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Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR). Pirk has been incubating since 2016-06-17. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community to establish diversity of background and expertise. 2. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for dependable release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development process. 3. Add to and improve the Pirk user documentation and examples both on the website and in the codebase Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Yes. The Pirk community participation and growth has stalled over the last few months. Recently, there's been discussion on the mailing lists about retiring Pirk for now. How has the community developed since the last report? The Pirk community has not developed since the last report - no new contributors or committers have been added How has the project developed since the last report? The project has stalled - the existing community has not been active nor has the community grown. How would you assess the podling's maturity? The podling will not be seeing any activity in the near future, and the consensus has been to retire the podling for now. How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [ ] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [X] Other: Date of last release: October 9, 2016 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Pirk elected two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel Marthi, both mentors) on August 18, 2016. Signed-off-by: [x](pirk) Billie Rinaldi Comments: [x](pirk) Joe Witt Comments: As noted in the report and observed in the community contributions and discussion have stalled. Discussions to prompt engagement have revealed that availability to contribute for much of the original team is no longer available. It is my opinion that retirement should be pursued given the range of community growth for the past few months and stated lack of intent to turn that around soon. [x](pirk) Josh Elser Comments: It's sad to see the discussion about the low recent activity quickly change into a a discussion about retirement. I was hoping that the previously active podling members would have taken some steps to grow, but it seems like their priorities have shifted elsewhere. Pirk had been doing quite well and is very interesting software; it's a shame to see it moving to retirement. Sounds like retirement will be pursued in the coming month. [X](pirk) Suneel Marthi Comments: Based on recent discussions on Mailing lists the consensus has been to retire Pirk for now, in large part due to unavailability of the full set of initial committers that can steer this project forward. [X](pirk) Tim Ellison Comments: Pirk had a very promising start, with the community exhibiting all the right behaviors, including being able to gain consensus on an early initial release. The initial committers are critical to the future of Pirk due to their specialist knowledge, and there has not been sufficient time to fully grow new members who can cover their role. With their withdrawl it is unfortunate but inevitable that Pirk be retired. The discussion is taking place on the dev list as expected.
Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR). Pirk has been incubating since 2016-06-17. The initial code for Pirk was granted on 2016-07-11. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community to establish diversity of background and expertise. 2. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for dependable release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development process. 3. Add to and improve the Pirk user documentation and examples both on the website and in the codebase Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. How has the community developed since the last report? We have attracted a couple of new contributors since the last report. The mailing list activity, pull requests, and page views to the Apache Pirk website (via Google Analytics) have also increased since the last report. An 'Introducing Pirk' talk was presented at ApacheCon Europe on November 15, 2016. How has the project developed since the last report? The project is in the process of completing its second release, 0.2.0-incubating. The project has also undertaken a refactor of some of the packages and drivers and added additional user/developer documentation on the website. Date of last release: August 29, 2016 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Pirk elected two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel Marthi, both mentors) on August 18, 2016. Signed-off-by: [x](pirk) Billie Rinaldi [x](pirk) Joe Witt [x](pirk) Josh Elser [X](pirk) Suneel Marthi [ ](pirk) Tim Ellison Shepherd/Mentor notes: Josh Elser: Dev traffic appears to have slowed down a little in the past month, but nothing really to be concerned about yet, IMO.
Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR). Pirk has been incubating since 2016-06-17. The initial code for Pirk was granted on 2016-07-11. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community to establish diversity of background and expertise. 2. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for dependable release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development process. 3. Add to and improve the Pirk user documentation and examples both on the website and in the codebase Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. How has the community developed since the last report? We have officially welcomed two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel Marthi, both also mentors). The mailing list activity, pull requests, and page views to the Apache Pirk website (via Google Analytics) have also greatly increased since the last report. How has the project developed since the last report? The project completed it's first release, 0.1.0-incubating, since the last report and provided a release guide on its website documenting the process. Additionally, the project has ensured that all dependencies are compliant with the Apache License version 2.0 and that all code and documentation artifacts have the correct Apache licensing markings and notice. The project has also undertaken a refactor of some of the initial packages and provided initial streaming implementations. Date of last release: August 29, 2016 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Pirk elected two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel Marthi, both mentors) on August 18, 2016. Signed-off-by: [x](pirk) Billie Rinaldi [ ](pirk) Joe Witt [X](pirk) Josh Elser [X](pirk) Suneel Marthi [X](pirk) Tim Ellison Shepherd/Mentor notes: Josh Elser: Extremely happy to see the first release completed so soon after entering incubation. Very pleased with the interaction and responsiveness at PPMC and IPMC levels during the vote process. They are well on their way. Suneel Marthi: I must add that the first release candidate was put out for PPMC/IPMC Vote in less than a month since the initial code was pushed to the apache github repo.
Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR). Pirk has been incubating since 2016-06-17. The initial code for Pirk was granted on 2016-07-11. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for dependable release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development process. 2. Establish a process which allows different release cycles for the core framework, extensions/adaptors, and additional algorithms. 3. Grow the community to establish diversity of background and expertise. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. How has the community developed since the last report? The mailing list activity, pull requests, and page views to the Apache Pirk website (via Google Analytics) have greatly increased since the last report. How has the project developed since the last report? The project has ensured that all dependencies are compliant with the Apache License version 2.0 and that all code and documentation artifacts have the correct Apache licensing markings and notice. The project has also undertaken a refactor of some of the initial packages and provided more robust support for user interaction. Date of last release: No releases have been made yet. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Pirk is operating with its initial committers and PMC and has not yet elected new committers or PMC members. Signed-off-by: [X](pirk) Billie Rinaldi [X](pirk) Joe Witt [X](pirk) Josh Elser [X](pirk) Suneel Marthi [X](pirk) Tim Ellison
Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR). Pirk has been incubating since 2016-06-17. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Initial Code Preparation: Ensure all dependencies are compliant with Apache License version 2.0 and that all code and documentation artifacts have the correct Apache licensing markings and notice. 2. Release Process: Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for dependable release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development process. 3. Community Building: Grow the community to establish diversity of background and expertise. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. How has the community developed since the last report? This is our first report; we look forward to developing the community once our code, website, etc. is pushed. How has the project developed since the last report? This is our first report; we have been working to set up all of our infrastructure and anticipate pushing our code and website very soon. Date of last release: No releases thus far. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Upon acceptance into the incubator, 2016.06.17. Signed-off-by: [x](pirk) Billie Rinaldi [x](pirk) Joe Witt [x](pirk) Josh Elser [X](pirk) Suneel Marthi [X](pirk) Tim Ellison