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Joshua

17 Nov 2021

Terminate the Apache Joshua Project

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Joshua project
 has arrived at a consensus to recommend moving the project to the
 Attic; and

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

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

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

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

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Joshua PMC is hereby terminated.

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

17 Nov 2021 [Tommaso Teofili / Roman]

No report was submitted.

20 Oct 2021 [Tommaso Teofili / Roman]

No report was submitted.

15 Sep 2021 [Tommaso Teofili / Roman]

No report was submitted.

18 Aug 2021 [Tommaso Teofili / Sharan]

No report was submitted.

@Roman: follow up with Joshua on project activity

21 Jul 2021 [Tommaso Teofili / Justin]

No report was submitted.

21 Apr 2021 [Tommaso Teofili / Roman]

## Description:
The mission of Apache Joshua is the creation and maintenance of software
related to statistical and other forms of machine translation.

## Issues:
The main issue is that the project activity is close to zero at the moment.

## Membership Data:
Apache Joshua was founded 2018-10-17 (3 years ago)
There are currently 10 committers and 10 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Felix Hieber on 2018-10-17.
- No new committers were added.

## Project Activity:
We didn't see any actual activity in 2021. A potential GSoC student reached
out (to work on language models) but we didn't manage to follow up with him.
Before that we:
* addressed occasional PRs related to packaging and deployment
* started a research effort to foresee what to focus on next as
MT approach, we started drafting a survey paper but we didn't manage to
complete that (yet?)

## Community Health:
The community is silent and small. Beyond a few PMC members, the rest of the
community is mostly inactive.

17 Mar 2021 [Tommaso Teofili / Roman]

No report was submitted.

@Roman: pursue a report for Joshua

17 Feb 2021 [Tommaso Teofili / Niclas]

No report was submitted.

@Niclas: pursue a report for Joshua

20 Jan 2021 [Tommaso Teofili / Niclas]

No report was submitted.

21 Oct 2020 [Tommaso Teofili / Sam]

## Description:
The mission of Apache Joshua is the creation and maintenance of software
related to statistical and other forms of machine translation.

## Issues:
- Very low activity in the project, however it seems that recent roll calls had
positive impact on finding new contributors and moving the project onto a more
appealing roadmap (switch from statistical ML to neural ML)

## Membership Data:
Apache Joshua was founded 2018-10-17 (2 years ago)
There are currently 10 committers and 10 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Felix Hieber on 2018-10-17.
- No new committers were added.

## Project Activity:
- Apart from a few minor fixes, no coding activity is being performed
- A discussion is taking place on dev@ about moving Joshua to leverage neural MT

## Community Health:
- The PMC, following previous board recommendation, issued a roll call
- The roll call on private@ had three PMC members replying positively, hence
it should be possible to have a new release (as we could count on 3 binding
 votes)
- A roll call on dev@ triggered replies from two members of the Joshua community
who expressed interest in contributing to the project

16 Sep 2020 [Tommaso Teofili / Niclas]

No report was submitted.

19 Aug 2020 [Tommaso Teofili / Sander]

## Description:
The mission of Apache Joshua is the creation and maintenance of software
related to statistical and other forms of machine translation.

## Issues:
The project has had almost no activity over the past quarter
No new community members have shown up in a while
The community is almost silent

## Membership Data:
Apache Joshua was founded 2018-10-17 (2 years ago)
There are currently 10 committers and 10 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Felix Hieber on 2018-10-17.
- No new committers were added.

## Project Activity:
There has been only one email thread over the past quarter (two emails)
The PMC has not resumed the effort to release Joshua 6.2

## Community Health:
Overall community is silent
A roll call to understand how many PMC members are willing to stay may help
Moving the project to Attic might be an option if things don't change

15 Jul 2020 [Tommaso Teofili / Sander]

No report was submitted.

15 Apr 2020 [Tommaso Teofili / Bertrand]

## Description:
The mission of Apache Joshua is the creation and maintenance of software
related to statistical and other forms of machine translation.

## Issues:
- The project activity is very low
- None of the PMC members seem to have resources to work on Joshua at the moment

## Membership Data:
Apache Joshua was founded 2018-10-17 (a year ago)
There are currently 10 committers and 10 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Felix Hieber on 2018-10-17.
- No new committers were added.

## Project Activity:
- We tried and failed to push a minor 6.2 release out beginning of 2020
- Occasionally we get PRs from external contributors

## Community Health:
- The community activity is close to idle
- We need to understand whether it makes sense to move Joshua to Attic

18 Mar 2020 [Tommaso Teofili / Roman]

No report was submitted.

19 Feb 2020 [Tommaso Teofili / Ted]

No report was submitted.

@Ted: pursue a report for Joshua

15 Jan 2020 [Tommaso Teofili / Ted]

No report was submitted.

20 Nov 2019 [Tommaso Teofili / Danny]

## Description:
The mission of Apache Joshua is the creation and maintenance of software
related to statistical and other forms of machine translation.

## Issues:
The only issue within the project relates to low activity.

## Membership Data:
Apache Joshua was founded 2018-10-17 (a year ago)
There are currently 10 committers and 10 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Felix Hieber on 2018-10-17.
- No new committers were added.

## Project Activity:
Project activity is low, however we are planning a minor 6.2 release and
discussing interesting features (language packs for CJK languages) that may
help raise interest and activity from the community

## Community Health:
No new contributors for a while now, main contributors are still around (we
had a roll call in September) but mostly quiet.

16 Oct 2019 [Tommaso Teofili / Craig]

## Description:

Apache Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit.

## Issues:

 - Activity in the project is very low

## Activity:

 - Since last board meeting we merged a PR and there were occasional
   discussions about implementing language packs for CJK languages, two
   committers plan to work on them in the next weeks


## Health report:

 - The community is essentially the same since graduation. No potential new
   committers / PMC members showed up

 - Mailing lists have low activity

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition: Wed Oct 17 2018 (Felix Hieber)

## Releases:

 - No releases were performed since graduation

@Craig: pursue report for next month; possible Attic candidate

17 Jul 2019 [Tommaso Teofili / Roman]

## Description:

Apache Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit.

## Issues:

 - Activity in the project is very low

## Activity:

 - Since last board meeting a PR from a non committer was merged

 - Based on comment from TD to previous board report, a proposal came up for
   implementing models for CJK languages using more recent (and accurate)
   approaches that use pretrained embeddings

## Health report:

 - The community is essentially the same since graduation. No potential new
   committers / PMC members showed up

 - Mailing lists have very low activity

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition: Wed Oct 17 2018 (Felix Hieber)

## Releases:

 - No releases were performed since graduation

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@joshua.apache.org:
    - 29 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 17 emails sent to list (40 in previous quarter)

 - user@joshua.apache.org:
    - 34 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 0 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

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

19 Jun 2019 [Tommaso Teofili / Ted]

## Description:

Apache Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit.


## Issues:

 - The PMC has not been able to report in the past 5 months
 - Activity in the project is very low

## Activity:

 - Since last board meeting a PR from a non committer was merged and a missing
   fix related to post graduation task (dropping -incubating suffix) was
   performed

 - Since graduation (October 2018) activity in the project has been slowing
   down. One of the reasons for that is that some of the major code
   contributors moved to using/developing other machine translation libraries
   based on deep learning (NMT) rather than on statistical approach (SMT, like
   Joshua)

 - A potential GSoC candidate approached the project on the dev mailing list,
   got a reply but never followed up

## Health report:

 - The community is essentially the same since graduation. No potential new
   committers / PMC members showed up

 - Mailing lists have low activity. a roadmap was discussed and agreed in
   March 2019, follow up Jira tasks were created (labelling some with gsoc
   label to hopefully foster interest from GSoC students)


## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition: Wed Oct 17 2018 (Felix Hieber)

## Releases:

 - No releases were performed since graduation

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@joshua.apache.org:
    - 29 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 32 emails sent to list (35 in previous quarter)

 - user@joshua.apache.org:
    - 34 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 0 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

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

@Rich: pursue a roll call for Joshua

15 May 2019 [Tommaso Teofili / Craig]

No report was submitted.

@Craig: pursue a report for Joshua

17 Apr 2019 [Tommaso Teofili / Phil]

No report was submitted.

20 Mar 2019 [Tommaso Teofili / Phil]

No report was submitted.

@Phil: pursue a report for Joshua

20 Feb 2019 [Tommaso Teofili / Shane]

No report was submitted.

16 Jan 2019 [Tommaso Teofili / Rich]

No report was submitted.

@Rich: pursue a report for Joshua

19 Dec 2018 [Tommaso Teofili / Bertrand]

## Description:

Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit.

## Activity:

Joshua has been incubating from 2016-02-13 to 2018-10-03. The Joshua community
has been mostly silent since graduation resolution has passed. Since mid
December some more activity has been seen in the dev@ mailing list to perform
post graduation steps and discuss migration to Gitbox together with some Jira
activity / commits.


## PMC changes

-- No new PMC members in the last 3 months.
-- Currently 10 PMC members.

## Releases

-- Last release (6.1) is from June 22, 2017

17 Oct 2018

Establish the Apache Joshua Project

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests
 of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to
 establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and
 maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to
 the public, related to statistical and other forms of machine
 translation.

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

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Joshua Project be and hereby is responsible
 for the creation and maintenance of software related to statistical
 and other forms of machine translation; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Joshua" 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 Joshua
 Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the
 projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Joshua
 Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are
 appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Joshua
 Project:

 * Tom Barber                                  <magicaltrout@apache.org>
 * Thamme Gowda                                <thammegowda@apache.org>
 * Felix Hieber                                <fhieber@apache.org>
 * Lewis John McGibbney                        <lewismc@apache.org>
 * Chris Mattmann                              <mattmann@apache.org>
 * Matt Post                                   <mjpost@apache.org>
 * Paul Ramirez                                <pramirez@apache.org>
 * Henry Saputra                               <hsaputra@apache.org>
 * Kellen Sunderland                           <kellen@apache.org>
 * Tommaso Teofili                             <tommaso@apache.org>

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Tommaso Teofili be
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Joshua 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 Apache Joshua Project be and hereby is tasked with
 the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Joshua
 podling; and be it further

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

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

16 May 2018

Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit

Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.

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

 1. Complete graduation process
 2. Further identifying specific use cases that Joshua might excel at.
 3. Continue to attrac active developers and users.

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

The Joshua community has VOTE'd on Graduation with favorable results.
https://s.apache.org/dk8M

How has the community developed since the last report?

1. Jeff Zemerick and Suneel Marthi presented 'Embracing Diversity:
Searching over multiple languages' at Haystack Conf, Charlottesville
VA using Apache Joshua, Apache Nifi and Apache OpenNLP on April 10, 2018
https://smarthi.github.io/haystack-embracing-diversity-searching-over-multiple-languages/#/

2.  Suneel Marthi and Kellen Sunderland presented - Streaming Pipelines
for Neural Machine Translation using Apache Joshua, Apache Flink,
Apache OpenNLP at DataWorks Summit, Berlin on April 19, 2018
https://smarthi.github.io/DSW-Berlin18-Streaming-NMT/#/

How has the project developed since the last report?

The community has been engaged with the Graduation VOTE

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

  [X] Initial setup
  [X] Working towards first release
  [X] Community building
  [X] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2017-06-22

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 - 2016-11-16 Michael A. Hedderich (mhedderich) joins the Joshua PPMC +
   Committership.
 - 2016-11-16 Tobias Domhan (tdomhan) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
 - 2016-11-02 Max Thomas (mthomas) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
     Comments:
  [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
     Comments:
  [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
     Comments:
  [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
     Comments:

21 Feb 2018

Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit

Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.

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

 1. Draft Graduation Resolution
 2. Identifying specific use cases that Joshua might excel at.
 3. Attracting active developers and users.

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

Joshua PPMC are in the process of moving towards an initial
graduation resolution draft.

How has the community developed since the last report?

The PPMC has decided not to use the 7.X branch as new master.
Current master branch has more features and we have decided to
use it as the basis for moving forward.

How has the project developed since the last report?

New work is going in to updating the Homebrew Formula. This
will make Joshua available with some 50 or so language packs.
Essentially, this will make Joshua the most comprehensively
packaged open source machine translation library available.

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

 [X] Initial setup
 [X] Working towards first release
 [X] Community building
 [X] Nearing graduation
 [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

 2017-06-22

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 - 2016-11-16 Michael A. Hedderich (mhedderich) joins the Joshua PPMC +
   Committership.
 - 2016-11-16 Tobias Domhan (tdomhan) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
 - 2016-11-02 Max Thomas (mthomas) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.

Signed-off-by:

 [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
    Comments:
 [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
    Comments:
 [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
    Comments:
 [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
    Comments:

15 Nov 2017

Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit

Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.

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

 1. Make another Apache Joshua incubating release (7.0.0).
 2. Identifying specific use cases that Joshua might excel at.
 3. Attracting active developers and users.

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 community mailing lists continue to see a few new users
requiring assistance with using the project.
Questions have been answered in reasonable time. Community
building continues to be the biggest challenge for Joshua right
now.

How has the project developed since the last report?

The PPMC is actively working towards a 7.0.0 release
candidate which will essentially be a re-modularization of
the Joshua source code for distribution and hopefully
improved consumption as a dependency within other projects.
We have seen a few pull requests logged specifically addressing
source code formatting, this is a positive.

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

 [X] Initial setup
 [X] Working towards first release
 [X] Community building
 [X] Nearing graduation
 [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

 2017-06-22

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 - 2016-11-16 Michael A. Hedderich (mhedderich) joins the Joshua PPMC +
   Committership.
 - 2016-11-16 Tobias Domhan (tdomhan) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
 - 2016-11-02 Max Thomas (mthomas) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.

Signed-off-by:

 [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
    Comments:
 [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
    Comments: I suspect that the Joshua PPMC will move towards proposing the
    project graduates post 7.0.0 release. I am working with Tommaso to progress
    the 7.X branch merge into mainstream development.
 [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
    Comments:
 [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
    Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

 johndament: The project seems OK.  Not a lot of on list chatter, outside of JIRA.  May be
 ready, may warrant some additional time growing.  Will leave it to mentors to decide.

16 Aug 2017

Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit

Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.

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

 1. Make another Apache Joshua incubating release.
 2. Identifying specific use cases that we might excel at.
 3. Attracting active developers and users.

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 community mailing lists have seen a few new users.
Questions have been answered in reasonable time. Community
building is probably the biggest challenge for Joshua right
now.
Tommaso Teofili and Suneel Marthi, presented 'Embracing Diversity:
Searching Over multiple languages' on June 12, 2017 at Berlin Buzzwords,
Berlin - demonstrating machine translation using Apache Joshua.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Apache Joshua 6.1 (Incubating) was released, which is the first
Apache release for Joshua. The community is actively discussing
the roadmap and where Joshua should be in the near future.

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

  [X] Initial setup
  [X] Working towards first release
  [X] Community building
  [X] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2017-06-22

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 - 2016-11-16 Michael A. Hedderich (mhedderich) joins the Joshua PPMC +
   Committership.
 - 2016-11-16 Tobias Domhan (tdomhan) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
 - 2016-11-02 Max Thomas (mthomas) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
     Comments:
  [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
     Comments:
  [X](joshua) Chris Mattmann
     Comments:
        I updated status to nearing graduation. The community has grown and we have made a release. Not sure what else we need to do in the Incubator, but willing to wait a few months to sort it out.
  [X](joshua) Tom Barber
     Comments:
        The release was well organized and delivered thanks to Lewis and Tommaso, it feels to me like the Joshua developers need to be a little more proactive. As the report points out, community building is the biggest issue, I'm going to spend some time in the near future working with the PPMC to see what integrations, tutorials and demos we can do to drive developers and adoption which will hopefully expand the community.

21 Jun 2017

Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit

Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.

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

 1. Release Apache Joshua incubating 6.1 (rc4) and then begin development on
   7.X branch.
 2. Identifying specific use cases that we might excel at.
 3. Attracting active developers and users.

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

There is currently an ongoing VOTE thread over on general@incubator regarding
the proposed release of Apache Joshua incubating 6.1 (rc4). If this goes
through it will be a significant achievement for the podling.

How has the community developed since the last report?

There are ongoing discussion threads on user@ regarding integration of Joshua
with Mailman. There are no new community members. Some members of the Joshua
PPMC became Apache members post this years annual meeting. Henry Yandell is
now emeritus mentor.

How has the project developed since the last report?

The community has been iterating on Apache Joshua incubating 6.1 RC's as well
as refining the release process. We have pretty much addressed all concerns
now so subsequent releases should be easier.

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

 [X] Initial setup DONE
 [X] Working towards first release VERY CLOSE
 [ ] Community building Joshua was not represented at ApacheCon this year
     but hopefully we can get involved in future events.
 [ ] Nearing graduation possibly one or two more releases... possibly of
     the 7.X branch before we graduate.
 [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

 N/A

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 - 2016-11-16 Michael A. Hedderich (mhedderich) joins the Joshua PPMC +
   Committership.
 - 2016-11-16 Tobias Domhan (tdomhan) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
 - 2016-11-02 Max Thomas (mthomas) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.

Signed-off-by:

 [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
    Comments:
 [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
    Comments: The community will benefit significantly from a 6.1 release if
      the
    current VOTE on general@incubator passes.
 [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
    Comments:
 [X](joshua) Tom Barber
    Comments: There has been a slight bottleneck with committers bandwidth and
    the ability to ship a release, along with getting other people familiar
      with
    the release process and happy to ship new versions. I'm sure this
      bottleneck
    will reduce when have iterated through a few more releases to iron out the
    kinks.

27 Feb 2017

Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit

Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.

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

 1. Putting together a formal release.
 2. Identifying specific use cases that we might excel at.
 3. Attracting active developers and users.

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

 None that come to mind.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 We have added some new members. The Joshua PPMC has also
 been VOTE'ing actively and have received (and are acting upon)
 feedback from the IPMC on our mlst recent release candidate.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 Things have stalled a bit over the winter holidays, but we have recently
 started to pick things up again. As always, a release is imminent.

Date of last release:

 N/A.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 Per http://incubator.apache.org/projects/joshua.html:

 - 2016-11-16 Michael A. Hedderich (mhedderich) joins the Joshua PPMC +
   Committership.
 - 2016-11-16 Tobias Domhan (tdomhan) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
 - 2016-11-02 Max Thomas (mthomas) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.

Signed-off-by:

 [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
 [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
 [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
 [X](joshua) Tom Barber
 [ ](joshua) Henri Yandell

16 Nov 2016

Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit.

Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.

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

 1. Creating our first release.
 2. Continue to build the community
 3. Identify specific users and use cases.

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?

 We have added a few new members.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 A new release is imminent; we just need to pull the trigger. We have put
 together over sixty "language packs" that will be released in a
 no-dependency version and a Docker container.

Date of last release:

 Forthcoming.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 John Hewitt (August 13, 2016)
 Max Thomas (pending)
 Michael Hedderich (pending)

Signed-off-by:

 [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
 [ ](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
 [X](joshua) Chris Mattmann
 [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
 [X](joshua) Henri Yandell

17 Aug 2016

Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit

Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.

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

 1. Ensure first release of Joshua Incubating artifacts (6.1)
 2. Continue to build the Joshua PPMC and user community
 3. Investigate targeted user communities within Apache

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?

 We have gained a new contributor, and have continued developing and
 updating the web page to increase interest. We have not made
 any real advertising or publicity pushes, but hope to around the
 time of our first formal release under the Apache banner (targeted
 for September).

How has the project developed since the last report?

 We have been steadily pushing up stability and design improvements,
 including a move from an ant+ivy to a maven build system. We have
 made some changes to our build process, including enabling
 Travis-CI for continual integration testing. We are in discussion
 about deeper architectural changes that will facilitate an API.

Date of last release:

 N/A

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 Kellen Sunderland and Felix Hieber (April 11, 2016)
 Thamme Gowda (May 26, 2016)

Signed-off-by:

 [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
 [ ](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
 [X](joshua) Chris Mattmann
 [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
 [X](joshua) Henri Yandell

18 May 2016

Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit

Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.

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

 1. Ensure first release of Joshua Incubating artifacts (6.1)
 2. Continue to build the Joshua PPMC and user community
 3. Investigate targeted user communities within Apache

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?

 Joshua is being represented at ApacheCon. Currently one presentation is
 taking place in addition to a meetup.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 The project team have been working on development code as well as official
 branding. All infrastructure has been migrated over to Apache. We are
 aiming for our first release some time after ApacheCon.

Date of last release:

 N/A

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 Kellen Sunderland and Felix Hieber joined the PPMC and as committers on
 April 11th, 2016.

Signed-off-by:

 [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
 [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
 [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
 [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
 [ ](joshua) Henri Yandell

20 Apr 2016

Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit

Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.

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

  1. Migration of the entire project over to Apache infrastructure (nearly
     complete)
  2. Building up community and attracting developers
  3. Putting out regular Joshua releases

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

  None that come to mind. We are occupied with the issues above, and
  things are proceeding nicely.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  We have voted in two new committers and invitations have been
  extended to them.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  A large pull request was accepted reporting large speed increases due to
  caching, and increasing the usability of Joshua as a library.

Date of last release:

  2015-11-05 (prior to incubation)

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 - Felix Hieber (2016-04-01)
 - Kellen Sunderland (2016-04-01)

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
  [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
  [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
  [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
  [ ](joshua) Henri Yandell

16 Mar 2016

Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit

Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.

 The INFRA bootstrap ticket has been opened[1], and the PPMC and INFRA
 are active in working through the setup tasks.

 No concerns for the board at this time.

 [1] (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11264)


Signed-off-by:

 [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
 [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
 [X](joshua) Chris Mattmann
 [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
 [X](joshua) Henri Yandell

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

 johndament: Report contents are very sparse.  All sections
 should be retained.