Celebrating 20 years of community-led development "The Apache Way"
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Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. http://kibble.apache.org/ ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity and health In February, we had community representation at CHAOSSCon, the annual conference of the CHAOSS workgroups, who do work around community metrics in FLOSS. This was a very positive interaction for everyone concerned, and many new ideas came out of that event. Daniel Gruno presented a lightning talk about what we’re doing. Kibble also was represented at the Apache booth at FOSDEM, and we ran demos for many interested attendees. Discussions at the events have led to a shift away from simply providing metrics reporting, and more towards asking the end-user what kinds of questions they wish to answer, and adapting to those questions. Discussion also began around integration with Slack and Bitbucket for metrics collection purposes. Sharan has provided a more detailed write-up of these events on our dev mailing list, at https://s.apache.org/OEB1 Despite all of the interest and positive interactions, we continue to struggle to find actual participants in the code-part of the project itself. We hope that following up on some of our contacts from FOSDEM will turn the tide on this. There remains adequate (>= 3 PMC members) oversight on the project, and on the more philosophical/design-wise level, we have discussions going and being started. We did have a query from a University student interested in joining the effort, but we have not heard back from them in recent weeks. A suggestion that arose at FOSDEM for future conferences was lowering the bar for contributions by allowing instant subscriptions to mailing lists at the Apache booth. While we have plenty of interest in the project from users, we seem to suffer from "conference amnesia" where in people forget their interactions due to the sheer volume of inputs. ## PMC/Committer changes: - Currently 12 PMC members and 12 committers - Last PMC addition was Rafael Weingärtner on Fri Dec 08 2017 - Last committer addition was Rafael Weingärtner at Sat Dec 09 2017 ## Releases: We have not yet made a release ## Mailing list activity: This quarter was, for us, an uptick in mailing list traffic, largely around our activities at FOSDEM.
Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. http://kibble.apache.org/ ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity and health We had another quiet quarter. There was some discussion of participating in the upcoming CHAOSS summit at FOSDEM, and a handful of commits. Some off-list conversations were had at various events, including Open Source Summit in Edinburgh, with individuals who expressed interest in the project. These have not translated into actual project engagement. It is concerning that *ALL* commits in this quarter (indeed, much longer than that) have been from one person. This is, obviously, not the hallmark of a sustainable project. ## PMC/Committer changes: Currently 12 committers and 12 PMC members. No new PMC members in the last 3 months. Last PMC addition: Sat Dec 09 2017 (Rafael Weingärtner) No new committers in the last 3 months. Last committer addition: Sat Dec 09 2017 (Rafael Weingärtner) ## Releases: We have not yet made a release. ## Mailing list activity: Another quiet month on all of our mailing lists. We hope that discussions at FOSDEM will once again spark some interest, and new contributors.
## Description: Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. http://kibble.apache.org/ ## Issues: There are no issues that require the board's attention ## Health and Activity: After several months of silence, discussion has started back up on the dev list, with discussion of mood and sentiment analysis. There was also a brief discussion of getting feedback from our pilot projects. Overall, the project remains quiet, but appears to be reemerging from a summer lumber. ## PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rafael Weingärtner on Fri Dec 08 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 12 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Rafael Weingärtner at Sat Dec 09 2017 ## Releases: - Kibble has not yet made a release, but an off-list (IRC) conversation started about the desirability of doing one. ## Mailing list activity: The lists were almost entirely silent over the summer, but discussion is now starting back up again.
Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. http://kibble.apache.org/ ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity and health This quarter has, again, been very quiet. We had some interesting discussions (at FOSDEM, in February) with organizations and open source projects that expressed an interest both in using, and participating in, Kibble, however there has been no followup from them. We intend to proactively reach back out to them in the coming month to see what their plans are. ## PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rafael Weingärtner on Fri Dec 08 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 12 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Rafael Weingärtner at Sat Dec 09 2017 ## Releases: We have not yet made a release. ## Mailing list activity: All of our lists have been silent in the last month, and moderately quiet for the duration of the quarter. We suspect that this is because many of our community members have had other thing pressing on their attention the last few months, and that we will see a resurgence when those things abate.
########################### ## Description: Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. http://kibble.apache.org/ ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Health and Activity: The last month has been very slow on the project development side. Kibble participated in the Apache presence at FOSDEM, giving demos of the project. This was extremely popular, with people standing 3-deep to watch the demo and ask questions. This included several organizations who indicated interest not only in using the project, but contributing to it. In the coming month, there's a focus on improving the documentation to ease the user onboarding. The ASF issued a press release about the establishment of Kibble - https://s.apache.org/wMMa - which we hope will bring us some additional attention. ## PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - We voted Rafael Weingärtner in to our PMC on December 6th, 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 11 committers. - No new committers since project establishment (October, 2017) ## Releases: - No releases yet. We tentatively plan to have our first release within the next six months. ## Mailing list and bug tracker activity: The mailing lists have been very quiet for the last few weeks, as we all were focused on FOSDEM. We anticipate renewed activity in the coming month.
########################### ## Description: Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: The past month has been quiet, between various holidays, vacations, and illnesses. I'm sure we'll spring back into life in the coming weeks. We continue to hear from various ASF projects that want to participate in the data/metric gathering part of the project. ## Health report: The project has sufficient (3+ PMC members) oversight. We remain healthy as a project, although a significant number of our members have been not so healthy in the past weeks. ## PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - We voted Rafael Weingärtner in to our PMC on December 6th, 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 11 committers. - No new committers since graduation (October, 2017) ## Releases: - No releases yet. We tentatively plan to have our first release within the next six months. ## Mailing list and bug tracker activity: Activity was down over the past month, but we expect a resurgance in the coming weeks, particularly once FOSDEM is over.
## Description: Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: There are many voices on the dev list. In particular, we're seeing people from other projects who are interested in being part of our effort to spin up a demo instance of Kibble with live projects participating. We've reached out to all ASF projects, and have heard back from many of them. You can see these projects, and their metrics, at https://demo.kibble.apache.org/ ## Health report: The project has sufficient (3+ PMC members) oversight. We're particularly excited about this participation from a wide cross-section of ASF projects, as we believe that it will result in steering our feature set towards functionality that is useful to actual projects, rather than us trying to figure that out in a vacuum, or based on our own academic interests. We also believe that this will, eventually, grow our user and developer communities as projects observe the benefits of the functionality we provide. ## PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - We voted Rafael Weingärtner in to our PMC on December 6th, 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 11 committers. - No new committers since graduation (October, 2017) ## Releases: - No releases yet. We tentatively plan to have our first release within the next six months. ## Mailing list and bug tracker activity: As mentioned above, mailing list activity is encouraging for this point in our project's development. We are very encouraged by the level of conversation, and by projects jumping into our demo instance.
## Description: Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: The project is starting up as a TLP within the Apache family. October was a month which saw many community members doing a ton of travel, which hampered the project somewhat. Nonetheless, the project has managed to set up its initial web site, code repositories, and a demo instance of the Kibble software suite. The community will be working towards defining goals and contacting interested parties (such as other PMCs at Apache interested in taking part in our community analyses). One of the many benefits of being part of the Apache family is ready access to a lot of interesting projects from both a technical and - equally important - community aspect, and we'll be working with the ASF projects to determine what projects would like to see emerge from Kibble in terms of trends, breakdowns, aggregations etc that can help shed some light on how projects and their communities are doing. There has also been discussion of what metrics are useful, or at least potentially useful, and how we might engage with projects to get their input on what metrics they consider important measures of project health, as this will vary from one project to another, and may be very different for projects outside of the ASF. ## Health report: The project has sufficient (3+ PMC members) oversight. It is too early to contemplate progression of community health, but we will of course keep the board apprised of any changes. ## PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - All PMC members added in the last 3 months ## Committer base changes: - Currently 11 committers. - No changes (the PMC was established in the last 3 months) ## Releases: - No releases yet. We tentatively plan to have our first release within the next six months. ## Mailing list and bug tracker activity: As we have just started, it makes little sense to discuss these stats yet.
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 an interactive project activity analyzer and aggregator NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Kibble Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Kibble Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to an interactive project activity analyzer and aggregator; RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Kibble" 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 Kibble Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Kibble 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 Kibble Project: * Daniel Gruno <humbedooh@apache.org> * Ulises Beresi <ucb@apache.org> * Daniel Takamori <pono@apache.org> * Sean Palmer <sbp@apache.org> * David Nalley <ke4qqq@apache.org> * Rich Bowen <rbowen@apache.org> * Sally Khudairi <sk@apache.org> * Christofer Dutz <cdutz@apache.org> * Sharan Foga <sharan@apache.org> * Herve Boutemy <hboutemy@apache.org> * Larry McCay <lmccay@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Rich Bowen be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Kibble, 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 Kibble 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 Kibble Project. Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache Kibble Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
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 an interactive project activity analyzer and aggregator NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Kibble Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Kibble Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to an interactive project activity analyzer and aggregator; RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Kibble" 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 Kibble Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Kibble 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 Kibble Project: * Daniel Gruno <humbedooh@apache.org> * Ulises Beresi <ucb@apache.org> * Daniel Takamori <pono@apache.org> * Sean Palmer <sbp@apache.org> * David Nalley <ke4qqq@apache.org> * Rich Bowen <rbowen@apache.org> * Sally Khudairi <sk@apache.org> * Christofer Dutz <cdutz@apache.org> * Sharan Foga <sharan@apache.org> * Herve Boutemy <hboutemy@apache.org> * Larry McCay <lmccay@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Rich Bowen be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Kibble, 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 Kibble 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 Kibble Project. Special Order 7J, Establish the Apache Kibble Project, was tabled.