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Mesos

21 Feb 2024 [Qian Zhang / Shane]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

## Project Status:
Current project status: There were a number of PRs merged in this month to
enhance Mesos agent, so community is relatively active, please hold off on
moving Mesos to attic.
Issues for the board: None.

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-19 (11 years ago)
There are currently 50 committers and 50 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-08.
- No new committers. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-07.

## Project Activity:
A number of PRs were merged this month for enhancing Mesos agent.

## Community Health:
We have a new contributor: Devin Leamy who created 11 PRs which have been merged
by Ben Mahler.

17 Jan 2024 [Qian Zhang / Shane]

No report was submitted.

18 Oct 2023 [Qian Zhang / Shane]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

## Project Status:
Current project status: Considering moving to the Attic
Issues for the board:
We have already conducted a discussion on the public dev and user list:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/nlpnjjfy638rm653rbhbf54mn6kl3wmq.

Although there are still some companies using Mesos now, there are just
several contributors interested in contributing to Mesos and only one
committer (no guaranteed time), I think that's not enough to keep this
project going, so we may have to move Mesos to attic. Please kindly advise
how we should proceed, Thanks.

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-19 (10 years ago)
There are currently 50 committers and 50 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-08.
- No new committers. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-07.

## Project Activity:
There were no new issues or PRs created, and no new releases.

## Community Health:
No new committers or contributors, overall the community is not active.
Considering moving to the Attic.

@Shane: follow up about attic

16 Aug 2023 [Qian Zhang / Bertrand]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

## Project Status:
Current project status: Considering moving to the Attic
Issues for the board:
We have already conducted a discussion on the public dev and user list:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/nlpnjjfy638rm653rbhbf54mn6kl3wmq.

Although there are still some companies using Mesos now, there are just
several contributors interested in contributing to Mesos and only one
committer (no guaranteed time), I think that's not enough to keep this
project going, so we may have to move Mesos to attic. Please kindly advise
how we should proceed, Thanks.

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-19 (10 years ago)
There are currently 50 committers and 50 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-08.
- No new committers. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-07.

## Project Activity:
There were 2 new issues created regarding building Mesos, other than that,
no new activities.

## Community Health:
No new committers or contributors, overall the community is not active.
Considering moving to the Attic.

19 Jul 2023 [Qian Zhang / Bertrand]

No report was submitted.

@Bertrand: pursue a roll call for Mesos

19 Apr 2023 [Qian Zhang / Willem]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

## Issues:
Based on the latest info that we gathered in the mail list, there are no enough
active committers & contributors in Mesos community, so we may have to request
to move Mesos to attic.

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-19 (10 years ago)
There are currently 50 committers and 50 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-08.
- No new committers. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-07.

## Project Activity:
In the mail list, we had some discussion around the next step of Mesos and
transferring MesosCon 2015 videos to a better place, and there is a PR about
supporting for Nvidia MIG in Mesos containerizer, but unfortunately we do not
have enough committers to review it.

## Community Health:
No new committers or contributors, overall the community is not active, only
one PR was created.

15 Feb 2023 [Qian Zhang / Sam]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-19 (10 years ago)
There are currently 50 committers and 50 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-08.
- No new committers. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-07.

## Project Activity:
The main activities in this quarter were on adding s390x support and fixing
 a minor issue in MountTable::read.

## Community Health:
We have two new contributors: Arnout Engelen and yasiribmcon, but overall the
 community is not active.

18 Jan 2023 [Qian Zhang / Willem]

No report was submitted.

19 Oct 2022 [Qian Zhang / Willem]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-19 (9 years ago)
There are currently 50 committers and 50 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-08.
- No new committers. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-07.

## Project Activity:
The main activities in this quarter were on fixing a build error of Mesos
website and adding some new frameworks & executors in website, and we also
bumped a dependency to a newer version for website.

The last release (1.11.0) was done on 2020-11-24.

## Community Health:
We do not have new contributors in this quarter, overall the community is not
active.

20 Jul 2022 [Qian Zhang / Willem]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-19 (9 years ago)
There are currently 50 committers and 50 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-08.
- No new committers. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-07.

## Project Activity:
The main activities in this quarter were on fixing some security vulnerabilities
in Mesos website and CLI, and we also fixed some bugs in Mesos unit test.

The last release (1.11.0) was done on 2020-11-24.

## Community Health:
We do not have new contributors in this quarter, overall the community is not
active.

20 Apr 2022 [Qian Zhang / Roy]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-19 (9 years ago)
There are currently 50 committers and 50 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-08.
- No new committers. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-07.

## Project Activity:
The main activities in this quarter were mainly on adding unofficial package
repo in Mesos website and some bug fixes.

## Community Health:
We had a new code contributor (Marek Šuppa) joined who contributed a PR in
this quarter, but overall the community is not active.

19 Jan 2022 [Qian Zhang / Bertrand]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-19 (9 years ago)
There are currently 50 committers and 50 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-08.
- No new committers. Last addition was Charles-François Natali on 2021-08-07.

## Project Activity:
The main activities in this quarter were mainly on fixing bugs, improving CLI
and discussing the potential impact of the Log4J issue.

## Community Health:

We had a new code contributor (Thomas Langé) joined who contributed a PR in
this quarter, but overall the community is not active.

20 Oct 2021 [Qian Zhang / Sander]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-19 (8 years ago)
There are currently 50 committers and 50 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Charles-François Natali was added to the PMC on 2021-08-08
- Charles-François Natali was added as committer on 2021-08-07

## Project Activity:
The main activities in this quarter were mainly on fixing some old bugs,
enabling build on Ubuntu 20.04 and improving Mesos CLI.

## Community Health:
We had a new code contributor (Martin Grigorov) joined and a couple of PRs
merged in this quarter, but overall the community is not active.

21 Jul 2021 [Qian Zhang / Sharan]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications.

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-19 (8 years ago) There are currently 49
committers and 49 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Andrei Sekretenko on 2020-01-21.
- No new committers. Last addition was Andrei Sekretenko on 2020-01-22.
- Last addition to the PMC was Charles-Francois Natali on 2021-07-21.

## Project Activity:
The main activities in this quarter were mainly on fixing the unit tests
failed on the newer Linux kernel and publishing Mesos website via .asf.yaml.

## Community Health:
We had a new code contributor (Saad Ur Rahman) joined and a couple of PRs
merged in this quarter, but overall the community is not active.

19 May 2021 [Qian Zhang / Roy]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-19 (8 years ago)
There are currently 49 committers and 49 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Andrei Sekretenko on 2020-01-21.
- No new committers. Last addition was Andrei Sekretenko on 2020-01-22.

## Project Activity:
We have not made a release since 2020-11-24 (Mesos 1.11.0). The plan is to
collect new feature requests from community and try to setup a roadmap for the
next release.

## Community Health:
Overall the community is not active, we have some GitHub PRs
ongoing/complete, but not much in the review board. The plan is to call
for new contributors and some existing committers for reviewing patches so
that we could have enough people for the potential roadmap release.

21 Apr 2021

Change the Apache Mesos Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Vinod Kone
 (vinodkone) to the office of Vice President, Apache Mesos, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Vinod Kone from the office of Vice President, Apache Mesos, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Mesos project
 has chosen by vote to recommend Qian Zhang (qianzhang) as the successor
 to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Vinod Kone is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache Mesos, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Qian Zhang be and hereby is appointed to
 the office of Vice President, Apache Mesos, to serve in accordance with
 and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws
 of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or
 disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7D, Change the Apache Mesos Project Chair, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

21 Apr 2021 [Vinod Kone / Sander]

No report was submitted.

20 Jan 2021 [Vinod Kone / Craig]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

## Issues:
D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere) has decided to EOL their DC/OS product (based on
Apache Mesos) https://d2iq.com/blog/d2iq-takes-the-next-step-forward. Given
D2iQ employs almost all of the active committers to the Apache Mesos project,
this will likely have a big impact.

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-18 (8 years ago)
There are currently 49 committers and 49 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Andrei Sekretenko on 2020-01-20.
- No new committers. Last addition was Andrei Sekretenko on 2020-01-21.

## Project Activity:
1.11.0 was released on 2020-11-24.

No further releases are planned at this point given the situation described in
the Issues section.


## Community Health:
We anticipate development activity to significantly reduce over the coming
months. See the Issues section.

21 Oct 2020 [Vinod Kone / Sander]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-18 (7 years ago)
There are currently 49 committers and 49 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Andrei Sekretenko on 2020-01-20.
- No new committers. Last addition was Andrei Sekretenko on 2020-01-21.

## Project Activity:
1.10 was released in May of this year.

We are in the process of releasing 1.11 in a few weeks with some exciting new
features like offer filters and external storage support via CSI plugins.

## Community Health:
We have seen healthy uptick in reviewer, commit and user activity in recent
months. Not much activity in the dev mailing list but that can be attributed
to discussions happening in slack channel.

15 Jul 2020 [Vinod Kone / Sam]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-18 (7 years ago)
There are currently 49 committers and 49 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Andrei Sekretenko on 2020-01-20.
- No new committers. Last addition was Andrei Sekretenko on 2020-01-21.

## Project Activity:
We have recently released 1.10.0 which had exciting features like vertical
container bursting and unix domain sockets support.

We have already started working on the 1.11.0 release which is going to be
storage focused.

Recent releases:
1.10.0 was released on 2020-05-28.
1.9.0 was released on 2019-09-05.
1.8.1 was released on 2019-07-18.

## Community Health:
We have seen a healthy uptick in community engagement via our developer
mailing list, slack and GitHub. We are looking for ways to improve the
contributor activity to the project.

15 Apr 2020 [Vinod Kone / Bertrand]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-18 (7 years ago)
There are currently 49 committers and 49 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Andrei Sekretenko was added to the PMC on 2020-01-20
- Andrei Sekretenko was added as committer on 2020-01-21

## Project Activity:
1.10 is currently in the process of being released. We anticipate to release
it sometime in April 2020. We will also schedule some patch releases for 1.8,
1.7 soon.

1.9.0 was released on 2019-09-05.
1.8.1 was released on 2019-07-18.
1.8.0 was released on 2019-05-02.

## Community Health:
There has been uptick in the development activity since the holiday period has
ended as anticipated. The core development is still driven by committers from
one company (D2iQ, formerly Mesosphere).

15 Jan 2020 [Vinod Kone / Daniel]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

## Issues:
There are no board level issues to report at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-18 (7 years ago)
There are currently 48 committers and 48 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Andrei Budnik on 2019-03-11.
- No new committers. Last addition was Andrei Budnik on 2019-03-06.

We are planning to nominate one new member to the PMC / committers shortly.

## Project Activity:
1.10 development is in steady progress with some exciting new features and
improvements. We plan to release it in a month or so.

## Community Health:
The metrics in general are seeing a downward trend. Now that the holidays are
behind us, we hope to see a turnaround. Given the number of active core
contributors the project is not deemed to be at risk at this time.

16 Oct 2019 [Vinod Kone / Danny]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention

But, please let us know if we have missed any steps (or places to update)
regarding the PMC rotation.

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-18 (6 years ago)
There are currently 48 committers and 48 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Vinod Kone is the new PMC Chair
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Andrei Budnik on 2019-03-11.
- No new committers. Last addition was Andrei Budnik on 2019-03-06.

## Project Activity:

1.9.0 was released on 2019-09-05.

We have some exciting new features planned for 1.10.0.

## Community Health:
Code contributions and user engagement have seen a downtick due to the
ecosystem movement as mentioned in the last board report, but we anticipate to
see an uptick after the holiday season as we ramp up development effort for
1.10.

18 Sep 2019

Change the Apache Mesos Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Benjamin Hindman
 (benh) to the office of Vice President, Apache Mesos, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Benjamin Hindman from the office of Vice President, Apache Mesos, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Mesos project
 has chosen by vote to recommend Vinod Kone (vinodkone) as the successor
 to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Benjamin Hindman is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache Mesos, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Vinod Kone be and hereby is appointed to
 the office of Vice President, Apache Mesos, to serve in accordance with
 and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws
 of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or
 disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7F, Change the Apache Mesos Project Chair, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

18 Sep 2019 [Benjamin Hindman / Joan]

## Description:
The mission of Mesos is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across
distributed applications

## Issues:
The current PMC chair (Benjamin Hindman) has stepped down. Vinod Kone
(vinodkone@apache.org) has been nominated as the new PMC chair and received 14
+1 votes (and no -1 or 0 votes) on the private@mesos.apache.org email thread
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/45071dfda2308f916bb15d7f7376e9b88786af16ae56cf400ed8fa36@%3Cprivate.mesos.apache.org%3E
We would request the board to approve the appointment of the new chair.

A PMC roll call was also conducted, per the board feedback, and it garnered
positive response (17 +1 votes) from the PMC.
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/80ecc1c2b72dd17b9c4d9e80f4889f11ec7d08793f6f0501ec843783@%3Cprivate.mesos.apache.org%3E


## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-18 (6 years ago) There are currently 48
committers and 48 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Andrei Budnik on 2019-03-11.
- No new committers. Last addition was Andrei Budnik on 2019-03-06.

We have a new potential committer in the pipeline (Andrei Sekretenko) who will
likely be nominated in the next few months.

## Project Activity:
1.9.0 was released on 2019-09-05.
1.10 release is under active development.


## Community Health:
Rephrasing the response from the private email thread for posterity.

Mesosphere which employs significant number of Mesos committers have recently
rebranded itself to D2iQ, but there should be no cause to worry. The company
is still very much invested in the Mesos project as its DCOS platform (based
on Mesos) is still one of its major product lines.

There has been a significant downtick in JIRA and commit activity, but the
majority of it can be likely attributed to summer months and vacation. We
don't foresee such precipitous downtrend in commit activity to continue in the
next few quarters. That said, it is to be noted that with the rise of
kubernetes quite a bit of the developer/user interest has shifted from mesos
to kubernetes which contributes to the downtick.

All that said, there is still healthy development and user activity in the
project and the core committers are still very much active.

21 Aug 2019 [Benjamin Hindman / Joan]

## Description:
Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute
resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling
fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and
run effectively.

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Mesos was founded 2013-06-18 (6 years ago)
There are currently 48 committers and 48 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

PMC changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members added in the past quarter.
- Last PMC addition was Benno Evers on 2019-03-11.

Committership changes, past quarter:
- No new committers added in the past quarter.
- Last committer addition was Andrei Budnik on 2019-03-06.

## Project Activity:
 - 1.9.0 release is in active development.
 - 1.8.0 was released on Wed May 01 2019
 - 1.8.1 RC got required binding votes  on July 17th 2019

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


## Community Health:
 - The project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features,
 reviews and releases.

 - Messages in mailing lists have seen a downtick but we believe part of it is
   due to more people preferring to interact over Slack.

@Joan: follow up with more detailed board report for next month

17 Jul 2019 [Benjamin Hindman / Craig]

No report was submitted.

@Craig: pursue a roll call for Mesos

19 Jun 2019 [Benjamin Hindman / Myrle]

No report was submitted.

@Myrle: pursue a report for Mesos

15 May 2019 [Benjamin Hindman / Joan]

## Description:

- Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources
 away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and
 elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively.

## Issues:

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

## Activity:

- 1.8.0 release is underway.

## Health report:

- The project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features, reviews
 and releases. The mailing lists, slack and IRC channels are also active
 with healthy discussions. Multiple active working groups
 (containerization, performance, API, community).

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 48 committers.
 - New commmitters:
    - Andrei Budnik was added as a committer on Wed Mar 06 2019
    - Benno Evers was added as a committer on Mon Feb 18 2019

## Releases:

 - 1.4.3 was released on Thu Feb 21 2019
 - 1.5.3 was released on Mon Mar 18 2019
 - 1.6.2 was released on Sun Feb 24 2019
 - 1.7.2 was released on Thu Feb 21 2019

## JIRA activity:

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

@Joan: follow up with project

17 Apr 2019 [Benjamin Hindman / Joan]

No report was submitted.

20 Mar 2019 [Benjamin Hindman / Shane]

Description:

Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute
resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling
fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and
run effectively.

Issues:

The project relies on ReviewBoard almost exclusively for doing
reviews. We've recently learnt that contributors cannot signup to
ReviewBoard anymore because of LDAP integration (which only committers
have access to).

This is a big problem for us and we would like to request that
contributors to the project be given access to signup and use
ReviewBoard. We've already engaged ASF Infra to figure out a solution
but would also ask for help from the Board to resolve it expediently.

Activity:

* MesosCon 2018 was held at SF (Nov 5th-7th) and was a success.

* Project migrated to the gitbox.apache. repository.

* We simplified the process for a contributor to become a committer on
 the project. We are optimistic this will reduce the burden of new
 contributors.

* 3 new committers were added to the project and several minor and
 patch releases have been cut since the last board report.orgnew

* The project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features,
 reviews and releases. The mailing lists, slack and IRC channels are
 also very much active with healthy discussions. Multiple active
 working groups (containerization, performance, API, community).

New committers:

Meng Zhu (2018-10-20), Andrei Budnik (2019-02-26) and Benno Evers
(2019-01-31) have been voted in as new committers / PMC members.

Releases (recent):

1.4.3 was released on Fri Feb 22 2019
1.5.2 was released on Thu Jan 24 2019
1.6.2 was released on Mon Feb 25 2019
1.7.2 was released on Fri Feb 22 2019

JIRA Activity (last 3 months):

177 Issues Created
212 Issues Resolved

20 Feb 2019 [Benjamin Hindman / Isabel]

No report was submitted.

@Isabel: pursue a report for Mesos

16 Jan 2019 [Benjamin Hindman / Brett]

No report was submitted.

17 Oct 2018 [Benjamin Hindman / Brett]

## Description:

- Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources
 away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and
 elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively.

## Issues:

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

## Community Activity:

- 2018 MesosCon planning is ongoing by members of the PMC and the
 community.

## Health report:

- The project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features, reviews
 and releases. The mailing lists, slack and IRC channels are also very much
 active with healthy discussions. Multiple active working groups
 (containerization, performance, API, community).

## PMC changes:

- Currently 45 PMC members.
- Pending PMC members:
   - Meng Zhu was voted to the PMC on 2018-10-15.

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 45 committers.
- Pending committers:
   - Meng Zhu was voted as a committer on 2018-10-15.

## Releases:

- 1.7.0 was released on 2018-09-19
- 1.4.2 was released on 2018-08-21
- 1.6.1 was released on 2018-07-25

## JIRA activity:

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

18 Jul 2018 [Benjamin Hindman / Phil]

## Description:

- Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources
 away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and
 elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively.

## Issues:

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

## Activity:

- We are in the process of moving to GitBox!
- Some members from the PMC and community have started planning a 2018
 MesosCon.

## Health report:

- The project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features, reviews
 and releases. The mailing lists, slack and IRC channels are also very much
 active with healthy discussions. Multiple active working groups
 (containerization, performance, API, community).

## PMC changes:

- Currently 45 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
   - Gaston Kleinman was added to the PMC on 2018-07-09.

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 45 committers.
- New commmitters:
   - Gaston Kleinman was added to the PMC on 2018-07-09.

## Releases:

- 1.6.0 was released on 2018-05-11
- 1.5.1 was released on 2018-05-31

## JIRA activity:

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

18 Apr 2018 [Benjamin Hindman / Rich]

## Description:

- Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources
 away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and
 elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively.

## Issues:

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

## Activity:

- Release policy has been updated to reflect reality: quarterly as well as
 supporting 3 release branches for quarterly bug fix releases.

- 'This Month in Mesos' reports were posted to the mailing list for February
  and March. These were started to help users follow along with developments
  in the project, given there's a lot going on.

- The project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features, reviews
 and releases. The mailing lists, slack and IRC channels are also very much
 active with healthy discussions. Multiple active working groups
 (containerization, performance, API, community).

## PMC changes:

- Currently 44 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
   - Chun-Hung Hsiao was added to the PMC on Sun Mar 18 2018
   - Zhitao Li was added to the PMC on Sun Mar 18 2018

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 44 committers.
- New commmitters:
   - Chun-Hung Hsiao was added as a committer on Thu Mar 08 2018
   - Zhitao Li was added as a committer on Mon Mar 12 2018

## Releases:

- 1.3.2 was released on Wed Jan 24 2018
- 1.5.0 was released on Wed Feb 07 2018

## JIRA activity:

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

21 Feb 2018 [Benjamin Hindman / Rich]

Description:

Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute
resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling
fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and
run effectively.

Issues:

There are no Board-level issues at this time.

Activity:

* A new API working group has been proposed to help ensure a
 consistent API and avoid API mistakes (which are hard to reverse).

* Docathon held in January to help improve documentation.

* Started cross-posting on a Medium blog to improve visibility of the
 Mesos blog. Blog posts for master failover performance
 improvements and CSI were posted.

* 'This Month in Mesos' reports were posted to the mailing list for
 December and January. These were started to help users follow
 along with developments in the project, given there's a lot going on.

* Meetup in Palo Alto brought together users from Twitter, Uber,
 Netflix, Apple, and more. Lots of great feedback for improvement
 along common themes: Want to run daemon services with Mesos,
 UI doesn't scale, strong desire for a CLI (currently undergoing a
 re-architecture), state querying affects master availability, lots
 of interest in containerization improvements.

* The project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features,
 reviews and releases. The mailing lists, slack and IRC channels are
 also very much active with healthy discussions. Multiple active
 working groups (containerization, performance, community).

New committers:

Andrew Schwartzmeyer was voted in as a committer and PMC member on 2017-11-10.
Zhitao Li was voted in as a committer and PMC member on 2018-02-12.

Releases (since last board report):

1.5.0 (vote in progress)
1.4.1 Nov 15 2017
1.3.2 Jan 25 2017
1.2.3 Dec 1 2017

JIRA Activity (last 3 months):

310 Issues - Created
254 Issues - Resolved

17 Jan 2018 [Benjamin Hindman / Bertrand]

No report was submitted.

@Bertrand: pursue a report for Mesos

15 Nov 2017 [Benjamin Hindman / Bertrand]

Description:

Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute
resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling
fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and
run effectively.


Issues:

There are no Board-level issues at this time.

Activity:

* The community completed two successful events since our last board
 report, MesosCon North America in Los Angeles and MesosCon Europe in
 Prague. Both conferences were co-located with Linux Foundation's
 Open Source Summit. We added two new parts to the conference that
 were a huge hit, town where community members got together to talk
 about various projects in the Mesos ecosystem (including Mesos) and
 MesosCon University where we ran longer, tutorial/workshop based
 presentations.

* The community held a "docathon" in September that brought in
 numerous community members and really helped improve the
 documentation.

* The community started a performance working group where numerous
 community members and organizations are joining to improve the
 performance in Mesos.

* Members of the community are driving a new container storage
 standard called Container Storage Interface (CSI) and are working
 with other open source communities such as Cloud Foundry, Docker,
 and Kubernetes.

* The project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features,
 reviews and releases. The mailing lists, slack and IRC channels are
 also very much active with healthy discussions.

New committers:

Alexander Rojas was voted in as a committer and PMC member on 2017-07-02.
James Peach was voted in as a committer and PMC member on 2017-07-15.
Benjamin Bannier was voted in as a committer and PMC member on 2017-09-12.

Releases (since last board report):

1.4.0 Sep 17 2017
1.1.3 Aug 30th 2017
1.3.1 Aug 14th 2017
1.2.2 Aug 10th 2017
1.4.1 (In progress)
1.3.2 (In progress)
1.2.3 (In progress)


JIRA Activity (last 3 months):

336 Issues - Created
244 Issues - Resolved

18 Oct 2017 [Benjamin Hindman / Mark]

No report was submitted.

19 Jul 2017 [Benjamin Hindman / Chris]

Description:

Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute
resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling
fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and
run effectively.


Issues:

There are no Board-level issues at this time.


Activity:

* We finished a successful MesosCon Asia where we saw over 12 new
users present. The conference was co-located with Linux Foundation's
Open Source Summit. It was our second Asia conference and it was great
to see new users join.

* MesosCon North America will be in Los Angeles in September. The
submitted talks went out for community voting ~two weeks ago and we'll
be finializing the schedule soon.

* Lot's of ongoing work, standouts include faster master failover for
large clusters. Better
multitenancy w.r.t. to resource allocation, containerization
improvements (OCI support), driving / supporting CSI for storage
plugins, supporting first class fault domains (to standardize fault
domain handling in the mesos ecosystem, and to support having agents
in different domains).

* The few working groups we have are also going well, in particular
the containerization working group and community working group that
just got started.

* The project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features,
reviews and releases. The mailing lists, slack and IRC channels are
also very much active with healthy discussions.


New committers:

Gilbert Song was voted in as a committer and PMC member on 2017-05-02.
Greg Mann became a committer and PMC member on 2017-06-29.


Committer diversity:

There are two other contributors whose votes have recently passed that
will be added as committers and PMC members shortly. We have
a diverse range of contributors that we believe
will become committers and PMC members in the near future.


Releases (since last board report):

1.0.4 May 3rd
1.1.2 May 19th
1.2.1 June 12th
1.3.0 June 7th


JIRA Activity (last 3 months):

379 Issues - Created
(218 Bugs, 68 Improvements, 72 Tasks, 12 Epics, etc)

235 Issues - Resolved
(135 Bugs, 46 Improvements, 55 Tasks, 4 Epics, etc)

@Mark: remove company names from the report and give the PMC guidance for future reports

19 Apr 2017 [Benjamin Hindman / Bertrand]

Description:

Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute
resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling
fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and
run effectively.

Issues:

There are no Board-level issues at this time.

Activity:

The project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features,
reviews and releases. The mailing lists, slack and IRC channels are
also very much active with healthy discussions.

Current plans:

Mesos 1.2.1 is planned for April.
Mesos 1.3 is planned for May-June time frame.

MesosCon Asia CFP deadline has passed and we received a healthy 66
submissions. Community vote for conference program is next week. Also,
working on sponsorship and publicity.

New committers:

Kevin Klues was voted in as committer and PMC member on 2017-02-22.

At least 2 other contributors are in the queue and we are actively
working to nominate them as committers.

Committer diversity:

3 different organizations (Mesosphere, IBM, independent) were
represented in the last 4 committers added to the project.

One of the contributors we are working to nominate also belongs to an
organization different from above, which is great!

Releases: (since last board report)

1.0.3       Feb 5th
1.2.0       Mar 7th
1.1.1       Mar 13th

JIRA Activity:

495 Issues - Created
319 Issues - Resolved

@Mark: work on reminder to the PMC that decisions need to be made in public

27 Feb 2017 [Benjamin Hindman / Jim]

Description:

Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away
from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and elastic
distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively.

Issues:

 There are no Board-level issues at this time.

Activity:

 The project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features, reviews
 and releases. The mailing lists, slack and IRC channels are also very much
 active with healthy discussions.

Current plans:

 Mesos 1.3 is being released this month.

New committers:

 Haosdent Huang and Neil Conway were voted in as committers and PMCs.

 Another contributor is close to becoming a committer and we are actively
 working to nominate them.

Committer diversity:

 We are excited about our newest committer Haosdent because he adds diversity
 in terms of organization (independent) and geography (China).

 We need to identify more diverse potential committers from our contributor
 pool.

Releases: (since last board report)

 1.1.0       Nov 10th
 1.0.2       Nov 15th
 1.2.0       In progress
 1.0.3       In progress

JIRA Activity:

 523 - Issues created
 279 - Issues resolved

18 Jan 2017 [Benjamin Hindman / Jim]

No report was submitted.

@Jim: pursue a report for Mesos

19 Oct 2016 [Benjamin Hindman / Brett]

Description:

Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute
resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling
fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and
run effectively.

Issues:

There are no Board-level issues at this time.

Activity:

The project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features,
reviews and releases. The mailing lists, slack and IRC channels are
also very much active with healthy discussions.

Current plans:

MesosCon Europe was a great success. The keynotes, presentations and
events were all well received.

MesosCon Asia (our first conference in Asia) will be happening in
November. The program has been finalized after community vote.

We made good progress in cleaning up stale reviews and gathering
metrics.

New committers:

Qian Zhang was voted in as committer and PMC on .

We've identified couple more people that are close to become
committers and are actively working to nominate them.

Qian adds more diversity to the list of commmiters both in terms of
organization (IBM) and geography (China). In fact, we have more folks
in the committer pipeline from China which is great!

Releases: (since last report)

1.0.0       2016/07/26
1.0.1       2016/08/22
1.1.0       In progress
1.0.2       In progress

JIRA Activity:

526 - Issues created
327 - Issues resolved

20 Jul 2016 [Benjamin Hindman / Isabel]

Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute
resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling
fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and
run effectively.

## General ##

The project and the ecosystem around it continues to be healthy. There
are no board issues at this time.

## Releases (since last board report) ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.27.3 (2016-06-12)
 * Apache Mesos 1.0.0  (in progress)

## Activity ##

The project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features,
reviews and releases. The mailing list and IRC channel are also very
much active with healthy discussions. We have also added a new slack
team http://mesos.slack.com to reach wider audience.

MesosCon Denver was a great success. The keynotes, presentations and
events were all well received. The talks have been uploaded to
YouTube.

Mesos 1.0-RC1 was announced during MesosCon. The RC has gone through
rigorous testing for the past few weeks and a new RC2 has been cut on
2016/08/06 based on the feedback. Note that we are providing extended
time for voting since this is a major release. Can anyone from ASF
comms team help us in promoting the 1.0 release? Please ping
benh@apache.org if this is possible!

In addition to the aforementioned Slack team, we are actively
undertaking steps to improve community participation. Cleaning up
stale reviews, tracking contributor affiliations (to measure
diversity) and doing demos during community syncs are just a few
examples of this effort.

## New PMC/Committers ##

Anand Mazumdar was voted in as committer and PMC on 2016/06/09.
Joseph Wu was voted in as committer and PMC 2016/06/09.

We've identified couple more people that are close to become
committers and are actively working to nominate them.

20 Apr 2016 [Benjamin Hindman / Shane]

Description:

Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute
resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling
fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and
run effectively.

## General ##

The project and the ecosystem around it continues to be healthy. The
project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features, reviews
and releases. The mailing list and IRC channel are also very much
active with healthy discussions. We've made numerous releases lately
due to an increased release schedule. We are gearing up for a 1.0
release and we plan to cut back on the number of releases after that.

## Releases ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.27.0  (2016-01-31)
 * Apache Mesos 0.27.1  (2016-02-22)
 * Apache Mesos 0.27.2  (2016-03-07)
 * Apache Mesos 0.28.0  (2016-03-17)
 * Apache Mesos 0.24.2  (2016-04-12)
 * Apache Mesos 0.25.1  (2016-04-12)
 * Apache Mesos 0.26.1  (2016-04-12)
 * Apache Mesos 0.28.1  (2016-04-15)

## Community ##

 * MesosCon Denver is planned for June 1st-2nd. We have seen
   tremendous amount of interest from the community in participating
   in the conference. The program schedule (voted on by the community)
   was announced last week.

 * Mesos project is gearing up to a 1.0 release. This release
   introduces new sets of APIs for frameworks and operators to
   interact with Mesos. The tentative plan is to get this ready for
   MesosCon.

20 Jan 2016 [Benjamin Hindman / Rich]

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

## General ##

The project and contributors continues to grow. The community has
bi-weekly meetings as well as a handful of working groups that are
addressing specific components. We are starting to prepare for a 2-3
different MesosCons this year (Denver, Europe, and China). We're also
planning on doing a 1.0 release in the coming months.

## Releases ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.23.1 (2015-09-21)
 * Apache Mesos 0.22.2 (2015-09-23)
 * Apache Mesos 0.21.2 (2015-09-24)
 * Apache Mesos 0.25.0 (2015-10-09)
 * Apache Mesos 0.26.0 (2015-12-10)

## PMC/Committership ##

No new committers or PMC members were added in November or December,
but we have a handful of candidates that the community is currently
proposing. The last added members:

 * Voted to add Joris Van Remoortere as a PMC and Committer on 2015-09-20.
 * Voted to add Michael Park as a PMC and Committer on 2015-07-28.
 * Voted to add Kapil Arya as a PMC and Committer on 2015-10-06.

## Community ##

 * Added more organizations to the 'Powered By Mesos' list, including
   YP.com.

 * The community is generally happy with our new monthly release
   cadence, but it has made backwards compatibility trickier to
   negotiate (although, see below, 1.0 release will help).

 * The community would like to do our 1.0 release. Vinod Kone, a long
   time PMC and committer member will be acting as a project manager
   for this release.

 * We're preparing for multiple MesosCon's this year organized by the
   Linux Foundation. The first is planned for Denver June 1-2,
   2016. Final dates and location for Europe have not been
   secured. We're also investigating doing one in China as there are
   some large users and a community developing there.

 * A new member in the community is Nvidia, who is working on adding
   GPU support to Mesos.

21 Oct 2015 [Benjamin Hindman / David]

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

## General ##

The project is in a healthy state: two amazing MesosCons (Seattle and
Dublin), new contributions from Intel, EMC, and IBM, new users, new
committers, a bunch of new releases, and a lot of great feature
development.

## Releases ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.23.0 (2015-07-17)
 * Apache Mesos 0.24.0 (2015-09-01)
 * Apache Mesos 0.24.1 (2015-09-18)
 * Apache Mesos 0.23.1 (2015-09-21)
 * Apache Mesos 0.22.2 (2015-09-23)
 * Apache Mesos 0.21.2 (2015-09-24)
 * Apache Mesos 0.25.0 (2015-10-09)

## PMC/Committership ##

 * Voted to add Joris Van Remoortere as a PMC and Committer on 2015-09-20.
 * Voted to add Michael Park as a PMC and Committer on 2015-07-28.
 * Voted to add Kapil Arya as a PMC and Committer on 2015-10-06.

## Community ##

 * Added more organizations to the 'Powered By Mesos' list, including
   DataMan, Xiaomi, Linkernetworks, CERN, SmartProcure, Scrapinghub,
   Udacity, Hootsuite, Jobrapido. See
   http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/powered-by-mesos.

 * MesosCon happened in Seattle in late August. We had over 700 people
   from all over the world, over 30 different organizations speaking
   during a 2 day multi-track setup, an all day hackathon, and a suite
   of great sponsors.

 * MesosCon Europe happened in Dublin in early October. We had over
   150 people join for a single day multi-track setup, and an all day
   hackathon.

 * New large contributions from engineers at Intel (oversubscription),
   EMC (external volumes), and the beginnings of contributions from
   teams at IBM.

15 Jul 2015 [Benjamin Hindman / Chris]

## General ##

The state of the project is healthy with a release (0.23.0) in
progress and the next release scheduled for early august.

## Releases ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.22.0 (2015-03-17)
 * Apache Mesos 0.22.1 (2015-04-29)
 * Apache Mesos 0.23.0-rc3 vote is in progress.

## PMC/Committership ##

 * Voted to add Bernd Mathiske as a PMC and Committer on 2015-06-09.

 * Outstanding votes for Joris Van Remoortere and Michael Park for
   committership as of 2015-07-13.

## Community ##

 * 416/188 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days.
 * 165/61 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.

 * MesosCon planning continues, the schedule has been announced at
   http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon/program/schedule. We've
   have finalized 5 keynote speakers. The details of the hackathon
   have also been announced.

 * Mesos related talks were presented at DockerCon and Euro Clojure
   conference.

17 Jun 2015 [Benjamin Hindman / Chris]

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

## General ##

The state of the project is healthy. We're working on getting our next
release, 0.23.0, towards the end of this month, and discussing a 1.0
release after that.

## Releases ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.21.1 (2014-12-18)
 * Apache Mesos 0.22.0 (2015-03-17)
 * Apache Mesos 0.22.1 (2015-04-29)

## PMC/Committership ##

 * Voted to add Bernd Mathiske as a PMC and Committer on 2015-06-09).

## Community ##

 * 357/303 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days.
 * 121/117 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.

 * Added more organizations to the 'Powered By Mesos' list, including
   Apple, Foursquare, InfoQ, Ericsson, Cisco, and Yelp. See
   http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/powered-by-mesos.

 * There were five Mesos or Mesos ecosystem related talks at
   ApacheCon!

 * The first Mesos User Group (MUG) happened in China as well as in
   Hamburg, Germany! The SF Bay Area meetups and NYC meetups continue
   to occur roughly once per month.

 * MesosCon planning continues, the schedule has been announced at
   http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon/program/schedule. We've
   also sent out invitations to keynote speakers.

20 May 2015 [Benjamin Hindman / Sam]

No report was submitted.

@Sam: pursue a report for Mesos next month

22 Apr 2015 [Benjamin Hindman / Brett]

No report was submitted.

18 Mar 2015 [Benjamin Hindman / Chris]

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

## General ##

The state of the project seems healthy. We lost a bit of our release
cadence between 0.21.0 and 0.22.0, but we are working on improving
that going forward.

## Releases ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.21.0 (2014-11-13)
 * Apache Mesos 0.21.1 (2014-12-18)
 * Apache Mesos 0.22.0-rc3 (2015-03-12)

## Community ##

 * 318/169 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days.
 * 159/78 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.

 * Added Time Warner Cable, Learnium, and TellApart to the 'Powered By
   Mesos' page (http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/powered-by-mesos).

 * Dave Lester ran a hack session as well as gave a talk at FOSDEM.

 * Numerous talks from the community where submitted to ApacheCon.

 * Members from the community contributed to help create a new
   incubator project called Myriad which runs Apache Hadoop/YARN on
   Mesos.

 * MesosCon planning continues, now with sponsors from Cisco,
   Mesosphere, Twitter, VMware, ebay, Hubspot, and the Linux Journal.

 * More Mesos User Groups (MUG) have been created, including the first
   in China!

18 Feb 2015 [Benjamin Hindman / Sam]

No report was submitted.

21 Jan 2015 [Benjamin Hindman / Ross]

No report was submitted.

19 Nov 2014 [Benjamin Hindman / Jim]

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

## General ##

The state of the project seems healthy, we continue with about 1
release every month, and the user and dev email lists continue to gain
grow in activity.

## Releases ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.20.0 (2014-08-18)
 * Apache Mesos 0.20.1 (2014-09-18)
 * Apache Mesos 0.21.0 (2014-11-13)

## Community ##

 * 400/261 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days.
 * 181/138 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.

 * user@mesos.apache.org: 276 messages in August, 253 in September,
   209 in October. The average has been growing into the ~200 per
   month range.

 * dev@mesos.apache.org: 1286 messages in August, 1281 in September,
   2059 in October. The average has fluctuated between 1000 and 2000.

 * ApacheCon Europe: Dave Lester hosted a hackathon and Tim St Clair
   gave a talk.

 * Many more Mesos User Groups (MUG) have been created. There is now
   one in London. Benjamin Hindman and Ken Sipe spoke there in August
   and September. The MUG in the Bay Area has hosted ~1 meetup per
   month (and two in November!).

 * We continue to add companies to our Powered By page. Please see
   http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/powered-by-mesos for
   the growing list!

## Issues ##

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

15 Oct 2014 [Benjamin Hindman / Sam]

No report was submitted.

20 Aug 2014 [Benjamin Hindman / Rich]

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

## General ##

The state of the project seems healthy, about a release a month has
been made since the last board report and continued increase in
contributors and committers. See the comments below in Community about
MesosCon as well!

## Releases ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.18.1 (2014-04-29)
 * Apache Mesos 0.18.2 (2014-05-13)
 * Apache Mesos 0.19.0 (2014-06-04)
 * Apache Mesos 0.19.1 (2014-07-14)
 * Apache Mesos 0.20.0 (RC1 out on 2014-08-16)

## Community ##

 * Added 3 new committers and PMC members:
    Adam Bordelon (me) on 2014-06-11
    Dominic Hamon (dma) on 2014-07-07
    Tim St Clair (tstclair) on 2014-07-31

 * 321/284 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days.
 * 93/83 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.

 * 575 messages to user@mesos.apache.org (May - August), with 6,388
   messages to dev@mesos.apache.org and 1,202 messages to
   issues@mesos.apache.org (we recently split out emails from JIRA).

  * We now have Mesos User Groups (MUGs) in London and Paris! Paris is
    hosting their first meetup in September. The SF MUG hosted a
    meetup in August at Pinterest as well.

  * We've planned a small conference co-located with LinuxCon called
    MesosCon which will be held on August 21, 2014 with an
    accompanying hackathon on August 22, 2014 in Chicago, IL. Through
    working with Apache and the Linux Foundation we were able to
    secure 6 sponsors other than Apache (Twitter, Atlassian,
    Mesosphere, Ebay, Hubspot, and Red Hat) and have speakers from
    companies like Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Ebay/Paypal, etc. We're
    really excited for the event!

## Issues ##

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

16 Jul 2014 [Benjamin Hindman / Ross]

No report was submitted.

21 May 2014 [Benjamin Hindman / Shane]

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

## General ##

The state of the project seems healthy, another two releases have been
made since the last board report and continued increase in
contributors and committers.

## Releases ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.17.0 (2014-01-23)
 * Apache Mesos 0.18.0 (2014-04-01)

## Community ##

 * Added 2 new committer and PMC members:
    Ian Downes (idownes) on 2014-03-20
    Till Toenshoff (tillt) on 2014-05-08

 * 300/165 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days.
 * 103/46 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.

 * 144 messages to user@mesos.apache.org (February - April), with
   4,940 messages to dev@mesos.apache.org (a lot of which is from
   Review Board and JIRA).

 * There were two talks on Mesos at ApacheCon which we generally felt
   was a big success.

 * Twitter hosted an Aurora/Mesos Frameworks meetup as well as a
   mini-conference where some members from the community talked about
   Mesos (Tom Petr from Hubspot and Christina Delimitrou from
   Stanford).

 * We're working with the Linux Foundation to have a MesosCon during
   LinuxCon in Chicago. Our CFP has completed and we'll be reviewing
   the submissions ASAP and constructing the agenda.

## Issues ##

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

16 Apr 2014 [Benjamin Hindman / Sam]

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

## General ##

The state of the project seems healthy, another two releases have been
made since the last board report and continued increase in
contributors and committers.

## Releases ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.17.0 (2013-01-23)
 * Apache Mesos 0.18.0 (2013-04-01)

## Community ##

 * Added 1 new committer and PMC members:
    Ian Downes (idownes) on 2013-03-20

 * 300/165 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days.
 * 103/46 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.

 * 144 messages to user@mesos.apache.org (February - April), with
   4,940 messages to dev@mesos.apache.org (a lot of which is from
   Review Board and JIRA).

 * There were two talks on Mesos at ApacheCon which we generally felt
   was a big success.

 * Twitter hosted an Aurora/Mesos Frameworks meetup as well as a
   mini-conference where some members from the community talked about
   Mesos (Tom Petr from Hubspot and Christina Delimitrou from
   Stanford).

## Issues ##

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time but I'd
like to apologize for getting this report submitted so late, I'll be
happy to resubmit for next month as well.

19 Feb 2014 [Benjamin Hindman / Shane]

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

## General ##

The state of the project seems healthy, lots of releases (5 since the
last board report) and continued adoption plus mailing list and
development contributions.

## Releases ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.14.0 (2013-10-09)
 * Apache Mesos 0.14.1 (2013-10-09)
 * Apache Mesos 0.14.2 (2013-11-03)
 * Apache Mesos 0.15.0 (2013-11-25)
 * Apache Mesos 0.16.0 (2013-01-23)

## Community ##

 * Added 2 new committers and PMC members:
    Jie Yu (jieyu) on 2013-01-25
    Yan Xu (shortly after becoming a committer he had a baby so he
            hasn't gotten an Apache account yet!)

 * 164/117 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days.
 * 78/49 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.

 * 115 messages to user@mesos.apache.org (January - February), with
   2188 messages to dev@mesos.apache.org (a lot of which is from
   Review Board and JIRA).

 * Sharethrough hosted a hackathon in their SF office on February 14.

 * Red Hat announced that Mesos has been officially accepted into
   their distribution channel.

 * A large refactor to the isolation and containerization mechanisms
   in Mesos has driven multiple open source code contributions from
   new contributors which we're very excited about.

## Issues ##

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

15 Jan 2014 [Benjamin Hindman / Doug]

No report was submitted.

AI: Doug to pursue a report for Mesos

16 Oct 2013 [Benjamin Hindman / Chris]

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

## Releases ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.14.0 (out for vote)

The primary feature in the 0.14.0 release is "slave recovery" which
allows slaves to restart (e.g., in order to upgrade, or after a
crash) to recover and "reconnect" with live executors/tasks. This was
a much anticpated feature that Twitter engineer and Mesos committer
Vinod Kone has been working on for a while.

Regarding releases, we plan to move to a model where the conversation
around releases will take place on a public JIRA ticket rather than
via release candidate tags. We hope this will bring more people into
the community and help them contribute to and vet releases.

## Community ##

 * No new committers added in the past month. Last committer and PMC
   member added on 2013-08-05. We have 2 contributors that we'll
   likely be adding as committers imminently.

 * 42/37 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.

 * A meet up was hosted in Washington D.C. in early October.

 * The Google Summer of Code project has concluded. The committers
   used the contributions of the GSOC to complete the authentication
   component of Mesos.

## Issues ##

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

18 Sep 2013 [Benjamin Hindman / Brett]

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

## General ##

The biggest highlights of the past month are another release (0.13.0)
and continued growth in the community. Another Mesos framework was
also released (Marathon) and Twitter proposed moving a framework they
wrote (Aurora) into the incubator! We're looking forward to working
with these projects to help grow our community.

## Releases ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.13.0 (2013-09-10)

The 0.13.0 release includes some bug fixes and back ported features
for more easily running frameworks like Hadoop (just as 0.12.1
did). The release also includes the beta stage of the "slave recovery"
feature that has been being worked on for quite some time (the 0.14.0
release will make this feature stable).

## Community ##

 * No new committers added in the past month. Last committer and PMC
   member added on 2013-08-05.

 * 23/17 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.

 * 101 messages to user@mesos.apache.org (August - September), which
   is another improvement!

 * Twitter hosted a meet up in NYC on August 20 with a 60 - 80 person
   audience. Hubspot hosted a meet up in Boston with about 30 people,
   and a meetup was also held in Austin with close to 50 people.

 * The Google Summer of Code project is wrapping down. Some of the
   committers are building upon and expanding the work done by the
   student in an effort to get some of the code committed back to the
   project.

 * There have been a lot of packaging scripts pushed back from the
   community but we haven't successfully gotten them standardized (do
   configuration the same way, use the same/similar defaults) and
   committed. Hopefully we can put the time in to try and make this a
   priority before the 0.15.0 release.

## Issues ##

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

21 Aug 2013 [Benjamin Hindman / Roy]

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

## General ##

All but a few loose ends remain for the graduation process. We completed a
press release at
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces45
along with rolling out our new website at http://mesos.apache.org.

## Releases ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.12.1 (2013-08-13)

The 0.12.1 release included some bug fixes and back ported features for more
easily running frameworks like Hadoop. The release was voted on successfully
but was a bit delayed due to some infrastructure tickets that needed to get
performed in order to publish releases to dist.apache.org. We're on the verge
of releasing 0.13.0 as well!

## Community ##

 * Added 2 new committers and PMC members:
     Dave Lester (dlester) on 2013-08-05
     Ross Allen (ssorallen) on 2013-08-05

 * 92/67 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.

 * 51 messages to user@mesos.apache.org (July - August), which is a
   tremendous improvement but we're looking to add even more traffic
   there. 1796 messages to dev@mesos.apache.org (July - August).

 * Twitter hosted a meetup for the project on July 25 where we had
   talks from Vinod Kone (Twitter) on running Jenkins on Mesos and
   Brenden Matthews (Airbnb) on running Hadoop on Mesos. We have a
   meetup in NYC planned for August 20th.

 * We are (still) part of the Google Summer of Code:
     Project: Security and Authentication Support
     Student: Ilim Ugur
     Mentor: Vinod Kone (PMC)

## Issues ##

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

17 Jul 2013 [Benjamin Hindman / Greg]

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

## General ##

The project is still finishing the incubator graduation process
(waiting for infrastructure updates). As part of the graduation
process we have a new logo (goo.gl/5xTsZ) and a new website in
progress (goo.gl/ygH4j).

## Releases ##

 * Apache Mesos 0.11.0 (2013-06-02)
 * Apache Mesos 0.12.0 (2013-06-17)

These releases contain bugfixes and improvements, notably new
functionality with Linux control groups. The next release (0.13.0,
curently at 0.13.0-rc2) will include the most significant new feature
(slave recovery) in the last 2 releases.

## Community ##

 * Added 3 new committers and PMC members:
     Thomas Marshall (tmarshall)
     Charles Reiss (woggle)
     Brenden Matthews (brenden)

 * 111/184 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days.

 * 3074 messages to dev/user@mesos.apache.org (May - July). We need to
   work on getting more user questions to user@, the precedent has
   been most users send questions to dev@.

 * Box hosted a meetup for the project (goo.gl/R6WZZ) and we have
   another meetup scheduled for July 25.

 * We are part of the Google Summer of Code:
     Project: Security and Authentication Support
     Student: Ilim Ugur
     Mentor: Vinod Kone (PMC)

## Issues ##

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

19 Jun 2013

Establish the Apache Mesos 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 efficient cluster management, resource
  isolation and sharing across distributed applications.

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

  RESOLVED, that the Apache Mesos Project be and hereby is
  responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
  related to efficient cluster management, resource isolation
  and sharing across distributed applications; and be it further

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

   * Ali Ghodsi <alig@apache.org>
   * Andy Konwinski <andrew@apache.org>
   * Benjamin Hindman <benh@apache.org>
   * Benjamin Mahler <bmahler@apache.org>
   * Brian McCallister <brianm@apache.org>
   * Ian Holsman <ianh@apache.org>
   * Matei Alexandru Zaharia <matei@apache.org>
   * Chris Mattmann <mattmann@apache.org>
   * Tom White <tomwhite@apache.org>
   * Vinod Kone <vinodkone@apache.org>
   * Brenden Matthews <brenden@apache.org>
   * Thomas Marshall <tmarshall@apache.org>
   * Charles Reiss <woggle@apache.org>

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

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

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

15 May 2013

Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

Mesos has been incubating since 2010-12-23.

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

 1. Improved documentation and support using ASF Mesos Wiki.
 2. Roll an 0.11.0 release.
 3. More interaction on the dev lists besides those from Review Board/JIRA.

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

The project currently only has 1 active mentor, Chris Mattmann. Chris
has been able to get Paul Ramirez and Andrew Hart, both IPMC members,
to help mentor as well when needed (e.g., with release VOTE'ing), but
it's still been pretty scarce. Chris brought this up to the IPMC in
threads before, but it went without a reply.

How has the community developed since the last report?

Ben Mahler was added as a PPMC member and committer on the project.

We've seen an increase in activity on the mailing list. Airbnb has
been increasingly using Mesos, not only for Chronos, but also for
Hadoop (using our newly written Hadoop framework). There has also been
a production engineering meetup where Mesos was presented:
http://www.meetup.com/SF-Bay-Area-Large-Scale-Production-Engineering/event
s/97563092/

How has the project developed since the last report?

The project has moved its source repo to ASF Git per
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6065.

We need to get our website properly ASF branded.
We also need to move towards more discussions on the dev list
that aren't shepherded by automated tools (Review Board, and JIRA).
This would make it easier to follow conversations, and to encourage
new contributors to be able to discuss the code, and its stewardship.

On top of the usual bug fixes and reliability improvements, we've
implemented resource monitoring to gain visibility into the resource
consumption of executors running in Mesos. We are also much closer to
shipping a feature that allows the slave to upgrade gracefully
(without killing all tasks underneath it).

Signed-off-by:
Chris Mattmann:   [X](mesos)
Brian McCallister [ ](mesos)
Tom White         [X](mesos)

17 Apr 2013

Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

Mesos has been incubating since 2010-12-23.

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

 1.
 2.
 3.

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


How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Mesos.

Signed-off-by:
Tom White: [ ](mesos)


Shepherd notes:

16 Jan 2013

Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

Mesos has been incubating since 2010-12-23.

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

1. Add more committers (see "issues" below).
2. Do more releases (see "issues" below).
3. Grow community (do more meetups and try and get more people interested
in hacking on codebase rather than just using the software).

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

We've had issues getting enough votes for adding committers and doing
releases. We recently added a new mentor (thank you Jakob Homan!) who
promptly helped out on one of our stalled releases, but we still have yet
to conclude a committer vote (to be clear, the vote has received unanimous
+1's from all existing committers, but nothing from any mentors).

How has the community developed since the last report?

We performed a "meetup" at AirBnB which drew a large crowd. The mailing
list continued to be active in December. People are generally interested
and excited about the project, but we have not gotten very many developers
working in the codebase. We hope to rectify this in the coming months by
holding some developer specific meetups to talk about working on and
contributing to the project.

How has the project developed since the last report?

There were a considerable number of bug fixes, especially around the use of
Linux cgroups for doing resource isolation. There was also a lot of work
done on the slave/worker component of the system to enable upgrading Mesos
without killing all tasks/processes that it is managing. See
https://reviews.apache.org/dashboard/?view=to-group&group=mesos.

Signed-off-by:
Tom White: [ ](mesos)


Shepherd notes:

17 Oct 2012

Mesos is a scalable cluster manager that can dynamically share resources
between multiple computing frameworks, including Hadoop, Spark, MPI, and Storm.

Mesos entered incubation on December 23, 2010.

Progress since the last report:

 - Added mesos-0.9.0-incubating.jar to Maven central.
 - Improved build to include warnings and errors.
 - Fixes related to ZooKeeper usage to deal with network partitions.
 - Committed cgroups isolation module and additional updates and fixes.
 - Numerous updates to webui, including preliminary access to files of
   running frameworks.
 - Lots of reviews (https://reviews.apache.org/dashboard/?view=to-group&group=mesos).

Top priorities prior to graduation:

 - Continue to grow community (lots of questions on the mailing list).
 - Add more committers
 - Establish a 6-week release cadence.

Issues for Incubator PMC or ASF Board:

 Not all committers have access to Jenkins, which makes updating tests
 a slow bottlenecked process.

Signed-off-by: tomwhite, jukka
IPMC comments: Jenkins access granted.

25 Jul 2012

Mesos is a scalable cluster manager that can dynamically share resources
between multiple computing frameworks, including Hadoop, Spark, and MPI.

Mesos entered incubation on December 23, 2010.

Progress since the last report:

 - Released 0.9.0!
 - Added support for Hadoop CDH3u3 and updated the tutorial.
 - Revamped MPI framework support (thanks Harvey Feng!).
 - New JS based web interface (thanks Jon Fuchs!).
 - Initial cgroups abstractions/interfaces for better resource isolation
   on Linux (thanks Jie Yu!).
 - Refactor of allocator for more sophisticated allocations
   (thanks Thomas Marshall!).
 - Numerous bug fixes (FD_CLOEXEC, JSON escaping, killtree.sh issues, etc).

Top priorities prior to graduation:

 - Same as before, finalize addition of new committers to the project!
 - Do another release.

Issues for Incubator PMC or ASF Board:

 - None at this time.

Signed off by mentor: tomwhite
Shepherd: Benson Margulies

18 Apr 2012

Mesos is a scalable cluster manager that can dynamically share resources
between multiple computing frameworks, including Hadoop, Spark and MPI.

Mesos entered incubation on December 23, 2010.

Progress since the last report:

 - Begun the process for our *first release!* (vote on mesos-dev list has
   passed, now moving to vote on general@incubator)!
 - Discussion/vote thread started about adding two new committers
 - Hadoop patch working and new tutorial written
 - API improvements declineOffer
 - Updates to cluster Deployment scripts
 - Committed major build system update (migrated to Autotools, build
   sped up by >2x)

Top priorities prior to graduation:

 - Finalizing addition of new committers to the project!

Issues for Incubator PMC or ASF Board:

 - None at this time.

Signed off by mentor: tomwhite

24 Jan 2012

Mesos is a scalable cluster manager that can dynamically share resources
between multiple computing frameworks, including Hadoop, Spark and MPI.

Mesos entered incubation on December 23, 2010.

Progress since the last report:

* Shooting for an end of January release. Hope to call a release vote by
  early next week.
* Internal Twitter repo almost eliminated (all code being developed through
  Apache).
* Documentation added (in anticipation of end of month release).
* Support for Mac OS X Lion almost complete (expected to be included in end
  of month release).
* New autotools support almost complete (expected to be included in of end
  of month release).
* Mesos provided replicated log deployed in production (and optimized).
* New web UI, including task history viewing, committed.
* Features and bug fixes contributed by 3+ new contributors.

Top priorities prior to graduation:

* Making our first release (we want to do that this month).
* Adding more committers to the project from the various developers that
  have contributed to Mesos.

Issues for Incubator PMC or ASF Board:

 * None at this time.

26 Oct 2011

* Implementation of a replicated log has been completed (based on Paxos).
Next steps will be to use the log to enable the Mesos masters to have an
accurate snapshot of the currently running frameworks, currently connected
slaves, etc. This will enable the Mesos master to be able to launch the
schedulers rather than them needing to be launched independently. In
addition, the log will be useful to give to schedulers that want
high-availability.

* Numerous bugs have been fixed by new contributors: Vinod Kone, Brian
Wickman, John Sirois.

* Numerous bug fixes and features were added surrounding the interaction
Mesos has with ZooKeeper, including in-process ZooKeeper testing
(contributed by John Sirois).

* Progress has been made on moving the build system to autotools. We'd like
to accomplish this before trying to do a release.

20 Jul 2011

Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and isolation
across cluster applications.

Mesos entered incubation on December 23rd, 2010.

Community
* Mesos is being used at Twitter, Conviva, UCSF and UC Berkeley.
* We moved the source code into Apache SVN and started tracking development
on JIRA.
* We accepted patches from several contributors through JIRA and GitHub.
* We've also made various improvements to the website and documentation to
make the project easier to set up and use.

Project development
* Since the last report, we completed a migration to protocol buffer based
communication (to enable rolling upgrades), several fault tolerance
improvements, several fixes to Linux Container based isolation, a new client
API based on protocol buffers to allow applications to also work on future
versions, and porting existing applications (e.g. Hadoop) to use the new
API.

Most important issues to address
* Put together a first incubating release of Mesos.
* Grow the community and add more committers.

Signed off by mentor: tomwhite

19 May 2011

Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and isolation
across cluster applications.

Mesos entered incubation on December 23rd, 2010.

Community
* Mesos is actively being used at Twitter, Conviva, UCSF and UC Berkeley.

Project development
* We are still working on importing the source code to Apache, after having
merged in some major features this month (e.g. protocol buffers for
forward-compatible messaging, and improved fault recovery features).

Most important issues to address
* Import source code to Apache SVN
* Move discussion of new features and patches to JIRA
* Put together a first release

20 Apr 2011

Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and isolation
across cluster applications.

Mesos entered incubation on December 23rd, 2010.

Community
* Mesos is actively being used at Twitter, Conviva, UCSF and UC Berkeley.
* We are working on importing the source code to Apache, likely after we
finish merging in a few features that have been developed in the past few
months.

Project development
* Since the last report, we have worked on migrating communication to use
protocol buffers (to allow rolling upgrades), improving fault recovery, and
improving event logging and monitoring

Most important issues to address
* Import source code to Apache SVN
* Move discussion of new features and patches to JIRA
* Put together a first release

16 Mar 2011

Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and isolation
across cluster applications.

Mesos entered incubation on December 23rd, 2010

Over the past month, we finalized the IP transfer paperwork with UC Berkeley
and submitted our Software Grant Assignment form. We migrated major issues
to the Apache issue tracker. We also we merged in the major event history
database patch, and continued developing and testing the communication layer
upgrade to Protocol Buffers. We also improved the Mesos public
documentation.

Most important issues to address towards graduation:
 - Migrate code from GitHub to Apache SVN
 - Grow the user and developer community
 - Continue improving the documentation for Mesos

16 Feb 2011

Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.

Mesos entered incubation on December 23rd, 2010

Over the past month, we have continued developing some large features
of Mesos (switching the communication layer to Protocol Buffers to
allow live upgrades and implementing an event history database). We
have also started filing the paperwork with UC Berkeley required to
get a Software Grant Assignment form from them for the IP.

Most important issues to address towards graduation:
 - IP clearance
 - Migrate code from GitHub to Apache SVN
 - Grow the user and developer community
 - Continue improving the documentation for Mesos

19 Jan 2011

Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and isolation
across cluster applications.

Mesos entered incubation on December 23rd, 2010

This is our first report. Since entering incubation, we've done the
following:
 - Filed CLAs for initial committers
 - Requested user accounts for initial committers
 - Got JIRA, mailing lists and SVN repository set up

Most important issues to address towards graduation:
 - IP clearance
 - Migrate code from GitHub to Apache SVN
 - Setting up a project website with help and documentation
 - Grow the user and developer community