
Pony Mail
Quickstep
Ranger
SAMOA
Singa
Spot
Streams
Taverna
Tephra
Trafodion
Wave

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@Jim: Mentor comments are extremely important; please try to include them.

@Jim: Many projects have been incubating for years. Please address this.

16 Nov 2016 [Ted Dunning / Chris] ¶

Incubator PMC report for November 2016

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 63 podlings incubating - no change from last month.  The
Geode podling has proposed itself for graduation.  There were two new IPMC
members added this past month.  The IPMC approved 17 releases this month as
well.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Felix Meschberger
 - Stephan Ewen

 People who left the IPMC:

 - None

* New Podlings

 - None

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Geode

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 October:

 - Apache Unomi        1.1.0-incubating     2016-10-03
 - Apache Impala       2.7.0-incubating     2016-10-04
 - Apache Fluo         1.0.0-incubating     2016-10-05
 - Apache Htrace       4.2.0-incubating     2016-10-07
 - Apache PredictionIO 0.10.0-incubating    2016-10-07
 - Apache Pirk         0.2.0-incubating     2016-10-09
 - Apache HAWQ         2.0.0.0-incubating   2016-10-10
 - Apache CarbonData   0.1.1-incubating     2016-10-11
 - Apache Metron       0.2.1BETA-incubating 2016-10-13
 - Apache Geode        1.0.0-incubating     2016-10-15
 - Apache Mnemonic     0.3.0-incubating     2016-10-21
 - Apache Juneau       6.0.0-incubating     2016-10-24
 - Apache Fineract     0.4.0-incubating     2016-10-25
 - Apache Fluo Recipes 1.0.0-incubating     2016-10-27
 - Apache Rya          3.2.10-incubating    2016-10-28
 - Apache S2Graph      0.1.0-incubating     2016-10-30
 - Apache Beam         0.3.0-incubating     2016-10-31

* IP Clearance

 - None

* Legal / Trademarks

 - Incoming podlings are pushing more for GitHub as master approaches.
 - In addition, the usage of GitHub Issues continues to be asked.
 - Better alignment between all impacted parties is needed for both of these.

* Infrastructure

 - While the loss of a server is never convenient, the report manager gives
   huge kudos to the infra team for replacing the moin-moin wiki server
   quickly, avoiding much impact on this months report.

* Miscellaneous

 - None

* Credits

 - Report Manager: John D. Ament

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - AriaTosca
 - Guacamole
 - Hivemall
 - iota
 - NetBeans
 - Spot
 - Toree

* Not yet ready to graduate

 Stagnant:

 - Sirona

 No release:

 - Blur
 - Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
 - DistributedLog
 - Edgent
 - Joshua

 Community growth:

 - DataFu
 - Fineract
 - Fluo
 - Impala
 - PredictionIO
 - S2Graph
 - Streams
 - Unomi

* Potentially Ready to Graduate

 - BatchEE
 - Beam
 - CarbonData
 - Eagle
 - Slider
 - SystemML
 - Tamaya

* Did not report, expected next month

 - Annotator

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                      Table of Contents
AriaTosca
Beam
Blur
CarbonData
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
DataFu
DistributedLog
Eagle
Edgent
Fineract
Fluo
Guacamole
Hivemall
Impala
iota
Joshua
NetBeans
PredictionIO
S2Graph
Sirona
Slider
Spot
Streams
SystemML
Tamaya
Toree
Unomi

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19 Oct 2016 [Ted Dunning / Bertrand] ¶

Incubator PMC report for October 2016

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 63 podlings undergoing incubation - new record from 61 last
month!

* Community

  New IPMC members:

  - Felix Meschberger

  People who left the IPMC:

  N/A

* New Podlings

  - Hivemall
  - Spot
  - NetBeans

  Please note: none of the new podlings submitted reports.  They will begin
  reporting next month.

* Graduations

  The board has motions for the following:

  None

* Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  September:

  - Apache Singa   1.0.0-incubating 08 Sep 2016
  - Apache Tephra  0.9.0-incubating 19 Sep 2016
  - Apache Madlib  1.9.1-incubating 19 Sep 2016
  - Apache Samoa   0.4.0-incubating 22 Sep 2016
  - Apache Batchee 0.4-incubating   29 Sep 2016
  - Apache Streams 0.3-incubating   29 Sep 2016


* IP Clearance

 Apache Storm JMS Integration from P. Taylor Goetz
 Apache Storm SQE from JWPlayer

 A vote was started to import Aether from Eclipse Foundation as Maven Artifact
   Resolver, however it has not been closed as of the time of writing.

* Legal / Trademarks

 Sally has begun work on helping improve the incubator brand.  She has taken
   over the Twitter account and has proposed putting together a selection for
   a new logo.

* Infrastructure

 Kudos to the infrastructure team for their hard work on the Netbeans
   proposal, getting all of the needed infrastructure assessment prior to the
   incubator accepting this podling.

 Incubator usage of the new reporeq tool has been mixed.  It would be great to
   see a blog post or something about how to submit git repository requests.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: John D. Ament

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

  - Annotator
  - AriaTosca
  - Juneau

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

  - Airflow
  - FreeMarker
  - Quickstep

 Community growth:

  - Geode
  - Gossip
  - HAWQ
  - MRQL
  - Mynewt
  - Rya

* Ready to graduate

  - BatchEE

* Did not report, expected next month

  - DataFu

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Table of Contents
  -  Airflow
  -  Annotator
  -  AriaTosca
  -  BatchEE
  -  DistributedLog
  -  FreeMarker
  -  Geode
  -  Gossip
  -  HAWQ
  -  HORN
  -  Juneau
  -  MADlib
  -  Metron
  -  Milagro
  -  MRQL
  -  Mynewt
  -  ODF Toolkit
  -  Quickstep
  -  Rya
  -  SensSoft
  -  Streams
  -  Tamaya
  -  Toree
  -  Traffic Control

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21 Sep 2016 [Ted Dunning / Brett] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 61 podlings currently undergoing incubation -- an all-time high.

* Community

 No IPMC roster changes this month.

* New Podlings

 - Annotator
 - AriaTosca

* Graduations

 None this month.

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 August:

 - 2016-08-01 Apache Pony Mail 0.9.incubating
 - 2016-08-02 Apache Mnemonic 0.2.0-incubating
 - 2016-08-03 Apache Eagle 0.3.0-incubating
 - 2016-08-09 Apache Datafu (incubating) 1.3.1
 - 2016-08-10 Apache Gearpump 0.8.1-incubating
 - 2016-08-20 Apache Ranger (incubating) 0.6.1
 - 2016-08-22 Apache Metron 0.2.0BETA-incubating
 - 2016-08-22 Apache Beam 0.2.0-incubating
 - 2016-08-24 Apache CarbonData 0.1.0-incubating
 - 2016-08-29 Apache Pirk 0.1.0-incubating

* IP Clearance

 None this month.

* Legal / Trademarks

 - The Fluo podling grappled with how to handle the fluo.io domain, io.fluo
   Maven group ID, and the fluo-io GitHub organization.  Existing high
   profile domains which contain our trademarks (accumulosummit.com,
   stratahadoopworld.com, search.maven.org, etc.) had contributed to
   misunderstandings about to what extent Fluo could have a two-pole
   presence split across fluo.apache.org and a fluo.io entity outside Apache
   control.  Members of the IPMC made it clear that Fluo's graduation would
   be contingent on resolving this issue.

 - The Guacamole podling received guidance on how to integrate with Docker:
   either participate in the Infra-supported offering
   (<hub.docker.com/r/apache>), or treat Docker as a downstream distribution
   channel and create a customized offering in compliance with
   release/branding/incubation/etc policies.

* Miscellaneous

 - The OpenAZ podling has retired.

 - The recurring discussion as to whether the Incubator is too full came
   back for another installment.  Mentoring for healthy podlings seems to
   scale well, but other aspects such as release checking and cleaning up
   after troubled podlings present more difficulty.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey / John D. Ament

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - AriaTosca
 - Traffic Control

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 - DistributedLog
 - Edgent
 - Fineract
 - HTrace
 - Juneau
 - log4cxx2
 - PredictionIO
 - SensSoft
 - Toree

 Community growth:

 - CarbonData
 - CommonsRDF
 - Gearpump
 - Mnemonic
 - Myriad
 - Omid
 - Pirk
 - Pony Mail
 - Singa
 - SAMOA
 - Tephra
 - Trafodion
 - Wave

* Ready to graduate

 - Atlas
 - Ranger
 - Taverna

* Considering retirement

 - Streams

* Did not report, expected next month

 - Quickstep
 - Tamaya

* No Mentor signoff, report removed

 - MRQL

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                      Table of Contents
AriaTosca
Atlas
CarbonData
CommonsRDF
DistributedLog
Edgent
Fineract
Gearpump
HTrace
Juneau
log4cxx2
Mnemonic
Myriad
Omid
Pirk
Pony Mail
PredictionIO
Quickstep
Ranger
SAMOA
SensSoft
Singa
Streams
Tamaya
Taverna
Tephra
Traffic Control
Trafodion
Toree
Wave

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17 Aug 2016 [Ted Dunning / Brett] ¶

Incubator PMC report for August 2016

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 59 podlings currently undergoing incubation.  We added two
podlings to the roster and have no graduations this month.  July was
a quiet month, completing four releases and no other major activities.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - None

 People who left the IPMC:

 - None

* New Podlings

 - SensSoft
 - Traffic Control


* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - None

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 July:

 - Apache Trafodion 2.0.1-incubating
 - Apache Atlas 0.7-incubating
 - Apache Ranger 0.6.0-incubating
 - Apache Eagle 0.4.0-incubating


* Legal / Trademarks

 - See also: Fluo's report

* Credits

 - Report Manager: John D. Ament

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - CarbonData
 - DistributedLog
 - Juneau
 - Pirk
 - Pony Mail
 - SensSoft
 - Trafic Control

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 - Blur
 - CMDA
 - Guacamole
 - Impala
 - iota
 - PredictionIO
 - Quickstep
 - S2Graph

 Community growth:

 - Beam
 - Eagle
 - Fluo
 - Joshua
 - Slider
 - SystemML

* Did not report, expected next month

 - Fineract
 - Quarks

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                      Table of Contents
BatchEE
Beam
Blur
CarbonData
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
DistributedLog
Eagle
Fluo
Guacamole
Impala
iota
Joshua
Juneau
OpenAz
Pirk
Pony Mail
PredictionIO
Quickstep
S2Graph
SensSoft
Sirona
Slider
SystemML
Tamaya
Toree
Traffic Control
Unomi

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20 Jul 2016 [Ted Dunning / Greg] ¶

Incubator PMC report for July 2016

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 58 podlings currently undergoing incubation.  We have one
podling planning to graduate this month and added four podlings to the
roster.  June was a busy month, adding two IPMC member, and completing
twelve releases, in addition to other activities.


* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Jochen Wiedmann
 - Tim Ellison

 People who left the IPMC:

 - N/A

* New Podlings

 - CarbonData
 - DistributedLog
 - Juneau
 - Pirk

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Kudu

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 June:

 - 2016-06-01 Apache Range 0.5.3-incubating
 - 2016-06-03 Apache Trafodion 2.0.0-incubating
 - 2016-06-06 Apache Mynewt 0.9.0-incubating
 - 2016-06-06 Apache Omid (incubating) 0.8.2.0
 - 2016-06-09 Apache Kudu (incubating) 0.9.0
 - 2016-06-10 Apache SystemML 0.10.0-incubating
 - 2016-06-14 Apache Beam 0.1.0-incubating
 - 2016-06-22 Apache Myriad 0.2.0-incubating
 - 2016-06-26 Apache FreeMarker 2.3.25-incubating
 - 2016-06-28 Apache Slider 0.91.0-incubating
 - 2016-06-30 Apache Taverna 3.1.0-incubating
 - 2016-06-30 Apache Kudu (incubating) 0.9.1

* IP Clearance

 - N/A

* Legal / Trademarks

 - An audit was conducted of podling websites to see how far off they are
   compared to the Incubator's branding guide.  Eleven podlings were found to
   be in complete violation and requests to correct have been issued.  Most
   have already corrected the issue.
 - Justin has provided a summary of building NOTICE and LICENSE files in the
   form of a screencast for podlings to use as reference.

* Infrastructure

 - There are open questions around the usage of GitHub issues for issue
   tracking, it is unclear if it is a valid tool to use.

* Miscellaneous

 - A vote was started to retire the CMDA podling.  It was later canceled,
   giving them another three months to try to work through community issues.
   Public mailing list participation has increased as a part of this result.
 - Discussions are resuming to retire the OpenAz podling, as only one of the
   three volunteers who stepped up to resume has availability to work on the
   podling.
 - Batchee missed getting a report in. We will follow up in the next IPMC
   report.

* Credits

 - Report Manager(s): Marvin Humphrey, John Ament, Ted Dunning

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - CarbonData
 - DistributedLog
 - Fluo
 - Gossip
 - Juneau
 - Pirk
 - Pony Mail
 - PredictionIO

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 - Airflow
 - HAWQ
 - Milagro

 Community growth:

 - FreeMarker
 - Geode
 - MADlib
 - Metron
 - Mynewt
 - Rya
 - Tephra

* Ready to graduate

 The Board has motions for the following:

 - Kudu

* Did not report, expected next month

 - CMDA
 - OpenAz
 - Quickstep


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                      Table of Contents
Airflow
BatchEE
CarbonData
DataFu
Fluo
FreeMarker
Gearpump
Geode
Gossip
HAWQ
HORN
iota
Juneau
MADlib
Metron
Milagro
Mynewt
ODF Toolkit
Pirk
Pony Mail
PredictionIO
Rya
Tephra

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15 Jun 2016 [Ted Dunning / Brett] ¶

Incubator PMC report for June 2016

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 56 podlings currently undergoing incubation.  We have one
podling planning to graduate this month and added two podlings to the
roster.  May was a generally quiet month, adding a single IPMC member,
and completing four releases.

* Community

  New IPMC members:

  - Joe Witt

* New Podlings

 - Pony Mail
 - Fluo


* Graduations

  The board has motions for the following:

  - Twill

* Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  May:

  - 2016-05-05 Apache Mynewt 0.8.0
  - 2016-05-24 Apache Tephra 0.8.0
  - 2016-05-24 Apache CommonsRDF 0.2.0
  - 2016-05-24 Apache Mnemonic 0.1.2

* Legal / Trademarks

  - A comment on a recent Podling Name Search indicated that there was a
    desire to have PNS's come later on during incubation.  Many IPMC members
    seem to believe that they should happen earlier.  An email requesting
    clarification has been sent.

* Infrastructure

  - Multiple former podlings are reporting delays in being converted to TLPs.

* Miscellaneous

  - The CMDA podling is now 2 months behind.  In response to the lack of
    activity, a mentor has begun retirement discussions with the podling.

* Credits

  - Report Manager: John D. Ament

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

  - Fluo
  - Gossip
  - Pony Mail

* Not yet ready to graduate

  No release:

  - Airflow
  - Gearpump
  - iota
  - log4cxx2
  - Quarks
  - Quickstep
  - Streams
  - Toree

  Community growth:

  - Atlas
  - CommonsRDF
  - HTrace
  - Mnemonic
  - MRQL
  - Myriad
  - Omid
  - OpenAz
  - Ranger
  - SAMOA
  - Singa
  - Taverna
  - Tephra
  - Trafodion
  - Wave

* Ready to graduate

  The Board has motions for the following:

  - Twill

* Did not report, expected next month

  - Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer (2 months)

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                       Table of Contents
Airflow
Atlas
CommonsRDF
Fluo
Gearpump
Gossip
HTrace
iota
log4cxx2
Mnemonic
MRQL
Myriad
Omid
OpenAz
Pony Mail
Quarks
Quickstep
Ranger
SAMOA
Singa
Streams
Taverna
Tephra
Toree
Trafodion
Wave

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18 May 2016 [Ted Dunning / Chris] ¶

Incubator PMC report for May 2016

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 54 podlings currently undergoing incubation.  We have two
podlings planning to graduate this month, had one podling retire and
added one podling to the roster.  April was a generally quiet month,
losing a single IPMC member, adding none, and completing nine releases.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - None

 People who left the IPMC:

 - Rob Vesse

* New Podlings

 - Gossip

* Retired Podlings

 - Concerted

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - TinkerPop
 - Zeppelin

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 April:

 - 2016-04-07 Apache MADlib 1.9-incubating
 - 2016-04-11 Apache Eagle 0.3.0-incubating
 - 2016-04-12 Apache Metron 0.1BETA-incubating
 - 2016-04-15 Apache Tamaya 0.2-incubating
 - 2016-04-19 Apache Singa incubating-0.3.0.tar.gz
 - 2016-04-20 Apache TinkerPop 3.1.2-incubating
 - 2016-04-20 Apache TinkerPop 3.2.0-incubating
 - 2016-04-20 Apache Apex Core v3.2.1-incubating
 - 2016-04-21 Apache Geode 1.0.0-incubating.M2

* Infrastructure

 - Kudos to the infra team for assisting with troubleshooting the new
   Marvin Jr. Podling reminder email script.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey/John Ament

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - Airflow
 - Beam
 - Gearpump
 - Mnemonic
 - Quickstep
 - Tephra

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 - Fineract
 - Guacamole
 - iota
 - S2Graph
 - Toree

 Community growth:

 - Blur
 - Eagle
 - Joshua
 - Kudu
 - OpenAz
 - Quarks
 - Slider
 - SystemML
 - Tamaya
 - TinkerPop
 - Twill
 - Unomi

* Ready to graduate

 The Board has motions for the following:

 - TinkerPop
 - Zeppelin

* Did not report, expected next month

 - Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer

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                      Table of Contents
Airflow
Beam
Blur
Eagle
Fineract
Gearpump
Guacamole
iota
Joshua
Kudu
Mnemonic
OpenAz
Quarks
Quickstep
S2Graph
Slider
SystemML
Tamaya
Tephra
TinkerPop
Toree
Twill
Unomi

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20 Apr 2016 [Ted Dunning / Shane] ¶

Incubator PMC report for April 2016

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 56 podlings currently undergoing incubation.  We have four
podlings planning to graduate this month and added six podlings to
the roster.  As is typical in the months following the annual members
meeting, we have seen a jump in the number of IPMC members join.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Marvin Humphrey
 - Suneel Marthi
 - Uma Gangumalla
 - Henri Yandell

 People who left the IPMC:

 - Jukka Zitting

* New Podlings

 - Airflow
 - Gearpump
 - Mnemonic
 - Omid
 - Tephra
 - Quickstep

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Apex
 - Johnzon
 - TinkerPop
 - AsterixDB

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 March:

 2016-03-02 Apache MRQL 0.9.6-incubating
 2016-03-03 Apache Apex Malhar 3.3.1-incubating
 2016-03-03 Apache Htrace 4.1.0-incubating
 2016-03-04 Apache Mynewt-0.8.0-b1-incubating
 2016-03-09 Apache Kudu 0.7.1-incubating
 2016-03-10 Apache Ranger 0.5.2-incubating
 2016-03-11 Apache Taverna-language 0.15.1-incubating
 2016-03-11 Apache Taverna-osgi 0.2.1-incubating
 2016-03-14 Apache MADlib v1.9alpha-rc2-incubating
 2016-03-21 Apache Unomi 1.0.0-incubating
 2016-03-25 Apache Mynewt 0.8.0-b2-incubating
 2016-03-27 Apache FreeMarker 2.3.24-incubating

* IP Clearance

 - Apache Sling Dynamic Includes

* Infrastructure

 We continue to struggle with podling report reminders.
 A suite of manual reminders were sent, some were received
 by the podlings and some were not.

* Miscellaneous

 Based on group understanding, it appears that the Concerted podling
 will retire soon.  Same is likely for OpenAz.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: John D. Ament

------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - Gearpump
 - iota
 - Joshua
 - Metron
 - Milagro
 - Mnemonic
 - Quarks

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 - Hawq
 - Horn
 - Impala
 - Rya
 - Toree

 Community growth:

 - Fineract
 - Geode
 - MADlib
 - Ranger
 - Wave

* Ready to graduate

 The Board has motions for the following:

 - Apex
 - Johnzon
 - TinkerPop
 - AsterixDB

* Did not report, expected next month

 - Concerted
 - OpenAz (missed 4 months)
 - Tephra

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                      Table of Contents
Apex
BatchEE
Concerted
DataFu
Fineract
FreeMarker
Gearpump
Geode
HAWQ
HORN
HTrace
Impala
iota
Johnzon
Joshua
MADlib
Metron
Milagro
Mnemonic
Mynewt
ODF Toolkit
Quarks
Ranger
Rya
Sirona
Toree

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16 Mar 2016 [Ted Dunning / Shane] ¶

Incubator PMC report for March 2016

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 52 podlings currently undergoing incubation.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Kathey Marsden
 - Daniel John Debrunner

* New Podlings

 - Guacamole
 - Joshua
 - Quarks

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Sentry

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 February:

 2016-02-06 Apache Geode 1.0.0-incubating.M1
 2016-02-07 Apache Apex v3.3.0-incubating
 2016-02-11 Apache Wave 0.4.0-incubating
 2016-02-11 Apache SystemML 0.9.0-incubating
 2016-02-11 Apache TinkerPop 3.1.1-incubating
 2016-02-20 Apache Johnzon 0.9.3-incubating
 2016-02-25 Apache Kudu (incubating) 0.7.0
 2016-02-26 Apache AsterixDB 0.8.8-incubating

* IP Clearance

 - No podling related IP Clearances were processed during this time.

* Legal / Trademarks

 - There was substantial discussion on general@incubator about how
   challenging it is to produce compliant LICENSE and NOTICE files.

 - A couple of podlings with runtime LGPL dependencies pledged to remove
   those dependencies before graduation but were permitted to make
   incubating releases in the meantime.  There was uncertainty as to
   whether VP Legal's approval was required; ultimately VP Legal appeared
   on general@incubator and approved the plans.

* Infrastructure

 - The Freemarker podling had a long standing request to use their existing
   domain as the primary domain.  This was approved by Shane Curcuru but
   closed by infra without comment, see INFRA-10787.

 - The Kudu podling is currently running its website as http://getkudu.io.
   The standard webpage of http://kudu.incubator.apache.org does not work.
   An infra ticket has been created to do the conversion INFRA-11407.

* Miscellaneous

 - The Incubator's Retirement Guide has been substantially refreshed, and
   it should now be easier for a Mentor or other volunteer to perform the
   administrative steps to retire a podling.

 - This month saw a large number of mentors resign from podlings.

 - Brooklyn submitted an IP Clearance on the incubator mailing lists.
   Last that was seen about the incubators role in IP Clearance was that
   it shouldn't be the gatekeeper of top level projects.

 - The current count of 52 podlings is likely the largest the incubator
   has ever seen.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey
 - Interim Report Manager: John D. Ament

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - Impala
 - Joshua
 - Milagro

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 - CMDA
 - Fineract
 - log4cxx2
 - Metron
 - Toree

 Community growth:

 - CommonsRDF
 - Kudu
 - Myriad
 - SAMOA
 - Singa
 - Taverna
 - Trafodion
 - Zeppelin

* Ready to graduate

 The Board has motions for the following:

 - Sentry

* Did not report, expected next month

 - HTrace
 - iota
 - Johnzon
 - OpenAz
 - Ranger
 - Sirona
 - Wave

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                      Table of Contents
Atlas
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
CommonsRDF
Fineract
Impala
Joshua
Kudu
log4cxx2
Metron
Milagro
MRQL
Myriad
SAMOA
Sentry
Singa
Streams
Taverna
Toree
Trafodion
Zeppelin

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17 Feb 2016 [Ted Dunning / David] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 49 podlings currently undergoing incubation.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Greg Trasuk

* New Podlings

 - iota (formerly Tempo)
 - Beam (formerly Dataflow)

* Graduations

 None this month.

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 January:

 - 2016-01-07 Apache Trafodion 1.3.0-incubating
 - 2016-01-08 Apache Slider 0.90.2-incubating
 - 2016-01-13 Apache HTrace 4.0.1-incubating
 - 2016-01-14 Apache Singa 0.2.0
 - 2016-01-17 Apache Malhar v3.3.0-incubating
 - 2016-01-21 Apache Zeppelin 0.5.6-incubating
 - 2016-01-25 Apache Ranger 0.5.1
 - 2016-01-26 Apache Twill 0.7.0-incubating
 - 2016-01-28 Apache FreeMarker 2.3.24-rc01-incubating

 Wave's release candidate finally received its 3rd and 4th IPMC +1 votes,
 nearly three months after it was submitted to general@incubator on
 November 3rd, 2015.

* IP Clearance

 - Thomas Weise, Siyuan Hua, Jean-Baptiste Note, and Datatorrent Inc.
   donated Kafka on YARN (KOYA), an "app-package" built for use with Apache
   Slider (incubating).

* Legal / Trademarks

 More podlings have begun reviewing names prior to entry into the Incubator
 in order to avoid the inconvenience of mid-incubation name change to
 users, developers and Apache Infra.

 - The proposed "Dataflow" podling adopted the name "Beam" because the
   Dataflow brand was not donated -- Google will continue to provide
   "Google Cloud Dataflow".
 - The proposed "Tempo" podling renamed itself "iota", in part to avoid the
   possibility of confusion with a similarly named project.

* Miscellaneous

 - Several podlings experienced difficulties implementing Apache
   requirements for LICENSE and NOTICE.  Draft documentation provided by
   Todd Lipcon was discussed.
 - Some incoming proposals have started adopting the "Additional Interested
   Contributors" section, which allows people to express interest in the
   project while deferring the sensitive subject of commit privileges.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - Milagro

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 - Concerted
 - Eagle
 - Fineract
 - HORN
 - Kudu
 - log4cxx
 - Metron
 - S2Graph
 - SystemML
 - Unomi

 Community growth:

 - AsterixDB
 - Blur
 - ODF Toolkit
 - Slider
 - Tamaya
 - TinkerPop
 - Twill

* Did not report, expected next month

 - Impala
 - iota (new)
 - OpenAZ (two months missed)
 - Sirona
 - Toree

* Report Incomplete

 - CMDA

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                      Table of Contents
AsterixDB
Blur
Concerted
Eagle
Fineract
HORN
iota
Kudu
log4cxx2
Metron
Milagro
ODF Toolkit
S2Graph
Slider
SystemML
Tamaya
TinkerPop
Twill
Unomi

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20 Jan 2016 [Ted Dunning / Greg] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 48 podlings currently undergoing incubation.

The end of the year was relatively quiet for the Incubator.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - James Taylor
 - Nick Kew

* New Podlings

 - Fineract
 - Milagro

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 December:

 - 2015-12-08 Apache Atlas 0.6-incubating
 - 2015-12-09 Apache Myriad 0.1.0-incubating
 - 2015-12-28 Apache Slider 0.90.2-incubating

 Wave's release candidate has set a record for frustration.  It was
 presented to general@incubator on November 3rd 2015, and still has only
 one IPMC +1 vote over two months later.

* Infrastructure

 Despite the heroics of Infra, JIRA's temperamental imports have
 occasionally delayed migrations for new podlings over the years.
 SystemML is the latest podling to experience difficulties.

* Miscellaneous

 - The Log4CXX podling has no active Mentors, but a volunteer has stepped
   forward.  The situation is developing.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------


* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - Fineract
 - Impala
 - Kudu
 - Metron
 - Milagro

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 - Eagle
 - Geode
 - HAWQ
 - MADlib
 - Mynewt
 - Rya
 - S2Graph
 - SystemML
 - Unomi

 Community growth:

 - Apex
 - BatchEE
 - FreeMarker
 - Sirona

* Ready to graduate

 - DataFu

* Did not report, expected next month

 - Concerted
 - HORN
 - ODF Toolkit
 - OpenAZ

* In crisis

 - log4cxx2

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                      Table of Contents
Apex
BatchEE
Concerted
DataFu
Eagle
Fineract
FreeMarker
Geode
HAWQ
Impala
Kudu
log4cxx2
MADlib
Metron
Milagro
Mynewt
Rya
S2Graph
Sirona
SystemML
Unomi

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16 Dec 2015 [Ted Dunning / Chris] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

The Incubator continues to grow, reaching 50 podlings this month for the
first time since April 2012.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Todd Lipcon

* New Podlings

 - Impala
 - Kudu
 - Metron
 - S2Graph
 - Torii (formerly proposed as Spark-Kernel)

* Graduations

 None this month.

* Releases

 The following releases entered distribution during the month of
 November:

 - 2015-11-10 Apache Kylin 1.1.1-incubating
 - 2015-11-14 Apache DataFu (incubating) 1.3.0
 - 2015-11-16 Apache Sirona 0.3-incubating
 - 2015-11-16 Apache Apex Malhar 3.2.0-incubating
 - 2015-11-17 Apache Zeppelin 0.5.5-incubating
 - 2015-11-24 Apache TinkerPop 3.1.0-incubating

 The Wave PPMC has approved a release candidate which hit general@incubator
 on November 3rd.  Over a month later, it only has one IPMC +1 vote.

 The Incubator has been much better about approving releases in a timely
 manner since new processes were negotiated in late 2013, but Wave's
 experience shows that there is room yet for improvement.

* IP Clearance

 - Nicholas Peltier donated the Sling Pipes module, which provides a set of
   bulk content transformation tools for Apache Sling.

 - S.A.S. Ubik-Ingenierie and Decathlon SA donated JMeter Dashboard/Report,
   which allows generation of a report for a Load Test at end of Load Test
   or on an existing CSV result file.

* Legal / Trademarks

 - The registered trademark for the retiring podling Ripple is still held
   by Blackberry.  As the small Ripple community prepares to relocate to
   Github, they are exploring obtaining permission to use the trademark in
   their new home.

 - The name for a proposed podling was changed from "OpenMiracl" to
   "Milagro" to avoid marketplace confusion with the current copyright
   owner, Miracl (formerly Certivox).

* Infrastructure

 - It was brought to light that podling websites can be accessed by
   "podling.apache.org" in addition to "podling.incubator.apache.org".  A
   discussion about what remedy to pursue is ongoing.

* Miscellaneous

 - Driven by several new incubation proposals, traffic on general@incubator
   was extremely high in November -- at 915 messages, second only to the
   colossal Open Office proposal month in June 2011 (2013 messages).

 - A lengthy discussion on CTR vs. RTC (commit-then-review vs.
   review-then-commit) took place on general@incubator.  The debate
   continues with regards to what commit policy the incoming Impala podling
   will adopt.

 - The Kudu and Impala incubation proposal VOTEs were both contended, with
   a handful of -1 votes -- something which has not happened at any time in
   recent memory.  The VOTEs passed because they were interpreted as
   "procedural" under ASF voting rules and thus subject to majority
   rule.  This has implications for how graduation votes are interpreted,
   since objections to graduation by individual IPMC members have at times
   been given significant weight by the Board when considering graduation
   recommendations.

 - The new Metron podling is seeded with an ALv2 codebase for which the
   existing community is dormant/unresponsive.  There is no guarantee that
   an SGA can be obtained from the current copyright holder.  We anticipate
   no legal problems with this, nor social problems, but some efforts are
   underway to pursue an SGA regardless.

 - The Ripple, Corinthia, and Cotton podlings are all retiring.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - Concerted
 - Eagle
 - SystemML
 - Unomi

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 - HAWQ
 - HORN
 - HTrace
 - MADlib
 - Mynewt
 - Myriad
 - Rya
 - Trafodion
 - Wave

 Community growth:

 - Atlas
 - CommonsRDF
 - MRQL
 - Ranger
 - SAMOA
 - Singa
 - Streams
 - Taverna
 - Zeppelin

* Nearing graduation

 - Johnzon
 - Sentry

* Retired or considering retirement

 - Corinthia
 - Cotton
 - Ripple

* Did not report, expected next month

 - Sirona (2 months late)

* No Mentor signoff, to be resubmitted next month

 - log4cxx2

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                      Table of Contents
Atlas
CommonsRDF
Concerted
Corinthia
Cotton
Eagle
HAWQ
HORN
HTrace
Johnzon
MADlib
MRQL
Mynewt
Myriad
Ranger
Rya
SAMOA
Sentry
Singa
Streams
SystemML
Taverna
Trafodion
Unomi
Wave
Zeppelin

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18 Nov 2015 [Ted Dunning / Brett] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 47 podlings currently undergoing incubation.

With 702 messages to general@incubator, October was one of the heaviest
months for email traffic in a long time.

Podlings nearing graduation received extra scrutiny this month, presumably
as an indirect result of various recent proposals to rework graduation to
include more structured review.  Such evaluations of podling readiness,
while illuminating, put stress on the Mentors and contributors to the
podling under the microscope and raise the overall tension in the
Incubator.

Another topic of discussion was disengaged Mentors.  An initiative to engage
Mentors privately when podlings do not report for two months or more yielded
positive results, with some Mentors reaffirming their commitment and others
officially moving on.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Tom Barber (magicaltrout)
 - Patrick Wendell (pwendell)
 - Reynold Xin (rxin)
 - Phil Sorber (sorber)
 - Julien Le Dem (julien)
 - Jacques Nadeau (jacques)

 No one left the IPMC this month, but a handful of Mentors have stepped
 down from their posts with various podlings.  Most of the resignations
 were from Mentors who had become inactive, so the Incubator's rolls have
 become a bit more accurate.

* New Podlings

 - Eagle
 - Mynewt
 - Concerted
 - SystemML

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Brooklyn
 - Groovy
 - Kylin
 - REEF

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

 - 2015-10-05 Apache Johnzon 0.9.2-incubating
 - 2015-10-07 Apache Singa 0.1.0
 - 2015-10-14 Apache AsterixDB 0.8.7-incubating
 - 2015-10-14 Apache REEF 0.13.0-incubating
 - 2015-10-23 Apache Kylin 1.1-incubating
 - 2015-10-28 Apache TinkerPop 3.0.2-incubating
 - 2015-10-30 Apache Apex v3.2.0-incubating
 - 2015-10-31 Apache Slider 0.81.1-incubating

* IP Clearance

 - Taobao (China) Software Co., Ltd and several individuals donated Alibaba
   JStorm, "A fork of Apache Storm with Clojure code replaced with Java,
   and several other improvements".

 A discussion calling into question what responsibilities -- if any -- the
 Incubator should have with regards to IP Clearance eventually went quiet,
 leaving the status quo intact.

* Miscellaneous

 - Droids has retired.
 - Kalumet has retired.
 - The Corinthia community is voting on retirement.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - Concerted
 - Mynewt
 - Rya

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 - AsterixDB
 - Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
 - Cotton
 - MADlib
 - DataFu
 - HAWQ
 - HORN

 Community growth:

 - Apex
 - Blur
 - Slider
 - Tamaya
 - TinkerPop
 - Twill

* Ready to graduate

 - Kylin
 - REEF

* Did not report, expected next month

 - Ripple (5 months late)
 - Sirona
 - Unomi

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                      Table of Contents
Apex
AsterixDB
Blur
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
Concerted
Cotton
DataFu
HAWQ
HORN
Kylin
MADlib
Mynewt
REEF
Ripple
Rya
Sirona
Slider
Tamaya
TinkerPop
Twill
Unomi

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21 Oct 2015 [Ted Dunning / Bertrand] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 44 podlings currently undergoing incubation.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Josh Elser
 - Sterling Hughes

* New Podlings

 - MADlib
 - Rya
 - Unomi

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 - Calcite
 - Brooklyn

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

 - 2015-09-06 Apache Kylin 1.0-incubating
 - 2015-09-14 Apache Brooklyn 0.8.0-incubating
 - 2015-09-14 Apache HTrace-4.0.0-incubating
 - 2015-09-15 Apache TinkerPop 3.0.1-incubating
 - 2015-09-16 Apache Groovy 2.4.5-incubating
 - 2015-09-21 Apache Sentry-1.6.0-incubating
 - 2015-09-22 Apache AsterixDB Hyracks 0.2.16-incubating

* IP Clearance

 - Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp donated POI Visio, an extension module for
   Apache POI. It adds support for the Microsoft Visio .vsdx xml-based file
   format. (Current Apache POI Visio support only handled the older binary
   .vsd format). Post-import, the component will be known as XDGF.

* Infrastructure

 - It seems that an incorrect date in the Board meeting calendar caused the
   report reminders to fire a week early, requiring manual cleanup after the
   correct date was established.  There was discussion of migrating the
   reminders and other Incubator bookkeeping to Whimsy.

* Miscellaneous

 - At the height of Corinthia's crisis, several committers resigned.  The
   mailing lists have since gone silent.  Some IPMC members followed up but
   those efforts do not appear to have been successful.
 - A vote to retire the Droids podling is pending.
 - Various proposals to change the Incubator have been discussed on
   general@incubator.  The one generating the most responses, mostly in
   opposition, is a proposal which would lessen the role of Mentors with
   business affiliations to podlings during Incubator entry and exit votes.
   None of the other proposals have gotten any traction.
 - A proposal regarding the Incubator formulated during ApacheCon EU was
   discussed on board@apache.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - HAWQ
 - MADlib

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 - Apex
 - FreeMarker
 - Geode
 - Myriad
 - OpenAZ

* Ready to graduate

 - Groovy

 The Board has motions for the following:

 - Calcite
 - Brooklyn

* Did not report, expected next month

 - BatchEE
 - Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer (2 months late)
 - Cotton (2 months late)
 - DataFu
 - HORN
 - ODF Toolkit
 - Ripple (4 months late)

* Report reviewed but not signed off by Mentors, expected next month

 - Wave

* Likely to retire

 - Droids

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Apex
FreeMarker
Geode
Groovy
HAWQ
MADlib
Myriad
ODF Toolkit
OpenAz
Wave

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A question was raised about Mentors who are not responsive to normal requests but when it is suggested that they step down, they promise to do better.

The consensus response is to remove them as Mentor and ask them to earn merit if they want to participate as Mentor in the podling in future.

16 Sep 2015 [Ted Dunning / Shane] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 41 podlings currently undergoing incubation.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

 - Sharad Agarwal
 - Venkatesh Seeratham

 People who left the IPMC:

 - Jan Iversen

* New Podlings

 - Apex
 - HAWQ
 - HORN

* Graduations

 - Usergrid graduated last month, but wasn't on the report due to timing of
   their graduation vote.

* Releases

 The following releases were made during the month of August:

 - 2015-08-10 taverna-language-0.15.0-incubating
 - 2015-08-10 taverna-parent-1-incubating
 - 2015-08-15 apache-reef-0.12.0-incubating
 - 2015-08-17 apache-johnzon-0.9-incubating
 - 2015-08-22 tamaya-distribution-0.1-incubating
 - 2015-08-28 incubator-corinthia_release_0.1
 - 2015-08-30 ripple-emulator-0.9.32-incubating
 - 2015-08-31 apache-johnzon-0.9.1-incubating
 - 2015-08-31 apache-calcite-1.4.0-incubating

* IP Clearance

 - Adobe contributed the Sling HApi Tools, which provide a set of
   Hypermedia API tools for Sling.

* Legal / Trademarks

 - The copyright section of the IP Clearance template was modified.

* Infrastructure

 - The automated Marvin report reminders fired eight days late this
   month.  The manual Marvin report reminders went instead.

* Miscellaneous

 - The Corinthia podling experienced a crisis.  Many PPMC members, including
   the most active core contributors, announced their resignations and intent
   to carry on the project outside Apache.

 - A long conversation took place on general@incubator and other ASF lists
   regarding trademark enforcement for binary distributions which are not
   directly compiled from unmodified Apache release source code, but instead
   from modified releases or unreleased code.

 - The Kalumet podling is holding a vote to retire.

 - The Droids podling is considering retirement.

* Credits

 - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 - Apex

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 - FreeMarker
 - Geode
 - Singa
 - Trafodion

 Community growth:

 - Atlas
 - CommonsRDF
 - HTrace
 - Johnzon
 - log4cxx2
 - MRQL
 - ODF Toolkit
 - Ranger
 - SAMOA
 - Sentry
 - Slider
 - Streams
 - Taverna
 - Zeppelin

* Ready to graduate

 - Brooklyn
 - Calcite
 - REEF

* Considering retirement

 - Kalumet

* In crisis

 - Corinthia

* Did not report, expected next month

 - CMDA
 - Cotton
 - Droids
 - Myriad
 - Ripple

* Missing Mentor sign-off, expected next month

 - Wave

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Apex
Atlas
Brooklyn
Calcite
CommonsRDF
Corinthia
FreeMarker
Geode
HTrace
Johnzon
Kalumet
log4cxx2
MRQL
ODF Toolkit
Ranger
REEF
SAMOA
Sentry
Singa
Slider
Streams
Taverna
Trafodion
Zeppelin

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19 Aug 2015 [Ted Dunning / Shane] ¶

Incubator PMC report for August 2015

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 43 podlings currently under incubation.

Generally things have been going well although podlings that are very quiet
has continued to accumulate, likely requiring action in the next few months.
The Ignite graduation discussion was long and some of the community was
surprised a bit by some opinions about the podling. The discussion has
precipitated yet another discussion about reorganizing the Incubator, but I
personally think that the discussion and proposal are better served by
increasing the communications between the Incubator at large and the podlings
to move such exposure to a diversity of opinions earlier in the life of the
podlings, possibly by encouraging more shepherding.

No board action is required on this topic at this time.

* Community

 New IPMC members:
 Flavio Junquiero

 People who left the IPMC:
 (none)

* New Podlings

 No new podlings entered the incubator this month.

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 Ignite
 Lens

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

 2015-07-27 - apache-brooklyn-0.7.0-incubating
 2015-07-24 - Apache-Twill-0.6.0-incubating
 2015-07-23 - Apache-Zeppelin-0.5.0-incubating release
 2015-07-22 - apache-ripple-emulator-0.9.30-incubating
 2015-07-21 - apache-ignite-1.3.0-incubating
 2015-07-21 - apache-samoa-0.3.0-incubating
 2015-07-21 - apache-kylin-0.7.2-incubating
 2015-07-16 - apache-tinkerpop-3.0.0-incubating
 2015-07-16 - apache-usergrid-1.0.2-incubating
 2015-07-16 - apache-nifi-0.2.0-incubating
 2015-07-16 - apache-groovy-2.4.4-incubating
 2015-07-16 - apache-lens-2.2.0-beta-incubating
 2015-07-09 - apache-sentry-1.5.1-incubating
 2015-07-09 - apache-atlas-0.5-incubating

* IP Clearance

 JBoss HornetQ code grant to the ActiveMQ PMC.

* Legal / Trademarks

* Infrastructure

 Marvin board report reminders went out this month.  There was
 much rejoicing.

* Miscellaneous

 * Report Manager: John D. Ament

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 AsterixDB
 Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
 DataFu
 FreeMarker

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 Blur
 Tamaya

 Community growth:

 Kylin
 TinkerPop
 Trafodion
 Twill

* Ready to graduate

 Calcite

 The Board has motions for the following:

 Ignite
 Lens

* Did not report, expected next month

 BatchEE (Shepherd notes remaining)
 Droids (Shepherd notes remaining)
 Kalumet
 REEF
 Ripple
 Slider


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AsterixDB
BatchEE (notes only)
Blur
Calcite
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
DataFu
Droids (notes only)
FreeMarker
Kylin
ODF Toolkit
Sentry
Sirona
Tamaya
TinkerPop
Trafodion
Twill

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15 Jul 2015 [Ted Dunning / Shane] ¶

Incubator PMC report for July 2015

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 43 podlings currently under incubation.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   Justin Erenkrantz (returning)
   Hitesh Shah
   Edward Yoon

 People who left the IPMC:

   (none)

* New Podlings

   Freemarker

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

   NiFi

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   2015-06-29 apache-ignite-1.2.0-incubating

 Additionally, several releases from May were inadvertently
 omitted from the June report:

   2015-05-05 apache-lens-2.1.0-beta-incubating
   2015-05-10 htrace-3.2.0-incubating
   2015-05-15 apache-commons-rdf-0.1.0-incubating
   2015-05-17 nifi-0.1.0-incubating
   2015-05-18 slider-0.80.0-incubating
   2015-05-21 apache-reef-0.11.0-incubating
   2015-05-30 apache-calcite-1.3.0-incubating

* IP Clearance

 * Clemens Stolle donated CouchDB Docker, A Dockerfile for CouchDB.

 * Bob Ippolito donated CouchDB CouchPerUser, a CouchDB module that ensures
   that a private per-user database exists for each user that is managed by
   CouchDB.

 * Nuno Job donated CounchDB Nano, a Node.js Client library for CouchDB.

* Infrastructure

 * The automated report reminders failed to fire in a timely manner yet
   again.

* Miscellaneous

 * There was a sharp discussion on general@incubator about publicizing
   "clearly identifiable non-release artifacts" for Geode, which has not
   yet made an incubating release but publishes nightly builds on
   DockerHub.

 * A proposal for incubating Pistachio, a fault-tolerant low latency
   distributed storage system which originated at Yahoo, is being
   discussed.

 * There has been talk of migrating some of the Incubator's reporting
   functionality to whimsy.

 * OpenAZ reported, but failed to get any mentor sign-offs.  I have
   withheld that report but will insert it as a late change if it
   gets the necessary sign-offs quickly. If not, we will include
   it next month with proper sign-off.

* Credits

 Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

   Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   AsterixDB
   Geode
   Groovy
   OpenAz
   Trafodion

* Ready to graduate

   Lens
   Sentry
   Usergrid

* Did not report, expected next month

   Calcite
   DataFu
   Kalumet (2 months missed)
   ODF Toolkit
   Ripple

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                      Table of Contents
AsterixDB
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
Geode
Groovy
Kalumet
Lens
Sentry
Trafodion
Usergrid
BatchEE

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17 Jun 2015 [Ted Dunning / Bertrand] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

With 4 new podlings and no graduations, the Incubator has grown to 43
podlings this month -- up from 31 one year ago, but still well shy of the
record 57 set in 2012.

We had some issues this month with Sentry's latest release and
engagement.  See the miscellaneous section for more details.

There are several podlings that seem to be having trouble coming
together. These include log4cxx2 and kalumet.  We will keep an eye on
these for now and initiate discussions about retiring the podlings as
appropriate.

Otherwise, there are no particular issues that warrant board
attention.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   Jarek Jarcec Cecho
   Bill Rowe (rejoining)

* New Podlings

   Atlas
   CMDA (Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer)
   MySOS
   Trafodion

* Graduations

   None this month.

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

 johnzon-0.8
 kylin-0.7.1
 ranger-0.5.0
 TinkerPop 3.0.0.M9


* IP Clearance

 Sebastien Goasguen, Ian Duffy, and Darren Brogan donated gstack to
 Cloudstack.  gstack is an API wrapper that maps the Google Cloud Platform
 compute engine (GCE) API to the CloudStack API.

 Sebastien Goasguen, Ian Duffy, and Darren Brogan donated ec2stack to
 Cloudstack.  ec2stack is an API wrapper that maps the AWS Elastic Compute
 Cloud (EC2) API to the CloudStack API.

 Adobe donated the Sling HApi Tools, which provide a set of Hypermedia API
 tools for Sling.

* Legal / Trademarks

 There was much debate about the name of the new MySOS podling on Incubator
 lists and elsewhere.  The Incubator voted to accept the podling, since
 project name choice does not block entry into incubation.

* Miscellaneous

 Several mentors for Sentry have expressed concerns about the
 podling's engagement with the incubating process. Mentors are in
 dissent with the podling's self-report, and are recommending that
 the podling be moved to monthly reporting until concerns are
 addressed. Since the self-report was not signed off by the mentors,
 we have not included it in this report and will include it in
 subsequent reports as the mentors synchronize with the community.

 A proposal to incubate the Freemarker template engine is under discussion.

 The question of whether or not podlings may have official blogs came up
 and was discussed with both Press and Infrastructure.  Past rulings have
 been inconsistent.  The situation was resolved by establishing that
 podling Mentors must review posts prior to publication.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

asterixdb
atlas
geode
myriad
trafodion

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

corinthia
groovy
log4cxx2
taverna

 Community growth:



* Ready to graduate

 The Board has motions for the following:



* Did not report, expected next month

batchee
climate model diagnostic analyzer (CMDA)
kalumet


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                      Table of Contents
AsterixDB
Atlas
BatchEE
Brooklyn
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
CommonsRDF
Corinthia
Geode
Groovy
HTrace
Ignite
Johnzon
Kalumet
log4cxx2
MRQL
Myriad
Ranger
REEF
SAMOA
Sentry
Singa
Sirona
Streams
Taverna
Trafodion
Wave
Zeppelin

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20 May 2015 [Ted Dunning / Shane] ¶

Incubator PMC report for May 2015

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

Things have been going well in incubator lately with no major problems
to highlight. The last member election added a large number of new
members and several of these have taken the opportunity to join the
IPMC. A (good) challenge for the Incubator will be to make sure that
these people feel welcome and make contributions by shepherding and
mentoring.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   Amareshwari Sriramadasu
   David Lester
   Kim Whitehall
   P. Taylor Goetz
   Michael Joyce
   Jitendra Pandey

* New Podlings

   Geode

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

   Parquet

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   2015-04-02 apache-ignite-1.0.0
   2015-04-02 apahce-johnzon-0.7
   2015-04-15 apache-parquet-mr-1.6.0
   2015-04-16 apache-calcite-1.2.0
   2015-04-25 apache-streams-project-0.2
   2015-04-27 apache-tinkerpop-3.0.0.M8-incubating

* IP Clearance

 Apache Storm Azure Eventhub Integration
 Donation of Apache Flex documentation by Adobe
 Donation of Apache Usergrid source code by Apigee.

* Legal / Trademarks



* Infrastructure

 The "Marvin" report reminders fired in a timely manner for the first
 time in several months and were sent to the proper podlings.  A
 replacement script had been contemplated but now that there is less
 urgency it seems likely that we will continue to use the existing
 facilities. The only problem was that the script worked against an
 old board report. This issue has reportedly been fixed as well.

* Miscellaneous


-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

   AsterixDB
   Myriad

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   CommonsRDF
   Groovy
   Kylin
   Singa
   Tamaya
   Zeppelin

 Community growth:

   NiFi
   Slider
   TinkerPop
   Twill

* Ready to graduate

   Blur

* Low Activity

   Droids
   ODF Toolkit

* Did not report, expected next month

   BatchEE
   REEF
   Sirona

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AsterixDB
Blur
CommonsRDF
Droids
Groovy
Kylin
Myriad
NiFi
ODF Toolkit
Singa
Slider
Tamaya
TinkerPop
Twill
Zeppelin

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22 Apr 2015 [Ted Dunning / Rich] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 40 podlings currently in incubation. There is another
climate project in discussion for incubation which is an interesting
continuation of the nascent trend of academic projects coming to
Apache. This may be a singleton due to Chris Mattmann's efforts, but it
would be an interesting development if it gathers momentum.

There is a new ASFIncubator twitter entity. It has little activity so
far, but has had a lot of followers jump on after Sally's announcement
on @ASF.

Datafu and ODF Toolkit are showing very low activity. This isn't
necessarily a serious problem yet, but may be a leading
indicator. Wave has previously had a warning, but may be doing a
little better.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   Andrew Bayer
   Gary Gregory

 People who left the IPMC:

   None

* New Podlings

   Groovy
   SINGA
   (Myriad vote result was sent on March 1st, but the project is
   just barely beginning)

* Graduations

   Parquet

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   2015-03-03 apache-lens-2.0.1-beta-incubating
   2015-03-16 nifi-0.0.2-incubating
   2015-03-23 apache-calcite-1.1.0-incubating
   2015-03-24 incubator-ignite-1.0.0-rc3
   2015-03-27 slider-0.70.1-incubating

* IP Clearance

 Usergrid is working feverishly to finish up their IP Clearance.
 Updated SGA sent to secretary@a.o

 CommonsRDF SGA filed 2015-03-27.

 Zeppelin SGA submitted and acknowledged on 2015-03-20.

* Legal / Trademarks

 The old debate about how to submit SGAs for ALv2 projects with huge
 numbers of copyright holders reappeared with Groovy's SGA.  In the end,
 the SGA was signed by a single community member.

 Ambiguity around Legal Policy language on when optional GPL library
 dependencies are permitted caused confusion.

* Infrastructure

 The "Marvin" report reminders have not run in a timely manner for podlings
 for 4 months in a row.  A dedicated Incubator-specific replacement is
 being contemplated.

* Miscellaneous

 An official Twitter account for the Incubator was initialized but has not
 yet been used.  Access will be maintained via TweetDeck.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

   AsterixDB
   CommonsRDF
   Groovy
   Myriad
   OpenAZ
   SINGA

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   Parquet (some components released but not others)
   Ripple
   TinkerPop
   Zeppelin

 Community growth:

   Calcite
   Lens
   Usergrid
   Wave

* Did not report, expected next month

   DataFu
   ODF Toolkit

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AsterixDB
Calcite
CommonsRDF
DataFu
Groovy
Lens
Myriad
ODF Toolkit
OpenAz
Parquet
Ripple
SINGA
TinkerPop
Usergrid
Wave
Zeppelin

18 Mar 2015 ¶

Change the Apache Incubator Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Roman Shaposhnik
 to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
 of Roman Shaposhnik from the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator,
 and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Incubator
 project has chosen by vote to recommend  Ted Dunning as the successor
 to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Roman Shaposhnik is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache Incubator, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that  Ted Dunning be and hereby is
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, 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, Resolution to Change the Apache Incubator
 Project Chair , was approved by Unanimous Vote of the
 directors present.

18 Mar 2015 [Roman Shaposhnik / Bertrand] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 38 podlings undergoing incubation. Aurora is considering
graduation and two new podlings (AsterixDB and CommonsRDF) joined the
Incubator. Due to the low activity level, Kalumet community is thinking about
retiring Kalumet from the incubator.

It seems that Wave podling may need some help. It is not clear whether the
community is any closer to graduation or a different option needs to be
explored. The community indicated that they are close to producing their
first release. That said, the report has not been signed and we may want
to solicit additional cycles to help the community come up with a plan.

Incubator PMC voted in a new Chair (Ted Dunning) and a resolution has
been submitted to the board.

A discussion thread on Groovy entering incubation process has started.

* Community

 New IPMC members:
   Andrew Bayer


 People who left the IPMC:
   none

* New Podlings

 AsterixDB
 CommonsRDF

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 * Apache Aurora

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

 apache-calcite-1.0.0-incubating
 apache-aurora-0.7.0-incubating
 apache-twill-0.4.1-incubating
 apache-slider-0.61.0-incubating
 apache-parquet-format-2.3.0-incubating
 apache-johnzon-0.6-incubating
 apache-mrql-0.9.4-incubating
 apache-twill-0.5.0-incubating

* IP Clearance

 Taverna Software Grant received & filed 2014-02-23.


* Legal / Trademarks



* Infrastructure

 Marvin report reminders continue to be an issue.  Podlings no
 longer receive reminders about their reports being due, causing
 late reports or missing reports.

 The issue with Marvin reports has since been corrected.  Thanks
 to those who helped!

* Miscellaneous



-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

   AsterixDB
   CommonsRDF
   TinkerPop
   Zeppelin (delayed software grant)

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   Corinthia
   Ignite
   Kylin
   log4cxx2
   SAMOA
   Taverna
   Wave

 Community growth:

   BatchEE
   Brooklyn
   HTrace
   Johnzon
   MRQL
   Ranger
   Sentry
   Streams

* Considering retirement

   Kalumet

* Did not report, expected next month

   None!

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AsterixDB
BatchEE
Brooklyn
CommonsRDF
Corinthia
HTrace
Ignite
Johnzon
Kalumet
Kylin
log4cxx2
MRQL
Ranger
SAMOA
Sentry
Streams
Taverna
TinkerPop
Wave
Zeppelin

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18 Feb 2015 [Roman Shaposhnik / Ross] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 35 podlings undergoing incubation.  One podling
(NPanday) has retired from the incubation.

The process of seeking nominations for the new IPMC Chair has concluded
and the voting shall begin soon.


* Community

 New IPMC members:

   none


 People who left the IPMC:

   none

* New Podlings

   none


* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

   none


* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   johnzon-0.5-incubating
   apache-reef-0.10.0-incubating
   htrace-3.1.0-incubating
   apache-usergrid-1.0.1-incubating
   nifi-nar-maven-plugin 1.0.0
   nifi 0.0.1 (incubating)
   streams-project-0.1-incubating

 The Incubator continues to use discretion when enforcing release policy.

 * Numerous releases have been approved despite having an out of date
   copyright year in the NOTICE file.  Fixing for the next release has been
   considered a sufficient remedy.
 * The REEF release was approved with an incomplete incubation
   disclaimer in README (there was also a disclaimer on the podling
   website).

* IP Clearance

 CouchDB Mango -- IBM Corporation have built a MongoDB API Layer for
 CouchDB and are donating it to the CouchDB project. This consists of of a
 module that exposes a set of actions that are similar to what MongoDB
 exposes.

* Legal / Trademarks

 Taverna successfully cleared its name search.


* Infrastructure



* Miscellaneous



-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

   TinkerPop
   Zeppelin (delayed software grant)

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   Corinthia
   Kylin
   Lens
   Ripple
   SAMOA
   Tamaya
   Taverna

 Community growth:

   Droids
   HTrace
   NiFi
   REEF
   Slider
   Twill

* Ready to graduate

   Blur

* Did not report, expected next month

   BatchEE

* Retired Podlings

   NPanday

* Report incomplete

   Sirona

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BatchEE
Blur
Corinthia
Droids
HTrace
Kylin
Lens
NiFi
REEF
Ripple
SAMOA
Sirona
Slider
Tamaya
Taverna
TinkerPop
Twill
Zeppelin

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21 Jan 2015 [Roman Shaposhnik / Greg] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 36 podlings undergoing incubation.  One podling
joined us this month (Corinthia). One member joined and two members
left the IPMC.

IPMC has recognized the need for tightening up mentorship requirements
and overall structure of the incubation process. Active discussions
on how to this in the best possible way are on going and the recommendation
is expected to be available in a few weeks.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   Hyunsik Choi


 People who left the IPMC:

   Sean Owen
   Marvin Humphrey

* New Podlings

   Corinthia
   Zeppelin

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

   Samza



* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   Dec 05 2014   Apache Falcon 0.6-incubating
   Dec 08 2014   Apache Samza 0.8.0-incubating
   Dec 22 2014   Apache Brooklyn 0.7.0-M2-incubating

* IP Clearance

 * Corinthia initial source grant

* Legal / Trademarks



* Infrastructure



* Miscellaneous

 * NPanday community seems to be in agreement that retirement is the best
   option at this point. The only outstanding issue before formally
   recommending graduation VOTE is to decide whether there's enough cycles
   available for one last release before retirement.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

   SAMOA
   Corinthia
   Kylin
   NiFi
   Taverna (delayed software grant)
   Zeppelin

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   DataFu
   HTrace
   Ignite
   Kalumet
   Lens
   Tamaya

 Community growth:

   Aurora
   Brooklyn
   Calcite
   MRQL
   ODF Toolkit
   Parquet
   Ranger
   Usergrid

* Ready to graduate

 The Board has motions for the following:

   Samza

* Did not report, expected next month

   NPanday
   Ripple

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Aurora
Brooklyn
Calcite
Corinthia
DataFu
HTrace
Ignite
Kalumet
Kylin
Lens
MRQL
NiFi
NPanday
ODF Toolkit
Parquet
Ranger
SAMOA
Samza
Tamaya
Taverna
Usergrid
Zeppelin

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@Greg: Please don't include mentors who didn't sign off

17 Dec 2014 [Roman Shaposhnik / Chris] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 36 podlings undergoing incubation.  Two podlings joined
us this month, NiFi and Tamaya.  Five new IPMC members and two new
Shepherds joined our ranks as well.

* Community

  New IPMC members:

  Andrew L. Farris
  Thejas Nair
  Brock Noland
  Daniel Dai
  Adam Estrada

  New Incubator Shepherds:

  Timothy Chen
  Andrew L. Farris

  People who left the IPMC:

  None

* New Podlings

  Nifi
  Tamaya

* Graduations

  The board has motions for the following:

    Falcon

  The IPMC is currently voting on graduations for:

    Flink

* Releases

  The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

  apache-calcite-0.9.2-incubating
  apache-twill-0.4.0-incubating
  apache-parquet-format-2.2.0-incubating
  apache-johnzon-0.2-incubating
  apache-slider-0.60.0-incubating
  metamodel-4.3.0-incubating
  apache-aurora-0.6.0-incubating

* IP Clearance

  Sling Sightly and XSS modules

* Legal / Trademarks

 There are many on going Podling Name Search requests,
 with few being closed.

  Droids still has an open name search.
  Falcon is processing a name search currently.
  Tamaya successfully cleared Podling Name Search.

  Two podlings (BatchEE and Johnzon) are currently waiting
  on the result of a new licensing agreement w/ Oracle to
  gain access to the TCKs for new EE related JSRs.  Until this
  is done they could not be considered compliant implementations

* Infrastructure

  SVN outage caused minor inconvenience to some podlings.
  Argus/Ranger is facing some struggles with their rename.

* Miscellaneous

  The Kalumet podling is currently thinking about throwing around a
  retirement vote. The Samza community is voting on a draft graduation
  resolution. There is a vote underway to recommend retiring for the
  NPanday. Hadoop Development Tools community has voted to retire from the
  Incubator.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

  Ignite
  Lens
  Nifi
  Tamaya
  Taverna

* Not yet ready to graduate

  No release:

  Brooklyn
  Wave

  Community growth:

  Johnzon
  Sentry
  Streams


* Ready to graduate

  The Board has motions for the following:
   Falcon


* Did not report, expected next month

  Ranger (formerly Argus)
  Kalumet
  NPanday

* Not signed off by mentors

  Brooklyn
  MRQL


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Falcon
Ignite
Johnzon
Lens
log4cxx2
MRQL
NiFi
Ripple
Sentry
Streams
Tamaya
Taverna
Wave

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A number of podlings have mentors who appear not to be actively monitoring. There are many podlings whose mentors have not signed off on their reports.

@Rich: Discuss these concerns with Incubator chair

19 Nov 2014 [Roman Shaposhnik / Sam] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 34 podlings under incubation this month. No projects are
currently voting on graduation. The incubator added HTrace and Taverna
as two new incubating project.

* Community

 New IPMC members:



 People who left the IPMC:



* New Podlings

 Ignite
 Taverna
 HTrace

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

 Drill
 DeviceMap
 Falcon

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

 Apache Calcite 0.9.1 (incubating)
 Apache Flink 0.7.0-incubating

* IP Clearance

 FlatSpark for Apache Flex
 Sling Resource Editor contribution

* Legal / Trademarks

 None

* Infrastructure

 None

* Miscellaneous

 HDT is currently discussing retirement.
 ODF Toolkit discussed retirement, ultimately decided to remain active for now.
 NPanday seems to have begun struggling once again. It is likely that IPMC will
 recommend considering a retirement option.
 Ripple is struggling to build community and recently discussed whether it ought
 to retire or not. Ross Gardler volunteered to step up as a Ripple mentor and
 report back on the path forward in six months. An additional issue with Ripple's
 Node.js-based artifacts is the lack of clear indication that they are coming
 from an incubating project and NOT a TLP. Ross is looking into fixing that as well.
 Slider's report didn't have a mentor sign off.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 Ignite
 Taverna
 HTrace

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

 REEF
 Droids

 Community growth:

 BatchEE
 Flink
 Sirona
 Slider
 Twill


* Ready to graduate

 Blur

 The Board has motions for the following:

 Drill

* Considering retirement or other alternatives to graduation

 Hadoop Development Tools
 ODF Toolkit

* Did not report, expected next month

 NPanday
 Ripple

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BatchEE
Blur
Droids
Flink
Hadoop Development Tools
Ignite
ODF Toolkit
REEF
Ripple
Sirona
Twill

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15 Oct 2014 [Roman Shaposhnik / Brett] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 32 podlings under incubation this month. No projects are
currently voting on graduation. The incubator added Ignite as a new
incubating project. DeviceMap, Drill, Falcon, Flink, Johnzon, Usergrid
all had releases since the last report. DeviceMap is ready to graduate.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

  No additions

 People who left the IPMC:

   (none)


* New Podlings

 Ignite

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

   (none)

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

 Apache DeviceMap Data 1.0.1 incubating
 Apache Drill 0.5.0-incubating
 Apache Falcon 0.5-incubating
 Apache Flink 0.6.1-incubating
 Apache Johnzon 0.1-incubating
 Apache Usergrid 1.0


* IP Clearance

   FlatSpark for Apache Flex

* Legal / Trademarks

   None

* Infrastructure

   Nothing to report

* Miscellaneous

 Apache Optiq becomes Apache Calcite

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

  REEF

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   Argus
   DataFu
   Parquet
   Streams

 Community growth:

   Aurora
   MetaModel
   Optiq
   Samza
   Usergrid

* Ready to graduate

   DeviceMap

* Did not report, expected next month

 ODF Toolkit
 Ripple

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Argus
Aurora
DataFu
DeviceMap
MetaModel
ODF Toolkit
Optiq
Parquet
REEF
Ripple
Samza
Streams
Usergrid

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17 Sep 2014 [Roman Shaposhnik / Chris] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 32 podlings under incubation this month. No projects are
currently voting on graduation. The incubator added REEF as a new incubating
project in August. Aurora, Drill, Sentry, Twill, Flink, and Optiq all had
releases since the last report.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   No additions

 People who left the IPMC:

   (none)

* New Podlings

 REEF

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

   Apache Storm

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   Apache Aurora 0.5.0-incubating
   Apache Drill 0.4.0-incubating, 1.0.0-m1-incubating
   Apache Sentry 1.4.0-incubating
   Apache Twill 0.3.0-incubating
   Apache Flink 0.6-incubating
   Apache Optiq 0.9.0-incubating

* IP Clearance

   Radii8 for Apache Flex
   Apache Sqoop Contribution

* Legal / Trademarks

   Apache OPTIQ wishes to trademark it's name

* Infrastructure

   Nothing to report

* Podlings without mentor sign offs

   None

* Miscellaneous



-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 REEF

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   Argus
   Brooklyn
   Fleece
   log4cxx2
   Wave

 Community growth:

   Brooklyn
   Drill
   Falcon
   Fleece
   MRQL
   Optiq
   Sentry
   Wave

* Ready to graduate

 The Board has motions for the following:
   Storm


* Did not report, expected next month

 Streams

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Argus
Brooklyn
Drill
Falcon
Fleece
Kalumet
log4cxx2
MRQL
Optiq
REEF
Sentry
Storm
Streams
Wave

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20 Aug 2014 [Roman Shaposhnik / Bertrand] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 32 podlings under incubation this month. No projects are currently
voting on graduation. The incubator added Argus and REEF as new incubating
projects. Blur, DeviceMap, HDT, Metamodel, Slider, and Tez all had releases
since the last report.

* Community

 New IPMC members:
   Jan Iversen

 People who left the IPMC:


* New Podlings

 Argus
 REEF

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

   N/A - included in last month.

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   Apache Tez-0.4.1-incubating RC0
   Apache Slider 0.40-incubating RC0
   Apache Blur 0.2.3-incubating RC2
   Apache Metamodel incubating 4.2.0
   Apache DeviceMap BrowserMap incubating 1.4.1
   Apache HDT version 0.0.2.incubating (RC1)

* IP Clearance

   Brooklyn CAMP Server
   Sling Query contribution
   BigCouch updates to Apache CouchDB

* Legal / Trademarks

   It is unclear whether Blur can get the Trademark assign document
   provided by trademarks@ signed by Near Infinity.  The company no
   longer exists.

* Infrastructure



* Miscellaneous



-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 Argus
 Parquet
 Optiq
 Sirona
 Twill


* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   Brooklyn
   Fleece
   Flink
   Parquet

 Community growth:

   BatchEE
   Blur
   Hadoop Development Tools
   NPanday
   ODF Toolkit
   Sirona
   Slider
   Twill

* Require Mentors/IPMC intervention

 Droids
 Kalumet

* Ready to graduate

 The Board has motions for the following:

   (none)

* Did not report, expected next month

   (none)

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Argus
BatchEE
Blur
Brooklyn
Droids
Fleece
Flink
Hadoop Development Tools
Kalumet
NPanday
ODF Toolkit
Optiq
Parquet
Sirona
Slider
Twill

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16 Jul 2014 [Roman Shaposhnik / Rich] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 34 podlings under incubation, with three votes to
graduate as the report is being closed. All three VOTEs have passed,
and VXQuery is still underway. S4 has voted to retire, but the retirement
tasks have not yet been finished. Fleece has joined the incubator, as of 9
June 2014.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   Jean-Louis Monteiro
   Romain Manni-Bucau
   Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
   Konstantin Boudnik

 People who left the IPMC:

   David Crossley
   Joe Schaefer

* New Podlings

   Fleece

* Graduations

   The board has motions for the following:

   Tez
   Celix
   VXQuery

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   apache-storm-0.9.2-incubating
   mrql-0.9.2-incubating
   samza-0.7.0-incubating

* IP Clearance

   No IP Clearance requests submitted to the Incubator in this timeframe.

* Miscellaneous

   S4 voted to retire. SGA received for Optiq from DynamoBI Corporation.
   Discussion about exit criteria for podlings, including a suggested set
   of criteria that would trigger a VOTE to retire if a podling is not
   active enough. Consensus not yet reached. Stratos has graduated but
   still needs to finish graduation tasks.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

   Brooklyn
   Fleece
   Optiq
   Parquet

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   Aurora
   DataFu
   DeviceMap
   Flink
   log4cxx2
   NPanday
   Wave

 Community growth:

   MetaModel
   Ripple
   Slider
   Usergrid

* Ready to graduate

   Kalumet
   Samza

 The Board has motions for the following:

   Tez
   Celix
   VXQuery

* Retiring
   S4

* Did not report, expected next month

   ODF Toolkit

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Aurora
Brooklyn
DataFu
DeviceMap
Fleece
Flink
Kalumet
MetaModel
NPanday
ODF Toolkit
Optiq
Parquet
Ripple
S4
Samza
Slider
Usergrid
VXQuery

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18 Jun 2014 [Roman Shaposhnik / Chris] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 34 podlings under incubation. Two new podlings joined
the Apache Incubator in May, two podlings graduated.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   John D. Ament

 People who left the IPMC:

   (none)

* New Podlings

   Optiq
   Parquet

* Graduations

   Phoenix
   Stratos

 The board has motions for the following:

   (none)

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   metamodel-4.1.0-RC1-incubating
   odftoolkit-0.6.1-incubating
   sentry-1.3.0-incubating
   slider-0.30-incubating
   spark-0.8.1-incubating

  ODF Toolkit's release was approved using the alternative voting
  process worked out last November/December.  We believe that's the first
  official release in the history of the Foundation that passed with
  binding votes by non-PMC members.

* IP Clearance

   Cray donated a set of libraries called Hadoop RDF Tools, and a VOTE
   to accept the tools was called by Rob Vesse. The vote passed by lazy
   consensus after 72 hours. No objections or points of discussion were
   raised during the VOTE.

* Legal / Trademarks

   New name for Stratosphere, now Flink.

* Infrastructure

 Apache Podlings affected by ASF mail outage from May 7th through
 May 10th, and extended recovery period to deliver backlog.

* Miscellaneous

 S4 failed to report this month, and has been generally inactive. It
 is likely that S4 will be retired, though the PPMC has not voted yet
 to do so.

 NPanday failed to report in a previous cycle, but was accidentally
 dropped from the reporting schedule for this month. NPanday developers
 and mentors were contacted. In 72 hours nobody was available to
 report on the project. Given consistent troubles with getting project
 to report and project mentors MiA, IPMC will look into a resolution.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

   Brooklyn
   Parquet

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   DeviceMap
   Flink
   log4cxx2
   Wave

 Community growth:

   Falcon
   MRQL
   Sentry
   Slider
   Streams

* Ready to graduate

   Drill
   Storm

* Did not report, expected next month

   Kalumet
   S4
   NPanday

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Brooklyn
DeviceMap
Drill
Falcon
Flink (formerly Stratosphere)
log4cxx2
Kalumet
MRQL
Parquet
Sentry
Slider
Storm
Streams
Wave

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21 May 2014 [Roman Shaposhnik / Roy] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are currently 34 podlings under incubation.

* Community

 New IPMC members:
   Ashutosh Chauhan

 People who left the IPMC:

   (None)

* New Podlings

 Brooklyn
 Slider

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   phoenix-3.0.0-incubating
   phoenix-4.0.0-incubating
   tez-0.4.0-incubating
   apache-vxquery-0.3-incubating
   twill-0.2.0-incubating
   hdt-0.0.1.incubating
   metamodel-4.1.0-incubating

 It took 2-13 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.

   Release                               VOTE start  Third IMPC +1  Days
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------
   phoenix-3.0.0-incubating              April 01    April 03       3
   phoenix-4.0.0-incubating              April 01    April 03       3
   tez-0.4.0-incubating                  April 01    April 04       4
   hdt-0.0.1.incubating                  April 18    May 01         13
   apache-vxquery-0.3-incubating         April 15    April 17       3
   twill-0.2.0-incubating                April 03    April 07       4
   metamodel-4.1.0-incubating            May 03      May 04         2

* IP Clearance

 Adobe donated BlazeDS to Apache Flex.  BlazeDS was promised by Adobe prior
 to entering the Incubator, but the donation was not cleared by Adobe until
 after graduation.

 In a separate proceeding, Adobe also donated selected popular articles
 from the Adobe Developer Connection, plus the FlexPMD project, a version
 of FDB that supports ActionScript Workers, the Tour de Flex app, the
 Squiggly spell-checker library, the MXMLC specification, a prototype of a
 code coverage tool and the Mobile Trader demo app.

 Both donations contained extraneous files which were detected on review by
 IPMC member and Flex PMC member Justin Mclean.  Alex Harui, who was
 managing the donation, promised to remove the files before import.

* Miscellaneous

 ODF Toolkit has adopted the Alternate Release Voting Process.

 DeviceMap has failed to report for two months now.

 NPanday shows signs of concern. It consistently misses reporting
 deadlines and even when reports arrive they don't seem to be signed
 off by a mentor. On top of that, the development activity seems to
 be quite low. IPMC will have to figure out what to do about it.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 Slider
 Stratosphere

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   (None)

 Community growth:

   BatchEE
   Blur
   Droids
   Celix
   Sirona
   Tez

* Ready to graduate

 The Board has motions for the following:

   Phoenix
   Stratos

* Did not report, expected next month

 DeviceMap
 NPanday

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BatchEE
Blur
Celix
DeviceMap
Droids
Hadoop Development Tools
NPanday
Ripple
Sirona
Stratosphere
Tez
Twill
Phoenix

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AI Bertrand: Look at the DeviceMap project health

16 Apr 2014 [Roman Shaposhnik / Roy] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 32 podlings currently under incubation.

* Community

 New IPMC members:
   Rob Weir
   Sean Owen

 People who left the IPMC:

   (None)

* New Podlings

   (None)

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

   (None)

 The following graduations have been approved by
 the previous board meeting but haven't been recorded
 in the incubator report:

    Tajo
    Olingo
    Allura

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   March 13 Phoenix 2.2.3-incubating

 It took 2-10 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.

   Release                               VOTE start  Third IMPC +1  Days
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------
   Apache Phoenix 2.2.3-incubating       Mar 7       Mar 13         6


* Miscellaneous

 * A proposal for Stratosphere: an open source system for parallel data
   analysis has been submitted
 * A proposal for Slider has superseded the former proposal for Hoya
 * A POC with Black Duck software and a few incubator projects has been
   submitted and actively discussed

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   NPanday
   ODF Toolkit
   Samza

 Community growth:
   NPanday
   ODF Toolkit

* Did not report, expected next month

 Celix
 DeviceMap
 Ripple

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Aurora
DataFu
MetaModel
NPanday
ODF Toolkit
Phoenix
Samza
Stratos
Usergrid
VXQuery

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19 Mar 2014 [Roman Shaposhnik / Roy] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 33 podlings currently under incubation.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   Justin Mclean

 People who left the IPMC:

   (None)

* New Podlings

   (None)

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

   (None)

 The following graduations have been approved by
 the previous board meeting but haven't been recorded
 in the incubator report:

   Knox
   Spark

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   Feb  2 Apache Spark 0.9.0-incubating
   Feb  2 Apache Falcon 0.4-incubating
   Feb  5 Apache Twill 0.1.0-incubating
   Feb 10 Apache Olingo 1.1.0-incubating
   Feb 21 Apache Storm 0.9.1-incubating
   Feb 24 Apache Celix 1.0.0-incubating
   Feb 28 Apache Tez 0.3.0-incubating

 It took 2-10 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.

   Release                               VOTE start  Third IMPC +1  Days
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------
   Apache Spark 0.9.0-incubating         Jan 24      Jan 31          5
   Apache Falcon 0.4-incubating          Jan 24      Feb  2         10
   Apache Twill 0.1.0-incubating         Feb  1      Feb  4          3
   Apache Olingo 1.1.0-incubating        Jan 31      Feb 10         10
   Apache Storm 0.9.1-incubating         Feb 13      Feb 16          3
   Apache Celix 1.0.0-incubating         Feb 16      Feb 22          6
   Apache Tez 0.3.0-incubating           Feb 26      Feb 28          2

* Miscellaneous

 * NPanday missed two reports in a row and community activity is low.
   This has been escalated to the project's mentors.

 * A proposal for Hoya, an application to deploy and manage existing
   distributed applications in a YARN cluster, is still pending a vote.

 * The Apache Phoenix podling is concerned that an import of existing
   issues database into ASF JIRA is taking too long

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release(s):

   BatchEE
   DataFu
   log4cxx2
   Phoenix
   Wave
   Streams

 Community growth:

   DeviceMap
   Drill
   Falcon
   MRQL
   Kalumet
   Streams

 Considering retirement:

   S4

* Ready to graduate

   Allura
   Tajo

* Did not report, expected next month

   NPanday

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Allura
BatchEE
DataFu
DeviceMap
Drill
Falcon
Kalumet
log4cxx2
MRQL
NPanday
Phoenix
S4
Sentry
Sirona
Storm
Streams
Tajo
Wave

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19 Feb 2014 ¶

Change the Apache Incubator Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Marvin Humphrey
 to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Marvin Humphrey from the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator,
 and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Incubator
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Roman Shaposhnik as the
 successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Marvin Humphrey is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache Incubator, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Roman Shaposhnik be and hereby is
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, 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 Incubator Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

19 Feb 2014 [Marvin Humphrey / Doug] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 36 podlings currently under incubation.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   Suresh Srinivas
   Carl Steinbach

 People who left the IPMC:

   Dennis Lundberg

* New Podlings

   (None)

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

   Open Climate Workbench

 At time of writing, graduation votes were underway for the following:

   Knox
   Spark

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   Jan 21 Apache Metamodel 4.0.0-incubating

 It took 9 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.

   Release                             RC VOTE start  Third IMPC +1   Days
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
   Apache Metamodel 4.0.0-incubating   Dec 12         Dec 21      9

* IP Clearance

 * Salesforce donated the code for Phoenix, an open source SQL query engine
   for Apache HBase, a NoSQL data store. It is accessed as a JDBC driver
   and enables querying and managing HBase tables using SQL.

* Miscellaneous

 * The issue of how best to integrate with GitHub is a recurring topic of
   discussion.  Infra added a new feature -- forwarding of comments on pull
   requests to dev lists -- which was well received.  However, as GitHub's
   interface is an external commercial service rather than something we run
   on our own hardware, it is difficult to ensure that communications
   will be archived, requiring additional vigilance from PMCs.

 * A proposal for Hoya, an application to deploy and manage existing
   distributed applications in a YARN cluster, was discussed at length but
   has not yet been voted on.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

   DataFu

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   Hadoop Development Tools
   log4cxx2
   Phoenix
   Usergrid

 Community growth:

   Blur
   Tez
   Twill

 Low activity:

   Droids

* Ready to graduate

   Open Climate Workbench
   Knox

* Did not report, expected next month

   BatchEE
   DeviceMap
   NPanday
   Sirona

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Blur
DataFu
DeviceMap
Droids
Hadoop Development Tools
Knox
log4cxx2
Open Climate Workbench
Phoenix
Tez
Twill
Usergrid

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15 Jan 2014 [Marvin Humphrey / Roy] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 36 podlings currently under incubation.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   (None)

 People who left the IPMC:

   (None)

* New Podlings

 * DataFu makes it easier to solve data problems using Hadoop and
   higher level languages based on it.

* Graduations

   (None)

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   Dec 16 Apache Sirona 0.1-incubating
   Dec 17 Apache Spark 0.8.1-incubating

 It took 6-21 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.

   Release                               VOTE start  Third IMPC +1  Days
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------
   Apache Sirona 0.1-incubating          Nov 26      Dec 16         21
   Apache Spark 0.8.1-incubating         Dec 11      Dec 17         6

* IP Clearance

 * Apache Celix received the donation of a shared memory implementation of
   the remote service admin specification from Thales Nederland B.V..

* Miscellaneous

 * The initiative to reform release voting yielded multiple breakthroughs
   during this report cycle.

   1. An experimental framework was approved whereby PPMC votes become
      binding for releases after the first if a release checklist is
      completed by the PPMC and approved by a Mentor.
   2. A concise checklist of release requirements was assembled, where
      each item is required by either ASF-wide policy or Incubator policy.
   3. Consensus was built for a controlled regime for relaxing policy on
      incubating releases under appropriate circumstances, potentially
      reducing the number of release candidates we force podlings to cycle
      through.

   All of this was achieved with significantly fewer emails compared with
   past reform attempts.

 * Exercising the new regime for controlled relaxation of policy, a bugfix
   release by Spark (0.8.1) which bundled jar files was approved by the
   IPMC after the podling presented a roadmap to eliminating them in the
   next minor point release (0.9).

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

   Log4cxx
   Phoenix

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   Aurora
   BatchEE
   MetaModel
   Ripple
   Samza
   Twill

 Community growth:

   Celix
   ODF Toolkit
   Olingo
   Sirona
   Stratos
   VXQuery

* Ready to graduate

   Spark

* Did not report, expected next month

   DeviceMap
   Usergrid

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Aurora
BatchEE
Celix
log4cxx2
MetaModel
ODF Toolkit
Olingo
Phoenix
Ripple
Samza
Sirona
Spark
Stratos
Twill
VXQuery

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18 Dec 2013 [Marvin Humphrey / Shane] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 35 podlings currently under incubation.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   Raphael Bircher
   Dave Brondsema
   Sergio Fernández
   Lars Hofhansl
   Steven Noels
   Andrew Purtell
   Billie Rinaldi
   Sebastian Schelter
   Michael Stack
   Till Westmann

 People who left the IPMC:

   (None)

* New Podlings

 * Phoenix is an open source SQL query engine for Apache HBase, a NoSQL
   data store. It is accessed as a JDBC driver and enables querying and
   managing HBase tables using SQL.

 * Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop YARN that reduces the
   complexity of developing distributed applications, allowing developers
   to focus more on their business logic

 * Log4cxx -- Logging for C++.  This new podling is a reboot of an existing
   Apache project with a fresh group of contributors.

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

   Helix

* Retirements

 * The Provisionr podling voted to retire and then followed through on
   completing the retirement guide (a rarity).  Best wishes to the
   wonderful, wonderful Provisionr people in their future endeavors.

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   Nov 11 Apache Allura (incubating) 1.0.1
   Nov 13 Apache VXQuery 0.2-incubating
   Nov 14 Apache Tajo 0.2.0-incubating
   Nov 22 Apache Helix 0.6.2-incubating
   Nov 22 Apache Helix 0.7.0-incubating
   Dec 01 Apache Tez 0.2.0-incubating

 It took 0-39 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.

   Release                               VOTE start  Third IMPC +1  Days
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------
   Apache Allura (incubating) 1.0.1      Oct 14      Nov 10         27
   Apache VXQuery 0.2-incubating         Oct 3       Nov 10         39
   Apache Tajo 0.2.0-incubating          Nov 1       Nov 14         13
   Apache Helix 0.6.2-incubating         Nov 15      Nov 22         7
   Apache Helix 0.7.0-incubating         Nov 15      Nov 20         5
   Apache Tez 0.2.0-incubating           Nov 26      Nov 26         0

* IP Clearance

 * Citrix has donated a plugin for Apache CloudStack to support RDP
   connectivity for virtual machines running within Hyper-V hypervisors.

 * IBM has donated Distributed UIMA Cluster Computing (DUCC), a cluster
   management system providing tooling, management, and scheduling
   facilities to automate the scale-out of applications using the UIMA
   framework.

 * Adobe has donated the Sling replication module, which allows resources
   to be replicated between Sling instances.

* Infrastructure

 * The Incubator dist area is now fully transitioned to dist.apache.org.
   Infra is pleased.

* Miscellaneous

 * The Incubator experienced a rough cycle for releases.  Several podlings
   experienced long wait times for IPMC votes.  One release made it out
   despite IP clearance not having been completed.  Another was improperly
   released with only two IPMC +1 votes.

 * The initiative to reform release voting continues.  We achieved consensus
   for one particular approach and tried it. The approach seems not to have
   succeeded (though some argue it has not been given enough time).  We are
   now negotiating a second approach.  We have not yet achieved a
   breakthrough, but progress is being made and discussions are civil and
   proceeding at a measured pace rather than overheating as past efforts
   have.

 * We've started recruiting non-IPMC shepherds and the new volunteers have
   brought substantial energy and enthusiasm to the task.

 * The Chair finished coding up several new tools around reporting which will
   hopefully make it easier to sustain high report quality into the future.
   An attempt to recruit a "Report Manager" for this cycle did not yield any
   volunteers, though.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

   Twill
   Usergrid

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   Aurora
   Storm
   Wave

 Community growth:

   Allura
   Drill
   Falcon
   Kalumet
   MRQL
   NPanday
   S4
   Sentry
   Streams
   Tajo

* Ready to graduate

 The Board has resolutions for the following:

   Helix

* Did not report, expected next month

 BatchEE
 Sirona

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Allura
Aurora
BatchEE
Drill
Falcon
Kalumet
MRQL
NPanday
S4
Sentry
Sirona
Storm
Streams
Tajo
Twill
Usergrid
Wave

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20 Nov 2013 [Marvin Humphrey / Bertrand] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

There are 36 podlings currently under incubation.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   Daniel Gruno

 People who left the IPMC:

   (None)

* New Podlings

 * Sirona is a library around monitoring of Java application.  It aims
   to stay simple, easy and efficient.

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

   Marmotta

* Retirements:

 The Tashi podling has retired.

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   Oct 11 Apache Open Climate Workbench 0.3-incubating
   Oct 16 Apache Olingo (incubating) 1.0.0
   Oct 21 Apache Knox Gateway 0.3.0-incubating
   Oct 23 Apache Ambari 1.4.1-incubating
   Oct 31 Apache MRQL 0.9.0-incubating
   Nov 08 Apache Stratos 3.0.0-incubating

 It took 2-22 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.

   Release                               VOTE start  Third IMPC +1  Days
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------
   Apache OCW 0.3-incubating             Sep 24      Oct 10         16
   Apache Olingo (incubating) 1.0.0      Oct 07      Oct 11         4
   Apache Knox Gateway 0.3.0-incubating  Oct 09      Oct 14         5
   Apache Ambari 1.4.1-incubating        Oct 17      Oct 19         2
   Apache MRQL 0.9.0-incubating          Oct 08      Oct 30         22
   Apache Stratos 3.0.0-incubating       Oct 16      Oct 27         11

* IP Clearance

 * Rcouch, an alternative distribution of Apache CouchDB based
   the 1.3 release, has been accepted by the CouchDB PMC.
 * Juniper Networks, Inc has donated a plugin for Apache CloudStack to
   work with their Contrail networking software.
 * Citrix has donated a plugin for Apache CloudStack to support RDP
   connectivity for virtual machines running within Hyper-V hypervisors.

* Miscellaneous

 * Several discussion threads on project bylaws, initiated by Flex
   community pursuing refinement of their own, have made it clear just how
   difficult it is to draft good bylaws.  A number of people expressed a
   desire for a set of well-crafted, official project bylaws which all
   projects would "inherit".  Since that's hard, though, for the time being
   we're muddling through with patches to the existing ramshackle
   documentation.

 * The Incubator's perpetual difficulties getting podling releases approved
   has spawned another lively discussion.  We seem to have reached
   agreement that we can mitigate the problem by entrusting meritorious
   podling contributors with a binding vote on incubating releases; debate
   continues about what implementation to try.  At time of writing, the
   stratagem with the most popular support seems to be electing more
   podling contributors directly onto the IPMC, but the thread has not yet
   tailed off.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 Aurora
 BatchEE
 Sirona
 Storm
 Usergrid

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   DeviceMap
   Hadoop Development Tools
   Ripple
   Tez

 Community growth:

   Blur
   Knox
   Sentry

 Activity:

   Droids

* Ready to graduate

 Ambari
 Open Climate Workbench

* Did not report, expected next month

 NPanday

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Ambari
Aurora
BatchEE
Blur
DeviceMap
Droids
Hadoop Development Tools
Knox
Open Climate Workbench
Ripple
Sentry
Sirona
Storm
Tez

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16 Oct 2013 [Marvin Humphrey / Shane] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

The Incubator grew to 39 podlings this month.

Mailing list activity on general@incubator went back up after light months
in July and August.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   Tammo van Lessen
   Christian Müller

 People who left the IPMC:

   (None)

* New Podlings

 The Incubator has voted in four new podlings.

   * Aurora is a scheduler that provides all of the primitives necessary
     to quickly deploy and scale stateless and fault tolerant services in
     a datacenter.

   * Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime
     computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing
     of data.

   * BatchEE will be an ALv2-licensed implementation of the JBatch
     Specification which is defined as JSR-352 (for version 1.0).

   * Usergrid is a multi-tenant Backend-as-a-Service stack for web &
     mobile applications, based on RESTful APIs.

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

   Chukwa
   jclouds

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   Sep 11 Apache Ambari 1.2.5-incubating
   Sep 27 Apache Drill 1.0.0-m1-incubating
   Sep 24 Apache Spark 0.8.0-incubating
   Sep 25 Apache Sentry 1.2.0-incubating
   Sep 27 Apache Blur 0.2.0-incubating
   Oct 03 Apache Marmotta 3.1.0-incubating

 It took 1-8 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.

   Release                             RC VOTE start  Third IMPC +1   Days
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
   Apache Ambari 1.2.5-incubating      Sep 04         Sep 10          6
   Apache Drill 1.0.0-m1-incubating    Sep 11         Sep 18          7
   Apache Spark 0.8.0-incubating       Sep 17         Sep 23          6
   Apache Sentry 1.2.0-incubating      Sep 19         Sep 24          5
   Apache Blur 0.2.0-incubating        Sep 18         Sep 19          1
   Apache Marmotta 3.1.0-incubating    Sep 24         Oct 02          8

* Miscellaneous

 * Allura's release candidate, which spent weeks waiting for IPMC
   feedback, was ultimately withdrawn after flaws were discovered.

 * Commons-monitoring seems likely to enter the Incubator.  The name is
   still under discussion.

 * A question about old Chukwa binary artifacts was resolved by
   reaffirming that the ASF makes no guarantees about convenience
   binaries.

 * The Incubator paid elevated attention to trademarks this month.

 * Old controversies about what criteria to apply when adding personnel to
   a proposed podling finally bit an unlucky live podling candidate
   (Usergrid).  Hopefully it will never happen again.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 Storm

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   MetaModel
   Olingo
   Samza
   Stratos
   VXQuery

 Community growth:

   Celix
   ODF Toolkit
   Sentry

* Ready to graduate

 Chukwa
 Helix
 jclouds
 Marmotta

* Did not report, expected next month

 DeviceMap
 Ripple

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Celix
Chukwa
DeviceMap
Helix
jclouds
Marmotta
MetaModel
ODF Toolkit
Olingo
Ripple
Samza
Sentry
Spark
Storm
Stratos
VXQuery

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18 Sep 2013 [Marvin Humphrey / Chris] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

It's been another relatively quiet and smooth month for the Incubator.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   Ben Hindman
   Jake Farrell
   Andrei Savu

 People who left the IPMC:

   (None)

* New Podlings

 (None)

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

   Curator

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   Aug 15 Apache Falcon (incubating) v0.3
   Aug 27 Apache jclouds 1.6.2-incubating

 It took 5-8 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.

   Release                             RC VOTE start  Third IMPC +1   Days
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
   Apache Falcon (incubating) v0.3     Aug 07         Aug 12          5
   Apache jclouds 1.6.2-incubating     Aug 18         Aug 26          8

 However, the first incubating release for Allura has now been waiting since
 at least August 28 (13 days as of this writing) with only 1 IPMC vote cast
 so far.  Two rounds of polite pings have yet to scare up additional votes.

* Miscellaneous

 * Several proposals are in various states of preparation.  Two seem close
   to launching an entry VOTE: Storm, "a distributed, fault-tolerant, and
   high-performance realtime computation system that provides strong
   guarantees on the processing of data", and Aurora, "a service scheduler
   used to schedule jobs onto Apache Mesos."

 * Tashi's developers are currently running a community retirement vote.  It
   seems likely that the podling will be retired within the next few weeks.

 * VXQuery is being pressured to show progress by some IPMC members and
   defended by others.

 * The tradition of sending a "welcome" email to new podlings once their
   mailing lists are set up has been quietly introduced.  Such mails are
   cross-posted to the podling's dev list and general@incubator.  This is
   another offshoot of the "Incubator Ombud" discussions which began a few
   months ago, like the WhatToExpect wiki page.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 Samza
 Sentry
 Spark

* Not yet ready to graduate

 No release:

   Allura
   Drill
   Kalumet
   MetaModel
   MRQL
   Olingo
   Tajo
   Wave

 Community growth:

   Falcon
   Provisionr
   S4
   Streams

 Other/unspecified:

   Open Climate Workbench

* Ready to graduate

 Curator

* Did not report

 (None)

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Allura
Curator
Drill
Falcon
Kalumet
MetaModel
MRQL
Olingo
Open Climate Workbench
Provisionr
S4
Samza
Sentry
Spark
Streams
Tajo
Wave

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21 Aug 2013 [Marvin Humphrey / Doug] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

By Incubator standards, it's been a quiet month.  At 193 emails for July,
traffic on general@incubator was as light as it's been since May 2011, the
month before the Open Office proposal arrived.

* Community

 There were no changes to the IPMC roster.

* New Podlings

 Two new podlings entered the Incubator:

   Samza
   Sentry

* Graduations

 (None)

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   Jul 24 Apache Ambari 1.2.4-incubating
   Aug 08 Apache Curator 2.2.0-incubating

 It took 3-6 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.

   Release                             RC VOTE start  Third IMPC +1   Days
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
   Apache Ambari 1.2.4-incubating      Jul 17         Jun 23          6
   Apache Curator 2.2.0-incubating     Jul 31         Aug 02          3

* Miscellaneous

 o Discussions about a potential Incubator Ombud continued.

 o Discussions about a "welcoming committee" or other ways to facilitate
   orientation of new podlings, spun off from the WhatToExpect wiki page and
   the Ombud discussion, progressed but have not been put into action.


-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

 o Olingo
 o Samza
 o Spark

* Not yet ready to graduate

 o Blur (no release)
 o Droids (activity)
 o Falcon (community growth)
 o Hadoop Development Tools (no release)
 o Knox (community growth)
 o MetaModel (plan around compatibility breaks from move to Apache)
 o Open Climate Workbench (community growth)
 o Tez (no release)

* Ready to graduate

 o Ambari

* Did not report

 o NPanday
 o Tashi (second missed report)

17 Jul 2013 [Marvin Humphrey / Brett] ¶

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

The Incubator expanded to 37 podlings this month.

* Community

 New IPMC members:

   (None)

 People who left the IPMC:

   Davanum Srinivas

 New IPMC Chair:

   Marvin Humphrey, replacing Benson Margulies

* New Podlings

 Four new podlings entered the Incubator:

   MetaModel
   Olingo
   Spark
   Stratos

* Graduations

 The board has motions for the following:

   Apache Mesos
   Apache JSPWiki

* Releases

 The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

   Jun 20 Apache Mesos 0.12.0-incubating
   Jun 20 Apache jclouds 1.6.1-incubating
   Jun 22 Apache ODF Toolkit 0.6-incubating
   Jul 02 Apache Curator 2.1.0-incubating

 The availability of IPMC votes for podling releases remains a perennial
 problem and source of discontent.  This month, it took between 4 and 20 days
 from the start of the RC vote on the podling dev list for the third IPMC +1
 vote to be cast.

   Release                             RC VOTE start  Third IMPC +1   Days
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
   Apache Mesos 0.12.0-incubating      Jun 11         Jun 17          6
   Apache jclouds 1.6.1-incubating     Jun 13         Jun 17          4
   Apache ODF Toolkit 0.6-incubating   May 27         Jun 17          20
   Apache Curator 2.1.0-incubating     Jun 20         Jun 28          8

* IP Clearance

 Cloudant's donation of BigCouch passed by lazy consensus.

* Miscellaneous

 A schism in the IPMC membership was revealed with regards to whether the
 text of a proposal may be modified while a vote is underway.  It was
 resolved that proposals may not be modified, but opinion remains sharply
 divided.

 Two new draft documentation pages were well received:

 o "What to Expect", an introduction for incoming podling contributors.
 o "Mailing List Options", guidance for requesting mailing lists.

 The following topics were discussed on general@incubator but have not yet
 resulted in concrete action:

 o Provisional top-level projects ("pTLP" for short), a less radical offshoot
   of the "Incubator Deconstruction" proposal.
 o The language of the Incubator's IP Clearance template (*not* the software
   grant form, only the checklist) is out of date.
 o A "Poding Bill of Rights" was proposed.  It has not been formally adopted,
   but discussion influenced the subsequently spawned "What to Expect"
   document.
 o A formal ombud position for the Incubator was proposed, and its
   composition and potential responsibilities were discussed.
 o Exit interviews for graduated podlings were proposed.  Debate centered on
   whether responses should/could/must be anonymous.

 An audit by the Chair revealed that autogenerated report reminders sent on
 July 1 failed to make it to the mailing lists of three podlings (Celix,
 Tajo, VXQuery), presumably because the emails did not make it through
 moderation.  Manual reminders were sent on July 3 (after subscribing
 temporarily to the dev lists in question to sidestep moderation).

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

Still getting started at the Incubator (3 podlings)

 MetaModel, Spark, Stratos

Not yet ready to graduate (12 podlings)

 No release:       DeviceMap, Falcon, Knox, MRQL, Open Climate Workbench,
                   Ripple, Tajo, VXQuery
 Community growth: Celix, Marmotta, ODF Toolkit, Provisionr

Ready to graduate (5 podlings)

 JSPWiki, Mesos, Chukwa, jclouds, Helix

Did not report (2 podlings)

 Tashi, Tez

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Celix
Chukwa
DeviceMap
Falcon
Helix
jclouds
JSPWiki
Knox
Marmotta
MetaModel
MRQL
ODF Toolkit
Open Climate Workbench
Provisionr
Ripple
Spark
Stratos
Tajo
Tashi
Tez
VXQuery

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Props for having the mentor check boxes in the report!

19 Jun 2013 ¶

Change the Apache Incubator Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Benson
 Margulies to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
 of Benson Margulies from the office of Vice President, Apache
 Incubator, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Incubator
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Marvin Humphrey as the
 successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Benson Margulies is relieved
 and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
 of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Marvin Humphrey be and hereby is
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, 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 7D, Change the Apache Incubator Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

19 Jun 2013 [Benson Margulies / Bertrand] ¶

There is nothing very novel or interesting to report this month. The
current chair exits as of this report. The reports below show the
usual mixture of informative and not-so- informative.

Several IP clearances passed via 'lazy consensus.' They couldn't be
lazier; no one on the IPMC (except the Foundation Secretary) indicated
that they reviewed this transactions.


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 Table of Contents
Allura
Curator
Drill
Falcon
HCatalog
jclouds
Kalumet
Knox
MRQL
Open Climate Workbench
Provisionr
S4
Streams
Tajo
Tez
Wave

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15 May 2013 [Benson Margulies / Jim] ¶

The incubator PMC continues to have difficulties with supervision and
reporting, as evinced by set of missing reports below. [1] It's not
really clear why this problem has grown worse. Perhaps the previous
chair was more capable of harnessing the efforts of the PMC, or
perhaps it's the larger number of podlings, or perhaps it's random, or
more likely it's a combination of the above.

While there is a consensus in the PMC that there are problems, there
is not a consensus about what actions to take. Several people have
proposed changes, and all of those changes have attracted a mixture of
support and opposition.

If nothing changes, either at the level of lack of reports and other
evidence of supervision problems, or with the PMC's ability to reach a
consensus, Benson is going to ask the Board for an agenda item on the
June agenda to discuss the situation.

On the positive side, the PMC has added several new members from
inside the podlings, which is one of the schemes for getting more
supervision done.

[1] There is some evidence that Marvin failed to deliver some
reminders. If true, it is a partial explanation but not a complete
excuse.

o Community

New IPMC members:

David Nalley
Henry Saputra
Hemming Schmiedenhausen
Chip Childers
Joe Brockmeier


People who left the IPMC:

jeremias@apache.org
Stefan Bodewig

o New Podlings

jclouds

o Graduations: the board has motions for the following:

<none>

o Releases

o Legal / Trademarks

o Infrastructure

The Wiki outage was a minor disruption.


-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

Still getting started at the Incubator

 These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
 towards graduation is yet expected.

Not yet ready to graduate

Ready to graduate


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Ambari
Blur
Curator
DeltaSpike
Droids
Falcon
Hadoop Development Tools
jclouds
Knox
Mesos
MRQL
NPanday
ODF Toolkit
Onami
Open Climate Workbench
Provisionr
Tajo
Tez

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Summary of podling reports is empty: it should be filled in or removed in subsequent reports. It was noted the Droids has been in the incubator, and while the report cites Activity as what needs to happen, it also cites a flurry of activity.

17 Apr 2013 [Benson Margulies / Ross] ¶

April was a month of much email at the IPMC. Two different
non-Foundation-member candidates for IPMC membership led to
controversy (each in his own way), and exposed the difficulties of
achieving consensus in a large, diverse, group.  Eventually, the two
cases were resolved, and the community proceeded to a public
conversation about decision-making process, agreeing to use a
3/4-majority voting rule when considering non-Foundation-member
candidates.

The voluminous and frustrating email on this subject, combined with
the ongoing questions around supervision (are enough mentors paying
attention?) led to a renewed debate on the structure, and indeed,
existence, of the IPMC as currently constituted. This debate
continues.

o Community

New IPMC members:

Henry Saputra
David Nalley

People who left the IPMC:

Felix Meschberger
Nicolas Lalevée
Stefan Bodewig
Jeremias Maerki

o New Podlings

Curator

o Graduations

<No mentors filled this in, and there are no motions before the board
 as of 12 April.>

o Releases

<No mentors filled this in.>

o Legal / Trademarks

<Nothing to report.>

o Infrastructure

<Nothing to report.>

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

Still getting started at the Incubator

 These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
 towards graduation is yet expected.

Not yet ready to graduate

 Marmotta

Not yet ready to graduate, needs attention
 VXQuery

Ready to graduate


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Celix
Chukwa
Curator
DeviceMap
Falcon
Hadoop Development Tools
Helix
JSPWiki
Knox
Marmotta
Mesos
MRQL
ODF Toolkit
Open Climate Workbench
Provisionr
Ripple
Tajo
Tashi
Tez
VXQuery

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20 Mar 2013 [Benson Margulies / Sam] ¶

This month saw a significant discussion around a proposal to modify the
Incubator's policy to eliminate the option for podlings to graduate as
sub-projects of existing PMCs. While this discussion still has unresolved
issues, including moving short-form IP Clearance to legal, there is
significant support for eliminating the option for a proposed podling
to explicitly target a sub-project graduation path.  Many participants
agreed that retaining it as a viable exit path, by exception, was a
logical compromise to eliminating it all together; specifically, when
it is apparent that achieving TLP is not a viable option and there is a
PMC willing to accept the code/community.  The effect of this discussion
can already be seen in the modification of the Curator proposal to keep
TLP as a potential graduation target.

Additionally, the Incubator saw a substantial influx of new, accepted
projects with more proposals currently under discussion.  In prior
reports, the issue of mentor time & attention was raised and will need
to be watched closely with the addition of so many new projects in a
short timeframe.  The only point of immediate concern in this space is the
failed experiment for Shepherd's to self-organize. As a PMC, the Incubator
needs to determine how we will handle the assignment and execution of
the up-till-now successful shepherd role for any given report without
the direct intervention of a single individual, such as the PMC chair.

Lastly, the MRQL project proposal was championed by an individual who is
a PMC chair, but is not a foundation member or IPMC member.  Discovery
of this fact, combined with the perception that the vote was rushed,
led some in the IPMC to immediately invalidate the project proposal and
take actions to cancel creation of its resources.  Further discussions
have prompted other IPMC members to step forward as proposed champions
and mentors in an effort to get the proposal and project creation back
on track.

o Community

New IPMC members:
None

People who left the IPMC:
None

o New Podlings

The Incubator PMC voted to accept 6 new podlings since the last report

Curator - a set of Java libraries for working with Apache Zookeeper
Knox - a single point of authentication for Apache Hadoop services
MRQL* - a query processing and optimization system for large-scale
data analysis
Open Climate Workbench - a framework focused on the rapid comparison of
climate model output to remote sensing data.
Provisionr - a service to manage pools of virtual machines on multiple
clouds
Tajo - a relational and distributed data warehouse system for Hadoop
Tez - a framework for processing arbitrarily complex data-processing tasks

* The MRQL acceptance has been mired in controversy due to an issue with
the Champion's status. (See commentary)

o Graduations

The board has motions for the following:

Bloodhound
Cloudstack
cTAKES

The following projects are graduating to an existing PMC:

EasyAnt to the Ant PMC

o Releases

Apache Onami Parent 0.3-incubating
Apache EasyAnt 0.9-incubating
Apache Crunch 0.5.0-incubating
Apache Mesos 0.10-incubating

o Legal / Trademarks
No issues at this time

o Infrastructure
No issues at this time

Still getting started at the Incubator
These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
towards graduation is yet expected.

Knox
Tez

Not yet ready to graduate

Allura
Drill
HDT
Open Climate Workbench
S4
Streams

Not ready to graduate require attention

Kalumet
Wave

Ready to graduate

Bloodhound
cTAKES

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Allura
Bloodhound
cTAKES
Drill
Hadoop Development Tools
Kalumet
Knox
Open Climate Workbench
S4
Streams
Tez
Wave

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20 Feb 2013 [Benson Margulies / Rich] ¶

The main concern of the incubator continues to be the quality and
reliability of supervision.  We know that some projects suffer from
Mentor Inattention. Individual PMC members have been volunteering to
address some of these holes. Shepherds are an additional mechanism for
taking note of problems, but not a solution to those problems. The
supply of mentoring seems, still, to exceed demand. Changes to the
report format make it somewhat easier to notice, for example, mentors
who don't sign off on reports or reports that are altogether missing.

As a change from this theme, this reporting period includes a less
conventional issue.  A podling (HCatalog) proposes to 'graduate' by
absorption into the Hive PMC. However, the terms under which Hive
proposes to absorb HCatalog strikes some PMC members as returning to
the deprecated practices of 'umbrellas' and 'subprojects', which led
to strong -1 votes on the graduation thread. On the other hand, it may
be entirely between the board and Hive to sort out whether Hive is
creating a structure that is acceptable to the board or not, and not a
matter for the IPMC to rule on.

We'd like to pose this question to the board:

There are three possible dispositions of a podling:

1. It graduates. The IPMC has a vote to recommend that the board
establish the TLP.

2. It retires. The IPMC votes to retire. The board learns in the next
IPMC report.

3. The podling community strikes an agreement to merge into some
existing TLP.

It is the third case we'd like some board feedback on. What is the
role of the IPMC in this case? A minimalist view is that all we do is
certify that the IP is cleared, and then we 'retire' the podling -- no
vote at all, or a lazy consensus to certify the IP situation. The
board, on the other hand, might look to us to vote to approve the
scheme of adoption. If the vote fails, however, then what?

o Community

New IPMC members:

Chris Douglas

People who left the IPMC:

None

o New Podlings

None.

o Graduations


The board has motions for the following:

Crunch and Clerezza have motions before the board.

o Releases

Well, I can't find any. But people may not have sent proper announcements
to general@incubator.

o Legal / Trademarks

Lovely new documentation on LICENSE and NOTICE resulted from conversations
at the IPMC.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

Still getting started at the Incubator

 These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
 towards graduation is yet expected.

 Blur
 HDT
 Marmotta
 Onami
 Ripple
 Streams

Not yet ready to graduate

 Ambari
 Crunch
 Deltaspike
 Droids
 NPanday

Ready to graduate

  Clerezza


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Ambari
Blur
Clerezza
Crunch
DeltaSpike
Droids
Hadoop Development Tools
Marmotta
NPanday
Onami
Ripple
Streams

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16 Jan 2013 [Benson Margulies / Brett] ¶

In the past month the IPMC voted to retire, and retired, Photark.  We were
unsuccessful in engaging the community members in this process; they did not
respond to email over an extended period of time.

This is the first report using a new template that helps take note of mentor
participation.

There are 53 total mentors attached to projects; 27 signed off on their
projects' reports, and 26 did not.

One project (Tashi) failed to report, this has led to a start of a
conversation about their future.  (A report was supplied on 12 Jan and has
been added here.)

This reporting cycle includes several projects that look as if they may have
stalled; shepherds have started conversations with some, and we will engage
over time with the others.

o Graduations

The board has motions for the following:

  OpenMeeting
  Etch
  Otlu

o Releases

  None in the month covered by this report.


-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

Still getting started at the Incubator

 Hadoop Development Tools
 Helix
 Marmotta
 Onami
 Ripple
 Streams

Not yet ready to graduate

 Low activity: DeviceMap
 Low diversity: CloudStack
 Too Small: Celix, Chukwa, Mesos, ODF Toolkit
 In Process: Drill
 No Report! Tashi
 No release: VXQuery

Ready to graduate

 EasyAnt (looking to be incorporated in an existing TLP)
 JSPWiki


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Celix
Chukwa
CloudStack
DeviceMap
Drill
EasyAnt
Hadoop Development Tools
Helix
JSPWiki
Marmotta
Mesos
ODF Toolkit
Onami
Ripple
Streams
Tashi
VXQuery

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AI: Brett: pass on feedback to IPMC

19 Dec 2012 [Benson Margulies / Brett] ¶

This is the first report with me (Benson) in the chair. I want to call out
thanks to Jukka and others for helping me get off the ground with my chair
duties, and, of course, to again thank Jukka for his service.

As documented below, the incubator has had some exits and some entrances.
We continue to have vigorous discussions on how to achieve appropriate
supervision and coaching of podlings and how to approach small, slow, or
otherwise doubtful projects.

As with all matters of this volunteer foundation, calling people out for
not doing things is not a viable long-term strategy. From time to time, we
lose mentor involvement, and as a community we have to find more and better
ways of serving podlings that suffer from this problem.


o Community

New IPMC members: Fabian Christ, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Andrew Hart
People who left the IPMC: Chris Douglas

o New Podlings

oo Hadoop Development Tools
oo Marmotta

o Graduations

The board has motions for the following:

oo Wink
oo OpenMeetings
oo Flex

The IPMC voted to endorse the adoption of the Nuvem podling into the Tuscany TLP.


o Releases

Apache Flex SDK Installer 1.0-incubating released (16 Nov)
Apache Bloodhound 0.3 incubating Released (4 Dec)


-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

Still getting started at the Incubator

 These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
 towards graduation is yet expected.

o Hadoop Development Tools
o Drill
o Marmotta
o Onami
o Streams

Not yet ready to graduate

o Allura
o Helix
o Kalumet
o S4
o Wave

Ready to graduate

o Bloodhound (* there is a bit of diversity of opinion here)
o cTAKES
o Etch
o HCatalog
o Openmeetings
o Flex

Bloodhound report should mention progress towards graduation. Drill report should say what the project does. Openmeetings should mention that the reason the plugins are hosted at apache-extras.org is that they are GPL.

21 Nov 2012 ¶

Change Chair for Apache Incubator

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Jukka
 Zitting to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
 of Jukka Zitting from the office of Vice President, Apache
 Incubator, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Incubator
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Benson Margulies as
 the Successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Jukka Zitting is
 relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of
 the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Benson Margulies be and hereby
 is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, 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 Chair for Apache Incubator, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

21 Nov 2012 [Jukka Zitting / Brett] ¶

As mentioned last month, Jukka Zitting is resigning as the IPMC
chair due to changes in personal life. The Incubator PMC has voted
to recommend Benson Margulies as the successor for this post.

Overall the Incubator continues to work as the path for new projects
to join the ASF. There are still various unresolved issues in the
incubation process and the structures, roles and documentation
surrounding it, but none of these issues seem as unresolvable as
they did still at the beginning of this year. Also the reduction
in the number of active podlings from 59 at the beginning of the
year to 39 today has helped free up volunteer energy and time to
better focus on helping the remaining podlings.

o Community

 Roman Shaposhnik joined the Incubator PMC since our last report.

 The following podlings are requesting graduation to Apache TLPs:

 - Apache Kafka
 - Apache Syncope
 - Apache Wookie

 The Incubator PMC recommends the board to accept the respective resolutions.

 Other podlings like Clerezza, Droids and Nuvem would otherwise seem ready
 for graduation, but their low community activity seems risky for a standalone
 TLP. Thus they're looking at possibly graduating into broader existing TLPs.
 See the respective reports for more details on these plans.

 The following proposals for new incubating projects were accepted:

 - Apache Hadoop Development Tools
 - Apache Onami

 The proposal for a new Apache Streams podling is being voted on, and
 various other proposals for new projects are being prepared.

 The previously mentioned vote to retire the Apache Kitty podling passed.

o Releases

 The following incubating releases were made since our last report:

 - October 15th, 2012: Apache Droids 0.2.0-incubating
 - October 30th, 2012: Apache Syncope 1.0.3-incubating
 - November 2nd, 2012: Apache CloudStack 4.0.0-incubating
 - November 12th, 2012: Apache Flex SDK Installer 1.0.9-incubating
 - November 15th, 2012: Apache Bloodhound 0.2-incubating

 The crypto export issue of the Wookie podling is still open and is
 blocking their releases. Assistance from the legal team is requested.

o Legal / Trademarks

 The trademark team continues to be helpful in resolving various
 trademark-related issues that come up with many podlings.

 Apart from the crypto export issue mentioned above there
 are currently no major open legal issues that would require
 board attention.

o Infrastructure

 The first few podlings using the previously proposed streamlined
 podling.incubator.apache.org infrastructure are now up and running.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

Still getting started at the Incubator (4 podlings)

 Blur, Drill, Helix, Ripple

 These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
 towards graduation is yet expected.

Not yet ready to graduate (6 podlings)

 Low activity:  Clerezza, Droids, NPanday, Nuvem, PhotArk
 Low diversity: Ambari

 We expect the next quarterly report of projects in this category to
 include a summary of their actions and progress in solving these issues.

Ready to graduate (6 podlings)

 Amber, Crunch, DeltaSpike, Syncope, Wookie, Wink

 We expect these projects to graduate within the next quarter.

17 Oct 2012 [Jukka Zitting / Jim] ¶

The biggest news this month is that of the OpenOffice project,
along with Cordova and Isis, becoming ready to graduate from
the Incubator. As noted below, we feel that these projects are
capable of governing themselves as standalone TLPs according
to Apache policies and the Apache Way, and recommend the board
to accept the respective resolutions.

In other news, Jukka Zitting announced his intention to resign
as the IPMC chair due to changes in personal life. Discussion
about and nominations for the next IPMC chair are open, and we
expect to have a related resolution ready in time for the
November board meeting.

o Community

 There were no changes to the Incubator PMC since our last report.
 The IPMC currently has 168 members.

 The following podlings are requesting graduation to Apache TLPs:

 - Apache Cordova
 - Apache Isis
 - Apache OpenOffice

 The Incubator PMC recommends the board to accept the respective resolutions.

 The following proposals for new incubating projects are being voted on:

 - Apache Helix
 - Apache Ripple

 In addition there seems to be some interest in reviving the earlier idea of
 bringing the BeanShell project (http://beanshell.org/) to the ASF through
 the Incubator.

 Meanwhile the AWF podling was retired due to inactivity, and the Kitty
 podling is voting to retire itself for the same reason.

 JSPWiki is our oldest podling with over five years in the Incubator.
 Activity in JSPWiki was very low for a few years and they've yet to
 create their first Apache release. Earlier this year they discussed
 leaving the Incubator and the ASF since they clearly weren't making
 much progress. That discussion led to some revival of activity and
 the decision to continue in the Incubator. Unfortunately the podling
 no longer has enough active mentors, which has led to some trouble
 with premature attempts at cutting releases or graduating. Despite
 these troubles the podling is making progress, and with sufficient
 help from the IPMC they might well become ready to graduate within
 a few quarters.

o Releases

 The following incubating releases were made since our last report:

 - September 20th, 2012: Apache Crunch 0.3.0-incubating
 - September 24th, 2012: Apache Ambari 0.9-incubating
 - October 1st, 2012: Apache Cordova 2.1.0-incubating
 - October 8th, 2012: Apache Syncope 1.0.2-incubating
 - October 12th, 2012: Apache Kafka 0.7.2-incubating

 The Wookie podling has an open crypto export issue that's blocking
 their release. Since it looks like the issue can be resolved in time
 and the podling can demonstrate ability to cut releases, they can
 proceed towards graduation already before the resolution of that issue.

 We discussed key signing and various ways of getting more podling
 release managers into the Apache web of trust. No concrete actions
 have yet come out of that discussion, but there's been plenty of
 good ideas that may end up being implemented after a while.

o Legal / Trademarks

 The DeviceMap podling encountered a tricky issue with unclear
 ownership of a data file they planned to use. The resolution for
 now is to steer clear of trouble by not including that file.
 See the DeviceMap report and the mentioned issue for more details.

 A somewhat related question came up from CloudStack about how to
 handle files that we can't redistribute due to upstream licensing
 or Apache policies. They had a few such files in imported version
 history, and the consensus was that it's fine as long as such files
 are removed from the heads of all active branches (so they won't be
 included in releases) and that there's no need to modify older
 revisions as long as something like that is not explicitly requested.

o Infrastructure

 The infra team started looking at ways to streamline the various
 tasks related to podling setup and graduation. In practice this
 would mean making podling infra resemble more that of a standalone
 TLP (for example with separate podling.incubator.apache.org or even
 podling.apache.org domains), which seems like a reasonable thing
 to do as long as the incubation disclaimers remain prominent.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

Still getting started at the Incubator (2 podlings)

 Blur, Drill

 These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
 towards graduation is yet expected.

Not yet ready to graduate (11 podlings)

 No release:    Celix, Cloudstack, JSPWiki, VXQuery
 Low activity:  Chukwa, DeviceMap, Kitty, Tashi
 Low diversity: EasyAnt, Mesos, ODF Toolkit

 We expect the next quarterly report of projects in this category to
 include a summary of their actions and progress in solving these issues.

Ready to graduate (1 podling)

 Kafka

 We expect this project to graduate within the next quarter.

19 Sep 2012 [Jukka Zitting / Ross] ¶

The Incubator continues to work reasonably well, with no major issues that
would require direct board attention or assistance.

The downward trend in the number of podlings at the Incubator continues thanks
to the efforts to more actively help podlings towards graduation and to retire
old, inactive podlings. The rate of this change has leveled off over summer,
but we still graduate or retire some 2-3 podlings while accepting only 1-2 new
podlings on average per month.

Current podlings can be roughly divided in three equal-sized groups based on
the time they've spent in the Incubator: a) less than a year, b) less than two
years, and c) more than two years. Of the podlings reporting this month only
Etch, Isis and NPanday fall into the last group, and we're happy to see at
least Etch and Isis being close to graduation in near future.

o Community

 Noah Slater joined the Incubator PMC since our last report.

 The following podlings are requesting graduation to an Apache TLP:

 - Apache Airavata
 - Apache SIS
 - Apache Stanbol

 The Incubator PMC recommends the board to accept the respective resolutions.
 The vote to recommend graduation of the Bigtop podling is in progress.

 The following proposal for a new incubating project was accepted:

 - Apache Drill

 A proposal for a new project called MetaModel was brought up for discussion.

 Only one of the podlings reporting in this month is having trouble with
 low levels of community activity; see the NPanday report for details.
 The interesting bit here is that just a bit over a quarter ago NPanday
 looked like it was just about ready to graduate.

o Releases

 The following incubating releases were made since our last report:

 - August 16th, 2012: Apache S4 0.5.0-incubating
 - August 20th, 2012: Apache Wink 1.2.1-incubating
 - August 22nd, 2012: Apache Bigtop 0.4.0-incubating
 - August 23rd, 2012: Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1-incubating
 - August 24th, 2012: Apache DeltaSpike 0.3-incubating
 - September 4th, 2012: Apache OpenMeetings Moodle Plugin 1.4-incubating
 - September 6th, 2012: Apache Syncope 1.0.1-incubating
 - September 14th, 2012: Apache Bloodhound 0.1-incubating

 All the four podlings categorized below as being blocked on graduation
 by the lack of an Apache release have been in that state for quite a while.
 Ambari and Cordova are just on the verge of their first release, and we've
 asked Kalumet and Wave to put more focus on getting a release out.

o Legal / Trademarks

 The question of whether Openmeetings can releasing modules for
 3rd party products with proprietary or copyleft licenses (LEGAL-147)
 is unresolved and currently blocks one of their releases. Clarification
 from the legal team on whether such cases can indeed be treated as
 platform dependencies would be welcome.

 It was noted that the podling status pages do not always have up to
 date information about IP clearance. We've tried to put some focus
 on this issue during podling reviews.

o Infrastructure

 The recent OpenOffice release caused some trouble by contacting
 svn.apache.org as a part of the build.

 Many of the recent new podlings have opted for Git as their version
 control system, which has caused some strain as the relevant infra
 processes are still being developed.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

Still getting started at the Incubator (4 podlings)

 Allura, Blur, cTAKES, Drill

 These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
 towards graduation is yet expected.

Not yet ready to graduate (7 podlings)

 No release:    Ambari, Cordova, Kalumet, Wave
 Low activity:  NPanday
 Low diversity: Bloodhound, Flex

 We expect the next quarterly report of projects in this category to
 include a summary of their actions and progress in solving these issues.

Ready to graduate (7 podlings)

 Bigtop, Etch, HCatalog, Isis, OpenMeetings, OpenOffice, S4

 We expect these projects to graduate within the next quarter.

15 Aug 2012 [Jukka Zitting / Roy] ¶

This report changes the way report reviews are indicated. Instead of the
"Signed off by mentor" line, we're now using a more generic "Signed-off-by"
notation for all interested IPMC members to sign off reports that they've
reviewed. Some podling reports also have explicit comments from IPMC members.

o Community

 Ted Dunning and Branko Čibej joined the Incubator PMC since our last report.

 The following podlings are requesting graduation to an Apache TLP:

 - Apache DirectMemory
 - Apache Lucene.NET

 The Incubator PMC recommends the board to accept the respective resolutions.
 A number of other podlings are currently preparing for graduation.

 The following proposal for a new incubating project was accepted:

 - Apache Blur

 A proposal for a new project called Drill was brought up for discussion.

 We're continuing the work started in May to better identify absent mentors
 and thus have a clearer picture of podlings without enough active help and
 oversight. Efforts to find replacement mentors have seen mixed success so
far.

 Some of the podlings with low activity haven't seen much improvement over
 many quarters already. We're working with those projects to seek appropriate
 exit strategies from the Incubator. Such projects make the majority of
 podlings that have been incubating for years already.

o Releases

 The following incubating releases were made since our last report:

 - July 18th, 2012: Apache Any23 0.7.0-incubating
 - July 23rd, 2012: Apache SIS 0.2-incubating
 - July 26th, 2012: Apache Flex 4.8.0-incubating
 - July 26th, 2012: Apache Openmeetings 2.0-incubating
 - July 27th, 2012: Apache Syncope 1.0.0-RC3-incubating
 - July 30th, 2012: Apache Amber 0.22-incubating
 - August 2nd, 2012: Apache Airavata 0.4-incubating

 Cutting releases in the Incubator remains a difficult task. We discussed
 starting a "release task force" to help fix this, and there have already
 been some good ideas on how to do that. Unfortunately there are few concrete
 improvements yet, and meanwhile podlings continue having trouble attracting
 enough IPMC attention on their release candidates.

 The vote on an upcoming Bloodhound release brought up the topic of how
 relaxed we can be in interpreting the Apache release policy for podling
 releases. The current thinking is that since these are official Apache
 releases so notable breaches of policy that materially affect our rights
 or those of our downstream users to distribute or use the released code
 are allowed only if explicitly cleared by legal. Smaller issues like
 minor mistakes in source headers or partially incomplete licensing metadata
 can be allowed in an incubating release as long there's a commitment to
 fix such issues in time for the next release.

 We also did some cleanup in /dist/incubator of old releases by projects
 that have already graduated and have more recent releases.

o Legal / Trademarks

 See podling reports for a few ongoing and already resolved issues.
 The only bigger issue that may be of interest to the board is the
 contribution of the GeoTk codebase that led the SIS podling into
 discussions with the OSGeo foundation. See the SIS report for details.

o Infrastructure

 One topic for the proposed release task force to look into is the
 migration of /dist/incubator to svnpubsub within the next few months.
 No progress on this yet.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

Still getting started at the Incubator (4 podlings)

 Allura, CloudStack, Crunch, cTAKES

 These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
 towards graduation is yet expected.

Not yet ready to graduate (5 podlings)

 Low activity:  Clerezza, Droids, Nuvem
 Low diversity: PhotArk, Syncope

 We expect the next quarterly report of projects in this category to
 include a summary of their actions and progress in solving these issues.

Ready to graduate (8 podlings)

 Airavata, Amber, DeltaSpike, Lucene.NET, SIS, Stanbol, Wink, Wookie

 We expect these projects to graduate within the next quarter.

Missed reports (2 podlings)

 Ambari, NPanday

 These projects failed to report in time. A report is expected next month.

The question of SIS request for board-level backing for contributing code that was assigned to OSGeo has been resolved. The license agreement was confirmed to allow contributing the code to Apache.

25 Jul 2012 [Jukka Zitting / Doug] ¶

This is the sixth Incubator report since we started putting more effort into
overseeing our podlings and keeping better track of their progress towards
graduation.

Over that time we had 51 podlings reporting twice on normal schedule. Of those
podlings, one was stuck at IP clearance, four continued without a release,
seven had a low level of activity for the whole quarter, and another seven
were in various other stages without significant progress towards graduation.
Many of these cases are already resolved, and the remaining are being looked
at in more detail.

Over the same six-month time period we saw thirteen projects graduate,
three retire, and five enter the Incubator as new podlings. There are
currently 49 podlings in the Incubator.

o Community

 Jörn Kottmann and Rich Bowen joined the Incubator PMC since our last report.

 The Lucene.Net podling is currently preparing for graduation.

 The following proposal for a new incubating project was accepted:

 - Apache Allura

 A proposal for a new project called Blur was brought up for discussion.

 Various inactive podlings are being retired. We decided to retire
 the Kato podling as mentioned in last month's report. This month
 both the AWF and Kitty podlings are being considered for retirement
 due to inactivity. See the relevant cursory reports for details.

 The proposed resolution to establish the Apache Steve project was briefly
 discussed, and the general consensus was that there is no specific need
 for the project to first go through incubation as the codebase and the
 development community around it already exists within the ASF.

 The role of a Sponsor, i.e. an existing TLP that plans to take a podling
 up as a subproject upon graduation, came up in discussion related to
 the EasyAnt podling. Such a role reflects the concept of an umbrella
 project and is thus no longer that relevant. Whether to discontinue or
 redefine the Sponsor role remains to be decided.

o Releases

 The following incubating releases were made since our last report:

 - June 21st, 2012: Apache Airavata 0.3-incubating
 - June 22nd, 2012: Apache Wookie 0.11.0-incubating
 - June 25th, 2012: Apache Syncope 1.0.0-RC2-incubating
 - June 27th, 2012: Apache Kafka 0.7.1-incubating
 - July  9th, 2012: Apache DirectMemory 0.1-incubating
 - July 10th, 2012: Apache Stanbol Entityhub 0.10.0-incubating

 In addition the release of Apache Any23 0.7.0-incubating is imminent,
 as the release vote has just passed.

o Legal / Trademarks

 The instructions on checking project names for suitability as trademarks are
 a bit inconsistent and partially outdated. We're working on fixing that.

o Infrastructure

 Some of the recently graduated podlings have had trouble clearly
 communicating to the infrastructure team everything that's needed
 for migrating project infrastructure to a TLP. We'll need to find a
 way to better instruct podlings on this as they prepare to graduate.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

Still getting started at the Incubator (4 podlings)

 Allura, CloudStack, Crunch, cTAKES

 These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
 towards graduation is yet expected.

Not yet ready to graduate (12 podlings)

 No release:    Any23, Celix, JSPWiki, VXQuery
 Low activity:  AWF, DeviceMap, EasyAnt, Kitty, ODF Toolkit
 Low diversity: Chukwa, Mesos, Tashi

 We expect the next quarterly report of projects in this category to
 include a summary of their actions and progress in solving these issues.

Ready to graduate (3 podlings)

 DirectMemory, Kafka, Oozie

 We expect these projects to graduate within the next quarter.

(Incubator)

AI Doug: ask that shepherd comments be put into the report.

20 Jun 2012 [Jukka Zitting / Jim] ¶

The Incubator continues to guide podlings towards graduation. The shepherd
model we tried last month is working fairly well, with most of the podling
reports this month reviewed both by mentors and the assigned shepherds.
Meanwhile we're still encountering problems with mentor attrition.

o Community

 Suresh Marru, Jakob Homan, Tomaž Muraus, Andy Seaborne, Arvind Prabhakar
 and Mahadev Konar joined and Ian Holsman resigned from the Incubator PMC
 since our last report.

 The following podling is requesting graduation to an Apache TLP:

 - Apache Flume

 The Incubator PMC recommends the board to accept the respective resolutions.
 The IPMC is currently voting on the graduation of the VCL podling.

 The question of community diversity as a graduation issue was discussed.
 See the Flume report for details.

 The following proposals for new incubating projects were accepted:

 - Apache Crunch
 - Apache cTAKES

 Initial proposals for Apache Parser and Apache Busilet were discussed, but
 they still need some work before acceptance.

 The Crunch proposal led to a discussion about how new podlings can or
 should be constructing the initial list of committers. The outcome of
 the discussion was that ideally, when constructing the proposal, the
 project together with its champion and possible mentors should decide
 whether to open the list to any interested people or to simply use an
 existing pre-Apache list of committers. The selected approach should be
 mentioned on the proposal and applied consistently.

 The Kato podling is inactive and we're considering retiring it. See the Kato
 report for details.

o Releases

 The following incubating releases were made since our last report:

 - May 2012: Apache Mesos 0.9.0-incubating
 - May 16th, 2012: Apache HCatalog 0.4.0-incubating
 - May 21st, 2012: Apache Wink 1.2.0-incubating
 - May 24th, 2012: Apache Wookie 0.10.0-incubating
 - June 1st, 2012: Apache Syncope 1.0.0-RC1-incubating
 - June 9th, 2012: Apache Oozie 3.2.0-incubating

 In addition the Apache ManifoldCF 0.5.1 release was shipped under
 the /dist/incubator space as the project was still in process of
 graduating from the Incubator.

 The previously reported discussion about "distribution" releases
 reached a working consensus. See the Bigtop report for details.

 Cutting their first Apache release remains a big step for many
 podlings as seen in this month's report summary.

o Legal / Trademarks

 The Flex trademark licensing deal is progressing. See the Flex
 report for details.

o Infrastructure

 The many graduating projects are producing quite a bit of
 infrastructure work. This situation can be expected to continue
 for the next few months, as the number of podlings getting ready
 to graduate remains high.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

Still getting started at the Incubator (2 podlings)

 CloudStack, Crunch

 These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
 towards graduation is yet expected.

Not yet ready to graduate (9 podlings)

 No release:    Bloodhound, Cordova, Flex, Kalumet, S4, Openmeetings, Wave
 Low activity:  Kato
 Low diversity: Bigtop

 We expect the next quarterly report of projects in this category to
 include a summary of their actions and progress in solving these issues.

Ready to graduate (5 podlings)

 Etch, Flume, HCatalog, Isis, OpenOffice

 We expect these projects to graduate within the next quarter.

Props to Jukka for a good report.

16 May 2012 [Jukka Zitting / Roy] ¶

The trend of more podlings graduating than are coming in continues, which
is a good thing given the backlog of stuck projects the Incubator has
accumulated over the past years. This trend is also visible in the podling
categorization we've been doing since February. The number of podlings
in the rough starting/incubating/graduating categories has gone from
7/13/4 in February to 2/9/7 now.

Our recent focus on report review with active feedback to and dialogue with
the podlings has helped drive this progress. Until now this extra effort has
come from just a few individuals, but we're working on ways to make this
more sustainable by sharing the work for example by having IPMC volunteers
as "shepherds" who'll review specific reports in more detail. Initial results
seem promising.

While not designed to replace the existing mentor model, the extra reviews
have helped spot and deal with many cases where podlings have been in need
of extra help or just some gentle pushing ahead. We're looking at ways to
track mentor activity in order to better identify such cases before they
become too troublesome.

o Community

 There were no changes to the Incubator PMC since our last report.
 The IPMC currently has 158 members.

 The following podlings are requesting graduation to Apache TLPs:

 - Apache Hama
 - Apache MRUnit
 - Apache Giraph
 - Apache ManifoldCF

 The Incubator PMC recommends the board to accept the respective resolutions.

 The Zeta Components podling has retired due to low activity.

 The JSPWiki podling started a graduation vote, but it was withdrawn after
 concerns about the low project activity were raised. Based on feedback from
 general@, the community hopes to make another release and some other progress
 before restarting the graduation vote.

 There is an interesting thread on general@ about the sometimes vague
 boundary between redistributing upstream dependencies as standalone
 components or integral parts of an Apache product. The BigTop podling,
 where this issue came up, will hopefully summarize this discussion in more
 detail in their next report.

o Legal / Trademarks

 The retired Zeta Components codebase was migrated to GitHub where it
 retains the project name (without the "Apache" prefix) even though not
 much new activity is expected. The move was handled well, with
 trademarks@ in the loop.

 The Amber project has been stuck for a long time with an IP clearance
 issue that they have been unable to resolve by themselves. It seems like
 this issue could have been resolved one way or another already years ago
 with more mentor help, which unfortunately has been lacking.

o Releases

 The following incubating releases were made since our last report:

 - April 16th, 2012: Apache ManifoldCF 0.5-incubating
 - April 23rd, 2012: Apache Jena LARQ 1.0.0-incubating
 - April 28th, 2012: Apache MRUnit 0.9.0-incubating
 - May 5th, 2012: Apache Airavata 0.2-incubating
 - May 8th, 2012: Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0-incubating
 - May 9th, 2012: Apache Stanbol 0.9.0-incubating

 The Apache Mesos 0.9.0-incubating release is just hitting the mirrors
 after a lenghty release vote that failed to attract enough IPMC votes
 for quite a while.

o Infrastructure

 The Flex project is still blocked with its migration to ASF infrastructure,
 which seems to be a major contributing factor to the downwards trend seen
 in Flex list activity. A solution or at least some workaround is urgently
 needed.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

Still getting started at the Incubator (2 podlings)

 CloudStack, Syncope

 These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
 towards graduation is yet expected.

Not yet ready to graduate (9 podlings)

 IP clearance:  Amber
 No release:    Flex
 Low activity:  Ambari, Droids, Nuvem, Photark
 Low diversity: Airavata, DeltaSpike, SIS

 We expect the next quarterly report of projects in this category to
 include a summary of their actions and progress in solving these issues.

Ready to graduate (7 podlings)

 Clerezza, Lucene.NET, NPanday, Stanbol, VCL, Wink, Wookie

 We expect these projects to graduate within the next quarter.

AI: Jim ask deltaspike to get their web site organized

18 Apr 2012 [Jukka Zitting / Jim] ¶

The biggest Incubator news since our last report is the CloudStack project
seeking to enter the ASF. This and other topics as summarized below have
kept us busy lately. At times the related discussions have gotten a bit
heated, but for the most part the Incubator is functioning acceptably.

The overall trend currently is for more podlings to graduate than are coming
in as newly proposed projects. Given the backlog of stuck projects and the
recent focus on pushing then forward this trend can be expected to continue
at least for the next few months.

o Community

 Chris Hostetter, Leo Simons, Michael McCandless, Ted Leung and William Rowe
 resigned from the Incubator PMC since our last report.

 The following podlings are requesting graduation to Apache TLPs:

 - Apache Creadur
 - Apache Jena

 The Incubator PMC recommends the board to accept the respective resolutions.

 We received a proposal to accept the CloudStack project as a new podling.
 The proposal has received quite a bit of excitement and many volunteer
 mentors. On the other hand there were some concerns about the publicity
 around the proposal (current Incubator policy prohibits publicity-seeking
 in the proposal phase). Another issue of note is the handling of patents
 that was raised as a potential issue for the proposed podling. The vote
 to accept CloudStack for incubation is currently in progress.

o Legal / Trademarks

 The Flex podling continues working on a custom trademark licensing deal
 with Adobe. See the Flex report for mode details.

 A point was raised about including the project branding checklist in
 podling graduation criteria. This seems like a useful change, though the
 details are still to be worked out.

o Releases

 The following incubating releases were made since our last report:

 - March 12th, 2012: Apache Tashi 201203-incubating
 - March 20th, 2012: Apache Rave 0.9-incubating
 - March 23rd, 2012: Apache Jena Fuseki 0.2.1-incubating
 - March 27th, 2012: Apache Flume 1.1.0-incubating
 - April 2nd, 2012: Apache Bigtop 0.3.0-incubating

 Apache OpenOffice used Apache mirrors to distribute binary security
 patches for fixing the CVE-2012-0037 issue in OpenOffice.org 3.3 and
 3.4 beta. Even though the /dist/incubator area was used, this wasn't
 considered an official Apache release and the distribution was not
 formally blessed by the Incubator PMC. See the OpenOffice report
 about the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the patch.

 A notable discussion came up in relation to a release candidate by
 the ManifoldCF podling. Based on more or less standard practice in
 many Ant-based Java projects in and outside the ASF and related
 mentor guidance the podling was including libraries from upstream
 projects as binary dependencies inside the source release package.
 It was pointed out that an Apache release must contain nothing
 that isn't included in source form, and rough consensus from the
 resulting discussion agreed with this view. The ManifoldCF release
 candidate was withdrawn and is being revised for this, but the
 broader issue of many Apache projects shipping binary dependencies
 inside their source releases still remains. Board guidance on
 how projects should deal with this regarding both current and past
 releases would be appreciated.

 Followup discussion and related feedback from podlings suggests
 that our existing release documentation is not up to the task of
 providing clear and consistent guidance to support our projects.
 More work in this area is clearly needed.

o Infrastructure

 The Flex project continues to have trouble with their migration to
 Apache infrastructure as explained in more detail in their report.
 A suggestion was made that, if possible, they could/should use
 external infrastructure to avoid blocking development until the
 migration issues have been resolved. This is in line with other
 podlings that have migrated their infrastructure to Apache gradually
 in smaller steps.

 More generally with complex podlings like OpenOffice, Flex and the
 proposed CloudStack project stressing infra resources and the steady
 flow of various Incubator-related infrastructure issues (especially
 around podlings entering and existing the Incubator) we feel that
 the Incubator is putting quite a bit of load on the infrastructure
 team. It would be great if the foundation could help through increased
 funding or other help to infrastructure.

 One proposal that was discussed for helping the life of both podlings
 and infrastructure was about allowing new podlings to set up their
 infrastructure directly at the expected final TLP locations. The details
 of that proposal are still open.

 Due to spamming the Incubator wiki was configured to require explicit
 authorization of new contributors.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

We reviewed all podlings reporting in this quarter and categorized them
according to their progress through the Incubator and the most pressing
issues that are currently blocking progress.

Still getting started at the Incubator (2 podlings)

 DeviceMap, Syncope

 These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
 towards graduation is yet expected.

Not yet ready to graduate (17 podlings)

 IP clearance: -
 No release: Any23, Cordova, DirectMemory, Flex, JSPWiki, Mesos, OpenOffice
 Low activity: AWF, Celix, EasyAnt, Kitty, VXQuery
 Low diversity: Chukwa, Kafka, ODF Toolkit, Oozie, Tashi

 We expect the next quarterly report of projects in this category to
 include a summary of their actions and progress in solving these issues.

Ready to graduate (1 podlings)

 Giraph

 We expect these projects to graduate within the next quarter.

21 Mar 2012 [Jukka Zitting / Sam] ¶

Many thanks to Noel Bergman for his service as the chairman of the
Incubator PMC over the past eight years!

The discussions about the role and structure of the Incubator over
the past few months have receded as we've recently been focusing more
on the status and concrete issues of individual podlings. This has
resulted in a notable improvement in the overall atmosphere in the
Incubator, though some of the deeper issues that were identified
earlier may come back to haunt us unless we revisit them at some point.

Based on the discussion during the last board meeting and related
thoughts on general@incubator.apache.org we have decided to keep
including individual podling reports as a part of the main Incubator
report. The main rationale for this is that we want to teach podlings
the habit of reporting all the way to the ASF board (with help from
and extra review by the IPMC) instead of positioning the Incubator PMC
as a "mini-board" that filters out and just summarizes podling reports.

That said, we did put extra effort in reviewing podling reports and
highlighting issues that might be of special interest to the board.
Comments and feedback on this approach would be welcome.

o Community

 Matt Franklin and Colm O hEigeartaigh joined the Incubator PMC since
 our last report.

 The following podlings are requesting graduation to Apache TLPs:

 - Apache Accumulo
 - Apache Lucy
 - Apache Rave
 - Apache Sqoop

 The Incubator PMC recommends the board to accept the respective resolutions.
 Other podlings like RAT (Creadur) are currently preparing for graduation.

 No new project proposals have been received since our last report.

 The initial response to our recent increased emphasis on report review
 has been positive, and it looks like the effort is starting to bear fruit
 in terms of timely reports and a gradually improving focus on graduation
 plans across the Incubator.

 Community activity and diversity remain the most common graduation blockers
 for incubating projects. We are seeking ways to better track such things
 and help podlings grow their communities. There's been talk about
 cooperation with ComDev on this front, but so far nothing concrete
 has come out of this.

 Of particular note community-wise is the Kato podling that no longer
 considers itself blocked by Oracle's position on JSR 326. See the Kato
 report for more details and thoughts on the project's future.

o Releases

 The following incubating releases were made since our last report:

 - February 17th, 2012: Apache Sqoop 1.4.1-incubating
 - February 21st, 2012: Apache Isis 0.2.0-incubating
 - February 21st, 2012: Apache Wookie 0.9.2-incubating
 - March 1st, 2012: Apache Oozie 3.1.3-incubating
 - March 4th, 2012: Apache Rave 0.8-incubating
 - March 4th, 2012: Apache Tashi 201202-incubating
 - March 6th, 2012: Apache Hama 0.4-incubating
 - March 10th, 2012: Apache Jena TDB 0.9.0-incubating
 - March 11th, 2012: Apache MRUnit 0.8.1-incubating

 The release process continues to be a source of trouble for many
 podlings and also to the Incubator in general. The typical symptoms
 of this trouble are major delays in releases of some podlings.
 We've had discussions about ways to fix this, but so far there
 unfortunately hasn't been much concrete progress.

o Legal / Trademarks

 The issue of using Java package names other than org.apache.*
 came up in relation to the Sqoop project. The resulting discussion
 and the rough consensus that was reached is summarized in the
 Sqoop report.

 The Flex podling is working on a custom trademark licensing deal
 with Adobe. See the Flex report for mode details.

 The PODLINGNAMESEARCH process prepared especially by Robert is
 now being used by many podlings, and the initial results in terms
 of increased confidence in the uniqueness and suitability of
 podling names seem  pretty good.

o Infrastructure

 Thanks especially to Joe and Sebb, the Incubator web site is now
 managed using the Apache CMS.

 Three podlings - Cordova, DeltaSpike and S4 - are using the Git
 repositories provided by the infra team. The early experiences
 seem to have been generally positive with no major issues raised,
 though no detailed review of potential community impacts has yet
 been done.

 The infrastructure migrations of large or complex projects like
 OpenOffice and Flex have been (and continue being) fairly long
 processes that seem to have generated at least some frustration.
 We're hoping to collect experience of key problems so that future
 podlings with similar needs could at least better anticipate and
 plan for such issues.

 The OpenMeetings podling is looking to set up a meeting server
 as a service for other projects and groups (possibly the board)
 within the ASF. Interested groups should contact OpenMeetings
 and/or infra for more details.

 The idea came up of reviving the old INCUBATOR issue tracker for
 tracking Incubator-related tasks. Time will tell how useful this
 will be to us.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

We reviewed all podlings reporting in this quarter and categorized them
according to their progress through the Incubator and the most pressing
issues that are currently blocking progress.

Still getting started at the Incubator (3 podlings)

 DeviceMap, Flex, Syncope

 These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
 towards graduation is yet expected.

Not yet ready to graduate (14 podlings)

 IP clearance: Openmeetings
 No release: Bloodhound, Cordova, OpenOffice
 Low activity: Kalumet, Kato
 Low diversity: Bigtop, Etch, Isis, Hama, HCatalog, MRUnit, S4, Wave

 We expect the next quarterly report of projects in this category to
 include a summary of their actions and progress in solving these issues.

Ready to graduate (6 podlings)

 Accumulo, Flume, ManifoldCF, RAT, Rave, Sqoop

 We expect these projects to graduate within the next quarter.

15 Feb 2012 ¶

Change Chair for Apache Incubator

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Noel J.
 Bergman to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
 of Noel J. Bergman  from the office of Vice President, Apache
 Incubator, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Incubator
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Jukka Zitting as
 the Successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Noel J. Bergman is
 relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of
 the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jukka Zitting be and hereby
 is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, 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 Chair for Apache Incubator,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

15 Feb 2012 [Noel J. Bergman / Doug] ¶

Over the past month, there has been a lot of discussion within the
Incubator.  We have voted in a new PMC Chair, Jukka Zitting, who will be
rotating out of the PMC Chair position of Jackrabbit.

There has been a lot of discussion over the future of the Incubator.  Under
one proposal, the Board would establish new TLPs whose PMC chair is an ASF
Member and initial PMC has at least 3 ASF Members.  Such a TLP would be
under "incubation", but not under an "Incubator".  Under such a plan, ComDev
would be given responsibility for much of the Incubator's Policy & Procedure
documentation, and similar Community Development related content.  Other
proposals are less radical, and focus on doing something to ensure more
active and involved Mentors.

More immediately, some of Jukka's thoughts on the Board's hot topic of
pushing projects out of the Incubator are presented in the following
exchange:

Jukka Zitting wrote:
> Sam Ruby wrote:
> > What I would like to see is the Incubator start identifying PPMCs that
> > are stalled, and to consider what information they need (in future
> > reports) to help them (us) make such a determination.  I am not
> > suggesting that this be made retroactive.  Or that it be done
> > immediately.  A plan would be fine: i.e., setting a date by which the
> > IPMC will have decided what information needs to be in such reports,
> > and a schedule by which the PPMCs need to start providing said
> > information.
>
> My suggestion is to ask the podlings now in category 2 to report again
> in May on their progress on the identified blockers. If there's been
> no measurable progress by then, we'll dig deeper to see what we can
> do. Podlings reporting in other months can be picked up for a similar
> oversight cycle over the coming months. By July we should then have a
> pretty accurate record of progress throughout the entire Incubator,
> including a clear list of podlings that are stuck and need help.
>
> Before the next quarterly report I'd rely on mentors to help the
> podlings identify and implement ways to move forward. And of course,
> if a podling or its mentors feel that more help is needed, asking on
> general@ or submitting an extra report is always a good idea.

On a related topic, the Incubator PMC voted to retire the HISE podling.  BVal
has voted to seek TLP status.  Syncope, intended to be a reference
implementation for Open Source Identity Management, was voted to begin
Incubation.

The podling reports are below.  Sam suggested including podling reports as a
link to a frozen wiki page.  The Incubator PMC requests feedback from the
Board as a whole as to whether an in-line summary and URL to is satisfactory
for future reports.


-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

We reviewed all podlings reporting in this quarter and categorized them
according to their progress through the Incubator and the most pressing
issues that are currently blocking progress.

Still getting started at the Incubator (7 podlings)

 Any23, Bloodhound, Cordova, DeltaSpike, DeviceMap, Flex, Openmeetings

 These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
 towards graduation is yet expected.

Not yet ready to graduate (13 podlings)

 IP clearance: Amber
 Release trouble: Clerezza, Stanbol
 Low activity: Ambari, Nuvem, PhotArk, SIS, Wink, Zeta Components
 Low diversity: Airavata, Droids, VCL, Wookie

 We expect the next quarterly report of projects in this category to
 include a summary of their actions and progress in solving these issues.

Ready to graduate (4 podlings)

 Jena, Lucene.NET, NPanday, OpenNLP

 We expect these projects to graduate within the next quarter.

The incubator is currently in flux. See the related special order.

The consensus is that this month's incubator report is better than it has been in the past.

There are many suggestions for improvement that will be discussed offline (email).

24 Jan 2012 [Noel J. Bergman / Greg] ¶

A number of substantive issues came up during the past month.

First, and although it was raised on the private list and therefore details
won't be part of the public report, we advise the Board that there is
substantial discussion regarding changing the Incubator VP, which has been
held for almost 8 years by the current VP.

Second, there is a dispute, both in the abstract and concretely, regarding
whether or not the ASF, via the Incubator, may play host to a community that
has forked a compatibly licensed codebase.  Roy suggested that, in the
specific case:

> The VOTE was based on misleading information.  The Incubator PMC should declare it
> void and request a new proposal.  The existing Bloodhound podling should be
> placed on hold until this is sorted out.

Greg has said, more recently, that "the Bloodhound and Trac communities
already have a new non-fork plan and are executing on that now, on the
bloodhound-dev mailing list."  If that comes to pass, perhaps no further
attention from the PMC and Board will be required on this issue.  If not,
we'll have to revisit the specific case.

However, Bill Rowe has requested that the Incubator PMC formally put the
general matter to the Board: what policy do or should we have regarding a
community that wishes to fork a suitably licensed codebase and come to the
ASF?  If so, what is that policy?  Or is that decision still a matter to be
determined situationally by the Incubator PMC?  For whatever it is worth,
the latter is the opinion of the Incubator VP, who recalls that more than
one successful ASF project started elsewhere and came to the ASF as a fork,
and not without some complaint from members of the outside community (e.g.,
Apache Felix).

Third, there was a lot of discussion surrounding a couple of Incubator
issues: 1) podlings being comfortably settled in the Incubator, and not
being focused enough on graduation; 2) Mentors being insufficiently active,
and thus not providing either proper guidance or oversight.  We definitely
need to address these issues, promoting both Mentor involvement and
graduation from the Incubator.  And, finally, Jukka spent time reviewing the
status of many of the older podlings, and recommending an action.

Perhaps not coincidentally, ACE, Gora and Bean Validation Framework are all
in graduation mode.  But, meanwhile, Bloodhound (the podling previously
mentioned), DeviceMap and Flex have joined.

Below are podling reports.  Sam Ruby has already reviewed the original list
prior to posting, and requested that specific posts not be provided to the
Board, as he was unhappy with their status:

 Kato: has been in limbo for years due to Oracle.  The podling needs
   to decide what to do, or terminate
 Bloodhound, HISE, JSPWiki and Openmeetings: missing
 VXQuery: not signed off by a Mentor

Although initially requested to be excluded, the Celix and Tashi reports
were revised to provide at least some graduation guidance, and so their
reports are included, below.

Action Item: Doug to convey list of items that should have been caught by the Incubator prior to forwarding, and to request that the Incubator PMC more carefully review the reports before they are sent.

21 Dec 2011 [Noel J. Bergman / Bertrand] ¶

We've all been aware that the Incubator has been growing more than
graduating, over the years.  Last month, Sam started a discussion regarding
being more proactive and pushing projects out of the nest, basically one way
or another, after a year.  A real issue is pushing out those really ready to
graduate, and doing the garbage collection on those that are already dead
(and may have even voted to terminate).  In-between are those projects that
are struggling to achieve critical mass, but are active with who they do
have involved.  The response from mentors of various projects was quite
encouraging, both in specifics and in concept, and hopefully we'll start to
see a wave of TLP requests, following ACE, Bean Validation, and Empire-DB.

Meanwhile, Apache DeltaSpike -- a collection of JSR-299 (CDI) Extensions for
building applications on the Java SE and EE platforms -- was voted for
Incubation.

There has also been excellent discussion about pruning and clarifying
Incubation rules and process, to be more streamlined and minimal.

With respect to the monthly board report, since the last report (and since
the schedule change), we've changed how reminders are processed, and hope to
be well on the way to cleaning up the problem where the wrong projects were
listed and reminded.  There were still a few glitches for this month, but
hopefully they're resolved for next.  Brett Porter, Dave Crossley,
Upayavira, Jim, and others have contributed to the efforts, and are well
deserving of continued thanks.

Even so, and despite an extra day and reminder, neither HISE nor KATA
reported.  Wave did take advantage of the time to report.

Incorrect preamble. What Sam asked the Incubator to focus on was (a) police the lack of attention by mentors on projects that have been incubating for years, and (b) set the expectation that a podling produces AT THE VERY MINIMUM a credible plan that they are executing on which will lead to graduation at some point. Sam has reiterated these two points on the incubator mailing list.

16 Nov 2011 [Noel J. Bergman / Jim] ¶

Notwithstanding the fact that members of the Board are active within the
Incubator, there are no issues requiring Board attention or intervention.

We are, however, recognizing that we've had growth issues of our own.  As
David Crossley pointed out, he made mistakes last month related to the
Reporting Schedule, and we continue to have issues.  The Incubator is almost
as big as the rest of the ASF combined.  David posted a plot chart
reflecting our growth: http://incubator.apache.org/history/

Roy proposed one change to help cut down on some commit karma logistics.
Sebb and David have been discussing some changes to help manage the
meta-data, e.g., reporting schedule.  Nothing is concrete, yet, but clearly
we need to make some changes to make things easier.

OpenMeetings -- project to provide video conferencing, instant messaging,
white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using
API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming -- has
been accepted for Incubation.

Report deferred as it was not received in time for adequate review.

There were discussions about whether the Incubator and even the foundation could continue to scale, and discussions about the failure of the Incubator to police the lack of attention by mentors on projects that have been incubating for years. Follow-up to occur on the incubator general mailing list.

26 Oct 2011 [Noel J. Bergman / Brett] ¶

Most of the general discussion on the Incubator list over the past month was
how to improve the usability of the Incubator web-site.

S4 (Simple Scalable Streaming System) -- a general-purpose, distributed,
scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows
programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous,
unbounded streams of data -- was voted to begin Incubation.

Any23 (Anything To Triples) -- a Java library, a Web service and a set of
command line tools to extract and validate structured data in RDF format
from a variety of Web documents and markup formats -- was voted to begin
Incubation.

Apache DirectMemory -- a multi-layered cache implementation featuring
off-heap memory storage (a la Terracotta BigMemory) to enable caching of Java
objects without degrading JVM performance -- was voted to begin Incubation.

Apache Callback (derived from PhoneGap) -- a platform for building native
(Apple iOS, Google Android, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Phone 7, HP
webOS, Nokia Symbian and Samsung Bada) mobile applications using HTML, CSS
and JavaScript -- was voted to begin Incubation.

DeltaCloud is currently voting on graduation from the Incubator.  ACE is
also discussing graduation.

With respect to an early version of the report, there was confusion as to
which podlings needed to report this month, but we appear to have it
straightened out.  The Wiki page had a few too many projects loaded onto it.

A number of board members are dissatisfied with the Incubator report. Too much boilerplate to read in order to get to the important bits. Several suggestions were made (outlaw templates; focus on graduation; implement something like the incubator clutch page for TLPs; reduce the amount of copy pasted crap in podling reports). No one took an AI.

It looks like Olio is stalled and needs to be retired. AI Craig: see that provenance is complete and start retirement process.

21 Sep 2011 [Noel J. Bergman / Sam] ¶

The flood of Hadoop related projects continues with new Incubator projects:

* HMS (now Ambari), a monitoring, administration and lifecycle management
project for Apache Hadoop clusters
* Accumulo, a sorted, distributed key/value store based on Google's
BigTable design, and built on top of Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift

were voted to start Incubation, along with:

* Kalumet, a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE
environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and
resources.

Other projects under discussion:

* S4 (Simple Scalable Streaming System), a general-purpose, distributed,
scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows
programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous,
unbounded streams of data.

OGNL should be moving to Apache Commons.

The report was received too late for review. AI Noel: include this month's podling reports in next month's report.

17 Aug 2011 [Noel J. Bergman / Jim] ¶

Bluesky was retired by vote of the Incubator PMC. The project just never
managed to adjust to the ASF's community-orientation.

Olio likewise seems prime for retirement.

HISE (Human Tasks for WS-BPEL) again failed to report (that was an issue in
February as well). Activity has picked up somewhat being mostly dead, but
the Incubator will inquire into the viability of the project.

Oozie failed to report, but is just getting started. There are no archives
for the -dev list.

ODF Toolkit, a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation,
scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format documents, was voted to
begin Incubation, and has filed its first report.

Giraph, a large-scale, fault-tolerant, Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP)-based
graph processing framework that runs on Hadoop, was voted to begin
Incubation.

The Incubator PMC voted to submit Whirr for TLP status to the Board.

Richard Provarp joined the Incubator PMC.

Larry asked if help is needed with EasyAnt's IP "issue".

Greg commented on several incubating projects, including Amber, Bigtop, Deltacloud, Droids, and Wink.

20 Jul 2011 [Noel J. Bergman / Brett] ¶

This past month the Incubator PMC voted to terminate a project.  Bluesky has
been terminated, although its participants asked for one additional month to
clean up their self-admittedly poor performance.  It was the judgment of the
PMC that they had been given many chances, and just did not get the fact
that the community issues were the crucial ones, not the code.

Alois, Impirius, Stonehenge, were also retired.

At the same time, several new projects have begun Incubation:

 * Bigtop, with the goal of building a community around the packaging and
interoperability testing of Hadoop-related projects.

 * Deft, a non-blocking, asynchronous, event driven high performance web
framework running on the JVM.

 * Oozie, a server-based workflow scheduling and coordination system to
manage data processing jobs for Apache Hadoop.

 * Kafka, a distributed, high throughput, publish-subscribe system for
processing large amounts of streaming data for Hadoop.

Another Hadoop related project, is currently being proposed: Giraph, a
large-scale graph processing infrastructure (inspired by Pregel) that runs
entirely on Hadoop.

OGNL and Olio failed to file reports.  OGNL has not had a commit in 5 weeks,
and is sharing mailing list space with Apache Commons.  Olio has not had a
commit in two months.  That commit was the April Board report.  In terms of
development, it appears stagnant and dead.  Perhaps it should be retired.

Update: The Olio report is late. There needs to be a discussion of the
future of the project. It is a useful project but is not making progress
in terms of a viable community. [clr]

Henri Yandell also initiated a discussion on making sure that the
IP/copyright sign-off checklist item has been correctly processed by the
projects.

AI: Brett to follow up on JSPWiki and Olio to ensure that long running incubating projects actually have a plausible plan to graduate.

Tashi was noted as an example of a podling of a comprable age that did include this information in their report.

AI: Sam to ask Noel to be sure that mentors sign off on their podlings' reports. (this action was actually from a prior month but was inadvertently dropped from the Action Items list)

15 Jun 2011 [Noel J. Bergman / Sam] ¶

The Incubator PMC now totals 143 members, with some additional requests
(joining and a resignation) pending.  Recent changes include Peter Royal and
Phil Steitz (pending) dropping off; and Shane Curcuru, Srinath Perera,
Nicolas Lalevee, Marvin Humphrey, Michael McCandless, Nigel Daley, Tommaso
Teofili, Yegor Kozlov, Leif Hedstrom and Steve Loughran joining the PMC.

Certainly the biggest thing in the Incubator this month is the arrival of
OpenOffice.org for Incubation.  OpenOffice.org is going to need significant
help and guidance, with an emphasis on liasoning with other, external,
projects such as LibreOffice.  There is very significant concern regarding
how this project will relate to the rest of the Openoffice.org ecosystem,
and those will need to be carefully addressed.  One of the first challenges
for the project will be deciding its scope.  If it is going to try to be the
old OpenOffice.org, essentially an Apache Licensed "coopetitor" to the
downstream forks; or if it is going to focus on common technologies, release
vanilla binaries for key platforms, and let the downstreams take the primary
role in delivering end-user binaries.  Other issues with respect to
OpenOffice.org may challenge our infrastructure.  There may also be IP
(patent and trademark) issues to address.  But the lengthy and diverse list
of Mentors should be aware of and preparing to address all of the issues.

Despite OpenOffice.org's arrival, and its well than 1000 messages swamping
the mailing list, there was more activity than just that one topic.

BigTop, a project for the development of packaging and tests of the Hadoop
ecosystem, is proposed for Incubation.

Flume -- a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently
collecting,
aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable data storage
systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS -- was voted to enter Incubation.

Sqoop -- a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between
Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases -- was
voted to enter Incubation.

There is nascent discussion regarding moving Alois and BlueSky to dormant
status.

19 May 2011 [Noel J. Bergman / Shane] ¶

Incubator Report May 2011

The Incubator continues to accept and graduate projects a pace.  This month
we have two new projects, one retirement (with two more likely), and one
graduation.

Imperius has voted to retire.  Others are likely to follow (see below).

LibCloud is proposed for graduation to TLP status, and presenting to the
Board as such.

OGNL, a Java development framework for Object-Graph Navigation Language, was
accepted for Incubation.

Airavata, a project that provides features to compose, manage, execute, and
monitor large scale applications and workflows on computational resources
ranging from local clusters to national grids and computing clouds, has been
accepted for Incubation.

Bluesky did not report, but did report last month and may not realize it is
still on a monthly reporting schedule.  DeltaCloud did not report, and is
active so they should have reported.  HISE and Stonehenge did not report,
and both look ripe for retirement.  The latter community is actively
discussing that this month, but simply failed to report that discussion, and
the former appears mostly dead already.

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Incubator Project reports

20 Apr 2011 [Noel J. Bergman / Shane] ¶

A remarkably quiet month in general, with no Board level issues.  One
project, Apache OGNL (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OGNLProposal) is
under consideration.

JSPWiki, Olio and VXQuery did not report.  Neither did SocialSite, but that
was previously voted into dormant status.

16 Mar 2011 [Noel J. Bergman / Bertrand] ¶

Nigel Daly, Tommaso Teofili, and Alan Gates have joined the PMC since the
last report.

Howl -- a table and storage management service for data created using Apache
Hadoop -- has been accepted for Incubation.  It will be renamed first, given
that there is an ObjectWeb project also called HOWL.

MRUnit -- a library to support unit testing of Hadoop MapReduce jobs -- has
been accepted for Incubation.

Rave -- a web And social Mashup Engine -- has been accepted for Incubation.

BeanValidation failed to report this period.

16 Feb 2011 [Noel J. Bergman / Doug] ¶

 General Notes:

 - EasyAnt has been accepted as a new podling project into Incubator.
 - Lucene.Net has been accepted to re-enter Incubator.
 - Howl is a new proposal, still under discussion on general@. Howl
is a table and storage management service for data created using
Apache Hadoop. The main
   issue for now its name which conflicts with other projects, like
OW2 HOWL for example.
 - Chemistry has been voted successfully to be graduated.
 - Deltacloud started a vote to release version 0.2.0.
 - A thread is running on general@ discussing the voting wait period
of 72 hours. From what I read, most go for the favor for having this
waiting period for starting
   votes.

IPMC Members who asked to go Emeritus:

 - Niclas Hedhman.

Releases:

 - Whirr: 0.3.0-incubating.
 - PhotArk: M3-incubating.
 - ManifoldCF: 0.1-incubating.
 - Chemistry: cmislib-0.4-incubating.

Concerns about HISE's commercial deployments.

Action item: Shane follow up with the HISE PPMC.

Comment about Deltacloud: would like to hear about the community.

Comment on Droids: good news!

19 Jan 2011 [Noel J. Bergman / Bertrand] ¶

A fairly quiet month for the Incubator as a whole (individual projects have
been busy).

The Apache River project (nee' Sun JINI) has been voted to have completed
Incubation, and to seek TLP status.

Mesos, a system for sharing resources (advanced resource scheduling) between
cluster applications such as Hadoop MapReduce, HBase, MPI, and web
applications, was voted to start Incubation.

Lucene.NET is returning from Lucene to the Incubator, prepatory to seeking
TLP status.

With Joe Schaefer's help, the Incubator is starting the process of migrating
to the CMS.

Bluesky again seems to be flagging. AI (existing) Sam: ask mentors to reassess project

15 Dec 2010 [Noel J. Bergman / Sam] ¶

New PMC Member: Mohammad Nour El-Din accepted, having accepted the election
that took place earlier in November.

Ex-PMC Member: Justin Erenkrantz left the PMC.

We discussed mothballing Droids, but Thorsten Scherler is asking for more time,
and there do seem to people wanting to work with him, so we'll see what happens
between now and the next Board report.  Similarly, Gianugo has joined with
the Stonehenge community to help it decide what to do.

We've decided to broadly, rather than as an experiment, permit podlings to
vote on Committers, as permitted by the Board some months ago.  As long as
at least one Mentor votes for the committer, and proper notification is sent
to the private@, the vote will be deemed valid.

There was some discussion about projects using real-time communication, but
I believe that we've made it clear that all project decisions must be made
via the mailing list, and that all back-channel discussion should be
summarized on list.

OpenNLP, a toolkit for natural language processing; Jena, a semantic web
framework in Java that implements the key W3C recommendations for the core
semantic web technologies of RDF and SPARQL; and Wave, "a hosted, live,
concurrent data structure for rich communication", were voted into the
Incubator.

ESME and Aries were to request TLP status from the Board.  River is in the
process of preparing, and will likely request TLP status in January.

Bean Validation did not report.

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Some concerns about BlueSky and RAT. These projects have been incubating for a long time and it's not clear what the exit strategy is. Could RAT be adopted by infra?

17 Nov 2010 [Noel J. Bergman / Shane] ¶

There are no issues for the Board.

New PMC Members: Hadrian Zbarcea, Isabel Drost, Siegfried Goeschi, Mohammad
Nour El-Din (pending his acceptance).  Henning Schmiedehausen has left the
PMC.

Infrastructure has proposed that the Incubator switch over to the new CMS.
It seems that early next year will be the timeframe.

The PMC has voted to submit OODT for TLP status.  Congratulations to the
project.  Kitty, Celix and Stanbol have been voted to start Incubation.

 - Kitty: lightweight Java application server performance diag & admin
utility
 - Celix: OSGi-like C implementation with focus on interoperability with
OSGi
 - Stanbol: software stack and set of components for semantic content
management

Jena, a semantic web framework in Java, is currently being discussed.
Bertrand and other have discussed coordination amongst the semantic content
projects: Clerezza, Stanbol and Jena.

We also found strong support to start an android-interest mailing list to
help build a critical mass of developer support for Android-based projects
at the ASF.

Finally, based on prior discussion with the Board, and the benign results of
subsequent experiments, the Incubator is discussing looser rules for
projects to vote on their own Committers.

Missing reports: Droids, HISE, Stonehenge

 - Droids appears to have no activity since September.  People asking
questions are not getting answered.  Perhaps the project should be
mothballed.
 - HISE has some activity, although October was quiet.
 - Stonehenge appears to have been dead since July, when it made a
milestone release, and is discussing being archived.  There appears to be
disappointment over the perceived disappearance of Microsoft and WSO2.

An e-mail has already been sent to start the discussion of mothballing or
otherwise handling these projects.

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Sam: appreciates action on missing reports.

20 Oct 2010 [Noel J. Bergman / Doug] ¶

Things are going well, with no apparent need for Board intervention.  Marcel
Offermans has joined the Incubator PMC, which is the only change in PMC
composition.

During the discussion of the Alois project, there was extensive and good
discussion about real-time communication versus the ASF's requirement that
decisions be made on mailing lists.  Similarly, there was discussion
about -dev and -user mailing lists for Incubator projects.  Finally, in
terms of Apache Way discussions, there was further discussion of why NOT git
until (and if) the ASF Infrastructure Team provides it.

There was discussion regarding process for how patches might be accepted,
e.g., posted to JIRA, reviewed on mailing lists, CTR, RTC, when a CLA is
necessary.

Alois, log collection and correlation software with reporting and alarming
functionalities, has begun Incubation.

Gora, an ORM framework for column stores such as Apache HBase and Apache
Cassandra with a specific focus on Hadoop, was voted for Incubation.

You can also say "hello Kitty" (sorry, it had to be said) to Kitty: a
lightweight, production-class Java application server performance diagnostic
& administration utility.

We've also discussed Celix, which is intended to be an OSGi like
implementation in C with a distinct focus on
interoperability with Java-OSGi, but there needs to be follow through if
they want to Incubate.

SocialSite, for which a code grant was never received, has been locked and
put into dormant state.

The Imperius community has been making little to no progress towards
graduating, despite repeated nudges from their mentors.  Unless there is
progress prior to its next board report, a recommendation has been put forth
to stop the incubation process for Imperius.


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It appears that JSPWiki is close to graduation, and perhaps what they need is a nudge.

AI Doug: suggest to Noel that JSPWiki needs a nudge.

22 Sep 2010 [Noel J. Bergman / Sam] ¶

In the past month, there have been 12 PMC Additions: Benson Margulies, Scott
Deboy, Dennis Lundberg, Maria Ching, Mark Struberg, Bryan Duxbury, Chris
Douglas, Tim Williams, Richard Hirsch, James Carman, Andrzej Bialecki,
Stefan Seelmann.

The Lucene Connector Framework project is seeking to go TLP soon, and wants
to change its name.  The proposed name of Apache Connector Framework is
considered controversial because it takes a generic domain, but does not
cover existing HTTPd connectors, Tomcat connectors, Java Connector
Architecture, etc.  The Board is already aware of the issue, having been
asked to weigh in on whether or not the Board would approve Apache Connector
Framework as the TLP.  The comments so far from the Board mirror those of
the Incubator PMC, which is fairly split on whether or not the name is a
good choice, or if it is too generic/broad.

The PMC voted to incubate Isis, which will "bring together a collection of
open source projects that collectively support the rapid development of
domain-driven applications."  Isis is based on the existing Naked Objects
Framework open source project.

The PMC is voting to accept:

 - Gora, which will be "an ORM framework for column stores such as Apache
   HBase and Apache Cassandra with a specific focus on Hadoop."

 - Alois, a Ruby-based "log collection and correlation software with reporting
   and alarming functionalities.  There has been some controversy over issue
   of real-time communication (e.g., chats), but that should be a matter for
   the Mentors to correct.  I would expect the Board and the PMC to reject any
   attempt of the project to graduate if it fails to move development and
   decision making to the mailing lists.

 - Kitty, which will "provide a lightweight utility for managing Tomcat and
   Geronimo application servers with powerful performance diagnostics and
   troubleshooting abilities.

Based on the Board's input that such is permitted, the Incubator is
experimenting with allowing Committers to be voted in by the podlings,
directly, without PMC intervention.

The PMC voted to graduate Shiro as a TLP.

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There is concern about the Bluesky project. Seems that committers come and go. The project seems to operate outside the ASF. Will this project graduate? AI Sam find out what is going on with this project.

18 Aug 2010 [Noel J. Bergman / Doug] ¶

Matt Benson, Srinath Perera, and Michael McCandless all joined the
Incubator.  Several more will be joining this week.

Shiro is set to graduate, and it seems that at least a couple of projects
are in good shape to graduate in the near future.

On to a topic for the Board's attention.  There has been some lively
discussion this past week, initiated by Joe Schaefer regarding making
Incubator projects more self-governing.  Although a valid goal, the actual
proposals appear troubling in terms of ASF governance structure.

A specific proposal, for which Joe would like a formal vote, amounts to
whether the ASF Board approves the granting of Committer status without PMC
approval, and bypassing the PMC on the matter.  Individual current and past
Directors have already engaged, but it is requested that the Board consider
the issue, and respond.

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The consensus of the board is that the PMC is responsible for the process of adding new committers. The PMC provides oversight of changes made by committers, not the use of infrastructure.

Since no resolution was provided for the board to vote on, there is no official board action. Greg was given the action item to communicate to the incubator PMC the board's consensus.

Missing podling reports were discussed. The board would like to see some specific action by the incubator when podlings miss a report. Norin was given the action item to communicate this to the incubator PMC.

Approved by general consent.

21 Jul 2010 [Noel J. Bergman / Bertrand] ¶

The Incubator added several new PMC members since the last report: Chris
Hostetter, Norman Maurer, Owen O'Malley and Senaka Fernando.

A project entered Incubation:

 Nuvem - an open application programming interface for common cloud
application services

And several more are preparing to enter Incubation, a couple of them being
sub-projects from existing Apache projects, where they have asked to come
through the Incubator before going for TLP status.

All projects except for JSPWiki filed their reports.

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Bertrand to suggest forwarding on Olio and Empire-db requests to Marketing and Publicity.

Sam to request that SocialSite provide plans (dates and owner) to address the problem identified.

16 Jun 2010 [Noel J. Bergman / Doug] ¶

Felix Meschberger resigned as a Mentor for Chemistry. Jean Anderson was
removed (emeritus) from the Incubator PMC at her request. The PMC and Chair
thank them both for their service to the Incubator and the ASF.

On that same note, I'd like to thank Sebastian Bazley, Joe Schaefer, and
others for their continued efforts in striving for data and other
consistency within the Incubator and across the ASF.

Nuvem, a cross-cloud API, has been proposed to the Incubator.

BlueSky's "lost" report from last month is included this month. The project
has had essentially no mailing list activity for two months, and no commits
since January. Both Lucene Connector Framework and River failed to report.
They have been active, are aware of, and apologize for, missing the report,
and plan to provide one next month.

Lucene Connector Framework just reported IP Clearance in late May.

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Sam has an action item to resolve the NTLM issue.

19 May 2010 [Noel J. Bergman / Jim] ¶

During the past month, the Incubator has added a fair number of new PMC
Members:

 Chris Mattmann
 David Jencks
 Gurkan Erdogdu
 Tom White
 Jean-Frederic Clere
 Julien Vermillard
 Christian Grobmeier (elected)
 Donald Woods

All of them joined with the specific intent of mentoring projects, of which
we have quite a few (reflected by all of the new PMC members). Proposed
projects included Whirr (libraries for running cloud services), Zeta (PHP
components), Amber (OAuth Java library), and Deltacloud (web service API for
cloud service clients/providers).

WSRP4J was terminated at the mutual decision with the Portals PMC.

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Doug indicated that he is following the Thrift lists and perceives a sincere desire for improvement.

Sam to straighten out the NTLM question

21 Apr 2010 [Noel J. Bergman / Brett] ¶

The past month has been exceedingly quiet within the Incubator; activity
within projects excepted.

A few projects under discussion for Incubation, but none are far along.
Apache Traffic Server is graduating to TLP status.  The Portals project
decided to shutter the long suffering WSRP4J project, although there remains
interest in building that functionality in a new codebase within Portals.

BlueSky has delivered a codebase for release that is under consideration.
Now that the RealClass codebase is present, perhaps we can get more interest
in helping out.

Thrift was discussed.  The gist is that although the community and code seem
fine, they have not been inclined to either release nor leave the Incubator.
Suggestions where made, and steps are being taken to resolve it.  Perhaps
ironically, all projects reported this month *except* for Thrift.


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Shiro seems like it could graduate sooner

17 Mar 2010 [Noel J. Bergman / Roy] ¶

The past month has gone well, with no issues requiring Board attention.
Actually, in terms of Incubator business (not per-project activity), it has
been a relatively light month.

Changes to the PMC in the past month:

 Added:   Glen Daniels, Karl Pauls, Greg Reddin
 Removed: Jason van Zyl, Will Glass-Husain, Antoine Levy Lambert,
          Berin Lautenbach, Phil Steitz, Roland Weber, Santiago Gala

Log4PHP is graduated to the Logging TLP.  A new JSR-303 Bean Validation
(BeanValidation) project is starting, as is the Spatial Information Systems
(SIS) project.

There had been a question about Droid IP clearance issue, which turned out
to be a non-issue, with completely documented provenance.  Discussion is on
general@i.a.o.

The Board raised a concern about WSRP4J.  The project does appear to be
stuck at the moment, having lost all momentum due to the patent claim issues
that Apache Legal has subsequently covered to the satisfaction of the
project.

Of some concern is this month's ETCH report, where they express that they're
having trouble with community building, and are reaching out for help.  If
anyone has some cycles to spare, please feel free to jump in and help!

As for Wiki Markup, I always make an effort to find and remove it all.  If
any is remaining, it is an oversight.

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Sam to inquire about LCF issue (re: NTLM?)

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201002.mbox/%3C4B85C2B7.9080005Metacarta.com%3E

Jim to connect Etch to Community Development

17 Feb 2010 [Noel J. Bergman / Doug] ¶

Largely, the usual business of the Incubator.  One of the larger discussions
involved moving to svnpubsub for the web site.  There was some heated
discussion in January regarding handling of a third party copyright notice
in ESME, but it was handled by ASF legal and the project, and resolved.

OODT (see reports, below) entered Incubation.  Subversion is discussing
graduation, as noted in the report, below.

Proposed for Incubation:

Chatterbot (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ChatterbotProposal) -- chat
responder framework
Dalesa (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/DalesaProposal) -- Peer-to-Peer
web caching software
Spacial (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SpatialProposal) -- toolkit,
allowing spatial data to be represented and queried

Rather than start a new community, the OpenCMIS codebase is being
contributed to Apache Chemistry, and the two communities are voluntarily
merging.

Two projects did not report, BlueSky and HISE, although both did report last
month.

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Incubator PMC Membership:

At the request of the Board, an Incubator PMC membership report was prepared
and separately submitted, covering Incubator inception to 2010-01.  This
report lists changes since 2010-01.  Future Incubator reports will include
changes since the the previous monthly report.

Incubator PMC membership addition(s): Glen Daniels
Incubator PMC membership subtraction(s): Jason van Zyl


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Various concerns: Droids IP clearance, LCF subreport formatting, VCL's definition and status, unsticking WSRP4J, and issues around Thrift PPMC resignation.

Doug to contact Noel with a CC to either the private or general list.

20 Jan 2010 [Noel J. Bergman / Roy] ¶

The Incubator appears to be running smoothly, with nothing regarding Board
level attention.

Shindig, Cassandra and UIMA are all talking about graduating. Shindig was
voted on last week, with the vote closed this morning in time to try to make
the Board meeting. Cassandra, which is not reporting this period, is
discussing graduation to TLP status. As noted separately, below, UIMA is
preparing to graduate in the very near future.

Proposed or newly entered:

 OODT --- a grid middleware framework for science data processing,
information integration, and retrieval
 Lucene Connector Framework
 JPPF : a parallel processing framework for Java

There is a 4th proposal, which resulted in some discussion regarding (code)
clearance vs (community) incubation. It should be resolved shortly so that
the project can move forward.

Subversion, rather ironically, given the membership of the project, failed
to provide a monthly report for January. Thrift also failed to report.
Notes on each are below.

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Roy to relay that the board directs Traffic Server to go with #2, and tell the Incubator not to gate on this.

Justin expressed concern over the communication issues in the Imperius project.

16 Dec 2009 [Noel J. Bergman / Brett] ¶

The Incubator is running smoothly, with nothing requiring the Board's
attention at this time.

There was some discussion regarding publishing of docs to the site, and
whether docs for an intermediate state are or are not to be treated the same
as a code release.  Unclear that it is in any way an Incubator issue, as
opposed to an ASF-wide topic.

There is discussion of an OpenCMIS project, with some people wanting it, and
others concerned about incubating two projects in the same domain at the
same time.  There is also discussion of incubating a JSR-303 Bean Validation
project.

Pivot and OpenWebBeans are set to graduate.  Apache Clerezza is set to start
(q.v., http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ClerezzaProposal).

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Gavin in talks with Etch.

Brett to follow up on where collaboration in ESME is taking place.

18 Nov 2009 [Noel J. Bergman / Justin] ¶

The Incubator is running smoothly, with nothing requiring the Board's
attention at this time.

The big news is no longer news: Subversion has been accepted into the
Incubator.

On other news, Pivot looks set to graduate, and is actively preparing to do
so.  WSRP4J appears to have finally cleared its legal hurdles, and can move
forward.

Droids and Stonehenge, which are active and were represented at ApacheCon,
failed to report.

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Justin to request that podlings that don't report be requested to report the following months, and new incubator PMC members be listed in the report.

21 Oct 2009 [Noel J. Bergman / Roy] ¶

Incubator report arrived late and will need to be resubmitted.

23 Sep 2009 [Noel J. Bergman / Jim] ¶

The Incubator is running actively and (relatively) smoothly, with nothing
requiring the Board's attention at this time.  In general, the Incubator has
both a lot of activity and a lot of attention.

Sebb and Joe have been contributing to tuning the release process for
publishing Incubator artifacts.

Last month we mentioned that Bill Stoddard had a face-to-face meeting with
the Bluesky team.  This was a misunderstanding, as was confirmed by a phone
discussion with Bill, but Bill has been making good communication progress
with them.  This month's report reflects the continued results of Bill's
efforts.  Bill's goal is to have working code in the ASF repository within
the month.  Once there is working, buildable code, that is not
GPL-dependent, it should be easier to start to grow a community around
Bluesky.

There was some discussion of changing the release voting process to "make
things easier" for podlings, and an interesting observation is that some of
the people most vocally against the change were those who had come into the
ASF on podlings, and felt that they had benefited from and learned from the
current process, and wanted to keep it as-is.

A potentially significant new project, Apache Aries, has gotten a lot of
discussion and attention during the past month as it was proposed for
Incubation.  Apache Aries project is intended to "deliver a set of pluggable
Java components enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model."
It proposes to collaborate with Apache Felix, Geronimo, CXF and other
projects.  There has been discussion of whether Apache Aries will end up as
a TLP or part of Felix, but for now it is just a proposal to Incubate.  See
also: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AriesProposal

Jim to follow up to ensure that all podlings report on what they need to do for graduation

19 Aug 2009 [Noel J. Bergman / Roy] ¶

Last month we mentioned that there had been extensive discussion regarding
Bluesky, and that Bill Stoddard had a face-to-face meeting with the team.
This month's report reflects the current results of Bill's efforts.

As previously discussed, the Incubator PMC has started to retire projects
that have stalled. We spent more time bikeshedding the term to be used
than we did actually retiring the projects. :-) XAP and Lokahi are this
month's retirees. PhotoArk is getting a chance to reboot, as there are
people still interested in the project.

Pivot would like to graduate, but the PMC has expressed concern over the
current lack of diversity. Actually, there was some dispute over the need
for diversity, but Pivot has taken it as an action item to focus on growing
their committers.

JSPWiki is also looking to graduate in the near future.

As a general rule, the Incubator is running smoothly (notwithstanding
complaints from elsewhere that not enough projects had graduated this year,
which is also a misimpression due to several having graduated into existing
TLPs), and it is of no insignificant pleasure to the Chair to see the degree
of active participation from a large swath of participants.

--------------------------

The board is pleased with the "rebooting" of Bluesky and beginning the process of retiring stagnated podlings.

Jim to follow up on the Traffic Server TM issue.

15 Jul 2009 [Noel J. Bergman / Brett] ¶

The past month has gone well within the Incubator.  Busy, but good.

A number of new committers have been added to projects that were in need of
them.

Sanselan has moved to the Apache Commons project.

VXQuery (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/VXQueryProposal) is starting
Incubation.

Traffic Server (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TrafficServerProposal)
should be doing so soon, as well, and has attracted considerable interest
from the HTTP Server Project.

Extensive discussion amongst the Incubator PMC regarding Bluesky.  There are
definitely some concerns.  Bill Stoddard had a face-to-face meeting with the
team.  With great respect to Bill, we are following his lead on Bluesky, as
he is actively engaged.

--------------------------

Jim: should there be some sort of "impact" for podlings that don't report time and time again?

Roy: Note that Traffic Server is a Yahoo! trademark; a solution is hinted in proposal but needs review by Apache Legal.

Brett: will take both back to Noel.

17 Jun 2009 [Noel J. Bergman / Henning] ¶

This past month has been a normally good month for the Incubator.

There is a project, Traffic Server, that appears to be of interest to the
HTTPd crowd.  Another project, VXQuery, is in the process of being sponsored
by the XMLBeans PMC.

The Incubator is pleased to see that log4php has gained new life, and we
wish them much success in this next incarnation of the project.

Despite the confusion over when the reports are due this month, almost
everyone got their report in.  SocialSite and Wink are the exceptions.  Wink
is brand new, and SocialSite only a month old.  We'll look for reports from
them in each of the next three months.

The issue with Apache JSecurity/Apache Ki having trouble finding a name has
been, once again, resolved.  The new name is Apache Shiro.

The continued problems of specification publishing organizations permitting
IP restrictions on specifications intended for shared use is reflected in
this month's WSRP report.

---------------------------------------------------

Bertrand to investigate the mailed software grants for Ace.

wrp4j: Sam to investigate the legal issue.

Should RAT be a TLP? The board did not see an issue with that approach. Henri suggested that it be an infrastructure project. It is a tool rather than a community.

Jim to communicate the remaining issues to incubator.

20 May 2009 [Noel J. Bergman / J Aaron] ¶

This past month, particularly recently, has seen good progress with
Incubator projects.  Sling has started a graduation vote, and Pivot is
seriously considering graduation.  Click wanted to graduate, but the
consensus was that it needs to do some community development first.  Two or
three other projects appear ripe to be suspended, although I hope that one
will be revived.

Other projects are keen to enter Incubation.  SocialSite and ACE entered
Incubation, and have reported (below).  Apache Wink would provide JAX-RS
based REST style web services.  Apache VXQuery would provide an
implementation of XQuery.

One issue is that Apache JSecurity/Apache Ki is having trouble finding a
name without someone claiming trademark rights.  The Ki name is the latest
victim, and during that process, the project felt a bit let down by the
legal PMC and the PRC.

----

Suggest WSRP4J be included next month; and suggest that they attend to date formats. Aaron to follow up.

15 Apr 2009 [Noel J. Bergman / Sam] ¶

This past month, particularly recently, has been a bit less quiet than
usual.  At the moment, nothing that warrants the Board's attention, although
there are a few matters that are getting the Incubator PMC's collective
attention, as it appears that we have a couple of projects where the
community is not functioning as well as they should for one reason or
another, and the Mentors feel that they are not being respected in the
discussions.  Discussion is currently on the PMC private list to deal with
these matters.

We've had a number of proposals this past month:

 Jaffre - lightweight Java RPC
 ACE - a software distribution framework based on OSGi
 SocialSite - a social networking service based on Apache Shindig
 Commons Incubator - a "perpetual" podling for Apache Commons

We're also talking a bit about how to restart Log4PHP, although with
ApacheCon and other cycle drains, that has not progressed sufficiently well.
Gavin has volunteered to help, and we have a couple of people wanting to be
active, so we'll need to look at Committer status.

There has been a lot of discussion regarding the ACE proposal, most of it
concerns from JvZ as it overlaps with Eclipse P2 technology, but that
appears to be the only objection, and there seems to be quite a bit of
interest to incubate the project.

The Commons Incubator project is another one that has had considerable
discussion.  At the moment, it is meeting with a fair amount of resistence
as not being a good fit, but discussion is ongoing.

-------------------------------------------

Jim takes the action item to follow up on IP clearance.

18 Mar 2009 [Noel J. Bergman / Geir] ¶

After last month's report, the Incubator has started the process of
recognizing the dormant status of projects that are in that condition.

The most serious issue that happened this past month is recorded in the
Empire-DB report, the gist of which is that a Committer had provided a
third-party with his SVN credentials. That issue is covered in detail
below.

BlueSky, Cassanda, Log4PHP, and Shindig all failed to report. Comments are
below, in-line with each project.

----

Individual Project Status:

Henning will poke Shindig at ApacheCon.

18 Feb 2009 [Noel J. Bergman / Jim] ¶

The last month has been fairly quiet, with nothing currently requiring the
attention of the Board.

We voted to accept Pivot for Incubation.  Pivot did not report this month,
but is still just getting started, and have not yet received all of their
infrastructure (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-1).  We will
require them to report March, April, and May.

A number of projects held votes to perform releases, including OpenWebBeans,
Sanselan, and Click.

Little else at the Incubator level.  Some discussion of housekeeping.  The
Incubator has started a vote to suspend XAP, as well as to discuss which
others should be suspended.

8/14 is not a great ratio. Active discussion on the incubator list as to how to deal with this situation. Some fount that to be at odds with "nothing currently requiring the attention of the Board." Jim has the action to participate in that thread.

We suggest making dates formats more consistent to make it easier to scan... Jim to convey this to Noel.

21 Jan 2009 [Noel J. Bergman / J Aaron] ¶

All in all, it has been very quiet since the December report.  Cassandra has
been voted upon to enter incubation, but does not appear to have started and
has not yet reported.  A couple of proposals are under consideration:

 - Scrum/Maestro/Kalumet -- an autodeploy project
 - Pivot -- a Java-based Rich Web Client project

The Incubator PMC is also discussing what should be done with respect to
projects that fail to report.  Informal (or formal if you feel it necessary)
input would be appreciated, to general@i.a.o.

One item of note is that the Incubator PMC is trying to remind each project
to include the three (3) items requested by the ASF Board of each report, so
far with mixed results.

----------------------------------------------

The board would like podlings to add a privacy policy to their websites, and identified hama, nmaven, photark, thrift, xap as ones needing such.

Sam to follow up with incubator regarding missing information

17 Dec 2008 [Noel J. Bergman / Bill] ¶

Just a generally nice month.

CouchDB, Qpid and Abdera have graduated from the Incubator.  Stonehenge and
ESME are new entries into the Incubator.  A candidate up for vote is
Cassandra.  As discussed in last month's report, rather than fork the
project, the Cassandra community decided to move to the ASF.  Feedback has
generally been very positive about this change of plans.

The Composer project has been retired, and resources have been cleaned up.
Not sure what is happening with log4php, but have asked the Mentors to
advise.

There are still some birthing pains with BlueSky.  The new website is
published by IP, not domain, and should be hosted at the ASF.  Mentors need
to address this matter.  There also seem to be continued questions about the
source code.

Etch has an infrastructure issue.  Brett Porter is trying to help.  Perhaps
Bill Rowe might also jump in, since the issue appears to be setting up an
MS-Windows based build environment, and he's had an interest in that for
some time.

------------------------------------

Per-project reports:

Should RAT move to infra? Infra is not a place for code that is having releases.

Bill to convey a number of questions to infrastructure; the board is not expecting a follow up.

19 Nov 2008 [Noel J. Bergman / Geir] ¶

Overall a good month.  A few items of note.

Several of us met with Michael Cote at ApacheCon to discuss the Incubator
with him.  Bertrand was instrumental in instigating and facilitating the
meeting.

The most contentious, and it isn't very contentious at that, discussion is
regarding the Helenus proposal, which is to incubate an already existing
fork of Facebook's Cassandra project, ostensibly because Cassandra is dead
from a community perspective, with Facebook being absentee landlords.
Because of that, the community has already forked the project, and is
looking for a home.  Ian Holsman is our point of contact with that community
at present, and proposed Incubation.

Stonehenge has been accepted for Incubation.  From the proposal: "The aim of
the Stonehenge project is to develop a set of sample applications to
demonstrate seamless interoperability across multiple underlying platform
technologies by using currently defined W3C and OASIS standard protocols."

Kato has been accepted for Incubation.  From the proposal: "Kato is a
project to develop the Specification, Reference Implementation and
Technology Compatibility Kit for JSR 326: Post-mortem JVM Diagnostics API"

OpenWebBeans has been accepted for Incubation.  From the proposal: "Open Web
Beans will be an implementation of the Web Beans Specification which is
defined as JSR-299."

A number of other proposals are under consideration.

Abdera, Buildr, CouchDB and Qpid are in the process of seeking graduation.
NMaven is going to go dormant.  JvZ apparently wants to move the project out
of the ASF entirely.

----------------

Jim to follow up with Noel reinforcing request for "Issues before graduation".

If FFMPEG can't be worked around, this discussion should be pursued on legal-discuss to determine if this represents either a GPL license violation or an ASF policy violation. Henri and Aaron to help out proactively.

15 Oct 2008 [Noel J. Bergman / Justin] ¶

In general the Incubator is operating well.

The Bluesky project, which has been an area of concern, has submitted a
report this month.

A number of us have asked that the Maven Repository issues, which has
swamped the general@ list for more than a month almost to the exclusion of
all other discussion, be moved from the Incubator to Infrastructure.  Yes,
the Incubator is effected in terms of our requirement that users be aware of
and agree to the use of Incubator artifacts, as the Incubator has long been
charged with maintaining the distinction that Incubator projects are "not
yet fully endorsed by the ASF" in large part to protect the Apache brand and
imprimatur.  But although Maven's lack of support for authenticated and
approved artifacts does effect the Incubator's ability to perform that role,
discussion and correction of that defect really belong at the Infrastructure
level, as the scope of its consequences is much more serious and widespread.

Unresolved for now is what to do about Incubator artifacts and Maven in the
interim.  It is unclear that there is a solution that allows Incubator
projects to publish into the Maven repository at all without violating the
policy regarding explicit user knowledge and consent.

The discussion of the issues caused by Maven's repository handling has led
to revisiting under what circumstances Incubator projects should be
permitted to do releases, if at all.  Personally, I would consider it
unfortunate, unfair, and a shame if we were to decide to return to the
prohibition against releases due to a build tool's inadequacies, nor do I
believe that most people want that to happen.  Others, mostly Maven users,
would like to see any distinction between the Incubator and the ASF
eliminated, which is also an undesirable approach.  There has also been
confusion evidenced about what the Apache License permits anyone to do with
the our code versus policies that the ASF self-imposes on its projects.

We are reminding all projects to provide, at a minimum, the following
information:

 * The "incubating since" info
 * The project's top 2 or 3 things to resolve prior to graduation
 * A short description of what your project's software does

Not all of them have yet complied, but we're working on it.

We're looking at various projects to see if they are ready to graduate,
whether as or into a TLP, and have new projects arriving, one from the
Apache Labs.  Pig appears ready, and is being voted on, to leave the
Incubator for the Hadoop project.  We need to examine QPid and UIMA
regarding graduation.

-----------------------------------------------------------

Justin to request that podlings include a description in their report.

Justin to request that JSecurity move to ASF ASAP.

17 Sep 2008 [Noel J. Bergman / Geir] ¶

The Incubator continues to run smoothly. In the large, we have good
participation and oversight from the PMC.

PhotArk and Etch are in the process of getting started. Qpid and UIMA are
working on putting out new releases. CouchDB is in search of new/additional
Mentors.

As mentioned in the August report, we continue to have concerns about
BlueSky, which failed to formally report again this month. However, there
is an e-mail on their list that indicates that they are hearing our
concerns, and are starting to take some steps towards improvement and
resolution on the issues, q.v.,
http://www.mail-archive.com/bluesky-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg00245.html.

*** The PMC is reminding all Incubator projects that an important item for
the report is what needs to be done to satisfy graduation requirements. ***

------------------------------------------------------

Sam expressed a concern that Pig isn't focused on graduation.

The board continues to be concerned over BlueSky.

20 Aug 2008 [Noel J. Bergman / Bill] ¶

The Incubator is running smoothly and largely trouble-free.  The biggest
debates in the past month have been related to project names.  In the large,
we have good participation and oversight from the PMC.

A number of projects, including Etch and the previously mentioned photo
gallery project have been discussed for Incubator.  The photo gallery is
accepted, and has changed its name from PicaGalley to PhotArk.

A number of projects, e.g., Sanselan, UIMA, Pig, and CouchDB had release
votes.  Felix registered some IP clearance.  XAP may be voted into dormancy,
acknowledging that status quo.

Of more interest to the Board:

We have concern about BlueSky (including licensing and "getting The Apache
Way", but Bill Stoddard and a number of others, including multiple Board
Members, are keeping a close eye on developments.  If deemed necessary, the
Incubator PMC will act.

The board is uncomfortable with the current state of BlueSky, and supports the work that the incubator is doing to correct this.

In general, the board would like to see a renewed focus on graduating, and the board members who also happened to be mentors of Abdera, CouchDB, and BlueSky (namely Sam, Jim, and Aaron) volunteered to communicate this back.

Additionally, it was requested that the incubator resume its prior practice of listing the "top 3" items needed for graduation as this was very much appreciated.

16 Jul 2008 [Noel J. Bergman / Justin] ¶

THE major topic of discussion has continued to be the Maven repository. A
thread, "Do we really need an incubator?", was started by Dims, but the real
issue raised was over the perceived watering down of Incubator seperation as
a consequence of Maven's repository handling. The current emerging
consensus appears to be that there are real and significant
issues/consequences to the ASF, but they are not Incubator specific.
Whether they are something for the Board, Membership and/or Infrastructure
Team to take up is orthogonal to the issues of the Incubator. Short of
banning the use of the Maven repository for all Incubator artifacts, there
is little that makes sense for the Incubator to address.

We did commit a change to the Incubator documentation better describing the
process for electing Committers.

Empire-DB has been voted to start Incubation. Click is currently under
consideration. An image gallery project is also under active discussion and
consideration.

------------------------------------------

Some interest was expressed in having a BlueSky report next month and perhaps even monthly. No action was assigned.

It was noted that the Hama report was lacking information about information happening within the ASF.

Concern was expressed about the pace of the activity within RCF, but it was noted that activity is picking up.

Sam to follow up on CCLA/ICLA issues with Imperius

25 Jun 2008 [Noel J. Bergman / Bertrand] ¶

The top two issues of discussion in the past month are textual revision(s)
to make it clearer that the Incubator runs the same as every other ASF
project: only PMC votes are binding, although we encourage everyone from the
broader community and the especially the PPMC to cast (non-binding) votes;
and (once again) issues with Maven.

The Maven problem is a tension between the need to distinguish between
Incubator artifacts and other ASF artifacts, compounded by the problem that
Maven doesn't do anything to authenticate any artifacts at all.  A couple of
approaches have been mooted.

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Bertrand to review scheduling of podling reports with incubator.

21 May 2008 [Noel J. Bergman / Henning] ¶

CXF has graduated, Tuscany is before the Board this month to graduate.  As
they leave, at least 4 new projects are under consideration for Incubation.

Roy has raised issues with the procedure for IP Clearance.  The Legal
Committee has this week indicated that they've no problems with the changes
proposed by Roy.

Oddly, in that there has been a significant volume during the past month
compared to most months, there have been a lot of IP Clearances done since
the April Board report.

Tony Stevenson has helped to prod projects into cleaning up their resources
when leaving the Incubator, particularly disk space.

A number of projects, e.g., UIMA and River, performed releases during the
past month.

=======================================================

May 2008 Board reports (see ReportingSchedule).

16 Apr 2008 [Noel J. Bergman / Henning] ¶

As previously noted, CXF is proposing to graduate as a TLP.  The resolution
has been submitted to the Board.  QPid withdrew its proposal, in light of
the fairly strong line that the Incubator PMC is taking on diversity.  There
was some unfortunate public airing of affiliations, but I believe that the
lesson of discussing people on private lists instead of in public has been
learned.

The Incubator PMC's experience has been that projects are more often focused
on getting good code done than in preparing to have a diverse PMC, and that
the issue is significant enough to warrant that we emphasize the need to
focus on that diversity.  CXF and Tuscany have both been pushed in that
direction previously, and have reported great satisfaction with the end
result.  Quoting from CXF: "spending additional time in the Incubator to
increase diversity, despite initial resistence, turned out to be very
helpful and the right thing."

Tuscany is discussing graduation again, and although Tuscany is not due to
report this month, they provided an interim report on their own initiative
regarding their status, which I am including in this month's report.  I
won't speak for the Incubator PMC, as we haven't discussed Tuscany's report,
but will indicate my own satisfaction at what I read.

Other than that, pretty much the usual: projects working towards Incubator
releases, such as Abdera, Tuscany, and UIMA; projects clearing IP;
clarification of procedures; etc.

We've reiterate to projects that if Confluence is being used to generate
their web site, the people with edit rights must have a signed CLA on file.

------------------------------------------------------------

April 2008 Board reports per Incubating project

Some discussion about the difficulty of measuring diversity while maintaining the privacy of affiliations.

19 Mar 2008 [Noel J. Bergman / Henning] ¶

A number of projects have been informally or formally proposed for
Incubation.  We have voted on to accept:

 Thrift  - http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ThriftProposal
 CouchDB - http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/CouchDBProposal
 PDFBox  - http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PDFBoxProposal

as noted in the previous Board Report.  PDFBox has provided a report for
this month; the other two have failed to do so.  log4php also failed to
report.

QPid is proposing to graduate.  There are diversity concerns being raised,
and discussed.  CXF is in the process of also proposing to graduate as a
TLP, and has indicate that spending additional time in the Incubator to
increase diversity, despite initial resistence, turned out to be very
helpful and the right thing.

Other than that, there are new committers and projects working on doing some
releases.

------------------------------------------------------------

A request was made that future reports be more explicit about tracking to exit criteria.

20 Feb 2008 [Noel J. Bergman / Will] ¶

One issue that came up during the past month is regarding the use of
org.apache.* package spaces when someone takes ASF code and forks it
downstream, releasing a non-ASF codebase using org.apache.* as the
namespace. I suggested that the appropriate venue for the discussion was
with the Legal Committee, and that no one in the Incubator was authorized by
the ASF to provide legal advice, neither on behalf of the ASF nor users of
our code. The topic has not been raised on the legal mailing lists as yet.

In the specific case of the package(s) in mind, we may end up resurrecting a
stalled project. We will see how it goes.

A number of projects have been informally or formally proposed for
Incubation. Those that we have voted on to accept are:

 Thrift - http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ThriftProposal
 CouchDB - http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/CouchDBProposal
 PDFBox - http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PDFBoxProposal

CXF and Tuscany did incubation releases. A number of projects are properly
recording their IP forms within the Incubator structure.

There has been a discussion of source control systems, with some people
vocally expressing interest in using another SCM. We have tried to make it
clear that projects are not free to choose and/or run alternate critical
infrastructure, especially source control, and that the Incubator is not the
correct venue to discuss the adoption of a new source control system for the
ASF. We've also tried to explain ASF practices regarding collaborative
development, independent of technology choice.

-----------------------------------------------------------------

February 2008 Board reports for Incubator Projects:

Bill to get with incubator crew to make crypto an explict checkbox as a process change.

We discussed "nudging" a few projects onto graduation, and decided that that was a mentor todo, not a board todo.

Approved by General Consent.

16 Jan 2008 [Noel J. Bergman / Henning] ¶

Yoko (CORBA implementation) has been dissolved, with parts going Geronimo
and CXF.  The FtpServer project has been graduated as a sub-project of MINA,
where there is a community interested in maintaining that code base as a
MINA implementation of the FTP protocol.

There has been discussion of various processes, with Robert Burrell Donkin
and Craig Russell continuing their on-going efforts to provide improved
Incubator documentation.

Bill Stoddard has taken a lead role in helping to bring the BlueSky project
from China into the Incubator.  The acceptance vote into the Incubator has
just passed.  It will be very interesting to see the social evolution of the
community, in terms of open source culture and language.  I sensed some
trust issues during the discussions, and earnest forthrightness on the part
of those proposing the project.

We have several pending proposals, including BENNU, which would be a
successor to the m0n0wall project.  Those in the "oh, not another Java
project" camp might want to come over and participate.  :-)

 ref: http://people.apache.org/~dsh/bennu/BENNU_PROPOSAL.txt


==============

Buildr
Description - Buildr is a build system for Java applications written in
Ruby.

Date of Entry - Nov. 2007

* Development

We're working toward Buildr 1.3 which will hopefully become our first Apache
release. The main focus of this release is multi-language support with the
big addition of Scala. It also opens the door for other languages. The work
done around JRuby is also coming to fruition with, for example, the
possibility of writing tests with RSpec to run against your Java classes.

* Community

A very steady stream of patches is coming from a steadily increasing
community of users. We've had contributions for EAR support, JRuby, fixes
around IDE tasks, ... We're monitoring closely the advanced users that
submit patches consistently, to see if we can attract a few of them to
become committers.

* Issues before graduation

When 1.3 is ready, we'll have to face all the issues surrounding the release
of Ruby code. Hopefully, when all these issues have been ironed out, our
main problems will be solved. From then it's business as usual: continuing
to build a healthy community around Buildr.

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CXF
Project Name - Apache CXF

Description - SOA enabling framework, web services toolkit

Date of Entry - August 2006

Items to resolve before graduation:

Finalize/cleanup the PPMC and committer list to reflect actual
participation. We'll be starting those discussions and stuff shortly with
hopes to start graduation discussions shortly there after. Dan Kulp had a
"face to face" chat with Jim Jagielski at ApacheCon about how to proceed
with this.

Community aspects:

Worked with Geronimo and Yoko projects to break Yoko into parts bringing the
webservices stuff into CXF. Initial bits of code have been "svn cp" into
CXF.

Started discussions with Dain (and OpenEJB) about adding soap encoding and
JAX-RPC support into CXF. Work on that has started with contributions from
Dain.

Lots of traffic on the cxf-user list. That's a good thing. Some of them are
digging into CXF code and submitting patches and suggestions. That's an even
better thing. We need to find ways to get more of that.

Code aspects:

Released 2.0.3-incubator fixing over 70 issues found by users.

Preparing 2.0.4-incubator to be released soon fixing another 50+ issues.

2.1 work is progressing well.

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Imperius

Imperius has been incubating since November 2007.

Imperius is a rule-based infrastructure management tool

Infrastructure has been set up. Mailing lists are operational.

The repository has been set up, and the first code drop has arrived.  Work
is underway to organize the repository into a maven-friendly structure.  The
website is operational.

Community

Two of the original committers have had accounts created. We are still
waiting
for the arrival of ICLAs for the others before creating accounts for them.

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JSPWiki

JSPWiki has been incubating since September 2007.

JSPWiki is a JSP-based wiki program.

JSPWiki 2.6 LGPL was finally released just before Christmas, so the
development
could finally be moved to the Apache Incubation SVN. The code is
expected
to be transferred to the Apache repository within the next few weeks.

The incubator web site was also created.

Community

The developer and user mailing lists continue to have strong activity,
with a few dozen active participants and over a hundred monitoring
the lists.

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Sanselan

Sanselan has been in incubation since September 2007.

Sanselan is a pure-java image library for reading and writing a variety of
image formats.

The community is still small, with a few more members now compared to the
beginning.

The code base has been imported and the package names have been changed to
org.apache.sanselan. Work continues on scrubbing the code and organizing it
into maven.

A release is being prepared.

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UIMA
UIMA is a component framework for the analysis of unstructured content such
as text, audio and video. UIMA entered incubation on October 3, 2006.

Some recent activity:

Version 2.2.1 was released 12/2008, our third incubator release. We were the
first ones to follow the new incubator guidelines for distributing from
w.a.o/dist/incubator/{podling}. As part of this release, we also changed our
download pages to use the Apache mirroring mechanisms. Robert Burrell Donkin
was extremely helpful to us in this process, joining our dev mailing list
and being very responsive - Thanks Robert!.

A member of the team attended ApacheCon 2007 US and presented UIMA in the
"fast track" incubator presentations. Included in that presentation, which
is available on this wiki, are slides describing UIMA use in several
projects, and its adoption by several commercial companies.

A software grant for UIMA-EE, an extension to UIMA that uses JMS and Apache
ActiveMQ to enable additional, more flexible scaleout capabilities, was
submitted to the ASF, and has recently been received. Temis, a commercial
company using UIMA, has expressed interest in joining the development work
around this new capability, and we welcome their participation.

The Cas Editor is now ready for its first release inside the UIMA project,
some short test which roughly followed the test plan were successful. The
release should be out this month.

Items to complete before graduation:

We still need to attract more new committers. We're trying to spark even
more activity in the sandbox to get people to contribute.

Community:

We continue to do outreach to attract new contributors, which may become
committers. The donation of UIMA-EE is facilitating this.

There's a good amount of traffic on both the dev and user list.

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RCF
RCF is a rich component set for JSF which supports AJAX. We are in the
process of analyzing and removing undesired dependencies of our code to be
compliant in the OpenSource world.

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Tika
Tika ( http://incubator.apache.org/tika) is a toolkit for detecting and
extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using
existing parser Libraries. Tika entered incubation on March 22nd, 2007. The
previous report to the board can be found at
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/October2007.

Community:

No new committers since the last report, activity has been moderate but
steady, leading to the 0.1 release.

Development:

Tika 0.1 (incubating) has just been released.

Chris Mattmann intends to use that release in Nutch, That's good progress
towards Tika's goal of providing data extraction functionality to other
projects.

A new Tika logo was created by Google Highly Open Participation student,
hasn't been integrated yet.

Issues before graduation:

Now that the first release is out, we need to work on growing the community
and figuring out how to best interact with external parser projects.

Approved by General Consent.

19 Dec 2007 [Noel J. Bergman / Henning] ¶

Shindig, a "SocialContainer" is entering Incubation.  PDFBox and Bennu
(based on the old m0n0wall project) have been proposed to the Incubator.
RAT is in the Incubator, and will need to start reporting.

Woden has graduated to the WS Project.  FTPServer is in the process of
moving to MINA.  Yoko (CORBA ORB) is being split up, with parts going to
Geronimo and CXF.

UIMA, QPid, CXF did releases.

A number of new committers and PMC members added.

Community diversity is an area that was discussed, especially with Tuscany
failing to graduate over concerns related to community diversity.

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Sam to follow up on the ruby license issue.

Approved by General Consent.

14 Nov 2007 [Noel J. Bergman / Henning] ¶

Composer (a component container project), RAT (project analysis for
conformance with licensing and similar requirements) and buildr (a build
tool) have entered Incubation.  STDCXX is proposed for Graduation.

Tuscany did not graduate due to concerns over community diversity.  There
has been continued discussion on general@i.a.o about the need for diversity.
Tuscany is actively focused on building diversity now, with plans to
re-apply for graduation.

A number of projects are failing to build any community (and to report).  An
e-mail has been sent to general@i.a.o to discuss their future.  NMaven
reported late.  Wendy Smoak has volunteered to help Mentor the project.

Perhaps the biggest issue for the Incubator PMC is the long-standing issue
of redundant and not infrequently inaccurate project meta-data.  There are
plans to discuss the issue at ApacheCon, but as is often the case, support
tools receive little interest and effort from the community, whether for the
Incubator, Infrastructure, the Board or the Foundation as a whole.

Approved by General Consent.

17 Oct 2007 [Noel J. Bergman / Geir] ¶

The Incubator enjoyed another good month.

Tuscany and stdcxx are in the process of graduation votes and preparation of
TLP proposals.  Ivy graduated into Ant.  TripleSoup and JUICE are being put
into a dormant status.  "Pig" is *just* coming in, and "Imperius" should
enter Incubation shortly.  The RAT analysis tool is also being proposed for
Incubation.  The first reports for Sanselan, Sling and JSPWiki are included
in this month's report.  Lokahi isn't due to report this month, but since
there has been some on-going concern, I want to note that there has been
*some* uptick in activity, with a focus on removing the dependency on
Oracle.

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Jim to take back minor completeness of report issues to the incubator.

Approved by General Consent.

19 Sep 2007 [Noel J. Bergman / Greg] ¶

The Incubator enjoyed another nice quiet month.  Busy, but no conflicts or
problems.  A few more new PMC Members were added, and a more couple people
stepped up as Mentors.  The recommendation to have at least 3 Mentors per
project, although not universally implemented, appears to be having the
desired effect of smoothing out the ride.  And projects are now coming to
the PMC to request additional Mentors when theirs go quiet or need to leave.

Sanselan and Sling have entered Incubation.  JSPWiki is due to join shortly.
A couple of other proposals are under consideration.

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Approved by General Consent.

29 Aug 2007 [Noel J. Bergman / Bill] ¶

The Incubator enjoyed a nice quiet summer month.  Woden, CXF, Tuscany each
did a release.  A few new PMC Members were added, and a couple of people
stepped up as Mentors.  All in all, a nice quiet month for a change.

A couple of projects appear very close to graduation, e.g., Woden.

Lokahi did not report this month, and will be asked to report next month.
The project has been quiet lately, which is probably not a good sign, since
it is in real need of community.

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Approved by General Consent.

18 Jul 2007 [Noel J. Bergman / Greg] ¶

Project graduation continues, with Ode, ServiceMix, STDCXX and QPID looking
to receive TLP status now or shortly.  We also have new proposals, such as
the Java Resource Simulator.

By the same token, we're actively putting projects into a dormant status
when they are, in fact, dormant.  JuICE is likely the next such project,
with the vote is currently pending.  On the flip side, we've been asked to
bring log4php out of its dormant status, as there is a new community wanting
to work on it.

CXF and Tuscany have been doing releases.  CXF should probably be starting
to push for graduation, too, except for diversity being a concern (Tuscany
seems to have the same issue).

Work continues steadily on improving Incubator Documentation.  Craig Russell
and Robert Burrell Donkin deserve much credit for shepherding the issues.

-------------- PROJECTS -------------------

Apache CXF

Description - SOA enabling framework, web services toolkit

Date of entry - August, 2006

Top three items to resolve
 1. Diversity - Active commiters are mostly IONA people(and IONA aquiring
LogicBlaze didn't help).  However, we do have more than three indepentent
organizations represented.
 2. Growth of community - related to diversity.  The traffic on both the
users and dev lists is growing with new people jumping in.   The 2.0 release
has started to generate much more traffic.   With a full "none RC" release,
we've started getting traffic from people migrating from other products.
The CXF community is excited to see this and hope we can rise to the
challenge of supporting these new users.
 3. Mentor status - recent discussion on general@i.a.o suggested we really
need three active  mentors.   We currently only have 2 active mentors (Jim
and James).   That said, we successfully released 2.0 and voted in new
committers with votes from those two and others on the IPMC.   Thanks to the
other IPMC folks for taking the time.

Community aspects:
  * Voted in Jeff Genender as a committer due to his excellent work on
    JAX-WS compliancy fixes.
  * Voted in Tomasz Sztelak from XFire community.  He's been contributing to
    a Maven archetype as well as some docs and other XFire migration things.
  * Released 2.0-incubator
  * Apache Geronimo has been certified J2EE compliant using CXF as their
    JAX-WS and JWS implementation.
  * A lot of documentation has been added to our Wiki specifically
    targetting users and people migrating from XFire.   We hope this helps
    attract more users (and thus a create a larger community)

Code aspects:
  * Released 2.0-incubator - this release is JAX-WS Compliant and passed the
    TCK which was a major milestone for the project.
  * Working on bug fixes for a 2.0.1 hopefully to be released in a few more
    weeks to address issues found in 2.0.
  * Also planning features for 2.1 including JAX-WS 2.1

The board noted with some concern the lack of mentors for FtpServer. Bill to call for mentors.

Geir agreed to advise QPid on TCK issues.

Approved by General Consent.

7. Special Orders

20 Jun 2007 [Noel J. Bergman / Will] ¶

Apache Incubator Project Monthly Report

The PMC recommends that Wicket is ready to graduate as a top level
project.

Progress has been made on clarifying policy and on improving the guidance
documentation. The main focus has been on the graduation guide.  It has been
good to see the involvement of committers on projects under incubation in
this process. Martijn Dashorst in particular has made important
contributions which was recognized by the PMC though the grant of site
karma.

The major area of process controversy since the last report has been in the
area of election of committers. Clarification of policy in this area is
still ongoing.

The area of ensuring quality reports is still an area of concern and is
awaiting resolution.

In the past, activity levels of mentors has been an area of concern. Day to
day oversight for incubating projects is delegated to mentors so it is
important that mentors are active. The PMC has appointed additional mentors
for NMaven and ODE. Debates about the appropriate process for this should
hopefully lead to a clearer and more efficient process in future. The
question of how the PMC can know when a mentor becomes inactive is still
unresolved.

William A. Rowe, Jr. asked a number of questions at the ApacheConEU2007 BOF
and raised them again on the general list.  More work will be required to
address them.

A solution has been found to the Heraldry problem. Details in the report
below, but the gist is that we've retired the project at the behest of the
community.

Approved by General Consent.

16 May 2007 [Noel J. Bergman / Jim] ¶

We are revising the web site documentation to help better describe the
processes, policies and procedures.  No substantive policy changes, just
improved clarity.

All in all, things seem to be going fairly well.  Nothing major on a general
level to report during the short interval between the April and May reports.
Lokahi got a lot of exposure at ApacheCon EU in Amsterdam, and hopefully can
build on that in the coming months.

TSIK, which failed to report this month, is being marked as dormant at the
request of the WS PMC, which had sponsored it.  Yoko, however, is active,
and simply failed to provide a report on time.

Projects that fail to report will be asked if they are to be moved to a
dormant status.  In the case of projects that are active and fail to provide
a report, they will be barred from performing releases until they have
cleared up their reporting responsibilities.

Henri noted that the board received some good questions from Jukka regarding StdCxx, although this is an issue that the Incubator should be addressing. Justin to follow up on this.

It was also noted that some podling reports still are not providing requested information such as "Steps required for graduation" (Abdera and others). Also, many are providing their reports in Wiki markup (cut-paste) instead of formatted for text. The Incubator will be contacted to fix these issues.

The main discussion was regarding the Tuscany community split (Fabric3). The board agreed that it was potentially worrisome, and would watch this issue.

Approved by General Consent.

25 Apr 2007 [Noel J. Bergman / Ken] ¶

As noted in the March report, "Heraldry has had issues because of a vendor
deciding that they didn't like having to open up to community development
after all.  Work is underway to reconstitute the project without them.  The
heraldry-dev@ archives document the events and process."  Accordingly, the
Incubator has attempted to restart the Heraldry project with those who have
again agree to operate according to ASF policies and practices.  We don't
know how it will play out, but "be there even just 3 good people wanting to
collaborate" (abuse of literary reference), we will give them a chance.

A number of projects wanted to release during the past month, and that
appears to be going more smoothly now than it has in the past.  I believe
that the expectations are perhaps better known, and it seems that more
projects are running RBD's RAT before asking for a vote.  Tuscany withdrew a
set of votes in order to focus on community issues (some conflict), at least
one new Tuscany Committer has been voted upon since, and about a month later
Tuscany came back with a new request for a release.

Trinidad graduated out of the Incubator to MyFaces.  Another MyFaces-related
project is starting Incubation.

There is something of a shortage of people willing and able to act as
Mentors, even on some of the "larger" projects, much less some of the small
ones, e.g., FtpServer, that are asking for help.  There is no action item
for the Board, just an observation.

On a related note, we once again revisited the issue of who can be a Mentor,
and once again the vast consensus (with a few contrary votes) is that it is
not required that one be an ASF Member, but that it is desirable that at
least one Mentor on every project be an ASF Member, since that means that
the person will have access to archives and information from internal lists
that might be useful in the Mentoring process.

A number of projects failed to report.  They are noted below with a question
if they should be put into an archival status, and e-mail has been sent to
initiate the process.

The board liked the concept of "if no report is received, ask them if they want to be archived", mentioned in the report.

Approved by General Consent.

7. Special Orders

28 Mar 2007 [Noel J. Bergman / Sam] ¶

In addition to the individual projects, the Incubator is reviewing its
policy on Maven repository artifacts.  Currently, Incubator artifacts for
Maven are required to be placed in a separate repository, the goal being to
ensure that users are not "accidental tourists", but have agreed to use
Incubator artifacts.  Apparently, we're not quite getting what we want from
this approach, due to how Maven works, so we're revisiting the requirement,
and will likely drop the separate repository.  Perhaps we can use artifact
signing to address the matter in a future version of Maven.  Likewise, there
seems to be a consensus to move normally distributed (non-Maven) artifacts
into the mirrored ASF repository, under dist/incubator/, with the path, the
artifact names, and the disclaimer all clearly labelling the artifacts as
being in the Incubator.

There appears to be some community tension in the Tuscany project, but the
PMC consensus is that the Mentors are working on it, so we're going to let
it work itself out for now.

Heraldry has had issues because of a vendor deciding that they didn't like
having to open up to community development after all.  Work is underway to
reconstitute the project without them.  The heraldry-dev@ archives document
the events and process.

Tika, a Content Analysis Toolkit, was approved to start Incubation.

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=== ADF Faces / Trinidad ===

iPMC Reviewers: jukka, yoavs, jim, noel

Apache Trinidad is a library of JavaServer Faces components, runnable with
every JSF-compliant implementation.

The Trinidad community was working over the past three month on several
topics, like getting Trinidad stable and
continuing the work for a JSF 1.2 compliant component lib.

The mailing list traffic was normal:
 * DEV: 115 (Dec 2006), 91 (Jan 2007), 219 (Feb 2007): , 27 (March 2007)
 * USER: 233 (Dec 2006), 365 (Jan 2007), 197 (Feb 2007): , 29 (March 2007)

Portal support landed on the trunk, contributed by Scott O'Bryan.  Support
for much improved dialogs came from Danny Robinson, and is gestating
on a branch.  50 user reported issues were resolved in this period.
The quality of the JSF 1.2 branch continued to solidify.

One of the items we are most proud of is the fact that we released a
1.0.0-incubating version of our Maven2 plugins
and began preparations to release the CORE of Trinidad, the JSF components
(for JSF 1.1).

Future goals:
 * working on the release of the Trinidad CORE (meaning the JSF components)
 * working on the graduation checklist

iPMC questions / comments:

 * jukka: Things to do before graduation?
answer: we are currently checking the check list and "missing things".
Please see the dev list.
 * yoavs: seems to me that mailing list traffic this month is drastically
lower than previous months.
answer: in march: user and dev lists are on a *regular base*. Feb was much
higher in DEV, that's right.
 * jukka: The report was submitted early, so only part of the traffic this
month is included in the stats
answer: as of today, user list (243) and dev list (148) (was 219 in Feb.)

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Sam will remind the Incubator that "Incubating Since" dates should be on all reports.

Approved by General Consent.

21 Feb 2007 [Noel Bergman / Henri] ¶

Summary
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The Incubator continues along, with much project activity:
- mod_ftp graduated into the httpd project,
- log4net graduated into the Logging Services project,
- AltRMI, log4php, and TSIK exited Incubation into dormant status.
- The initial IP clearance for mod_wombat has been approved.
- Several other projects issued successful releases, and there seems
 to be increasing smoothness around the release verification and voting
 process.
- Roy Fielding resigned from the Incubator PMC.
- Niclas Hedhman joined the Incubator PMC (PMC chair still to request
 ACK from board@)

One new project entered incubation: TripleSoup, a SPARQL endpoint for
httpd.  The project proposal is available at
 http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TripleSoupProposal and its proposal
acceptance vote at
 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=incubator-general&m=117069564625278&w=2

Work continues on clarifying and improving Incubator documentation,
especially in the areas of IP clearance and related procedures.
There's a discussion around cleaning up the "bylaws" language in TLP
proposals in favor of "guidelines" or a similar term.  The start of
that thread is at
 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=incubator-general&m=117130831724125&w=2

Issues / Comments from last month's Board meeting:
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(Quotes are from previous Board meeting minutes, January 2007).
"A question to  be discussed later is what is the operational
difference between dormant and retired."
iPMC: No progress to report.

"The board clearly agreed that the Heraldry podling does not sound
healthy or "good"."
iPMC: Heraldry appears to be heading out of the Incubator into their
own project / foundation around OpenID, but mutual consent of all
parties involved.

"Jim noted his concern about Graffito and the apparent lack of any
activity combined with it's length of term within incubation."
iPMC: Graffito followup report is below.  The project appears to be
moving forward, albeit slowly.

February 2007 Podling Reports
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(Copied from wiki page at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/February2007)

Sam noted his feelings that the incubator is truly becoming a mini ASF.

Approved by General Consent.

8. Special Orders

17 Jan 2007 [Noel J. Bergman / Cliff] ¶

More and more ASF Members continue to join the Incubator PMC to help
shephard projects through the process.  ActiveMQ is the latest of a recent
string of ASF Projects asking to go TLP.  Solr requested graduation to the
Lucene project.  Synapse graduated to the WS project.

Agila has been placed into a dormancy status, with only the retirement of
the mailing lists outstanding
(http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1056).  AltRMI is also being
placed in a dormant status.  Others are likely to follow.  We may suggest
that other TLPs that have dormant codebases move them to a "dormant/" (or
some such) area of the Incubator, so that people can see the existance of
the code, and it can be revived in-place if a community forms around it.

===============================================

Incubator monthly reports for January 2007

The following projects failed to report on time:
 * Ivy
 * JuiCE
 * Qpid

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Henri indicated that his worry with moving dormant codebases to the Incubator is whether the Incubator can be the one who guarantees someone is listening when a release has to be done. Sam suggested that the board request a clarification: dormant means no releases; To have a release would require reactivation. A question to be discussed later is what is the operational difference between dormant and retired.

Henri noted that the Felix wording is a bit weird: 'Committed OSGi source code which is AL 2.0'. Sounds like we're committing other people's source code - and asked if we were worried about this? Sam offered this analogy: one of the purposes of the CC licenses is to spell out the conditions under which you never need to ask permission. Our repositories certainly contain other people's binaries -- when they are under a compatible license. Sam said that he was not overly concerned about our repositories containing other peoples source, but what he is concerned about is whether or not we are following the terms of the license for that source.

The board clearly agreed that the Heraldry podling does not sound healthy or "good". However, the board did not see any reason to take direct action at this time: it noted that Heraldry was self-aware enough to recognize the issues. Greg did note that one third party said that Heraldry is not a community, but a "dumping ground" for corporate interests and noted that, if true, that might explain what is being observed.

Roller graduation was discussed. It was reported that the Wiki migration is the current issue blocking graduation.

Jim noted his concern about Graffito and the apparent lack of any activity combined with it's length of term within incubation. Sander agreed and noted that it is reassuring that there is a discussion within the podling taking place about the future of the project. Sander suggested that they provide a followup report for next month.

Justin asked that, regarding Lucene.Net, what is 'Highlighter.Net' and 'Snowball.Net'? It was reported that these are optional packages in Lucene that were ported to .NET.

Approved by General Consent.

20 Dec 2006 [Noel Bergman / Henri] ¶

Projects in the Incubator have been very busy.  Tuscany, Qpid, Felix, CXF,
Synapse, Yoko, OpenJPA and Abdera have all been going through Incubator
releases in the past month.

Cayenne and OFBiz are proposed to Board to move to TLP status.  At least a
couple of other projects should be getting ready to do so.

No major conflicts in the past month.  Just a lot of work.

Reports are missing from ActiveMQ and log4php.

==================

There was discussion regarding Woden and whether its current level of diversity was adequate. It was noted that IBM and WSO2 have the "majority respresentation" but that, considering the Mentors of the podlings, the board trusts them (and the Incubator itself) to ensure diversity.

Henri noted that log4php hasn't had a commit in 10 months and looks to only have the one committer.

Justin noted that Wicket would like a license inclusion exception for small files. The board agreed that this made sense.

Approved by General Consent.

25 Oct 2006 [Noel J. Bergman / Sam, Jim] ¶

--- September Report

Since the last report, there has been significant progress made by
individual projects within the Incubator (below).

Traffic on general@incubator.apache.org has been significant, with
contributions and oversight by many ASF Members and Directors.
General Incubator topics of discussion have included:

 - the pros and cons of using IRC as a communication tool
 - Specifications as a project type
 - Discussion related to governance and structure of the proposed
   JINI incubation, which has aspects of a specification and an
   implementation of the specification.
 - Establishing a Maven repository *just* for Incubator artifacts
 - Continued work on improving the Incubator documentation

One project, Felix, proposed graduation, and was asked to provide a
draft of the request that would come before the Board, and was also
asked --- a bit of a subtle change in how people have generally viewed
releases from projects in the Incubator --- to demonstrate a release,
so that people would be comfortable that they knew how to put out a
release conforming to ASF policy.  The Board should expect to see the
request at the October meeting.

QPid (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/QpidProposal) was accepted for
Incubation (actually, immediately prior to the August report).

Wicket (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WicketProposal) was accepted
for Incubation.

Henri noted that OpenEJB is now in our main JIRA - kudos to dblevins for coming up with a migration tool. The board expressed hope that the tool could be used for other projects.

Henri also suggested that Incubator reports also include the name of the person submitting the report (either Mentor or PPMC member). Justin originally did not see the need for this, but the board decided that this made sense after all and was a good idea.

Approved by General Consent

16 Aug 2006 [Noel Bergman / Sander] ¶

 Lots of activity in the past month:

 - Discussion of Celtixfire, Wicket, Qpid, and other proposed
   projects.
 - Discussion of how to allow the use of Maven without co-mingling of
   Incubator artifacts with other Apache artifacts.  Henri is in the
   process of setting up a separate repository just for Incubator
   artifacts.
 - Recent discussion of Specifications as projects under ASF
   governance, catalyzed by the Qpid and JINI proposals.
 - On-going discussion on how best to bring established Open Source
   projects under Incubation without undue inconvenience to their
   existing user communities.
 - A lot of work by Robert Burrell Donkin on Incubator Documentation.

Greg suggested that for future reports, we should have a short, one-line description of what the project is. Unlike established projects, many of these are unknown, so it is hard to know what something like "Abdera" is trying to accomplish. Jim also suggested that they include the name(s) of the Mentor(s). Basically, the board is requesting a short admin overview from:

http://incubator.apache.org/projects/

Greg also noted the number of dormant projects and would like to see some closure.

Approved by General Consent

6. Special Orders

19 Jul 2006 [Noel J. Bergman / Greg] ¶

This has been a busy month for the Incubator PMC, considering a number of
new submissions, such as:

 CeltixFire - a multiple vendor submission for a SOA platform
 Blaze - a proposed standard and set of implementations for messaging
         middleware interop
 Heraldry - an identity project

The Incubator continues to grow, and I have approached Dave Reid about
helping us to send out reminders to all of the Incubator projects, just as
he does for the rest of the ASF.

The Incubator PMC is reviewing our practices regarding Mentoring, and
revising our documentation in general.  Many thanks to Robert Burrell
Donkin, Noirin Plunkett, Justin Erenkrantz, Jean T. Anderson, and others for
their gratefully received contributions.

One good discussion has been on branding of projects in the Incubator.
Another good discussion was about the use of IRC, incorporated experiences
from multiple projects that use IRC, and effected the plans of at least one
Incubator project to use IRC.

Another topic that we are starting to discuss with an eye towards execution
is a policy on project dormancy, and what exactly to do to effect such a
project status.

Lastly, Cliff Schmidt raised the issue of disclosure regarding people being
contracted to act as Mentors, and the Incubator PMC agreed on a disclosure
policy that provides disclosure without appearing to be advertising.

============================================================================

Approved by General Consent

19 Jul 2006 [Noel Bergman / Jim] ¶

A relatively quiet month on the Incubator front.

Projects continue to settle into the task of Incubation.  We are
currently engaged in a "doc-a-thon" at ApacheCon EU to polish the
documentation for our processes and policies.

An article discussing the Incubator was vetted by the PRC, and should
be out this month.  I have asked to see if we can get electronic
reproduction rights from the publisher for the article.

      --- Noel

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ActiveMQ

The STATUS file for the project is up to date. The code is clean and
using only Apache-compliant libraries, it has the correct copyright
notices and is in the org.apache.activemq namespace. We've got all the
software grants sorted and all developers have their CLAs on file and
accounts created. The project's active mailing lists are proof of the
vibrant community behind ActiveMQ.

The Apache ActiveMQ 4.0 final has successfully been released. For more
information about the release, see:
http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/activemq-40-release.html
Development has started on the next 4.1 release. In tandem, the 4.0
branch has continued to stablize and a 4.0.1 release should be ready
shortly. Bug fix releases should start occurring now with more
frequency.

The website home page has now been sorted out and is being checked
into svn. The static HTML is being generated from a Confluence wiki
and content is very easy to update now. See:
http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/


Abdera

Project resources have been set up with the exception of issue
tracking. (we seem to have decided to use Jira instead of Bugzilla)

The Code Grant has been received and acknowledged

James Snell's ICLA has been received and acknowledged

Rob Yates ICLA was faxed in on Friday, June 16th but has not yet been
acknowledged

The initial code drop has been checked in to SVN

All copyright notices have been updated

Notice and License are included

Ant and Maven build scripts are included

We've decided on a repository layout

The initial drop of the project site has been checked in and includes
an FAQ, Getting Started Guide, Developer's Guide and Javadocs.


ADF Faces

The STATUS file for the project has been committed. Since the name ADF
Faces is only temporary, a vote for a new name was started. The new
name Trinidad has been choosen by the community. The Community itself
is growing. Users requested enhancements which have been provided.
Also some users contributed help and patches. For wiki the Trinidad /
ADF Faces project uses the Wiki of its sponsor, the Apache MyFaces
project. Some todos have been identified at the wiki, like continuum
based nightly build.

There is discussion on integrating the skinning and PPR rendering
solutions of Trinidad into Tomahawk.


Cayenne

Cayenne 1.2 Release Candidate was announced on 5/31/2006. The first
release from the Incubator (Cayenne 2.0) is planned to immediately
follow 1.2-final. It will be exact equivalent of non-Apache release
1.2, with package names changed to org.apache.cayenne, simplifying
user migration to the new namespace.

Mike Kienenberger and Andrus Adamchik were added to the Podling PMC.

We started collecting CLA's from emeritus committers. So far CLA's for
Holger Hoffstatte and Michael Shengaout are recorded. Most of the
remaining ones are confirmed to be in the mail and should be recorded
soon.

We are  mentoring three projects as a part of Google Summer of Code
program.


Graffito

There was not so much commits on the project due to the current
commiters activities. The company Sword Technologies donates new
Graffito services (worfklow, news management , mail and scheduler
services). Christophe will try to review and commit this code asap.

The Spring support is finished for the OCM Tools. Now the OCM tools
will be used in the complete Graffito stack. By this way, the Graffito
persistence service can access to JCR repositories.

Graffito is working with Jetspeed 2 head.


Kabuki

The contributing vendor backed out in favor of their own alliance
group without ever really getting started in the Incubator.  Unless
there is interest within the ASF, the Incubator PMC will retire this
project.


log4net

The log4net team has recently release 1.2.10. This release includes
many minor fixes which dramatically improve the quality of the
release. Since the release we have been tracking user feedback to
define our priorities for the next release.


log4php

After committing log4php PHP5 base code, not much going on this month.
No users has sent contributions and the mailing lists have low
activity. Hope to get some user contributions in the next month or
two...


Lucene.Net

Lucene.Net continues to progressing. Recently Lucene.Net 1.9 RC1 build
4 Beta was released and it's on its way to become "final" by the end
of the month. Folks are beginning to discover Lucene.Net and
activities on the project from posting questions and code fixes are
beginning to show some signs of life however, things are still slow in
terms of participation. Lucene.Net can use some publicity and exposure
which I intend to start doing.


Ode

Code from both BPE and PXE has been checked into the project's
subversion repository with appropriate headers, and the group is
prototyping and discussing approaches for integrating the engine with
an external runtime (e.g., a "plain old JVM", a J2EE application
server, or a JBI container) and for deployment.

PXE developers are also documenting the codebase (and especially the
engine core) to get all contributors to the same level of
understanding.


OFBiz

In summary, things are progressing well. No major issues at this time.

The gathering of iCLAs is mostly completed:

 total number of our contributors with iCLAs on file: 62

 there are 15 iCLAs that has been sent but not still filed at Apache;
 we hope to see them in soon

 there are 4 contributors whom we have been unable to contact: we
 have reviewed their contributions (that are fairly small) and we
 have asked to the Incubator PMC for help with this

removed and replaced all the jar files licensed under not-allowed
licenses (mostly LGPL)

completed the migration to the new issue tracking system: now we are
using the Apache's Jira server

completed the migration to the new mailing lists

asked for a new committer's account for our new committer Jacques Le
Roux; we are waiting for it to be created


mod_ftp

No report provided.  Very little e-mail traffic, and no commits.
Appears to be dormant, and neglected.


OpenJPA

Still getting started.  No report provided, although there is somewhat
active e-mail traffic (average of about 1 e-mail per day over the past
two months).

Jim to address mod_ftp (likely propose graduation to httpd)

Approved by General Consent

27 Jun 2006 [Noel Bergman / Jim] ¶

A relatively quiet month on the Incubator front.

Projects continue to settle into the task of Incubation.  We are
currently engaged in a "doc-a-thon" at ApacheCon EU to polish the
documentation for our processes and policies.

An article discussing the Incubator was vetted by the PRC, and should
be out this month.  I have asked to see if we can get electronic
reproduction rights from the publisher for the article.

      --- Noel

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

ActiveMQ

The STATUS file for the project is up to date. The code is clean and
using only Apache-compliant libraries, it has the correct copyright
notices and is in the org.apache.activemq namespace. We've got all the
software grants sorted and all developers have their CLAs on file and
accounts created. The project's active mailing lists are proof of the
vibrant community behind ActiveMQ.

The Apache ActiveMQ 4.0 final has successfully been released. For more
information about the release, see:
http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/activemq-40-release.html
Development has started on the next 4.1 release. In tandem, the 4.0
branch has continued to stablize and a 4.0.1 release should be ready
shortly. Bug fix releases should start occurring now with more
frequency.

The website home page has now been sorted out and is being checked
into svn. The static HTML is being generated from a Confluence wiki
and content is very easy to update now. See:
http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/


Abdera

Project resources have been set up with the exception of issue
tracking. (we seem to have decided to use Jira instead of Bugzilla)

The Code Grant has been received and acknowledged

James Snell's ICLA has been received and acknowledged

Rob Yates ICLA was faxed in on Friday, June 16th but has not yet been
acknowledged

The initial code drop has been checked in to SVN

All copyright notices have been updated

Notice and License are included

Ant and Maven build scripts are included

We've decided on a repository layout

The initial drop of the project site has been checked in and includes
an FAQ, Getting Started Guide, Developer's Guide and Javadocs.


ADF Faces

The STATUS file for the project has been committed. Since the name ADF
Faces is only temporary, a vote for a new name was started. The new
name Trinidad has been choosen by the community. The Community itself
is growing. Users requested enhancements which have been provided.
Also some users contributed help and patches. For wiki the Trinidad /
ADF Faces project uses the Wiki of its sponsor, the Apache MyFaces
project. Some todos have been identified at the wiki, like continuum
based nightly build.

There is discussion on integrating the skinning and PPR rendering
solutions of Trinidad into Tomahawk.


Cayenne

Cayenne 1.2 Release Candidate was announced on 5/31/2006. The first
release from the Incubator (Cayenne 2.0) is planned to immediately
follow 1.2-final. It will be exact equivalent of non-Apache release
1.2, with package names changed to org.apache.cayenne, simplifying
user migration to the new namespace.

Mike Kienenberger and Andrus Adamchik were added to the Podling PMC.

We started collecting CLA's from emeritus committers. So far CLA's for
Holger Hoffstatte and Michael Shengaout are recorded. Most of the
remaining ones are confirmed to be in the mail and should be recorded
soon.

We are  mentoring three projects as a part of Google Summer of Code
program.


Graffito

There was not so much commits on the project due to the current
commiters activities. The company Sword Technologies donates new
Graffito services (worfklow, news management , mail and scheduler
services). Christophe will try to review and commit this code asap.

The Spring support is finished for the OCM Tools. Now the OCM tools
will be used in the complete Graffito stack. By this way, the Graffito
persistence service can access to JCR repositories.

Graffito is working with Jetspeed 2 head.


Kabuki

The contributing vendor backed out in favor of their own alliance
group without ever really getting started in the Incubator.  Unless
there is interest within the ASF, the Incubator PMC will retire this
project.


log4net

The log4net team has recently release 1.2.10. This release includes
many minor fixes which dramatically improve the quality of the
release. Since the release we have been tracking user feedback to
define our priorities for the next release.


log4php

After committing log4php PHP5 base code, not much going on this month.
No users has sent contributions and the mailing lists have low
activity. Hope to get some user contributions in the next month or
two...


Lucene.Net

Lucene.Net continues to progressing. Recently Lucene.Net 1.9 RC1 build
4 Beta was released and it's on its way to become "final" by the end
of the month. Folks are beginning to discover Lucene.Net and
activities on the project from posting questions and code fixes are
beginning to show some signs of life however, things are still slow in
terms of participation. Lucene.Net can use some publicity and exposure
which I intend to start doing.


Ode

Code from both BPE and PXE has been checked into the project's
subversion repository with appropriate headers, and the group is
prototyping and discussing approaches for integrating the engine with
an external runtime (e.g., a "plain old JVM", a J2EE application
server, or a JBI container) and for deployment.

PXE developers are also documenting the codebase (and especially the
engine core) to get all contributors to the same level of
understanding.


OFBiz

In summary, things are progressing well. No major issues at this time.

The gathering of iCLAs is mostly completed:

 total number of our contributors with iCLAs on file: 62

 there are 15 iCLAs that has been sent but not still filed at Apache;
 we hope to see them in soon

 there are 4 contributors whom we have been unable to contact: we
 have reviewed their contributions (that are fairly small) and we
 have asked to the Incubator PMC for help with this

removed and replaced all the jar files licensed under not-allowed
licenses (mostly LGPL)

completed the migration to the new issue tracking system: now we are
using the Apache's Jira server

completed the migration to the new mailing lists

asked for a new committer's account for our new committer Jacques Le
Roux; we are waiting for it to be created


mod_ftp

No report provided.  Very little e-mail traffic, and no commits.
Appears to be dormant, and neglected.


OpenJPA

Still getting started.  No report provided, although there is somewhat
active e-mail traffic (average of about 1 e-mail per day over the past
two months).

Tabled due to time constraints.

24 May 2006 [Noel Bergman / Sam] ¶

Projects continue to settle into the task of Incubation.  We will
likely hold a meeting at ApacheCon EU in June to work on documentation
to try and polish our processes and documentation.  Might be worth
having a BOF one evening for every attendee involved in the Incubator.

A nice thing to see has been that with a continued influx of projects
has come new mentors.

Although we don't have any projects applying for TLP status this
month, we may have a few soon.

       --- Noel

-------------------------------------------------------------------

ActiveMQ

The STATUS file for the project is up to date. The code is clean and
using only Apache-compliant libraries, it has the correct copyright
notices and is in the org.apache.activemq namespace. We've got all the
software grants sorted and all developers have their CLAs on file and
accounts created. The project's active mailing lists are proof of the
vibrant community behind ActiveMQ. Nathan Mittler was voted in as
committer due to his excellent work on the C++ client for ActiveMQ.

The Java code base has has being going through QA and stabilization
for the past few months and several release candidates for 4.0 have
been cut. The 4.0 final release is currently under Vote and we expect
to have a final release very shortly. Development is starting to gear
up now for the 4.1 release and we are excited to find out where the
community and committers drive the development of the next 4.1
release.

The website home page has now been sorted out and is being checked
into svn.  The static HTML is being generated from a Confluence wiki
and content is very easy to update now. See:
http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/


ADF Faces

Mailing lists, subversion repository, and JIRA setup was completed,
along with accounts for two new committers to the podling. Initial
code drop committed to repository, starting to work through package
name adjustments and code review.


Cayenne

Initial committer accounts were created and the Jira migration was
completed. Migration of SourceForge CVS to Apache SVN was
completed. New modules developed since the Incubator proposal was
submitted (namely JPA module) are switched to the new package naming:
org.apache.cayenne. The core modules still use org.objectstyle.cayenne
naming.


Kabuki

Working on project documentation and logistics for using toolkit
hosted at Apache.


Lokahi

Not much going on this month, after a fairly active month in
April. Not issues that need the Incubator PMC or Board attention at
this time. Hoping to get more done in the next month or two...


Lucene.Net

Lucene.Net is progressing well. Recently MSDN style documentation was
added, the website was ironed out a bit and we are on track to release
Lucene.Net 1.9 by end of May. Also, the mailing list at ASF is now
starting to see some traffic. We are still awaiting the finalization
to add our second committer, to the project which we expect to be
completed this month.


Ode

Accounts have been created for almost everybody in the first round of
committers. Active discussion is underway about various subjects such
as the engine core structure or the deployment model. An IRC chat is
scheduled to kick-start these issues. A couple of modules (parser and
bom) have also been voted to be imported in Ode's trunk.


OFBiz

The main issue at the moment continues to be the gathering of
iCLAs. We're making progress:

 Total number of contributors contacted: 104
 Number of contributors with iCLA already filed at ASF: 41
 Number of contributors that have already sent their iCLA, but still
   not filed at ASF: 18
 Number of contributors who have not yet sent their iCLA: 45

We will begin discussing alternative strategies, such as clean-room
re-implementations, for code whose contributors have not sent in their
CLAs yet.

We've made some significant progress in replacing LGPL jars, mainly
JOTM, the default transaction manager of OFBiz. We've integrated the
Geronimo/Jencks transaction manager (TM) into OFBiz, and early testing
shows it's working fine. We continue testing and gathering feedback,
and anticipate that we will be able to remove the JOTM jars soon. At
the same time, we will be able to remove some other, less critical,
LGPLed jars. Once that's done, we plan to move the OFBiz codebase to
the Incubator SVN server

A new committer has been added to the project (Jacques Le Roux): he is
a longtime contributor and is doing some interesting implementation
for the POS (Point of Sale) component, so the core group of initial
committers has (succesfully) voted to grant him commit rights to the
POS component.


ServiceMix

The STATUS file for the project is up to date. The code is clean and
using only Apache-compliant libraries, it has the correct copyright
notices and is in the org.apache.servicemix namespace. We've got all
the software grants sorted and all developers have their CLAs on file
and accounts created. The project has very active mailing lists.

The code base is going through a stabilization phase. The community is
actively working on cutting Servicemix 3.0 M1 release
candidates. Hopefully once of those release candidates will make it to
a votes and pass soon.

The website home page has now been sorted out and is being checked
into svn.  The static HTML is being generated from a Confluence wiki
and content is very easy to update now. See:
http://incubator.apache.org/servicemix/


stdcxx

Stdcxx status report for the calendar quarter ending in 4/2006:

This is the third quarterly report for stdcxx.

Since the last report the stdcxx community has added a new committer,
Anton Pevtsov, and with his help successfully completed the release of
version 4.1.3 of the project.

Since the relase the team has made significant progress migrating the
Rogue Wave C++ Standard Library test harness and test suite to the
Apache stdcxx test driver. The stdcxx community also continues to
increase the visibility of the project with the goal of further
raising the number as well as diversity of its users, contributors,
and committers.

The plan for the next three months is to continue to work on migrating
the test suite and, in parallel, to enhance the support for the C++
Standard Library extensions described in the Technical Report on C++
Library Extensions and recently voted into the working paper of the
(next) C++ Standard expected to be released by 2009.


Synapse

After the M1 release in December, Synapse had a slow start to the
year.  However, recently the project has restarted in full vigor with
some key design improvements to make things cleaner and easier to
develop. The focus on the XML config model has been reduced with the
Synapse system being run on an object model config which can be filled
using the XML config language or directly (or from a database or
whatever). We're now working towards an M2 release ASAP to get wider
feedback on the core design and architecture and if that goes well
another release by ApacheCon to get closer to the desired function for
the system.

Community development is also making slow but steady progress. The
diversity has improved and we've recently added a new committer as
well. If all goes well and if the community development continues,
Synapse should be ready for graduation soon - probably before
ApacheCon.


Tuscany

On the Java side, Community and code development are continuing. We
have added two new committers (Ant Elder and Daniel Kulp) since the
last report and have many other people active on the mailing lists. We
have been working toward a Java release which is intended to allow
others to easily contribute plugins and other functionality in order
to further expand the community. A vote on a candidate started on the
development list (as of 5/18/06) and if passed we will be asking the
Incubator PMC for permission to release it.

After a slower start development is now also ramping up on the C++
codebase but additional effort will be needed to attract new community
members.


WebWork 2

We resolved the remaining IP issues that included LGPL Javascript
dependencies, invalid copyrights (MyCorp, Inc), and code grants for
valid copyrights. The Struts PMC then successfully voted to accept the
WebWork 2 podling and the Incubator PMC vote passed as well. The
infrastructure and website-related graduation tasks have been
completed and we are now fully graduated.


Woden

Woden project members are actively engaged with the W3C Web Service
Description Working Group to define interoperability testing. Woden
has now implemented the WSDL Component Model Interchange Format which
is being used to compare parser implementations. A W3C interop event
is being planned for July 5-7 at the IBM Toronto Lab. Woden project
members will participate in this event. The goal of this event is to
advance the WSDL 2.0 specification beyond the Candidate Recommendation
stage.


Yoko

Project just started incubation. CLAs are on file for the initial
committers. A CCLA has been received for the initial contributions of
Java ORB implementation and the code has been imported into SVN
repository.  Mailing lists, subversion repository, and JIRA setup was
completed. Activity is starting on the development mailing list.

Currently dev team started to discuss what would be a good first
milestone release and its definition.

Approved by General Consent.

6. Special Orders

26 Apr 2006 [Noel Bergman / Dirk] ¶

Not too much to report this month, other than projects settling into the
task of Incubation.

It appears that Felix may apply for TLP status at the May Board meeting.

       --- Noel

----

ActiveMQ

The ActiveMQ project is progressing toward graduation and things are moving
along well. Below are the highlights of activity on the project:

 * Added Nabble forums as an alternative to ASF mailing lists
 * Added Nathan Mittler from Amazon as a committer
 * Working on the ActiveMQ 4.0 RC2 release candidate

Currently working to accept a donation from Amazon for the ActiveMQ C++ API


ADF Faces

ADF Faces incubation has started in the last weeks. The code repository has
been setup, the committer access has been granted, we are now waiting for an
import of a current code drop into the repository.

This will take some time as all package names are changed over to an Apache
like structure, and the ASL license is adopted as mentioned in the proposal.

Mailing lists have been setup, and mailing list traffic is slowly picking up
steam.


Agila
AltRMI


Cayenne

The Cayenne project is setting up its infrastructure. Existing mailing lists
were successfully migrated to Apache this month and are remain active. All
but one ICLA have been recorded and account requests submitted. We are also
working on getting our JIRA migration done and are hoping to be part of the
Confluence-as-a-document-editor trial.

We are preparing our last non-Apache release (1.2, currently in beta). Our
first step after this release will be to repackage everything to the
org.apache.cayenne namespace and release a new "apache" version to indicate
backwards compatibility will no longer be maintained.

We also have at least one LGPL issue, which is with a non-essential optional
platform binary build (Launch4J). This is a relatively-new feature (the
ability to run the Cayenne Modeler as a native binary) and, worse case, we
can remove the feature to get rid of the dependency. However, a number of
potential replacements with compatible licenses have been identified and
will be evaluated as a first attempt to solve the issue.


Felix

 * Entire Felix build process migrated to Maven (M2).
 * Mangen contributed by Rob Walker for managing bundle dependencies
 * Several of the UPnP people are now committers and contributions
  have made their way into the repo with respective [C]CLAs.
 * Preparing for an initial release from the incubator
 * OSGi Alliance re-licensed R4 sources as ASL, not just ASL-compatible.
 * Worked with OSGi CTO BJ Hargrave to commit R4 core and compendium ASL
  sources to Felix repo with M2 build/deployment.
 * Wire Admin and Service Binder contributed and Humberto Cervantes a
  committer.
 * Migrated Service Binder and related tutorial/examples to Felix repo
  with M2 build/deployment.
 * Dependency Manager contributed and Marcel Offermans a committer.
 * Additionally, Xenotron patch contribution by Peter Neubauer.
 * Created daemons and installers with nice packaging for soon to be
  released initial versions
 * Committed new OSGi Bundle Repository service, which is an OSGi
  Alliance sanctioned bundle repository based on previous OBR work.
 * Committed two new shell-related bundles, Shell GUI and Shell GUI
  Plugins, that provide a simple GUI front end for Felix.
 * PPMC is starting to estabilish policy around committership and
  membership (showing its autonomous nature)
 * Upayavira became a new mentor an has greatly accellerated the project
 * Many new committerss:
  * Francesco Furfari
  * Stefano Lenzi
  * Rob Walker
  * Marcel Offermans
  * Matteo Demuru
  * Humberto Cervantes
  * Karl Pauls

Quoting Upayavira: "Now, that shows signs of a healthy community. Adding
seven committers in one quarter :)"


Graffito

* We are still working on our JCR support. This support is mainly done with
an object/Content mapping. We hope to finalize the first release of this
subproject for the ASF Europe Conf. This tools could be use in other open
source project.

* Sword Technologies is working on the workflow service and the first
Graffito module (personalized news management with syndication). The code
will be donate in May to the ASF.

* Still working with the Jetspeed team to see how to build a common release
for the ASF Europe Conf.

* We want to promote and make some "marketing" to increase the community
size.


Harmony

Harmony is going well, so well that it is not easy to sum up all the things
happening. There is, however, currently nothing requiring board or incubator
PMC attention. Highlights for the last quarter:
 * no releases.
 * We have welcomed one new PPMC member:
  * Tim Ellison
 * we have welcomed three new committers:
  * Mikhail Loenko
  * George Harley
  * Stepan Mishura
and expect to add quite a few more in the next quarter.

we have received and processed several more bulk contributions from
different parties, including for beans, regex, math, jndi, logging, prefs,
sql, math(again), crypto, and rmi (twice), hundreds upon hundreds of unit
tests, an eclipse plugin for doing harmony development, and more. Our
framework for accepting these contributions (based on jira, svn, and faxes
and documented on the harmony website) seems to be working well.

there was concern over a potential copyright infringement within our JCHEVM
component. This concern has been addressed by receiving a code donation for
the potentially infringing files, without having to resort to lawyers and to
the mutual satisfaction of all parties and under the watchful eye of the
Incubator PMC.

we have begun collaborating with the SableVM community, which has relicensed
its VM under the ALv2 (the related previous potential licensing/copyright
issues have been resolved without having to resort to lawyers and to the
mutual satisfaction of all parties and under the watchful eye of the
Incubator PMC).

we have seen a lot of discussion on how to do testing, how to use jira,
etc.,
etc, as more and more developers gear up to contribute to the project. These
kinds of discussions are going well and the collaborative consensus-based
process is emerging.

we have identified the (future) need for some serious build and testing
server infrastructure but have not approached the infrastructure team about
this yet. IBM is currently hosting a Maven Continuum server to run the
harmony tests, and sending the results to our mailing lists.


JuiCE

Good activity in the previous quarter. Werner Dittman was voted in as a
committer and has been refactoring the initial code into a more long term
format. A test build has also been created on a Win32 platform.

The team involved in this are all committers on the xml-security project.
Over the next quarter we will be looking to promote this from the Incubator
into the xml project as a part of xml-security.


Kabuki

Now that the initial committer list has their Apache accounts, the project
will be beginning real soon now. No other news to report at this time.


log4net

The log4net team is putting together release 1.2.10. The release has been
approved by the Logging PMC and is now waiting for approval by the Incubator
PMC. This release includes a number of fixes for the current 1.2.9 release.
One of these is a fix for a security issues that was raised through
security@apache.org. We would like to thank Mark Cox from the security team
for his help managing this issue.


Lokahi

The Lokahi project is still setting up its infrastructure: Subversion has
been set up with proper commit privileges, and the initial code import just
took place a couple of days ago. The Lokahi name has been cleared as far as
trademark usage goes.

Lucene4c

There has been no activity since the last report. At some point soon we will
likely want to officially mark this project as dormant.


Lucene.Net

Lucene.Net has recently gotten into the swing of things. George Aroush has
officially moved the project from Sourceforge to the ASF repository. A very
active contributor from the Sourceforge project has been proposed and is
pending the receipt of his CLA.


Ode

Ode is currently adding a new round of commiters to its developer base. The
Software grants for both donations from Intalio and Sybase have arrived and
both have been checked in.

The community is actively discussing development plans for the two code
bases.


OFBiz

The OFBiz team continues to gather individual contributor license agreements
(iCLAs) from people who have contributed to the project in the past: this
effort is nearly complete, and we expect to import OFBiz code into the ASF
Subversion repository soon. You can see the progress of getting iCLAs at
http://ofbizwiki.go-integral.com/Wiki.jsp?page=OFBizDevelopers.

In addition, the OFBiz PPMC has been setup and all initial committers and
mentors subscribed to it. OFBiz management discussions have been taking
place on that list for a few weeks now.

In summary, things are progressing well. No major issues at this time.


Roller

Roller development has been proceeding at a steady pace. The mailing lists
seem to be getting more active with new users cropping up all the time. IBM
DeveloperWorks now uses Roller for their blogs, LinPro AS is working on a
large number of installations and North Carolina State Unversity is support
to go live with campus-wide student blogs powered by Roller before the end
of this month.

A Roller 2.2 release candidate was created on the 2nd to last Thursday of
March (per our release cycle), we've gone through 5 release candidates now
and a vote was called today (April 18th) for release.

For Roller 2.3, Allen Gilliland has been doing some major refactoring work
in the Roller backend. Dave Johnson has been working on smaller issues
including support for both weblog entry summary and content. A 2.3 release
candidate may be appearing on Thursday, since it's the 2nd to last.

Looking forward, a new development roadmap has been prepared that covers
Roller 2.3, 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 releases. Dave's Roller talk was accepted at
ApacheCon EU in June 2006.

Other issues: LGPL issues are still unresolved and holding up graduation.


ServiceMix

The ServiceMix project is progressing along. Below are the recent project
highlights:

 * Added Nabble forums as an alternative to ASF mailing lists
 * Currently preparing the ServiceMix 3.0 M1 milestone release


Solr

The Solr team has been focusing on preparing its first release candidate out
of the incubator, and is getting fairly close: maybe another couple of weeks
before we vote. All committers and mentors are on the solr-dev mailing list,
where discussion has been taking place. All ASF resources (Subversion,
mailing list, etc.) seem to have been created and are functioning well. We
have also been taking this time to re-think our distro contents, e.g. where
to put examples, whether to package Tomcat for an out-of-the-box working
webapp, etc: those discussions have been taking place on the solr-dev list,
which is public, and everyone is welcome to join.


Synapse

The Synapse team continues to work towards an M2 release and graduation.


WebWork 2

The last quarter has seen the creation of the WebWork 2 podling and rapid
progress. Our focus has been on migrating code, resources, developers, IP,
and community over to the ASF.

Code: we have imported the code into the Incubator SVN, and have renamed
packages, taglib prefixes, and any other references to the old WebWork
project over to the new Struts Action Framework 2 project, where the final
location of the code will be.

Resources: We've migrated the code to the Apache SVN, setup and migrated
JIRA tickets to the new issues.apache.org server, and are in the process of
migration wiki documentation.

Developers: The core WebWork 2 developers have been given accounts and
access to the podling, voted in through the proposal. We plan to vote the
remaining committers in one-by-one through the Struts PMC, serving as the
IPMC for the podling.

IP: The OpenSymphony organization, who owns the copyright on the WebWork 2
project, has delivered a code grant allowing us to change the copyright.
Additionally, we've removed most of the LGPL source code (usually in the
form of Javascript libraries) and have developed an optional build that
compiles integration code depending on LGPL jars, in accordance to the draft
IP policy document.

Community: The WebWork 2 developers have joined the Struts mailing lists and
have been very active in participating with both development and user
threads. They have been just as, if not more, active committing to the code
repository as Struts committers, and when conflicts arise, they are very
quick to come to a solution in a positive way. In addition, several Struts
committers have joined OpenSymphony forums, chat rooms, and projects further
strengthening the relationship.

We are definitely planning on exiting the Incubator this next quarter,
possibly within weeks. We see a bright future for the Struts Action project,
and hope to facilitate a new spirit of cooperation within the competitive
landscape of Java web application frameworks.


WADI

The WADI podling has decided to retire and not complete incubation. This
decision was made by the participants, supported by the sponsoring Geronimo
PMC, and announced to the Incubator PMC. The project will continue at [WWW]
http://wadi.codehaus.org/


Yoko

Yoko is currently adding a new round of commiters to its developer base. The
Software grant for the donation from IONA arrived and the code base has been
checked in. The codebase from the original Trifork donation has been moved
from Geronimo to Yoko.

The community is actively discussing development plans for the two code
bases. Look to see intense discussions at JavaOne and ApacheCon EU.

Greg was to ask for reports for Abdula and AltRMI.

Stefano noted that Harmony was "growing like a weed" but in a good way. Henri and Cliff confirmed that releasing Roller under ASF infrastructure was awaiting the final release of the 3rd Party (LGPL) Policy and that appropriate discussions are happening.

Approved by General Consent.

15 Mar 2006 [Noel Bergman / Jim] ¶

The Incubator will switch over to providing monthly reports to reduce the
size of each one, with roughly 1/3 of projects reporting each month.  We did
not reach 1/3 this month, but will pick up the pace next month.

Currently, we are revisiting Incubator policy with an eye to streamline
procedures, provide more oversight, and improve clarity and scalability.
There is some dicussion and difference of opinion on how many Mentors should
be necesary, but I'm sure that we will soon come to a consensus.

Less debate on the idea that a Mentor is an Incubator PMC member who is
providing oversight and guidance.  ASF Members can automatically join the
Incubator PMC upon request.  The Incubator PMC has also chosen to elect
non-Members to the PMC.

An IP claim was made this month regarding some code contributed to Harmony.
Harmony has not provided a report this month, but is actively and properly
addressing the matter.

Related to the Incubator only because we are the entry portal for projects,
we are seeing increasing pressure caused by the fact that JIRA cannot import
projects from existing JIRA instances.  A number of projects have external
issue tracking in JIRA that would like to have their issues migrated.  It
has not been a high priority for Atlassian, but perhaps we're starting to
see enough of an outcry from some of projects for things to change.  Plus,
with the underlying OFBiz technology becoming an ASF project, perhaps we can
get more hands involved in that layer of code.  An alternative would be to
host multiple JIRA instances, just as we currently host two instances of
bugzilla, the extra one being for SpamAssassin, although the RAM footprint
for that alternative could prove prohibitive.

JackRabbit has applied to the Board for TLP status.  The Incubator PMC has
voted to endorse the petition, and wishes the project much success.

Other projects are also doing quite well.  Were it not for the licensing
issue related to its use of Hibernate, I would consider Roller to be in pole
position for TLP status.

Below are contributed reports from those projects reporting this month.
JackRabbit is expected to graduate.  Kabuki and OFBiz should provide reports
next quarter.  I'll ask ActiveMQ, ServiceMix and Cayanne to submit more
detailed information again this quarter.


------------------------------------

During the review of the project report, the board discussed the idea of providing guidance to the Incubator that, even though podlings could have more than one mentor, one mentor should be noted as the "lead mentor" or the "point man" for the podling. This will provide more clear direction and procedures for the podling. Jim volunteered to relay this to the Incubator PMC.

Approved by General Consent.

6. Special Orders

18 Jan 2006 [Noel J. Bergman / Sander] ¶

The Incubator continues to see good progress in a number of projects and
their communities.

Several items of note from this past quarter:

 We have had some discussion regarding the rate of growth, how to
 manage it, how to ensure proper oversight.  We have not finalized
 any policy changes, but should do so shortly.  There is a sometimes
 not-so-subtle- tension between oversight and nimbleness, and we're
 trying to give as much of the latter as possible without sacrificing
 the former.

 We have also had a discussion regarding importing external codebases,
 with the conclusion that where possible, we DO want to import the
 entire history.
 This will require some help from Infrastructure to help us swizzle the
 imported authors into some canonical format that won't collide with our
 ASF author namespace.

 People are unhappy with the state of building the web site.  There are two
 possible paths: switching our content to anakia format, or improvement in
 the usability of Forrest.  Which path we take will depend upon the energy
 invested by those who want to help effect the change.

 Jean T. Anderson has helped to revise the Incubator Guidelines, although
 we will have to continue the process.

                          - 0 -

The list of projects in the Incubator is at
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/.  Here are the STATUS reports from the
PPMCs.  The drafts were collected at
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/IncubatorBoardReport2006Q1.  Axion never
began Incubation, despite having been approved by the DB PMC, and will
likely be removed from the list in this quarter.  AltRMI and FTPServer
failed to provide quarterly reports.  AltRMI has gained no traction, and is
likely to leave the Incubator to go elsewhere.  FTPServer has added two new
Committers, and we see continued activity to revitalize a once dormant
project.  Several projects below have graduated, and are noted as such, but
until they participate by updating their Incubator documents to indicate
that fact, I will continue to ping them.  PMCs must help to maintain the
content for the podlings that they have sponsored, or we will never be able
to scale.

I addressed the e-mail delivery problem I mentioned in the last quarterly
report by adding myself to the allow list for every PMC mailing list.

Projects

It was noted that the Incubator reports are very large, due to the large number of podlings that comprise the report list. Jim suggested that we make the Incubator reports monthly, but alternate which podlings are included in each monthly report, much as we do with the ASF TLP. This suggestion was approved by all.

There was a question regarding why Roller was being released from a non-ASF site. Sander volunteered to investigate, but it was assumed by the board that this was due to the Hibernate dependency issue.

Approved by General Consent.

26 Oct 2005 [Noel Bergman / Ben] ¶

The Incubator continues to see good progress in a number of projects and
their communities.

This quarter saw continued development of our communities.  A major and
happy surprise was the resurrection of the ftpserver project from total
quiescence.

One general issue has come up with a certain amount of contention.  What do
we do when we have outside communities and ASF Members who want to establish
a project in some problem domain, and some third party feels that we are
invading their turf.  I have my own view --- even internally, we do little
about inter-project competition, e.g., Ant and Maven --- but we can probably
expect to have this issue come up now and then.

Continued thanks to our manual ForrestBot, David Crossley, for helping to
keep the web site built, and to others contributing their time.

 - 0 -

The list of projects in the Incubator is at
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/.  Here are the STATUS reports from the
PPMCs.  The drafts were collected at
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/IncubatorBoardReport2005Q4.  All but WSRP4J
provided a status report.

On a related note, I and other members of the infrastructure team remain
rather displeased that e-mail sent by us to more than a few ASF lists as
necessary to notify them of something, bounces because the projects have had
moderated posting disabled for their list(s).  We must correct this problem,
either by adding every ASF Officer, Director and infrastructure team member
to the allowed list for every mailing list, or by requiring moderated lists.

Approved by General Consent.

28 Jul 2005 [Noel Bergman] ¶

Status report for the Apache Incubator Project
================================================

The Incubator continues to see good progress in a number of projects
and their communities, with more projects graduating to TLP status, or
to existing TLPs.

IP issues continue to be a major aspect of life in the Incubator.  We
welcome Cliff Schmidt's appointment as VP of Legal Affairs, and look
forward to his help.  Congratulations, Cliff.

A number of new projects have entered the Incubator, with a
corresponding increase in the Incubator PMC.  The Incubator PMC has
established the policy that an ASF Member who is a Mentor or Committer
on an Incubator project is automatically entitled to be on the
Incubator PMC pending acceptance by the Member and board notification.

Continued thanks to our manual ForrestBot, David Crossley, for helping
to keep the web site built, and to others contributing their time.

 - 0 -

The list of projects in the Incubator is at
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/.  Here are the STATUS reports
from the PPMCs.  Several projects are missing, as noted below, and are
again reminded.

27 Apr 2005 [Noel Bergman] ¶

The Incubator continues to see good progress in a number of projects
and their communities, with more projects graduating to TLP status, or
to existing TLPs.

This quarter saw healthy discussion of what constitutes a healthy
community.  The issue came up in regard to Derby (the Derby PPMC has
exhibited a welcome response to addressing the issue), but really is
generic to all projects, incubator and otherwise.  As an aside, I try
to keep track of recent Incubator graduates, and am generally pleased
with how well they continue to do after leaving.

Derby is actively trying to expand the number and independence of
their Committers, with an eye towards graduating from the Incubator.

The Incubator PMC will take a look this quarter at what to do with
projects that have grown quiet.  Some sort of hibernation status is
one thought.

Resource related issues have eased somewhat.  Although, we still lack
a sufficent level of automation, things have improved considerably,
due in no small measure to Roy helping out with mailing lists, David
Crossley helping to keep the web site built, and others contributing
their time.

 - 0 -

The list of projects in the Incubator is at
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/.  Attached are the STATUS
reports from the PPMCs that have provided one.  Other projects did not
submit a status report to the PMC, or submitted one too late for
inclusion in this quarter's report.

There was discussion over the continued growth of the ASF via the Incubator and whether some control or limit was required. The general consensus was that unless the Incubator Project felt that this was a concern, the board was premature is making it a concern at this point.

Apache Incubator Project report approved as submitted by general consent.

19 Jan 2005 [Noel J. Bergman] ¶

We are seeing good progress in a number of projects.  Several new
projects have moved into the Incubator, e.g., Graffito, a couple are
preparing to apply for TLP status or move into existing TLPs, and
others are maturing nicely.

Resource creation bottlenecks continue to effect the Incubator.  One
thing that would help will be an integrated script to create the
necessary resources for an Incubator project.  That would require more
karma to run than most people have, but could be run by a root person
after reviewing the data that would drive it.

Licensing and other IP related issues were reported as an on-going
topic of discussion in the last report, at which time I mentioned that
it would help to have some legal resource(s) participating with the
Incubator.  IP issues continued to come up this quarter, and the new
legal resources have started to be helpful to us.

MyFaces is preparing to apply for TLP status.  The Directory project
will likely apply for TLP status around the next quarterly report, and
is preparing its first milestone releases, including a generally
useable version of the existing Apache Naming package from Catalina,
which Phil Steitz is trying to get Tomcat to review for future
inclusion.

Additional human resources are always welcomed.

                         - 0 -

The list of projects in the Incubator is at
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/.  Here are the STATUS reports
from the PPMCs that have sent one in.  Other projects did update their
STATUS files on the aforementioned page.


Status Report from the Graffito PPMC
====================================

1) Is the STATUS file up to date?

 Yes

2) Any legal, cross-project or personal issues that still need to be
 addressed?

 * Software grant has been recieved by the ASF.
 * All trademark issues with project name have been resolved.
 * We have renamed the JCMS project as Graffito to avoid naming
   confusion with Jalios JCMS, another Java based CMS system.

3) What has been done for incubation since the last report?

 * We cleaned up repository, site, build process, site deployment
   and publishing to help new users and developers jump into the
   project.
 * Christophe Lombart account has been created and karma granted
 * ASF Infrastructure has been set up for Graffito
 * We are working on the Jetspeed 2 integration & building JSR 168
   portlets.

4) Plans and expectations for the next period?

 * Add more info in the Graffito site
 * WEBDAV integration
 * More work on Jetspeed 2 integration, building portlets.
 * Introduce Graffito to some important related projects:
     Slide, JackRabbit, Jetspeed ... in order to grow the
     development community

5) Any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for
 you?

 None so far.

In addition to the attached report, 2 oral reports were given:

Ken Coar: Derby ----- - Going well.

Davanum Srinivas: Apollo/Hermes/Muse ------------------ - New committer for Hermes (Stefan Lischke) - Projects are trying to recruit new committers - Apollo Trademark is a stumbling block for incubated release of Apollo - Hermes will implement both WS-Eventing and WS-Notification standards

Mirae ----- - New project for JSR 172 (Web services under J2ME) - Waiting for me (Dims) to do the infrastructure work

Apache Incubator Project report approved as submitted, amended and discussed by general consent.

20 Oct 2004 [Noel Bergman] ¶

Since the last report to the Board, Lenya has become ready to fly the
nest; and new projects such as Agila, Derby, JackRabbit and iBATIS
have begun Incubation.

Infrastructure bottlenecks continue to effect the Incubator.  I say
this without pointing fingers, since as a member of the Infrastructure
Team, I am one of the people responsible for being or removing those
bottlenecks.  It is simply that we can create a rash of requests for
project resources, and we (the Infrastructure Team) are short-staffed.
One thing that should help will be improved scripts for mailing list
creation.  Hopefully, we will have some time at the Hack-a-thon to
work those tools.

Licensing and other IP related issues were reported as an on-going
topic of discussion in the last report, at which time I mentioned that
it would help to have some legal resource(s) participating with the
Incubator.  IP issues have come up this quarter that make it even more
imperative that we have sufficient legal resources working with the
Incubator, and the ASF in general, to address IP issues.

 - 0 -

The list of projects in the Incubator is at
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/.
Here are the STATUS reports from the PPMCs that have sent one in.

There was discussion regarding the fact that the Directory PPMC has added "subprojects." It was agreed that all Incubator projects should be flat, not hierarchical. Even well established ASF projects have troubles as umbrella projects, and it is quite reasonable to assume that Incubator projects will have extreme difficulty being an umbrella PPMC.

Project Report Approved by General Consent.

18 Aug 2004 [Noel Bergman] ¶

Nicola Ken Barozzi stepped down as Incubator PMC Chair, and was
replaced by Noel J. Bergman.  We thank Nicola Ken for his efforts in
helping to recast the Incubator to best fulfill its designated
functions.

Since the last report to the Board, several projects have graduate
from the Incubator, including: Geronimo, XML-Beans, SpamAssassin, and
Pluto.  Lenya appears ready to fly the nest, and may have a proposal
for the Board, although one is not ready at the time of this writing.

Significant entries into the Incubator include Beehive and MyFaces (a
JavaServer Faces implementation).  The long awaited Axion database
project appears ready to begin incubation.  A project sponsored by the
HTTP Server PMC for integrating Apache Web Server with ISO/ECMA CLI has
also begun incubation.

A few projects seem stalled in the Incubator, and are not responding
to requests for status.  We may have to cull the herd in a few cases,
but these appear to have failed to attract/build a community, and
seem relatively inactive.

Infrastructure bottlenecks are effecting the Incubator.  I say this
without pointing fingers, since as a member of the Infrastructure
Team, I am one of the people responsible for being or removing those
bottlenecks.  It is simply that we can create a rash of requests for
project resources, and we (the Infrastructure Team) are short-staffed.
One thing that should help will be improved scripts for mailing list
creation.

The Incubator has worked with the newly formed PRC to help establish
some guidelines, so that the PRC can help ensure that any PR related
to Incubator projects makes clear the project's status.  We have also
had discussions related to trying to make sure that projects really
are begun Incubation before they are used for PR purposes.

Licensing and other IP related issues remain a topic of discussion.
It would help to have some legal resource(s) participating with the
Incubator.

All in all, the Incubator seems to be finding its stride and proving a
good asset for the Foundation.

 - 0 -

Here are the STATUS reports from the PPMCs that have sent one in.

Approved by General Consent.

21 Jul 2004 [Noel Bergman] ¶

Nicola Ken Barozzi stepped down as Incubator PMC Chair, and was
replaced by Noel J. Bergman.  We thank Nicola Ken for his efforts in
helping to recast the Incubator to best fulfill its designated
functions.

Since the last report to the Board, several projects have graduate
from the Incubator, including: Geronimo, XML-Beans, SpamAssassin, and
Pluto.  Lenya appears ready to fly the nest, and may have a proposal
for the Board, although one is not ready at the time of this writing.

Significant entries into the Incubator include Beehive and MyFaces (a
JavaServer Faces implementation).  The long awaited Axion database
project appears ready to begin incubation.  A project sponsored by the
HTTP Server PMC for integrating Apache Web Server with ISO/ECMA CLI has
also begun incubation.

A few projects seem stalled in the Incubator, and are not responding
to requests for status.  We may have to cull the herd in a few cases,
but these appear to have failed to attract/build a community, and
seem relatively inactive.

Infrastructure bottlenecks are effecting the Incubator.  I say this
without pointing fingers, since as a member of the Infrastructure
Team, I am one of the people responsible for being or removing those
bottlenecks.  It is simply that we can create a rash of requests for
project resources, and we (the Infrastructure Team) are short-staffed.
One thing that should help will be improved scripts for mailing list
creation.

The Incubator has worked with the newly formed PRC to help establish
some guidelines, so that the PRC can help ensure that any PR related
to Incubator projects makes clear the project's status.  We have also
had discussions related to trying to make sure that projects really
are begun Incubation before they are used for PR purposes.

Licensing and other IP related issues remain a topic of discussion.
It would help to have some legal resource(s) participating with the
Incubator.

All in all, the Incubator seems to be finding its stride and proving a
good asset for the Foundation.

 - 0 -

Here are the STATUS reports from the PPMCs that have sent one in.

21 Apr 2004 ¶

Change the Chair of the Incubator PMC

 WHEREAS, the membership of the Apache Incubator Project
 Management Committee (PMC) have recommended Noel J. Bergman to
 serve as chairman of the Apache Incubator PMC; and

 WHEREAS, the previously appointed chairman of the Apache
 Incubator PMC, Nicola Ken Barozzi, has stepped down from his
 position as Vice President, Apache Incubator, in favor of Noel
 J. Bergman's appointment to that position.

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Noel J. Bergman be and
 hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache
 Incubator, 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.

 This was approved via Unanimous Vote.

21 Apr 2004 [Nicola Ken Barozzi] ¶

Here are the STATUS reports from the PPMCs that have sent it in. All
have been approved by the respective Mentors:

Status report from the Geronimo PPMC
====================================

* The project status file (/home/cvs/incubator-geronimo/STATUS)
 is up to date.

* Geir Magnusson is preparing a response to the JBoss letter for
 approval by the ASF Board. It concludes that there is no validity
 to the claims.

* Legal arrangements have been made to provide non-Members with access
 to the J2EE TCK. Certification testing will be starting imminently.

* No response has been received from Sun on the use of J2EE Schema
 documents and hence the project will keep these in its CVS as other
 projects do. If the matter is raised by Sun then they will be removed
 immediately.

* All code in the project has been converted to ASL 2.0

* Jacek Laskowski has been added as a committer

Within the next period (3 months) we expect to:
o Exit the incubator

o Release alpha and beta versions

o Progress with J2EE certification testing


Status report from the Directory PPMC
======================================

* The status file is NOT up to date.  I will add the extra details
 concerning Alan Cabrera's joining and the adoption of RMS shortly.

* We still have a dependency on Snacc4J which is being worked on as
 we speak.  This dependency is the only one holding the project in
 the incubator for the time being.  We expect have this resolved
 before another status report or two at the most.

* Since the last report the following has happened:
 - Alan Cabrera from Geronimo joined the team
 - added the RMS subproject which will work closely with Janus
 - skeletal frontend completed - it replies 'Busy' to all requests
 - cleaned up builds
 - created multiple JIRA projects one for each subproject
 - got website up to date
 - all projects are nicely progressing towards maturity

* Within the next period we hope to:
 - remove the snacc4j dependency completely
 - prepare for exiting the incubator
 - take on 1-2 more contributors and bring them up to speed

* Recommendations for smoother incubation:
 - At this point we have some questions concerning the graduation
   from the incubator.  I think we're the first project that will
   become a TLP to graduate.  Perhaps Geronimo may do it first
   then we have a model to emulate.  But in case that does not
   happen we would like to have an idea of the steps involved so
   we're poised for a graceful exit.


Status report for JuiCE
========================================

JuiCE is just entering incubation, and is currently in the process of
starting up.  We are currently waiting on CLAs from core developers to
enable us to get started.

 * is the STATUS file up to date? (also post link)

Yes - http://incubator.apache.org/projects/juice.html

 * any legal, cross-project or personal issues
   that still need to be addressed?

No.

 * what has been done for incubation since the last report?

JuiCE has only just entered the Incubator.  We are currently in the
process of getting infrastructure up and running, accounts set up and
code imported.

 * plans and expectations for the next period?

Getting code imported, web site setup and development started.

Approved via General Consent.

21 Jan 2004 [Nicola Ken Barozzi] ¶

Status report for the Apache Incubator Project

* Notable happenings in the Incubator

The project has finally started to function correctly and has given itself
a sensible set of rules.

We have now clear and useful incubation status files with the action items
to be done for incubation.

We have established the concept of PPMC, that is a "practice" PMC where
the Incubator PMC members and the Project members collaborate in the
management of project issues.

We have started asking status reports, the result of which will be
supplied to the board in the next report.

Projects are starting to ask for graduation based on the action items done
in the status files. MerlinDeveloper has graduated to the Avalon Project.


* any legal issues to bring to the board?

From the Geronimo PPMC: " A serious legal issue was raised by JBoss Group
LLC in a letter dated 10/31/2003. This issue has been thoroughly
investigated and the conclusion of the community is that the issues raised
in the letter are unfounded.

A question has arisen whether it is permissible to include XML Schema
documents for J2EE deployment descriptors in CVS. We have raised the issue
with Sun and are awaiting a response.

The community voted to keep the name "Geronimo" "

We are still waiting legal counsel to decide how to respond.

From the SpamAssassin PPMC " Copyright and distribution rights still
remain to be verified, although all CLAs should now be in, assuming Matt
Sergeant finally got around to it -- so it's up to ASF legal now.

The trademark issue on the "SpamAssassin" name is still in progress; as
far as I know, NAI legal still need to provide some documentation to DW,
Jim Jagielski et al. "

* any cross-project issues that need to be addressed?

I have read on the board list that the developers of the jakarta jetspeed,
jakarta pluto, Web Services wsrp4j, would like propose to the board the
creation of the Apache Portal Services top level project.

From my POV this doesn't affect incubation, other than having the new
Portal PMC as the Sponsor rather than the Jakarta PMC. I reckon that in
any case this would be highly beneficial WRT incubation, and that it could
be wrapped up and voted out quite quickly, because of the more focused PMC
(Portals).

* any problems with committers, members, etc?

The problems, as usual for us, come from outside members and committers
that discredit the Incubator, basing it mainly on incomplete and old
knowledge of how we work.

With the new rules we are using, with projects exiting, and with some
clarification on our site, I believe that these will get much less.

If the Incubator is functioning outside of its mandate, please let me
know.

* plans and expectations for the next period?

On the whole there has been a very big advance in the way we function. I
expect that to stabilize, with finalization of the last decisions on the
website.

I plan to start shortly a discussion about a general PMC charter with
general rules, that can in the future be used by PMCs by simply
highlighting the differences from the main text.

The report, as noted in Attachment B, was approved by General Consent.

22 Oct 2003 ¶

Appoint new Chair of the Apache Incubator Project

 WHEREAS, the membership of the Apache Incubator Project Management
 Committee (PMC) have appointed Nicola Ken Barozzi to serve as
 chairman of the Apache Incubator PMC; and

 WHEREAS, the previously appointed chairman of the Apache Incubator
 PMC, Jim Jagielski, has stepped down from his position as Vice
 President, Apache Incubator, in favor of Nicola Ken Barozzi's
 appointment to that position.

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Nicola Ken Barozzi be and
 hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache
 Incubator, 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.

 This was passed by Unanimous Consent.

22 Oct 2003 [Jim Jagielski] ¶

Jim Jagielski has asked to step down as the Chair of the Incubator
PMC.  An election was held and the PMC has recommended that
the board appoint Nicola Ken Barozzi as replacement PMC Chair.

The Incubator web site is being significantly updated to better
reflect reality and to expressly state the requirements and
assumptions within the ASF and the Incubator.

Spam Assassin is being added to the Incubator fold. We are in
the process of receiving the required CLAs from all SA
contributors, and there are many of them. No "Mentor/Shepherd"
(see below) has been selected appointed yet (officially).

Pluto is also being added to the fold.  At present, the s/w
base as been copyright assigned and licensed to the ASF. CLAs
of all contributors have also been submitted and received.
The Jakarta PMC has agreed to accept Pluto after successful
incubation.

There is ongoing discussion within Incubator regarding its
function and role and how to best accomplish them. Discussion
regarding terminology (such as "Mentor" or "Shepherd") as
well as procedures are being (hopefully) finalized.

The current roster of the Incubator PMC consists of:

 Aaron Bannert
 Nicola Ken Barozzi  (Chair select)
 Noel Bergman
 Ken Coar
 Roy Fielding
 B. W. Fitzpatrick
 Paul Hammant
 Ted Leung
 Jim Jagielski
 Sam Ruby
 Leo Simmons
 Davanum Srinivas
 Greg Stein
 Sander Striker

Approved by General Consent.

16 Jul 2003 [Jim Jagielski] ¶

The Apache Incubator Project is having the dubious honor of
"incubating" itself as well as other products.  Regarding the
Incubator Project itself, there are still basic, fundamental
issues that ideally should have been resolved before it started
accepting products/projects.  As such, things do not progress as
smoothly as anticipated.  Nevertheless, the following projects
are being (or have been) incubated as we speak:

 o AltRMI:
   A transparent Remote Procedure Call bean.
 o FtpServer:
   A complete FTP Server based on Avalon principles.
 o Lenya:
   An Open-Source Content Management and publishing system. It is based
   on open standards such as XML and XSLT.
 o OpenORB:
   An Open-Source CORBA framework implementation. (donation to
   ASF/Avalon and licensing issues)
 o Tapestry:
   A complete framework offering an alternative to JSP & Velocity
   scripting environments. (graduated to Jakarta)

In addition, discussion regarding the inclusion of XMLBeans into
the Incubator is progressing as well.  So the good news is that the
Incubator *is* filling a void;  the bad news is that we are still
determining the best way to do that.  A good summary of some of these
issues  was written by Nicola Ken Barozzi to general@incubator.apache.org
in Message-Id <3F0A8B31.6070906@apache.org>.  Copies can be provided
as needed.

Finally, I have noted my intention to step down as PMC Chair, for
2 main reasons: First of all, I think that it's in the best interest
in the foundation to not have "the usual people" in various
"management-type" positions. Also, as Chair, I find myself not being
as vocal as usual (or as need be) regarding Incubator issues, mostly
of a concern (unfounded, I'm sure) that coming from the Chair, it
would carry more weight than it should. I have suggested Nicola
as replacement.

. Further discussion was held on the fact that there are still no "hard and fast" graduation procedures within the Incubator. Mention was made that Tapestry was graduated with no one ensuring that all procedural aspects were followed (received and filed paperwork, etc...). Attachment B was approved by general consent and accepted into the record.

18 Dec 2002 [Jim] ¶

 There has been no real additional news to report regarding the
 Incubator PMC since the last report on Nov 20th.  One item,
 however, is significant.  It was reported that the Incubator
 was spending time in detailing aspects of the ASF and "The Apache
 Way" to ensure that everyone was on the same page as it were (and
 that everyone understood the concepts in the same way).  It is
 currently felt that this effort is complete enough for the Incubator
 to actually start accepting new products/projects.  It's
 expected that the few product(s)/project(s) will be formally
 accepted and started (most likely) early Jan. 2003.

18 Nov 2002 [Jim] ¶

The ASF Incubator Project has been spending the few short weeks since
its inception boot strapping itself into existence.  Most work has
been done on the website for the project (incubator.apache.org).  This
effort also serves as a valuable lightning rod to focus energies on
the core reasons for the Project to exist;  things like "What are
the exact core procedures that ASF projects should follow;" "What
do we mean by 'A Veto';" and the like.  Although the terms
are used a lot within the ASF, it's clear that there might be some
differences in the exact meaning behind them.  By creating a web
entity that clearly defines these terms and ideas,  the Project
will be in a much better position to handle the candidate projects
that will come in (and craft the required Bylaws before we can
do that).  In essence, in documenting things, the Incubator is
better able to be the mediator and the common ground among all
ASF entities.

It seems that, in general, the need for an ASF Incubator Project,
as well as a desire for one (within and without the ASF) was based
in reality.  OpenORB and 'Rabbit' (from Peermetrics) will likely be
the 2 initial products handled by the Incubator.  Certainly it would
be nice to have been able to "immediately" start accepting new products,
but taking the time to create the foundation (no pun intended) and
framework required is the right course of action before subjecting
candidate products to what could be a painful (but most likely
short) "learning" curve.

16 Oct 2002 ¶

Apache Incubator Project

 The following two resolutions had been proposed:

 Resolution R1 (drafted by Ken):

 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 accepting new projects into the
 Foundation, fostering such projects and providing guidance and
 support to help them develop communities, and educating new
 developers in the details and ramifications of working
 according to the Foundation's philosophies and requirements
 (the 'Apache Way'), including issues of copyright and
 licensing;

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

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Incubator PMC be and hereby is
 responsible for the acceptance and oversight of projects and
 codebases, together with their communities, submitted and
 proposed to become part of the Foundation; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Incubator PMC is charged with
 providing guidance and ensuring that projects under its purview
 operate according to the Foundation's goals and philopsophies;
 and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Incubator PMC is responsible for
 evaluating projects under its purview and making the
 determination in each case of whether it should be abandoned,
 or is healthy and should continue to receive guidance and
 support, or is healthy and mature and ready to become part of
 an existing Foundation project or a new project in its own
 right; and be it further

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

        Aaron Bannert
        Nicola Ken Barozzi
        Ken Coar
        B. W. Fitzpatrick
        Jim Jagielski
        Greg Stein
        Sander Striker

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jim Jagielski be and
 hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache
 Incubator, 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 Incubator 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 Incubator Project.

 -------------
 Resolution R2 (drafted by Roy):

 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
 accepting new products into the Foundation, providing guidance
 and support to help each new product engender their own
 collaborative community, educating new developers in the
 philosophy and guidelines for collaborative development as
 defined by the members of the Foundation, and proposing to the
 board the promotion of such products to independent PMC
 status once their community has reached maturity.

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

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Incubator PMC be and hereby is
 responsible for the acceptance and oversight of new products
 submitted or proposed to become part of the Foundation;
 and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Incubator PMC is responsible for
 providing guidance and ensuring that subprojects under its
 purview develop products according to the Foundation's philosophy
 and guidelines for collaborative development; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Incubator PMC is responsible for
 regularly evaluating products under its purview and making the
 determination in each case of whether the product should be
 abandoned, continue to receive guidance and support, or
 proposed to the board for promotion to full project status
 as part of an existing or new Foundation PMC; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Incubator"
 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 Incubator PMC, and to have primary responsibility
 for management of the subprojects within the scope and
 responsibility of the Apache Incubator PMC; 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 Incubator PMC:

        Aaron Bannert
        Nicola Ken Barozzi
        Ken Coar
        Roy T. Fielding
        B. W. Fitzpatrick
        Jim Jagielski
        Greg Stein
        Sander Striker

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jim Jagielski be and
 hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache
 Incubator, 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 Incubator 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 Incubator Project.

 ================================

 After some discussion regarding the differences between the
 two resolutions, Ken withdrew his resolution.  A vote was held
 on Resolution R2.  By unanimous vote, Resolution R2 passed.