Community-led development "The Apache Way"
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A Java API for NLU applications
NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Community growth.
2. Stable release.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
We had several active collaborators since the last report, specifically
working on our Python support. We expect them to reach the committer level
soon. However, the Python support in NLPCraft will like undergo the
architectural change that may delay this process.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
NLPCraft community decided to make a deep refactoring in the project
based on the initial user feedback. The primary goal here is to
significantly simplify the usage patterns and provide better support for
human curation and dialog support. The design & planning for this
refactoring resulted in low commit activity in the last 60 days.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2021-7-30
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Same as the last report - no new committers.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Mentors feedback delay is improving but still takes about a week to get
responses on vote emails.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No issues here.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Evans Ye
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Paul King
Comments:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Dave Fisher
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
A Java API for NLU applications
NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. User and developer community growth.
2. Project maturity.
3. Project awareness.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
We have several new collaborators that community is planning to promote
to committer level in the future. The project/community is finally working
project awareness by launching dedicated YouTube channel, submitting and
presenting at relevant conferences (ApacheCon Asia 20221, ApacheCon 2021,
Scala By The Bay), writing technical blogs, and reworking website
documentation based on the feedback from the early users.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Ptoject made two major releases 0.8.0 and 0.9.0 since the last report.
Both releases introduced significant new features as well as number of bug
fixes and improvements.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2021-07-30
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
August 2020. We, however, have number of collaborators that we are
planning to put on election shortly.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
votes requiring repeated email reminders.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes, no problems here.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Evans Ye
Comments:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Paul King
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Dave Fisher
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache NLPCraft is an open source library for adding natural language Interface to modern applications. Apache NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Community growth & outreach. 2. Get to the point with multiple release managers. 3. Presenting the project at ApacheCon/ApacheAsia 2021. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? Project have several new contributors that we are expecting to formally join the project/ASF in the future. These are individuals outside of the original NLPCraft community. We are also getting number of offline contributions when it comes to ideas, documentation and website. We are working on promoting these contributions and inviting these individuals to be more active. We need, however, to get much better at the general project outreach via meetups, conferences, etc. Some of the conversations happen on Gitter. Project has 8 forks on the Github. ### How has the community developed since the last report? Project produced 2 releases. Both releases were an interim, bug fix releases. So far, they were produced by the same release manager (Aaron Radzinski). The community is working on the major release 0.7.5 right now that should go GA in the April 2021 with significant changes and improvements (all of which are reflected in JIRA tickets for 0.7.5 version). At this point, the community does not have a formalized roadmap with many internal discussions happening on Slack channels. We are generally expecting to formalize the long-term roadmap towards 1.0.0 release with hopefully a larger community around the project. Community is actively working on 0.7.5 release that should be sent for a vote in the coming days. ### How has the project developed since the last report? ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [X] Initial setup - [X] Working towards first release - [X] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: NLPCraft 0.7.4 released on Jan 31, 2021. ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Aug, 2020 - Gleb Zernov (ifropc), committer. ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? We have had some problems with getting attention from mentors - however this has been largely resolved as of now. We've also identified some of the communication inefficiencies that would help us to engage mentors better going forward. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Yes, no issues to report. ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (nlpcraft) Roman Shaposhnik Comments: - [X] (nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci Comments: - [ ] (nlpcraft) Evans Ye Comments: - [ ] (nlpcraft) Paul King Comments: - [ ] (nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik Comments: - [X] (nlpcraft) Dave Fisher Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: Justin Mclean: Can you please remove your old releases from the list release area.
Apache NLPCraft is an open source library for adding natural language
Interface to modern applications. Apache NLPCraft has been incubating since
2020-02-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Community growth & outreach.
2. Multiple release managers.
3. Presenting the project at ApacheCon 2021.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Project have several new contributors that we are expecting to formally
join the project/ASF in the future. These are individuals outside of the
original NLPCraft community. We are also getting number of offline
contributions when it comes to ideas, testing and website. We are working
on promoting these contributions and inviting these individuals to be more
active. We need, however, to get much better at the general project
outreach via meetups, conferences, etc.
Project has 8 forks on the Github.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Project produced 2 releases. Both releases were an interim, bug fix
releases. So far, they were produced by the same release manager (Aaron
Radzinski). The community is working on the major release 0.7.5 right now
that should go GA in the April 2021 with significant changes and
improvements (all of which are relfected in JIRA tickets for 0.7.5
version). At this point, the community does not have a formalized roadmap
with many internal discussions happening on Slack channels. We are
generally expecting to formalize the long-term roadmap towards 1.0.0
release with hopefully a larger community around the project.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
NLPCraft 0.7.4 released on Jan 31, 2021.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Aug, 2020 - Gleb Zernov (ifropc), committer.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
We have some problems with getting attention from mentors. Release voting
can go for weeks without attention from mentors that is slowing down the
progress on the project. However, the mentors' participation has improved
lately. We've also identified some of the communication inefficiencies that
would help us to engage mentors better going forward.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes, no issues to report.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci
Comments: Thanks for giving so much time to this month's report.
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Evans Ye
Comments:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Paul King
Comments:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Dave Fisher
Comments: Thanks for the more detailed report.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
A Java API for NLU applications
NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Community growth.
2.
3.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Project have several new contributors that we are expecting to formally
join the project/ASF in the future.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Project produced 2 releases.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
Jan 31, 2021.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Aug, 2020.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
We have some problems with getting attention from mentors. Release voting
can go for weeks without attention from mentors that is slowing down the
progress on the project.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes, no issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Evans Ye
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Paul King
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Dave Fisher - I am rejoining NLPCraft as a Mentor.
Justin Mclean - This report down't contain the needed detail the IPMC
expects and the project will be asked to report next month.
I suggest you ask your mentors if they can put in the time to mentor
this project and if not, they should consider stepping down as mentors.
A Java API for NLU applications
NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Community growth both developer and users.
2.
3.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
No changes.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Project has significant progress in terms of developing its roadmap.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2020-10-29
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2020-05-24
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
no issues to report.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
no issues to report.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Evans Ye
Comments:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Paul King
Comments:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Dave Fisher - the report is somewhat sparse, but I know the project is
active
A Java API for NLU applications
NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
This list is unchaged from the previous report:
1.Stable release process for all sub-projects involved.
2.Community growth.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
We have 1 new community member.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
We are still in the midst of development of 0.7.0 release that should
address all remaining licensing issues.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2020-07-19
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2020-05-24
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, no issues to report.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes, no issues to report.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Evans Ye
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Paul King
Comments:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
A Java API for NLU applications
NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Stable release process for all sub-projects involved.
2. Community growth.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
We've got a new committer joined the project:
- Gleb Ifropc
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Working through release process for the Java Client sub-project.
- In release vote for the NLPCraft 0.6.0 that contains number of
improvement and new features.
- Significant updates to the documentation on https://nlpcraft.apache.org
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2020-04-29
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2020-05-24
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Core group of mentors is active and involved.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Evans Ye
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Paul King
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) David Fisher
Comments: A good start with discussions occurring on the dev list.
- [X] (nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache NLPCraft is an open source library for adding natural language
Interface to any applications.
NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Developer and eventually user community growth. Project is in its
infancy so there's a long road ahead on this front.
2. Establish the timely release cadence on three main project (nlpcraft,
java-client, nlpcraft-web).
3. Fully converting development process into Apache Way.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Not changed since the last report. Project has released its first
official
ASF release and the website on April 29, 2020. We are expecting this to
help in community growth.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Project has releases its first official ASF release and the website on
April 29, 2020.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
Apache NLPCraft v0.5.0 on 2020-04-29
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
No new committers have been added since project incubation on 2020-02-13.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Mentors have been helpful and responsive. However, some of the mentors
don't participate at all. It hasn't affected the project in a material
way since the participated mentors have been active and helpful.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No trademark/branding issues at this point.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci
Comments: Project is going well even it is a new incubator project
from my perspective as a mentor.
- [X] (nlpcraft) Evans Ye
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Paul King
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) David Fisher
Comments:
- [X] (nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik
Comments: Project has quickly jumped on the first release and did it
pretty much right from the get go!
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
A Java API to convert natural language into actions. NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Finish migration to Apache process. DONE 2. Grow an active and healthy community around Apache NLPCraft product. ONGOING 3. Have a stable release schedule and 3 successful product releases. ONGOING ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? No open issues to make IPMC/ASF board aware of. ### How has the community developed since the last report? No community development as we are in the midst of infra migration trying to get the 1st ASF release out. ### How has the project developed since the last report? In the first 30 days the project has developed in the following ways: - Project infra bootstrap is complete. - All three repos have been migrated to ASF infra. - GitHub Issues have been migrated to ASF JIRA. - All ICLAs have been filed. - All new committers accounts are created - All code migration is completed & all work on the project is happening on ASF infra & using ASF way. - NLPCraft 0.5.0 release voting is underway. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? - [ ] Initial setup - [X] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: N/A ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2020-02-13 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Yes, mentors have been responsive and helpful as usual ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (wave) Dave Fisher Comments: - [X] (evansye) Evans Ye Comments: - [X] (kamaci) Furkan Kamaci Comments: - [X] (cos) Konstantin I Boudnik Comments: - [X] (paulk) Paul King Comments: - [ ] (rvs) Roman Shaposhnik