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Tephra

19 Jun 2019

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions
on top of Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

### Most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Improve community engagement
 2. Increase adoption

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

 - None at this time.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

 - 4 new JIRAs filed since the last report

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 - Working on 0.16.0-incubating release
 - Working on HBase 1.5 and 2.1 support

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [ ] Initial setup
 - [ ] Working towards first release
 - [x] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 2018-09-04

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 - None since coming to incubation

### Have your mentors been helpful?

 - Mentors are helpful and responsive.
 - We do only have 2 mentors.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (tephra) Alan Gates
    Comments:
 - [X] (tephra) James Taylor
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

20 Mar 2019

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions
on top of Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

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

 1. Improve community engagement
 2. Increase adoption

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

 - None at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 - 1 new JIRA filed since the last report
 - 1 new bug created since the last report

How has the project developed since the last report?

 - Working on 0.16.0-incubating release

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 [ ] Initial setup
 [ ] Working towards first release
 [x] Community building
 [ ] Nearing graduation
 [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

 2018-09-04

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 - None since coming to incubation

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.

 - Mentors are helpful and responsive

Signed-off-by:

 [X](tephra) Alan Gates
    Comments:
 [X](tephra) James Taylor
    Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

19 Dec 2018

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions
on top of Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

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

 1. Improve community engagement
 2. Increase adoption

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

 - None at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 - 1 new subscriber in dev mailing list since the last report

How has the project developed since the last report?

 - Working on 0.16.0-incubating release

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 [ ] Initial setup
 [ ] Working towards first release
 [x] Community building
 [ ] Nearing graduation
 [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

 2018-09-04

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 - None since coming to incubation

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.

 - Mentors are helpful and responsive

Signed-off-by:

 [X](tephra) Alan Gates
    Comments:
 [X](tephra) James Taylor
    Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

19 Sep 2018

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions
on top of Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

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

 1. Improve community engagement
 2. Increase adoption

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

 - None at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 - 5 new JIRAs filed since the last report
 - 1 new subscriber in dev mailing list since the last report

How has the project developed since the last report?

 - Tephra 0.15.0-incubating released

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 [ ] Initial setup
 [ ] Working towards first release
 [x] Community building
 [ ] Nearing graduation
 [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

 2018-09-04

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 - None since coming to incubation

Signed-off-by:

 [X](tephra) Alan Gates
    Comments:
 [ ](tephra) Andrew Purtell
    Comments:
 [x](tephra) James Taylor
    Comments:
 [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl
    Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:
 Dave Fisher: This podling thinks they are near graduation, but has never
 added any new committers/PPMC members. Not so sure. I sent a message to the
 podling about this.
 Alan Gates:  This is my fault.  See email thread
 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html413e06bde2263f2f56797e871b256ec1584f8c5
 41fdc5e96857b13f5@%3Cdev.tephra.apache.org%3E where I started pushing them
 towards determining their future direction.  I assumed they had added
 additional PPMC members without checking.  I can take this feedback back to
 them and help them work through this.
 James Taylor: I've updated the community assessment to "Community building"
 based on the above feedback.

20 Jun 2018

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top of
Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

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

 1. Improve community engagement
 2. Increase adoption

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

 - None at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 - 7 new JIRAs filed since the last report

How has the project developed since the last report?

 - Completed the 0.14.0-incubating release
 - Working on 0.15.0-incubating release
 - Added support for HBase 2.0 (new major version of HBase)

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 [ ] Initial setup
 [ ] Working towards first release
 [x] Community building
 [ ] Nearing graduation
 [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

 2018-05-30

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 - None since coming to incubation

Signed-off-by:

 [X](tephra) Alan Gates
    Comments:  Sent following email to dev list after reading this report:
 It seems development on Tephra has slowed quite a bit lately, with only 7
 JIRAs filed during the last 3 months.  I know Tephra is used in other
 projects, like Apache Phoenix.  Is this slowdown temporary?  Is development
 slowing because Tephra is mature and only maintenance is now required?  Is
 it continuing to be picked up by new projects or only used in 1 or 2
 places?  I ask because it feels like it is near time for Tephra to graduate
 (it's been incubating for over 2 years now) and what needs to be done to
 graduate is somewhat determined by the answers to these questions.
 [ ](tephra) Andrew Purtell
    Comments:
 [x](tephra) James Taylor
    Comments:
 [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl
    Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

}}}

21 Mar 2018

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top of
Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

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

 1. Improve community engagement
 2. Increase adoption

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

- None at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

- 15 new JIRAs filed since the last report
- 1 external contributors submitted patches since the last report
- 1 external contributor created tickets in JIRA since the last report

How has the project developed since the last report?

- Working on 0.14.0-incubating release
- Adding support for HBase 2.0 (new major version of HBase)

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 [ ] Initial setup
 [ ] Working towards first release
 [x] Community building
 [ ] Nearing graduation
 [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

 2017-09-21

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

- None since coming to incubation

Signed-off-by:

 [ ](tephra) Alan Gates
    Comments:
 [ ](tephra) Andrew Purtell
    Comments:
 [x](tephra) James Taylor
    Comments:
 [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl
    Comments:

20 Dec 2017

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top of
Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

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

1. Improve community engagement
2. Increase adoption

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

- None at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

- 1 new subscriber in dev mailing list since the last report
- 18 new JIRAs filed since the last report
- 1 external contributors submitted patches since the last report
- 1 external contributor created a ticket in JIRA since the last report

How has the project developed since the last report?

- Tephra 0.13.0-incubating released
- Working on 0.14.0-incubating release

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[x] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:

Date of the last release:

 2017-09-21

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

- None since coming to incubation


Signed-off-by:

 [X](tephra) Alan Gates
    Comments:
 [ ](tephra) Andrew Purtell
    Comments:
 [x](tephra) James Taylor
    Comments:
 [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl
    Comments:

20 Sep 2017

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top of
Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

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

1. Improve community engagement
2. Increase adoption

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

- None at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

- 1 new subscriber in dev mailing list since the last report
- 16 new JIRAs filed since the last report
- 2 external contributors submitted patches since the last report
- 4 external contributor created a ticket in JIRA since the last report

How has the project developed since the last report?

- Working on 0.13.0-incubating release

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[x] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:

Date of the last release:

 2017-05-30

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

- None since coming to incubation

Signed-off-by:

 [X](tephra) Alan Gates
    Comments:
 [ ](tephra) Andrew Purtell
    Comments:
 [X](tephra) James Taylor
    Comments:
 [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl
    Comments:

21 Jun 2017

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top of
Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

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

1. Improve community engagement 2. Increase adoption

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

- None at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

- Andreas Neumann talked about Apache Tephra as part of his talk on
"Transactions in Hadoop" at ApacheCon BigData North America 2017 in Miami,
Florida, USA

- 2 new subscribers in dev mailing list since the last report
- 4 new JIRAs filed since the last report
- 0 external contributors submitted patches since the last report
- 1 external contributor created a ticket in JIRA since the last report

How has the project developed since the last report?

- Working on 0.13.0-incubating release
- Released 0.12.0-incubating


How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own
commentary.

 [ ] Initial setup
 [ ] Working towards first release
 [X] Community building
 [ ] Nearing graduation
 [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

 2016-05-23

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 None since coming to incubation

Signed-off-by:

 [X](tephra) Alan Gates
    Comments:
 [ ](tephra) Andrew Purtell
    Comments:
 [X](tephra) James Taylor
    Comments:
 [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl
    Comments:

15 Mar 2017

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top of
Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

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

 1. Regular releases
 2. Improve community engagement
 3. Increase adoption

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

 - None at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 - 1 new subscriber in dev mailing list since the last report
 - 25 new JIRAs filed since the last report
 - 0 external contributors submitted patches since the last report
 - 1 external contributor created a ticket in JIRA since the last report

How has the project developed since the last report?

 - Working on 0.11.0-incubating release
 - Released 0.10.0-incubating

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 [ ] Initial setup
 [ ] Working towards first release
 [x] Community building
 [ ] Nearing graduation
 [ ] Other:

Date of the last release:

   2016-12-16

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 - None since coming to incubation

Signed-off-by:

 [X](tephra) Alan Gates
    Comments:
 [X](tephra) Andrew Purtell
    Comments:
 [ ](tephra) James Taylor
    Comments:
 [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl
    Comments:

21 Dec 2016

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top
of Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.


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

 1. Regular releases
 2. Improve community engagement
 3. Increase adoption

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

 - None at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 - 18 subscribers in dev mailing list
 - 21 new JIRAs filed since the last report
 - 4 external contributors submitted patches since the last report

How has the project developed since the last report?

 - Working on 0.10.0 release
 - Released 0.9.0

Date of the last release:

 2016-09-18

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 - None since coming to incubation

Signed-off-by:

 [X](tephra) Alan Gates
 [ ](tephra) Andrew Purtell
 [x](tephra) James Taylor
 [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

 Drew Farris (Shepherd):

   Two mentors active on mailing lists. Project is building towards a
   healthy community.

21 Sep 2016

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top of
Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

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

 1. Regular releases
 2. Improve community engagement
 3. Increase adoption

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

 - None at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 - 12 subscribers in dev mailing list
 - 5 new JIRAs filed since last report
 - 2 new contributors submitted patches

How has the project developed since the last report?

 - Working on 0.9.0 release

Date of last release:

 2016-05-31

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 - None since coming to incubation

Signed-off-by:

 [X](tephra) Alan Gates
 [X](tephra) Andrew Purtell
 [X](tephra) Henry Saputra
 [x](tephra) James Taylor
 [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl

20 Jul 2016

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top of
Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

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

 1. Regular releases
 2. Improve community engagement
 3. Increase adoption

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

 - None at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 1. Started to see mailing list and JIRA activity from non-PMC members.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 1. tephra.incubator.apache.org website setup is complete.
 2. Apache Tephra JIRA setup is complete.

Date of last release:

 2016-05-31

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 - None since coming to incubation

Signed-off-by:

 [X](tephra) Alan Gates
 [ ](tephra) Andrew Purtell
 [X](tephra) Henry Saputra
 [ ](tephra) James Taylor
 [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl

15 Jun 2016

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top of
Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

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

 1. Complete project setup
 2. Regular releases
 3. Improve community engagement

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

  There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

How has the community developed since the last report?

 1) Apache Tephra now powers ACID transactions in Apache Phoenix (since
    v4.7.0).
 2) We presented Apache Tephra as a part of the Apache Phoenix talk at
    HBaseCon 2016.
 3) We also presented a more elaborate version of the above talk at
    PhoenixCon 2016.
 4) We are making progress towards setting up of Project page.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 1) We had our first release (0.8.0-incubating) since incubation.
 2) We have added support for Apache HBase v1.2 in the latest release
    (0.8.0-incubating).

Date of last release:

 2016-05-31

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

 None since the May 2016 report

Signed-off-by:

 [X](tephra) Alan Gates
 [X](tephra) Andrew Purtell
 [ ](tephra) Henry Saputra
 [X](tephra) James Taylor
 [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl

18 May 2016

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top of
Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

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

 1. Complete project setup
 2. Regular releases
 3. Improve community engagement

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

- None at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

- Mailing lists have been created.
- Working on the project page.

How has the project developed since the last report?

- Project is in initial setup phase.
- SGA has been submitted, and git repo is set up.
- Waiting for other bootstrapping tasks like JIRA import to be done.
- Working towards the first release.

Date of last release:

 None

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

- None since coming to incubation

Signed-off-by:

 [ ](tephra) Alan Gates
 [X](tephra) Andrew Purtell
 [ ](tephra) Henry Saputra
 [x](tephra) James Taylor
 [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl