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WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache MetaModel project due to inactivity; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache MetaModel 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 MetaModel Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache MetaModel" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache MetaModel PMC is hereby terminated. Special Order 7B, Terminate the Apache MetaModel Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
## Description: The mission of MetaModel is the creation and maintenance of software related to common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache MetaModel was founded 2014-11-19 (6 years ago) There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Arjan Seijkens on 2019-08-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Jörg Unbehauen on 2018-05-03. ## Project Activity: - 5.3.3 was released on 2021-02-23. - Not very much activity. ## Community Health: The community is maintaining the code and responding to issues, but otherwise it's fairly quiet.
## Description: The mission of MetaModel is the creation and maintenance of software related to common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache MetaModel was founded 2014-11-19 (6 years ago) There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Arjan Seijkens on 2019-08-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Jörg Unbehauen on 2018-05-03. ## Project Activity: Recent activity has been centered around the Travis CI build, and ensuring support for the latest versions of PostgreSQL. ## Community Health: Relatively speaking, the past quarter has seen a good uptick in activity, but the benchmark is also comparing to one of our least active quarters ever before that. In general, MetaModel is a fairly quiet and low activity project with just a few active contributors.
## Description: The mission of MetaModel is the creation and maintenance of software related to common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache MetaModel was founded 2014-11-19 (6 years ago) There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Arjan Seijkens on 2019-08-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Jörg Unbehauen on 2018-05-03. ## Project Activity: There is not a lot of activity going on with MetaModel at the moment. ## Community Health: There has been a decline in activity. The exact reasons are unclear to me, but usage of the project seems to maybe be falling behind competing technologies.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of MetaModel is the creation and maintenance of software related to common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache MetaModel was founded 2014-11-19 (6 years ago) There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Arjan Seijkens on 2019-08-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Jörg Unbehauen on 2018-05-03. ## Project Activity: Some (still un-released) improvements have been worked on: Improvements in handling of ElasticSearch data. Added metadata about number of decimal digits. ## Community Health: Not a lot of community activity. Most of what is happening is going on as PR reviews on GitHub.
## Description: The mission of MetaModel is the creation and maintenance of software related to common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache MetaModel was founded 2014-11-19 (5 years ago) There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Arjan Seijkens on 2019-08-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Jörg Unbehauen on 2018-05-03. ## Project Activity: The latest release was 5.3.2 on 2020-01-06. Not much activity right now, just humming along. ## Community Health: A decrease in activity coding and communications wise, but increased activity in JIRA. Nothing major though.
## Description: The mission of MetaModel is the creation and maintenance of software related to common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache MetaModel was founded 2014-11-18 (5 years ago) There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Arjan Seijkens on 2019-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Jörg Unbehauen on 2018-05-03. ## Project Activity: Low activity in general. New releases have been managed by Arjan Seijkens, not by the PMC chair, which is a nice change and good to get more involvement. ## Community Health: The community isn't very active and we're mostly just adding maintenance updates or smaller improvements. Whether this is a problem or not is not quite sure - the project may not evolve a whole lot more, but still offers value to it's users.
## Description: Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache MetaModel was founded 2014-11-19 (5 years ago) There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - Arjan Seijkens was added to the PMC on 2019-08-29 - No new committers. Last addition was Jörg Unbehauen on 2018-05-03. ## Project Activity: MetaModel 5.3.1 was released on 2019-09-13. A fairly big change/PR (#229) was just recently merged, upgrading to newer versions of ElasticSearch. This will break some existing behaviour due to upstream changes in ElasticSearch itself. Another sizeable change/PR (#230) is pending more review and agreement. It attempts to autodetect data types in our MS Excel module. ## Community Health: The MetaModel 5.3.1 release was the first release in a long time done by a new release engineer: Arjan Seijkens. This was a good exercise to go through to ensure that someone else than myself could perform the release. Other than that, most if not all communication recently has been about specific changes/PRs.
## Description: The mission of MetaModel is the creation and maintenance of software related to common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache MetaModel was founded 2014-11-19 (5 years ago) There are currently 13 committers and 11 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Dennis Du Krøger on 2016-09-06. - No new committers. Last addition was Jörg Unbehauen on 2018-05-03. ## Project Activity: We are getting ready for another release soon after a handful of good contributions coming from several members of the community. ## Community Health: We see a few new contributors as of late, breaking the otherwise slowing traffic that we where seeing earlier.
## Description: Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Version 5.3.0 was released in early April. ## Health report: - The project is continuing the "slow but steady" modus. ## PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Dennis Du Krøger on Mon Sep 05 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 13 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Jörg Unbehauen at Thu May 03 2018 ## Releases: - 5.2.1 was released on Thu Mar 07 2019 - 5.3.0 was released on Wed Apr 03 2019 ## JIRA activity: - 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Version 5.2.0 was released in early January. ## Health report: - The project is continuing the "slow but steady" modus. ## PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Dennis Du Krøger on Mon Sep 05 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 13 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Jörg Unbehauen at Thu May 03 2018 ## Releases: - 5.2.0 was released on Thu Jan 03 2019 ## JIRA activity: - 4 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - A minor bugfix release (5.1.1) has been made since last time. - There has been a small increase in reported issues and activity in JIRA ## Health report: - As reported last time, the project is not very busy, but also not in a particular bad state. Going slow but steady. ## PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Dennis Du Krøger on Mon Sep 05 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 13 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Jörg Unbehauen at Thu May 03 2018 ## Releases: - 5.1.1 was released on Wed Oct 03 2018 ## JIRA activity: - 14 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Report from the Apache MetaModel project [Kasper Sørensen] ## Description: Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - We've made a single release in the start of this reporting period. - Other than that, it's been very quiet. ## Health report: - The project is in questionable health. There is not a lot of momentum but also not any big issues per se. ## PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Dennis Du Krøger on Mon Sep 05 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 13 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Jörg Unbehauen at Thu May 03 2018 ## Releases: - 5.1.0 was released on Tue Jun 26 2018 ## JIRA activity: - 8 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and
querying of different types of data sources.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- We've added a few new committers to the project.
- The project is in a low activity period in terms of code/issues.
## Health report:
- We've been trying to promote people from casual committers to
actual formal committer members. But it hasn't yet caused for any
kind of increased activity it seems.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Dennis Du Krøger on Mon Sep 05 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 13 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Arjan Seijkens was added as a committer on Mon Mar 19 2018
- Jörg Unbehauen was added as a committer on Thu May 03 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.1.0-RC1 on Mon Jan 29 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- It's been a period of quite low mailing list activity,
as can be seen by the numbers below.
- dev@metamodel.apache.org:
- 78 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 23 emails sent to list (139 in previous quarter)
- issues@metamodel.apache.org:
- 10 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 12 emails sent to list (98 in previous quarter)
- user@metamodel.apache.org:
- 26 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Report from the Apache MetaModel project [Kasper Sørensen]
## Description:
Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and
querying of different types of data sources.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- MetaModel 5.0.1 was released and has proven to be a stable library for the
community.
- The "Membrane" subproject was also released as version 1.0.0. But we
haven't heard much from people using it.
## Health report:
- We're in a period of rather low activity wrt. MetaModel development. There
aren't any specific reasons for this that comes to mind. At this point it's
not a big concern for the PMC, but we'll keep monitoring it.
- We should consider inviting other individuals since there are some that
have made good contributions to the code in recent months.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Dennis Du Krøger on Mon Sep 05 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 11 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Dennis Du Krøger at Thu Oct 15 2015
## Releases:
- 4.6.1 was released on Sun Nov 26 2017
- 5.0.1 was released on Sat Dec 23 2017
- 5.1.0-RC1 was released on Mon Jan 29 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- As can be seen by the numbers below, the community activity seems to be
down quite a lot...
- dev@metamodel.apache.org:
- 78 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 132 emails sent to list (178 in previous quarter)
- issues@metamodel.apache.org:
- 11 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 94 emails sent to list (148 in previous quarter)
- user@metamodel.apache.org:
- 25 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 15 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 9 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 12 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Report from the Apache MetaModel project [Kasper Sørensen] ## Description: Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - We've just released MetaModel 5.0.0 which has been brewing for a long time. Whether the release is a big a success is too early to say anything about, but it's good to finally have it out! - The new "Membrane" subproject will get it's initial release soon too. We hope that this subproject will act as a showcase for what MetaModel's capabilities can be used to archieve. Membrane will be distributed as a Docker image too, making it very easy to install and try out. - An initial check was made to see how MetaModel works on JDK 9. Due to limitations in some of the supported datastores (old version of ElasticSearch, Neo4j) we still cannot do the complete build on JDK 9. This is something I think we'll have to address soon. ## Health report: - We're not seeing explosive growth or anything like that, but it seems to be a good time with decent amounts of activity from both recurring and new contributors. - Good signals in terms of new contributions coming organically and less company-sponsored. ## PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Dennis Du Krøger on Mon Sep 05 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 11 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Dennis Du Krøger at Thu Oct 15 2015 ## Releases: - 5.0-RC4 was released on Fri Aug 18 2017 - 5.0.0 was released on Wed Nov 8 2017 ## JIRA activity: - 17 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 12 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and
querying of different types of data sources.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Two milestone/RC versions of MetaModel 5.0 has been released.
- A new subproject "Membrane" was founded, first release pending.
## Health report:
The MetaModel project is generally doing much better now than
previous two quarters. The two activity points above seem to have
ignited a lot of new enthusiasm and traffic on the mailing lists.
Also, new contributors are showing up with PRs on GitHub and good
issue reports on JIRA.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Dennis Du Krøger on Mon Sep 05 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 11 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Dennis Du Krøger at Thu Oct 15 2015
## Releases:
- 5.0-RC1 was released on Sat May 20 2017
- 5.0-RC2 was released on Thu Jun 15 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- The activity on the dev@ and user@ mailing lists have increased significantly.
- dev@metamodel.apache.org:
- 77 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 228 emails sent to list (9 in previous quarter)
- issues@metamodel.apache.org:
- 8 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
- user@metamodel.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 10 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 13 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 10 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and
querying of different types of data sources.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Initiative started (recent week or so) to get an early version of MetaModel
5.0 out.
- Activity on the main @dev mailing list remains lower than it was a few
reporting cycles ago.
## Health report:
- The low activity is still a bit concerning. The project has certainly slowed
down and the work to make a 5.0 release seems to have lost momentum. As a
reaction to this there is a proposal (from myself) to release it with less
enhancements than what was sketched in JIRA, but enough to maybe spark the
project into life a bit.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Dennis Du Krøger on Mon Sep 05 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 11 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Dennis Du Krøger at Thu Oct 15 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 4.6.0 on Fri Feb 03 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- As can be seen from the stats below, the trend doesn't look good and it seems
that several core community members are spending less time on the project now
than previously.
- dev@metamodel.apache.org:
- 78 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 20 emails sent to list (79 in previous quarter)
- issues@metamodel.apache.org:
- 7 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- user@metamodel.apache.org:
- 16 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Apache MetaModel 4.6.0 released. - Activity on the main @dev mailing list is down from 148 emails sent to just 78. - A new @users mailing list has emerged, but not with a lot of activity in it. ## Health report: - The slowdown in activity is a bit worrying. It would seem that we are not attracting a lot of new community members and/or not doing a great job of promoting Apache MetaModel. ## PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Dennis Du Krøger on Mon Sep 05 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 11 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Dennis Du Krøger at Thu Oct 15 2015 ## Releases: - 4.5.5 was released on Wed Nov 16 2016 - 4.6.0 was released on Fri Feb 03 2017 ## JIRA activity: - 8 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - No major events recently, but bug reports, fixes and minor feature improvements appear steadily. ## Health report: - We see a bit less activity than usual from the "usuals" in the metamodel community. But external JIRA reports etc. seem to have picked up. ## PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - Dennis Du Krøger was added to the PMC on Mon Sep 05 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 11 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Dennis Du Krøger at Thu Oct 15 2015 ## Releases: - Last release was 4.5.4 on Wed Aug 03 2016 ## JIRA activity: - 17 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 13 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata
and querying of different types of data sources.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- A new (confluence) wiki is being set up to replace the current
MoinMoin wiki.
- A new SPI-based API have been added to MetaModel, making it possible to
dynamically add new modules. We believe this approach makes integration
with other projects such as Apache Calcite (and thereby also e.g.
Apache Drill) much easier (see CALCITE-1304).
## Health report:
- The 4.x releases occur at a steady pace, growing maturity.
- The community does not seem to grow very much, but supporters are loyal. It
is my impression that we lag behind on “marketing” activities to make the
project more known.
- The future 5.x release is ambitious in trying to broaden MetaModel’s scope
by adding a RESTful HTTP API on top of the existing Java API.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Ankit Kumar on Tue Nov 18 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 11 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Dennis Du Krøger at Thu Oct 15 2015
## Releases:
- 4.5.3 was released on Thu May 19 2016
- 4.5.4 was released on Fri Aug 04 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- We have added new mailing lists @issues and @user, but these have not
yet been taken into good use.
- dev@metamodel.apache.org:
- 77 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 1368 emails sent to list, a lot of which was SPAM from the
JIRA SPAM incidents (226 in previous quarter)
- issues@metamodel.apache.org:
- 5 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months)
- user@metamodel.apache.org:
- 10 subscribers (up 10 in the last 3 months)
## JIRA activity:
- 27 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 16 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata
and querying of different types of data sources.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Bugfixes and minor improvements are being worked on.
- There is also a 5.0 branch being set up, focusing on major
improvements with breaking changes and leveraging Java 8 APIs.
## Health report:
- The project seems healthy enough, although it's in a bit of a slow
period. Supporters are still active but there’s not a lot of big
developments going on.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Ankit Kumar on Tue Nov 18 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 11 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Dennis Du Krøger at Thu Oct 15 2015
## Releases:
- 4.5.1 was released on Thu Feb 11 2016
- 4.5.2 was released on Mon Mar 21 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@metamodel.apache.org:
- 74 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 227 emails sent to list (486 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 17 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 10 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and
querying of different types of data sources.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Initial work being done on MetaModel 5.0 which involves upgrading to
Java 8and supporting the new language features and JDK.
- Discussions are going on about whether we should update our logo and
general look'n'feel of the Apache MetaModel "brand".
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Ankit Kumar on Wed Nov 19 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 11 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Dennis Du Krøger at Thu Oct 15 2015
## Releases:
- 4.5.0 was released on Thu Dec 17 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@metamodel.apache.org:
- 69 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 510 emails sent to list (582 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 25 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 14 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and
querying of different types of data sources.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- To increase visibility two PMC members have represented Apache MetaModel at
conferences recently: Apache Big Data EU and Big Data Spain.
- Current development efforts on adding new modules for Neo4j, ElasticSearch
via REST protocol and a new MongoDB 3.x API.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Henry Saputra on Wed Nov 19 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 11 committers.
- Dennis Du Krøger was added as a committer on Thu Oct 15 2015
## Releases:
- 4.4.1 was released on Fri Oct 30 2015
- 4.4.0 was released on Mon Oct 12 2015
- 4.3.6 was released on Sun Aug 16 2015
- 4.4.0-RC1 was released on Mon Aug 31 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@metamodel.apache.org:
- 64 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 574 emails sent to list (414 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 37 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 34 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources. ## Activity: - Working on making 2 releases, 4.3.4 and 4.3.5 - The community continues to be quite active and contributing in several modules: MongoDB, Cassandra, JDBC and ElasticSearch. - Brand new hadoop module included in the latest release - The team was also involved in bug fixing tasks and improve integration tests. - Kasper Sorensen, VP of MetaModel, will be talking about the project at Apache BigData Europe conference. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## LDAP committee group/Committership changes: - Currently 10 committers and 10 LDAP committee group members. - No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months - Last LDAP committee group addition was Henry Saputra at Thu Nov 27 2014 - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Henry Saputra at Thu Nov 27 2014 ## Releases: - 4.3.4 was released on Sun May 24 2015 - 4.3.5 was released on Tue Jun 23 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@metamodel.apache.org: - 61 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months): - 419 emails sent to list (430 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 29 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 17 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and
querying of different types of data sources.
## Activity:
- Several minor bugfix patches are being working on at the moment.
- A larger new module to add Apache Solr connectivity is also
being reviewed and refined.
- We invited Hosur Narahari to become a committer but he has not
yet filed the ICLA.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## PMC/Committership changes:
- Currently 10 committers and 10 PMC members in the project.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Henry Saputra at Thu Nov 27 2014
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committers added: 2014-10-14 (Alberto Rodriguez)
## Releases:
- 4.3.2 was released on Wed Mar 11 2015
- 4.3.3 was released on Thu Apr 16 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@metamodel.apache.org:
- 65 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months):
- 469 emails sent to list (419 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 28 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 15 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Apache MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for exploration and querying of different types of datastores. Releases: * December 12th, 2014: MetaModel 4.3.1 Statistics: * Last committers added: 2014-10-14 (Alberto Rodriguez) * Last PMC members added: 2014-11-20 (When the project graduated) * Mailing list activity for last 3 months: 300 messages * Mailing list subscribers: 58 * Commits the last 3 months: 26 Activity: * Discussions are starting about new connectors: Solr, Hive * Discussions on building a JDBC interface for MetaModel * No important activity at the moment
Apache MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for exploration and querying of different types of datastores. Releases: * December 12th, 2014: MetaModel 4.3.1 Statistics: * Last committers added: 2014-10-14 (Alberto Rodriguez) * Last PMC members added: 2014-11-20 (When the project graduated) * Mailing list activity for last 3 months: 412 messages * Mailing list subscribers: 57 * Commits the last 3 months: 41 Activity: * The TLP infrastructure is properly in place now. * A press release about the TLP graduation was published on the Apache Blog. The community showed good cooperation to work with Apache press on this. * In mid-december we made our first release as a TLP with the 4.3.1 release. * Since then it has been quiet. Mostly a few issues with the TLP website was addressed and the community hasn't had any big topics to discuss yet in 2015. * The website was slightly redesigned and made mobile friendly.
Apache MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for exploration and querying of different types of datastores. Releases: * November 24th, 2014: MetaModel 4.3.0-incubating Statistics: * Last committers added: 2014-10-14 (Alberto Rodriguez) * Last PMC members added: 2014-11-20 (When the project graduated) * Mailing list activity for last 3 months: 426 messages * Mailing list subscribers: 55 * Commits the last 3 months: 51 Activity: * October and November was active months with increased commits, a release and graduation from Apache Incubator. * We are finishing the process of migrating from Incubator infrastructure to TLP infrastructure. * Website, Mailing List, Git repository has been migrated to TLP namespace. * The website was updated with a "news" section and an updated splash image. * Working with Apache press team to make press release about our graduation. * There is an experimental module/connector for Neo4j in the works, initiated by Tomasz Guzialek.
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 data access framework, providing a common interface for exploration and querying of different types of datastores. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache MetaModel Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache MetaModel Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to data access framework, providing a common interface for exploration and querying of different types of datastores; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache MetaModel" 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 MetaModel Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache MetaModel 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 MetaModel Project: * Alberto Rodriguez <ardlema@apache.org> * Ankit Kumar <ankitkumar2711@apache.org> * Arvind Prabhakar <arvind@apache.org> * Henry Saputra <hsaputra@apache.org> * Juan Jose van der Linden <delostilos@apache.org> * Kasper Sørensen <kaspersor@apache.org> * Matt Franklin <mfranklin@apache.org> * Noah Slater <nslater@apache.org> * Sameer Arora <sarora@apache.org> * Tomasz Guzialek <tomaszguzialek@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Kasper Sørensen be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache MetaModel, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache MetaModel PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache MetaModel Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache MetaModel Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator MetaModel podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator MetaModel podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7F, Establish the Apache MetaModel Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for
exploration and querying of different types of datastores.
MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. More contributors and committers to increase diversity of the community
2. More releases under ASF
3. Connect with other projects from Apache's ecosystem such as Apache Gora,
Apache Flink
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?
A few new people have started to work actively on the mailing list
and contributing patches and new features.
One of the new contributors, Alberto Rodriguez, had added new module to
connect to ElasticSearch.
Updated ASF incubator page to reflect current state.
Updated MetaModel website to contain link on how to contribute.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Apache MetaModel 4.2.0-incubating was released on July 28, 2014.
We are near of proposing to have new committer.
Mailing list activity since last report:
@dev via http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-metamodel-dev/
September 137 messages
August 28 messages
July 109 messages
51 members
@commits via http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-metamodel-commits
September 26 messages
August 2014Thread 3 messages
July 2014Thread 47 messages
Date of last release:
July 28, 2014
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
June 30, 2014
Signed-off-by:
[X](metamodel) Henry Saputra
[X](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar
[ ](metamodel) Matt Franklin
[X](metamodel) Noah Slater
MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for exploration and querying of different types of datastores. MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. More contributors to increase diversity of the community 2. Finalize 4.1 release to demonstrate new functionality and evolution within Apache 3. Connect with other projects from Apache's ecosystem such as HBase, Phoenix, Cassandra, Optiq 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? A few new people have started to work actively on the mailing list. It is still a small community, and growth is needed. On the positive side we do see certain new individuals starting to contribute continuously to the project. We have been working on blogging, tweeting etc. to create more out-going communication about MetaModel. We feel that more of such activity is needed. How has the project developed since the last report? Apache MetaModel 4.1.0-incubating was released on Jan 21. This time with a new release engineer, which meant that the release instructions were re-iterated and updated. Communication on mailing list is improving and we see more diversity of requests. For instance, connectivity to Hadoop and HBase was previously not very active but now it's is taking a good share of the focus. Date of last release: May 12th When were the last committers or PMC members elected? June 2013 (but a new committer is being invited just now) Signed-off-by: [X](metamodel) Henry Saputra [X](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar [ ](metamodel) Matt Franklin [X](metamodel) Noah Slater
MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for
exploration and querying of different types of datastores.
MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finalize 4.1 release to demonstrate new functionality and evolution
within Apache
2. More contributors to increase diversity of the community
3. Determine approach to technical documentation across different software
versions
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
We finished our first release and are seeing some initial interest from
users. Mostly there are interactions to add new features or connectivity
to new types of datastores. For instance, it has been proposed to look
into building connectivity to semantic web technologies, iRods, Apache
Phoenix - and within the contributors group there has been some focus on
adding HBase and Cassandra support.
Discussions about community by-laws are not very active at this point. It
does not seem to be top-of-mind for most community members, and also
shepherd/mentor notes from January 2014 indicate that this is not
important right now.
We're improving on the point of registering JIRA issues and running
patches through the review board. By now this is the approach taken every
time, unless a commit is found to be very trivial.
Still the core group of developers seems a bit small, but by focusing on
broader connectivity and keeping the releases coming, we think we can
attract a larger community to the project.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Apache MetaModel 4.0.0-incubating was released on Jan 21.
We are working on new features for a 4.1 version. The 4.1 version will
represent the point in time where Apache MetaModel starts to show
significant new functionality when compared to the old eobjects.org
MetaModel project.
A new module for providing easy Spring framework integration has been
implemented.
Finishing touches are being made to a new module for connecting to Apache
HBase.
Various API changes are being planned and discussed.
Many bugfixes and performance improvements has been implemented.
Date of last release:
Jan 21, 2014
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
June 2013
Signed-off-by:
[X](metamodel) Henry Saputra
[X](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar
[X](metamodel) Matt Franklin
[X](metamodel) Noah Slater
MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for
exploration and querying of different types of datastores.
MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. More contributors to increase diversity of the community
2. Make first release under ASF umbrella
3. Set better guidelines for procedures by setting community by-laws
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
We're working on making the first release under the Apache umbrella
available. A first release candidate was rejected in the vote for
technical reasons, but these where fixed by the second release candidate
and a few JIRA entries to improve build-time validation.
Various requests and questions are coming in through the dev mailing list.
We believe this activity will further accelerate when our first release is
available.
We've been drafting a set of community by-laws, but open questions and
discussions are still not settled, so this is only work-in-progress.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We've implemented various performance and concurrency related improvements
to the working of MetaModel.
Test suites have been improved to work properly on different locales,
operating systems etc.
Many minor changes to build configuration, license files etc., as a result
of working towards a release.
Date of last release:
None
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
June 2013
Signed-off-by:
[X](metamodel) Henry Saputra
[X](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar
[ ](metamodel) Matt Franklin
[ ](metamodel) Noah Slater
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Roman Shaposhnik (rvs):
In general project seem to be on the right track with a healthy amount
of community interaction happening over the mailing list and a strong
desire to do a release. Two issues have caught my attention though:
1. I am not quite sure what motivated a strong drive towards having
by-laws this early in the game. In my experience the focus on by-laws
can, at times, put a damping factor on community growth. IOW, what
I've seen in the past is that communities try to come up with by-laws
when the usual process of consensus building starts to fail. Nothing
actionable here for the project -- just keep this in mind.
2. The JIRA feels a bit empty for the project that has been developing
for more than 6 month (grand total of 33 issues). At the same time
the number of commits in the Git repo is on par with the development
pace. What it tells me is that there's no strong correlation between
JIRAs and commits. This raises a red flag of whether all of the
changes that are committed get a proper community vetting before they
go in. I couldn't find any traces of the review requests either:
https://reviews.apache.org/groups/metamodel/
This in my opinion is a pretty big concern for the project.
MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for exploration and querying of different types of datastores. MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. More contributors to increase diversity of the community 2. Make first release under ASF umbrella 3. Looking forward to setup CI builds under ASF infra 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? Ankit Kumar has taken the role of being release engineer for our first ASF release. A draft for bylaws for the project has been added to the wiki, we are discussing and finalizing the details. We are still not seeing a lot of involvement from new contributors, but expect that a release will give us more users and thus involvement from more newcomers. How has the project developed since the last report? The primary focus has been on making our first release under ASF umbrella. The work is coming along well and we have a practical TODO list of less than 5 points now. Date of last release: None When were the last committers or PMC members elected? June 2013 Signed-off-by: [X](metamodel) Henry Saputra [X](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar [X](metamodel) Matt Franklin [ ](metamodel) Noah Slater Shepherd notes:
MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for
exploration and querying of different types of datastores.
MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. More contributors to increase diversity of the community
2. Make first release under ASF umbrella
3. Looking forward to setup CI builds under ASF infra
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have new contributions for JIRAs and lively discussions on dev list
about technical implementations.
@dev list has 26 members
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. We have merge mostly all issues from MetaModel old JIRA to ASF JIRAs
that we want to solve for MetaModel.
2. We have removed the component of the software that require incompatible
license with ASF 2.0 license (Microsoft Access module)
3. We have started discussion about first release under ASF.
4. We have updated the website (http://metamodel.incubator.apache.org) to
adhere to ASF Incubator guidelines.
Date of last release:
None
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
June 2013
Signed-off-by:
[x](metamodel) Henry Saputra
[x](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar
[ ](metamodel) Matt Franklin
[ ](metamodel) Noah Slater
MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for
exploration and querying of different types of datastores.
MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Roadmapping of our first Apache MetaModel release. Since the namespace
change is going to break backwards compatibility of the project anyway, a
couple of "old but breaking ideas" needs to be accepted or rejected.
2. Bring more diverse committers and contributors to the project.
3. We will probably be having several third party modules for MetaModel,
because of (L)GPL dependencies. We want to figure out a good way to make
this understandable for users (through website or similar means).
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
The pending INFRA work was finished in end-july, and we are starting to take
it into use.
We've decided to go for a Review-Then-Commit policy. We will allow lazy
consensus after 3 days and a minimum of one +1 vote.
There are currently no concrete plans for a release. We have some
discussions and proposals of features on the mailing list which we want to
settle on first.
Since incubation we have not made any new appointments for either committer
or PMC member.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The code has been moved from eobjects.org to Apache's Git server
(https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-metamodel.git). 5
bugfixes from the base release 3.4.4 was applied to our codebase as well.
The namespace of the project has been changed to org.apache.metamodel
(previously org.eobjects.metamodel). To aid migration, we've also
implemented a helping facility for deserializing objects of the old
namespace into the new.
A performance optimization for the CSV module has been proposed and applied.
The project now has a website (http://metamodel.incubator.apache.org/). The
website is meant mostly as an 'appetizer', and we're planning to put
lengthier pieces of information onto our wiki
(http://wiki.apache.org/metamodel/), and if needed link to those from the
website. Some initial content has been put on the wiki as well.
The project contains a Microsoft Access module, which depends on the LGPL
licensed Jackcess library. We are looking for a replacement dependency or to
remove the module from the project.
Date of last release:
None
Signed-off-by:
[x](metamodel) Henry Saputra
[x](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar
[x](metamodel) Matt Franklin
[ ](metamodel) Noah Slater
Shepherd notes:
The podling is off to a good start (Dave Fisher - wave@)
MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for
exploration and querying of different types of datastores.
MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Complete INFRA setup to move the code to ASF git repository (pending
INFRA action): https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6404
2. Redirect MetaModel website to Apache one once available.
3. Bring more diverse committers and contributors to the project.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
NO
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have moved the community discussions to
dev@metamodel.incubator.apache.org to have more open and engaging
discussions.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Since the Incubator accepted MetaModel, there's obviously been a lot of
attention around the project.
The tech lead for the project, Kasper, had posted some mentionings on
TheServerSide.com and is putting the final touches on an article for
InfoQ.com as well (expected published later this week).
The base code has cut another release
(http://eobjects.org/trac/query?milestone=MetaModel+3.4.4)
We are still waiting for INFRA work
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6404) to move the code to ASF
git repo.
Date of last release:
None.
Signed-off-by:
[x](metamodel) Henry Saputra
[x](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar
[x](metamodel) Matt Franklin
[x](metamodel) Noah Slater
Shepherd notes: