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 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