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Ranger

20 Mar 2024 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Shane]

Report was filed, but display is awaiting the approval of the Board minutes.

21 Feb 2024 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Rich]

No report was submitted.

17 Jan 2024 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Bertrand]

No report was submitted.

20 Dec 2023 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Sander]

## Description:
Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data
security - consistently across various data processing services.

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

## Membership Data:
- Apache Ranger was founded 2017-01-17 (6 years ago).
- There are 32 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
- The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.

##Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Sailaja Polavarapu on 2019-09-18.
- Last addition to Committer was Dineshkumar Yadav on 2023-02-06.
- One PMC member has resigned (Colm O hEigeartaigh) on 2023-10-10.

## Project Activity:
- Working on ranger 3.0.0 version features and bugfixes (886 resolved jira(s)
 includes 448 bugfixes).
 - new UI developed in react framework is made as the default
 - docker setup updates to support validation of earlier version plugins with
   later version of Ranger server
 - security-zone updates to support roles for admin and auditor privileges
- Updated ranger website with new blogs and updated team member information.
- Will be working on moving the ranger doc content from SVN based to GIT repo
- Will be planning to do the release of 3.0.0

## Community Health:
- 1472 emails in dev@ranger.apache.org in this quarter
 (+46% change from past quarter)
- 7 emails in user@ranger.apache.org in this quarter
 (+ 0% change from past quarter)
- 165 issues opened in JIRA in this quarter
 (+28% change from past quarter)
- 121 issues closed in JIRA in this quarter
 (+45% change from past quarter)
- 137 commits in this  quarter
 (+53% change from past quarter)
-  22 code contributors in this quarter
 (- 4% change from past quarter)
-   8 PRs opened on GitHub in this quarter
 (-46% change from past quarter)
-   5 PRs closed on GitHub in this quarter
 (-37% change from past quarter)

## Most Recent releases:
- Apache Ranger 2.4.0 was released on 2023-03-30
- Apache Ranger 2.3.0 was released on 2022-07-06
- Apache Ranger 2.2.0 was released on 2021-11-01

15 Nov 2023 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Sharan]

No report was submitted.

18 Oct 2023 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Willem]

No report was submitted.

20 Sep 2023 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Christofer]

## Description:
Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data
security - consistently across various data processing services.

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

## Membership Data:
- Apache Ranger was founded 2017-01-17 (6 years ago).
- There are 32 committers and 18 PMC members in this project.
- The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.

##Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Sailaja Polavarapu on 2019-09-18.
- Last addition to Committer was Dineshkumar Yadav on 2023-02-06.
- One PMC member has resigned (Allan Gates) on 2023-04-05.

## Project Activity:
- Working on ranger 3.0.0 version features and bugfixes.
- Updated ranger website with new look and feel.
- Working to move ranger docs (ranger website content) from ranger source
 repo to ranger-site repo.
- Generally, less activities in the community after our 2.4.0 release; After
 we publish the release plan for 3.0.0, community activities will increase.

## Community Health:
-1105 emails in dev@ranger.apache.org in this quarter
(-26% change from past quarter)
-   7 emails in user@ranger.apache.org in this quarter
(-59% change from past quarter)
- 112 issues opened in JIRA in this quarter
(-16% change from past quarter)
-  78 issues closed in JIRA in this quarter
(-30% change from past quarter)
-  92 commits in this  quarter
(-46% change from past quarter)
-  22 code contributors in this quarter
(-26% change from past quarter)
-  16 PRs opened on GitHub in this quarter
(-50% change from past quarter)
-  10 PRs closed on GitHub in this quarter
(-58% change from past quarter)

## Most Recent releases:
- Apache Ranger 2.4.0 was released on 2023-03-30
- Apache Ranger 2.3.0 was released on 2022-07-06
- Apache Ranger 2.2.0 was released on 2021-11-01

16 Aug 2023 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Bertrand]

No report was submitted.

19 Jul 2023 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Willem]

No report was submitted.

17 May 2023 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Christofer]

## Description:
Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data
security - consistently across various data processing services.

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

## Membership Data:
- Apache Ranger was founded 2017-01-17 (6 years ago).
- There are 32 committers and 19 PMC members in this project.
- The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.

##Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Sailaja Polavarapu on 2019-09-18.
- Last addition to Committer was Dineshkumar Yadav on 2023-02-06.

## Project Activity:
- Completed the release of Ranger 2.4.0 and is available now for use.
- Updated the ranger website with new look and feel.
- Created a new ranger-site repo to hold all documentation related contents.
- Working on ranger 3.0.0 version features and bug fixes.
- Working to move ranger docs (ranger website content) from ranger source repo
 to ranger-site repo.

## Community Health:
- Added many new community members (as contributors) to ranger in the past
 quarter.
- dev@ranger.apache.org had 1705 emails in this quarter (+64% change from past
 quarter)
- user@ranger.apache.org had 14 emails in this quarter (from 0 in the past
 quarter)
- 154 issues opened in JIRA in this quarter (+33% change from past quarter)
- 116 issues closed in JIRA in this quarter (+50% change from past quarter)
- 197 commits in this  quarter (+52% change from past quarter)
-  28 code contributors in this quarter (+16% change from past quarter)
-  38 PRs opened on GitHub in this quarter (+11% change from past quarter)
-  31 PRs closed on GitHub in this quarter (-416% change from past quarter)

## Most Recent releases:
- Apache Ranger 2.4.0 was released on 2023-03-30
- Apache Ranger 2.3.0 was released on 2022-07-06
- Apache Ranger 2.2.0 was released on 2021-11-01

19 Apr 2023 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Willem]

No report was submitted.

15 Feb 2023 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Willem]

## Description:
The mission of Apache Ranger is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent
access to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud
architectures.

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

## Membership Data:
- Apache Ranger was founded 2017-01-17 (6 years ago).
- There are 32 committers (2 new committers added last month) and 19 PMC
 members in this project.
- The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.

##Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Sailaja Polavarapu on 2019-09-18.
- Added two new committers:
 -- Abhishek Kumar was added as committer on 2023-02-01
 -- Dineshkumar Yadav was added as committer on 2023-02-06

## Project Activity:
- Kicked off the release process for 2.4.0 release that would address some of
 the existing outstanding bugs and add many improvements
- Expected to complete the release of 2.4.0 by end of Feb, 2023.
- Upgraded some of the library versions as needed to address some community
 raised issues
- Addressed 25 issues for 2.4.0 version (14 bugs,10 enhancements)
- Addressed 39 issues for 3.0.0 version (19 bugs,16 enhancements)

## Community Health:
- Added two more committers to the community
- dev@ranger.apache.org had a 0% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (1089
 emails)
- user@ranger.apache.org had a 84% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (5
 emails compared to 31)
- 114 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-6% change)
-  63 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-30% change)
- 118 commits in the past quarter (-11% change)
-  23 code contributors in the past quarter (-4% change)
-  16 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (no change)
-   6 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-14% change)


## Most Recent releases:
- Apache Ranger 2.3.0 was released on 2022-07-06
- Apache Ranger 2.2.0 was released on 2021-11-01
- Apache Ranger 2.1.0 was released on 2020-09-03

18 Jan 2023 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Roy]

No report was submitted.

19 Oct 2022 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Roman]

## Description:
The mission of Apache Ranger is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent
access to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud
architectures.

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Ranger was founded 2017-01-17 (6 years ago) There are currently 30
committers and 19 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
roughly 8:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Sailaja Polavarapu on 2019-09-18.
- Kishor Gollapalliwar was added as committer on 2022-08-19
- New contributors in recent months: Barbara Eckman, Ramachandran Krishnan,
 Fateh Singh, Yubo Li, Patrik Marton

## Project Activity:
- enhancement to enable policies with multiple resource sets
- component version updates: Solr 8.11.2, Spring Framework 5.3.21, Netty
 4.1.78, jquery-ui 1.13.2,
- performance improvements in tag cache refresh, user store cache refresh,
 users/groups delete utility, role delete API, path matching in policy-engine
- fixes in Knox proxy integration, Kafka plugin
- new plugin to authorize access to nested-structured data, by Comcast
- condition expressions enhancement to support use of includes() and
 intersects(), by Comcast
- support for user-attributes in masking policies

## Community Health:
- dev@ranger.apache.org had a 0% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (1089
 emails compared to 1083)
- user@ranger.apache.org had a 84% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (5
 emails compared to 31)
- 114 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-6% change)
- 63 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-30% change)
- 118 commits in the past quarter (-11% change)
- 23 code contributors in the past quarter (-4% change)
- 16 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (no change)
- 6 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-14% change)


## Most Recent releases:
- Apache Ranger 2.3.0 was released on 2022-07-06
- Apache Ranger 2.2.0 was released on 2021-11-01
- Apache Ranger 2.1.0 was released on 2020-09-03

20 Jul 2022 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Willem]

## Description:
Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data
security - consistently across various data processing services.

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Ranger was founded 2017-01-17 (6 years ago) There are currently 30
committers and 20 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
 - No new PMC members. Last addition was Sailaja Polavarapu on 2019-09-18.
 - No new committers. Last addition was Dhaval Shah on 2021-01-20.

## Project Activity:
 - Community has completed the release for Apache Ranger 2.3.0 on July-06-2022.
 - Apache Ranger 3.0.0 has been progressing well within the community

## Community Health:
 - as the stats below show, the community is active and continue to improve
   Apache Ranger is adding more features to support enterprise data security
   needs
 - Community has released 2.3.0 release in July-2022.
   This release bring lot of improvements to Apache Ranger:
     - Ranger KMS integration with Google cloud HSM, Tencent KMS
      - added support for Amazon CloudWatch as audit store
      - ability to scope delegated-admin to specific permissions
      - ability to use macros in conditions, like:
        - IS_IN_GROUP('hr') && IS_IN_GROUP('finance')
        - TAG.piiType == 'email'
      - attribute-based access control (ABAC) enhancements,
        with ability to refer user/group/tag attributes
        - resource names, like: /dept/${{USER.dept}},  db_${{USER._name}}
        - row-filters, like: country = ${{USER.country}},
                       store_id in (${{GET_UG_ATTR _CSV('managesStore')}})
        - conditions, like: HAS_UG_ATTR('managesStore')
      - removal of log4j-1 dependency
      - performance improvements in multiple areas
      - improvements in Docker setup
 - Community is scoping and working on next major release - 3.0.0
 - Stats
  - dev@ranger.apache.org had a 14% increase in traffic in the past quarter
    (1440 vs 1258)
  - user@ranger.apache.org had a 950% increased in traffic in the past quarter
    (21 vs 2)
  - 124 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter   (-  1% change)
  - 107 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter   (+ 14% change)
  - 238 commits in the past quarter           (+ 64% change)
  - 38  code contributors in the past quarter (+ 40% change)
  - 16  PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter    (+  6% change)
  - 7   PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter    (+ 16% change)

18 May 2022 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Roman]

## Description:
Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data
security - consistently across various data processing services.

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Ranger was founded 2017-01-17 (5 years ago) There are currently 30
committers and 20 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
 - No new PMC members. Last addition was Sailaja Polavarapu on 2019-09-18.
 - No new committers. Last addition was Dhaval Shah on 2021-01-20.

## Project Activity:
 - Community has initiated the release process for Apache Ranger 2.3.0
   - Includes lot of bug fixes since 2.2.0 release
     - 527 commits (45 bug fixes +  55 improvements)
   - Expected to be released by end of May 2022.
 - Apache Ranger 3.0.0 has been progressing well within the community
   - Includes 257 bug fixes, 205 Improvements, 6 new features
     - Support for reading audit logs from Amazon Cloudwatch
     - Support macros to support user/group attribute based row filterings
     - Ranger KMS integration with Google Cloud HSM / TencentKMS
     - Updated to handle log4j2 issues

## Community Health:
 - as the stats below show, the community is active and continue to improve
   Apache Ranger is adding more features to support enterprise data security
   needs
 - Community is working to release 2.3.0 (next minor release) in May 2022.
 - Community is scoping for next major release - 3.0.0
 - Stats
  - dev@ranger.apache.org had a 0% increase in traffic in the past quarter
    (1089 vs 1083)
  - user@ranger.apache.org had a 84% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
    (5 vs 31)
  - 135 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter   (+ 25% change)
  - 112 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter   (-  2% change)
  - 262 commits in the past quarter           (+ 96% change)
  - 40  code contributors in the past quarter (+ 73% change)
  - 14  PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter    (+ 55% change)
  - 7   PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter    (+ 40% change)

20 Apr 2022 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Rich]

No report was submitted.

19 Jan 2022 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Sharan]

No report was submitted.

17 Nov 2021 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Sam]

## Description:
Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data
security - consistently across various data processing services.

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Ranger was founded 2017-01-17 (5 years ago) There are currently 30
committers and 20 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
 - No new PMC members. Last addition was Sailaja Polavarapu on 2019-09-18.
 - No new committers. Last addition was Dhaval Shah on 2021-01-20.

## Project Activity:
 - Apache Ranger 2.2.0 has been released to community on Nov-01-2021.
 - Support for JDK 8 and 11 added
 - Upgraded to use SOLR 8.6.3
 - Fixed usersync issues related to large user-group mappings (> 300k)
 - Fixed usersync delete issues
 - Added to support ATLAS 2.2.0 version
 - Upgraded libraries to handle security issues

## Community Health:
 - as the stats below show, the community is active and continue to improve
   Apache Ranger by adding enhancements and fixes
 - Community is scoping for the next release - 3.0.0
 - Stats
  - dev@ranger.apache.org had a 84% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
    (1285 vs 698)
  - user@ranger.apache.org had a 43% increase in traffic in the past quarter
    (23 vs 16)
  - 139 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (+61% change)
  - 83 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (+27% change)
  - 147 commits in the past quarter (+14% change)
  - 18 code contributors in the past quarter (+5% change)
  - 10 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-23% change)
  - 2 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-33% change)

20 Oct 2021 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Roy]

No report was submitted.

18 Aug 2021 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Sharan]

## Description:
Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data
security - consistently across various data processing services.

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Ranger was founded 2017-01-17 (5 years ago)
There are currently 30 committers and 20 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
 - No new PMC members. Last addition was Sailaja Polavarapu on 2019-09-18.
 - No new committers. Last addition was Dhaval Shah on 2021-01-20.

## Project Activity:
 - Atlas plugin enhancements to handle authorization of classification
   add/update/remove on entities
 - Hive plugin enhancements to implement SHOW ROLE GRANT operation, and
   support new operations
 - HDFS plugin updates to handle access to paths in snapshots
 - upgraded Spring framework and security libraries
 - delegated-admin model updated to scope delegation to specific access-types
 - fixes in Python library/API
 - script condition evaluator improvements to make it easier to access details
   of request/user/groups/tags
 - policy-engine enhancement to include data-making/row-filtering in
   getResourceACLs() API
 - improv Ranger admin startup in handling availability of Solr
 - performance improvements in user-lookup API implementation
 - performance improvements to processing of tags by batching

## Community Health:
 - as the stats below show, the community is active and continue to improve
   Apache Ranger by adding enhancements and fixes
 - a large number of enhancements and fixes were added since last release of
   Ranger. Next minor release, 2.2.0, is likely around mid September
 - Ranger is being adopted by major cloud vendors to authorize access to their
   services/data, for example:
  - AWS EMR, S3: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/introducing-amazon-emr-integration-with-apache-ranger/
  - Azure: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hdinsight/domain-joined/hdinsight-security-overview
  - Google: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/running-cloud-managed-spark-and-hadoop-using-ranger
 - Stats
  - dev@ranger.apache.org had a 8% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
    (728 emails compared to 783)
  - user@ranger.apache.org had a 433% increase in traffic in the past quarter
    (16 emails compared to 3)
  - 82 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-21% change)
  - 61 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-25% change)
  - 120 commits in the past quarter (-19% change)
  - 17 code contributors in the past quarter (6% increase)
  - 12 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (20% increase)
  - 2 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (100% increase)

21 Jul 2021 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Roy]

No report was submitted.

19 May 2021 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Sam]

## Description:
 - Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
   data security across the Hadoop platform

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

## Activity:
 - Community is working on a minor release of 2.2.0 with some of the
bugfixes
 - Community is focused on enhancements and fixes for 3.0.0 release
 - Dynamic Config of Solr audit based on number of solr nodes
 - Ranger UI Improvements on Audit Filter Feature
 - Improve Docker based setup

## Health report:
 - The community is overall healthy.
 - Community is working on many library upgrades (Apache Tomcat, Netty,
libthrift, lib4j-core, api-i18n) for upcoming 2.2.0 release.

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 20 PMC members
 - No new PMC members. Last addition was Sailaja Polavarapu on 2019-09-18.

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 30 committers
 - Dhaval Shah was added as committer on 2021-01-20

## Releases:
 - Apache Ranger 2.1.0 was released on 2020-09-03.
 - Apache Ranger 2.0.0 was released on 2019-08-07.
 - Apache Ranger 1.2.0 was released on 2018-10-04.

## Mailing list activity:
 - Regular activity continues.
 - dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 833 emails sent to list in the last 3 months (+15%)
 - user@ranger.apache.org:
    - 6 emails sent to list in the last 3 months (-87%)

## JIRA activity:
 - 15 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months (-85%)
 - 15 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months (-73%)

## Commit activity:
 - 145 commits in the last 3 months (-4%)
 -  16 active code contributors in the last 3 months (-15%)

21 Apr 2021 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Sheng]

No report was submitted.

17 Feb 2021 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Shane]

## Description:
 - Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
   data security across the Hadoop platform

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

## Activity:
 - Community is working on a minor release of 2.1.1 with some of the
bugfixes
 - Community is focused on enhancements and fixes for 2.2.0 release
  - performance improvements in usersync
  - enhancements and fixes in audit API/UI
  - updated Ranger HDFS plugin to support Hadoop version 3.3.0
  - docker deployment support for dev testing
  - updated Ranger Atlas plugin to support type-read action
  - added Python client library to access admin APIs
  - policy-engine updates to support super-user permission

## Health report:
 - The community is overall healthy.
 - Community is working on many library upgrades and fixing some of the
new plugins (Apache Ozone) for upcoming 2.2.0 release.

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 20 PMC members
 - No new PMC members. Last addition was Sailaja Polavarapu on 2019-09-18.

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 30 committers
 - Dhaval Shah was added as committer on 2021-01-20

## Releases:
 - Apache Ranger 2.1.0 was released on 2020-09-03.
 - Apache Ranger 2.0.0 was released on 2019-08-07.
 - Apache Ranger 1.2.0 was released on 2018-10-04.

## Mailing list activity:
 - Regular activity continues.
 - dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 784 emails sent to list in the last 3 months (-14%)
 - user@ranger.apache.org:
    - 43 emails sent to list in the last 3 months (+16%)

## JIRA activity:
 - 98 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months (-23%)
 - 59 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months (-28%)

## Commit activity:
 - 148 commits in the last 3 months (-6%)
 - 19 active code contributors in the last 3 months (+11%)

20 Jan 2021 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Sam]

No report was submitted.

18 Nov 2020 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Justin]

## Description:
 - The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
   comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.

## Project Health Report:
 - Apache Ranger is being used widely by the community. New feature requests
   are regularly being opened. User list is active with questions about
   extending Ranger usage in different use-cases.
 - Community is working on next release of 2.2.0 with features like support
   for Audit Filters, FIPS compliance, Plugin enhancements, extended audit
   destination support.
 - Regular JIRA activity -- +123(opened) -75(closed) over past quarter.
 - Git (source): 141 commits over past quarter;
 - Dev and user mailing lists have usual activity
 - Reporter tool provides healthy score

## Project Release Activity:
 - Apache Ranger 2.1.0 was released on 2020-09-03

## Project Community Changes:
 - There are currently 29 committers and 20 PMC members in this project.
 - PMC is looking at adding new committers as there are many new members
   contributing patches.

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

21 Oct 2020 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Shane]

No report was submitted.

19 Aug 2020 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Patricia]

## Description:
 - Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
   data security across the Hadoop platform

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

## Activity:
 - Completed the coding and testing activities on version 2.1.0 and initiated a
   process to kick-off the release of 2.1.0 and the release should go to the
   community within a month.
 - Migration of build process to the new infrastructure (ci-builds.a.o) has
   been completed.
 - As the ranger dev community is growing, we see more JIRA(s) are being
   created by non-committers (60% by non-committers)
   - 80 by non-committers, 53 by committers
 - Also, significant amount of JIRA(s) are being resolved by non-committers
   (35%)
   - 34 by non-committers, 62 by committers

## Health report:
- Community is working on 2.1.0 release
- Significant work is being done by new/non-committers and should be getting
  more committers to the projects

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 20 PMC members
 - No new PMC members. Last addition was Sailaja Polavarapu on 2019-09-18.

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 29 committers
 - No new committers. Last addition was Nikhil Purbhe on 2019-05-22.

## Releases:
 - Apache Ranger 2.0.0 was released on 2019-08-07.
 - Apache Ranger 1.2.0 was released on 2018-10-04.
 - Apache Ranger 1.1.0 was released on 2018-07-09.

## Mailing list activity:
 - Regular activity continues.
 - dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 1237 emails sent to list in the last 3 months (+36%)
 - user@ranger.apache.org:
    - 13 emails sent to list in the last 3 months (-24%)

## JIRA activity:
 - 116 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months (+17%)
 - 113 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months (+39%)

## Commit activity:
 - 90 commits in the last 3 months (+9%)
 - 21 active code contributors in the last 3 months (+5%)

15 Jul 2020 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Sander]

No report was submitted.

20 May 2020 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Niclas]

## Description:
 - Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
   data security across the Hadoop platform

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

## Activity:
 - As we are working through the end of 2.1.0 release cycle, there are a
   lot of testing and bug fix activities in the community.
 - Planning activities for the next major release should begin in the
   upcoming quarter along with the release of 2.1.0.

## Health report:
- Community is working on 2.1.0 release with
   - support for Documentation level authorization for Apache Solr
   - support for escrow of Apache Ranger KMS keys in external valut
   - 50+ new improvements
   - minor Fixes to 2.0.0 releases
   - support for Hive 3.1.2
   - added knox proxy support for all plugins.

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 20 PMC members
 - No new PMC members. Last addition was Sailaja Polavarapu on 2019-09-18.

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 29 committers
 - No new committers. Last addition was Nikhil Purbhe on 2019-05-22.

## Releases:
 - Apache Ranger 2.0.0 was released on 2019-08-07.
 - Apache Ranger 1.2.0 was released on 2018-10-04.
 - Apache Ranger 1.1.0 was released on 2018-07-09.

## Mailing list activity:
 - Regular activity continues.
 - dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 937 emails sent to list (833 in previous quarter)
 - user@ranger.apache.org:
    - 17 emails sent to list (23 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
 - 89 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 62 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

## Commit activity:
 - 75 commits in the last 3 months
 - 19 active code contributors in the last 3 months

15 Apr 2020 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Craig]

No report was submitted.

15 Jan 2020 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Rich]

## Description:
 - Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
   data security across the Hadoop platform

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

## Activity:
 - Community has been working on 2.1.0 release

## Health report:
- Community is working on 2.1.0 release with
   - minor Fixes to 2.0.0 releases
   - performance improvements,
   - support for Hive 3.1.2
   - support for knox proxy for all plugins.

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 20 PMC members
 - No new PMC members. Last addition was Sailaja Polavarapu on 2019-09-18.

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 29 committers
 - No new committers. Last addition was Nikhil Purbhe on 2019-05-22.

## Releases:
 - Apache Ranger 2.0.0 was released on 2019-08-07.
 - Apache Ranger 1.2.0 was released on 2018-10-04.
 - Apache Ranger 1.1.0 was released on 2018-07-09.

## Mailing list activity:
 - Regular activity continues.
 - dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 879 emails sent to list (1106 in previous quarter)
 - user@ranger.apache.org:
    - 16 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
 - 65 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 57 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

16 Oct 2019 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Shane]

## Description:
 - Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
   data security across the Hadoop platform

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

## Activity:
 - Community has just released a major release - 2.0.0 and working on 2.1.0
   release.
 - Jira: has usual amount of activities in the community. +100(added)
   -72(resolved) over last 3 months

## Health report:
- Completed release of Apache Ranger 2.0.0 with major upgrade to support
  latest release of Hive, HBase and Hadoop.
- Community is working on 2.1.0 release with
   - minor Fixes to 2.0.0 releases
   - Java 11 support
   - able to specify multiple ranger host (w/o load balancer)
   - switch logging framework to slf4j
 - Also, discussing new features for next major releases
   - authorization plugin for sparkSQL, ElasticSearch and Druid

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 20 PMC members
 - Sailaja Polavarapu was added to the PMC on 2019-09-18.

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 29 committers
 - Nikhil Purbhe was added as a committer on Wed May 22 2019

## Releases:
 - Apache Ranger 2.0.0 was released on 2019-08-07.
 - Apache Ranger 1.2.0 was released on 2018-10-04.
 - Apache Ranger 1.1.0 was released on 2018-07-09.

## Mailing list activity:
 - Regular activity continues.
 - dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 1216 emails sent to list (905 in previous quarter)
 - user@ranger.apache.org:
    - 15 emails sent to list (43 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
 - 100 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 72 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

17 Jul 2019 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Myrle]

## Description:
 - Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
   data security across the Hadoop platform

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

## Activity:
 - Community is working toward releasing Apache Ranger 2.0.0
 - Jira: has usual amount of activities in the community. +101(added)
   -93(resolved) over last 3 months
 - Git (source): 90 commits over last 3 months

## Health report:
 - Community is working on 2.0.0 release with features like:
   - support for Hadoop 3, Hive 3.0, HBase 2.0, Kafka 2.0.0
   - Hive, HBase plugin enhancements to authorize new operations
   - Policy model enhancements to support custom conditions at policy level
   - new feature: security-zones
   - new feature: support for roles & role-based access control
   - new feature: Ozone authorization plugin
   - new feature: Presto authorization plugin
 - Regular JIRA activity
 - Reporter tool provides healthy score

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 19 PMC members
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Qiang Zhang on Fri Feb 08 2019

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 29 committers
 - Nikhil Purbhe was added as a committer on Wed May 22 2019

## Releases:
 - Last release was Apache Ranger 1.2.0 on Wed Oct 03 2018

## Mailing list activity:
 - Regular activity continues.
 - dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 110 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months)
    - 950 emails sent to list (497 in previous quarter)
 - user@ranger.apache.org:
    - 186 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months)
    - 43 emails sent to list (114 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
 - 101 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 93 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

17 Apr 2019 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Phil]

## Description:
 - The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
   comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.

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

## Activity:
 - Team has been working on fixing issues to make Ranger work with Apache
   Hadoop 3.0+ technology suite for releasing next major Ranger version 2.0.0.
 - Also, team has added following new features in Ranger: Security
   Zone,Incremental Policy Upgrade, expand support for other HSM key storage.

## Health report:
 - As we are closer to the tail-end of the major release (Ranger 2.0.0), our
   mailing list counts seems to be lower than usual

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 19 PMC members.
 - Qiang Zhang was added to the PMC on Fri Feb 08 2019

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 28 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Bhavik Patel at Thu Nov 01 2018

## Releases:
 - Last release was Apache Ranger 1.2.0 on Wed Oct 03 2018

## Mailing list activity:
 - dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 111 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
    - 498 emails sent to list (795 in previous quarter)
 - user@ranger.apache.org:
    - 188 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
    - 114 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:
 - 76 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 57 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

16 Jan 2019 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Bertrand]

## Description:
 - The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.

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

## Activity:
 - Jira activities are normal for a post release of 1.2.0 release and working towards new major release, 2.0.0.
 - SVN (ranger site updates): 2 commits over last 3 months - mainly to update migration to gitbox repository;

## Health report:
 - Team is working on a major release of Ranger - version 2.0.0 with supporting for securing new version of other apache projects (Kafaka 2.0, Knox 1.1.0, Kylin 2.5.0, ...)
 - Team is also working on a minor release of Ranger on 1.2.1 on top of the last release of 1.2.0 to fix few minor issues.
 - Worked with Apache INFRA team to move our repository to gitbox

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Abhay Kulkarni on Fri Dec 15 2017

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 28 committers.
 - New commmitters:
    - Bhavik Patel was added as a committer on Thu Nov 01 2018
    - Nitin Galave was added as a committer on Thu Nov 01 2018

## Releases:
 - Apache Ranger 1.2.0 was released on Wed Oct 03 2018

## Mailing list activity:
 - dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 104 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 1004 emails sent to list (874 in previous quarter)
 - user@ranger.apache.org:
    - 180 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 15 emails sent to list (34 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
 - 77 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 78 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

17 Oct 2018 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Mark]

## Description:
 - The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.

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

## Activity:
 - Community has released Apache Ranger 1.2.0
 - Jira: has usual amount of activities in the community. +93(added) -64(resolved) over last 3 months.
 - Git (source): 253 commits over last 3 months; Some of the key improvements have been added to ranger source code along with backport to older maint-releases - showing unusally higher commits than usual.
 - SVN (ranger site updates): 2 commits over last 3 months;

## Health report:
 - Release Apache Ranger 1.2.0 with major performance improvement features and address some of the upgrade issues
 - Community is working on next release of 2.0.0 with features like support for Hive3.0, HBase 2.0, Kafka 2.0.0 along with Enhacements to Hive,HBase plugins to perform new authorization support.
 - Also, Community is working to release a maint release of 1.2.1 soon with few bug fixes.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Abhay Kulkarni on Fri Dec 15 2017

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 26 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Zsombor Gegesy at Sat Dec 09 2017

## Releases:

 - Apache Ranger 1.2.0 was released on Wed Oct 03 2018

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 104 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 1020 emails sent to list (921 in previous quarter)

 - user@ranger.apache.org:
    - 176 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
    - 17 emails sent to list (69 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

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

15 Aug 2018 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Bertrand]

## Description:
 - The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
   comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.

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

## Activity:
 - Community has released Apache Ranger 1.1.0 and working on new
   features/improvements/bug fixes on the releases 2.0.0 and 1.x
 - Jira: +86(added) -65(resolved) over last 3 months
 - Git (Source): 53 commits over last 3 months
 - SVN (ranger site updates): 2 commits over last 3 months

## Health report:
 - Released Apache Ranger 1.1.0 with 20+ improvements to Apache Ranger and lot
   of bug fixes
 - Working on new features/improvements/bug fixes on the releases 2.0.0 and
   1.x

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Abhay Kulkarni on Fri Dec 15 2017

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 26 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Zsombor Gegesy at Sat Dec 09 2017

## Releases:

 - Apache Ranger 1.1.0 was released on Mon Jul 09 2018

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 105 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 871 emails sent to list (1352 in previous quarter)

 - user@ranger.apache.org:
    - 173 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 67 emails sent to list (34 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

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

18 Jul 2018 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Roman]

No report was submitted.

18 Apr 2018 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Rich]

## Description:
 - The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.

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

## Activity:
 - Community has release Apache Ranger 1.0 and working on improve/fix bugs on the releases both 1.0 and 0.7.x
 - Jira: +110(added) -96(resolved) over last 3 months
 - Git (Source): 58 commits over last 3 months
 - SVN (ranger site updates): 15 commits over last 3 months

## Health report:
 - Released Apache Ranger 1.0 with authorization engine to work with Apache Hadoop 3.0+ ecosystem
 - Working on some of the open bugs (branch 0.7 and 1.0 releases) along with new features for next release

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Abhay Kulkarni on Fri Dec 15 2017

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 26 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Zsombor Gegesy at Sat Dec 09 2017

## Releases:
 - Apache Ranger 1.0.0 was released on Sun Mar 18 2018

## Mailing list activity:
 - dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 102 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 1144 emails sent to list (1356 in previous quarter)

 - user@ranger.apache.org:
    - 170 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 44 emails sent to list (56 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
 - 110 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 96 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

17 Jan 2018 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Ted]

## Description:
The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform.

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

## Activity:
 - Community is working to improve/fix security related issues and working to
   integrate with latest hadoop releases.
 - Jira: +120(added) -110(resolved) over last 3 months
 - Git (Source): 126 (branch:master,ranger-0.7) commits over last 3 months

## Health report:
 - Working on few (non CVE) security issues raised by security@apache - will
   be released in upcoming releases
 - Finalizing the next release details within community

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 18 PMC members.
 - Abhay Kulkarni was added to the PMC on Fri Dec 15 2017

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 26 committers.
 - Zsombor Gegesy was added as a committer on Sat Dec 09 2017

## Releases:

 - Last release was Apache Ranger 0.7.1 on Tue Jun 06 2017

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 101 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 1353 emails sent to list (1561 in previous quarter)

 - user@ranger.apache.org:
    - 169 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
    - 68 emails sent to list (63 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

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

15 Nov 2017 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Brett]

# Description:
The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform.

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

# Activity:
* Community is working to improve security features of hive/hdfs/usersync
  modules and adding more integration with Apache Atlas
* Jira: +192(added) -133(resolved) over last 3 months
* Git (Source): 148 commits over last 3 months

# Health report:
* Fixed few CVE issues - raised by community and user groups
* Actively working to add more functionalities to Apache Ranger
* Still working on next release with more integration with Apache Atlas

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 17 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Alok Lal on Tue Jan 17 2017

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 25 committers.
 - New commmitters:
    - Deepak Sharma was added as a committer on Wed Sep 20 2017
    - Jianhua Peng was added as a committer on Tue Sep 26 2017

## Releases:
 - Last release was Apache Ranger 0.7.1 on Tue Jun 06 2017

## Mailing list activity:
 - dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 97 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 1740 emails sent to list (1554 in previous quarter)

 - user@ranger.apache.org:
    - 164 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
    - 66 emails sent to list (72 in previous quarter)

18 Oct 2017 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Rich]

No report was submitted.

19 Jul 2017 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Brett]

# Description:
The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform.

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

# Activity:
* Community is working to improve security features of hive/hdfs/usersync
  modules and adding more integration with Apache Atlas
* Jira: +182(added) -176(resolved) over last 3 months (Apr-2017 to June-2017)
* Git (Source): 164 commits over last 3 months (Apr-2017 to Jun-2017)
* SVN (Site & Docs): 1 commits over last 3 moths (Apr-2017 to Jun-2017)

# Health report:
* Fixed few CVE issues - raised by community and user groups
* Actively working to add more functionalities to Apache Ranger
* Still working on next release with more integration with Apache Atlas

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 17 PMC members.
 - Last PMC members were added as part of Ranger Graduation on Jan 18, 2017.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months

# Committer base changes:
* Currently 23 committers.
* No new commmitters added in the last 3 months:
    - Qiang Zhang was added as a committer on Mon Mar 04 2017

# Releases:
* 0.7.1: 2017-06-06

# Mailing list activity:
* dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 1755 emails sent to list (durng the period Apr-2017 and Jun-2017)
* user@ranger.apache.org:
    -  109 emails sent to list (durng the period Apr-2017 and Jun-2017)
* commits@ranger.apache.org:
    - 247 emails sent to list (durng the period Apr-2017 and Jun-2017)


# JIRA activity:
* 182 JIRA tickets created during the period Apr-2017 and Jun-2017
* 176 JIRA tickets closed/resolved during the period Apr-2017 and Jun-2017

19 Apr 2017 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Phil]

# Description:
The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform.

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

# Activity:
* Community is adding new enhancements for next 1.0.0 and lot of interest in
  inegration with Apache Atlas
* Jira: +73(added) -71(resolved) over last 31 days (Mar-2017)
* Git (Source): 67 commits over last 31 days (Mar-2017)
* SVN (Site & Docs): 2 commits over last 31 days (Mar-2017)

# Health report:
* Added one new committers and Expecting more adaption to Apache Ranger
* Scoping for next release is in progress, which may include integration with
  other Apache projects

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 17 PMC members.
 - Last PMC members were added as part of Ranger Graduation on Jan 18, 2017.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 1 months

# Committer base changes:
* Currently 23 committers.
* New commmitters in the last 1 months:
    - Qiang Zhang was added as a committer on Mon Mar 04 2017

# Releases:
* No new releases in Mar 2017

# Mailing list activity:
* dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 734 emails sent to list (in the month of Mar 2017)
* user@ranger.apache.org:
    -  16 emails sent to list (in the month of Mar 2017)
* commits@ranger.apache.org:
    - 108 emails sent to list (in the month of Mar 2017)


# JIRA activity:
* 73 JIRA tickets created in the month of Mar 2017
* 71 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the month of Mar 2017

15 Mar 2017 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Chris]

# Description:

The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform.

# Issues:

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

# Activity:

 * Ranger 0.7.0 release is done and Community is working on 1.0.0 release
   activities
 * Jira: 105 total, +72(added) -58(resolved) over last 28 days (Feb-2017)
 * Git (Source): 83 commits over last 28 days (Feb-2017)
 * SVN (Site & Docs): 2 commits over last 28 days (Feb-2017)

# Health report:

 * Added five more committers and Expecting more adaption to Apache Ranger
 * Scoping for next release is in progress, which may include integration with
   other Apache projects

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 17 PMC members.
 - Last PMC members were added as part of Ranger Graduation on Jan 18, 2017.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 1 months

# Committer base changes:

 * Currently 22 committers.
 * New commmitters:
    - Abhay Kulkarni was added as a committer on Mon Feb 13 2017
    - Ankita Sinha was added as a committer on Thu Feb 09 2017
    - Mehul Parikh was added as a committer on Sun Feb 26 2017
    - Pradeep Agrawal was added as a committer on Thu Feb 09 2017
    - Sailaja Polavarapu was added as a committer on Mon Feb 13 2017

# Releases:

 * 0.7.0 was released on Sun Feb 26 2017

# Mailing list activity:

 * dev@ranger.apache.org:
    - 856 emails sent to list (in the month of Feb 2017)
 * user@ranger.apache.org:
    - 48 emails sent to list (in the month of Feb 2017)
 * commits@ranger.apache.org:
    - 125 emails sent to list (in the month of Feb 2017)

# JIRA activity:

 * 72 JIRA tickets created in the month of Feb 2017
 * 58 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the month of Feb 2017

27 Feb 2017 [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Shane]

# Description

The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform.

# Issues

 * Running into some JIRA permission issues for the past few days. Working
   with INFRA team (INFRA-13423)

# Status

 * Graduation approved by board on Jan 18, 2017
 * Working through tasks required of graduating projects
 * Release Plan for Ranger 0.7.0 will be started soon.

# Releases

 * ranger-0.6.3 released on 2017-01-30 (Fixed some of the key security issues)

# Development Activity

 * Community is discussing the scope of next release
 * Jira: 55(added), 66(resolved) (in the last 31 days)
 * Git(Source): 75 commits over last 31 days
 * SVN(Site & Docs): 5 commits over last 31 days

# Community Activity

 ## Membership Changes

 * Added all committers to PMC list as part of the graduation (01-18-2017);
   Added (Alok Lal, Colm O hEigeartaigh, Gautam Borad)
 * Gautam Borad was added as a committer on 06-29-2015

 ## Mailing List Activity

 * user@ranger:     48 messages over last 31 days
 * dev@ranger:      587 messages over last 31 days
 * commits@ranger:  96 messages over last 31 days

18 Jan 2017

Establish the Apache Ranger 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 a data management platform that provides
 real-time, consistent access to data-intensive applications
 throughout widely distributed cloud architectures.

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

 RESOLVED,that the Apache Ranger Project be and hereby is
 responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
 related to a data management platform that provides real-time,
 consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout
 widely distributed cloud architectures.

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

   * Alok La <alok@apache.org>
   * Alan Gates <gates@apache.org>
   * Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@apache.org>
   * Colm O hEigeartaigh <coheigea@apache.org>
   * Daniel Gruno <humbedooh@apache.org>
   * Devaraj Das <ddas@apache.org>
   * Don Bosco Durai <bosco@apache.org>
   * Dilli Dorai <dillidorai@apache.org>
   * Gautam Borad <gautam@apache.org>
   * Kevin Minder <kminder@apache.org>
   * Larry McCay <lmccay@apache.org>
   * Madhanmohan Neethiraj <madhan@apache.org>
   * Ramesh Mani <rmani@apache.org>
   * Owen O'Malley <omalley@apache.org>
   * Sanjay Radia <sradia@apache.org>
   * Selvamohan Neethiraj <sneethir@apache.org>
   * Velmurugan Periasamy <vel@apache.org>

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Selvamohan Neethiraj be
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Ranger, 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 initial Apache Ranger PMC be and hereby is
 tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
 encourage open development and increased participation in the
 Apache Ranger Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Ranger Project be and hereby is tasked
 with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator
 Ranger podling; and be it further

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

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

21 Dec 2016

The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.

Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.

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

 1. Working with Mentors on all action/preparation for Graduation
 2. Re-organize documentation for easier access to end-users, new users
    and contributors.
 3. Expanding user/dev community

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?

 1. Mailing list activity since last report (September-01-2016 to
    November-30-2016):
           @dev              648
           @user              96
           @commit           140

 2. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after
    September-01-2016 before November-30-2016):
           Created:         71
           Resolved:        48

 3. Adding more community members to involve in Apache Ranger

How has the project developed since the last report?

 1. Released one minor release:
    0.6.2 released on 11/08/2016

 2. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.7.0
    a. Working on the roadmap features to be delivered soon.

 3. Members are actively involved in Graduation process in the dev
    community

    * "Graduation Maturity Assessment" is being discussed in the community

    * Elected VP/PMC Chair for Ranger:  Selvamohan Neethiraj

Date of last release:

 November-08-2016

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 1. Velmurugan Periasamy has been added as PMC member on
    September-05-2016

Signed-off-by:

 [X](ranger) Alan Gates
 [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
 [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
 [ ](ranger) Jakob Homan
 [ ](ranger) Owen O'Malley

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

 Alan Gates:

   The community is actively working on graduating.  They have been
   discussing a draft proposal on the dev list and are working out a
   few final details before taking it to the Incubator PMC.  Based on
   their self assessment against the maturity model, community growth,
   and several Apache releases I believe they are ready to graduate.

21 Sep 2016

The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform.

Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.

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

 1. Increase the community participants for Apache Ranger
 2. Re-organize documentation for easier access to end-users, new users and
    contributors.
 3. Integration of Apache Ranger with other Apache Initiatives

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?

 1. Mailing list activity since last report (June-01-2016 to August-31-2016):
           @dev          1423
           @user          124
           @commit        294

 2. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after June-01-2016
    before August-31-2016):
           Created:        155
           Resolved:       168

 3. Adding more community members to involve in Apache Ranger
       * Added new contributors: Suneel Marthi
       * Apache Hawq community is working with Ranger to build a
         authorization engine for Apache Hawq (RANGER-782)

How has the project developed since the last report?

 1. Released one major release :
       0.6.0 released on 07/18/2016

 2. Released one minor release :
       0.6.1 released on 08/20/2016

 3. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.7.0
    a. Working on scoping of the release and features

Date  of last release:

 August-20-2016

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 1. Gautam Borad has been added as committer on June-29-2015

Signed-off-by:

 [X](ranger) Alan Gates
 [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
 [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
 [X](ranger) Jakob Homan
 [ ](ranger) Owen O'Malley

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

 Drew Farris:

   Three mentors active. New release available in August.  Community
   growth. Discussion of Graduation Steps. A healthy podling.

15 Jun 2016

The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.

Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.

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

 1. Increase the community participants for Apache Ranger
 2. Re-organize documentation for easier access to end-users, new users and
    contributors.
 3. Integration of Apache Ranger with other Apache Initiatives

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?

 1. Mailing list activity since last report (April-01-2016 to May-31-2016):
           @dev          1090
           @user          118
           @commit        174
 2. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after April-01-2016
    before Mar-31-2016):
           Created:        94
           Resolved:       92

How has the project developed since the last report?

 1. Released one minor releases :
       0.5.3 released on 05/31/2016
 2. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.6.0
    a. Working on fixing bugs in the current 0.6.0 features

Date  of last release:

 May-31-2016

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 1.  Colm O hEigeartaigh has been added as committer on April 19, 2016

Signed-off-by:

 [X](ranger) Alan Gates
 [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
 [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
 [x](ranger) Jakob Homan
 [ ](ranger) Owen O'Malley

20 Apr 2016

The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.

Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.

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

 1. Increase the community participants for Apache Ranger
 2. Re-organize documentation for easier access to end-users, new users and
    contributors.
 3. Integration of Apache Ranger with other Apache Security Initiatives

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?

 1. Added new contributors:
       (Bolke de Bruin,Deepak Sharma,Colm O hEigeartaigh,Tushar
       Dudhatra,mugdha.varadkar,pradeep.agrawal,mehul,ankita.sinha)
       Total Contributor Count: 23
 2. Mailing list activity since last report (Dec-01-2015 to Mar-31-2016):
       @dev          1534
       @user          153
       @commit        345
 3. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after Dec-01-2015
    before Mar-31-2016):
       Created:       153
       Resolved:      140

How has the project developed since the last report?

 1. Released two minor releases :
       0.5.1 release on 01/26/2016
       0.5.2 release on 02/29/2016
 2. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.6.0
    a. Working with new contributors to add HSM support for Apache Ranger
       KMS.
    b. Working to provide both Column-level-masking and Row-level-filtering
       support for data security
    c. Working to add Tag-Based authorization policies

Date of last release:

 Feb-29-2016

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 1. Gautam Borad has been added as committer on June-29-2015

Signed-off-by:

 [ ](ranger) Alan Gates
 [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
 [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
 [X](ranger) Jakob Homan
 [X](ranger) Owen O'Malley

16 Dec 2015

The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.

Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.

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

 1. Increase the community participants for Apache Ranger
 2. Re-organize documentation for easier access to end-users, new users and
    contributors.
 3. Integration of Apache Ranger with other Apache Security Initiatives

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?

 1. Added one new contributor: (Varun Rao)
 2. Mailing list activity since last report (Sep-01-2015 to Nov-30-2015):
           @dev          1068
           @user          188
           @commit        463
 3. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after Sep-01-2015
    before Nov-30-2015):
           Created:       121
           Resolved:       96

How has the project developed since the last report?

 1. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.6.0
 2. Also, as we have a lot of bug-fixes on top of 0.5.0 release, we are
    working towards a 0.5.1 release.
 3. Working with new contributors to add HSM support for Apache Ranger KMS.

Date of last release:

 JUNE-10-2015

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 1. Gautam Borad has been added as committer on June-29-2015

Signed-off-by:

 [X](ranger) Alan Gates
 [X](ranger) Daniel Gruno
 [X](ranger) Devaraj Das
 [X](ranger) Jakob Homan
 [ ](ranger) Owen O'Malley

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

16 Sep 2015

The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.

Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.

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

 1. Increase the community participants for Apache Ranger
 2. Provide easier user guide/documentation to support new users and
    contributors.
 3. Discuss and decide on roadmap for next release

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

 None

How has the community developed since the last report?

 1. Added three new contributors: (Hanish Bansal, Mack Hendricks, Sailaja
    Polavarapu)
 2. Added one new committer (Gautam Borad)
 3. Mailing list activity since last report (June-01-2015 to Aug-31-2015):
           @dev          856
           @user         259
           @commit       355
 4. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after June-01-2015
    before Sep-01-2015):
           Created:       113
           Resolved:      166

How has the project developed since the last report?

 1. Project has successfully completed - second major release of Apache
    Ranger - 0.5.0 on 06/10/2015
 2. Members have been working on roadmap for the next release – 0.6.0.

Date of last release:

 JUNE-10-2015

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 1. Gautam Borad has been added as committer on June-29-2015

Signed-off-by:

 [X](ranger) Alan Gates
 [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
 [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
 [ ](ranger) Jakob Homan
 [X](ranger) Owen O'Malley

17 Jun 2015

The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform.

Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.

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

 1.  Increase the community participants within Apache Ranger
 2.  Establish a automated git check-in process to validate the check-in
     patches for quality control (similar to Hadoop QA)
 3.  Provide easier user guide/documentation to support new users and
     contributors.

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?

 1. More users/contributors are contributing to  Apache Ranger
 2. Mailing list activity since last report (March-01-2015 to June-01-2015) :
           @dev          335
           @user         135
           @commit       538
 3. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after March-01-2015
    before June-01-2015):
           Created:       239
           Resolved:      232

How has the project developed since the last report?

   1. Project is working towards second major release of Apache Ranger - 0.5.0
   2. Added more contributors from the community

Date of last release:

 NOV-17-2014

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

   1. Alok Lal has been added as committer on May-14-2015

Signed-off-by:

 [X](ranger) Alan Gates
 [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
 [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
 [X](ranger) Jakob Homan
 [ ](ranger) Owen O'Malley

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

 P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz):

   Project looks healthy. 2 of 5 mentors actively engaged with the community.

18 Mar 2015

The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.

Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.

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

 1.  Increase the Ranger committers across industry verticals
 2.  Establish a automated git check-in process to validate the check-in
     patches for quality control (similar to Hadoop QA)
 3.  Add more documentation to support new users and contributors.

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?

 1. Working with more contributors on validating Apache Ranger
 2. Mailing list activity since last report (Jan-01-2015 to Mar-01-2015) :
           @dev          335
           @user          68
           @commit       310
 3. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after Jan-01-2015
    before March-01-2015):
           Created:       70
           Resolved:      24

How has the project developed since the last report?

   1. Project is working towards second release of Apache Ranger 0.5.0
   2. Ranger Documentation wiki Site
      (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER) has been updated
      with more information.

Date of last release:

 NOV-17-2014

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

   1. Velmurugan Periasamy has been added as committer on Jan-08-2015

Signed-off-by:

 [X](ranger) Alan Gates
 [x](ranger) Daniel Gruno
 [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
 [ ](ranger) Jakob Homan
 [ ](ranger) Owen O'Malley

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

 Timothy Chen (tnachen):

   JIRAs and Email list looks healthy and growing.

21 Jan 2015

The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.

Apache Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.

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

 * Increase the Ranger contributors/committers across industry verticals
 * Establish a automated git check-in process to validate the check-in
   patches for quality control (similar to Hadoop QA)
 * Add more documentation to support new users and contributors.

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?

 * Added few more contributors
 * Vote for adding an additional committer is in progress with
   private@ranger.incubator
 * Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after Oct-01-2014
   before Dec-30-2014):
       Created:        115
       Resolved:       100

How has the project developed since the last report?

 * Project Name has been renamed from "Apache Argus” to “Apache Ranger”
 * Three Release candidates were voted in dev community for Ranger-0.4.0
   version and RC3 has been voted to be released in IPMC
 * First release of Apache Ranger 0.4.0 on Nov-17,2014
 * Apache Ranger 0.4.0 Release artifacts are published in
   official dist directory.
 * Ranger Documentation wiki Site
   (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER) has been added.
 * Working on release of Apache 0.4.1 to avoid compilation issues related
   to SNAPSHOT libraries in HBase and Hive dependencies
 * Working on adding more security functionalities for the next release,
   Apache Ranger 0.5.0

Date of last release:

 Nov-17-2014

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 none yet

Signed-off-by:

 [X](ranger) Alan Gates
 [X](ranger) Daniel Gruno
 [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
 [X](ranger) Jakob Homan
 [X](ranger) Owen O'Malley

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

 John D. Ament (johndament):

   Ranger suffered a bit from a renaming issue that came up.  Activity on
   the lists is a little bit lighter since, but I'm sure will bounce back.
   I'm concerned over inability to access the wiki though, sent a note to
   the podling to request proper access.

15 Oct 2014

The Argus project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform.

Argus has been incubating since 2014-07-24.

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

 * Get approval for name of Argus (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-54)
      * Requested a name change to “Apache Ranger”
 * Make a release
 * Add new committers

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?

 * Added few more contributors

How has the project developed since the last report?

 * Create a project website
 * Working towards first incubator release (version 0.4.0)
 * 54 jiras resolved this month

Date of last release:

 none yet

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 none yet

Signed-off-by:

 [X](argus) Alan Gates
 [ ](argus) Daniel Gruno
 [ ](argus) Devaraj Das
 [ ](argus) Jakob Homan
 [ ](argus) Owen O'Malley

17 Sep 2014

The Argus project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
comprehensivedata security across the Hadoop platform.

Argus has been incubating since 2014-07-24.

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

   1. Get all podling committers and mentors on mailing lists - COMPLETED
   2. Publish initial code drop along with a code grant       - COMPLETED
   3. Get approval for name of Argus (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-54)   - IN PROGRESS
   4. Create a project website                                - TO DO

 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?

   * Developers are showing interest in contribution to Apache Argus

 How has the project developed since the last report?

   * Code Grant has been sent to Apache
   * Initial Codebase is uploaded to Apache Argus git repository
   * Review Board for Argus project has been setup for code review process
   * Total of 32 JIRA tickets have been created; out of which 21 of them
     are RESOLVED.
     - 9 - CLOSED
     - 12 - RESOLVED,
     - 3 - PATCH_AVAILABLE
     - 4 - IN PROGRESS
     - 4 - OPEN


 Date of last release:

   none yet

 When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

   none yet

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](argus) Alan Gates
  [ ](argus) Daniel Gruno
  [ ](argus) Devaraj Das
  [x](argus) Jakob Homan
  [x](argus) Owen O'Malley

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

Argus appears to be brand new.  They don't have a working website yet (was
unclear if there was a pending ticket for it not), though mailing list is
working and let me subscribe.  They do have a draft board report floating
around their mailing list, which is a great sign for a brand new podling.

20 Aug 2014

The Argus project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform.

Argus has been incubating since 2014-07-24.

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

 1. Get all podling committers and mentors on mailing lists
 2. Publish initial code drop along with a code grant
 3. Get approval for name of Argus (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-54)
 4. Create a project website

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

 As part of the discussion about entering incubator, we added a second
mentor (Daniel Gruno) from outside of Hortonworks.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 * podling accepted into incubator
 * all committers have ICLA filed and accounts created
 * Jira created
 * status page created
 * git repostiory created
 * mailing lists created

How has the project developed since the last report?

 This is the first report.

Date of last release:

 none yet

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 none yet

Signed-off-by:

 [X](argus) Alan Gates
 [ ](argus) Daniel Gruno
 [X](argus) Devaraj Das
 [X](argus) Jakob Homan
 [X](argus) Owen O'Malley