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Lens

19 Aug 2020

Terminate the Apache Lens Project

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Lens project
 has chosen by vote 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 Lens project due to inactivity;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Lens 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 Lens Project; and be it
 further

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

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Lens PMC is hereby terminated.

 Special Order 7E, Terminate the Apache Lens Project, was
 approved by General Consent.

19 Aug 2020 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Bertrand]

## Description:
- Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
 Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
 data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
 seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear like
 one

## Issues:
- PMC has voted to move the project to attic, and board approval is required
 for the same

## Activity:

There has been no activity on the project for the past one year, and no
suggestions on roadmap.

PMC has voted to move the project to attic.

## PMC changes:

- Currently 18 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Puneet Gupta on Tue Sep 20 2016

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 23 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Rajitha R at Fri Feb 09 2018

## Releases:

- Last release was 2.7 on Tue Feb 06 2018

20 May 2020 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Shane]

## Description:
Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered data
stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear like
one.

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Lens was founded 2015-08-19 (5 years ago)
There are currently 23 committers and 18 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 6:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Puneet Gupta on 2016-09-20.
- No new committers. Last addition was Rajitha R on 2018-02-09.

## Project Activity:
There has been no activity on the project for the past quarter.
Though we have discussed roadmap and suggestions in the earlier quarter, there
is no work done in past quarter for the same. We will reinitiate the thread on
roadmap, and see if we can do any changes or improvements to the project. If
there is no clear roadmap, we will call for retiring the project next quarter.

## Community Health:
There has been no change in community participation. Since there is no
activity on project, community is mostly silent.

19 Feb 2020 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Craig]

## Description:
Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered data
stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear like
one.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention

## Membership Data:
Apache Lens was founded 2015-08-19 (4 years ago)
There are currently 23 committers and 18 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 6:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Puneet Gupta on 2016-09-20.
- No new committers. Last addition was Rajitha R on 2018-02-09.

## Project Activity:
No changes done during last quarter. We are awaiting changes for the project,
as proposed in roadmap discussion last quarter.

## Community Health:
There is no change in contributors and overall activity is low, as
seen in earlier quarter.

20 Nov 2019 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Roman]

## Description:
Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered data
stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear like
one.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache Lens was founded 2015-08-19 (4 years ago)
There are currently 23 committers and 18 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 6:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Puneet Gupta on 2016-09-20.
- No new committers. Last addition was Rajitha R on 2018-02-09.

## Project Activity:
- There is discussion on the Roadmap of the project on dev list. One of the
 organization who is using the project in production has proposed
 improvements and changes, and PMC had a discussion on this and vote the way
 forward. Changes to be suggested by the contributors for the same.
- Planning for release 2.8 in next quarter.

## Community Health:
There is no change in contributors and overall activity is the same(low), as
seen in earlier quarter.

21 Aug 2019 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Ted]

## Description:
Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered data
stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear like
one.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache Lens was founded 2015-08-19 (4 years ago)
There are currently 23 committers and 18 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 6:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Puneet Gupta on 2016-09-20.
- No new committers. Last addition was Rajitha R on 2018-02-09.

## Project Activity:
A couple of bug fixes done in the code. No new releases done, after the past
release 2.7

## Community Health:
Committers and PMC are active and committed to help the project. One
contributor suggesting changes and contributing to the project.

17 Jul 2019 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Myrle]

## Description:
- Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
  Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
  data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
  seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear like
  one

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

## Activity:
 A bug fix and few improvements suggested by one of the contributors.

## Health report:
As we saw on the roll-call, PMC is active and responsive.  The project is
being used in at least one of the organizations that we know of,  where it is
being used in sustenance mode with occasional changes being made. We are
looking at two of the contributors who are making occasional contributions as
prospective new committers. Project has not  been actively looking for new
committers or PMC, as existing committers and PMC are responsive. But PMC has
not done an outreach to users to get them more engaged.


## PMC changes:

 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Puneet Gupta on Tue Sep 20 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 23 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Rajitha R at Fri Feb 09 2018

## Releases:

 - Last release was 2.7 on Tue Feb 06 2018

19 Jun 2019 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Rich]

## Description:
 - Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
   Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
   data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
   seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear
   like one
## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
 - Code reviews have been moved to github pull requests
 - There is no other development work that happened in this quarter

## Health report:
 - No contributors are active for the last quarter and no development work.

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Puneet Gupta on Tue Sep 20 2016

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 23 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Rajitha R at Fri Feb 09 2018

## Releases:
 - Last release was 2.7 on Tue Feb 06 2018

15 May 2019 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Rich]

## Description:
 - Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
   Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
   data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
   seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear
   like one

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

## Activity:
 - Code reviews have been moved to github pull requests
 - There is no other development work that happened in this quarter

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Puneet Gupta on Tue Sep 20 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 23 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Rajitha R at Fri Feb 09 2018

## Releases:
 - Last release was 2.7 on Tue Feb 06 2018

## JIRA activity:

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

@Rich: pursue a PMC roll call

20 Feb 2019 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Isabel]

## Description:
 - Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
   Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
   data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
   seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear
   like one

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

## Activity:
 - Code base migrated to gitbox by Infra.
 - Code changes done for persisting and recovering lens state in DB and enable
   HA
 - Conversation started to move Lens code reviews to pull request.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Puneet Gupta on Tue Sep 20 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 23 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Rajitha R at Fri Feb 09 2018

## Releases:

 - Last release was 2.7 on Tue Feb 06 2018

## JIRA activity:

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

21 Nov 2018 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Bertrand]

## Description:
 Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear like
one

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

## Activity:
 Some improvements done to code base for showing total session counts per
user, start and end times to cubes, support for querying partition columns.
Bug fixes on authorization code flow to make authorizer singleton and
to pick session config.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Puneet Gupta on Tue Sep 20 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 23 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Rajitha R at Fri Feb 09 2018

## Releases:

 - Last release was 2.7 on Tue Feb 06 2018

## JIRA activity:

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

15 Aug 2018 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Mark]

## Description:
Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered data
stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear like
one.


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

## Activity:
 - Added SPENGO authentication for Lens API
 - Enable SSL/TLS between Lens server and client
 - Python3 compatibility issues fixed

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Puneet Gupta on Tue Sep 20 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 23 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Rajitha R at Fri Feb 09 2018

## Releases:

 - Last release was 2.7 on Tue Feb 06 2018

16 May 2018 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Bertrand]

## Description:
Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear like
one.

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

## Activity:
 - Apache Lens 2.7.1 released.
 - Security fixes for making Lens work with secure hadoop and Hive went in.
 - Hadoop version dependency upgraded to 2.7.x

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Puneet Gupta on Tue Sep 20 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 23 committers.
 - Rajitha R was added as a committer on Fri Feb 09 2018

## Releases:

 - Last release was 2.7 on Tue Feb 06 2018

21 Feb 2018 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Bertrand]

## Description:
Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear like
one.

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

## Activity:
 - 2.7.1 Release completed
 - Fixed Server side stabilization issues: State persistence issues,
   Closing idle connections.
 - Improvements added for determining jdbc query cost, configuring lookahead
   time partitions.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Puneet Gupta on Tue Sep 20 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 23 committers.
 - Rajitha R was added as a committer on Fri Feb 09 2018

## Releases:

 - Last release was 2.7.1 on Tue Feb 06 2018

15 Nov 2017 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Brett]

## Description:
Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear like
one.

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

## Activity:
 - Stabilizing Cube segmentation and Virtual fact features.
 - Bug fixes for drop partitions with update period, server's session state
  persistence errors and sync queries in jdbc driver
 - Release 2.7 is stabilized and is ready for vote

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Puneet Gupta on Tue Sep 20 2016

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 22 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Archana H at Sat May 21 2016

## Releases:
 - Last release was 2.6 on Tue Oct 25 2016

16 Aug 2017 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Phil]

## Description:
Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear like
one.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
Fact to fact union and cube segmentation features are stabilized
Virtual fact feature is added
Release verification for 2.7 is going on.

## PMC changes:

- Currently 18 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Puneet Gupta on Tue Sep 20 2016

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 22 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Archana H at Sat May 21 2016

## Releases:

- Last release was 2.6 on Tue Oct 25 2016

17 May 2017 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Rich]

## Description:
Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear like
one.

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

## Activity:
Community has done the following improvements in project:
 - Following features are added in OLAP cube service
   - Support different tables at update period level
   - Union queries across fact tables to support each fact/storage evolution
   - Cube segmentation which offers multiple smaller cubes to be
   participating cubes to complete a base cube
   - CubeTestSetup changed to use xml file definitions
   - Virtual fact feature which adds ability to provide a mandatory
    filter for a fact
 - Project has been moved to compile with Java8, by default.
 - Some issues in python client resolved.
 - 2.7 release planning activity has started

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Puneet Gupta on Tue Sep 20 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 22 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Archana H at Sat May 21 2016

## Releases:

 - Last release was 2.6 on Tue Oct 25 2016

## JIRA activity:

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

27 Feb 2017 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Mark]

## Description:

Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear
like one.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:

Community has done the following improvements in the project:

- Druid SQL rewriter has been stabilised
- Work on Fact to Fact union is happening in a feature branch
- Ability to do data completeness checks during query time has been added
- Issues wrt session expiration are fixed
- Few OLAP cube rewrite bugs have been fixed.

## Health report:

This quarter had the least engagement in jira activity and mailing list,
mostly due to temporary unavailability of many developers. And majority
of the developers are working on a feature branch.

## PMC changes:

- Currently 18 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Puneet Gupta on Tue Sep 20 2016

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 22 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Archana H at Sat May 21 2016

## Releases:

- Last release was 2.6 on Tue Oct 25 2016

16 Nov 2016 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Mark]

## Description:
Lens provides a Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query.
It seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear
like one.

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


## Activity:
Community has made Lens 2.6 GA release which works with apache hive 2.1.x,
with changes including the following and many more simple improvements and
bug fixes.
 + Druid jdbc rewriter has been added
 + Capability for scheduling queries added
 + Server enhancements like http call back on query completion, driver hooks
  at various stages of query launching, ability to analyze sessions, detecting
  duplicate queries  are added
 + Lens regression suite is has been made upto date with features coming in.
 + Client side enhancements : Python client has been added, results get
  streamed on sync queries, UI enhancements.
 + OLAP enhancements : Added tags to fields, start/end times for fact columns,
 optimize dimension filters by conveting them to fact filters

## Health report:

We have 13 individual developers and 8 committers active in the quarter, with
similar counts in last quarter. And 139 user emails are sent to user list in
the quarter (62 in previous quarter).

github contributor graph :
https://github.com/apache/lens/graphs/contributors?from=2016-06-01&to=2016-11-09&type=c

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - Puneet Gupta was added to the PMC on Tue Sep 20 2016

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 22 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Archana H at Sat May 21 2016

## Releases:
 - Last release was Lens-2.6.1 on Tue Oct 25 2016

17 Aug 2016 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Greg]

## Description:
Lens provides a Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query.
It seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear
like one.

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

## Activity:
- Hive dependency moved to apache release dependency. Lots of work is done
in Apache Hive as well to fix bugs and add improvements.
- Many more regression tests added in Lens regression module.
- Saved query service has been stabilized.
- Scheduling capability added. The feature is experimental right now.
- Python client has been added as one more client for Lens.
- node.js based UI has been improved and made the default UI for Lens
- Added limit for active sessions per user.
- Added capability to stream results directly when queries finish faster
 and output is smaller.
- Server now has a launcher pool to launch queries in parallel.
- Outer join queries are optimized to pull filters as subqueries.
- Branching done for Release 2.6 and verification is in progress.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 17 PMC members.
 - Deepak Barr was added to the PMC on Mon May 23 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 22 committers.
 - Archana H was added as a committer on Sat May 21 2016

## Releases:
 - Last release was Lens-2.5.0-beta on Mon Mar 28 2016

18 May 2016 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Mark]

 Description:
 Lens provides a Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
 Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple
 tiered data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical
 query. It seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses
 to appear like one.

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

Activity:
 - Query submission throttling feature is hardened and is very stable
 feature now.
 - Has made release 2.5.0
 - Work on migrating to Apache Hive master is complete.
 - Many stability related issues are fixed and improvements added on
 lens server - for example : max limit on open sessions.
 - Work on adding Druid driver is almost complete.
 - Json support is added on all REST API.
 - Apache Lens had about 6 proposals on GSOC, but none of them could
 make it for final slots.
 - The project team had a contributor meet up on 22nd April,2016 in
 Bangalore, India

PMC changes:

 - Currently 16 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Raju Bairishetti on Wed July 19 2015

Committer base changes:

 - Currently 21 committers.
 New Committers :
 - Puneet Gupta was added as a committer on Fri Feb 26 2016

Releases:

 - Lens-2.5.0-beta was released on Mon Mar 28 2016

Mailing list activity:

 - dev@lens.apache.org:
    - 71 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months):
    - 1860 emails sent to list (1804 in previous quarter)

 - user@lens.apache.org:
    - 62 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
    - 42 emails sent to list (34 in previous quarter)

JIRA activity:

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

17 Feb 2016 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Jim]

Report from the Apache Lens committee

## Description:
Apache Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified
way over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive
with other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data cubes.

## Activity:
 - Capability added to load multiple drivers of same type.
 - Stabilized query submission throttling feature.
 - Added saved query and parameterization feature.
 - User facing error propagation has been improved.
 - User facing CLI has many improvements.
 - Moving to Apache Hive dependency is dev complete and being tested.
 - Release 2.5.0-beta is planned and is in progress.
 - A weekly/bi-weekly hangout was proposed by community for individuals to
 break the ice as well as to get more involved. But not many active
 participants. Happened only for a month.

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

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 16 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Raju Bairishetti on Wed July 19 2015

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 20 committers.
 - New committers :
   + Deepak Kumar Barr on Nov 07 2015
   + Pranav Kumar Agarwal on Oct 31 2015
   + Amruth S on Oct 23 2015
   + Sushil Mohanty on Oct 23 2015
 - Last committer addition was Deepak Kumar Barr at Sat Nov 07 2015

## Releases:
 - Lens-2.4.0-beta was released on Mon Nov 23 2015

## Mailing list activity:
 - dev@lens.apache.org:
    - 64 subscribers (+3 from last report):
    - 1988 emails sent in the past 3 months, 2506 in the previous cycle
 - user@lens.apache.org:
    - 56 subscribers (+4 from last report):
    - 31 emails sent in the past 3 months, 83 in the previous cycle
 - commits@lens.apache.org:
    - 29 subscribers (+2 from last report):
    - 216 emails sent in the past 3 months, 261 in the previous cycle

## JIRA activity:
 - 87 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 74 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

18 Nov 2015 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Bertrand]

## Description:
 Apache Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified
 way over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive
 with other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data cubes.

## Issues:
 NONE

## Activity:
 - Release 2.4.0-beta is planned and is in progress. Even though the release
 branch is made on 9th October, release did not happen on time, as we could
 not get the issues verified in time. Expecting to be complete in a week's time.
 - Project has done fixing stability issues and adding new improvements in
 JDBCDriver, New UI, cube, server, client and cli components
 - Project now builds fine with Java8.
 - Features in progress : Druid execution driver, multiple driver support.
 - Lens contributor meetup was held on 30th October, 2015 in India. The usage
 of Lens at Inmobi and Flipkart was discussed.
 - A weekly hangout is setup to discuss anything specific to the project,
 thereby help individuals to break the ice as well as to get more involved
 with project. All the meeting minutes get posted back to mailing list.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 16 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 19 committers.
 - New committers:
    - Pranav Agarwal was added as a committer on Sat Oct 31 2015
    - SushilMohanty was added as a committer on Fri Oct 23 2015
    - Amruth Sampath was added as a committer on Fri Oct 23 2015

## Releases:

 - 2.3.0-beta was released on Fri Aug 28 2015

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@lens.apache.org:
    - 61 subscribers (up 2 from last report):
    - 873 emails sent to list in the month of October

 - user@lens.apache.org:
    - 52 subscribers (up 0 from last report):
    - 25 emails sent to list in the month of October
 - commits@lens.apache.org:
    - 27 subscribers (up 0 from last report):
    - 96 emails sent to list in month of October

## JIRA activity:

 - 63 created and 31 resolved in month of october

21 Oct 2015 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Shane]

## Description:
Apache Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified
way over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive
with other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data cubes.

## Activity:
 - A new improved web client has been added
 - Saved query and parameterisation has been added.
 - Flattening of fields from bridge table relations added in OLAP features.
 - Building project on JAVA-8 is almost finished.
 - Moving to Apache Hive dependency is in progress.
 - Release 2.4.0-beta is planned and is in progress.
 - Apache Lens has been presented at Apache Bigdata conference, Europe
 and Strata Hadoop World, NY.

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

## LDAP changes:

 - Currently 16 committers and 16 committee group members.
 - New commmitters/PMC:
    Raju Bairishetti was added as a committer on July 19 2015
    Yash Sharma was added as a committer on July 18 2015

## Releases:

    - 2.3.0-beta was released on Fri Aug 28 2015

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@lens.apache.org:
    - 59 subscribers (+0 from last report):
    - 622 emails sent to list in september
 - user@lens.apache.org:
    - 52 subscribers (+0 from last report):
    - 4 emails sent to list in september
 - commits@lens.apache.org:
    - 27 subscribers (+0 from last report):
    - 29 emails sent to list in september

## JIRA activity:

 - 30 JIRA tickets created in the last month.
 - 26 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last month.

16 Sep 2015 [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Chris]

## Description:
    Apache Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a
  unified way over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates
  Apache Hive with other data warehouses by tiering them together to form
  logical data cubes.

## Project Activity:
 - The project is actively working on stabilizing user errors seen from
   accessing the api.
 - New execution driver for Elastic search has been added.
 - Feature with respect to throttling query submission has been completed.
 - Logging in the project has been moved from log4j to slf4j and logback.
 - New improved web client is being under development.

## Project Activity with respect to TLP move:
 - Apache Lens graduated to TLP from incubator on 2015-08-19.
 - The project infrastructure move from Incubator to TLP completed.
 - Project has made first TLP release.
 - Apache Blog announcing Lens as TLP went Live on 2015-08-26.

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

## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
 - Currently 16 committers and 16 LDAP committee group members.
 - New commmitters:
    - Raju Bairishetti was added as a committer on July 19 2015
    - Yash Sharma was added as a committer on July 18  2015

## Community:
 - 59 subscribers on dev list (+8 from last report)
 - 52 subscribes on user list (+12 from last report)
 - 27 subscribers on commits list (+5 from last report)

## Mailing list activity
 - 1040 mails on dev@lens
 - 42 mails on user@lens
 - 135 mails on commits@lens

## JIRA activity:
 - 58 issues created during August, 2015.
 - 57 issues resolved during August, 2015.

## Releases:
 - 2.3.0-beta released on 2015-08-28
 - 2.2.0-beta-incubating released on 2015-07-17.

19 Aug 2015

Establish the Apache Lens 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 unified analytics across multiple tiered
 data stores.

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

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Lens Project be and hereby is
 responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
 related to unified analytics across multiple tiered data
 stores; and be it further

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

 * Amareshwari Sriramadasu <amareshwari at apache dot org>
 * Arshad Matin <arshadmatin at apache dot org>
 * Gunther Hagleitner <gunther at apache dot org>
 * Himanshu Gahlaut <himanshugahlaut at apache dot org>
 * Jaideep Dhok <jdhok at apache dot org>
 * Jean Baptiste Onofre <jbonofre at apache dot org>
 * Raghavendra Singh <raghavsingh at apache dot org>
 * Rajat Khandelwal <prongs at apache dot org>
 * Raju Bairishetti <raju at apache dot org>
 * Sharad Agarwal <sharad at apache dot org>
 * Sreekanth Ramakrishnan <sreekanth at apache dot org>
 * Srikanth Sundarrajan <sriksun at apache dot org>
 * Suma Shivaprasad <sumasai at apache dot org>
 * Vikram Dixit <vikram at apache dot org>
 * Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli <vinodkv at apache dot org>
 * Yash Sharma <yash at apache dot org>

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

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

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

15 Jul 2015

Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified way
over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive
with other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data
cubes.

Lens has been incubating since 2014-10-10.

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

 We had discussion about "where is Lens with respect to graduation" on dev
 mailing list. Most of PPMC and mentors feel that Lens is ready to
 graduate.  http://s.apache.org/rYP

 We intend to start preparing the graduation vote, following the
 discussion.

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?

 There have been many new contributors showing interest and participating
 in discussion on dev mailing list and Our user mailing list is growing
 with usage questions.

 Apache Lens talk is presented at ApacheCon NA and GIDS, India in April,
 2015 and Hadoop Summit, NA in June, 2015.  Lens meetup with hackathon is
 planned on 11th July.

Mailing list subscriptions:

 dev: 51 (+14 from last report)
 user: 40 (+11 from last report)
 commits: 22 (+5 from last report)

 dev@ : 2917 messages
 user@ : 76 messages
 commits@ : 289 messages

How has the project developed since the last report?

 * Project has made one more(2.1.0-beta-incubating) release and how to
   release document published for the community. 2.2.0-beta-incubating is
   in progress.
 * Project has made progress in stabilizing api, improving performance of
   api, metrics and metering for api.
 * Has made many code quality improvements like enabling chekstyle checks,
   findbugs integration. Added more example schema and queries
 * Has added new olap features like fact partition timeline, multiple
   expression support and union queries.
 * Has added operability improvements like logging improvements, cli
   improvements
 * An interpreter for Apache Zeppelin has been added.

 Issues : 163 created and 147 resolved during April-June, 2015.

Date of last release:

 2.1.0-beta-incubating : 2015-05-05
 2.2.0-beta-incubating is branched and is being verified.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 Arshad Matin (2015-05-11)
 Himanshu Gahlaut (2015-05-11)

Signed-off-by:

 [X](lens) Christopher Douglas
 [x](lens) Jakob Homan
 [ ](lens) Jean-Baptiste Onofre

22 Apr 2015

Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified way
over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive
with other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data
cubes.

Lens has been incubating since 2014-10-10.

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

 1. Grow user and developer community and add more committers
 2. Document all features and do one more release

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?

 - Apache Lens talk accepted at ApacheCon and GIDS, 2015
 - We saw user queries coming up on user mailing list regarding usage
 - Establish whether "Apache Lens" is a suitable name : CLOSED through
   PODLINGNAMESEARCH-63
 - Subscriptions:
   - dev@: 37
       - user@: 29
       - commits: 17

How has the project developed since the last report?
 - The first release: 2.0.1-beta-incubating has been published
 - Added improvements in the project to reduce time taken for rest
   api response
 - Add features for metering, partition timeline cache, namespace
   level jars
 - Mailing list activity :
     * Commits@ : 266 in feb, 61 in March
     * dev@ : 1512 in feb, 965 in March
     * user@ : 18 in feb, 1 in March
 - Issues :
     * 30 Day Summary (as on 2nd March) 116 created and 81 resolved
     * 30 day Summary (as on 29th March) 98 created and 78 resolved

Date of last release:

 2.0.1-beta-incubating on 2015-03-04

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 2014-12-24

Signed-off-by:

 [X](lens) Christopher Douglas
 [ ](lens) Jakob Glen Homan
 [X](lens) Jean-Baptiste Onofre

18 Feb 2015

Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified way
over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive
with
other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data cubes.

Lens has been incubating since 2014-10-10.

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

 1. Make the first release from apache: the 2.0-incubating release is in
     progress
 2. Reach out to people through presentations and blogs
 3. Establish whether "Apache Lens" is a suitable name

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

 Establish whether "Apache Lens" is a suitable name via
 PODLINGNAMESEARCH-63

How has the community developed since the last report?

 * Lens website is available on http://lens.incubator.apache.org
 * Abstract submissions made for ApacheCon, Hadoop Summit and OSCON 2015.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 * Main activities include
   * Stabilizing the api and code for first stable release
   * Doing changes in build and packaging with respect to apache release
     process
   * Setting up regression suite for the project
 * Mailing list activity :
   * Dev
     * Janauary - 1011 messsages
   * Commits
     * January - 43 messages
   * User mailing list activity - None

 * Issues 70 created and 46 resolved via 30 day summary from LENS Jira.

Date of last release:

 NONE.  2.0.0-incubating release process is in progress.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 2014-12-24

Signed-off-by:

 [X](lens) Christopher Douglas
 [ ](lens) Jakob Glen Homan
 [X](lens) Jean-Baptiste Onofre

21 Jan 2015

Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified way
over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive
with other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data
cubes.

Lens has been incubating since 2014-10-10.

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

 1. Make the first release from apache
 2. Make project website available on apache
 3. Reach out to people through presentations and blogs

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

 We are still waiting for project website creation via
 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8549

How has the community developed since the last report?

 * Logo of the project has been finalized and published.
 * Added one new committer/PPMC - Rajat Khandelwal
 * Had contributor meetup in Bangalore, India
 * Mailing list subscription (as on 2015-jan-03):
   * Dev list: 29 members
   * Commits list: 14 members
   * User list: 21 members

How has the project developed since the last report?

 * Main activities include
   * Podling setup wrt jenkins and pushing docs
   * Improving documentation
   * Stabilizing the code for first stable release
   * Feature additions - Join chains in OLAP cube
 * Mailing list activity :
   * Dev via mail-archives.apache.org:
     * December - 1380 messsages
   * Commits via mail-archives.apache.org:
     * December - 50 messages
   * User mailing list activity - None

 * Issues 101 created and 62 resolved (via 30 day summary from LENS Jira)

Date of last release:

 NONE

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 2014-12-24

Signed-off-by:

 [X](lens) Christopher Douglas
 [X](lens) Jakob Homan
 [X](lens) Jean-Baptiste Onofre

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

 Alan Cabrera (adc):

   Very good report; an exemplar of how reports should be done.  The
   community seems very active and healthy.  IMO, only items 1 & 2 are
   required for graduation.

17 Dec 2014

Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified way
over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive with
other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data cubes.

Lens has been incubating since 2014-10-10.

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

  1. Make the first release from apache
  2. Make project website available on apache
  3. Reach out to people through presentations and blogs

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

  We are still waiting for project website creation via
  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8549

How has the community developed since the last report?

 * We are near of proposing a new committer

 * We are actively working on logo for the project

 * We have presented above Apache Lens in Hadoop meetup at Bangalore, India

 * Proposed talks on upcoming ApacheCon and HadoopSummit conferences

 * Mailing list subscription (as on 29th November):

 **   Dev list : 25 members
 **   Commits list : 11 members
 **   User list : 19 members


How has the project developed since the last report?

 * Main activities include
 ** Podling setup wrt jira, reviewboard, jenkins, confluence space
 ** Standardizing branching and versioning in project code base
 ** Improving documentation
 ** Stabilizing the code for first stable release

 * Mailing list activity :
 ** Dev via http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-lens-dev/
 *** November - 512 messages
 ** Commits via http://s.apache.org/yGX is missing
 *** Missing archive -https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8744
 *** November - 74 messages (counted thru subscription)
 ** User mailing list activity - None

 * Issues 82 created and 25 resolved via http://s.apache.org/WOu


Date of last release:

  NONE

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  NONE

Signed-off-by:

  [X](lens) Christopher Douglas
  [X](lens) Jakob Homan
  [ ](lens) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
  [ ](lens) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli