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WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache OODT 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 OODT project due to inactivity; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache OODT 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 OODT Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache OODT" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache OODT PMC is hereby terminated. Special Order 7B, Terminate the Apache OODT Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
No report was submitted.
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@Bertrand: pursue a potential Attic resolution for OODT
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@Bertrand: pursue a roll call for OODT
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## Description: Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. ## Issues: Regarding the following comment by the board in June, "Not being able to release because of lack of activity is a bit problematic. Is there reason to believe this will change in the near future?": I don't think the situation will improve in the future ## Membership Data: Apache OODT was founded 2010-11-17 (12 years ago) There are currently 47 committers and 46 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Nadeeshan Gimhana on 2021-04-25. - No new committers. Last addition was Nadeeshan Gimhana on 2021-04-06. ## Project Activity: - Last release (1.9.1) was in October 2021 - Still we couldn't get OODT 2.0 released due to contributors being busy with their own work ## Community Health: Community health is low due to no new development being done around OODT and the number of active OODT users is very low (and they will not upgrade to newer versions).
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. ## Issues: No issues persist that require board's attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OODT was founded 2010-11-17 (12 years ago) There are currently 47 committers and 46 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Nadeeshan Gimhana on 2021-04-25. - No new committers. Last addition was Nadeeshan Gimhana on 2021-04-06. ## Project Activity: - Last release (1.9.1) was in October 2021 We have finished required feature developments for OODT 2.0, but couldn't get it released yet due to all the active contributors being busy. The plan is to get it released during the reporting period. ## Community Health: Community health was low due to no new development being done around OODT. It may increase a bit with the release work of OODT 2.0.
## Description: Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. ## Issues: No issues persist that require board's attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OODT was founded 2010-11-17 (11 years ago) There are currently 47 committers and 46 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Nadeeshan Gimhana on 2021-04-25. - No new committers. Last addition was Nadeeshan Gimhana on 2021-04-06. ## Project Activity: - Last release was in October 2021 As mentioned in the last report (September 2021), we released 1.9.1 patch release. Then we have merged the changes queued for 2.0 that was in the development branch into master branch. PMC had a discussion on the way forward and decided to release 2.0 as the next step. ## Community Health: Community health was low due to no new development being done around OODT. Work for 2.0 has already been completed. Project activity may pickup when we start the discussion around 2.0 release.
## Description: Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. ## Issues: No issues persist that require board's attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OODT was founded 2010-11-17 (11 years ago) There are currently 47 committers and 46 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Nadeeshan Gimhana on 2021-04-25. - No new committers. Last addition was Nadeeshan Gimhana on 2021-04-06. ## Project Activity: - Last release was in October 2021 As mentioned in the last report (September 2021), we released 1.9.1 patch release. Then we have merged the changes queued for 2.0 that was in the development branch into master branch. Plan is to release 2.0 as soon as several contributors become available. ## Community Health: Community health was low due to no new development being done around OODT. Work for 2.0 has already been completed. Project activity may pickup when we start the discussion around 2.0 release.
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. ## Issues: No issues persist that require board's attention ## Membership Data: Apache OODT was founded 2010-11-17 (11 years ago) There are currently 47 committers and 46 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Nadeeshan Gimhana was added to the PMC on 2021-04-25 - No new committers. Last addition was Nadeeshan Gimhana on 2021-04-06. ## Project Activity: - Last release was in October 2019. With the conclusion of GSoC 2021, we have completed the new React.js based OPSUI implementation. Additionally, we have introduced a docker deployment to deploy OODT components with docker-compose with zero configuration. We plan to release 1.9.1 patch release in the next quarter and then 2.0 with a bunch of new features. ## Community Health: Community health was really good, mainly due to the GSoC 2021 project activity and several contributors working alongside to add different features. As a result email activity, commits and PR counts were high compared to last quarter.
## Description: Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. ## Issues: No issues persist that require board's attention ## Membership Data: Apache OODT was founded 2010-11-17 (11 years ago) There are currently 47 committers and 46 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Nadeeshan Gimhana was added to the PMC on 2021-04-25 - No new committers. Last addition was Nadeeshan Gimhana on 2021-04-06. ## Project Activity: - Last release was in October 2019. Project activity has been high due to the ongoing GSoC 2021 project to finalize the features of the ReactJS based OPSUI (dashboard). Along with that, we are working on minor improvements in other aspects of the project as well. Once this is completed, we plan on releasing OODT 2.0. ## Community Health: Nadeeshan was added to PMC during the last reporting period. This is the 1st addition to the PMC in around 3 years. Overall, community health is satisfactory.
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OODT was founded 2010-11-17 (10 years ago) There are currently 46 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-29. ## Project Activity: We are currently working on JDK 11 support and removing XML RPC support. There have been very positive contributions during this quarter. Several PRs are waiting to be reviewed for OODT 2.0 release. We are hopeful to get them merged in next quarter. ## Community Health: Compared to last reporting period, project activity has been high due to several contributors working on JDK 11 support, logging improvements for OODT and overall 2.0 release. We predict this trend will continue in the next quarter as well.
## Description: Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. ## Issues: Reply to comment by Justin on last report: The discussion wasn't in the mailing list. We are currently discussing this in the mailing list and will continue to do so in the future. During the last reporting period, we were able to re-prioritize the action items for OODT 2.0 and are currently working on them. ## Membership Data: Apache OODT was founded 2010-11-17 (10 years ago) There are currently 46 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-29. ## Project Activity: Several key contributors are now available to contribute and we have identified the action items for OODT 2.0. Currently we are actively working on them; removing XML RPC and supporting JDK 11. - Last release was in October 2019. - Project activity has a slight increase due to revamped OODT 2.0 discussion and is expected to increase in the coming months. ## Community Health: Compared to the last 2 reporting periods, the activity is really positive and we think we will be able to finish the OODT 2.0 release within this month. Our two GSoC 2019 students offered their help for upcoming developments (see the "OODT 2.0 Planning" thread) as well.
## Description: Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. ## Issues: No issues persist that require board's attention ## Membership Data: Apache OODT was founded 2010-11-17 (10 years ago) There are currently 46 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-29. ## Project Activity: - Last release was in October 2019. Project activity has been very low due to all the contributors being busy and no major features/bugs are in the backlog. However, there's a plan to fully integrate the new OPSUI developed in the GSoC 2019 into the next release. That will be a great step for OODT once completed. ## Community Health: Activity point of view, project health is not satisfactory. However, in a roll call initiated 2 terms back, 8 PMC members responded. I hope the health will be better once we start working on OODT 2.0 as mentioned above.
No report was submitted.
@Sander: pursue a roll call for OODT
## Description: Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. ## Issues: There are no issues that need board's attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OODT was founded 2010-11-17 (10 years ago) There are currently 46 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-29. ## Project Activity: - Last release (1.9) was on 2019-10-03. - A backward compatibility fix for OODT 1.9 (1.9.x) is still pending requiring a PR to be merged and tested. - Few new features are planned to be finalized (implementation was done, but requires refining) including the new OPSUI dashboard and the docker deployment support. ## Community Health: - A PMC roll call was initiated last time and around 8 PMC members responded which is a good thing from the project's perspective. - Mailing list and JIRA activity has been very low since all the active contributors were busy during the reporting period.
## Description: Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention ## Membership Data: Apache OODT was founded 2010-11-17 (9 years ago) There are currently 46 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-29. ## Project Activity: - Last release was 1.9 on 2019-10-03 - The features implemented through GSoC 2019 are yet to be finalized and released as OODT 2.0. - Backward compatibility fix for OODT 1.9 was not released during this quarter due to lack of contributions to validate the changes. ## Community Health: - The rise in number of emails is due to JIRA notifications and not due to contributions/discussions. - Project activity was very low in this quarter since all the active contributors couldn't get involved enough. - No project ideas were submitted for GSoC 2020
@Patricia: pursue a roll call for OODT
No report was submitted.
@Dave: pursue a report for OODT
## Description: Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention ## Membership Data: Apache OODT was founded 2010-11-17 (9 years ago) There are currently 46 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-29. ## Project Activity: 2 Google Summer of Code projects were completed in this quarter. With them a new UI was introduced for OODT and main OODT components were dockerized to support k8s deployment. These features are being further enhanced under 2.x developments which are yet to be released. After around one year silence, OODT 1.9 was released in this October which included the major update of making Avro RPC the default. We are working on a maintenance release, 1.9.x to address a backward compatibility issue introduced with 1.9 release due to avro being default over XML RPC. ## Community Health: Mailing list activity was high due to recent release and completion of GSoC projects. Jira and PR activity were lower compared to last quarter since GSoC projects finished at the beginning of this quarter. We are tracking 2 prospects at the moment. Furthermore, we are planning to submit projects for 2020 GSoC program.
## Description: Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention ## Membership Data: Apache OODT was founded 2010-11-17 (9 years ago) There are currently 46 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-29. ## Project Activity: We have just completed 2 GSoC projects. One to improve OODT deployment with docker and the other one was to implement a new UI for OODT OPSUI. Both were completed successfully. However, there are few PRs still required to be merged and some minor improvements requires to be made on top of GSoC contributions for the new features to be usable. Those students will help us get through this. With those additions we are planning to release OODT 2.0. We have 1.9 release on the backlog which is dev completed, but not yet properly tested. We intend to finalize that as well. - Last release was 1.2.5 on 2018-09-13. ## Community Health: - 16 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (300% increase) - 9 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (800% increase) - 19 commits in the past quarter (216% increase) - 7 code contributors in the past quarter (250% increase) - 19 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (375% increase) Overall development activity was very high compared to past quarters due to the GSoC projects. We hope that we will be able to keep this momentum.
## Description:
- Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for
the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components
for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management,
resource management, and data processing.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- 2 GSoC projects are ongoing as of now. One to improve the OPSUI, which is
the web interface of OODT and the other one to simplify the OODT deployment
to support kubernetes. Progress on both projects seems good and we think
these improvements will help us gain more activity in the future.
- Last release was 1.2.5 released on Thu Sep 13 2018
## Health report:
- Due to GSoC activity, mailing list activity has increased considerably. Few
PRs were merged during this period which were received from the GSoC
applicants.
- No PMC additions since OODT did not get significant contributions from
newcomers throughout the last year
- 1.9 release is yet to be made. We are in the final phase of
testing/validating as of now. We hope that we will be able to release it in
the next reporting period.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 45 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Imesha Sudasingha on Mon Aug 28 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 46 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Imesha Sudasingha at Tue Aug 29 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.2.5 on Thu Sep 13 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- As mentioned earlier, 2 GSoC projects have resulted in more discussion on
mailing lists.
- dev@oodt.apache.org:
- 96 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 93 emails sent to list (43 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 4 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
- Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for
the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components
for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management,
resource management, and data processing.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Last release was 1.2.5 released on Thu Sep 13 2018
- This has been a very quiet period since no major developments were carried
out. The 1.9 release is yet to be made, but is on hold due to committers
being busy to verify the changes made.
## Health report:
- 1.9 release is yet to be made (though it is 100% ready from dev point of
view, not verified yet). We hope we will be able to release this in the
coming period with the new found energy due to GSoC 2019.
- We are planning to offer 2/3 GSoC projects to attract new contributors to
the community. These projects are focused on improving OODT UI (named
OPSUI) and making OODT deployment easy.
- We believe that OODT will be more active with GSoC students applying for
projects and the introduction of above mentioned features from users' point
of view.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 45 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Imesha Sudasingha on Mon Aug 28 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 46 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Imesha Sudasingha at Tue Aug 29 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.2.5 on Thu Sep 13 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- As mentioned earlier, this has been a quiet period and no reasonable
development activity took place.
- dev@oodt.apache.org:
- 96 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 57 emails sent to list (135 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the
rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for
data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource
management, and data processing.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Last release was 1.2.5 on September 18th 2018
- A discussion is ongoing on plan to containerize OODT
- 1.9 release is yet to be made even though the required developments are
almost complete.
## Health report:
During this reporting period, there has been an increased activity due to
contributions from a new community member and active usage of OODT in user
projects. We plan to release 1.9 (which was delayed) in the coming reporting
period. Furthermore, we plan to containerize OODT components along with a
docker build. In addition to that, we are planning on what GSoC project ideas
to make available for GSoC 2019 and possible mentors.
Overall this period can be considered as an active period where new
contributions and active users were involved.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 45 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Imesha Sudasingha on Mon Aug 28 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 46 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Imesha Sudasingha at Tue Aug 29 2017
## Releases:
- 1.2.5 was released on Thu Sep 13 2018
## Mailing list activity:
There was increased activity in this period due an ongoing discussion on
containerization, a new contributor fixing some bugs and some users actively
using OODT in their projects.
- dev@oodt.apache.org:
- 95 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 139 emails sent to list (118 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
- Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for
the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components
for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management,
resource management, and data processing.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Last release was 1.2.5 released on Thu Sep 13 2018
- Couple of issues were fixed and released (3 releases) related to OODT 1.2
within the reporting period including support for JDK 8.
- On the other hand, 1.9 is almost ready to be released after switching to
Avro RPC for communications. This will be released within the coming
month.
- We are also working on supporting OODT to be built under JDK 10.
## Health report:
- Project activity has been quiet except for the 3 1.2.x releases.
- Due to Apache DRAT GSoC project, OODT could identify bottlenecks of using
XML RPC and could expedite the Avro RPC migration. As a result, Avro RPC
support has been made stable along with better logging support.
- Despite the number of mails in the lists are lower compared to the last
term, contributor involvement has increased within the period where more
contributors worked actively within the period.
- OODT 1.9 is ready to be released and will be released in the coming month.
- After 1.9, we will be moving to the 2.0 development cycle which will be a
major step forward.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 45 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Imesha Sudasingha on Mon Aug 28 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 46 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Imesha Sudasingha at Tue Aug 29 2017
## Releases:
- 1.2.3 was released on Mon Aug 06 2018
- 1.2.4 was released on Sun Aug 19 2018
- 1.2.5 was released on Thu Sep 13 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Mailing list activity has increased with increased user queries, developer
discussions and releases. The numbers are lower because the auto generated
mails (Jenkins/Jira) have decreased within the period.
- dev@oodt.apache.org:
- 92 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 125 emails sent to list (152 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 8 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the
rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for
data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource
management, and data processing.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Last release was 1.2.2 on March 5th 2018
- A new PMC chair (Imesha Sudasingha) was elected in April, 2018. (Previous
chair - Tom Barber)
Improved activity compared to last reporting periods with improvements being
made on stabilizing Avro RPC implementations of OODT components and improving
logging support for OODT. Furthermore, Apache DRAT GSoC student is making
improvements to OODT APIs in order to use OODT functionalities though REST
APIs.
All these new additions will affect towards OODT being an easy to use platform
for scientific data systems in near future.
## Health report:
We are currently working on 1.9 release which will be the last in line before
completely removing XML RPC code from the project. As per now, once the above
mentioned logging improvements are done and workflow manager and resource
manager are stabilized, we are ready to release 1.9. Hopefully within the next
reporting period.
So, project activity is below average with few contributors making constant
contributions throughout the period.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 45 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Imesha Sudasingha on Mon Aug 28 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 46 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Imesha Sudasingha at Tue Aug 29 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.2.2 on Mon Mar 05 2018
## Mailing list activity:
Most of the mailing list activities are related to improvements that being
done for 1.9 release.
- dev@oodt.apache.org:
- 91 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 156 emails sent to list (74 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Tom Barber (magicaltrout) to the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Tom Barber from the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache OODT project has chosen by vote to recommend Imesha Sudasingha (imesha) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Tom Barber is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Imesha Sudasingha be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, 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. Special Order 7C, Change the Apache OODT Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT - Last release was 1.2.2 on March 5th 2018 We resolved 1 issues for this release. Decent activity for this period in terms of new features and commits. Regular releases have aided activity and generated interest. COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members Imesha Sudasingha(imesha) on 28th Aug 2017 as committer and PMC member ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. HEALTH REPORT The project commit activity is pretty quiet, but activity continues and regular releases contribute to a functioning and useful project.
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT - Last release was 1.1 on Wed Jul 27 2017 - Last release was 1.2 on Wed Aug 28 2017 We resolved 21 issues for these releases. Development has been ongoing since the previous report to better integrate the newest features, squash bugs and gear up for another release. COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members Imesha Sudasingha(imesha) on 28th Aug 2017 as committer and PMC member ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. HEALTH REPORT The project activity has picked up in recent months with a number of releases and the onboarding of the Apache DRAT project which is in part orchestrated by Apache OODT.
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT - Last release was 1.1 on Wed Jul 27 2017 - Last release was 1.2 on Wed Aug 28 2017 We resolved 21 issues for these releases. Improved activity this reporting period, with 2 releases, a number of fixed bugs, cleaned up Jira and a great new set of features from the GSOC project. We have new features coming into the code base for the 2.0 development drive and a positive outlook for the future. COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members Imesha Sudasingha(imesha) on 28th Aug 2017 as committer and PMC member ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. HEALTH REPORT The project activity is pretty quiet, but there has been a positive uplift this quarter with the GSOC project and 2 new releases.
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT - Last release was 1.0 on Wed Jun 29 2016 We resolved 0 issues for this release. Whilst development remains quiet we have a number of OODT 2.0 features under active development, these include integration of a new curation module and the development of the new zookeeper configuration engine by our GSOC student. We will start rolling out new test builds for both of these features in the near future with the aim of moving towards a 1.1 release for the curator and 2.0 alpha for the new zookeeper components. COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members Sujen Shah(sujen) on 5th April 2017 as committer and PMC member ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. HEALTH REPORT The project activity is pretty quiet, but there was good turn out and discussion at ApacheCon Miami for our last minute OODT 2.0 talk along with ongoing development for new releases and website content.
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT - Last release was 1.0 on Wed Jun 29 2016 We resolved 0 issues for this release. Development on Apache OODT has been pretty quiet over the last 9 months, but we have recently accepted a large new feature into our code base and are currently working at incorporating that into the mainline branch so that we can run a release with the new features in place. On top of that there has been renewed discussion over the last week or so over the state of Apache OODT development and what we need to do to move forward with the 2.0 roadmap. This has been organised and we should be seeing increased development activity over the coming quarter. COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members Radu Maonle(radumanole) on 11th Oct 2015 as committer and PMC member Last committer and PMC member added on 11th October 2015. No new users have spoken up on the mailing list recently, but there has been some interest and patches committed by a volunteer via Jira so we will be working at bringing them into the project. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. HEALTH REPORT The project activity is pretty quiet, but there are still on going efforts in place to help drive wider adoption.
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT - Last release was 1.0 on Wed Jun 29 2016 We resolved 0 issues for this release. We finally reached a point in the platform lifecycle which made sense to release Apache OODT as 1.0. This was done both to signify the stability of what we had but also allow us to prepare for major changes coming in the next major release cycle to modernise the platform and extend what was already in place. These changes will be API breaking and as such we wanted to signify this in the release versioning. It was asked in last months meeting to keep the board updated with regards to driving adoption. To this end this month we have switched our website from Apache CMS to gitsubpub and Jekyll to ease the updating process. Along the website has tried to reduce the science centric focus and add more business use case type content. This will be an ongoing process as we get time to add more content to aid potential users in understanding how OODT can help them. Tom also gave an OODT related talk at Apachecon Europe that had decent attendance and further feedback afterwards. Having spoken to a number of PMC members we feel that reducing the size of the code base and integrating with a number of the other ASF data projects will help bring people on board and as such the roadmap for OODT 2.0 has this aim in mind. COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members: - Radu Maonle(radumanole) on 11th Oct 2015 as committer and PMC member Last committer and PMC member added on 6th October 2015. Mailing list activity has been pretty much static in terms of period on period volume and Jira has been quiet. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. HEALTH REPORT The project activity is pretty quiet, but there are still on going efforts in place to help drive wider adoption.
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT - Last release was 1.0 on Wed Jun 29 2016 We resolved 0 issues for this release. We finally reached a point in the platform lifecycle which made sense to release Apache OODT as 1.0. This was done both to signify the stability of what we had but also allow us to prepare for major changes coming in the next major release cycle to modernise the platform and extend what was already in place. These changes will be API breaking and as such we wanted to signify this in the release versioning. COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members Radu Maonle(radumanole) on 11th Oct 2015 as committer and PMC member Last committer and PMC member added on 6th October 2015. Mailing list activity has been pretty much static in terms of period on period volume and Jira has been quiet. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. HEALTH REPORT The project activity is pretty quiet, but there are still on going efforts in place to help drive wider adoption. This includes a new website, greater connectivity with other data platforms and adding some much desired features to the core platform. As mentioned above, now that we have released 1.0 we will be turning our attention to the new features. Although development is quiet, we have a fully functioning and responsive PMC and community.
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT - Last release was 0.12 on Feb 19th 2016 We resolved 4 issues for this release. The last few months have been quiet in development but there has been movement to start merging some pretty large changes that were developed in the last GSOC into our main development branch and release an OODT 1.0 release. COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members: Radu Maonle (radumanole) on 28 Oct 2015 as committer and PMC member. Mailing list activity has been pretty much static in terms of period on period volume and Jira has been quiet. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. HEALTH REPORT The project activity is pretty quiet, but there are still on going efforts in place to help drive wider adoption. This includes a new website, greater connectivity with other data platforms and adding some much desired features to the core platform.
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT - Last release was 0.12 on Feb 19th 2016 We resolved 4 issues for this release. 0.12 was a out of band release for OODT initially the scope was an emergency patch for an API issue, but in preparing for the release we also addressed 3 major issues relating to the the Solr integration for OODT. We have decided to switch to a rough quarterly release schedule to help keep the code active and make sure that commits that get pushed to the project get released in a timely manner, which will give contributors more confidence about when their patches will end up in the stable codebase. February was a busy month on the mailing list with a number of new users showing up and triggering the Solr patches and general questions about OODT usage. The project is specific in its design but we have been working on advertising to a larger crowd for less scientific based data management to draw a larger audience and userbase. At ApacheCon we have 1 presentation and 2 tutorials scheduled for Apache OODT which we hope will drive awareness to wider audiences. As ever it would be nice to see fresh blood on the project helping to increase the development effort on the platform, but the software itself is stable and well used. COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members Radu Maonle(radumanole) on 28 Oct 2015 as committer and PMC member Last committer and PMC member added on 28th October 2015.
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT - Last release was 0.10 on Sept 13th 2015 We resolved 32 issues for this release. 0.11 has been under steady development, we have added Sonar reporting to our daily build. We also spoke with Atlassian and got an updated Clover license which we now use for test coverage stats. This is to help us stabilise the codebase and improve our test coverage in a run up to a 1.0 release. 0.11 should be released shortly. Email traffic is up and the community has had a few new people ask questions. 539 emails to the list, 453 in the previous quarter. The project is specific in its design but we have been working on advertising to a larger crowd for less scientific based data management to draw a larger audience. We plan to continue this into 2016 and run some demo's at ApacheCon demonstrating a more business oriented approach. COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members Radu Maonle(radumanole) on 28 Oct 2015 as committer and PMC member Last committer and PMC member added on 28th October 2015.
Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for
the rapid construction of scientific data systems.
It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction,
workflow management, resource management, and data processing.
RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT
- Last release was 0.9 on Sun Jun 07 2015
We resolved 24 issues for 0.9.
We have recently cut the 0.10 RC1 and 0.10 RC2 builds.
The mailing lists have been reasonably active and whilst our community
is small it collaborates well and is effective in driving platform development.
We are working on a number of activities to help drive community numbers
and increase visibility.
- dev@oodt.apache.org:
- 95 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 453 emails sent to list (339 in previous quarter)
Whilst 0.10 was not released in this quarter, it has a number of bug fixes
and improvements, and a large update from the GSOC project which is in the
process of being merged.
COMMUNITY
- Currently 43 committers and 42 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Dana J Freeborn at Fri Mar 27 2015
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Dana J Freeborn at Fri Mar 27 2015
Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT • OODT-0.9 on 2015-06-07 • OODT-0.8.1 on 2015-02-13 We resolved 24 issues for 0.9. We had 3 OODT based presentations at ApacheCon 2015 in Austin, Texas along with productive discussions amongst OODT community members in attendance. Apache OODT has had its Github mirror enabled for pull requests to better facilitate community contributions from users happier using the Git version control system. List Mar Apr May ---- --- --- --- dev 71 146 79 COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members: Dana Freeborn(dfreeborn) on 2015-03-27 as commiter and PMC member Last committer and PMC member were added on 2015-03-27 PRESS The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) have been busy promoting its Memex project which uses projects supplied by NASA JPL[JPL] to help search the 'dark web' for criminals. One of the projects used is ImageCat[ICT], and open source tool designed using elements of Apache OODT, Solr[SOL] and Tika[TIK] to process image metadata. The Memex project and the tool kits used has been covered by a number of news outlets including, Forbes[FOR], Daily Mail[MAI], CBS[CBS], Wired[WIR]. [JIR] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT [ICT] https://github.com/chrismattmann/imagecat [TIK] http://tika.apache.org/ [SOL] http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ [MAI] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3096464/Nasa-joins-government-project-create-Google-deep-web-uncover-cyber-criminals-paedophiles-drug-dealers-online-underworld.html [FOR] http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/04/17/darpa-nasa-and-partners-show-off-memex/ [JPL] http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4595 [WIR] https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=cnn%20memex [CBS] http://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/OYDtqg3mNUrnHA7ZVXF0rmUeBXNQZunx/new-search-engine-exposes-the-dark-web-/
Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT • OODT-0.8.1 on 2015-02-13 • OODT-0.8 on 2014-12-25 • OODT-0.7 on 2014-09-19 We resolved 22 issues in JIRA [JIA] for release 0.8 and 12 issues for 0.8.1. We resolved 11 issues in JIRA since the release of OODT-0.8.1 and look forward to including these in OODT-0.9. We shut down our user@oodt.apache.org mailing list [MAI] after concern by a board member that, given its mere trickle of traffic, it was potentially splintering our community. Our dev@oodt.apache.org list remains popular. We have replaced the old Apache OODT website with the new version developed by the community based on the Apache CMS which will allow much more flexibility with website changes and maintenance. List Jan Feb Mar ---- --- --- --- dev 166 124 20 COMMUNITY Sean Kelly resigned as Chair of Apache OODT and Tom Barber was voted in as the new chair on 2015-01-17 this was ratified by the board in the Feb Board Meeting. Latest committers and PMC members: Last committer and PMC member were added on 2014-11-25 PRESS The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) [SMA] mission successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base [LAU] on 2015-01-29. The instrument ground data processing system is powered by Apache OODT and Apache Tika [TIK]. [JIR] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT [SMA] http://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/ [LAU] http://spacecoastdaily.com/2015/01/smap-launches-from-vandenberg-on-soil-mission/ [TIK] http://tika.apache.org/ [MAI] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-9074
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Sean Kelly to the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Sean Kelly from the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache OODT project has chosen to recommend Tom Barber the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Sean Kelly is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Tom Barber be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, 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. Special Order 7D, Resolution to Change the Apache OODT Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT • OODT-0.7 on 2014-09-19 • OODT-0.6 on 2013-07-17 • OODT-0.5 on 2012-12-25 We resolved 26 issues in JIRA [1] since the release of OODT-0.7 and look forward to including these in OODT-0.8. Our development mailing lists remain popular, while the user list shows less activity. The table below lists the number of postings by list, by month, in Q4 2014: List Oct Nov Dec ---- --- --- --- dev 177 348 7 user 2 14 0 COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members: • Angela Wang (angela_wang) on 2014-11-07 as committer and PMC member • Valerie Mallder (vmallder) on 2014-11-25 as committer and PMC member PRESS OODT PMC Member Michael Starch (starchmd) spoke at NASA JPL's "Spark Day" event where he presented a concept that integrates Apache OODT with Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, Apache Hadoop, and Apache Kafka. Materials presented are available at the OODT wiki [2]. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OODT/Streaming+OODT
@Ross: Bring statistics in line with reporting period
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT • OODT-0.6 on 2013-07-17 • OODT-0.5 on 2012-12-25 We resolved 40 issues in JIRA [1] since our last report as we gear up for OODT-0.7. Our development mailing lists remain popular, while the user list shows less activity. The table below lists the number of postings by list, by month, in 2014: List Jul Aug Sep ---- --- --- --- dev 198 192 17 user 25 7 0 COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members: • Michael Starch (starchmd) 2014-07-14 (committer and PMC member) • Tyler Palsulich (tpalsulich) 2014-07-22 (committer and PMC member) PRESS The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory [2] mission launched into Earth orbit on 2014-07-02. Apache OODT (as well as Apache Tika [3]) powers its ground data system. Similarly, the NASA Airborne Snow Observatory [4], which uses aircraft-based laser radar (LIDAR) to measure snowpack. Apache OODT is a core component that's pivotal in this mission that's understanding California drought [5]. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT [2] http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/ [3] http://tika.apache.org/ [4] http://aso.jpl.nasa.gov/ [5] http://s.apache.org/1li
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT • OODT-0.6 on 2013-07-17 • OODT-0.5 on 2012-12-25 We project the release of OODT-0.7 this month (2014-06). We resolved 8 issues in JIRA [1] since our last report. Our development mailing lists remain popular, while the user list shows less activity. The table below lists the number of postings by list, by month, in 2014: List Apr May Jun ---- --- --- --- dev 190 113 7 user 10 11 0 COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members: • Chris Schollar (chris) 2014-05-18 (committer and PMC) PRESS Lindsay Magnus of the South African Astroinformatics Alliance reported [2] that Apache OODT is an integral part of the data infrastructure for the Square Kilometre Array [3], the world's largest radio telescope. We are pleased that OODT plays such a role in this massive scientific endeavor. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT [2] http://s.apache.org/X0h [3] https://www.skatelescope.org/
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT • OODT-0.6 on 2013-07-17 • OODT-0.5 on 2012-12-25 OODT-0.7 will focus on Apache Tika [1] integration and Apache CXF [2] integration. OODT-0.7 is projected to be released in 2014-06. We resolved 8 issues in JIRA [3] since our last report. Our development mailing lists remain popular, while the user list shows less activity. The table below lists the number of postings by list, by month, in 2014: List Jan Feb Mar ---- --- --- --- dev 90 65 18 user 4 2 0 COMMUNITY We inducted no new committers or PMC members since our last report. (The last committer and PMC member was brought in on 2013-10-21.) ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] http://tika.apache.org/ [2] http://cxf.apache.org/ [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT • OODT-0.6 on 2013-07-17 • OODT-0.5 on 2012-12-25 OODT-0.7 will focus on Apache Tika [1] integration and Apache CXF [2] integration. We resolved 8 issues in JIRA [3] since our last report. We reported a security vulnerability [4] to the Apache Security Team. The fix will be included in OODT-0.7. There have been zero reports of exploits of this vulnerability. We also feel this particular part of the code is not in use by anyone anymore. We may excise the code altogether in a future release. Our development mailing lists remain popular, while the user list shows less activity. The table below lists the number of postings by list, by month, in 2013: List Oct Nov Dec ---- --- --- --- dev 55 70 3 user 8 22 0 COMMUNITY We inducted no new committers or PMC members since our last report. (The last committer and PMC member was brought in on 2013-10-21.) ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] http://tika.apache.org/ [2] http://cxf.apache.org/ [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-657
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT • OODT-0.6 on 2013-07-17 • OODT-0.5 on 2012-12-25 OODT-0.7 will focus on Apache Tika [1] integration, Apache CXF [2] integration, Ganglia integration [3], amongst others. We resolved 23 issues in JIRA [4] since our last report. Our development mailing lists remain quite popular, while the user list shows less activity. The table below lists the number of postings by list, by month, in 2013: List Jul Aug Sep ---- --- --- --- dev 78 31 3 user 28 0 0 COMMUNITY Development work (including documentation!) is complete on one of our Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013 projects: "OODT monitor for Ganglia", by T.W. Rajith O. Siriwardana, University of Moratuwa (mentored by Chris Mattmann) [5]. Our other GSoC-2013 project, "Upgrading the OODT CAS-Product Web App to use JAX-RS via Apache CXF", by Ross Laidlaw, University of Oxford (mentored by Rishi Verma) [6], is still in progress. We inducted two new members since our last report: • Rajith Siriwardana (siriwardana), added 2013-07-26, committer + PMC. • Tom Barber (magicaltrout), added 2013-07-14, committer + PMC. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] http://tika.apache.org/ [2] http://cxf.apache.org/ [3] http://s.apache.org/E7w [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT [5] http://s.apache.org/9yC [6] http://s.apache.org/caM
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT The last release of OODT-0.5 was on 2012-12-25. This quarter we made headway on 0.6 with the following highlights: • Apache OODT + Apache Airavata [1] integration • PGE Writers based on metadata-key templates and Apache Velocity • Windows & Cygwin compatibility • XML Product Server database improvements • Workflow engine conditionals • Regexp-based metadata extraction • WebGrid configuration improvements • RADiX Archetypes for Process Control System and Resource Manager • Skinnable Operations UI Future work in the next quarter will focus on releasing 0.6. We haven't forgotten Python yet, either; we've just been busy elsewhere. We resolved 32 issues in JIRA [2] since our last report. We also standardized our JIRA issue labels so newcomers to the project can tackle issues by difficulty level. Our development mailing lists remain quite popular, while the user list shows less activity. The table below lists the number of postings by list, by month, in 2013: List Apr May Jun ---- --- --- --- dev 150 46 14 user 17 6 3 COMMUNITY We nabbed two projects for the Google Summer of Code 2013: • Upgrading the OODT CAS-Product Web App to use JAX-RS via Apache CXF, by Ross Laidlaw, University of Oxford (mentored by Rishi Verma) [3] • OODT monitor for Ganglia, by T.W. Rajith O. Siriwardana, University of Moratuwa (mentored by Chris Mattmann) [4] We inducted the following committers into the OODT PMC: • Arni Sumarlidason (sumarlidason) • Gavin McDonald (gmcdonald) • Lewis John McGibbney (lewismc) • Nga Chung (nchung) • Varun Ratnakar (varunr) BRANDING There are no outstanding branding issues. All's good. PRESS Apache OODT PMC members Paul Ramirez, Andrew Hart, Cameron Goodale, and Chris Mattmann are part of the planning team [5] of the Open Source Summit 3.0 (June 24–27, Washington DC). Jim Jagielski is scheduled to speak at the summit. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] http://airavata.apache.org/ [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT [3] http://s.apache.org/caM [4] http://s.apache.org/9yC [5] http://s.apache.org/Wjj
DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT For our Christmas-day gift of 2012, we released version 0.5 of OODT [1], which closed out 61 issues in JIRA [2] and provided improvements to: * OODT File Manager, and Lucene- and Solr-based catalog indexing * Curator JAX-RS web application * PushPull remote file retrieval * WEngine workflow system Future work in the next quarter will focus on cross-fertilization projects with Apache Airavata and Apache Tika, as well as fleshing out our Python APIs. OODT Jenkins jobs are now prominently featured from our project home page [3]. Our development mailing lists remain quite popular, while the user list shows less activity. The table below lists the number of postings by list, by month, in 2013: List Jan Feb Mar ---- --- --- --- dev 57 75 12 user 12 16 0 COMMUNITY The North American ApacheCon 2013 conspicuously featured Apache OODT. Seven speakers gave eight presentations about OODT in the "Apache in Science" track at the conference [4]. We established a third social media base at Google Plus [5], complementing our existing Facebook [6] and Twitter [7] presence. We also created a read-only mirror of OODT at Github [8], enabling a wider base of code contributions and future participants. BRANDING There are no outstanding branding issues since our last report. All's good. PRESS Apache OODT received noteworthy attention in two articles penned by our eminent member Chris A. Mattmann: * Nature published "Computing: A Vision for Data Science" [9] in volume 493 (p. 474) featuring Apache OODT, Hadoop, and Tika in the face of "big data". * Software Development Times published "Apache Does Science" [10], discussing OODT's and Apache Airavata's places in scientific endeavors. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] http://s.apache.org/gm [2] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT [3] http://oodt.apache.org/ [4] http://s.apache.org/c8C [5] http://s.apache.org/8vM [6] http://s.apache.org/M5x [7] http://s.apache.org/PYt [8] http://s.apache.org/cNy [9] http://s.apache.org/eS [10] http://s.apache.org/Yeg
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Chris Mattmann to the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Chris Mattmann from the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache OODT project has chosen to recommend Sean Kelly the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Chris Mattmann is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Sean Kelly and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, 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. Special Order 7C, Change the Apache OODT PMC Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Apache OODT is a software framework, and an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management and data processing. Releases/Development: We are currently discussing rolling a release candidate for Apache OODT 0.5 [1]. 0.5 has 58 issues resolved, including some major upgrades to our workflow engine, wrapping up what we started in 0.4. There are also bug fixes to the pge and crawler modules part of CAS. Most of the active work now involves efforts towards the curator (see OODT-506 [2], OODT-508 [3]), and towards improved catalog support for the filemgr (see OODT-541 [4]). There were 46, 72, and 38 emails sent to the dev list from December 2012, November 2012, and October 2012, respectively. There were 13, 23, and 24 emails sent to the user list in that same time frame, respectively. Community: The Apache OODT PMC added Mike Joyce to our ranks in the latest quarter. Chris Mattmann worked with ApacheCon NA 2013 organizers and reviewers to create an Apache in Science track primarily dedicated to Apache OODT, but also to Apache Airavata and Apache Tika and Apache Solr. Suresh Marru and Marlon Pierce from Apache Airavata will co-chair the track. Apache in Science will be a sequel to the Apache in Space! track from ApacheCon NA 2011. There was a Birds of a Feather meeting [5] at the Super Computing Conference on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 that discussed Apache as a model for the development of scientific software, and community. Suresh Marru, Marlon Pierce, and Chris Mattmann organized the event. Apache OODT, and Apache Airavata were used as exemplars and discussed during the meeting. Branding: No updates beyond last report. Looks good. Press: Chris Mattmann keynoted the ITEX 2012 conference in Auckland, New Zealand on November 7, 2012 [6] and discussed Apache OODT, and the Apache Software Foundation. Several associated articles, e.g., in ComputerWorld NZ [7] were published around that time. [1] http://s.apache.org/OHz [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-506 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-508 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-541 [5] http://s.apache.org/Vfn [6] http://s.apache.org/Raa [7] http://s.apache.org/liD
Apache OODT is a software framework, and an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management and data processing. Releases/Development: We released Apache OODT 0.4 on June 20, 2012 [1]. We're currently working towards 0.5 with 31 issues currently resolved, and we'll likely pull together an RC in the next month or so. We worked with Gavin and infra@ to get an OODT PEAR channel [2] up and running at [3]. Thanks Gav! Community: The Apache OODT PMC didn't add any new members to its ranks over the last quarter. Chris Mattmann and Paul Ramirez mentored a student jointly between the Apache OODT PMC and the Apache SIS PPMC in Google Summer of Code. The student, Ross Laidlaw, successfully completed his project, and passed his GSoC final evals. Great job, Ross! [4] Ross is now an Apache OODT PMC member and a member of the Apache SIS PPMC. Chris Mattmann was asked by Ross Gardler to participate in an Apache Case Study being conducted by Indiana University as part of an NSF EAGER grant. Branding: No updates beyond last report. Looks good. Press: Chris Mattmann has given a few talks on Apache OODT, including discussing the ASF and OODT at the NASA Open Source "Mini Summit" at the Summer Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) meeting in Madison, WI [5], and recently at the ESIP Information Technology and Interoperability "Rant and Rave" on Open Source [6] to promote the new ESIP Open Source Cluster [7] that Mattmann will chair. [1] http://s.apache.org/6oN [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-329 [3] http://pear.apache.org/oodt [4] http://s.apache.org/Xyr [5] http://s.apache.org/3Fl [6] http://s.apache.org/dGy [7] http://s.apache.org/pE
Apache OODT is a software framework, and an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management and data processing. Releases/Development: We're currently VOTE'ing on RC #1 for Apache OODT 0.4. It already has 3 +1s so there is a high chance it'll go out the door (finally!) There are over 160+ issues that have been fixed since 0.3 and about 40-50 more that have been addressed since last Q's report. There are a few lingering issues that won't make it into 0.4 (wrapping up the wengine workflow manager updates [1] -- though most of them are already done -- and some other updates to cas-pge and crawler that won't make it in). We'll try and rapidly roll an 0.4.1 or a 0.5 to fix this soon enough, not taking another year to get it out the door. We also are working to get an OODT PEAR channel [2] up and running. Community: The Apache OODT PMC added Billy Webb, Ross Laidlaw and Michael Cayanan to our ranks over the last quarter. Ross is currently doing a Google Summer of Code project [3] with Apache OODT and SIS. Branding: No updates beyond last report. Looks good. Press: Jim Jagielski and Chris Mattmann will be giving talks at the NASA, State Department and VA hosted Open Source Summit [4] in DC June 20-21, 2012. Chris's talk will have a distinct focus on OODT, and Jim's will be talking about the ASF and community. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-215 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-329 [3] http://s.apache.org/zq [4] http://opensourcesummit.eventbrite.com/
Apache OODT is a software framework, and an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management and data processing. Releases/Development: Paul Ramirez volunteered to roll an 0.4 release candidate, and hopefully that will be done in the next week or so. There are over 100+ issues that have been fixed since 0.3. The major innovations in this release are the PCS Operator Interface [1], the complete refactoring and re-architecture of the Workflow Engine (aka "Workflow2") [2], OODT RADIX [3] for easy deployment of OODT systems, and improvements to our command line interfaces for all components [4]. Community: The Apache OODT PMC has had a busy 3 months of adding new contributors. We added Shakeh Khudikyan, Paul Zimdars, Luca Cinquini, and Bruce Barkstrom to our ranks, and are in the process of wrapping up another PMC member VOTE currently. In addition, Apache OODT was recently used by a Master's student, Billy Webb, who also works at Northrup Grumman corporation, to study software architecture, and data systems. He cited Apache OODT as a great example of an open source community, and active software project, that he could use to study in his class. Branding: No updates beyond last report. Looks good. Press: Apache OODT was mentioned in several recent articles, including a link from NASA's new code.nasa.gov website [5], in NASA Spinoff magazine [6] (includes quotes from Chris Mattmann, Dan Crichton and Jim Jagielski) and also in a link from MSNBC to the NASA Spinoff site [7] which links to OODT. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-157 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-215 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-120 [4] http://s.apache.org/flV [5] http://code.nasa.gov [6] http://s.apache.org/ne [7] http://s.apache.org/jQD
Apache OODT is a software framework, and an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management and data processing. Releases/Development: We're still working on the 0.4 release. Chris Mattmann, Andrew Hart, Paul Ramirez and Cameron Goodale are working on OODT-157 [1] the OODT Operator Interface, a webapp for monitoring the OODT PCS components. Work also continues on the Workflow2 architecture improvements specified in OODT-215 [2], including global workflow conditions, dynamic workflows, parallel/sequential mode, a new workflow engine, etc. Paul Ramirez and Cameron Goodale are working on OODT-120 [3], or OODT RADIX, an easy deployer and installer framework for Apache OODT. We've also made some progress in the area of integration with Apache Solr, contributing an OODT File Manager to Solr sync program in OODT-326 [4]. Ricky Ngyuen has been working on a slew of improvements to XMLPS, our XML configurable profile/product server (see OODT-61 [5], OODT-333 [6], OODT-336 [7], OODT-337 [8], OODT-341 [9]. Brian Foster has been leading the charge in developing CAS-CLI, and integrating it into all of the OODT CAS components as our new standard command line interface library. We've also got a ton of new crawler actions including code that allows action switching (ternary), branching, and failover. In total, we've got 67 issues fixed so far ready to ship with the 0.4 release when the time comes (Paul Ramirez has volunteered to RM it). Community: Sheryl John and Ricky Nguyen were added as OODT PMC members and committers. The Apache in Space! (OODT) track at ApacheCon NA 2011 went off without a hitch! It was great. All slides are up online with Lanyard, and audio is up with FeatherCast.org (thanks to Rich and others). Paul Ramirez, Ricky Nguyen, Cameron Goodale, Andrew Hart, Emily Law and Chris Mattmann were at the meeting to represent the Apache OODT community. Branding: No updates beyond last report. Looks good. Press: OODT showed up as one of the Apache projects in the "Top five head-scratchingest names for software projects" run by the SDTimes website [10]. We're proud of our moniker. That is all. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-157 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-215 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-120 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-326 [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-61 [6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-333 [7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-336 [8] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-337 [9] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-341 [10] http://s.apache.org/kys
Releases/Development: We pushed out the 0.3 release at the end of June 2011 [1]. Work continues towards the 0.4 release. Chris Mattmann volunteered to RM it since he is working on a number of updates to the OODT workflow manager described further in OODT-215 [2]. Cameron Goodale contributed some updates to the OODT file manager tools and documentation in OODT-306 [3] and in OODT-52 [4]. Andrew Hart has been working on improving the OODT balance webapp framework (e.g., see OODT-297 [5]). Gabe Resneck is working on improving the OODT resource management component, as described in [6], [7] and [8]. Community: Gabriel Resneck and Paul Vee were added to the OODT PMC and as OODT committers. Several OODT-focused talks were accepted for ApacheCon. There will be an OODT track at ApacheCon this year (Apache in Space! (OODT) [9]) and the community is planning on attending in full force. Chris has been asked to chair the track and has accepted. Branding: We feel our website and branding status is up-to-date. During Incubation, Sean Kelly worked very hard to bring our new Apache OODT website up-to-date with the branding guidelines from Shane. We welcome further input or suggested updates. Press: InformationWeek mentioned Apache OODT in an article on NASA's Open Source and the Open Gov initiative [10]. We've been coordinating with Sally on the Meaningful Use of Complex Medical Data (MUCMD) symposium [11] that was held in collaboration with NASA, the National Library of Medicine and Apache on August 26, 27th. The symposium covered various technologies and approaches to understanding medical data (health care records, instrument monitors, patient notes, etc.) Apache OODT was a big part of this. There were also several talks during the meeting on Apache Hadoop, including a presentation by Jeff Hammerbacher. [1] http://s.apache.org/Kjt [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-215 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-306 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-52 [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-297 [6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-315 [7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-314 [8] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-305 [9] http://na11.apachecon.com/talk/by_track/1396 [10] http://s.apache.org/zN [11] http://mucmd.org/
Releases/Development: Work progresses towards the 0.3 release. Andrew Hart will hopefully have the 0.3 RC within the next week or so [1]. Chris Mattmann upgraded the OODT file manager browser [2] and workflow monitor [3] webapps to be based on the Apache Wicket framework. Chris is also working on updating the PCS Operator Interface to be based on Wicket [4]. Brian Foster is modularizing the Push Pull Framework [5] and adding more significant unit testing coverage. Thomas Bennett has added some great documentation on the wiki regarding ingestion and the crawler [6]. Paul Ramirez and Cameron Goodale are working hard on developing "RADIX" [7], an easy installer framework for OODT. Andrew Hart contributed a PHP-based web framework for OODT called "Balance" [8]. Community: Thomas Bennett was added to the OODT PMC and as a OODT committer. Several OODT-focused talks were accepted for ApacheCon. There will be an OODT track at ApacheCon this year (Apache in Space! (OODT) [9]) and the community is planning on attending in full force. Branding: We feel our website and branding status is up-to-date. During Incubation, Sean Kelly worked very hard to bring our new Apache OODT website up-to-date with the branding guidelines from Shane. We welcome further input or suggested updates. Press: We've been coordinating with Sally on the Meaningful Use of Complex Medical Data (MUCMD) symposium [10] that we are putting on in collaboration with NASA, the National Library of Medicine and Apache. The symposium will cover various technologies and approaches to understanding medical data (health care records, instrument monitors, patient notes, etc.) Apache OODT is a big part of this. [1] http://s.apache.org/iT [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-155 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-156 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-157 [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-194 [6] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OODT/OODT+Crawler+Help [7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-120 [8] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-186 [9] http://na11.apachecon.com/talk/by_track/1396 [10] http://mucmd.org/
Releases/Development: Progress towards the 0.3 release is steady. We've already made a number of improvements, including the addition of the PCS interface, providing tools for workflow provenance, health status checking, and file metadata listing across the OODT CAS components. Chris Mattmann, Paul Ramirez and Brian Foster are making good progress on OODT-139 [1] which exposes the underlying PCS functionality as JAX-RS REST services. There have been a number of bug fixes and improvements contributed as part of the PCS development process as well (e.g., see OODT-138 [2], OODT-141 [3] and OODT-142 [4]). Cameron Goodale has done some fantastic work on getting the website up to snuff, helping to advertise version 0.2 (our first release as a TLP), and helping to add documentation and whatnot to help new OODT users. Chris Mattmann has also done some work in this area too, contributing some user docs and guides that were part of the original OODT distribution from JPL but that didn't originally make it to Apache (OODT-151 [5]). Brian Foster contributed a CrawlerAction that executes an external process or script, allowing users to develop actions in other languages. See OODT-144 [6]. Community: The OODT PMC added J. Steven Hughes as an OODT PMC Member/Committer. Mailing list activity is steady on the user and the dev list. Chris Mattmann is having his students in his CSCI 578: Software Architectures course at USC this semester use Apache OODT in their projects, and advising the students to head to the mailing lists for conversation and help. We've also had some good interest from outside users, in particular Windows folks trying to use OODT. We're fielding (no pun intended) those questions as they arise. Chris Mattmann attended the NSF/USGS Geodata 2011 workshop in Colorado and had some positive conversations with USGS regarding Apache OODT. NASA is holding its first ever Open Source Summit [7] 3/29-3/30. Chris Mattmann is going to give a Day 1 presentation, describing the Apache OODT experience, and helping to spread the cause. There will be a significant opportunity here to help shape the way that NASA deals with open source software (both producing and consuming) going forward. Press: The interviews for NASA Spinoff magazine article on OODT are complete. We're awaiting to hear back from the magazine and to see a draft of the article. ====== [1] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-139 [2] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-138 [3] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-141 [4] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-142 [5] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-151 [6] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-144 [7] http://www.nasa.gov/open/source/agenda/index.html
Apache OODT was made a TLP at the November 17, 2010 board meeting. This is the third and final of three initial monthly reports before moving to Quarterly in March 2011. Releases ------------- The 0.2 release is out [1]. Paul Ramirez RM'ed the release and did a fantastic job. We've received some buzz on the release, with an article in InfoQ magazine [2], and another article being worked on for NASA spinoff magazine. The 0.2 release includes registration of the Python portions of OODT in PyPI, our first release to do so. Work on 0.3 has started. Andrew Hart has volunteered to RM the release [3]. One of the big items on tap is how to deal with getting the OODT jars out to Maven Central. Press --------- Sally Khudairi and press@ put Chris Mattmann and Dan Crichton and Jim Jagielski in touch with NASA Spinoff magazine and Bo Schwerin. Spinoff wants to run a feature on Apache OODT and wanted to interview Chris, Dan and Jim. All three interviews (will) have been completed by Friday 2/11/2011 and a draft of the article should be available next week. After the Slashdot article [4], Twitter has had some steady activity, with folks discovering OODT, blogging about its NASA heritage (as the first NASA Apache project), and trying to figure out how to use OODT in their applications. Community ---------------- The OODT PMC elected Rishi Verma as an OODT PMC member and committer in February 2011 [5]. Mailing list activity is picking up. There are requests for more OODT documentation, and some users in the bioinformatics domain and some in the energy domain have showed up on list with interest to use the software in their application. In addition, a PhD student was interested in leveraging OODT for some of his archiving research. Twitter and Facebook has seen increasing OODT activity as well (see above for Twitter). We've had between 10-15 join the Facebook OODT group since the recent press on its promotion to TLP and since its 0.2 release. Cameron Goodale updated the OODT website to include information about our releases, and fix some broken links. [1] http://s.apache.org/PLN [2] http://s.apache.org/mA [3] http://s.apache.org/mk [4] http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/08/1544204/Apache-To-Steward-NASA-Built-Middleware [5] Message ID: <835E6352-7C20-43DB-B796-3F8C1C014D0A@jpl.nasa.gov>
Apache OODT was made a TLP at the November 17, 2010 board meeting. This is the second of three initial monthly reports before moving to Quarterly in March 2011. Releases ------------- Work continues towards the 0.2 release. Paul Ramirez volunteered [1] to RM this release. Currently we have about 44 resolved issues [2]. We expect to put out the 0.2 release likely in the next month. One of the big things in this release will hopefully be the ability to push out to the Python Package Index (PyPI) [3], and also we are looking at how to deal with getting the OODT jars out to Maven Central as well. Press --------- Chris Mattmann and Dan Crichton and Sally Khudairi and Brian Knosp put out 2 OODT TLP press releases, one at the ASF [4] and one at the JPL science and technology website [5], which was picked up by the NASA.gov main technology website [6] and a number of other outlets. For instance, InformationWeek [7] ran a story, as did the sdtimes [8] and (w00t!), Slashdot [9]! We've received tons of feedback and interest in the project since the releases went out. Thanks everyone! Community ---------------- We haven't elected any new committers or PMC members in this month since the last report. We've had some new lurkers on the dev@ and user@ mailing lists, especially since the press release, and there are still steady contributions heading in including a test report and bug fix from a new user picking up the software for the first time [10]. We've also had some discussion and momentum on generating some training videos that we can post up on our site [11]. [1] http://s.apache.org/1OB [2] http://s.apache.org/tw [3] http://s.apache.org/eE [4] http://s.apache.org/WPL [5] http://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/newsandevents/newsdetails/?NewsID=1134 [6] http://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/apache20110104.html [7] http://s.apache.org/pD [8] http://s.apache.org/pL [9] http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/08/1544204/Apache-To-Steward-NASA-Built-Middleware [10] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-110 [11] http://s.apache.org/Auu
Note: only s.apache.org should be used for URL shortening in board reports.
Apache OODT was made a TLP at the November 17, 2010 board meeting.
This is the first of three initial monthly reports before moving to
Quarterly in March 2011.
Infrastructure
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The OODT TLP infrastructure migration went great. Chris Mattmann
created a set of issues and then linked them together (see here [1]),
and Gav quickly got everything up and running. Thanks to infra@ for
rocking it and getting our TLP set up!
Releases
-------------
Shortly before the TLP process, OODT made its *first Apache release*,
version 0.1-incubating, detailed here [2]. David Woollard did a great
job as the RM, congrats on his pushing through his first Apache release.
We are currently actively working on version 0.2.
Press
---------
Chris and Sally are working together to make a joint NASA/JPL/Caltech and
ASF press release on OODT@theASF. Sally said she expected the OODT PR to
go out on the wire on the 14th. The NASA/JPL/Caltech release is in its
2nd draft, and Brian Knosp from JPL is in touch with Sally and will send
her a copy of the announcement. OODT is the *first NASA* project to be
hosted at the ASF. Yay!
Community
----------------
We've had a number of contributions fly in from a variety of new people
on the OODT@Apache scene. Rishi Verma has been going back and forth with
some productive user-facing mailing list questions and discussions regarding
using OODT product servers. Tom Bennett, all the way down in South Africa,
has been using the software in the context of the Square Kilometer Array
(SKA) project, and has even contributed a patch to fix a timezone issue
in the File Manager (OODT-62 [3]). Victor Hwang has also been helping out
(contributing in part to OODT-9 [4]). Faranak Davoodi contributed a small
patch in OODT-83 [5] to fix a typo in the pushpull pom.xml.
Development
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Work progresses towards the 0.2 release. Paul Ramirez has volunteered to RM
the next release [6]. Brian Foster has been discussing and contributing a
number of patches and issues (see [7, 8] for some samples). Cameron Goodale
volunteered to help with some bugs/issues we're seeing with Maven ${oodt.version}
numbers in pom.xml files (e.g., see OODT-63 [9]). Chris Mattmann, Sean McCleese,
and Victor Hwang contributed a configurable OPeNDAP-based profile server in
OODT-9 [4]. In all, development is progressing!
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3217
[2] http://s.apache.org/sE
[3] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-62
[4] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-9
[5] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-83
[6] http://s.apache.org/gZ
[7] http://issues.apache.org/ijra/browse/OODT-75
[8] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-77
[9] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-63
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 related to the construction of scientific, data management systems for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache OODT Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache OODT Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the construction of scientific, data management systems; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache OODT" 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 OODT Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache OODT 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 OODT Project: * Andrew Hart (ahart@apache.org) * Brian Foster (bfoster@apache.org) * Cameron Goodale (goodale@apache.org) * Chris A. Mattmann (mattmann@apache.org) * Dan Crichton (crichton@apache.org) * David Kale (davekale@apache.org) * David Woollard (woollard@apache.org) * Ian Holsman (ianh@apache.org) * Joshua Garcia (joshuaga@apache.org) * Justin Erenkrantz (jerenkrantz@apache.org) * Paul Ramirez (pramirez@apache.org) * Sean Hardman (shardman@apache.org) * Sean McCleese (smcclees@apache.org) * Sean Kelly (kelly@apache.org) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Chris A. Mattmann be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, 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 OODT Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator OODT sub-project; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator OODT sub-project encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Approved by unanimous roll call vote.
OODT is a grid middleware framework for science data processing, information integration, and retrieval. OODT is used on a number of successful projects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, and many other research institutions and universities. A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation 1. Port OODT code and license headers into ASF license headers 2. OODT contributions from at least 2 other organizations besides JPL 3. At least one OODT incubating release, hopefully in the first few months Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No, not at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? The OODT community voted in a new committer, Cameron Goodale on July 15, 2010. There have been several contributions from individuals from other organizations, notably the contribution of OODT@Apache logos in OODT-17 by Paul Vee from CHLA, the work on OODT XMLPS from David Kale of CHLA in OODT-29, as well as use cases contributed by Dr. Bruce Barkstrom (in OODT-28). We've also had some more JPL'ers join the mailing lists (Paul Zimdars), as well as another NASA contributor, Mark Foshee from Marshall Space Flight Center. Dan Crichton has been invited to give a keynote at ApacheCon NA. How has the project developed since the last report? OODT was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on January 22, 2010. Development has progressed at a rapid pace. Chris has input 2 releases into JIRA (0.1-incubating and 0.2-incubating), and currently 18 of the 23 issues scheduled for 0.1-incubating have been completed. Of the remaining 5, 2 of the issues (OODT-3 and OODT-15) are basically finished. OODT-29 (reported by David Kale from CHLA) proposes to contribute a configurable XML product/profile server add on to web-grid (which was imported in OODT-27 by Chris Mattmann) based on Chris Mattmann's existing handler being deployed at CHLA, originally developed on the EDRN project. The remaining 2 issues both involve cleaning up license dependencies (one for the pushpull component in OODT-22 and another for clearing the profile/product server dependency on jacorb in OODT-25). We are *this close* to wrapping up the 0.1-incubating release. We even have a release manager: David Woollard has volunteered to push out the release, with guidance from Chris Mattmann. Probably the most visible development to report is that OODT@Apache now has an official website! http://incubator.apache.org/oodt/. Sean Kelly led the way, with contributions from Chris Mattmann and Andrew Hart and Paul Vee in OODT-16/OODT-17.
OODT is a grid middleware framework for science data processing, information integration, and retrieval. OODT is used on a number of successful projects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, and many other research institutions and universities. A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation 1. Port OODT code and license headers into ASF license headers 2. OODT contributions from at least 2 other organizations besides JPL 3. At least one OODT incubating release, hopefully in the first few months Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No, not at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? Either Justin Erenkrantz or David Woollard will be giving a talk at the TransferSummit 2010 in Oxford, UK on Friday, June 25, 2010 - 3:50pm - 4:30pm on NASA and Apache. The talk will cover OODT in detail and the transition of the first NASA project into the ASF Incubator and the experience along the way. After some discussion with Justin, Chris added himself as a mentor for the project on the OODT Proposal on the Incubator wiki, since he is an ASF member and Incubator PMC member. Much of the other activity continues to be from the mentors and committers. How has the project developed since the last report? OODT was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on January 22, 2010. Development continues to focus on cleaning up the OODT code and config license headers, with contributions from Andrew Hart and Sean McCleese, and on one top-level build for OODT, and one trunk, tags and branches) with contributions from Chris Mattmann. When OODT-15 and OODT-3 are finished, we should be ready for 1st incubating release along with some documentation transferring and getting the website up and running, tracked in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-16, and assigned to Sean Kelly.
Description: OODT is a grid middleware framework for science data processing, information integration, and retrieval. OODT is used on a number of successful projects at Jet Propulsion Laboratory/ California Institute of Technology (http://jpl.nasa.gov/, and many other research institutions and universities. A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Port OODT code and license headers into ASF license headers 2. OODT contributions from at least 2 other organizations besides JPL 3. At least one OODT incubating release, hopefully in the first few months Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No, not at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? Chris Mattmann mentioned OODT as a possible extension for Whirr, proposed by Tom White in the Incubator. We had some input from Justin (http://www.mail-archive.com/oodt-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg00050.html) progressing on OODT-3 (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-3), and leveraging tools like RAT to do the license checking and verification needed to close out the issue. Much of the other activity continues to be from the mentors and committers. How has the project developed since the last report? OODT was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on January 22, 2010. Development over the last month has centered on OODT-3 (cleaning up the OODT code and config license headers), with contributions from Sean McCleese, and on OODT-15 (one top-level build for OODT, and one trunk, tags and branches). OODT-15 in particular included some community discussion and a lazy consensus to move forward. Chris Mattmann is nearly complete on this reorganization, which, coupled with OODT-3 should provide for a great 1st incubating release along with some documentation transferring and getting the website up and running (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-16), which Sean Kelly has volunteered to spearhead.
OODT is a grid middleware framework for science data processing, information integration, and retrieval. OODT is used on a number of successful projects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, and many other research institutions and universities. A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Port OODT code and license headers into ASF license headers 2. OODT contributions from at least 2 other organizations besides JPL 3. At least one OODT incubating release, hopefully in the first few months Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No, not at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? Dave Kale, from Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), is the first external to JPL contributor to the project (besides mentors of course). Dave contributed the patch for OODT-8, fixing a minor bug in referencing a jar dependency for Maven. Cameron Goodale, another JPL'er (but not a committer), input OODT-14 for documentation that he is working on. Much of the other activity continues to be from the mentors and committers. How has the project developed since the last report? OODT was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on January 22, 2010. Sean Kelly imported the Python version of the OODT query, profile, product, and webgrid components in OODT-6. Work on the initial import into Apache OODT-3) is nearing completion. Sean McCleese and Andrew Hart have been leading the way. Committers have begun logging new issues in Jira and using the Apache SVN for their current development efforts (e.g., see the efforts from Brian Foster in OODT-10, OODT-11, OODT-12 and OODT-13). Brian Foster also initiated discussion regarding OODT-15, which proposes to create one top-level build for the OODT components and a versioning scheme for the software.
OODT is a grid middleware framework for science data processing, information integration, and retrieval. OODT is used on a number of successful projects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology (http://jpl.nasa.gov/), and many other research institutions and universities. A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation 1. Port OODT code and license headers into ASF license headers 2. OODT contributions from at least 2 other organizations besides JPL 3. At least one OODT incubating release, hopefully in the first few months Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No, not at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? So far, most of the activity has been from the mentors and the committers, but we expect interest to continue growing. Chris Mattmann has been mentioning OODT over in the Lucene community. How has the project developed since the last report? OODT was voted into the Incubator by the IPMCon January 22, 2010. All mailing lists have been set up, all SVN accounts are up, and karma has been granted to all OODT committers. So far, three OODT committers have stepped up and begun to discuss issues on the mailing lists, and tackle some issues. Sean Kelly and Chris Mattmann worked with Joe Schaefer and Justin Erenkrantz to get the OODT initial code drop from NASA into Apache SVN. As of http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-1 and http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-2, the work is completed on the initial code drop. Sean McCleese has been pouring through http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-3, taking the action to update the OODT source code with ASF 2.0 license headers. Chris Mattmann took care of some of the initial work, checking in a README, NOTICE, CHANGES and LICENSE set of files into the OODT source.
Description OODT is a grid middleware framework for science data processing, information integration, and retrieval. OODT is used on a number of successful projects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory/ California Institute of Technology, and many other research institutions and universities. A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation 1. Port OODT code and license headers into ASF license headers 2. OODT contributions from at least 2 other organizations besides JPL 3. At least one OODT incubating release, hopefully in the first few months Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No, not at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? There was a lot of positive interest from the Incubator community during the OODT proposal and voting process. We hope that once we get our mailing lists up and start to commit code, that we'll build up an Apache-based community. How has the project developed since the last report? OODT was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on January 22, 2010. Progress has been steady, with our mentor Justin Erenkrantz creating issues for setting up the mailing list (INFRA-2463), JIRA (INFRA-2464) and Confluence (INFRA-2465). Chris submitted a software grant for OODT on January 25, 2010 and the grant was acknowledged in r21258 in /foundation/officers/grants.txt on January 26, 2010. Once the mailing lists are up, Justin and Chris plan to begin requesting accounts for all OODT committers. After that, Justin will grant karma to our SVN space to all OODT committers, and we can begin importing code into the repository.