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WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache VXQuery 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 VXQuery project due to inactivity; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache VXQuery 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 VXQuery Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache VXQuery" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache VXQuery PMC is hereby terminated. Special Order 7D, Terminate the Apache VXQuery Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - The PMC has voted to move the project to the Attic. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 12 committers and 8 PMC members in the project. - Christina Pavlopoulou joined the PMC on 2018-10-29. - Last PMC addition was Christina Pavlopoulou on 2018-10-29. - Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou on Aug 22, 2016. Releases: - Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - There has been no visible (dev list or git) activity on the project since the last report. - An attempt of a discussion on the retirement or revival of the project on the dev-list did not get a response. - We will start a vote on retiring Apache VXQuery and expect to have a result before the next board meeting. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 12 committers and 8 PMC members in the project. - Christina Pavlopoulou joined the PMC on 2018-10-29. - Last PMC addition was Christina Pavlopoulou on 2018-10-29. - Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou on Aug 22, 2016. Releases: - Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - There has been no visible (dev list or git) activity on the project since the last report. - A discussion on the way forward has started and - while no decision has been taken - it currently seems to lean towards retirement. Issues: - Concerning jj's question on "not enough push to make it happen": There was not enough interest/motivation to finish the steps to get to a release. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 12 committers and 8 PMC members in the project. - Christina Pavlopoulou joined the PMC on 2018-10-29. - Last PMC addition was Christina Pavlopoulou on 2018-10-29. - Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou on Aug 22, 2016. Releases: - Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - Work on adding and optimizing for union and intersect picked up again. - A new release has been under consideration, however there was not enough push to make it happen. Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 12 committers and 8 PMC members in the project. - Christina Pavlopoulou joined the PMC on 2018-10-29. - Last PMC addition was Christina Pavlopoulou on 2018-10-29. - Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou on Aug 22, 2016. Releases: - Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - VXQuery was moved to a later version (0.3.3) of Hyracks - ICLAs for recent GitHub contributions are in place, but PRs are not merged yet - Low activity Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 12 committers and 8 PMC members in the project. - Christina Pavlopoulou joined the PMC on 2018-10-29. - Last PMC addition was Christina Pavlopoulou on 2018-10-29. - Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou on Aug 22, 2016. Releases: - Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - Low activity, but a sizable PR was submitted on GitHub recently - need to work with the author to get an ICLA in place. - Release work to release JSONiq functionality very slow. Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs on Jul 18, 2014. - Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou on Aug 22, 2016. Releases: - Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - Activity picked up a bit. - Work started on creating a new release to release JSONiq functionality. Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Jul 18, 2014. - Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou on Aug 22, 2016. Releases: - Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - Very low activity. - Still no new release. - Started discussion on moving to the attic. Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Jul 18, 2014. - Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou on Aug 22, 2016. Releases: - Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - A paper on the JSONiq extension for XQuery implemented in VXQuery "A Parallel and Scalable Processor for JSON Data" was accepted for publication in EDBT 2018. - Very low activity otherwise. - Still no new release. Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Jul 18, 2014. - Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou on Aug 22, 2016. Releases: - Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - 2 GSoC projects by Christina Pavlopoulou (extending the index support in VXQuery) and Erandi Ganepola (adding a RESTful API for VXQuery) completed. - Low activity after the GSoC projects. - Still no new release. Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Jul 18, 2014. - Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou on Aug 22, 2016. Releases: - Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - 2 GSoC projects ongoing, Christina Pavlopoulou works on extending the index support in VXQuery and Erandi Ganepola works on adding a RESTful API for VXQuery. Both projects have passed the mid-term evaluation. - Some activity triggered by these projects. - There was some activity towards a release, but it did not result in a release so far. Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Jul 18, 2014. - Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou on Aug 22, 2016. Releases: - Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - Activity in the last quarter has been low again. - Existing activity is around improving the JSONiq implementation. - The project is participating on Google Summer of Code again, but only 2 proposals have been submitted this year. Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Jul 18, 2014. - Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou on Aug 22, 2016. Releases: - Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - Activity in the last quarter has been quite low - especially over the holidays. Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Jul 18, 2014. - Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou on Aug 22, 2016. Releases: - Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - All 3 GSoC projects finished successfully. - VXQuery now contains most of the JSONiq extension for XQuery. - Activity is back to pre-GSoC levels. - Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou were added as committers on Aug 22, 2016. Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Jul 18, 2014. - Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou on Aug 22, 2016. Releases: - Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - 3 GSoC projects ongoing, Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou are working on different aspects of the JSONiq Extension to XQuery and Menaka Madushanka is working an integration with Apache Lucene. All projects have passed the mid-term evaluation and are progressing well. - A lot of activity triggered by these projects. - Apache VXQuery 0.6 was released by the first-time RM Steven Jacobs. Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Fri Jul 18 2014 - Last committer addition was Steven Jacobs at Fri Jul 18 2014 Releases: - Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - Increased interest and activity around Google Summer of Code. - Specifically a lot of interest around the implementation of JSONiq, a JSON extension for XQuery. - Still a lot of activity by some VXQuery committers on the Hyracks and Algebricks frameworks (developed in the AsterixDB podling) that are the foundation of VXQuery. - A new release is due - the last one is more than a year old. Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Fri Jul 18 2014 - Last committer addition was Steven Jacobs at Fri Jul 18 2014 Releases: - Last release was 0.5 on Thu Mar 05 2015
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - Activity has slowed down - especially in December. There’s a sizable overlap between the committers for VXQuery and the AsterixDB podling and a lot of the attention has been focussed on AsterixDB recently. However, as some of the work in the AsterixDB podling is on the Hyracks and Algebricks frameworks that are the foundation of VXQuery, VXQuery also benefits from this work. - Discussions on the integration with parts of the Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS and YARN) still ongoing. - The paper on VXQuery has been presented by Preston at IEEE Big Data 2015 in Santa Clara. Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Fri Jul 18 2014 - Last committer addition was Steven Jacobs at Fri Jul 18 2014 Releases: - Last release was 0.5 on Thu Mar 05 2015
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - After Google Summer of Code ended activity has gone down a bit but is still above pre-GSoC levels. - A lot of the current work/discussions is on the integration with parts of the Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS and YARN). - The paper on VXQuery has been accepted for publication at IEEE Big Data 2015. The paper will be presented by Preston at the conference in Santa Clara in November. Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Fri Jul 18 2014 - Last committer addition was Steven Jacobs at Fri Jul 18 2014 Releases: - Last release was 0.5 on Thu Mar 05 2015
Description: Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. Activity: - Increased activity on mailing lists and code. A lot of this is driven by Shivani Mall and Efi Kaltirimidou who are doing great work on VXQuery during their Google Summer of Code. Issues: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Fri Jul 18 2014 - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Steven Jacobs at Fri Jul 18 2014 Releases: - Last release was 0.5 on Thu Mar 05 2015 Mailing list activity: - dev@vxquery.apache.org: - 31 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 240 emails sent to list (227 in previous quarter) JIRA activity: - 23 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 12 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. ISSUES There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. STATUS Apache VXQuery graduated from the incubator in July 2014. The paper that we reported on was finished but has not been published yet. Apache VXQuery 0.5 was released incorporating the changes that were required for the paper. Mailing list activity has picked up, mostly due to the release and interest in Google Summer of Code. COMMUNITY All PMC members came in through graduation, all committers are PMC members. The community is still small. Last committer (Steven Jacobs) was added in September 2013. COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES Continued focus on completing the engine and on growing the community. In the past Google Summer of Code has helped the project to grow, hopefully this year will be similar. RELEASES Apache VXQuery 0.5 was released on Mar 5, 2015
Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. ISSUES There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. STATUS Apache VXQuery graduated from the incubator in July 2014. Feature development in the last 3 month was slow. Most work went into the paper on performance evaluation (and comparison with other systems). COMMUNITY All PMC members came in through graduation, all committers are PMC members. The community is still small. Last committer (Steven Jacobs) was added in September 2013. COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES - Continued focus on completing the engine and on growing the community. The paper that will hopefully increase the visibility of the project should be finished in January. - Focus on bringing off-list communication back to the mailing list (a number of discussions happened off-list and were not brought back). RELEASES Apache VXQuery 0.4 was released on Sep 7, 2014
Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. ISSUES There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. STATUS Apache VXQuery graduated from the incubator in July. In the last month there was some work on performance evaluation and improvement and work on a paper to publish the results. COMMUNITY All PMC members came in through graduation, all committers are PMC members. The community is small but active. Last committer (Steven Jacobs) was added in September 2013. COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES Focus on completing the engine and on growing the community. The next planned step towards growing the community still is to publish a paper on Apache VXQuery and thus hopefully increase the visibility of the project. RELEASES Apache VXQuery 0.4 was released on Sep 7, 2014
Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. ISSUES There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. STATUS Apache VXQuery graduated from the incubator in July. In the last month the activities were mostly around releasing the first non-incubating release (on Sep 7) and around performance measurements and improvements. COMMUNITY All PMC members came in through graduation, all committers are PMC members. The community is small but active. Last committer (Steven Jacobs) was added in September 2013. COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES As the first non-incubating release is out we will again focus on completing the engine and on growing the community. The next planned step towards growing the community is to publish a paper on Apache VXQuery and thus hopefully increase the visibility of the project. RELEASES Apache VXQuery 0.4 was released on Sep 7, 2014
Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. STATUS Apache VXQuery graduated from the incubator in July. The first activities as a TLP were mostly around the migration of the infrastructure (with great support from infra). There is also some development activity around performance measurements and improvements. COMMUNITY All PMC members came in through graduation, all committers are PMC members. The community is small but active. Last committer (Steven Jacobs) was added in September 2013. COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES After the infrastructure is migrated the next step is to create the first non-incubating release. RELEASES Apache VXQuery 0.3-incubating was released on May 19, 2014
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to providing an implementation of a parallel XML Query processor. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache VXQuery Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache VXQuery Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to providing an implementation of a parallel XML Query processor; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, VXQuery" 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 VXQuery Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache VXQuery 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 VXQuery Project: Vinayak Borkar (vinayakb@apache.org) Till Westmann (tillw@apache.org) Preston Carman (prestonc@apache.org) Steven Jacobs (sjaco002@apache.org) Michael Carey (dtabass@apache.org) Ant Elder (antelder@apache.org) Cezar Andrei (cezar@apache.org) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Till Westmann be appointed to the office of Vice President, VXQuery, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache VXQuery PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache VXQuery Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache VXQuery Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator VXQuery podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator VXQuery podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7E, Establish the Apache VXQuery Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
A standards compliant parallel XML Query processor. VXQuery has been incubating since 2009-07-06. The second release has been released (by a different release manager). The PPMC has voted on the composition of the PMC (=committers) and the graduation vote is ongoing on the dev-list. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No. How has the community developed since the last report? No change. How has the project developed since the last report? There has been work on better handling of big XML files and greater functional coverage. Date of last release: 2013-12-06 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Marvin Humphrey was added to the PPMC as a mentor in November 2013. Steven Jacobs was elected as a committer in September 2013. Signed-off-by: [ ](vxquery) Anthony Elder [ ](vxquery) Jochen Wiedmann [x](vxquery) Marvin Humphrey [ ](vxquery) Sanjiva Weerawarana [ ](vxquery) Radu Preotiuc-Pietro
A standards compliant parallel XML Query processor. VXQuery has been incubating since 2009-07-06. As stated in the last report, there are no formal issues blocking graduation. While not a formal requirement, the current plan is (still) to do a second incubator release before graduation (the reasons to do this have not changed). Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No. How has the community developed since the last report? No change. How has the project developed since the last report? There has been a lot of progress - improving the performance of the system, and on - running VXQuery on a cluster. For most tests that we are running now, we see near-linear speed-up and scale-up. Source code has been moved from svn to git. The second (and hopefully last) incubator release is being finalized. Date of last release: 2013-12-06 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Marvin Humphrey was added to the PPMC as a mentor in November 2013. Steven Jacobs was elected as a committer in September 2013. Signed-off-by: [x](vxquery) Anthony Elder [x](vxquery) Jochen Wiedmann [x](vxquery) Marvin Humphrey [ ](vxquery) Sanjiva Weerawarana [ ](vxquery) Radu Preotiuc-Pietro
A standards compliant parallel XML Query processor.
VXQuery has been incubating since 2009-07-06.
There are no formal issues blocking graduation. The issue of off-list
discussions that was identified by the mentors a few month ago has been
addressed. While off-list discussions are still happening, (intermediate)
results of those discussions are now regularly brought back to the list.
While not a formal requirement, the current plan is to do a second
incubator release before graduation to
a) release the changes that accumulated while the first release was
prepared and to
b) have a release prepared by another RM.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Marvin Humphrey agreed to mentor VXQuery and the project now has 3 active
mentors.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The first incubating release has been released on Dec 6.
Progress has been made on
- the definition of the benchmark, on
- improving the performance of the system, and on
- running VXQuery on a cluster.
Date of last release:
2013-12-06
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Marvin Humphrey was added to the PPMC as a mentor in November 2013.
Steven Jacobs was elected as a committer in September 2013.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](vxquery) Anthony Elder
[ ](vxquery) Jochen Wiedmann
[X](vxquery) Marvin Humphrey
[ ](vxquery) Sanjiva Weerawarana
[ ](vxquery) Radu Preotiuc-Pietro
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Raphael Bircher (rbircher):
The mailing list traffic is not very high. However, the basic
discussions are on the lists.
A standards compliant parallel XML Query processor. VXQuery has been incubating since 2009-07-06. The most important issue to address in the move towards graduation is still the first release. The third release candidate is currently up for vote on vxquery-dev. So far there at 4 positive votes. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? We are still a little low on mentors, but since Ant Elder has agreed to help out, the situation has improved. How has the community developed since the last report? Steven Jacobs has been voted in as a committer. How has the project developed since the last report? Benchmarking data and queries have been added to the project. A number of issues discovered when running the benchmark have been fixed. Steven contributed an integration with Lucene. A new release candidate has been created and is currently being voted on. Date of last release: never When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2013-09-19 Signed-off-by: [ ](vxquery) Sanjiva Weerawarana [ ](vxquery) Radu Preotiuc-Pietro [x](vxquery) Jochen Wiedmann [ ](vxquery) Ant Elder Shepherd notes:
A standards compliant parallel XML Query processor. VXQuery has been incubating since 2009-07-06. The most important issue to address in the move towards graduation is still the first release. Two release candidates have been created and rejected so far. The third release candiate is not ready yet. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? It would be great to have more active mentors. How has the community developed since the last report? Steven Jacobs has started to contribute to the project as part of his GSoC project of integrating Lucene indices into VXQuery. How has the project developed since the last report? Work on a benchmark to evaluate the performance and applicability of a parallel XQuery engine has been started. This has triggered further progress on the rewriting of queries to increase the level of parallelism for some classes of queries. Signed-off-by: [ ](vxquery) Sanjiva Weerawarana [ ](vxquery) Radu Preotiuc-Pietro [ ](vxquery) Jochen Wiedmann Shepherd notes:
A standards compliant parallel XML Query processor. VXQuery has been incubating since 2009-07-06. The most important issue to address in the move towards graduation is still the first release. Two release candidates have been created and rejected so far. Work on the third release candidate is ongoing. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? For RC1 only 2 mentors (Jochen and Paul) voted, for RC2 only Jochen voted. Getting a 3 votes from the IPMC might be difficult. How has the community developed since the last report? no changes How has the project developed since the last report? There has been progress on the rewriting of queries. A larger class of queries is now correctly translated into plans that can be executed in parallel on a Hyracks cluster. Please check this [x] when you have filled in the report for VXQuery. Signed-off-by: Sanjiva Weerawarana: [ ](vxquery) Radu Preotiuc-Pietro: [ ](vxquery) Jochen Wiedmann: [ ](vxquery) Shepherd notes:
A standards compliant XML Query processor. VXQuery has been incubating since 2009-07-06. The most important issue to address in the move towards graduation is the first release. The release preparations had started before the October report, but they were not completed as the release manager was not able to work on the release artifacts during November and December. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? There currently is only one active mentor (Jochen), which could be a problem for the release vote. How has the community developed since the last report? no changes How has the project developed since the last report? There has been progress on the creation and execution of parallel plans for XQueries and some issues around the creation of release artifact have been resolved. Signed-off-by: Sanjiva Weerawarana: [ ](vxquery) Radu Preotiuc-Pietro: [ ](vxquery) Jochen Wiedmann: [X](vxquery)
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor for parallel evaluation. It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06. VXQuery was able to maintain the increased level of activity that was reported in the July report and made significant progress towards completing the XQuery functionality. The remaining top issue is a release. Recently the preparations for the first release have started and they are still ongoing. Release artifacts should be available and voted on in the next few weeks. Signed-off-by: jochen, jukka
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor for parallel evaluation. It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06. VXQuery changed its focus from being a pure library implementation of XQuery in Java to being an engine for parallel XQuery evaluation. For the runtime VXQuery now leverages the Hyracks system which is an Apache-licensed parallel execution engine developed at UCI. So far the top issues were 1) low activity 2) small community 3) create a release. The activities on these issues are: ad 1) Since this change of focus - and the start of a GSoC project with this new focus - development activity has picked up significantly. This due to both activity of the GSoC student (Preston Carman) and of the existing committers. ad 2) Preston Carman a) has provided good patches for VXQuery and b) interacts very well with the existing community. Consequently he is a candidate to be the next committer for VXQuery. After the initial vote on vxquery-private failed (all committers voted +1, but there was no mentor/IPMC member vote), Jukka Zitting voted +1. The next step is to finalize the administrative part to make Preston a committer. Further, there is a plan to publish a paper to show the projects utility and to increase the visibility of the incubation effort. ad 3) After the change of focus some things work, but not enough to build a release that is easily consumable. VXQuery should be released before a paper is published to enable readers or the paper to run the software. Signed off by mentor: Shepherd: Matt Franklin
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor. It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06. Recent activities: - change of the focus of the project (the previous focus was to be flexible wrt the representation of the data model, the new focus is parallel processing of large amounts of XML data) - renewed development activity - 2 proposals for GSoC (1 person expressed interest in working on VXQuery for GSoC) Top issues before graduation: - Build community VXQuery's community is still the initial (very small) community The goal of the change of focus to attract more interest in the project and to increase the size and diversity of the community - Create a release Signed off by mentor:
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor. It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06. Recent activities: * activity picked-up a little in August and September * considering direction of the project Top issues before graduation: * Create a release * Build community (developer and users) [September report follows] The flood of Hadoop related projects continues with new Incubator projects: * HMS (now Ambari), a monitoring, administration and lifecycle management project for Apache Hadoop clusters * Accumulo, a sorted, distributed key/value store based on Google's BigTable design, and built on top of Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift were voted to start Incubation, along with: * Kalumet, a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and resources. Other projects under discussion: * S4 (Simple Scalable Streaming System), a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous, unbounded streams of data. OGNL should be moving to Apache Commons.
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor. It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06. Recent activities: * no progress due to external commitments of the current developers and minimal community size * considering future of the project Top issues before graduation: * Revive project * Create a release * Build community (developer and users)
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The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor. It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06. Recent activities: * progress is still slow due to the small team/community size and external commitments of the current developers Top issues before graduation: * Build community (developer and users) * Increase development speed * Create a release
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor. It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06. Recent activities: * progress has been slow due to the small team/community size and external commitments of the current developers Top issues before graduation: * Increase development speed * Build community (developer and users) * Create a release
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor. It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06. Recent activities: * progressing slowly towards running the complete XQTS (XQuery Test Suite) Top issues before graduation: * Increase development speed * Build community (developer and users) * Create a release
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor. It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06. Recent activities: * more progress towards running the complete XQTS (XQuery Test Suite) * first signs of community interest Top issues before graduation: * Build community * Create a release
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor. It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06. Recent activities: * all CCLAs in place * mailing lists are fixed * some progress towards running the complete XQTS (XQuery Test Suite) Completed setup steps: * JIRA/Wiki set up * SVN access for initial committers set up * Initial codebase submitted to SVN * Mailing lists set up * All CLAs in place * Incubator status page set up * project home page set up Top issues before graduation: * Build community * Create a release
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor. It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06. September activities: * created project home page * some code additions * some progress on CCLAs (still not done) Completed setup steps: * JIRA/Wiki set up * SVN access for initial committers set up * Initial codebase submitted to SVN * Mailing lists set up * All ICLAs and most CCLAs in place * Incubator status page set up * project home page set up Immediate goals: * Get all CCLAs in place * Fix mailing list issues Top 3 issues before graduation: * Complete podling setup * Build community * Create a release
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor. It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06. August activities: * some code additions * some progress on CCLAs (still not done) Completed setup steps: * JIRA/Wiki set up * SVN access for initial committers set up * Initial codebase submitted to SVN * Mailing lists set up * All ICLAs and most CCLAs in place * Setup status page: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/vxquery.html Immediate goals: * Get all CCLAs in place * Fix mailing list issues * Setup project home page Top 3 issues before graduation: * Complete podling setup * Build community * Create a release
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor. It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06. Completed setup steps: * JIRA/Wiki set up * SVN access for initial committers set up * Initial codebase submitted to SVN * Mailing lists set up * All ICLAs and most CCLAs in place * Incubator status page set up: (http://incubator.apache.org/projects/vxquery.html) Immediate goals: * Get all CCLAs in place * Fix mailing list issues * Setup project home page Top 3 issues before graduation: * Complete podling setup * Build community * Create a release