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WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Open Climate Workbench project has chosen by vote to recommend moving the project to the Attic; and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache Open Climate Workbench project due to inactivity; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Open Climate Workbench project is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with oversight over the software developed by the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Open Climate Workbench" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Open Climate Workbench PMC is hereby terminated. Special Order 7G, Terminate the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Open Climate Workbench project has chosen by vote to recommend moving the project to the Attic; and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache Open Climate Workbench project due to inactivity; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Open Climate Workbench project is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with oversight over the software developed by the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Open Climate Workbench" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Open Climate Workbench PMC is hereby terminated. Special Order 7F, Terminate the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project, was tabled.
## Description: - The OCW includes a Python open-source library for common climate model evaluation tasks - OCW provides a set of user-friendly interfaces for quickly configuring a model evaluation task. - OCW also allows users to build their own climate data analysis tools, such as the statistical downscaling toolkit. ## Issues: We discuss moving the OCW project to the attic. ## Membership Data: Apache Open Climate Workbench was founded 2014-02-18 (7 years ago) There are currently 30 committers and 30 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Ibrahim Jarif on 2016-04-25. - No new committers. Last addition was Christopher Douglas on 2016-04-26. ## Project Activity: A comprehensive refactoring of the numpy/scipy based codes by applying xarray and dask. There have been major achievements over the last few months. There is an open JIRA ticket to upload the xarray version of OCW. ## Community Health: - Currently 30 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months
@Roy: follow up with OCW about formal expectations and roll call
----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Report from the Apache OpenWhisk Project [Dave Grove] ## Description: The mission of Apache OpenWhisk is the creation and maintenance of software related to a platform for building serverless applications with functions ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OpenWhisk was founded 2019-07-16 (a year ago) There are currently 49 committers and 20 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rob Allen on 2019-07-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Alexander Klimetschek on 2020-03-12. ## Project Activity: The project made releases of 4 OpenWhisk components since the last report: - openwhisk-runtime-dotnet-1.15.0 was released on 2020-08-04. - openwhisk-wskdebug-1.3.0 was released on 2020-08-04. - openwhisk-runtime-nodejs-1.16.0 was released on 2020-07-27. - openwhisk-package-alarms-2.1.0 was released on 2020-05-11. The project currently releases 9 language-specific components that support defining OpenWhisk actions in specific programming languages (openwhisk-runtime-LANGUAGE). Seven of the these runtime components include a proxy web server implemented in Go, which was being built using Go v1.12. As Go 1.12 which has reached its End-of-Life, we decided to defer making the next release of the core OpenWhisk system until we had refreshed these seven runtimes to use Go 1.14. Some initial PRs have been submitted; we anticipate completing this refresh within the next month. We will then return to working on releasing the core system. ## Community Health: Statistical measurements of project activity such as dev-list traffic show significant declines since the previous quarter. Based on conversations with multiple community members, I believe we are mainly seeing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, not a deeper problem in community health. The strain of changed work and family situations has reduced the time available to community members to participate in open-source projects that are not their primary work activity. If activity continues to decline, we may need to re-evaluate this interpretation and consider options for re-engaging our community in project development.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Open Climate Workbench is the creation and maintenance of software related to Climate model evaluation ## Issues: - 1.4.0 with major refactoring with xarray and dask takes much longer. - So many bugs and incompatibility have been found in recent pull requests. ## Membership Data: Apache Open Climate Workbench was founded 2014-02-18 (6 years ago) There are currently 30 committers and 30 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Ibrahim Jarif on 2016-04-25. - No new committers. Last addition was Christopher Douglas on 2016-04-26. ## Project Activity: 1.3.0 was released on 2018-04-23. 1.2.0 was released on 2017-10-04. ## Community Health: - Community health metrics looks very bad. - dev@climate.apache.org had a 58% deccrease in traffic in the past quarter.
No report was submitted.
## Description: - The OCW includes a Python open-source library for common climate model evaluation tasks as well as a set of user-friendly interfaces for quickly configuring a model evaluation task. OCW also allows users to build their own climate data analysis tools, such as the statistical downscaling toolkit. ## Issues: - We could not make any new release last year. Community Health Score (Chi) is -2.65. ## Activity: - We almost completed refactoring and testing OCW by using Xarray and pandas. The refactored code has been released in the main developer’s personal Github repository. ## Health report: - The main developer of the refactored OCW had hard time getting approval to release his development with Apache License. We are also cleaning up some old JIRA issues. We are confident that our Chi will become healthy in coming months. ## PMC changes: - Currently 30 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Ibrahim Jarif on Mon Apr 25 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 30 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Christopher Douglas at Tue Apr 26 2016 ## Releases: - Last release was 1.3.0 on Mon Apr 23 2018 - dev@climate.apache.org: - 63 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 23 emails sent to list (36 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
@Danny: find out about fork details
## Description: The mission of Open Climate Workbench is the creation and maintenance of software related to Climate model evaluation ## Issues: The PMC needs to have a conversation on whether retirement is the best next move. Project activity is extremely low and mailing list activity is the same. ## Membership Data: Apache Open Climate Workbench was founded 2014-02-18 (6 years ago) There are currently 30 committers and 30 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Ibrahim Jarif on 2016-04-25. - No new committers. Last addition was Christopher Douglas on 2016-04-26. ## Project Activity: Extremely low. Contributions are not being reviewed or closed out and the project is therefore not doing a good job at attracting new quality contributors. ## Community Health: The community could be said to be unhealthy. It is time to discuss possible retirement of OCW.
## Description: - The OCW includes a Python open-source library for common climate model evaluation tasks as well as a set of user-friendly interfaces for quickly configuring a model evaluation task. OCW also allows users to build their own climate data analysis tools, such as the statistical downscaling toolkit. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - We are refactoring and testing OCW by using xarray and pandas and developing Jupyter Notebook interface. ## Health report: - Some of the newly developed codes are tested in private github repositories. ## PMC changes: - Currently 30 PMC members. - The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Ibrahim Jarif on Mon Apr 25 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 30 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Christopher Douglas at Tue Apr 26 2016 ## Releases: - Last release was 1.3.0 on Mon Apr 23 2018 ## JIRA activity: - 2 JIRA tickets created in the past quarter - 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the past quarter ## Commit activity: - 2 commits in the past quarter - 1 code contributor in the past quarter ## Github PR activity: - 2 PRs opened on Github in the past quarter - 2 PRs closed on Github in the past quarter
## Description: - The OCW includes a Python open-source library for common climate model evaluation tasks as well as a set of user-friendly interfaces for quickly configuring a model evaluation task. OCW also allows users to build their own climate data analysis tools, such as the statistical downscaling toolkit. ## Issues: - Our major updates are pending and subject to approval from the PMC members' organization. ## Activity: - We are refactoring and testing OCW by using xarray and pandas. ## Health report: - There are no issues. ## PMC changes: - Currently 30 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Ibrahim Jarif on Mon Apr 25 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 30 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Christopher Douglas at Tue Apr 26 2016 ## Releases: - Last release was 1.3.0 on Mon Apr 23 2018 - dev@climate.apache.org: - 63 subscribers - 0 emails sent to list ## JIRA activity: - 0 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
@Rich: find out what the sentence in Issues means
## Description:
- The OCW includes a Python open-source library for common climate model
evaluation tasks as well as a set of user-friendly interfaces for quickly
configuring a model evaluation task. OCW also allows users to build their
own climate data analysis tools, such as the statistical downscaling
toolkit.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- We are refactoring and testing OCW by using xarray and pandas.
## Health report:
- The government shutdown affected some of PMC members' activity.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 30 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Ibrahim Jarif on Mon Apr 25 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 30 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Christopher Douglas at Tue Apr 26 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.0 on Mon Apr 23 2018
- dev@climate.apache.org:
- 63 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 38 emails sent to list (11 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Open Climate Workbench is a library for evaluating climate models on regional
and continental scales using observational datasets from a variety of sources.
* There are no Board-level issue at this time.
* Version 1.3.0 was released on April 23, 2018.
* The latest release version (version 1.3.0) and its application has been
published in Geoscientific Model Development (Lee et al.,
2018<https://www.geosci-model-dev.net/11/4435/2018/>). After the
release, several minor bugs have been reported and fixed.
* More than 100 students at Portland State University used OCW-based
software to learn about regional climate change in their physical
geography lab in October 2018.
* We are currently refactoring OCW by applying xarray and dask.
* The latest commit was made by a new committer on November 24, 2018/
No report was submitted.
@Rich: pursue a report for Open Climate Workbench
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. We've seen activity pick back up since the unusually slow end to last quarter. We voted on and released version 1.3.0 which included a number of key fixes, improvements, and new features for the toolkit and we've continued to work on improvements, bug fixes, and polishing as we work towards 1.4.0. We're working with a new contributor to get them involved in GSoC since they have been working on contributing and expressed interest in having a mentor so they can expand their understanding of the toolkit. Hopefully schedules will work out and we'll be on our way to a new committer/PMC member after a successful GSoC! We're continuing to monitor activity given the occasional drop that we see and the overall stagnation of PMC/Committer additions. Issues for the board: None When was the last committer or PMC member elected: - Ibrahim Jarif - 26 April 2016 - Omkar Reddy - 20 January 2016 When was the last release: - 1.3.0 - 23 April 2018 - 1.2.0 - 24 April 2017
No report was submitted.
@Brett: pursue a report for Open Climate Workbench
pache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Activity has slowed slightly since last quarter but remained mostly on par with what we expect aside from an unusually quiet April. We voted on and released version 1.3.0 which included a number of key fixes, improvements, and new features for the toolkit. The vote for a new member mentioned in the previous quarter's report resulted in us inviting a new person to become a committer and PMC member. Unfortunately, he declined to join. That being said, he continues to contribute and we welcome his contributions and hope that he will decide to join us in the future. We continue to see occasional bursts of activity from new contributors but they tend to leave as quickly as they arrived. Adding new blood to the project is a constant goal for us. GSoC and internships offered by PMC members provide the most consistent avenue for new contributors. We're continuing to monitor activity given the occasional drop that we see and the overall stagnation of PMC/Committer additions. Issues for the board: None When was the last committer or PMC member elected: - Ibrahim Jarif - 26 April 2016 - Omkar Reddy - 20 January 2016 When was the last release: - 1.3.0 - 23 April 2018 - 1.2.0 - 24 April 2017
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Activity has picked up after the holiday/conference season. Core contributors continue to collaborate and work on the next release. The project is still working on bringing new Committer/PMC members on board. The project recently voted to add a new member and is waiting to hear back from them regarding the invitation to join. Overall, we continue to see occasional bursts of activity from new contributors but they tend to leave as quickly as they arrived. GSoC and internships that PMC members offer at their work provide the most consistent avenue for new contributors. The PMC will continue to keep an eye out for these new contributors and work to being them into the fold. Issues for the board: None When was the last committer or PMC member elected: - Ibrahim Jarif - 26 April 2016 - Omkar Reddy - 20 January 2016 When was the last release: - 1.2.0 - 24 April 2017 - 1.1.0 - 27 July 2016
@Jim: follow up with PMC on activity
## Description:
Apache Open Climate Workbench is an effort to develop software that performs
climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of different
sources the Earth System Grid Federation, the Coordinated Regional Climate
Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the North
American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program and temporal/spatial
scales with remote sensing data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The toolkit
includes capabilities for rebinning, metrics computation and visualization.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Activity has been pretty quiet but stable indicating the the community
is still alive and kicking. We are working towards our 1.2.0 release.
Scientists and Researchers from NASA JPL are working to publish an
academic paper on updates in OCW.
## Health report:
OCW has not attracted many new community members however a handful
of existing community members are ensuring that the project is moving
forward.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 30 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Ibrahim Jarif on Mon Apr 25 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 30 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Christopher Douglas at Tue Apr 26 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was climate-1.1.0 on Wed Jul 27 2016
## Mailing list activity:
Mailing list subscribers are up which is excellent. JIRA
tickets are being opened and addressed which is also positive
for the project.
- dev@climate.apache.org:
- 59 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 88 emails sent to list (70 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 9 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. OCW successfully pushed out v1.2 at the end of April and is working towards our next release. Discussion started towards the end of July on which features we would like to see integrated, so I expect we'll see a release upcoming in the next month or two. Activity on the lists "bathtubbed" a good bit during this last quarter. We saw a good amount of development in May and into June which went to near nothing in July. Activity has started picking up a bit more in August so far, but it's something we should keep an eye on. We have had a few new faces over the last quarter show up. Most have gone as quickly as they showed up, but we are keeping an eye out for people who are sticking around so we can reach out and ask them to join the PMC/Contributors. Issues for the Board: None When was the last committer or PMC member elected: - Ibrahim Jarif - 26 April 2016 - Omkar Reddy - 20 January 2016 When was the last release: - 1.2.0 - 24 April 2017 - 1.1.0 - 27 July 2016
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Activities and started picking back up again on the task after the holiday / conference breaks. The project released v 1.1.0 late in July which provides a number of key features required of the tool in addition to many quality-of-life improvements. After working hard on a number of features for 1.2, the project voted to release 1.2 on the 24th of April. Artifacts will be pushed out shortly! Issues for the Board: None When was the last committer or PMC member elected: - Omkar Reddy - 20 January 2016 - Ibrahim Jarif - 26 April 2016 When was the last release: - 1.1.0 - 27 July 2016 - 1.2.0 - 24 April 2017
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Activities on the task have slowed down in December and January due to the holidays and a large number of science conferences that many of the project's committers attend. This is expected and we look forward to an uptick soon. The project released v 1.1.0 late in July which provides a number of key features required of the tool in addition to many quality-of-life improvements. The team is working towards 1.2 and a number of new features. Issues for the Board: None When was the last committer or PMC member elected: - Omkar Reddy - 20 January 2016 - Ibrahim Jarif - 26 April 2016 When was the last release: - 1.0.0 - 22 September 2015 - 1.1.0 - 27 July 2016
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Development on the project has been great since the last report. September and especially November have seen very high contributions from a number of our regular contributors. We've also seen occasional interest from external contributors expressing interest in participating, but nothing has come from that yet. The project released v 1.1.0 late in July which provides a number of key features required of the tool in addition to many quality-of-life improvements. The team is currently discussing a 1.2.0 release and features / improvements we would like to see make their way in first. We expect to see a new release in the next reporting cycle. Issues for the Board: None When was the last committer or PMC member elected: - Omkar Reddy - 20 January 2016 - Ibrahim Jarif - 26 April 2016 When was the last release: - 1.0.0 - 22 September 2015 - 1.1.0 - 27 July 2016
No report was submitted.
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Development on the project has been great since the last report. July and especially early August have seen very high contributions from a number of our regular contributors. We haven't seen an increase in new contributors, but Google Summer of Code brought a good amount of activity to the project with both Omkar and Ibrahim making great contributions to the project. The project released v 1.1.0 late in July which provides a number of key features required of the tool in addition to many quality-of-life improvements. The team is working hard towards 1.2 and a number of new features. Issues for the Board: None When was the last committer or PMC member elected: - Omkar Reddy - 20 January 2016 - Ibrahim Jarif - 26 April 2016 When was the last release: - 1.0.0 - 22 September 2015 - 1.1.0 - 27 July 2016
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Project Activity: Development on the project has been very good since the last report. We've seen some new faces pop up and make some great contributions lately. Omkar Reddy was added as a committer/PMC member on January 20 and Ibrahim Jarif was added on April 26. Both continue to be very strong contributors to the project. Ibrahim Jarif is participating in the Google Summer of Code and is working on improvements to OCW testing infrastructure and CI. Omkar Reddy is also participating in the Google Summer of Code and is working on implementing a utility library for interacting with the PO.DAAC at JPL. Overall the project has done a good bit of work towards 1.1.0. We had originally planned to push the release out near the last reporting quarter but we've instead continued working on the current version. There should be a good amount of changes included in the release which is planned for release soon. Issues for the Board: None When was the last committer or PMC member elected: - Omkar Reddy - 20 January 2016 - Ibrahim Jarif - 26 April 2016 When was the last release: - 0.5 - 13 January 2015 - 1.0.0 - 22 September 2015
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Project Activity: Development on the project has been quite good since the last report. There has been an increase in new contributors helping out with some sticking around and becoming regular faces. Omkar Reddy recently joined the project as a committer and PMC member after making a number of great contributions and bug fixes. The team pushed out a 1.0.0 release in late September which included a large number of new features that were integrated since our last release in January 2015. The team has a rough plan laid out for the next release (1.1.0) and has been pushing forward towards it. A good amount of progress has been made on 1.1 with quite a few new features and bug fixes having already been pushed to the code base. We expect to have 1.1 pushed out soon given the current progress. Issues for the Board: None When was the last release: 0.5 - 13 January 2015 1.0.0 - 22 September 2015 When was the last committer or PMC member elected: Omkar Reddy - 20 January 2016
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Project Activity: Development has remained fairly stable since the last report. There has been an increase in new contributors showing up with contributions on Github, but at the moment we haven't seen any that are sticking around for extended periods of time. The PMC is keeping an eye out for potential new committer votes. The team pushed out a 1.0.0 release in late September which included a large number of new features that were integrated since our last release in January 2015. The team has a rough plan laid out for the next release (1.1.0) and has been pushing forward towards it. Issues for the Board: None When was the last release: 0.5 - 14 January 2015 1.0.0 - 23 January 2015 When was the last committer or PMC member elected: Ross Laidlaw - 6 November 2014
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Project Activity: Development has slowed slightly since the last reporting period. The last release (0.5) was done in mid-January which had a number of significant toolkit improvements. While we've seen some tapering off of activity we have had a number of contributions from long idle members and a few contributions from new faces. The team is actively discussing rolling a 1.0.0 RC since we've made quite a bit of respectable progress on some key features. Issues for the Board: None When was the last release: 0.4 - 11 September 2014 0.5 - 14 January 2015 When was the last committer or PMC member elected: Ross Laidlaw - 6 November 2014
No report was submitted.
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Project Activity: Development activity on the project has been great since the last reporting period. The 0.5 release was pushed out in mid January and had many significant toolkit improvements. The team has been working hard on getting features integrated for the 1.0.0 release. Great progress has been made so far and the team hopes to get the release polished and pushed out in the next few months. Issues for the Board: None When was the last release: 0.4 - 11 September 2014 0.5 - 14 January 2015 When was the last committer or PMC member elected: Ross Laidlaw - 6 November 2014
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Project Activity: Development activity on the project has been great since the last reporting period. The 0.5 release was pushed out in mid January and had many significant toolkit improvements. The project agreed that we're nearly ready for our first major 1.0.0 release and we're actively working towards that goal. Progress has been consistent and a number of key issues have been resolved. We should see this major release pushed out before the next reporting period. We saw a bit more user interaction the list recently which is always great to see. That being said, we haven't had any major contributions from new people. We have seen some committers who had been on hiatus become more active recently. Issues for the Board: None When was the last release: 0.4 - 11 September 2014 0.5 - 14 January 2015 When was the last committer or PMC member elected: Ross Laidlaw - 6 November 2014
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Project Activity: Development activity on the project has been great since the last reporting period. The 0.4 release was pushed out in September and represented huge progress on the project. It was by far the largest release the project has had. Progress on the 0.5 release has been consistent and a number of key issues have been handled. The release is being discussed on the list currently and an RC should be out soon. The project is also discussing a move out of 0.y releases and pushing our first full 1.0 release. We recently added Ross Laidlaw as a PMC member and committer on the project. He has contributed a ton to the project in the last few months and helped immensely with the 0.5 release. Issues for the Board: None When was the last release: 0.4 - 11 September 2014 0.5 - Release currently being discussed on list. First RC should be out soon. When was the last committer or PMC member elected: Ross Laidlaw - 6 November 2014
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparison of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Project Activity: OCW development has remained steady since the last board report. We are currently rolling our 0.4 release. We have had a vote for RC1 but decided there were issues to be addressed first. RC2 should be ready for voting soon. We have seen an increase in user activity and questions on the lists. We have also seen some PMC members who have been inactive for some time start coming back and participating on discussions on the list and JIRA tickets. We added a new committer and PMC member, Lewis John McGibbney in the last reporting period. He has been a huge asset to the team already and we look forward to future contributions from him. Paul Ramirez, Huikyo Lee, and Paul Loikith presented on OCW at the Regional-scale Climate Modelling Workshop [1] in Lund, Sweden in June. Also, an article about NASAs use of Apache OCW was featured on opensource.com [2] since the last board meeting. Issues for the Board: None When was the last release: 2013-10-11 We're currently rolling RCs for the 0.4 release. Should be out soon. When was the last committer or PMC member elected: 2014-07-14 [1] http://www.baltex-research.eu/RCM2014/ [2] http://opensource.com/life/14/6/NASA-Earth-science-open-source
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparison of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Project Activity: OCW development has seen a big increase since the last board meeting. The mailing lists have been very active with development chatter. User activity on the lists is still fairly minimal. Encouraging users to be more active on the lists would be great for the project overall. Issues for the Board: None When was the last release: 2013-10-11 When was the last committer or PMC member elected: 2013-06-21
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparison of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Project Activity: OCW development has been active since the last Board Meeting. Chatter on the lists has been mostly developer related, but there has been a good bit of activity none the less. The project is settling down from the graduation hustle and bustle and a release of 0.4 is planned before the March meeting. Issues for the Board: None When was the last release: 2013-10-11 When was the last committer or PMC member elected: 2013-06-21
AI: Shane: follow up regarding expanding the user community
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparison of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Project Activity: OCW just graduated from Incubator at the last Board Meeting. Recent development has been focused on improving the evaluation UI and expanding toolkit functionality through new metric additions. Most of the mailing list interaction has been focused around the recent graduation of the project along with other changes being made, such as the transition to using git. Other Activity: Michael Joyce and Maziyar Boustani will be giving a presentation on OCW at ApacheCon 2014. Issues for the Board: None When was the last release: 2013-10-11 When was the last committer or PMC member elected: 2013-06-21 Any legal concerns? LEGAL-193 was opened because there is code that lacks proper licensing that was integrated into the OCW codebase some time ago. The author of the original work has been contacted with regards to attaching an explicit license to their work so it can be integrated into the project. We're waiting for a response back.
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 the preparation, evaluation and analysis of massive climate remote sensing and model output data. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Open Climate Workbench Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to preparation, evaluation and analysis of massive climate remote sensing and model output data; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Open Climate Workbench", 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 Open Climate Workbench Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Open Climate Workbench 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 Open Climate Workbench Project: * Andrew Hart <ahart@apache.org> * Maziyar Boustani <boustani@apache.org> * Christopher Douglas <cdouglas@apache.org> * Chris Jack <cjack@apache.org> * Dan Crichton <crichton@apache.org> * Denis Nadeau <dnadeau@apache.org> * estani <estani@apache.org> * Cameron Goodale <goodale@apache.org> * Alex Goodman <goodman@apache.org> * Huikyo Lee <huikyole@apache.org> * Jason Peter Evans <jasonevans@apache.org> * Jinwon Kim <jkim@apache.org> * Michael Joyce <joyce@apache.org> * Laura Carriere <lcarriere@apache.org> * Lluis Fita Borrell <lfitaborrell@apache.org> * Luca Cinquini <luca@apache.org> * Chris Mattmann <mattmann@apache.org> * Nick Kew <niq@apache.org> * Paul Loikith <ploikith@apache.org> * Paul Michael Ramirez <pramirez@apache.org> * Paul Zimdars <pzimdars@apache.org> * M. V. S. Rama Rao <ramarao@apache.org> * J Sanjay <sanjay@apache.org> * Shakeh Khudikyan <skhudiky@apache.org> * Suresh Marru <smarru@apache.org> * Duane Waliser <waliser@apache.org> * Kim Whitehall <whitehall@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Michael Joyce be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Open Climate Workbench, 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 Apache Open Climate Workbench Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Open Climate Workbench podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Open Climate Workbench podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Shepherd/Mentor notes: Justin Mclean (jmclean): Report not submitted. Project is up for graduation at board meeting.
A tool for scalable comparison of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs, regionally and globally. Open Climate Workbench has been incubating since 2013-02-15. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Draft graduation resolution 2. Pick chair 3. 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? Community growth has slowed but development work has continued strong. A number of people on the project attended the International Conference on Regional Climate - CORDEX 2013 and spoke about research that is being powered by the Open Climate Workbench. How has the project developed since the last report? Quite a bit of development work has continued on the project. Michael Joyce pushed out the 0.3-incubating release on the October 11 which resolved about 85 issues. Denis Nadeau made a huge contribution to the project in the obs4MIPs code base which provides a great deal of utility to the project. Cameron Goodale added tests that run the toolkit through an entire comparison so users can validate dependency installations and get a feel for how to use OCW. Date of last release: 2013-10-11 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2013-06-21 Signed-off-by: [ ](openclimateworkbench) Chris Douglas [ ](openclimateworkbench) Nick Kew [X](openclimateworkbench) Suresh Marru [ ](openclimateworkbench) Chris A. Mattmann
Apache Open Climate Workbench (Incubating) is an effort to develop software that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of different sources (the Earth System Grid Federation, the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program) and temporal/spatial scales with remote sensing data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The toolkit includes capabilities for regridding, metrics computation and visualization. Open Climate Workbench has been incubating since 2013-02-15. 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? No new committers or PPMC members added since the last report. How has the project developed since the last report? * Michael Joyce made the 0.2-incubating release after 1 release candidate on August 18, 2013. * Maziyar Boustani finished work on the new CLI for running evaluations. * The initial work for the refactoring of the Core API has been completed. * Cameron Goodale has completed some end-to-end tests that use the new Core API. * Shakeh Khudikyan and Andrew Hart have made multiple improvements to the UI * History/Results page for displaying results from previous runs. * The community had a good discussion regarding JIRA component names. A new system was agreed upon and put in place. Date of last release: 18-AUG-2013 Signed-off-by: [ ](openclimateworkbench) Chris Mattmann [x](openclimateworkbench) Suresh Marru [X](openclimateworkbench) Chris Douglas [ ](openclimateworkbench) Nick Kew Shepherd notes:
Apache Open Climate Workbench (Incubating) is an effort to develop software
that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of
different sources (the Earth System Grid Federation, the Coordinated Regional
Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the North
American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program) and temporal/spatial
scales with remote sensing data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The
toolkit includes capabilities for regridding, metrics computation and
visualization.
Open Climate Workbench has been incubating since 2013-02-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Develop an Apache community for Open Climate Workbench and connect to
other relevant Apache efforts (Tika, Hadoop, SIS, OODT)
2. Identify a Champion/VP candidate.
3. Add new contributors to the project.
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?
No new committers or PPMC members added since the last report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Cameron Goodale made the 0.1-incubating release after 5 release candidates
on July 29, 2013.
* Mike Joyce has a VOTE up for the 0.2-incubating release.
* The UI and backend are now able to fully replicate the climate analysis
performed by Kim et al., J. Climate 2013.
* Maziyar Boustani and Mike Joyce both made screencasts demonstrating the
UI, and linked them on the wiki.
* A discussion of binding VOTEs by the IPMC on releases occurred, and the
PPMC worked through the issues and were better informed of Incubator
processes.
* Kyo Lee and Alex Goodman continued to improve the metrics and viz for the
toolkit.
* Shakeh Khudikyan is working on a History page for displaying previous runs.
Date of last release: 29-JUL-2013
Signed-off-by:
[X](openclimateworkbench) Chris Mattmann
[X](openclimateworkbench) Suresh Marru
[X](openclimateworkbench) Chris Douglas
[ ](openclimateworkbench) Nick Kew
Shepherd notes:
rvs: Open Climate Workbench looks like a pretty healthy
community with a strong potential for graduation.
Apache Open Climate Workbench (Incubating) is an effort to develop software
that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of
different sources (the Earth System Grid Federation, the Coordinated Regional
Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the North
American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program) and temporal/spatial
scales with remote sensing data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The
toolkit includes capabilities for regridding, metrics computation and
visualization.
Open Climate Workbench has been incubating since 2013-02-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Develop an Apache community for Open Climate Workbench and connect to
other relevant Apache efforts (Tika, Hadoop, SIS, OODT)
2. Make an initial release.
3. Add new contributors to the project.
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?
Apache Open Climate Workbench elected its first new committer and PPMC
member, Alex Goodman, in the past month.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Cameron Goodale is working to push the 0.1-incubating release out the door
(currently on RC #4, with #5 coming soon)
* Tons of development going on (already up to nearly 200 JIRA issues;
ReviewBoard actively being used)
* The UI is receiving the most work in particular by Michael Joyce and
Shakeh Khudikyan.
* Kyo Lee and Alex Goodman and Kim Whitehall and Jinwon Kim are working on
the metrics module.
* Documentation is now appearing on the wiki including a guide produced by
Alex Goodman for Easy RCMET, our installer.
* Maziyar Boustani has several patch reviews going on to suggest a new API
for post 0.1-incubating development for RCMET.
Date of last release:
Signed-off-by:
[X](openclimateworkbench) Chris Mattmann
[X](openclimateworkbench) Suresh Marru
[ ](openclimateworkbench) Chris Douglas
[ ](openclimateworkbench) Nick Kew
Shepherd notes:
adc: The missing report is in line with this project's weakness, filling out
paperwork. ;) The podling status page
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/climate.html needs to be filled out.
With that said, the project seems pretty active with more than one developer
doing the heavy lifting.
Again, it would be good to fill out the status page so we can see where
they're at since they may be good candidates for graduation soon.
marvin: (Alan's notes were written up before OCW filed a late report.)
Apache Open Climate Workbench (Incubating) is an effort to develop
software that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs
from a variety of different sources (the Earth System Grid Federation,
the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National
Climate Assessment and the North American Regional Climate Change
Assessment Program) and temporal/spatial scales with remote sensing
data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The toolkit includes
capabilities for regridding, metrics computation and visualization.
Open Climate Workbench has been incubating since 2013-02-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Develop an Apache community for Open Climate Workbench and connect to
other relevant Apache efforts (Tika, Hadoop, SIS, OODT)
2. Make an initial release.
3. Add new contributors to the project.
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?
We're up to 86% (24) of the initial project members having ICLAs on
file and accounts. We've got 14% more (4) people still who have yet to
submit their ICLA. Chris Douglas and Chris Mattmann have reached out
to Bruce Hewitson to submit ICLA. 3 NASA participants from the
original proposal are working on their getting their ICLAs
approved. Chris Jack from University of Cape Town just had his account
created.
Community is now discussing many issues on list: 5 threads
(deprecation policy; ideas to improve the metrics module; proposed
tool refactoring; tools for Apache Open Climate Workbench; and coding
style are all being actively discussed.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Wiki now being used: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLIMATE/Index
* Review Board reviews are being leveraged; as is JIRA.
* Commit activity is high; and not singled out to Mike Joyce and Cameron
Goodale any longer (Whitehall; Huikyo Lee; now contributing)
* The project discussed and decided to add new JIRA issue labels for
users pointing out which issues are e.g., easy, more difficult, etc., to
tackle. Worked with Gav in infra to set this up.
* The team is discussing cutting a 0.1-incubating RC.
Please check this [X] when you have filled in the report for Open Climate Workbench.
Signed-off-by:
Chris Mattmann: [X](openclimateworkbench)
Suresh Marru: [X](openclimateworkbench)
Chris Douglas: [X](openclimateworkbench)
Nick Kew: [ ](openclimateworkbench)
Apache Open Climate Workbench (Incubating) is an effort to develop
software that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs
from a variety of different sources (the Earth System Grid Federation,
the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National
Climate Assessment and the North American Regional Climate Change
Assessment Program) and temporal/spatial scales with remote sensing
data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The toolkit includes
capabilities for regridding, metrics computation and visualization.
Open Climate Workbench has been incubating since 2013-02-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Develop an Apache community for Open Climate Workbench and
connect to other relevant Apache efforts (Tika, Hadoop, SIS,
OODT)
2. Make an initial release.
3. Add new contributors to the project.
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?
We're up to 82% (23) of the initial project members having ICLAs on
file and accounts. We've got 18% more (5) people still who have yet to
submit their ICLA. Chris Douglas and Chris Mattmann have reached out
to Chris Jack and Bruce Hewitson and Chris Jack has submitted his
ICLA. We are working on processing his account request atm.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Primary development has been moved to Apache from JPL now.
* Previously planned development has been migrated to Apache as well via JIRA issues
* Cameron Goodale focused on refactoring the core code and breaking it down into smaller functions and objects
* Mike Joyce and Shakeh Khudikyan have impressive GUI code on its way to the source.
* Suresh Marru working on refactoring source code to use ASF package names
* Huikyo Lee now contributing to the discussion on list.
Please check this [X] when you have filled in the report for Open Climate Workbench.
Signed-off-by:
Chris Mattmann: [X](openclimateworkbench)
Suresh Marru: [X](openclimateworkbench)
Chris Douglas: [ ](openclimateworkbench)
Nick Kew: [ ](openclimateworkbench)
Apache Open Climate Workbench (Incubating) is an effort to develop
software that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs
from a variety of different sources (the Earth System Grid Federation,
the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National
Climate Assessment and the North American Regional Climate Change
Assessment Program) and temporal/spatial scales with remote sensing
data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The toolkit includes
capabilities for regridding, metrics computation and visualization.
Open Climate Workbench has been incubating since 2013-02-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Develop an Apache community for Open Climate Workbench and
connect to other relevant Apache efforts (Tika, Hadoop, SIS,
OODT)
2. Make an initial release.
3. Add new contributors to the project.
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?
We're up to 79% (22) of the initial project members having ICLAs on
file and accounts. We've got 21% more (6) people still who have yet to
submit their ICLA. Chris Douglas and Chris Mattmann have reached out
to Chris Jack and Bruce Hewitson and are working on getting those 2
ICLAs so we can process their accounts.
How has the project developed since the last report?
INFRA-5874 is pretty much done, the big thing we're waiting on now is
the SVN import of the RCMES codebase. The SGA is on file as of
Thursday March 14, 2013, so we're ready to go there. Infra needed a
checksum file and evidence that we have an SGA to do the import, so we
provided that information on INFRA-5966, so should be loaded into SVN
any day now.
There was some limited discussion about others with the Climate name
in their software -- after discussion with Shane, this was deemed not
a problem.
Once we get the code base into SVN, all of the RCMES folks who have
been working on the project at JPL will conduct all development at
Apache.
Please check this [X] when you have filled in the report for Open
Climate Workbench.
Signed-off-by:
Chris Mattmann: [X](openclimateworkbench)
Suresh Marru: [X](openclimateworkbench)
Chris Douglas: [ ](openclimateworkbench)
Nick Kew: [ ](openclimateworkbench)
Shepherd notes:
Apache Open Climate Workbench (Incubating) is an effort to develop software that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of different sources (the Earth System Grid Federation, the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program) and temporal/spatial scales with remote sensing data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The toolkit includes capabilities for regridding, metrics computation and visualization. Open Climate Workbench has been incubating since 2013-02-15. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Develop an Apache community for Open Climate Workbench and connect to other relevant Apache efforts (Tika, Hadoop, SIS, OODT) 2. Make an initial release. 3. Add new contributors to the project. 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? The project is still adding members of the initial project proposal. So far 71% of the proposal initial committers on the projects have ICLAs on file and accounts either already or under processing. 29% of the project committers (8 people) are still working on filing their ICLAs. Chris Mattmann is working to get these accounts opened. How has the project developed since the last report? Chris filed INFRA-5874 to bootstrap the podling. All mailing lists are setup, and now archiving, SVN repo has been created and is underway. The site has been created (using the CMS) by Suresh Marru. Chris is also working with Craig Russell on filing a Software Grant for the RCMES initial codebase drop. As of Thursday March 14, 2013, the grant has been filed in r40293 of the foundation repository. Signed-off-by: Chris Mattmann: [X](openclimateworkbench) Suresh Marru: [X](openclimateworkbench) Chris Douglas: [X](openclimateworkbench) Nick Kew: [ ](openclimateworkbench) Shepherd Comments: None