Community-led development "The Apache Way"
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IoTDB is a data store for managing large amounts of time series data such as
timestamped data from IoT sensors in industrial applications.
IoTDB has been incubating since 2018-11-18.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
- More active PPMC/Committers to join votes in the mailing list;
- Get more user feedback;
- More technical communications are welcomed to attract more committers
joining the project deeply.
### 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?
1. Suggested by Mentor Christofer, we moved the JIRA notifications to a
new mailing list notifications@.
After that, there are 609 emails sent by 80 people, divided into 254
topics in these 3 months.
2. 4 new committers are elected (Dawei Liu, Wangminhao Gou, Yuyuan Kang,
and XinWang), who come from 3 different companies/organizations.
3. A new PPMC is elected (Jincheng Sun).
4. Many new contributors joining us. For example, Giorgio Zoppi is
working for TsFIle/IoTDB C++, Robinet integrated IoTDB with Apache Karaf,
Xin Wang and Jincheng integrated IoTDB with Flink etc..
5. The website is refactored.
- Now Google Search Engine can index it.
- The website provides a detailed User Guide and some System Designs both
in English and Chinese.
- Meetup and other talk materials (slides and videos) are shared on the
website.
- More documents to let users joining us （like Code of Conduct, How to
be a committer, how to release, how to vote new committers, etc..) are
provided on the website or the wiki.
6. Dave Fisher shepherded us and pointed out some issues, and all of them
are fixed.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Two versions (v0.9.2 and v0.9.3) are released. They are done by two new
Release Managers from the community.
- The project keeps active, there are 553 commits submitted by 43 authors
in these 3 months. (using the gitstats tool to get the result: `gitstats
-c
start_date=2020-03-01 REPO_NAME OUTPUT`)
- IoTDB is integrated with Apache Karaf and Apache Flink.
- IoTDB supports MQTT protocol.
- IoTDB's cluster module is almost done. A PR is submitted.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [X] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2020-04-13
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2020-05-18 for the last committer, 2020-05-14 for the last PPMC.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Required Name Search is done. A google search didn’t show any major
branding issues that the PPMC needs to deal with.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (iotdb) Justin Mclean
Comments: Thanks for the detailed report. Some of the stats in the
report don't mean much to people outside you project. If you do
include please explain why or what they illustrate.
- [X] (iotdb) Christofer Dutz
Comments: I am also happy with the progress the project is making.
- [ ] (iotdb) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
- [X] (iotdb) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments: +1000
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
IoTDB is a data store for managing large amounts of time series data such as
timestamped data from IoT sensors in industrial applications.
IoTDB has been incubating since 2018-11-18.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Get more user feedbacks to the community
2. More committers should know how to release a version. And more PPMC
should join to vote.
3. make sure the private mailing list is consistent with the PPMC list.
### 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?
1. According to the statistics of https://lists.apache.org/,
there are 1079 emails sent by 87 people, divided into 564 topics in
these 3 months.
2. 6 new committers are added into the community.
3. 6 GSoC2020 ideas are published.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. IoTDB v0.9.1, which contains 11 bug-fix, was released on 11 Jan 2020.
It is finished by the 4th RM in the community.
2. 124 Pull requests are merged
3. Now IoTDB docker images and Python client lib are available on
dockerHub and pipy.org.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2020-01-11 (v0.9.1)
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2020-02-01
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Very helpful.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Required Name Search is done. A google search didn’t show any major
branding issues that the PPMC needs to deal with.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (iotdb) Justin Mclean
Comments:
- [x] (iotdb) Christofer Dutz
Comments: By far most email traffic generated by jira (hard to follow
especially when trying to keep up to date while commuting)
- [ ] (iotdb) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
- [X] (iotdb) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments: Discussing what's needed to graduate and the checklist.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Dave Fisher: There are a few small issues I noticed. I fixed one and sent
an email to the dev@ list with a list.
IoTDB is a data store for managing large amounts of time series data such as
timestamped data from IoT sensors in industrial applications.
IoTDB has been incubating since 2018-11-18.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Learn to discuss things on the mailing list, rather than just post an
ISSUE created or closed message, or discuss on Github.
2. More committers should know how to release a version. And more PPMC
should join to vote.
3. Write more documentation to help new contributors.
### 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?
1. New contributors appears, e.g., HT Hou for PR527, liutaohua for PR578,
yx-zhang for PR540, francisdu for ISSUE293, SilverNarcissus for PR327,
nlosilva1 for PR298, Zesong Sun etc..
2. According to github's records, there are 50 contributors now.
3. New committer Jack Tsai.
4. New PPMC: Julian Feinauer
5. Twitter account is created: Apacheiotdb
6. More than 137 mails are recorded on dev@ mailing list
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. IoTDB released v0.8.1. And vote for 0.9.0 has passed.
2. IoTDB v0.9.0 fixed 16 bugs, introduced 31 new features and 27
improvements. (According to the statistics of 0.9.0's RELEASE_NOTE)
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [x] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
1. The community is more diverse than before. As far as the reporter
knows, the contributors come from more than 10 companies/organizers.
2. More users begin to report the bugs, which means that more and more
users are using IoTDB.
3. According to the reporter's view, IoTDB is more stable and has better
performance than before.
### Date of last release:
2019-10-30 (0.8.1)
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2019-11-05 for new committer and 2019-11-07 for new PPMC
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
1. Few PPMCs have permissions to maintain IoTDB JIRA (e.g., add label,
close issues.). The permission may need to be fixed.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Required Name Search is done. A google search didn’t show any major
branding issues that the PPMC needs to deal with.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (iotdb) Justin Mclean
Comments: Growing well.
- [ ] (iotdb) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
- [X] (iotdb) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: I can see IoTDB did lot of works to growing the community,
it's in a right track now.
- [X] (iotdb) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments: Great project and great community. Love to be a witness to
their continued growth.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
IoTDB is a data store for managing large amounts of time series data such
as timestamped data from IoT sensors in industrial applications.
IoTDB has been incubating since 2018-11-18.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Make the community (both the contributors and committers/PPMCs)
more diverse and learn to discuss things on the mailing list.
2. More committers should know how to release a version.
3. Write more documentation to help new contributors.
### 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?
1. Some new contributors joined the community. E.g., PR#339 comes
from a new contributor and it is really an interesting feature.
2. Some contributors (who are not committers yet) are more active
than before. E.g., Boris Zhu and Jack Tsai.
3. More users began to report their issues. E.g., issue #171, #184
and #186.
As all the above contributions and contributors are not from the
institutions/companies where initial committers are, we think it is a
good signal that indicates more guys noticing the community.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. IoTDB releases its first Apache version: v0.8.0 !
2. IoTDB is more stable and the performance is far better than
before. However, the version is incompatible with previous version (which
are released before IoTDB is denoted to ASF).
3. In v0.8.0, many issues are resolved (see release notes:
http://iotdb.apache.org/#/Materials/Release%20Notes)
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [x] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2019-08-25
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2019-07-15
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
They are helpful, especially in the process of releasing the first
version.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (iotdb) Justin Mclean
Comments: Good to see your first release out, but more active
involvement by the PPMC is needed in veting releases. While it improved,
still more discussion needs to happen on the mailing list.
- [X] (iotdb) Christofer Dutz
Comments: I really would like to see more mailing list usage, cause
the number of commit messages is in strong contrast to the discussions.
I as a mentor some time don't have a clue what the project is working
on.
- [ ] (iotdb) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
- [X] (iotdb) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments: Congrats on 0.8.0!!!!!
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Marvin-AI
Marvin-AI is an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform that helps
data scientists, prototype and productionalize complex solutions with a
scalable, low-latency, language-agnostic, and standardized architecture
while
simplifies the process of exploration and modeling.
Marvin-AI has been incubating since 2018-08-21.
### Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.Move development infrastructure to Apache
2.Build Community
3.Build Releases
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
* None
### How has the community developed since the last report?
* Participation in the local PyData event with a presentation of the
project by Rafael Novello.
* Workshop participation in University of São Paulo with a presentation
of the project by Zhang Yifei.
* Participation in the B2W Summit event with a presentation of the
project by Zhang Yifei.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
* New public engine(post-purchase service prediction) in construction
by contributors from University of São Carlos.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [x] Working towards first release
- [x] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* Wei Chen added as new PPMC member (2019-06-07)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
* At least two of the mentors are sometimes active.
### Signed-off-by:
- [x](marvin-ai) Luciano Resende
Comments:
Removed Jim as mentor per his resignation
The report mention that there are some collaboration
with University of São Carlos, but the dev list seems
very quiet since July. Where are the communications
and technical discussions happening ?
- [ ](marvin-ai) William Colen
Comments:
IoTDB is a data store for managing large amounts of time series data such as
timestamped data from IoT sensors in industrial applications.
IoTDB has been incubating since 2018-11-18.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Learn to how to release a formal version;
2. Declare a clear release roadmap;
3. Attract more contributors joining the community.
### Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
We can find that IoTDB is becoming a new choice when users need a time
series database. New users from UCI (IoTDB-104), Sangfor Inc., University
of Liverpool (IoTDB-94) etc. are testing and proposing issues for IoTDB.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. IoTDB is more stable than before. Now it works well on a VM provided
by Apache (iotdb-vm.apache.org).
2. A distributed version is almost done (in the 'cluster branch').
3. In the last 3 months, we opened 78 JIRA issues and resolved/closed 40
JIRA issues.
Created Resolved
Mar 2019 42 26
Apr 2019 15 6
May 2019 21 8
4. In the last 3 months, we merged/closed 107 PRs in Github (seen at Jun
4)
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [x] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
N/A
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
N/A
### Have your mentors been helpful?
Yes
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (iotdb) Justin Mclean
Comments: Needs to be more on-list communication. There report
mentions new users, where is this communication taking place?
- [X] (iotdb) Christofer Dutz
Comments: I agree that there is almost no communication on the list. I
have mentioned this quite a number of times before, communication
tends to increase for a few days but drops to almost 0 a few days later.
Also I would have liked to read about how the COMMUNITY has developed,
not the project.
- [X] (iotdb) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: We could encourage the developer to share their ideas
through the mailing list.
- [X] (iotdb) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments: Would like to see more discussion on the lists and people
suggesting bug fixes being asked to join the community. Like the list
of the issues preventing release.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
IoTDB is a data store for managing large amounts of time series data such as
timestamped data from IoT sensors in industrial applications.
IoTDB has been incubating since 2018-11-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Release the first version;
2. refactor codes which are hard to understand for new developers, and
supply more design documents to help new developers.
3. Attract more contributors;
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- no.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- 4 new contributors joined the community: review and modify the English
documents, add Apache Calcite adaptor demo, and discuss in the mailing
list.
- Mailing list:
-- dev@mailing list: 59 emails are sent, and can be divided into 18
threads (Apache Jenkins Pipeline notifications are exclude)
-- reviews@mailing list: more than 420 mails are sent, for code review
and new branch creation notifications.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- 48 PR are proposed totally, and 42 PR are merged.
- 16 authors have pushed 50 commits to master and 110 commits to all
branches.
- 31 issues (bugs, and feature requests) are logged on JIRA, 15 of them
are resolved.
- Dockerfile is created, which can attract more users to try IoTDB.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
- The project is growing.
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[x] Working towards first release
[x] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
- N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- N/A
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
- very Helpful.
Signed-off-by:
[X](iotdb) Justin Mclean
Comments: More effort needs to be made to have conversations on list.
[X](iotdb) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
[](iotdb) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
[X](iotdb) Kevin McGrail
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Christofer Dutz: Allmost no discussions on list, requested the podling to
move discussions to the dev list.
Dave Fisher: It looks like Christofer's request is successful so far. No
discussion yet if any contributors are looking like good committers/PPMC
members.
IoTDB is a data store for managing large amounts of time series data such as
timestamped data from IoT sensors in industrial applications.
IoTDB has been incubating since 2018-11-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Release the first version;
2. Complement the left English documents and supply more design documents
to help new developers.
3. Attract more contributors;
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- no.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- The code repository has been transferred to the
` apache/incubator-iotdb` repository.
- The website of `iotdb.apache.org` is updated:
(1) Document with English version is available;
(2) Other introduction pages, such as `Tools`, `Community` and
` Development` are updated.
- Mail list:
(1) 490 emails sent by 26 people, divided into 350 topics; (318 mails
are from GitBox, for notifying code-review results).
(2) a new mail list reviews@iotdb.apache.org is created;
(3) two new contributors are involved: Jiaye Wu, Felix Cheung;
- The community begin to use JIRA issues and Confluence.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- All source codes are re-organized:
(1) package names are changed to `org.apache.iotdb.*`;
(2) All textual files are attached with ASF header;
- Apache Jenkins Pipeline was firstly passed at 2019.01.22
- 13 issues are opened on JIRA, 3 of them are closed;
- hundreds of vulnerabilities and thousands of code smells are detected
by Sonar, 2/3 of them are fixed;
- 34 PR are submitted on Github, 24 of them are closed; 10 of them are in
code-review process.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
- newborn.
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[x] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
- N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- N/A
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
- very Helpful
Signed-off-by:
[X](iotdb) Justin Mclean
Comments:
[X](iotdb) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
[X](iotdb) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
[ ](iotdb) Joe Witt
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
IoTDB is a data store for managing large amounts of time series data such as
timestamped data from IoT sensors in industrial applications.
IoTDB has been incubating since 2018-11-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Move source codes to Apache Repository
2. Release the first version
3. Build the community and supply documents.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- A meetup titled by "The way of Open Source Software in China" is hold
at 2018.12.19.
- 122 emails are archived in the dev mail list
- The website is available (http://iotdb.apache.org) now
- Have a touch with Apache RocketMQ community
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Many ICLA files have signed, and the SGA is signed. So, the IP
clearance is done.
- 29 PR are merged.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- The project is still a newborn.
- After the meetup, some persons and companies have noticed IoTDB.
- We will speed up to move codes to apache repository and try to release
the first version.
[X] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
- None
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- None
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
- very Helpful
Signed-off-by:
[X](iotdb) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments:
[X](iotdb) Justin Mclean
Comments: What's the hold up on moving the codebase to the ASF?
[X](iotdb) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
[ ](iotdb) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
[X](iotdb) Joe Witt
Comments: Would like to see the codebase move to ASF world and work
toward release.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache IoTDB is a data store for managing large amounts of time series data
such as timestamped data from IoT sensors in industrial applications.
IoTDB has been incubating since 2018-11-18. Currently, the initial
committers are in the progress of signing ICLA and SGA.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finishing SGA and ICLA
2. Prepare the official website and English documentation
3. Migrate the source code to Apache code repository
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
* The mail lists have been established.
* 6 subjects are discussed in dev mail list. There are 28 replies
totally.
* Attract a contributor from Apache Calcite.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* The initial committers are working for merging all existing PRs, so
that we can migrate the source code to Apache code repository easily (16
pr are merged)
* The initial committers are translating the user manual from Chinese to
English Version. (3/7 chapters are finished)
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
newborn
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
N/A
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
The mentors give the project and committers much help and it is
responsive.
Signed-off-by:
[X](IoTDB) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
[X](IoTDB) Joe Witt
Comments:
[X](IoTDB) Justin Mclean
Comments:
[X](IoTDB) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes: