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Training

16 Aug 2023 ¶

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache
and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

In June 2023, we started adjusting the project goals. Besides a pure focus
on content creation tools we have identified the need for two additional
aspects:

(1) For ASF processes some documentation exists, e.g.
https://community.apache.org/contributor-ladder, but the ASF member journey
is still a challenge for many new members, especially those with less
coding experience.
As a solution it has been suggested to provide training material for the
following problems:
* You've just graduated to a TLP. What are the challenges you will now face?
* New committer onboarding
* New PMC member onboarding
* New PMC Chair onboarding
* New board member onboarding

(2) Creation of some general recommendations/guidelines for:
 * managing/validation of training material contributions of arbitrary ASF
projects has been proposed.

We expand our focus now on the following aspects:

We have to work on strategies to increase the participation and the
visibility of the project and its goals.

Besides requests for contributions from individual contributors from other
Apache projects we want to show what the Apache Training project can offer
to those projects.

We should build on the assumption that synergy and network effects can help
us to increase the community around training and skill management topics.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Improve the community participation (other Apache projects should
  actively be linked to this project, since they "have the content")
  2. (Re)define the short-, mid-, and long-term goals of the project.
  3. Select an approach to handle non coding / non document related tasks
  (e.g., community related activities on events)
  4. Create a strategy how this projects contributes to or is supported by
  other Apache projects
  5. Create a tutorial on how the tools provided by this project can be
  used to create own content
  6. Review current policies around contribution review and releases to
  find a pragmatic compromise

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  The Training Project needs more contribution from other Apache projects,
  hence a clear communication strategy for interlinking existing projects
  with the Apache Training project is needed.

  We need feedback from other Apache projects on the presentations and
  trainings developed till now.

  In order to improve this collaboration we suggest to investigate the
  status of other project’s documentation in a systematic approach,
  especially with an eye on available training related material.

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

  no changes

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

  Initial discussion regarding usage of content created/delivered by LLMs
  has been started.

  In July, a first documentation inspection and fact extraction tool
  (Python script) has been provided.
  A pull request is open:
  https://github.com/apache/incubator-training/pull/87.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?

  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  Initial setup oft he project’s structure: Goals and strategy needs
  refinement.

  Working towards first release: What type of artefacts to release is not
  clear, due to unclear goals and strategy.

  Community building: The community exists of a very small number of people
  but is more or less invisible, as of today (April 2023).

  Nearing graduation: Currently, we are far away from graduation.

### Date of last release:

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

  November 2020

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Mentors have been responsive and helpful when reached out to.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  The name search process has not yet been started, as there is still time
  to do that if and when graduation draws nearer.

  The PPMC is actively monitoring usage of the Podlings current name on
  other sites.

  The Podling is not directly affiliating with any sponsors donating
  content and presenting an independent image on the webpage.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (training) Craig Russell
     Comments:  Happy to see new activity here.
  - [X] (training) Christofer Dutz
     Comments: It seems that finally a bit of life has been coming back to
     the project, I'll continue my best to help with that staying that way.
  - [X] (training) Justin Mclean
     Comments:
  - [ ] (training) Lars Francke
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

19 Jul 2023 ¶

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache
and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

In June, we started adjusting the project goals.
Besides a pure focus on content creation tools we have identified the need
for two additional aspects:

(1) For ASF processes some documentation exists, e.g.
https://community.apache.org/contributor-ladder,
but the ASF member journey is still a challenge for many new members,
especially those with less coding experience.
As a solution it has been suggested to provide training material for the
following problems:

* You've just graduated to a TLP. What are the challenges you will now face?
* New committer onboarding
* New PMC member onboarding
* New PMC Chair onboarding
* New board member onboarding

(2) Creation of some general recommendations/guidelines for:
 * managing/validation of training material contributions of arbitrary ASF
projects has been proposed.

Initial discussion of the topics have been started.

We expand our focus now on the following aspects:

We have to work on strategies to increase the participation and the
visibility of the project and its goals.
Besides requests for contributions from individual contributors from other
Apache projects we want to show what the Apache Training project can offer
to those projects.
We should build on the assumption that synergy and network effects can help
us to increase the community around training and skill management topics.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Improve the community participation (other Apache projects should
  actively be linked to this project, since they "have the content")
  2. (Re)define the short-, mid-, and long-term goals of the project.
  3. Review current policies around contribution review and releases to
  find a pragmatic compromise

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  The topic of retiring the project has been discussed multiple times but
  someone (Mirko) from the community
  has stepped up in a last effort to revive activities.
  He's written most of the last two or three reports.

  At least one mentor has mentioned that he'd step down if those attempts
  are not successful.

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

  Activity has started to grow since the last report.
  We again failed to provide the report on time, but this will change soon.

  Two persons joined our conversation on the dev-list (Eric and Rich).

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

  Creation of a ASF onboarding training module has been announced.

  A tool for inspecting documentation in Github repositories (ASF projects)
  which will lead towards automatic training related content extraction has
  been started.

  PR activity continues on a low level since the last report.

### 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: The community is very small and attempts of
        growing it have failed so far
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  Not applicable

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

  November 2020

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Mentors have been responsive and helpful when reached out to.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  The name search process has not yet been started, as there is still time
  to do that if and when graduation draws nearer.
  The PPMC is actively monitoring usage of the Podlings current name on
  other sites.
  The Podling is not directly affiliating with any sponsors donating
  content and presenting an independent image on the webpage.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (training) Craig Russell
     Comments:
  - [ ] (training) Christofer Dutz
     Comments:
  - [X] (training) Justin Mclean
     Comments:
  - [X] (training) Lars Francke
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Dave Fisher - this project does not really release software and it looks
  like it is becoming more of an ASF Member Project.
  I think that since it plans to document process that is more
  traditionally part of ComDev's mission or related to helping
  projects. I would support either graduating into ComDev or to a TLP as a
  project similar to Whimsy. I really do not see
  further Incubation to be helpful.

21 Sep 2022 ¶

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache
and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Reengaging the community
 2. Growing the community
 3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

Currently the activity in the project is almost not existent. We have tried
getting people engaged with low hanging fruit, but without success. If this
level of activity continues after ApacheCon (wehre we have a talk), we will
probably initiate the process of retiring this posling.

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

Not at all.

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

Not at all. Some minor updates, but nothing noteworthy.

### 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:

 training-tools 1.0.0: 14.09.2020

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

 10.11.2020: Gautam Gupta (Committer)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.

Nothing is happening, but we have been missing previous reports.
We'll try to keep reporting on time till we possibly reactivate
the community or build a new crowd, or we decide to retire the
project,

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

We haven't started the name-search yet, however we'll do that
as soon as we gain more activity.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (training) Craig Russell
    Comments:
 - [X] (training) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (training) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
 - [ ] (training) Lars Francke
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

18 Aug 2021 ¶

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache
and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Add more contributing members to the project
 2. Make the Training project popular among users
 3. Grow the overall knowledgebase of Training project

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
 We need some broad forums where use of Training project can be explained
 and popularized.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
 Quite low communication between members since the last report. Need to
 find more ways to increase the contribution and participation.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 No new PR added to project since the last report.

### 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:

 2020-11-27

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

 November 2020

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 No issues.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 Yes no know issues.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (training) Craig Russell
    Comments:
 - [X] (training) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [X] (training) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
 - [ ] (training) Lars Francke
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

19 May 2021 ¶

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for training
purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache and
non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Improve the participation from community for Apache Training Project
 2. Create a tutorial on how the tools provided by this project can be used
 to create own content
 3. Review current policies around contribution review and releases to find a
 pragmatic compromise

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
 The Training Project needs more contribution from other Apache Projects. It
 also needs feedback from other Apache Projects on the presentations and
 trainings developed till now.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
 Activity has remained low since the last report. There were 8 posts in last
 3 months. We have to work on strategies to increase the queries for
 contributions from individual contributors.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 New training slides were added on following topics:

 * Apache Airflow

 PR activity is less since the last report.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
 There are currently some issues with this podling that we are working to
 address, we believe that the issues are not yet critical and can be turned
 around from within the community but want to make the board aware of this
 early on.

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

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 November 2020

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Mentors have been responsive and helpful when reached out to.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 The name search process has not yet been started, as there is still time to
 do that if and when graduation draws nearer. The PPMC is actively monitoring
 usage of the Podlings current name on other sites. The Podling is not
 directly affiliating with any sponsors donating content and presenting an
 independent image on the webpage.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (training) Craig Russell Comments:  We may need more outreach to PMCs
    to ask them to add material.
 - [X] (training) Christofer Dutz Comments:
 - [X] (training) Justin Mclean Comments:
 - [X] (training) Lars Francke Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

17 Feb 2021 ¶

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache
and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Promote the information about Apache Training Project with increased
    participation from community
 2. Create a tutorial on how the tools provided by this project can be
    used to create own content
 3. Review current policies around contribution review and releases to
    find a pragmatic compromise

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
 The Training Project has opened up the commit permissions to all the
 committers of Apache project to make is easy for experts in each area
 contribute to Apache Training presentations. This was announced in the
 last week of September 2020. This will open up the project for
 contributions from other Apache projects.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
 Activity has remained down since the last report.
 There were 26 posts in last 3 months.
 We have to work on strategies to increase the queries for contributions
 from individual contributors.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 New training slides were added on following topics:

 * Apache Druid

 PR activity is normal since the last report.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
 There are currently some issues with this podling that we are working to
 address,
 we believe that the issues are not yet critical and can be turned around
 from within the community but want to make the board aware of this early
 on.

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

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 November 2020

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Mentors have been responsive and helpful when reached out to.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 The name search process has not yet been started, as there is still time
 to do that if and when graduation draws nearer. The PPMC is actively
 monitoring usage of the Podlings current name on other sites.
 The Podling is not directly affiliating with any sponsors donating content
 and presenting an independent image on the webpage.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (training) Craig Russell
    Comments:  Lots of new material being contributed by many people.
 - [X] (training) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [X] (training) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
 - [ ] (training) Lars Francke
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

18 Nov 2020 ¶

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache
and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Promote the information about Apache Training Project with increased
 participation from community
 2. Create a tutorial on how the tools provided by this project can be
 used to create own content
 3. Review current policies around contribution review and releases to
 find a pragmatic compromise

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
 The Training Project has opened up the commit permissions to all the
 committers of Apache project to make is easy for experts in each area
 contribute to Apache Training presentations.
 This was announced in the last week of September 2020. This will open
 up the project for contributions from other Apache projects.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
 Activity has increased since the last report.
 There were 144 posts in last 3 months.
 We have received queries for contributions from individual contributors.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 New training slides were added on three topics:

 * Apache Pulsar
 * Apache Samza
 * Apache Flink

 PR activity has picked up momentum since the last report.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
 There are currently some issues with this podling that we are working to
 address, we believe that the issues are not yet critical and can be
 turned around from within the community but want to make the board aware
 of this early on.

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

### Date of last release:

 2020-09-18

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 February 2020

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Mentors have been responsive and helpful when reached out to.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 The name search process has not yet been started, as there is still time
 to do that if and when graduation draws nearer. The PPMC is actively
 monitoring usage of the Podlings current name on other sites.
 The Podling is not directly affiliating with any sponsors donating
 content and presenting an independent image on the webpage.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (training) Craig Russell
    Comments:
 - [ ] (training) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [X] (training) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
 - [ ] (training) Lars Francke
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

19 Aug 2020 ¶

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache
and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Promote the information about Apache Training Project with increased
    participation from community
 2. Create a tutorial on how the tools provided by this project can be
    used to create own content
 3. Review current policies around contribution review and releases to
    find a pragmatic compromise

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
 Due to recent changes in work being done remote has led to change of
 format
 for many conferences and trainings.
 The Training project can be very valuable in dissemination of knowledge
 in this situation. We hope to adapt to new format of learning in this
 situation.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
 Activity has increased since the last report.
 There were 71 posts in last 3 months.
 We have received contributions from other Apache projects like COMDEV and
 other individual contributors.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 New training slides were added on three topics:

 * Apache Hadoop
 * Apache Hive
 * Apache COMDEV

 PR activity has picked up momentum since the last report.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
 There are currently some issues with this podling that we are working to
 address,
 we believe that the issues are not yet critical and can be turned around
 from within the community but want to make the board aware of this early
 on.

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

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 February 2020

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Mentors have been responsive and helpful when reached out to.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 The name search process has not yet been started, as there is still time
 to
 do that
 if and when graduation draws nearer. The PPMC is actively monitoring usage
 of the Podlings current name on other sites.
 The Podling is not directly affiliating with any sponsors donating content
 and presenting an independent image on the webpage.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (training) Craig Russell
    Comments:
 - [ ] (training) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [X] (training) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
 - [X] (training) Lars Francke
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

20 May 2020 ¶

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache
and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Promote the information about Apache Training Project with increased
    participation from community
 2. Create a tutorial on how the tools provided by this project can be
    used to create own content
 3. Review current policies around contribution review and releases to
    find a pragmatic compromise

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

 Unfortunately, not much has happened since the last report in February.
 We did add one new committer but other than that there has been hardly
 any activity.
 While we'd like to blame the current situation in the world for this it
 wouldn't be a fair assessment as we had the same problem in the previous
 period.

 We still believe the idea of the Training project is a good one
 and E-Mails are being responded to so the project is not dead.
 It's a lack of time and dedicated resources that is at least partly
 to blame for this situation.
 We hope that development will pick up again in the future.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
 Activity on the dev list has declined even more since the last report with
 a total number of posts of 34 (most of which are automatted reminders).

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 n/a

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
 There are currently some issues with this podling that we are working to
 address, we believe that the issues are not yet critical and can be turned
 around from within the community but want to make the board aware of this
 early on.

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

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 February 2020

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Mentors have been responsive and helpful when reached out to.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 The name search process has not yet been started, as there is still time
 to do that if and when graduation draws nearer. The PPMC is actively
 monitoring usage of the Podlings current name on other sites.
 The Podling is not directly affiliating with any sponsors donating
 content and presenting an independent image on the webpage.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (training) Craig Russell
    Comments:  Not much progress but still working
 - [X] (training) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [X] (training) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
 - [X] (training) Lars Francke
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

19 Feb 2020 ¶

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache
and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Promote the information about Apache Training Project with increased
     participation from community
  2. Create a tutorial on how the tools provided by this project can be
     used to create own content
  3. Review current policies around contribution review and releases to
     find a pragmatic compromise

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  - There currently is a lack of involvement by the PPMC in the project
  which caused stagnation in mailing list participation and overall
  project progress.
  The PPMC is currently taking steps to address this by focusing on
  promoting new committers and being more involved again.
  - The current review and release process seems to be overly complex and
  scary and hampers contributions. Discussions around relaxing this are
  ongoing.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  Activity on the dev list has declined since the last report, total number
  of posts was November 37, December 13, January (to be updated) 84.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  - We have refactored the Maven structure to make adding new projects much
  easier by using an archetype, this should help make the project more
  accessible to a lot of people.
  - ApacheCon themed templates are under development that will be available
  for speakers at future conferences
  - An introductory Hadoop slide deck was contributed and is currently
  undergoing review.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  There are currently some issues with this podling that we are working to
  address, we believe that the issues are not yet critical and can be turned
  around from within the community but want to make the board aware of this
  early on.

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

### Date of last release:

 No new releases as ongoing discussions around the Pixabay license in
 LEGAL-479 have been blocking releases for months now.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  Voting is currently ongoing to add a new committer to the projects roster.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Mentors have been responsive and helpful when reached out to.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  The name search process has not yet been started, as there is still time
  to do that if and when graduation draws nearer. The PPMC is actively
  monitoring usage of the Podlings current name on other sites.
  The Podling is not directly affiliating with any sponsors donating
  content and presenting an independent image on the webpage.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (training) Craig Russell
     Comments:
  - [X] (training) Christofer Dutz
     Comments:
  - [X] (training) Justin Mclean
     Comments:
  - [X] (training) Lars Francke
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

20 Nov 2019 ¶

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache
and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Promote the information about Apache Training Project with increased
    participation from community
 2. Take the technology stack to become more user-friendly
 3. Scout for more content and ingest it in the project

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

 no critical issues at this point in time

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

 - The dev mailing list is active. Community is gaining traction with
   new contributors getting added to Apache Training project.
 - The total number of posts in August 60, September 94, October 174.
   In October, some new contributors have started active discussions
   on the Training project. There are ongoing discussions to use
   Docker, and new kind of review commit model for content contribution.
 - We created JIRA contributors group.

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

 - We added more content to the Training project. E.g. Spark slides,
   Apache Ignite intro slides, Github workshop slides, ApacheCon slides
 - We also added a GitHub puzzle to Training content.
 - We initiated work to Dockerize the tools used in project.
 - We started new policy for reviewing content contribution.
 - We have delivered our first release during which we ironed out a
   few issues.
 - The release contains the training slides in Asciidoctor, so that
   these can be run as slideshow.
 - The release followed the voting process and was made available on
   Github for general public.
 - There were multiple talks about the Training project at both
   ApacheCons this year

### 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:

 2019-10-04: Apache Training (incubating) - Navigating the ASF
 Incubator Process 1.0, Announce https://s.apache.org/9g5fl
 It can be viewed online here: https://s.apache.org/t4h7v

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

 n.a.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Mentors were responsive. Things are not falling through the cracks.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (training) Craig Russell
    Comments:
 - [X] (training) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [X] (training) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
    I'm concerned that lack of activity by the PPMC is resulting in
    slower community growth.
 - [X] (training) Lars Francke
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

21 Aug 2019 ¶

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various
Apache and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Grow the community to get more & faster reviews and content
  2. Improve the technology stack
  3. Get more content

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  - no critical issues at this point in time

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

  - The dev mailing list activity has died down a bit. The total number of
  posts in May was 165, June 66, July 36
  - Total number of subscribers to the dev list is 31 (-1 since last report)

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

  - We have delivered our first release during which we ironed out a few
  issues: https://s.apache.org/jclr6
  - We decided upon a logo which was created by Daniel Gruno after we
  reached out to Central Services. Thank you very much for your help!
  - We had more content donations (ZooKeeper, Ignite, GitHub, Spark)
  - The ZooKeeper community helped us review the ZooKeeper contribution
  which was greatly improved due to their reviews. Thank you!
  - A few of the Training members will be present at both ApacheCons this
  year and there will be multiple talks about the project

### 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:

  2019-07-13: Apache Training (incubating) - Navigating the ASF Incubator
  Process 1.0, Announcement: https://s.apache.org/h8bct
  It can be viewed online here: https://s.apache.org/wl3w2

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

  n.a.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Not answered.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (training) Justin Mclean
     Comments:
  - [X] (training) Craig Russell
     Comments:
  - [X] (training) Christofer Dutz
     Comments:
  - [X] (training) Lars Francke
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

15 May 2019 ¶

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various
Apache and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

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

 1. Agree upon underlying technology stack and architecture for training
 content
 2. Develop first training topic contents
 3. Set up our contribution process

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

 - no critical issues at this point in time

How has the community developed since the last report?

 - The project has been set up recently, so there is an initial
 activation/development towards a community.
 - The dev mailing list is active. The total number of posts in March was
 160 and in April 140
 - Total number of subscribers is 32 (25 in March)

How has the project developed since the last report?

 - The scope of the project deliverables and core procedures are still
 under discussion (e.g. what makes a release?)
 - We have had our first few commits. They were for infrastructure (e.g.
 website) and repository structure
 - We have been approached by a few more people wanting to donate content
 and we hope to be able to accept it soon
 - We actually have the first issue for an actual content donation (Apache
 Way, ZooKeeper and Git) and hope to have it included soon, the first ones
 will probably be slow while we work on processes and best practices

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

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

Date of last release:

 n.a.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 n.a.

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.

Signed-off-by:

 [X](training) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
 [x](training) Craig Russell
    Comments:
 [X](training) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 [x](training) Lars Francke
    Comments: Excited to finally discuss actual content!

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

20 Mar 2019 ¶

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache
and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

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

 1. Agree upon underlying technology stack and architecture for training
 content
 2. Develop first training topic contents
 3. Set up our contribution process

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

 - no critical issues at this point in time

How has the community developed since the last report?

 - The project has been set up recently, so there is an initial
 activation/development towards a community.
 - The dev mailing list is active. Total number of posts in February were 112
 and in March so far (5 March) already 50. Total number of
 subscribers is 25.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 - This is our first report

 - The scope of the project deliverables,
 core procedures, details regarding website,
 and code management are under discussion.

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

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

Date of last release:

 n.a.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 n.a.

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.

Signed-off-by:

 [X](training) Justin Mclean
    Comments: Off to a good start.
 [x](training) Craig Russell
    Comments:
 [X](training) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 [X](training) Lars Francke
    Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes: