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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
January 16, 2019
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:30
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.
Other Time Zones: https://timeanddate.com/s/3r2p
The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting
and Cloudera.
IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present:
Rich Bowen
Shane Curcuru
Bertrand Delacretaz
Isabel Drost-Fromm
Ted Dunning
Roman Shaposhnik
Phil Steitz
Mark Thomas
Directors Absent:
Brett Porter
Executive Officers Present:
Ross Gardler
Tom Pappas
Sam Ruby
Daniel Ruggeri
Craig L Russell
Matt Sicker
Executive Officers Absent:
Ulrich Stärk
Guests:
Daniel Gruno
Gavin McDonald - joined at 10:35
Greg Stein
Jim Jagielski - left at 11:48
Kevin A. McGrail
Sally Khudairi
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of December 19, 2018
See: board_minutes_2018_12_19.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Phil]
Progress continued slowly last month on updating the 5-year plan. I am
hoping we can get drafts for all sections and the updated financials
to review next month.
I have also started planning for the 2019 Members meeting, which will
coincide with our 20th anniversary.
The Treasurer's report indicates that the ASF is in very good shape
financially, 8 months into this fiscal year. We are approximately
$400k ahead on revenue and $300k under in expense. Some of this is
timing, but we are on track to grow our reserve significantly this
year. I plan to spend some time this month working with Tom (as VP,
Finance) on options for reserve management (e.g. endowment).
B. President [Sam]
Issues for the board:
* FY24 projections are posted as a discussion item. At this point,
the perfect is the enemy of the good, and I feel that we have
enough data to make a decision. More later in this report.
* Last month, Rich asked for a Fundraising plan to be posted
(possibly privately) by the previous board meeting. At the time, I
said the timing wouldn't work out, and ultimately the plan was
posted shortly after the meeting. Details are included in the
fundraising report (some of them are indeed marked as private), and
a link to the December discussion is present in the report. I
believe that this satisfies the request.
* Finance continues to be quiet. Unless I hear otherwise, I am going
to assume that the board is OK with this. If anybody is concerned
about something not happening on a schedule, please speak up.
Details:
Brand Management and Finance continue to operate smoothly.
Fundraising continue to be ahead of plan in terms of revenue, and has
posted a new long range approach to how work will be divided between
volunteers and paid staff.
I typically summarize the treasurer's report, but this time I will
lift a direct quote: "At this point in the FY we are doing very well,
ahead in Revenue and well under budget in Expenses, even taking timing
variances into account."
This brings us to the FY24 outlook. It shows a plan which includes a
modest surplus. I am going to say that that presents a significant
problem - in a good way. Given a track record of under-running
expenses and producing more income than projected (as an example, the
projection for the operating cash at the end of the fiscal year
increased by $80K since last month), coupled with a healthy reserve,
these numbers should be treated as highly conservative.
In prior discussions, it was observed that (and I'm paraphrasing
here): we don't solicit money for the purpose of sitting on it. This
implies that now would be a good time to brainstorm on ideas for
additional things that we should be investing in. This could be
large, one time, expenses. Or smaller, ongoing expenses. I suggest
that the board come up with (or collect and cull) ideas, and I'll see
to it that operations help size the costs for these ideas.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 7.
C. Treasurer [Ulrich]
Here is a summary of the Foundation's Financial performance for the
first eight months of FY19:
Operating Cash on Dec 31st, 2018 was $2,326.8K, which is up $120.9K
from last month's ending balance (Nov 18) of $2,205.9K. Total Cash
as of Dec 31st, 2018 is $3,720.7K ( includes the Pineapple and
restricted Donation) as compared to $1,663.1K on Dec 31st 2017. The
Dec 2018 ending Operating cash balance of $2,326.8K represents an
Operating cash reserve of 15.5 months based on the FY19 conservative
Cash forecast average monthly spending of $150.3K/month. The ASF
actual Operating reserve of 15.5 months at the end of Dec 2018 is
ahead of the budgeted 10.6 month reserve for YTD through Dec 2018.
The ASF Operating reserve continues to be very healthy for an
organization of the ASF's size and Operating activity.
Reviewing the YTD Cash P&L, total Income, was ahead of FY 18, at this
point in the Fiscal year by $326.1K . As compared to the FY 19
Budgeted Income, YTD, we are ahead by $412.7K.
YTD expenses, through Dec 31st, 2018 are under budget by $296.0K. All
depts. are under budget, at the end of Dec 2018. There are still a
couple items worth mentioning, one being Infra, as noted in the Board
summary is $167.9K under budget due to the timing of hiring of staff
and not having to pay any Lease web invoices YTD. The other being TAC
at $45K under budget YTD for FY19. We have moved most of the dept
underspending forward in the Cash forecast and will be reviewing the
underspending with the departments as we move forward in FY19 Q3.
Regarding Net Income (NI), YTD FY 19 the ASF finished with a positive
$267.6K NI vs a budgeted negative <$441.1K> NI or $708.7K ahead of
Budget, NI, for FY19 at this point in the Fiscal year. This is
attributable to timing of some Sponsor payments offset by more
Donations than were budgeted as well as underspending in all depts
YTD, vs the FY19 Budget. At this point in the FY we are doing very
well, ahead in Revenue and well under budget in Expenses, even taking
timing variances into account. We will continue to monitor this as we
move further into FY19. With regard to FY18, we are outpacing revenue
but are also out pacing expenses $206.3K. Thus, year over year NI
exceeds FY18 by $119.8K, and is significantly ahead of FY19 budget in
all categories.
Current Balances:
Boston Private CDARS Account 2,250,000.00
Citizens Money Market 1,067,203.68
Citizens Checking 399,660.51
Paypal - ASF 3,867.87
Total Checking/Savings 3,720,732.06
Dec-18 Budget Variance
Income Summary:
Inkind Revenue 0.00 0.00 0.00
Public Donations 4,020.00 5,225.76 -1,205.76
Sponsorship Program 204,000.00 135,000.00 69,000.00
Programs Income 0.00 0.00 0.00
Conference/Event Income 0.00 0.00 0.00
Other Income 2,927.05 2,514.10 412.95
Interest Income 814.05 1,576.31 -762.26
Total Income 211,761.10 144,316.17 67,444.93
Expense SumApry:
In Kind Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00
Infrastructure 51,555.92 78,128.32 -26,572.40
Programs Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00
Publicity 9,838.92 12,896.21 -3,057.29
Brand Management 3,189.40 8,166.67 -4,977.27
Conferences 6.10 0.00 6.10
Travel Assistance Committee 0.00 0.00 0.00
Fundraising 11,233.95 17,333.34 -6,099.39
Treasury Services 3,350.00 3,475.00 -125.00
General & Administrative 838.00 1,905.49 -1,067.49
Total Expense 80,012.29 121,905.03 -41,892.74
Net Income 131,748.81 22,411.14 109,337.67
YTD FY19 Budget Variance
Income Summary:
Inkind Revenue 0.00 0.00 0.00
Public Donations 122,096.16 33,580.16 88,516.00
Sponsorship Program 884,371.47 635,000.00 249,371.47
Programs Income 17,200.00 14,400.00 2,800.00
Conference/Event Income 248,227.95 184,000.00 64,227.95
Other Income 26,883.03 13,619.01 13,264.02
Interest Income 4,496.64 9,964.01 -5,467.37
Total Income 1,303,275.25 890,563.18 412,712.07
Expense SumApry:
In Kind Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00
Infrastructure 485,054.38 653,026.56 -167,972.18
Programs Expense 0.00 4,400.00 -4,400.00
Publicity 166,932.02 177,215.19 -10,283.17
Brand Management 40,181.99 65,333.36 -25,151.37
Conferences 197,018.20 200,000.00 -2,981.80
Travel Assistance Committee 0.00 45,000.00 -45,000.00
Fundraising 105,812.18 138,666.72 -32,854.54
Treasury Services 29,435.00 29,950.00 -515.00
General & Administrative 11,200.62 18,048.57 -6,847.95
Total Expense 1,035,634.39 1,331,640.40 -296,006.01
Net Income 267,640.86 -441,077.22 708,718.08
D. Secretary [Craig]
The office of Secretary is running well.
The Secretary represented The ASF at the Flink Forward conference in
Beijing, China in December and delivered the keynote speech.
In December, 69 ICLAs, one CCLA, and three grants were received and
filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Ross]
Infrastructure
=============
Infrastructure is operating as expected.
Hiring remains an ongoing activity.
Preparations continue for a long range plan to upgrade Puppet to V6
and OS to Ubuntu LTS 18.04.
65 projects/325 repositories have voluntarily migrated from git-wip-us
to gitbox since Nov 2018. gitbox now has 172 projects/1300
repositories. As of Jan 15th 50 projects/175 repositories remain on
git-wip-us. Voluntary migrations to minimize disruption are ongoing.
Forced migrations will take place on Feb 7th.
Marketing and Publicity
=======================
Work has begun on restructuring and refining the strategy for ASF
Fundraising.
Via ComDev a proposal has been submitted for recognizing non-technical
contributions to Apache communities.
Planning is underway for our 20th anniversary celebrations. A
community-wide survey (closing Feb 15th) has been published - “The
Apache Way To Me…” https://s.apache.org/oxTr
Conferences
===========
ApacheConNA discussions with a potential producer continue.
Chicago roadshow has been announced, CFP is open.
Travel Assistance Committee
===========================
TAC are exploring ways that they can better help ASF attendance at
other, such as FOSSDEM. Interested folks should look out for proposals
from TAC in the coming month or so.
No events in process at present.
F. Vice Chairman [Shane]
Sadly due to unforeseen health issues, nothing to report this month.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Shane]
See Attachment 8
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Roman Shaposhnik]
See Attachment 9
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox / Ted]
See Attachment 10
D. VP of Data Privacy [Chris Mattmann / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
Summary of Reports
The following reports required further discussion:
# Hama [rs]
# Incubator [ps]
# Isis [rb]
# Streams [mt]
# Xalan [mt]
A. Apache Accumulo Project [Michael Wall / Mark]
See Attachment A
B. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder / Brett]
See Attachment B
C. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Phil]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Airflow Project [Bolke de Bruin / Roman]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Isabel]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Apex Project [Thomas Weise / Rich]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Aries Project [Christian Schneider / Roman]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Arrow Project [Jacques Nadeau / Isabel]
See Attachment H
I. Apache AsterixDB Project [Till Westmann / Shane]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Attic Project [Henk P. Penning / Bertrand]
See Attachment J
K. Apache Aurora Project [Jake Farrell / Ted]
No report was submitted.
@Ted: pursue a report for Aurora
L. Apache Avro Project [Thiruvalluvan M. G. / Mark]
No report was submitted.
@Mark: pursue a report for Avro
M. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Phil]
No report was submitted.
@Phil: pursue a report for Bloodhound
N. Apache Calcite Project [Francis Chuang / Brett]
See Attachment N
O. Apache CarbonData Project [Liang Chen / Rich]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Celix Project [Pepijn Noltes / Roman]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Phil]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache Commons Project [Gary D. Gregory / Shane]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills / Ted]
See Attachment S
T. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Bertrand]
See Attachment T
U. Apache DataFu Project [Matthew Hayes / Brett]
See Attachment U
V. Apache DB Project [Bryan Pendleton / Isabel]
See Attachment V
W. Apache Directory Project [Stefan Seelmann / Rich]
See Attachment W
X. Apache Fineract Project [Vishwas Babu A J / Mark]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Flex Project [Tom Chiverton / Brett]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Fluo Project [Keith Turner / Rich]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Geronimo Project [Romain Manni-Bucau / Shane]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Griffin Project [William Guo / Mark]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Hadoop Project [Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli / Ted]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache Hama Project [Chia-Hung Lin / Isabel]
See Attachment AD
@Isabel: follow up -- are there enough PMC members?
AE. Apache HAWQ Project [Lei Chang / Roman]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache HBase Project [Misty Linville / Bertrand]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Helix Project [Kishore G / Phil]
No report was submitted.
@Phil: pursue a report for Helix
AH. Apache Incubator Project [Justin Mclean / Brett]
See Attachment AH
@Phil: reach out to PPMC to see about improving the governance
of the project.
AI. Apache Isis Project [Kevin Meyer / Shane]
See Attachment AI
@Rich: follow up regarding communications with security team
AJ. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Bertrand]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache jclouds Project [Andrea Turli / Isabel]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Ted]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache JMeter Project [Bruno Demion / Phil]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache Johnzon Project [Hendrik Saly / Roman]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache Joshua Project [Tommaso Teofili / Rich]
No report was submitted.
@Rich: pursue a report for Joshua
AP. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez / Mark]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Kudu Project [Todd Lipcon / Bertrand]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Labs Project [Danny Angus / Phil]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Shad Storhaug / Isabel]
No report was submitted.
@Rich: is this project headed for the attic?
AT. Apache MADlib Project [Aaron Feng / Rich]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Mahout Project [Andrew Musselman / Roman]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache Maven Project [Robert Scholte / Shane]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Brett]
No report was submitted.
AX. Apache Metron Project [Casey Stella / Mark]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache MINA Project [Guillaume Nodet / Ted]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache MyFaces Project [Bernd Bohmann / Roman]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache NiFi Project [Joe Witt / Shane]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel / Brett]
See Attachment BB
BC. Apache ODE Project [Sathwik / Mark]
See Attachment BC
@Rich: reach out to the community to validate the plan to move
to the attic and develop a new code base in the incubator
BD. Apache OpenJPA Project [Mark Struberg / Phil]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Maxim Solodovnik / Rich]
See Attachment BE
BF. Apache OpenOffice Project [Peter Kovacs / Isabel]
No report was submitted.
BG. Apache ORC Project [Owen O'Malley / Bertrand]
See Attachment BG
BH. Apache Parquet Project [Julien Le Dem / Ted]
See Attachment BH
BI. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Mark]
See Attachment BI
BJ. Apache Ranger Project [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Bertrand]
See Attachment BJ
BK. Apache Royale Project [Harbs / Rich]
See Attachment BK
BL. Apache Samza Project [Yi Pan / Isabel]
See Attachment BL
BM. Apache ServiceComb Project [Willem Ning Jiang / Brett]
See Attachment BM
BN. Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood / Ted]
See Attachment BN
BO. Apache Sqoop Project [Venkat Ranganathan / Shane]
See Attachment BO
BP. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Roman]
No report was submitted.
BQ. Apache Steve Project [Daniel Gruno / Phil]
See Attachment BQ
BR. Apache Streams Project [Steve Blackmon / Shane]
See Attachment BR
@Mark: is there sufficient activity on the project?
BS. Apache Struts Project [René Gielen / Roman]
See Attachment BS
BT. Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi / Brett]
See Attachment BT
BU. Apache Tapestry Project [Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo / Bertrand]
See Attachment BU
BV. Apache Tcl Project [Georgios Petasis / Mark]
See Attachment BV
BW. Apache Tez Project [Jonathan Turner Eagles / Rich]
See Attachment BW
BX. Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell / Isabel]
No report was submitted.
@Isabel: pursue a report for Thrift
BY. Apache Tika Project [Tim Allison / Phil]
See Attachment BY
BZ. Apache TinkerPop Project [Stephen Mallette / Ted]
See Attachment BZ
CA. Apache Traffic Server Project [Bryan Call / Shane]
See Attachment CA
CB. Apache Twill Project [Terence Yim / Phil]
See Attachment CB
CC. Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann / Bertrand]
See Attachment CC
CD. Apache Web Services Project [Daniel Kulp / Isabel]
See Attachment CD
CE. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Rich]
See Attachment CE
CF. Apache Zeppelin Project [Lee Moon Soo / Ted]
See Attachment CF
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Change the Apache Directory Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Stefan
Seelmann (seelmann) to the office of Vice President, Apache
Directory, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Stefan Seelmann from the office of Vice President, Apache
Directory, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Directory
project has chosen by vote to recommend Shawn McKinney
(smckinney) as the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Stefan Seelmann is relieved
and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Directory, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Shawn McKinney be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Directory, 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 7A, Change the Apache Directory Project Chair,
was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Terminate the Apache ODE Project
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache ODE 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 ODE project due to inactivity;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache ODE 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 ODE Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache ODE" is hereby
terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache ODE PMC is hereby terminated.
Special Order 7B, Terminate the Apache ODE Project, was
tabled.
C. Change the Apache Flex Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Tom Chiverton
(tomc) to the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Tom
Chiverton from the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Flex project
has chosen by vote to recommend Olaf Krüger (okrueger) as the successor
to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Tom Chiverton is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache Flex, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Olaf Krüger be and hereby is appointed to
the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, 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 Flex Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Change the Apache DRAT Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Chris Mattmann
(mattmann) to the office of Vice President, Apache DRAT, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Chris Mattmann from the office of Vice President, Apache DRAT,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache DRAT
project has chosen by vote to recommend Tom Barber (magicaltrout) as
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 DRAT, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Tom Barber be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache DRAT, 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, Change the Apache DRAT Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
E. Change the Apache Wicket Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Martijn Dashorst
(dashorst) to the office of Vice President, Apache Wicket, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Martijn
Dashorst from the office of Vice President, Apache Wicket, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Wicket project has
chosen by vote to recommend Andrea Del Bene (adelbene) as the successor to the
post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Martijn Dashorst is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache Wicket, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Andrea Del Bene be and hereby is appointed to the
office of Vice President, Apache Wicket, 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 7E, Change the Apache Wicket Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
F. Establish VP, Security as an Officer
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors has created the Apache Security Team
as an Executive Committee and has named Mark Cox as its Chair; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests
of the Foundation to appoint the Security Team Chair as an officer of
the Foundation and to bestow the title, Vice President, Security to
the holder of this position.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Mark Cox, as Vice President,
Security, is hereby an officer of the Foundation, to serve in
accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors
and the Bylaws of the Foundation.
Special Order 7F, Establish VP, Security as an Officer, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
A. Process for restoring emeritus members
Proposed process: When an emeritus member wishes to rejoin the membership, he
or she sends an email to members@ indicating this. The emeritus member is then
added to the new member ballot at the next membership election.
Things to work out:
1. Where to we record the nomination (i.e. how do we make sure it is not
forgotten)
2. What do we put in the nomination statement
@Phil: discuss on board-chat exact process involving email to
secretary@ to request reinstatement
B. VP, Data Privacy
Chris Mattmann resigned. Jim Jagielski has volunteered for that role.
@Mark: prepare description of VP, Data Privacy for members@
C. Invitation to join the Jakarta EE Working Group as a Guest Member
The ASF has been invited to join the Jakarta EE Working Group. From
David Blevins post to board@, this would entail:
- Fees: none
- Legal: Apache Foundation to join the Eclipse Foundation as an
Associate Member,
https://www.eclipse.org/membership/become_a_member/ Apache
Foundation to join the Jakarta EE Working Group as a Guest Member,
https://www.eclipse.org/org/workinggroups/about.php
- Representatives required: none
@Mark: discuss Jakarta EE proposal on mail list TBD
@Phil: discuss potential benefits regarding public relations
D. FY24 budget
FY19 FY23 FY24
Income
Total Public Donations 140 180 190
Total Sponsorship 1,299 1,859 1,959
Total Programs 14 28 31
Conference Sponsorships 184 0 184
Interest Income 14 4 2
---- ---- ----
Total Income 1,651 2,071 2,366
Expense
Infrastructure 966 1,099 1,126
Program Expenses 4 27 32
Publicity 238 387 333
Brand Management 98 225 143
Conferences 245 60 245
Travel Assistance 65 25 65
Treasury 46 61 64
Fundraising 208 223 234
General & Administrative 16 44 12
Chairman's Discretionary 10 10 10
---- ---- ----
Total Expense 1,896 2,161 2,264
Net -245 -90 102
Cash 2,016 595 2,142
Notes:
* Units are in thousands of dollars US.
* FY19 income/expense represents budget authorization, not actuals
FY19 Cash, however, represents current (conservative) projections
and does not include the Pineapple fund.
* FY23 column is for informational purposes only
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Phil: work with infrastructure (Greg) on plans for projects with
extraordinary requirements
[ Action Items 2018-05-16 ]
Status: Complete: we agreed to include a budget for project-specific
requests and give infra responsibility for allocating it.
* Rich: pursue a report for Lucene.Net
[ Lucene.Net 2018-09-19 ]
Status: I dropped the ball on this, and will work on it now. It
appears that they have received messages from Isabel (no
response) and Ted (last month). Ted's message received a
response from Prescott, who suggested that it might be time
for the attic.
* Roman: is this project still viable?
[ Stanbol 2018-09-19 ]
Status:
* Roman: help the project with their request to add new pmc/committers
[ Xalan 2018-09-19 ]
Status:
* Brett: follow up with Cocoon to encourage a release
[ Cocoon 2018-11-21 ]
Status: only sent initial mail on 16 Jan
* Rich: follow up with the PMC and get a report next month
[ Hama 2018-11-21 ]
Status: Done
* Rich: pursue a report for Open Climate Workbench
[ Open Climate Workbench 2018-11-21 ]
Status: OCW reported in December.
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 12:07 p.m. (Pacific)
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Mark Thomas]
* ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
None.
* OPERATIONS
Responded to the following queries, liaising with projects as required:
- Approved use of marks for Flink Forward China
- Approved use of logos in a book on Apache MAVEN
- Approved use of images from Apache TINKERPOP in training material
- Updated link policy to be explicit that http, https or protocol
relative links were acceptable for required links and switched to
the recommended relative links for the policy page
- Approved use of logos for a website offering services for the
associated projects
Provided input to the next 5-year budget round.
* REGISTRATIONS
Started the process to register IGNITE in the EU and China.
Started to work with Apache ICEBERG on trademark transfer.
* INFRINGEMENTS
Work continues to address a number of potential infringements.
A number of EU applications that conflicted with our FLEX registration
have been successfully challenged resulting in amendments to those
applications to avoid the conflicts.
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Daniel Ruggeri]
Fundraising continues to support and add value to the foundation and KAM is
executing on the tasks for a graceful exit. His work will be divided up among
a combination of increased hours for HALO, new work for Virtual and a
freelancer is being sought for event fundraising.
Our monthly committee meetings continue with our last meeting on Jan 10th. New
meetings will be standing meetings on the 2nd Thursday of the month. The time
of day is being discussed by the committee.
There is no major change in event fundraising to report beyond talks continue
and final prospectuses are needed for the ACNA, ACEU and Chicago Roadshow
events.
Financially, we continue to add more sponsors and fundraising goals are being
met or exceeded. With the ASF running under budget, gaining more sponsors and
some early sponsor payments, we are now $708K ahead of budget based on Net
Income for the Fiscal Year to Date.
With the current budget and reserves, we have jumped from 10.5 to 15.5 months
of operational monies in our operating accounts. Adding the additional monies
from Pineapple and the restricted donation earmarked for the endowment we
could consider that an additional 9.3 months in reserve by our calculations.
Finally, total cash as of Dec 31st, 2018 is $3,720.7K as compared to
$1,663.1K on Dec 31st 2017 representing a $2,057.6K increase in one year.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
[REPORT] ASF Marketing & Publicity - January 2019
I. Budget: we are on budget and on schedule. We have submitted our budget for
FY2020, with projections through FY2024. The budget has been augmented to
include a separate line item for promotional materials at third party events
supported by Apache Community Development.
II. Cross-committee Liaison: Sally Khudairi has begun to work on restructuring
and refining the strategy for ASF Fundraising, with thanks to co-VP Kevin
McGrail for his many efforts since the beginning of FY2018. Sally also
submitted her proposed process for recognizing non-technical contributions,
and will be working with Apache Community Development on its launch. The
latest "Success at Apache" post, "Accidentally Finding Awesome", has been
published at https://s.apache.org/e3is . We also published our first ASF
Sponsor case study, in collaboration with Bloomberg https://s.apache.org/jKNc.
The end-of-year summary, "Apache in 2018 - By The Digits", has been published
at https://s.apache.org/Apache2018Digits . Sally is also planning several
tactics for the ASF's 20th Anniversary, and has published a community-wide
survey on "The Apache Way To Me..." https://s.apache.org/oxTr (ongoing;
deadline 15 February 2019).
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the
newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this
timeframe:
- 8 January 2019 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Airflow™
as a Top-Level Project
- 12 December 2018 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Griffin™
as a Top-Level Project
IV. Informal Announcements: 7 items were published on the ASF "Foundation"
Blog. 4 Apache News Round-ups were issued, with a total of 234 weekly
summaries published to date. We tweeted 15 items, and have 51.3K followers on
Twitter. We posted 12 items on LinkedIn, which garnered more than 29.2K
organic impressions.
V. Future Announcements: 2 announcements are in development. Projects planning
to graduate from the Apache Incubator as well as PMCs wishing to announce
major project milestones and "Did You Know?" success stories are requested to
contact Sally at <press@apache.org> with at least 2-weeks' notice for proper
planning and execution.
VI. Media Relations: we responded to 3 media queries. The ASF received 1,189
press clips vs. last month's clip count of 1,385. Media coverage of Apache
projects yielded 1,697 press hits vs. last month's 2,955. ApacheCon received 6
press hits. We also worked with several corporates with strong ties to various
Apache projects on branding adherence as well as publishing blog posts in
support of milestone announcements. We are also helping a PMC with an issue
with an account on Twitter.
VII. Analyst Relations: we received no analyst queries during this time.
Apache was mentioned in 6 reports by Gartner; 2 reports by Forrester; 2
reports by 451 Research; and 6 reports by IDC.
VIII. Graphics: planning for promotional materials, assets, and Website
refresh for the ASF’s 20th Anniversary is underway. In addition, we are
beginning to work with Apache Roller on refining the look/feel of
blogs.apache.org.
IX. Events liaison: we have just kicked off marketing/promotional meetings
with Virtual for ApacheCon North America 2019, and have participated on
initial planning calls for ApacheCon Europe 2019.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 2 pre-paid press releases remaining in our
contract with GlobeNewswire, which will auto-renew through December 2019.
# # #
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [David Nalley]
General
=======
Infrastructure is operating as expected, and has no current issues to
bring to the attention of the President or the Board.
Finances
========
Infrastructure's 5-year budget forecast was completed, and is included
in this month's President's report.
Short Term Priorities
=====================
- Hire new people.
Long Range Priorities
=====================
- Move to Puppet 6. Most of the infrastructure currently runs on v3,
with a couple older systems still on v2. We have been lifting
non-puppet systems to v3 over the past two years, during our
migration away from ASF hardware into the cloud. v6 planning,
design, and initial implementation has been in-progress for about a
year (v5 for most of that, and v6 recently). This tooling will be
paired with upgrades to Ubuntu LTS 18.04 (most of our systems run on
LTS 16.04 and LTS 14.04). Rollout of v6/18.04 will begin this year.
General Activity
================
- Moved to Slack. The Infra team's locus of activity has relocated
from HipChat to Slack. Our users have been invited to the new chat
system for quick queries and requests.
- Completed migration away from zmanda backup software. All backups
are now rsync-based.
- Jenkins and its plugins were upgraded just before New Years. One of
the Jenkins master's drives went offline and was replaced. We had
eight minutes of downtime for the drive replacement, and two hours
while Jenkins started itself back up.
- Continued work on a new "hermes" (aka our core email transfer
agent). Our test system is now running on Puppet v6.
- Various refinements of our monitoring/status/paging systems with our
Slack setup and usage.
Git-Wip-US -> GitBox Migration
==============================
Migration from git-wip-us to gitbox was announced in November 2018,
starting with voluntary coordination between projects and infra, and
forced migration on February 7th for remaining projects.
During the current migration time frame, from November till now, around
65 projects have moved some 325 repositories across to gitbox
voluntarily, and coordinated with infra, so as to minimize downtime and
work disruption. As of January 15th, approximately 150 repositories,
covering 50 projects, remain on git-wip-us, while 1300 repositories,
covering 175 projects, are on gitbox. Thus, the split is ~90% of all
repositories on gitbox and 10% remaining on git-wip-us.
We have sent out an additional email to all remaining projects on
git-wip today (Tuesday Jan 15th), three weeks before the forced
migration, to see if we can coordinate migration with them on a
voluntary basis and in a non-disruptive way before the deadline.
On February 7th, we will conduct a mass migration of the remaining
repositories, as well as a major spring cleaning of repositories belong
to retired podlings or attic'ed TLPs.
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Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Conferences [Rich Bowen]
ApacheCon North America 2019 is progressing well, with planning
meetings happening with the producer, and both a timeline and a budget
being discussed.
The Chicago roadshow has been announced to project dev and user lists,
and the CFP opened.
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
Travel Assistance Report - January 2019
------------------------------------------------------
Event Activity
------------------
No events since the last report. No upcoming events. Next
planned events are ACNA and ACEU taking place in the next
financial year.
Financial
------------
Last week our 5 year plan budget as requested by the President
was submitted. No change in the next 5 years has been requested
and all remain steady at $65K per financial year. (To support 2 x
ApacheCon and up to 3 x smaller events)
TAC Membership
-----------------------
No changes to the TAC membership
General Activity
---------------------
We had received an inquiry from ASF folks involved in the ASF participation at
FOSDEM 2019.
They asked about the possibility of sending 2 folks - familiar with the ASF,
either already committers or regular contributors - to attend FOSDEM and help
spread the word about the ASF and its projects to a potential audience of over
5000 attendees while also themselves learning more about the Apache community
and help them and others further pursue our nonprofit mission. This could
involve attending sessions, staffing the ASF booth for periods of time and
generally being everywhere talking to as many people as possible during their
time there.
The financial aspect of it would be something like transport and accommodation
for 2 or 3 days for 2 people - these would ideally be within a train or short
flight away.
While we deemed it too late to get a proper review and approval process going
for FOSDEM 2019, we have begun discussions around 3rd party events and how TAC
can help people and in doing so help the foundation with its mission.
We have always had budget for non ApacheCon events ($15K for up to 3 x such
events) we have not moved forward on this and so we are starting to explore
what is possible - and acceptable to our 501c3 status.
I hope we can get this ironed out and have at least one event achieved
hopefully during this FY as we have plenty of budget left to do so.
Short/Medium Term Priorities
---------------------------------------
Work through getting a workflow and judging/scoring process in place to suit
non ApacheCon events.
Compile a list of non ApacheCon events that we should look to consider
supporting.
Continue the discussion on directed sponsorship Revisit the criteria for
accepting recipients for ApacheCon
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of Finance [Tom Pappas]
Nov 2018 VP Finance report. Not much activity for the month. Have
spent time assisting Fundraising and Sponsorship for event
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Attachment 8: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Nothing to report this month.
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Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Roman Shaposhnik]
Legal Affairs committee for the past month has been mostly business as usual
with an average number of LEGAL jiras coming in and requiring our attention.
Assistant V.P., Legal Affairs and other members of a legal committee have been
doing excellent job at triaging legal JIRAs and making sure we make progress
on addressing our backlog. We are currently at 28 open (compared to 24 last
month) JIRAs with the oldest dating back to Jan 2017.
While we seem to be keeping on top of day-to-day issues that come up, it must
be noted that JIRA count is creeping a bit up and a few things that were
expected to be resolved in the month of December and put to rest (e.g. mailing
list structure, binary releases and CCLAs) are still lingering. Hopefully the
month of January will see us getting a few of those across the finish line (I
hope to have a bit more time available to dedicate to making a dent in those).
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Attachment 10: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox]
Continued work on incoming security issues, keeping projects reminded
of outstanding issues, and general oversight and advice.
Stats for December 2018:
13 [license confusion]
6 [support request/question not security notification]
Security reports: 16 (last months: 34, 28, 32)
3 [fineract]
2 [zeppelin]
1 [ambari], [camel], [hadoop], [hc], [incubator/superset],
[jspwiki], [myfaces], [roller], [superset], [site], [tapestry]
In total, as of 1st January 2019, we're tracking 81 (last month:
93) open issues across 37 projects, median age 109 (last month:
78) days. 54 of those issues have CVE names assigned.
13 (last month: 7) of these issues, across 6 projects, are older
than 365 days.
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Attachment 11: Report from the VP of Data Privacy [Chris Mattmann]
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Accumulo Project [Michael Wall]
## Description:
- The Apache Accumulo sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust,
scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based
access control and customizable server-side processing. It is based on
Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop, Zookeeper,
and Thrift.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- There was 1 new release, Accumulo-2.0.0-alpha-1 since the last report [1]
to coincide with the Accumulo Summit which was held on Oct 15 [2].
- The PMC decided to stop using IRC and started a new channel on Slack for
communication with the community [3].
- There have been a few critical fixes warranting 1.9.3 release soon [4].
## Health report:
- The project remains healthy. Activity levels on mailing lists, issues and
pull requests remain constant.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 34 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Nick Felts on Thu Mar 22 2018
## Committer base changes:
- All Committers are also PMC members, see the PMC Changes section for
details
## Releases:
- accumulo-2.0.0-alpha-1 was released on Sat Oct 13 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Nothing significant in the figures
## Issue activity:
- 68 issues created [5] and 48 closed [6] across all the Accumulo repos since
the last report.
- 140 pull requests created [7] and 136 closed [8] across all the Accumulo
repos since the last report.
[1]: https://accumulo.apache.org/release/accumulo-2.0.0-alpha-1/
[2]: http://accumulosummit.com/
[3]: https://the-asf.slack.com/messages/CERNB8NDC
[4]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+label%3Av1.9.3
[5]:https://github.com/search?q=is:issue+created:2018-10-17..2019-01-16+repo:apache/accumulo+repo:apache/accumulo-website+repo:apache/accumulo-examples+repo:apache/accumulo-docker+repo:apache/accumulo-testing+repo:apache/accumulo-wikise arch+repo:apache/accumulo-proxy+repo:apache/accumulo-maven-plugin+repo:apache/accumulo-pig+repo:apache/accumulo-instamo-archetype+repo:apache/accumulo-bsp
[6]: https://github.com/search?q=is:issue+closed:2018-10-17..2019-01-16+repo:apache/accumulo+repo:apache/accumulo-website+repo:apache/accumulo-examples+repo:apache/accumulo-docker+repo:apache/accumulo-testing+repo:apache/accumulo-wikise arch+repo:apache/accumulo-proxy+repo:apache/accumulo-maven-plugin+repo:apache/accumulo-pig+repo:apache/accumulo-instamo-archetype+repo:apache/accumulo-bsp
[7]: https://github.com/search?q=is:pr+created:2018-10-17..2019-01-16+repo:apache/accumulo+repo:apache/accumulo-website+repo:apache/accumulo-examples+repo:apache/accumulo-docker+repo:apache/accumulo-testing+repo:apache/accumulo-wikise arch+repo:apache/accumulo-proxy+repo:apache/accumulo-maven-plugin+repo:apache/accumulo-pig+repo:apache/accumulo-instamo-archetype+repo:apache/accumulo-bsp
[8]: https://github.com/search?q=is:pr+closed:2018-10-17..2019-01-16+repo:apache/accumulo+repo:apache/accumulo-website+repo:apache/accumulo-examples+repo:apache/accumulo-docker+repo:apache/accumulo-testing+repo:apache/accumulo-wikise arch+repo:apache/accumulo-proxy+repo:apache/accumulo-maven-plugin+repo:apache/accumulo-pig+repo:apache/accumulo-instamo-archetype+repo:apache/accumulo-bsp
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder]
* Description
** Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source message-oriented
middleware. Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many cross language clients
and protocols, comes with easy to use enterprise integration patterns and
many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 2.0, AMQP 1.0, MQTT,
Stomp and REST.
* Activity
** ActiveMQ
*** Fixes and improvements on the redelivery policy (especially using
exponential backoff) in progress
*** New PoC to have better cloud support and features in progress, especially:
**** Add new discovery agent for network of brokers (zookeeper and hazelcast)
**** Evaluate adding replica support on top of kahadb
** ActiveMQ Artemis
*** Upcoming 2.7.0 Release to include following new features, above the normal
bug fixing and general improvements
**** Further significant AMQP Performance Improvement - ARTEMIS-2205
**** Continued progress on ActiveMQ 5.x feature gap -
http://activemq.apache.org/activemq-artemis-roadmap.html
***** Message Group reset via JMSXGroupSeq -1
***** Consumer Priorities
***** Advanced destination options
****** Consumers before Dispatch
****** Delay before Dispatch
**** QPID features Added
***** Custom LVQ Key
***** Non-Destructive Queue
** ActiveMQ Other
*** New website progress update
**** A small surge of activity late 2018
**** Design provided and key site structure
**** Site hosted: http://activemq.apache.org/activemq-website/index.html
**** Source: https://github.com/apache/activemq-website
**** A link on the current home page was added to the new site.
**** Next Stages to continue populating core pages with context, contributors
welcome.
* Releases
** ActiveMQ
*** 5.15.7 was released on Fri Oct 26 2018
*** 5.15.8 was released on Sun Nov 18 2018
** ActiveMQ Artemis
*** 2.6.3 was released on Sat Sep 8 2018
* Committer/PMC Changes
** Justin Graham Bertram was added to the PMC on Tue Nov 27 2018
** Michael André Pearce was added to the PMC on Thu Nov 08 2018
** Last PMC addition: Tue Nov 27 2018 (Justin Graham Bertram)
** Jamie Mark Goodyear was added as a committer on Tue Oct 30 2018
** Last committer addition: Tue Oct 30 2018 (Jamie Mark Goodyear)
** Currently 60 committers and 24 PMC members.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment C: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru]
## Description:
- Apache Airavata is a distributed system software framework to manage simple
to composite applications with complex execution and workflow patterns on
diverse computational resources.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- The community is active without any major concerns.
## Health report:
- The community remains active, expecting lot of activity early in the year
after a relative quiet last quarter of the year. Started on some
discussions to decrease the complexity of the code base and starting moving
security components into a separate repo -- anticipating pulling out some
general purpose components will help more focused contributors into the
project and easy navigability.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 24 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Wannipurage Dimuthu Upeksha on Mon Mar 05 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 38 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Eldho Mathulla at Mon Jul 23 2018
## Releases:
- We are severely behind on the releases. Have work going on in branches and
we hoped to make two to three releases by end of year but holiday season
ended up to slower as expected. We will urgently act on the releases this
month. Last release was 0.16 on Mon Jul 25 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 52 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 42 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment D: Report from the Apache Airflow Project [Bolke de Bruin]
## Description:
- Apache Airflow (or simply Airflow) is a platform to programmatically
author, schedule, and monitor workflows. When workflows are defined as
code, they become more maintainable, versionable, testable, and
collaborative. Use Airflow to author workflows as directed acyclic graphs
(DAGs) of tasks. The Airflow scheduler executes your tasks on an array of
workers while following the specified dependencies. Rich command line
utilities make performing complex surgeries on DAGs a snap. The rich user
interface makes it easy to visualize pipelines running in production,
monitor progress, and troubleshoot issues when needed.
## Issues:
## Activity:
- Apache Airflow just graduated from the incubator. We are in the process of
moving our assets to top level.
## Health report:
- We have grown from 580 contributors to 674 since October 2018
- Since the November release 729 commits have been made
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 committers.
- No changes (the PMC was established in the last 3 months)
## Releases:
- Latest release, v1.10.1, is from November 2018. This was during incubation.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@airflow.apache.org:
- 578 subscribers (up 24 in the last 3 months)
## JIRA activity:
- 476 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 325 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment E: Report from the Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney]
## Description:
Anything To Triples (Any23) is a library, a web service and a command line
tool that extracts structured data in RDF format from a variety of Web
documents.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
The Any23 project have secured an agreement with the Tika project to share a
VM currently being used to identify performance regressions over large
datasets. We will most likely pursue this as a GSoC this year. Activyity over
last quarter was low. There is one bug blocking the 2.3 release.
## Health report:
Any23 is in good health with a lot of progress made last year. We will boost
community interest with the 2.3 release. Number of tickets closed/resolved in
Jira indicates healthy community.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Hans Brende on Sun Feb 25 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 15 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Hans Brende at Wed Feb 21 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.2 on Mon Mar 26 2018
## Mailing list activity:
With the holidays over fall and winter things have been quiet. dev@ still sees
primary communication.
- dev@any23.apache.org:
- 37 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 280 emails sent to list (561 in previous quarter)
- user@any23.apache.org:
- 50 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 19 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 26 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Apex Project [Thomas Weise]
## Description:
Apache Apex is a distributed, large-scale, high-throughput, low-latency, fault
tolerant, unified stream and batch processing platform.
## Issues:
Continued concern regarding project health. See activity.
## Status/Activity:
The project is practically dormant. No code contributions since June 2018, no
JIRA activity since September 2018. 1 thread on dev@ and user@ each since last
report. The single discussion thread on the dev@ list was initiated by PMC
member to gauge attic prospect for the project. Several PMC members are not in
favor of attic move. The thread sparked a lively discussion about the future
of the project. There are at least 3 PMC members to provide oversight. 2
participants indicated the possibility of activity / code contribution in the
future.
## Community:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Chinmay Kolhatkar on 2018-05-16
- Currently 41 committers.
- No new committer added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Ananth Gundabattula on 2017-11-03
## Releases:
Following are the most recent releases:
- Core 3.7.0 released 2018-04-19
- Malhar 3.8.0 released 2017-11-12
-----------------------------------------
Attachment G: Report from the Apache Aries Project [Christian Schneider]
## Description:
- Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an
enterprise OSGi application programming model.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Several feature and bugfix releases
- Aries Remote Service Admin 1.13.0 is now the reference implementation for
the Remote Service Admin spec again
- JAX-RS whiteboard is well received in the OSGi community
- We started a new subproject Aries Journaled Events which aims at providing
a simple API and wrapper implementations for journaled messaging like
Apache Kafka. It allows to use kafka features without directly depending on
it.
## Health report:
Health of the project is good. We have a low number of active committers but
activity is stable and a few new people are becoming active.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 41 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Carlos Sierra Andrés on Tue Jul 03 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 55 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Tom De Wolf at Wed May 03 2017
## Releases:
- rsa-1.13.0 was released on Fri Oct 05 2018
- spifly-1.1 was released on Fri Nov 02 2018
- spifly-1.2 was released on Fri Nov 23 2018
- blueprint-cm-1.3.1 was released on Fri Dec 07 2018
- blueprint-core-1.10.1 was released on Fri Dec 07 2018
- jax-rs-whiteboard-1.0.2 was released on Fri Dec 14 2018
- proxy-impl-1.1.3 was released on Tue Dec 11 2018
- jpa-2.7.1 was released on Thu Dec 06 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 37 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 42 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment H: Report from the Apache Arrow Project [Jacques Nadeau]
## Description:
- Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory data. It
specifies a standardized language-independent columnar memory format for flat
and hierarchical data, organized for efficient analytic operations on modern
hardware. It also provides computational libraries and zero-copy streaming
messaging and interprocess communication. Languages currently supported
include C, C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, MATLAB, Python, R, Ruby, and Rust.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- The project received 3 code donations in the last quarter: a native C#
library, a Parquet integration library for Ruby, and a native Parquet
implementation in Rust
- The community is considering a donation of DataFusion an in-memory query
engine built on top of the Rust Arrow library
- Community is actively working on 0.12 release
- Community has discussed starting to do time-based releases approximately
every two months
## Health report:
- The project is very healthy, with a growing number and diversity of
contributors
## PMC changes:
- Currently 25 PMC members.
- Krisztian Szucs was added to the PMC on Wed Nov 07 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 36 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Romain Francois was added as a committer on Fri Nov 09 2018
- Sebastien Binet was added as a committer on Thu Nov 08 2018
- Yosuke Shiro was added as a committer on Thu Nov 08 2018
## Releases:
- 0.11.1 was released on Mon Oct 22 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 712 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 601 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache AsterixDB Project [Till Westmann]
Description:
Apache AsterixDB is a scalable big data management system (BDMS) that provides
storage, management, and query capabilities for large collections of
semi-structured data.
Activity:
- Development and discussions are active, the community is healthy and
engaged.
- "SQL++ for SQL Users" by Don Chamberlin was published (ISBN: 0692184503). It
is based on AsterixDB’s SQL++ implementation.
Issues:
- There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
PMC/Committership changes:
- Hussain Towaileb was added as a committer on 2018-12-21
- The last committer added was Hussain Towaileb on 2018-12-21.
- The last PMC member added was Xikui Wang on 2018-02-02.
Releases:
- Apache AsterixDB 0.9.4 was released on 2018-10-02
- Apache Hyracks 0.3.4 was released on 2018-10-02
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Henk P. Penning]
## Description:
PMC Attic is responsible for the oversight of projects which otherwise would
not have oversight.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Attic retired project Tiles, with active help from the former PMC Chair.
Work in progress for Polygene.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 20 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Herve Boutemy on Sun Jul 19 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 24 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Jan Iversen at Thu Mar 16 2017
## Releases:
- No release can be made in Attic
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache Aurora Project [Jake Farrell]
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Thiruvalluvan M. G.]
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin]
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache Calcite Project [Francis Chuang]
## Description:
Apache Calcite is a highly customizable framework for parsing and planning
queries on data in a wide variety of formats. It allows database-like access,
and in particular a SQL interface and advanced query optimization, for data
not residing in a traditional database.
Avatica is a sub-project within Calcite and provides a framework for building
local and remote JDBC and ODBC database drivers. Avatica has an independent
release schedule and its own repository.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Development and mailing list activity is steady for both Calcite and its
Avatica sub-project.
Calcite 1.18 was released towards the end of December with significant
enhancements to the SQL dialect: JSON functions, linear regression functions
and the WITHIN GROUP clause for aggregate functions.
Avatica 1.13 was released in early December and included numerous bug fixes,
upgraded dependencies and docker images for the HSQLDB flavor of Avatica.
The PMC Chair was switched from Michael Mior to Francis Chuang on Dec 21 2018,
following the project's tradition of rotating the PMC chair each year.
We continue to have a steady amount of contributions from new and existing
community members.
All of our git repositories (calcite, calcite-avatica and calcite-avatica-go)
were migrated to gitbox.
Finally, the project received a lot of excellent contributions, but a number
of them were not able to be merged into the Calcite 1.18 release due to pull
requests not being reviewed in a timely manner.
## Health report:
Activity levels on mailing lists, git and JIRA are normal for both Calcite and
Avatica.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 19 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kevin Risden on Mon Jul 09 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 35 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Andrei Sereda at Fri Sep 14 2018
## Releases:
- 1.18.0 was released on Fri Dec 21 2018
- avatica-1.13.0 was released on Tue Dec 04 2018
- avatica-go-3.2.0 was released on Mon Sep 17 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 154 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 105 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment O: Report from the Apache CarbonData Project [Liang Chen]
## Description:
- The Apache CarbonData is an indexed columnar store solution for fast
analytics on Big Data platforms (including Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark,
among others) to help speed up queries an order of magnitude faster over
petabytes of data, with the aim of using a unified file format to satisfy
all kinds of data analysis cases.
## Board comment in the last report:
rb : A reprise of a comment from an earlier month: You refer to active
contributors from 30+ organizations, and 130 contributors, but you then
mention only 19 committers. Who are these contributors, and are you actively
considering which of them may become committers? Don't make the mistake of
setting the bar so high that these contributors go away feeling that they have
not received the recognition that they've earned!
reply : Thanks for the kind reminder. Sure, we will actively identify the
active contributors to become committers. Last month,the CarbonData community
had 1 new committer and 1 new PMC.
## Issues:
- There are no new issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Community is pretty active, contributors who are from many different
organizations , and now the number of contributors is more than 140+, we are
receiving around 200 pull requests per month.
- We are focus on the two releases(1.5.1 and 1.5.2) in the last 3 months,
which provided many significant features, such as : integration with spark
2.3.2 and hadoop 3.1.1, improve scan performance, support modify column name
after table created, support C++ Interfaces with multi-threads to Query
Data from CarbonData, further optimize complex data type, support gzip
compressor to get better compression ratio etc.
- The community helped many users to test carbondata and deploy carbondata in
production via mailing list.
- Meetup(Carbondata+Spark) be organized in shenzhen on 1st Dec, 2018 , the
onsite attendees is more than 100 persons, the online attendees(internet) is
more than 300 persons.
## Health Report:
- The project is healthy, community keep active in all the various
categories(dev mailing list, JIRAs, and pull requests).
## Releases:
- 1.5.0 was released on Tue Oct 16 2018
- 1.5.1 was released on Wed Dec 05 2018
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- Chuanyin Xu was added to the PMC on Mon Dec 31 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 20 committers.
- Bo Xu was added as a committer on Sat Dec 08 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Mailing list activity stays at a high level
- dev@carbondata.apache.org:
- 181 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 301 emails sent to list in the last 3 months
- issues@carbondata.apache.org:
- 9 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 7922 emails sent to list (9974 in the previous cycle)
- user@carbondata.apache.org: (actually, many users get used to discussing
in dev mailinglist)
- 68 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 10 emails sent to list
## JIRA activity:
- 236 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 160 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment P: Report from the Apache Celix Project [Pepijn Noltes]
## Description:
- Dynamic service framework for C and C++
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Ongoing work on adding a C++ API for most of the framework/utils
libraries.
- Ongoing work on improving the pubsub API.
- A Nanomsg pubsub implementation has been added (MIT licensed).
- Repositories relocated from git-wip-us to gitbox.
- A redesign for the Celix website has been performed using Jekyll as
static website generator.
- The community has voted (and passed) on moving from the Apache CMS to
the gitpubsub
approach for its website.
## Health report:
- The mailing list activity is normal for Apache Celix.
- The current jira activity is a bit low compared with our normal jira
activity. However, work is
being done and some issues will be closed soon, which will result in a
normal jira activity again.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Erjan Altena on Mon Jun 25 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 10 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Roy Lenferink at Thu Feb 09 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.1.0 on Tue Jan 30 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@celix.apache.org:
- 54 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 26 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang]
## Description:
- Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring
large distributed systems.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Source code repository has been moved to gitbox.
## Health report:
- Chukwa project has little development happening for docker container.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Alan Cabrera on Tue Oct 15 2013
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Sreepathi Prasanna at Mon Mar 16 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.8.0 on Fri Jul 15 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@chukwa.apache.org:
- 88 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 10 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
- user@chukwa.apache.org:
- 151 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache Commons Project [Gary D. Gregory]
## Description:
- Apache Commons is an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java
components.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Activity is good with the release of 4 components.
## Health report:
- The project is healthy but suffers from a lack of committer and PMC
growth.
- Releases for existing components are in the planning stage for Pool,
DBCP, IO, and Numbers.
- We are discussing the addition of a new component, mailing activity is good
and JIRAs are addressed in a timely manner for most components.
- We are in the process of migrting most component to GitBox.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 38 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rob Tompkins on Fri Jun 30 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 147 committers.
- Maxim Solodovnik was added as a committer on Tue Dec 18 2018
## Releases:
- CONFIGURATION-2.4 was released on Sun Oct 28 2018
- FILEUPLOAD-1.4 was released on Thu Dec 27 2018
- RNG-1.2 was released on Tue Dec 11 2018
- TEXT-1.6 was released on Mon Oct 15 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 138 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 100 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills]
## Description:
- Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running MapReduce
and Apache Spark pipelines on Apache Hadoop.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Had a few issues files this quarter related to extensions/fixes to better
integrate with object stores (like S3) at the end of MapReduce jobs with a
patch promised from a developer who has made some small contributions to
the project in the past and looks like an excellent candidate to become
a committer in the near future.
## Health report:
- The needs of the community are largely unchanged and are mainly focused
on integrating legacy MapReduce jobs with cloud platforms that only use
HDFS as a caching layer while persisting data for the long-term in object
storage; there isn't much other work to do on the core of the Crunch system
aside from these compatibility updates and the occasional bug fix.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Micah Whitacre on Wed Apr 02 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 15 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Stephen Durfey at Fri Feb 09 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.15.0 on Sat Feb 25 2017
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp]
## Description: Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you
build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and
JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP,
XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as
HTTP, JMS or JBI.
There are also two sub-projects that leverage CXF:
Fediz - Fediz helps you to secure your web applications via the standard
WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile.
DOSGi - is the reference implementation of the Distribution Provider component
of the OSGi Remote Services Specification
## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
The main activity this quarter was centered around Java 11 support.
We're hoping to get 3.3 out in the next week or two which will have initial
support for Java 11. The new Maven coordinates for the Jakarta based
J2EE specs have caused some confusion and concern which did start
a few discussions.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 25 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Dennis Kieselhorst on Thu Nov 02 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 43 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Alexey Markevich at Fri Dec 29 2017
## Releases:
- 3.2.7 was released on Sun Oct 28 2018
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache DataFu Project [Matthew Hayes]
## Description:
- DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and Pig UDFs to
perform data analysis. It provides functions for common statistics tasks
(e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream sessionization, and set and
bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop jobs for incremental data
processing in MapReduce.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Improvements and bug fixes for the new Spark subproject have beens been
contributed (from Eyal Allweil and new contributor Ohad Raviv).
- Left outer join and dedup macros were contributed.
- Version 1.5.0 released.
## PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- No new PMC members added since podling graduation in February 2018.
- Last PMC member added during incubation was Eyal Allweil in July 2016.
## Committer base changes: - Currently 18 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added since podling graduation in February 2018.
- Last committer added during incubation was Eyal Allweil in July 2016.
## Releases:
- 1.5.0 was released on Mon Jan 07 2019
## JIRA activity:
- 0 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache DB Project [Bryan Pendleton]
Report from the Apache DB Project [Bryan Pendleton]
## Description:
The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects:
o Derby : a relational database implemented entirely in Java.
o JDO : focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility
testing of Java Data Object implementations providing data
persistence.
o Torque : an object-relational mapper for Java.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
The Derby subproject has finished development of its new Java 9 Modules
support. Discussion and planning is underway to produce a 10.15.1
release of Derby in early 2019.
## Health report:
The Apache DB subprojects are mature and generally quiet.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 43 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Matthew Adams on Sun Jan 19 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 46 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Georg Kallidis at Sat May 05 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was Derby-10.14.2.0 on Wed May 02 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 19 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 11 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment W: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Stefan Seelmann]
## Description:
The Apache Directory TLP consists of the following sub-projects:
- ApacheDS: An extensible and embeddable directory server entirely
written in Java, which has been certified LDAPv3
compatible by the Open Group. Besides LDAP it supports
Kerberos 5 and the Change Password Protocol.
- LDAP API: An ongoing effort to provide an enhanced LDAP API, as a
replacement for JNDI and the existing LDAP API (jLdap
and Mozilla LDAP API). This is a "schema aware" API
with some convenient ways to access all types of LDAP
servers.
- Studio: A complete directory tooling platform intended to be
used with any LDAP server however it is particularly
designed for use with ApacheDS. It is an Eclipse RCP
application, composed of several Eclipse (OSGi) plugins.
- Fortress: A standards-based access management system that provides
role-based access control, delegated administration and
password policy services with an LDAP backend.
- Kerby: An implementation of Kerberos v5 protocol and contains
various tools to access and manage kerberos principals
and keytabs. It provides a rich, intuitive and
interoperable implementation, library, KDC and various
facilities that integrates PKI, OTP and token (OAuth2)
as desired in modern environments such as cloud, Hadoop
and mobile.
- Mavibot: An embeddable key-value database library with MVCC
(Multi Version Concurrency Control) support.
- SCIMple: An implementation of SCIM v2.0 specification.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
Per sub-project:
- ApacheDS: low activity: Mostly changes due to LDAP API refactoring.
Nice contribution to upgrade cache library received.
Release planned.
- LDAP API: good activity: Heavy refactoring of request/response
encoding. Improvements in TLS certificate error handling.
Contribution to upgrade commons library received. Release
planned.
- Studio: good activity: Removal of JNDI abstraction layer and
bugfixes. Release planned.
- Fortress: good activity: Release of 2.0.3. Added JSON/REST
interface and started work on a new web UI.
- Kerby: low activity: Release preparations for 2.0.0 finished,
issues detected during vote are already resolved
- Mavibot: no activity
- SCIMple: low activity: Not much activity after code contribution
and inital release process discussion.
## Health report:
Overall development activity (commits, development related mails,
resolved issues, releases) was lower than previous quarter. There
is no specific reason, just less time developers could spend on
the project.
The new SCIMple sub-project didn't have a good start. After the
code contribution there was almost no activity from the initial
contributors. Instead two bugfix releases of the old project were
created. On the other hand new people are interested. All in all
not alarming yet, but the PMC needs to continue to give advice
and guidance to the new sub-project.
After long time a new committer was voted in.
In good old tradition the PMC decided to rotate the chairman, see
related resolution.
The PMC feels the project is healthy.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 19 PMC members.
- Last PMC addition was Radovan Semancik on Sat Sep 29 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 58 committers.
- Lothar Haeger was added as a committer on Mon Dec 17 2018
## Releases:
- Apache Fortress 2.0.3: was released on Mon Nov 12 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Lower activiy level than previous quarter.
## JIRA activity:
- 42 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 21 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment X: Report from the Apache Fineract Project [Vishwas Babu A J]
## Description:
Apache Fineract (\’fīn-,ә-,rakt\) is an open source system for core banking as
a platform. Fineract provides a reliable, robust, and affordable solution for
entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and service providers to offer
financial services to the world’s 2 billion underbanked and unbanked.
## Issues:
The Fineract community maintains two active projects Fineract 1.x - Current
generation product which is widely used FIneract-CN (including microservices
front end UI) - Next Generation framework which is still under active
development and has been officially released Release management on Fineract
1.x was largely led by contributors associated with "The Mifos Initiative".
For 2019, the indications are that these contributors shall be shifting their
attention to Fineract-CN. The PMC shall be closely monitoring the impact of
the same on the ability of the community to continue shipping timely releases
and responding to security issues raised around Fineract 1.x.
Signs of disengagement have been observed within the community due to lack of
clarity on the long term plans around Fineract 1.x and on-going delays in
releasing the initial version of Fineract-CN. Committers are initiating work
on publishing a roadmap for Fineract-CN which would answer key questions like
"would Fineract-CN be a drop-in replacement for Fineract 1.* ?" and provide
target timelines for key feature availability (and possibly feature parity
with commonly used modules in Fineract 1.x) on Fineract-CN.
## Activity:
Fineract 1.x A major release (1.2) has been shipped and committers are working
on shipping version 1.3 targeted for the 2nd week of January 2019
Fineract-CN Ongoing activity led by Isaac Kamga around improving build time
and ensuring license compliance in preparation for an initial release.
## Health report:
Both active projects continue to remain healthy.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- Mexina Daniel was added to the PMC on Tue Oct 30 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Mark van Veen was added as a committer on Mon Oct 22 2018
- James Dailey was added as a committer on Fri Oct 05 2018
- Cabrel Kemfang was added as a committer on Fri Oct 26 2018
## Releases:
- Fineract 1.2.0 was released on Thu Dec 06 2018
## Mailing list activity:
The user list has been merged into the more active dev list, which explains
the slight uptick in activity observed here.
- dev@fineract.apache.org:
- 277 subscribers (up 13 in the last 3 months):
- 462 emails sent to list (440 in previous quarter)
- issues@fineract.apache.org:
- 16 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 781 emails sent to list (258 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
Fineract 1.X Slight uptick in issue creation and marked increase in issue
resolution
- 27 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 64 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months Fineract CN Marked
decrease in both issue creation and resolution
- 12 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 10 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Flex Project [Tom Chiverton]
## Description:
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based
applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Activity on mailing list among the users stayed the same as in previous three
months. We are taking care if users have problems with downloading SDK in case
of changes related to MD5 signature on Adobe side. There is an ongoing
trademark issue that the PMC and trademarks are dealing with.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 47 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Olaf Krüger on Mon Aug 28 2017
- Scott Guthmann stepped down from the PMC due to changing careers
- Tom Chiverton has posted at 2018-12-12 at private@ that he wants to step
aside as chair
- The community has proposed Olaf Krüger as new chair
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 69 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Greg Dove at Wed Sep 07 2016
## Releases:
- Apache Flex SDK 4.16.1 on 2017-11-22
- Apache Flex Installer 3.3.2 on 2018-07-09.
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Fluo Project [Keith Turner]
## Description:
- Apache Fluo is a distributed processing system built on Apache Accumulo.
Fluo users can easily setup workflows that execute cross node transactions
when data changes. These workflows enable users to continuously join new
data into large existing data sets with low latency while avoiding
reprocessing all data.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- A good bit of recent activity is focused on getting Fluo to work well with
the upcoming Accumulo 2.0 release and the recent Hadoop 3 release.
- An Apache Slack channel was created for Fluo.
## Health report:
- 38 commits from 5 committers and 1 contributors [10/11-01/08]
- Issues and pull request : opened 47 and closed 45 [10/11-01/08]
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kenneth Mcfarland on Mon Mar 19 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kenneth Mcfarland at Thu Dec 07 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was fluo-recipes-1.2.0 on Mon Mar 05 2018
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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Romain Manni-Bucau]
## Description:
- Apache Geronimo is an umbrella project for JakartaEE/JavaEE, container
tools and Microprofile implementations.
## Issues:
- None
## Activity:
- A lot of activity happens in Microprofile land. This is mainly going though
JIRA, releases and the lists. We are mainly in a stabilisation period for
most subprojects and refactoring for a few others.
- We get some activity to make the subsite dedicated to microprofile ASF
compliant and prime-time ready
## Health report:
- Most Microprofile implementations got bugfixes
- Safeguard got rewritten to embrace CDI design and be more flexible
- We finally released our Microprofile aggregator project and our custom
distribution "utilda"
## PMC changes:
- Currently 39 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Raymond Augé on Thu Aug 30 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 69 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Łukasz Dywicki at Thu Aug 16 2018
## Releases:
- config-1.2.1 was released on Fri Dec 21 2018
- health-1.0.1 was released on Fri Dec 21 2018
- jwt-auth-1.0.1 was released on Fri Dec 21 2018
- metrics-1.0.1 was released on Fri Dec 21 2018
- metrics-1.0.2 was released on Sun Jan 06 2019
- microprofile-aggregator-1.0.0 was released on Fri Dec 21 2018
- openapi-1.0.3 was released on Sun Jan 06 2019
- opentracing-1.0.1 was released on Fri Dec 21 2018
- safeguard-1.2.0 was released on Fri Dec 21 2018
- xbean-4.12 was released on Thu Nov 01 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Nothing special here.
- dev@geronimo.apache.org:
- 325 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 342 emails sent to list (350 in previous quarter)
- geronimo-tck@geronimo.apache.org:
- 41 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months)
- scm@geronimo.apache.org:
- 90 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 94 emails sent to list (92 in previous quarter)
- tck-commits@geronimo.apache.org:
- 5 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- user@geronimo.apache.org:
- 421 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (10 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 26 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 26 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Griffin Project [William Guo]
## Description:
- Apache Griffin is an open source Data Quality solution for Big Data, which
supports both batch and streaming mode. It offers an unified process to
measure your data quality from different perspectives, helping you build
trusted data assets, therefore boost your confidence for your business.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Griffin PMC has completed migration of code/site Apache gitbox repository.
- Griffin has finished release 0.4.0 including bug fixing and enhancement.
## Health report:
- The mails and commits activity are as good as usual.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members, no change.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 17 committers, no change.
## Releases:
- 0.4.0 was released on Fri Jan 05, 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@griffin.apache.org<mailto:dev@griffin.apache.org>:
- 77 subscribes
- 284 emails sent by 29 people, divided into 143 topics in September.
- 393 emails sent by 44 people, divided into 66 topics in October.
- 205 emails sent by 48 people, divided into 43 topics in November.
- 159 emails sent by 36 people, divided into 32 topics in December.
## JIRA activity:
- 21 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 19 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli]
The Apache™ Hadoop® project develops open-source software for reliable,
scalable, distributed computing.
GENERAL
- Cloudera and Hortonworks who employ committers and PMC of this project have
merged. This merger is going to reduce community diversity w.r.t
contributors/reviewers/committers/PMC members.
- The latest two Hadoop releases are done/being done by new release-managers.
This is helping spread around release responsibilities further.
- Apache Hadoop git repository moved from git-wip-us server to
gitbox.apache.org per the larger ASF INFRA changes
- Community is making progress on Java 11. With faster Java updates from
Oracle, Community is looking at how to track better this moving target of
Java support.
RELEASES
- Apache Hadoop 2.9.2 was released on Sun Nov 18 2018
- Apache Hadoop Ozone 0.3.0-alpha was released onThu Nov 22 2018
- Apache Hadoop 3.2.0 release is being voted, some security issues held up the
release.
COMMUNITY
## PMC changes:
- Currently 101 PMC members.
- New PMC members since last report: 3
- Haibo Chen was added to the PMC on Mon Nov 19 2018
- Iñigo Goiri was added to the PMC on Thu Dec 13 2018
- Yiqun Lin was added to the PMC on Mon Nov 19 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 193 committers.
- New committers since last report: 3
- Shashikant Banerjee was added as a committer on Thu Oct 11 2018
- Boton Huang was added as a committer (previously a branch committer) on
Thu Oct 16 2018
- Suma Shivaprasad was added as a committer on Mon Nov 19 2018
## JIRA Activity
- 1543 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1209 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Mailing list subscriptions & activity:
Steady
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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Hama Project [Chia-Hung Lin]
## Description:
- Apache Hama is a framework for Big Data analytics based on the Bulk
Synchronous Parallel paradigm
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- HAMA-1005 umbrella ticket is created.
## Health report:
- Mailing list is in low traffic.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Behroz Sikander on Mon Feb 01 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 committers.
- Last committer addition was YoungWoo Kim at Sun May 20 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was hama-0.7.1 on Sun Mar 13 2016
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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache HAWQ Project [Lei Chang]
## Description:
HAWQ is a Hadoop native SQL query engine that combines the key technological
advantages of MPP database with the scalability and convenience of Hadoop.
HAWQ reads data from and writes data to HDFS natively. HAWQ delivers
industry-leading performance and linear scalability. It provides users the
tools to confidently and successfully interact with petabyte range data sets.
HAWQ provides users with a complete, standards compliant SQL interface.
## Issues:
None
## Activity:
1) In progress of adding ORC support for 2.5.0.0 release.
- New Feature: Support write ORC storage format.
- Bug fixes.
2) Talks:
- FastCompany 2018: Innovation by Design Awards
- China Electronic Chamber of Commerce 2018
- China Software Conference 2018: HAWQ won the excellent database of year
awards and enclosed in book <<Data Wing>>
## PMC changes:
Last PMC addition was Amy Bai Kevin Monroe on April 24, 2018, Currently 36 PMC
members
## Committer base changes:
Last committer addition was Shubham Sharma on April 25, 2018, Currently 45
committers
## Releases: Last release was 2.4.0.0 on Sep 23, 2018
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AF: Report from the Apache HBase Project [Misty Linville]
## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.
hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.
## Issues:
## Activity:
There have been lots of interesting discussions on the dev@ mailing list.
Highlights:
- Discussion is ongoing about plans to move to Gitbox and ways the project can
accommodate users who prefer to contribute using Github.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3496568d 6cc002f74f5c3bcce46ed44b7ee9e90d7d53af2c65b6f785@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- An interesting discussion occurred about the frequency of releases in the
2.1.x line
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/222aacbf7 4d9788287ef5606fe66a06c1a3aa31a299a469d124a5ee0@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E).
The discussion included a sub-discussion about what it will take to separate
the hbck took from the main project, and another sub-discussion about
time-based releases and release cadence in general. It's worth a read.
- A proposal to retire the 1.3 line resulted in Francis Liu stepping in to be
the release manage for the line, because his team relies on that branch.
Francis is aiming for a quarterly release cadence. In the same discussion,
Andrew Purtell and Sean Busbey discuss how they have been managing 1.2 and
1.4 lines, and plans for the 1.5 line.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/dd655a21 cb5eb23a983648d71f5d08ca567b110ab9128a70f06eddcc@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- Another discussion of 1.x release cadences was started by Andrew Purtell,
including specific plans for the 1.5 branch.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e18266c8 aa1e1406f3e652a3a1ee52d498aaad506537621cc754499b@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- Another interesting discussion resulted in improved understanding and
documentation of the process for editing and rebuilding pages on the HBase
website that don't result from building the documentation.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/18010d08 97752db7f9d91f4f75694831a7ed9db28739ce4a91e546e4@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- Speaking of 1.5, the first snapshot is available for testing.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/bbf7b479 20da532535bb8ce493df3265fd91211b227f681b2cc3c3a2@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
Josh Elser started a discussion on the PMC list about the definition of and
parameters for an HBaseCon event, who can run one, and other guidelines,
informed by his work organizing HBaseCon US 2018. He's working on some
project-facing documentation, which promises to be helpful for future
organizers of HBase-related events worldwide.
The HBase project is working toward the goal of more frequent minor releases
and fewer unprompted maintenance releases. In total this quarter, HBase had 8
releases over this quarter, across 5 release lines.
Another goal, spanning several quarters, is to solicit more non-binding votes
on release candidates, as non-binding votes are one signal of broader
community engagement. Here are a few examples:
- HBase 1.3.3 RC0 had 40% non-binding votes
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9e3a472e 142faa9a48ed5ab0e1e1baaaeb9ddfe7a9fdcfa547c2cd20@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- HBase 1.4.8 RC0 had 50% non-binding votes
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2f8ad79f 6da4d2ac223a61b82aeb29a2322479257f271da90f0687e0@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- HBase 2.1.1 RC0 also had 50% non-binding votes
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9ccc377 dbeac4b3a7a0cddcef0cd7369675f5b1cc570b6c19a52864@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
As a reminder, anyone on the dev@ list can test and provide feedback on a
release candidate, and cast a non-binding vote.
Lars Hofhansl is in the process of organizing a bay-area HBase developer
meet-up at Salesforce. If you're interested, participate in the thread.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e814054e8d8ad1c5ebb30b9c50d97b5b8b5edada121f184fdf045e3d@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
Two new committers were added this quarter, and two committers joined the PMC.
More details below. Thanks to the new committers and PMC members for agreeing
to take on more responsibilities in the project.
## Health report:
Despite a slow holiday quarter, the HBase project shows a high level of
engagement, as seen through release cadence, deep and meaningful discussion on
mailing lists, discussion and documentation of processes, and non-binding
votes in the project.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 44 PMC members.
- Zach York was added to the PMC on November 15, 2018.
- Allan Yang was added to the PMC on Mon Nov 26 2018.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 78 committers.
- Balazs Meszaros was added as a committer on October 11, 2018.
- Jingyun Tian was added as a committer on Mon Nov 12 2018.
## Releases:
- 1.2.8 was released on Fri Oct 19 2018.
- 1.2.9 was released on Mon Nov 26 2018.
- 1.4.8 was released on Sun Oct 07 2018.
- 2.0.3 was released on Sat Dec 01 2018.
- 2.1.1 was released on Tue Oct 30 2018.
- 1.3.3 was released on Thu Dec 20 2018.
- 1.4.9 was released on Thu Dec 13 2018.
- 2.0.4 was released on Wed Jan 02 2019.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@hbase.apache.org:
- 1060 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
- 997 emails sent to list (1075 in previous quarter)
- user@hbase.apache.org:
- 2254 subscribers (down -11 in the last 3 months):
- 119 emails sent to list (260 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 405 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months (down from 413 last quarter)
- 322 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months (down from 428 last
quarter)
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore G]
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Justin Mclean]
{{{
Incubator PMC report for January 2019
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are presently 51 podlings incubating. During the month of December,
podlings executed 8 distinct releases. We added 8 new IPMC members and
had no IPMC members retire. The mentor situation has continued to improve
but we still have a number of podlings with less than 3 mentors.
Apache Airflow graduated and several podlings are heading towards
graduation. An incubator exit interview was sent to Airflow and the IPMC
got some feedback on the incubating process. It highlighted a known
issue with releases that needs to be made clear to mentors and PPMCs (as a
number of podlings have recently run into the same issue). A discussion
will
be started soon about this.
Several new podlings are off to a slow start. BatchEE is still stuck in
performing the last graduation steps, but the PPMC have said they will get
to it in February.
One new podling Iceberg reported very late. Both podlings that failed to
report last month reported this month.
There were 2 IP clearances.
A meeting was held with Superset to discuss its issues and good progress
was made. The meeting notes were posted back to the dev list, teh project
still has not made an Apache release.
It was noticed that MXNet was also making unapproved releases and had some
branding and policy issues, the MXNet PPMC have taken action to fix some
the issues.
* Community
New IPMC members:
- Akira Ajisaka
- Gang (Gary) Wang
- Liang Chen
- Lionel Liu
- Makoto Yui
- Mohammad Asif Siddiqui
- Sijie Guo
- Thomas Weise
People who left the IPMC:
- None
* New Podlings
- None
* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
- Iceburg
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
- None
* Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
December:
- Nemo 0.1
- Netbeans 10.0
- Skywalking 6.0.0 beta
- Druid 0.13.0
- Gobblin 0.14.0
- Crail 1.1
- Airflow 1.10.1
- Omid 1.0.0
* IP Clearance
- Apache Arrow Parquet Rust Library
- OpenWhisk Composer Python
* Legal / Trademarks
See main section for note on MXNet.
* Infrastructure
N/A
* Miscellaneous
- There was discussion around establishing a project at the ASF to host
and develop training and related materials for ASF projects.
- A release checklist application was created and has had a few people
take interest in it.
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Table of Contents
Amaterasu
Annotator
BatchEE
BRPC
Gobblin
Iceberg
IoTDB
Livy
Marvin-AI
Milagro
MXNet
NetBeans
Pinot
PLC4X
Rya
SensSoft
ShardingSphere
Weex
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Amaterasu
Apache Amaterasu is a framework providing configuration management and
deployment for Big Data Pipelines.
It provides the following capabilities:
Continuous integration tools to package pipelines and run tests.
A repository to store those packaged applications: the applications
repository.
A repository to store the pipelines, and engine configuration (for
instance, the location of the Spark master, etc.): per environment - the
configuration repository.
A dashboard to monitor the pipelines.
A DSL and integration hooks allowing third parties to easily integrate.
Amaterasu has been incubating since 2017-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow up user and contributor communities
2. Prepare documentation
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
There is still concern regarding the progress of the project, a
discussion was re-initiated by one of the mentors recently and is currently
ongoing.
How has the community developed since the last report?
One new contributor have contributed code that have been merged. In
addition, we are actively looking for more use cases and organizations to
use Amaterasu.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* 4 pull requests have been opened since the last report and 4 have been
merged
* Since last report 9 more issues have been created and 4 out of them
have been assigned
Date of the last release:
12 July 2018
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling through
the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues that need to be
addressed.
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[X](amaterasu) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
[X](amaterasu) Olivier Lamy
Comments:
[X](amaterasu) Davor Bonaci
Comments: No progress this quarter on project viability / graduation
not in sight.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Annotator
Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and
humans.
Annotator has been incubating since 2016-08-30.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Release initial versions
2. Add active contributors
3. Demonstrate good governance through voting on process improvements.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The last quarter saw the departure of a couple previous mentors (due to
their overall
workloads being too high in general). They have been replaced by two new
mentors
who are getting familiar with Apache Annotator and its needs.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We remain a small (probably too small) team, and continue to reach out to
potential
contributors--folks who had expressed interest in building the Apache
Annotator community
and code, but who have yet to participate. We will be doing more to
encourage more
involvement in 2019--especially leading up to http://iannotate.org/ (a
significant annotation focused event).
How has the project developed since the last report?
Coding and discussion activity have continued to remain at low levels. We
will be working
on setting some achievable targets for features and release in 2019 in
hopes of moving that needle.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[x] Initial setup
[-] Working towards first release
[-] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Last committer was added in August. That same committer is now on the PMC
as of November.
Signed-off-by:
[x](annotator) Nick Kew
Comments: Memory is hazy (I've been unwell the past week). I think
the above is a fair summary: the successful effort to recruit new mentors
was a positive episode. The subject of growing the PMC has been raised,
and the project wishes to distinguish between those with a real interest
(PMC) vs those whose contributions may have been of a more drive-by nature
but who might nevertheless be made committers.
[ ](annotator) Steve Blackmon
Comments:
[ ](annotator) Tommaso Teofili
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Justin Mclean: Are there any plans to make a release? Incubating for 2
years without a release is a long time. Can you also state if your
mentors have been helpful.
--------------------
BatchEE
BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka
JSR352) and a set of useful extensions for this specification.
BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Main issue is finishing the graduation, we will get a small discussion
to check it is what we want to do (vs giving back the project to geronimo)
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Some issue graduating (time issue for PMC)
How has the community developed since the last report?
It is stable
How has the project developed since the last report?
No new feature
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-12-01
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2015-12-01 Reinhard Sandtner
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
[X](batchee) Olivier Lamy
Comments:
[X](batchee) Mark Struberg
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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BRPC
brpc is an industrial-grade RPC framework for building reliable and high-
performance services.
BRPC has been incubating since 2018-11-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. TBD
2. TBD
3. TBD
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?
Brpc is still on early stage of incubating。
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have finished the sign of SGA and ICLA, setup dev@brpc.apache.org
email list, and add Gosling Von as our mentors.
And begin to transfer repo.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Signed-off-by:
[X](brpc) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments:
[X](brpc) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
[X](brpc) Von Gosling
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Von Gosling: we have discussed the TBD parts in the report,
more attention will be paid in the next report.
Justin Mclean: Can you also state if your mentors have been helpful.
--------------------
Gobblin
Gobblin is a distributed data integration framework that simplifies common
aspects of big data integration such as data ingestion, replication,
organization and lifecycle management for both streaming and batch data
ecosystems.
Gobblin has been incubating since 2017-02-23.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
Nothing at this time.
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?
* 92% of commits were from non-committer contributors.
* Email stats since last report:
user@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 27
dev@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 218
* There have been 61 Commits since last report:
git log --format='%ci' | grep -cE '((2018-1(0|1|2))|(2019-01))'
* 56 ie. 92% of those commits were by non-committers:
git log --format='%ae %ci' | grep -E '((2018-1(0|1|2))|(2019-01))'|
cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
* Recurring video conference based meet-up has been happening every
month with a healthy attendance.
* After ApacheCon NA 2018, Gobblin was also presented in CrunchConf
Budapest 2018, and has independently been featured in various
meet-ups / conferences around the world.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Multi-hop support in Gobblin-as-a-Service with in built workflow
manager.
* Multicast through Multi-hop flow compiler.
* Gobblin-as-a-Service integration with Azkaban.
* New Elasticsearch writer intergration.
* Optimized block level distcp-ng copy support.
* HOCON support for flow requests to GaaS.
* Ability to fork jobs when concatenating Dags
* ServiceManager to manage GitFlowGraphMonitor in multihop flow compiler.
* Distributed job launcher with Helix tagging support.
* Several more enhancements and feature add-ons.
Full list across last two releases.
* Release 0.14.0 done.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[x] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-12-09
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Tamas Nemeth in November, 2018.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Yes.
Signed-off-by:
[X](gobblin) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
Comments:
[ ](gobblin) Olivier Lamy
Comments:
[X](gobblin) Jim Jagielski
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Justin Mclean: Given that 92% of commit are from non-committers why does
the project not vote more committers in? I can only see one committer
voted in in the previous year. For a project nearing graduation I'd expect
to see a lot more people voted in. I also don't see what is discussed in the
video conferences being brought back to the list.
--------------------
Iceberg
Iceberg is a table format for large, slow-moving tabular data.
Iceberg has been incubating since 2018-11-16.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finish the name clearance and trademark agreement.
2. Make the first Apache release.
(https://github.com/apache/incubator-iceberg/milestone/1)
3. Grow the Iceberg community
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* Gitbox traffic is now going to issues@. The community was losing dev@
subscribers because of the high volume of traffic from Gitbox. However,
now all updates are sent to issues@. It would be nice to have emails
from creation go to dev@, while updates and resolutions would go the
issues@.
* The trademark agreement proposed by Netflix was not acceptable to the
ASF. It would be helpful if the ASF published the terms that the ASF
requires to avoid trial and error. Netflix is drafting a new agreement.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Moved gitbox notifications to avoid loss of dev@ subscribers
(self-reported leaving dev@).
* New contributor activity: 3 new issues opened, 4 PRs submitted
* 5 PRs from non-committers merged
* 2 contributors started reviewing PRs
* New design doc proposed by a community contributor
* Moved issues from Netflix repository to Apache repository
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Planned blockers for first release, 0.1.0, in milestone 1
* Partial python implementation submitted
* Manifest listing file added to the spec and implementation committed
(blocker for initial release). Resulted in a significant improvement in
query planning time for large tables.
* Abstracted file IO API to support community use cases
* Reviewing community proposal for external plugins to support file-level
encryption
* Added doc strings to schemas
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup (name clearance pending)
[X] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
None yet
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
None yet
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Last month was December, so traffic has been low and both PPMC members and
mentors were slow to respond. This is not abnormal, but the PPMC missed
the deadline to file this report. We will ensure this doesn't recur.
Signed-off-by:
[X](iceberg) Ryan Blue
Comments: I wrote the first pass of the report, but after the deadline.
[ ](iceberg) Julien Le Dem
Comments:
[X](iceberg) Owen O'Malley
Comments: Approval from +1 on dev list.
[ ](iceberg) James Taylor
Comments:
[ ](iceberg) Carl Steinbach
Comments:
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IoTDB
IoTDB is a data store for managing large amounts of time series data such as
timestamped data from IoT sensors in industrial applications.
IoTDB has been incubating since 2018-11-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Move source codes to Apache Repository
2. Release the first version
3. Build the community and supply documents.
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?
- A meetup titled by "The way of Open Source Software in China" is hold
at 2018.12.19.
- 122 emails are archived in the dev mail list
- The website is available (http://iotdb.apache.org) now
- Have a touch with Apache RocketMQ community
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Many ICLA files have signed, and the SGA is signed. So, the IP
clearance is done.
- 29 PR are merged.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- The project is still a newborn.
- After the meetup, some persons and companies have noticed IoTDB.
- We will speed up to move codes to apache repository and try to release
the first version.
[X] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
- None
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- None
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
- very Helpful
Signed-off-by:
[X](iotdb) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments:
[X](iotdb) Justin Mclean
Comments: What's the hold up on moving the codebase to the ASF?
[X](iotdb) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
[ ](iotdb) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
[X](iotdb) Joe Witt
Comments: Would like to see the codebase move to ASF world and work
toward release.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Livy
Livy is web service that exposes a REST interface for managing long running
Apache Spark contexts in your cluster. With Livy, new applications can be
built on top of Apache Spark that requires fine grained interaction with
many
Spark contexts.
Livy has been incubating since 2017-06-05.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community to have more activities.
2. Grow more contributors and committers.
3. Regular release.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
Activity has waned a little bit since the last report. Most of new
activity has been to stabilize a new feature (Hive-compatible Thrift
server). Committer activity remains a bit low.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Mainly small bug fixes and stabilization of new code.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-02-06
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2017-09-18
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
We have not asked much of our mentors, but some are active on the email
lists.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](livy) Bikas Saha
Comments:
[ ](livy) Brock Noland
Comments:
[x](livy) Luciano Resende
Comments:
[X](livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Marvin-AI
Marvin-AI is an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform that helps
data scientists, prototype and productionalize complex solutions with a
scalable, low-latency, language-agnostic, and standardized architecture
while simplifies the process of exploration and modeling.
Marvin-AI has been incubating since 2018-08-21.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.Move development infrastructure to Apache
2.Build Community
3.Build Releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* No.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* The project began to receive help from community members (not PPMC
members) more actively with the development of the project site.
* The community started discussing contribution patterns in the
repository and came up with some good practices that should be followed
* A new member is being included as a contributor to the project. Only a
few details are missing for inclusion.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* A new code repository was created for the development of the project
site following the Apache template.
* Bug fixes were done in the code and in the project documentation.
* Some PoC's to a new Toolbox version was included to a new branch on the
repo.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
* At least two of the mentors are sometimes active.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[x] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* N/A
Signed-off-by:
[X](marvin-ai) Jim Jagielski
Comments:
[x](marvin-ai) Luciano Resende
Comments:
[X](marvin-ai) William Colen
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Justin Mclean: Can the PPMC please make sure that they are following the
private mailing list.
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Milagro
Distributed Cryptography; M-Pin protocol for Identity and Trust
Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Rebuild the team
2. Edit the code for the first release
3. Expand the community
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to beaware
of?
We need continuous support to restart the project management and to make
the code released.
This project have been stalled for several month because initial
committers from Miracl unfortunately stopped activities from external
reasons.
It seems we should assume they will take more time to settle their
situation.
We already have a set of codes that will work as the initial product, and
it will need some editorial (and possibly legal?) efforts to release.
The idea of retirement was put to the vote and was rejected, and we are
working for restarting.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Some people are joining the community to the restart the project.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We worked for the first release of the crypt library part, and have been
stalled because of the lack of knowledge about the release process.
It seems we need clarification on the release process mainly from the
legal aspects.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup (total restart)
[X] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
n/a
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling through
the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues that need to be
addressed.
Mentors are helpful in starting the restart.
The remaining members still lack very basic information about the
management in ASF, so we need continuous help.
The project's open issues are:
(1) Recover the team’s communication
(2) Give access to the official repository for committers who already
signed ICLA,
(3) List all the repositories that contain codes for this project,
(4) Analyze status of each repository, possibly including legal status
(5) Edit and merge the code and push to the official repository.
(6) Release
We need help and guide by mentors to address the issues from the
following aspects:
(A) Input on Apache's process, source of information, or use of the
toolset,
(B) Helpful facilitation for communication with PMCs and the community,
(C) Guide how the output code/document should be.
Mentors or a person who will lead the communication are requested to
submit a ping message on the mailing list regularly that asks any
blockers.
Signed-off-by:
[x](milagro) Nick Kew
Comments: Great summary. Sadly the author appears to be the only
community member still to have a really active interest.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Justin Mclean:Rather than asking the mentors to ping you I suggest you ask
any question you have on the mailing list. If they are not answered or you
need further help please ask on the general@ incubator list.
I'm also concerned about the lack of discussion on the mailing list as a
number of things mentioned above don't seem to have occurred on the list.
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MXNet
A Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep Learning
MXNet has been incubating since 2017-01-23.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Establish a predictable release process consistent with Apache Way --
ESTABLISHED.
2. Grow the community -- ONGOING.
3. Identify remaining ICLAs or SGAs that need signing – NEAR COMPLETION.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
* The community voted on updated process becoming project committer and
PPMC member, vote results:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/458f234120ed8fbf98ddd57aa42eafe398cdd7e
aeb89ac2be9d214c7@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E
* The community voted on separating PMC and Committership -
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5bbd3b6daf5e89d17f92aed3aa8acd192841f11
822dcd21627ad5389@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E
* We have active contributors from companies like Nvidia, Intel, Wolfram
Design and more. The number of github contributors increased from 506
(3/31/2018) to currently 653 (2019-01-02; +10% since last report)
* Active discussions on https://discuss.mxnet.io/ (English) and
https://discuss.gluon.ai/ (Chinese)
* We developed an active blog on Medium
(https://medium.com/apache-mxnet) and have now 1k followers (+12.2% since
last report).
* We established a YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/apachemxnet)
and have 485 subscriber (+31% since last report).
* We are tweeting to promote new content and community events such as
meetups and conferences. Our Twitter account has 1768 followers on
https://twitter.com/ApacheMXNet (17% since last report).
* We established a global MXNet meetup group with 8 groups (+4) in 7 (+4)
countries and 1209 member (+45% since last report).
https://www.meetup.com/pro/deep-learning-with-apache-mxnet/
* Highlights in MXNet ecosystem: GluonCV v0.3.0 release
(https://github.com/dmlc/gluon-cv/releases/tag/v0.3.0), GluonNLP v0.5.0
release
(https://github.com/dmlc/gluon-nlp/releases/tag/v0.5.0), MXNet Model
Server v1.0.1
release
(https://github.com/awslabs/mxnet-model-server/releases/tag/v1.0.1),
Gluon-zh book v0.7 release
(https://github.com/d2l-ai/d2l-zh/releases/tag/v0.7),
and active developments in Gluon-en (https://github.com/d2l-ai/d2l-en),
GluonFace (https://github.com/THUFutureLab/gluon-face) and DeepInsight
(https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface).
How has the project developed since the last report?
1) Released v1.3.1:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.3.1
2) Completed vote for 1.4.0 release on dev@:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.4.0;
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/236554041a412415df783d652830272beb21d36
660e8e0d5e0237f58@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E
Started vote on general@ on December 28, 2018:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a645bdb72bc55e05ec57f5b07a95c2579971f0a
32ed257f31199e218@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E
3) Github statistics:
* https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pulse/monthly - December 2,
2018 – January 2, 2019
Excluding merges, 56 authors have pushed 114 commits to master and 126
commits to all branches.
On master, 359 files have changed and there have been 15,054 additions
and 3,531 deletions.
65 issues got closed and 61 new issues created during the reporting
period.
* https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pulse/monthly - November 2,
2018 - December 1, 2018
Excluding merges, 67 authors have pushed 202 commits to master and 283
commits to all branches.
On master, 521 files have changed and there have been 21,810 additions
and 8,161 deletions.
145 issues got closed and 98 new issue created during the reporting
period.
* https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pulse/monthly - October 2,
2018 - November 1, 2018
Excluding merges, 55 authors have pushed 125 commits to master and 135
commits to all branches.
On master, 617 files have changed and there have been 37,194 additions
and 7,424 deletions.
119 issues got closed and 131 new issue created during the reporting
period.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[X ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-11-29 MXNet 1.3.1
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
New committer:
Qin Lang (November 21, 2018;
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/27a2943240180666ce9e9219a049322966c851a
259d908e241103d7a@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E)
Thomas Delteil (November 20, 2018;
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d4ad366e81852547a732b4c31b7f3f020132e20
ba9c4cae7fd908f31@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E)
Kellen Sunderland (November 21, 2018;
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4f18f85e627c7c0db5ad9ea46b1c277ef304f9d
445be6b7e1e3ae3af@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E)
Tao Lv (Novmember 21, 2018;
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3b14dadf32c84b0249758f25db52602527311ec
0efc7bf94c93aaeee@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E)
Rahul Huilgol (December 4, 2018:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1b30b460d4bbc2ddb7a0bc7113e8d064ba75241
4d7d97a6e54d442f3@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E)
Aaron Markham (December 4, 2018;
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f807eaa4e6477c6133e4949b7b38428adff5726
8620343d4c7c1e7ce@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E)
Da Zhang (December 17, 2018;
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ffaa9425c9f5da77176e0ad92d136e70179720e
4f485456daf6d7231@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E)
No new PPMC members got elected in the reporting period.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Mentors continue providing guidance and support.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](mxnet) Sebastian Schelter
Comments:
[ ](mxnet) Henri Yandell
Comments:
[X](mxnet) Markus Weimer
Comments:
[X](mxnet) Jim Jagielski
[X](mxnet) Michael Wall
Comments: Discussion on unapproved releases started, but needs
resolution. Good effort on community building.
[ ](mxnet) Bob Paulin
Comments:
[X](mxnet) Jason Dai
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Justin Mclean: The issue with unapproved releases and issues around that
should have been mentioned in this report.
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NetBeans
NetBeans is a development environment, tooling platform and application
framework.
NetBeans has been incubating since 2016-10-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Completion of Maturity Model Assessment:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Apache+Maturity+Model+A
ssessment+for+NetBeans
2. Understanding other steps that need to be taken, e.g., put together a
list of PMC members
3. Vote to graduate.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Received Duke's Choice Award 2018 at Oracle Code One conference:
https://blogs.apache.org/netbeans/entry/duke-s-choice-award-2018
- Several community members presented about NetBeans at Oracle Code One
2018:
https://blogs.apache.org/netbeans/entry/apache-netbeans-at-oracle-code
- Currently 651 (622 in last report) on Apache NetBeans users mailing
list and 455 (438 in last report) on Apache NetBeans dev mailing list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- 3rd donation, focused on tutorials and images, and related ancillary
items, has been completed.
- netbeans.org redirects as far as possible to netbeans.apache.org, once
documentation is moved and rehoused, it can redirect completely to
netbeans.apache.org.
- Apache NetBeans (incubating) 10.0 final has been released, with many
thanks to Laszlo Kishalmi, our fearless release manager.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ X ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-12-27 Apache NetBeans (incubating) 10.0 final release
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* PPMC member Arunava Sinha elected on October 20, 2018
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Yes, very helpful and supportive.
Signed-off-by:
[X](netbeans) Ate Douma
Comments:
[X](netbeans) Bertrand Delacretaz
Comments: Looking forward to graduation!
[X](netbeans) Daniel Gruno
Comments:
[X](netbeans) Mark Struberg
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Humbedooh: Seeing good progress in the podling moving towards graduation.
There are still issues to address, and ways to teach, but the project
community seem very willing to learn and adapt.
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Pinot
Pinot is a distributed columnar storage engine that can ingest data in real-
time and serve analytical queries at low latency.
Pinot has been incubating since 2018-10-17.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Improving documentation
2. Cutting a release
3. Building community contribution
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have had interest from Uber in contributing towards proposals
discussed in Issues 3592 and 3539
How has the project developed since the last report?
Source repo migrated to Apache, mailing lists and JIRA created. Website
created.
We have added a minimal wiki page. We have added documentation on many
user-facing features.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](pinot) Kishore Gopalakrishna
Comments:
[X](pinot) Jim Jagielski
Comments:
[ ](pinot) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
[X](pinot) Olivier Lamy
Comments:
[X](pinot) Felix Cheung
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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PLC4X
PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable
logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared API.
PLC4X has been incubating since 2017-12-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large
percentage of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people from
other companies, but will have to continue these efforts for establishing
a healthy Apache community.
2. With PLC4X several people on the team are not very familiar with the
Apache Way. We have started and will continue our efforts on this
onboarding.
3. Make others in the PPMC able to perform releases.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Not at the moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have managed to get some more people to contribute. While we are still
waiting for the initial contribution (OPC-UA Server) of one person to be
submitted, we were just able to successfully integrate another first code
contribution into our build which seeds the C++ API module (Thanks to
Markus Sommer for this).
Github notes the number of contributors has gone up to 12 … so I think
we’re looking good as we are continuously getting more people on board,
hopefully soon also into committership and PPMC involvement.
In the last quarter of 2018 Christofer Dutz had several public talks on
PLC4X:
* 09.10.2018: “Between the towers” Meetup, Frankfurt
* 24.10.2018: “Oss Summit Europe” Conference, Edinburgh
* 13.11.2018: “3. Fachkonferenz - Big data in der Industire“ Conference,
Berlin
* 15.11.2018: „RheinJUG“ Meetup, Düsseldorf
* 06.12.2018: „IoTHessen“ Meetup, Frankfurt
From 22.11.2018-26.11.2018 we had our second official community event:
This time we meet at the codecentric finca on Mallorca for 4 days of
hacking, coding, discussions and community building.
All in all 3 PPMC members participated and one new person.
On 03.12.2018 we successfully released: Version 0.2.0 (RC1) and we’re
currently working on enabling new release-managers for the next release.
Our mailing list subscriptions went up another 4 to currently 42
subscribers.
Our Twitter followers increased by 57 (almost doubled) to 116 followers
(Mainly as a direct result of @Java tweeting about us).
On GitHub we now have 42 “Stars” (increase of 18) and 20 “Forks”
(increase of 6)
We have successfully performed two major POCs with customers from the
industry (Companies in the pharmaceutical and automotive sectors) and the
results where overwhelming.
We are expecting to see more adoption in 2019. Also are we trying to
convince companies to allow us to officially talk about what we did in
order to spread the word.
Also have we had first paid contracts where the companies were paying
members of the project to implement some general purpose features that
were missing as well as bug fixing and allowing those results to become
part of the open-source project (Which I think is pretty surprising as
the concept of Open-Source is quite new to these companies)
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people involved.
So far, the new participants have shown great willingness and success in
adopting the Apache Way.
However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the
diversity of the team.
Also we are currently trying to enable other team members to take over
vital roles (Like being a release manager) so we no longer have areas
with personal singularities.
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-12-03
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](plc4x) Greg Trasuk
Comments:
[X](plc4x) Justin Mclean
Comments:
[X](plc4x) Stefan Bodewig
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Rya
Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built
on top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and query
processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple
nodes.
Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a conventional
query mechanism for RDF data.
Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
Currently working through the graduation procedure steps. Expecting to be
ready for a vote later in January.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
* The community is moving towards graduation: name search completed,
project status file updated, the Apache Project maturity model evaluation
almost done, working on more comprehensive contributor guidelines
* A CCLA from Semantic Web Company has been submitted
* We have several new users and contributors (some from Semantic Web
Company, some independent) who interacted with the community
How has the project developed since the last report?
* new upgraded SPARQL endpoint under review
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[x] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-03-04
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* PPMC member Caleb Meier elected on Jan 3rd, 2017
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Our two mentors are helpful and responsive.
Signed-off-by:
[x](rya) Josh Elser
Comments:
[x](rya) Billie Rinaldi
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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SensSoft
Apache SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Extending release process to other parts of the SensSoft software
stack.
2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) Committer/Community Base.
3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap [1]
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
Following a successful VOTE in favor of changing the Podling name [2],
the community submitted 12 nominations for new Podling names [2]. The names
are collected for easy reference on our confluence space [3]. The community
downselected the names [2] JIRA tickets have been written to track
progress on research on PODLINGNAMESEARCH board [4].
How has the community developed since the last report?
The community has been:
- discussing reaching out to other open source projects to identify other
potential communities (analytical technologies) to drive developments, as
well as increase interest in the Podling.
- discussing research applications with university research labs in
machine learning and social computing.
- the community has onboarded 2 new Mentors—Dave Meikle and Atri Sharma
- updating documentation on wiki and READMEs to improve community growth
How has the project developed since the last report?
Project maturity roadmaps (Wiki) and version release plans (JIRA)
continue
to be maintained.
JIRA boards continue to be maintained
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-03-14
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Arthi Vezhavendan was added to Committer base on 2017-01-24
Dave Meikle was added to PPMC on 2018-11-24
Atri Sharma was added to PPMC on 2018-11-24
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks?
Chris Mattmann and Paul Ramirez have been removed as mentors in the last
month.
Lewis McGibbney has been extremely helpful and has actively participated
in our PODLINGNAMESEARCH.
New mentors are awaiting a determination of our PODLINGNAMESEARCH and
will assist in growing the community.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
[X](senssoft) Dave Meikle
Comments:
[ ](senssoft) Atri Sharma
Comments:
[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmaps
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmaps>
[2]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9a971fee3b17ac401cf76b16e5dc026c10a2995
91ee93329117a3cec@%3Cdev.senssoft.apache.org%3E
<https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9a971fee3b17ac401cf76b16e5dc026c10a299
591ee93329117a3cec@%3Cdev.senssoft.apache.org%3E>
[3]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/PODLINGNAMESEARCH
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/PODLINGNAMESEARCH>
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SENSSOFT-312
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SENSSOFT-312>
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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ShardingSphere
Sharding-Sphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database
middleware, focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and database
orchestration.
ShardingSphere has been incubating since 2018-11-10.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Move codebase to Apache after last not apache release version for 3.x.
2. Upload website.
3. First ASF release.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Invite new mentor: Von Gosling(vongosling.apache.org)
2. Meetup for ShardingSphere with mentors and PPMC at 12.21
How has the project developed since the last report?
Released 3.1.0.M1, contributors are from different companies. In 3.1.0.M1
release milestones, there are 148 issues and pull requests solved. This
is
a legacy release not for Apache.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
3.1.0-M1 20 Dec 2018
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
None.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Signed-off-by:
[x](shardingsphere) Craig L Russell
Comments:
[ ](shardingsphere) Benjamin Hindman
Comments:
[X](shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
[X](shardingsphere) Von Gosling
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Weex
Weex is a framework for building Mobile cross-platform high performance UI.
Weex has been incubating since 2016-11-30.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. A clear roadmap and corresponding project management, which should all
be public and transparent to the community
2. Committers & PPMC members should be more activate and response in time
when dealing with Email, Github Issue/Pull request
3. More activate committers & PPMC members outside Alibaba Group.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The development of Weex is based on the Weex Github Repo, but none of the
PPMC members have maintainer or administration privilege on the
repo (https://github.com/apache/incubator-weex), which makes it time
costing or impossible to add Webhook、PR Review Rules, etc. as INFRA member
might response to a JIRA issue several days or weeks later.
How has the community developed since the last report?
New Committer: Qianyuan Wang(wqyfavor) and Douma Fang
75 Github issues solved/closed since last report, 56 issues still open.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Released a new version (v0.20.0)
131 PRs since last report
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other
Date of last release:
2018-12-10 (v0.20.0)
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2018-12-10
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Yes, they are helpful, maybe one more mentor would be better.
Signed-off-by:
[X](weex) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
[X](weex) Myrle Krantz
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Isis Project [Kevin Meyer]
Report from the Apache Isis Project [Kevin Meyer]
## Description:
Apache Isis is a framework for rapidly developing domain-driven applications
in Java. Users only write POJOs and Apache Isis handles the database and UI
automatically at runtime.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
We did a release of version 1.17.0 of the framework [1].
More broadly, 1.x codebase continues to get small enhancements, a couple of
noticeable ones being the new sidebar dialog and also the ability to export
the entire metamodel as XML. These enhancements are being forward ported
into the 2.x branch.
Most of the development effort is in the 2.x branch, with efforts underway
to be able to re-platform the framework on top of both JEE Microprofile or
Spring Boot, in other words to throw away as much "proprietary code" as
possible in order to leverage these platforms. This will also hopefully
enable the backend ORM to be come fully pluggable, to therefore support
both DataNucleus (as currently) and also Spring Data.
## Health report:
We consider the project to be healthy with PMC members participating in
votes and both project members and users exchanging questions and answers
on the dev and users mailing lists.
Announcements on the user list and requests for comments are responded to,
confirming that we also have community engagement.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Johan Doornenbal on Thu Apr 05 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 14 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Johan Doornenbal at Mon Mar 19 2018
## Releases:
- 1.17.0 was released on Sun Jan 06 2019
## JIRA activity:
- 73 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 93 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## References
[1] http://isis.apache.org/release-notes/release-notes.html#_release-notes_1.17.0
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache James Project [Eric Charles]
## Description:
- The Apache James Project delivers a rich set of open source modules and
libraries, written in Java, related to Internet mail which build into an
advanced enterprise mail server.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- We are still focusing on hardening the existing core mail features.
## Health report:
- In an effort to have more time to onboard new comers, JCR and HBase
mailboxes have been deprecated.
- Regular users come back to the mailing list.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Antoine Duprat on Fri Mar 11 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 37 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Raphael Ouazana at Thu Jul 07 2016
## Releases:
- 3.2.0 was released on Wed Nov 14 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Stable
## JIRA activity:
- 109 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 76 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Andrea Turli]
== Description ==
A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of cloud
providers using one API.
== Project Status ==
jclouds continues to accumulate bug fixes but little feature work. Notably we
are struggling with Java 8/newer Guava compatibility which vexes our users. We
continue to work with the Karaf community on one of these issues. This blocks
release of jclouds 2.2.0. We have migrated our source repositories to Gitbox,
and will be deprecating and archiving the legacy jclouds GitHub org in such a
way as to allow contributors to migrate easily. We've also moved our CI
infrastructure from CloudBees DEV@cloud to the ASF Jenkins installation. One
consequence of that is that we have been able to results of our live tests
public, which will be valuable to the community.
== Community ==
Outside the existing PMC and committers, we had 12 contributors this quarter
(including several new ones) and more activity on our issue tracker. Notably,
one potential contributor sent a pull request for a new Aliyun OSS provider,
but this will require significant rework to merge. It is important to note
that these kinds of large pull requests are difficult to review, and it may
take more time than desired to guide and educate the contributors, since most
of the PMC and committers are now "pure" volunteers (with $dayjob no longer
related to jclouds).
Last committer: 2018-07-23 (Daniel Estevez)
Last PMC member: 2016-10-21(Andrea Turli)
== Community Objectives ==
Unblock the release of jclouds 2.2.0, which will provide Java 8 support. Keep
engaging contributors on Slack, and propose them as new committers as
appropriate. Monitor the PMC and ensure we have enough resources to properly
manage the project.
== Releases ==
The last jclouds release, 2.1.1, took place on 2018-08-16.
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne]
## Description:
Jena is a framework for developing Semantic Web and Linked Data applications
in Java. It provides implementation of W3C standards for RDF and SPARQL.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
The project has just voted for a release 3.10.0 in line with the 3-4 month
cycle (as and when volunteer time is available).
The git repo has been migrated seamlessly to gitbox - an excellent process by
INFRA.
The project has received a significant contribution of a GeoSPARQL
implementation and the team is migrating from the custom spatial query
solution to the Open Geospatial Consortium standards-based one.
The project is also retiring some unused modules that do not receive attention
and have had very little in the way of user questions over the last few years.
EMail to the users list to alert users of the intention has not received any
push-back for the first group of modules to be retired.
## Health report:
The project is at normal levels of activity, with JIRA and git pull requests
getting being responded to, and the users list remains active. There are also
many questions asked and answered on stackoverflow where answers come from a
wider community.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Chris Tomlinson on Sun Apr 29 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 17 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Aaron Coburn at Mon Jun 18 2018
## Releases:
- 3.10.0 was released on Sun Dec 30 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 44 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 58 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Bruno Demion]
## Description:
Pure Java application for load and functional testing.
## Issues:
## Activity:
- The project working and discussing to release the next version (5.1)
## Health report:
- The project has a good activity during last quarter with a good number of
fixes/enhancements and external patches/ PRs.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Vladimir Sitnikov on Fri Jun 08 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 14 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Maxime Chassagneux at Wed Feb 15 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.0 final on Tue Sep 18 2018
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Johnzon Project [Hendrik Saly]
## Description:
Apache Johnzon is an implementation of JSR-353 (JSON-P 1.0), JSR-374
(JSON-P 1.1) and JSR-367 (JSON-B 1.0) and a set of useful extension for this
specification like JAX-RS providers and websocket (JSR-356) integration.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Status:
We finished and released the implementation of JSR-374 and JSR-367. Current
focus is now to optimize the performance and stabilize the new features. We
also recently added "Portable Java Contracts" to provide the widest OSGi
compatibility. Curently we are moving our Johnzon GIT repo to
gitbox.apache.org.
## Releases:
- 1.0.2 was released on Tue Dec 18 2018
- 1.1.11 was released on Fri Dec 21 2018
## Committers and PMC membership:
The last committer we signed up was Jonathan Gallimore on May 09, 2018. The
last PMC member was Reinhard Sandtner, added to the PMC on August 30, 2016.
## Project activity:
Since the last report there was mid activity. We some some more external
contributions than usually via github.
We had 6 new Jira tickets and closed 6 tickets. On the mailinglist there a no
unanswered questions left. On the dev list we have 38 (-1) subscribers
currently and 9 msg sent per week. Since last report we saw mailing list
activity from a few new people.
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Joshua Project [Tommaso Teofili]
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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez]
## Description:
- A feature-rich and extensible WikiWiki engine built around the standard
JEE components (Java, servlets, JSP).
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Development focused on switching the baseline to 2.11, with a vote for the
first release on it, 2.11.0.M1, happening on December. The vote did
not succeed due to a number of issues found on the RC, and a new RC is
expected on January.
## Health report:
- No questions unanswered on MLs, with at least 3 people from PMC showing
up there. No potential candidates for PMC/committership yet.
- Slow pace of development, but nothing unusual.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Dave Koelmeyer on Wed Apr 06 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Dave Koelmeyer at Wed Apr 06 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.10.5 on Tue Sep 04 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Normal quarter regarding ML activity, although we've been having a
slow decline on subscribers on both lists, consistently for some months
now. Not worrying, but worth noting (also, we are not sure on what to
do other than keep working and answering on MLs...).
- dev@jspwiki.apache.org:
- 81 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 57 emails sent to list (51 in previous quarter)
- user@jspwiki.apache.org:
- 169 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 0 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Kudu Project [Todd Lipcon]
## Description:
- Apache Kudu is a distributed columnar storage engine built for the Apache
Hadoop ecosystem.
## Issues:
- No issues requiring the board's attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Kudu 1.8.0 was released on October 23rd, 2018, with support for a manual
rebalancer that can be used to redistribute table replicas among tablet
servers. The release also included the usual bevy of bug fixes and
performance improvements, as well as some smaller features based on user and
operator feedback from past releases.
## Health report:
- User mailing list subscriptions didn't grow, and traffic is down about 25%
this quarter, most likely due to US holidays. Questions are generally
answered quickly and overall traffic is quite bursty.
- Website traffic growth is down: about -7% for users and -9% for sessions
since the last quarter. This is within our normal quarterly fluctuation.
In the last board report we talked about reviving the Kudu blog to grow
interest in the project, and although that hasn't happened yet, we do have
several blog posts currently in review.
- Development activity (measured by code review and JIRA traffic) is down
somewhat (reviews -9%, JIRA -20%, commits +36%). Code was authored by
16 unique contributors (-12 since last quarter) of whom 2 were new to the
project (-7 since last quarter). Commit activity was inflated due to the
1.8.0 release; the rest of the metrics reflect the fact that several key
developers have tapered down their involvement in Kudu for various reasons.
- In the last board report we wrote about how we're working on a process to
publish test artifacts as part of Kudu releases. Progress has been made but
the new process is not yet ready for primetime.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 21 PMC members.
- No new PMC members in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC addition: Sun Jul 22 2018 (Attila Bukor)
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 21 committers.
- No new committers in the last 3 months.
- Last committer addition: Mon Jul 23 2018 (Attila Bukor)
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.8.0 on Tue Oct 23 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 54 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 49 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Labs Project [Danny Angus]
### Description
Apache Labs exists to incubate small and emerging projects from ASF
committers.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
One active lab Turbulence.
## Health report:
Labs remains quiet, but not inactive. Time constraints and lack of volunteer
energy have limited our progress.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Simone Tripodi on Tue Jun 14 2011
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Juan P. Gilaberte at Wed May 30 2018
## Releases:
- Per charter Labs does not make releases
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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Lucene.Net Project [Shad Storhaug]
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache MADlib Project [Aaron Feng]
## Description:
- Apache MADlib is a scalable, big data, SQL-driven machine learning framework
for data scientists.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Last release was 1.15.1 which was the 5th release as an Apache TLP project.
This was a minor release that included support for Ubuntu 16.04 as well as
various feature improvements.
- Community is at work on the 1.16 release which is anticipated in the next
month or so. Key features are PostgreSQL 11 support, and a new method for
k-NN nearest neighbors.
- Community is also at work on the 2.0 release at the same time, with good
progress on a JIRA related to versioning models.
- On 2018-Oct-30, Nandish Jayaram (MADlib committer) and Frank McQuillan
(MADlib committer and PMC member) visited Arun Kumar, Assistant Professor of
Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego
regarding possible collaboration projects related to in-database machine
learning. Discussions went well and we will report back to the community if
this collaboration moves forward. Note that Professor Kumar is a former
colleague of MADlib PMC Chair Aaron Feng when both were at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
— Frank McQuillan (MADlib committer and PMC member) will be presenting at
FOSDEM’19 on 2019-Feb-03 on deep learning on parallel databases, using
MADlib and Greenplum Database as an example.
## Health report:
The community is relatively small but very engaged with robust mailing list
traffic, interest in doing frequent releases and new functionality being
developed by contributors.
The number of developers actively contributing to the code/documentation is
approximately 6 in the 4th quarter of calendar year 2018.
We will constantly be on a lookout for new community members to be invited
either as committers or PMC.
## PMC changes:
- No changes in PMC, currently 13 PMC members.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 15 committers.
- Last committer additions were Jingyi Mei on 2018-06-14 and Nikhil Kak on
2018-06-27.
## Releases:
- Next release: v1.16 planned for Feb 2019
- v1.15.1 released on 2018-10-15
- v1.15.0 released on 2018-08-10
- v1.14.0 released on 2018-05-01
## Mailing list activity:
Average monthly mailing list activity was 119 posts to dev@ and 16 posts to
user@ for the last 3 months Oct-Dec.
## JIRA Statistics:
- 5 JIRA tickets created in the last month
- 3 JIRA tickets resolved in the last month
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Andrew Musselman]
## Description:
Apache Mahout is an environment for quickly creating scalable performant
machine learning applications.
## Issues:
No changes since last report.
## Activity:
The team are in the middle of a 0.14 release; first RC is being tested and
kinks ranging from the move to gitbox and left-over items that need to be
adjusted in Jenkins are being shaken out.
The PMC heard the advice from the board to consider adding committers and PMC
members; with the holidays and work pressures there has been less time than
usual to work on community efforts but we would like to grow the team this
quarter. Some conference activity at FOSDEM for example will be one route,
continued meetup sessions will be another.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Trevor Grant on Fri Feb 03 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 28 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Holden Karau at Wed Jul 12 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.13.0 on Sun Apr 16 2017
- Current release for 0.14.0 is underway this week
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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Robert Scholte]
Maven Board Report - January 2019
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## Description:
- Apache Maven is a widely-used project build tool, targeting mainly Java
development. Apache Maven promotes the use of dependencies via a
standardized coordinate system, binary plugins, and a standard build
lifecycle.
## Issues:
<<There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.>>
## Activity:
As you might see in the list of released plugins, surefire (the test
execution framewok for Maven) is working on several milestones in order to
make use of Maven3 API (drop Maven2 support) improve support of the modular
system and JUnit5.
Some plugins had to be updated for Java 11 support due to the changed
bytecode version, but this is an activity we'll probably see every 6 months.
Maven 3.6.0 has been released, most remarkable changes are:
- Improved CI-friendly version support
- New attributes for calculating proper URLs with interitence
- Adjust caching for improved performance
## Health report:
The community seems to be curious about the next major version(s) of Maven,
especially when they are mentioned at mailing lists or social media by Maven
committers. The ideas are around for a couple of years already, but with the
daily acitivities on maintaining the project (responding to new issues and
mailing lists) it is hard to find enough time and resources to start on
Maven 4. However, we see a growth in interest, which might help us to
attract new committers, and devide the work properly.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 24 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Guillaume Boué on Mon Aug 07 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 59 committers.
- Enrico Olivelli was added as a committer on Sun Dec 09 2018
## Releases:
- Core
* Last Maven release: 3.6.0 (Nov 01 2018)
- Plugins (ordered by date)
- Maven Surefire 2.22.1 was released on Fri Oct 12 2018
- Maven PMD Plugin 3.11.0 was released on Fri Oct 26 2018
- Maven Remote Resources Plugin 1.6.0 was released on Wed Oct 31 2018
- Maven Jarsigner Plugin 3.0.0 was released on Tue Nov 06 2018
- Maven Surefire 3.0.0-M1 was released on Wed Nov 07 2018
- Maven Shade plugin 3.2.1 was released on Sun Nov 11 2018
- Maven Help Plugin 3.1.1 was released on Sat Dec 08 2018
- Maven Jar Plugin 3.1.1 was released on Sat Dec 08 2018
- Maven Surefire 3.0.0-M2 was released on Sun Dec 09 2018
- Maven Surefire 3.0.0-M3 was released on Sun Dec 23 2018
- Other (ordered by date)
- Maven Resolver 1.3.0 was released on Sun Oct 07 2018
- Maven Jarsigner 3.0.0 was released on Wed Oct 31 2018
- Maven Plugin Tools 3.6.0 was released on Thu Nov 01 2018
- Maven Dependency Analyzer 1.11.0 was released on Sat Dec 08 2018
- Maven Archetype Bundles 1.4 was released on Thu Dec 13 2018
- Maven Common Artifact Filters 3.1.0 was released on Tue Dec 18 2018
- Maven Artifact Transfer 0.10.1 was released on Wed Dec 19 2018
- Maven Dependency Analyzer 1.11.1 was released on Tue Dec 25 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- users@maven.apache.org:
- 1611 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 267 emails sent to list (186 in previous quarter)
- dev@maven.apache.org:
- 615 subscribers (up 10 in the last 3 months):
- 659 emails sent to list (419 in previous quarter)
- announce@maven.apache.org:
- 644 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 22 emails sent to list (12 in previous quarter)
- issues@maven.apache.org:
- 223 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 4712 emails sent to list (4127 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 285 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 288 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Metron Project [Casey Stella]
## Description:
Metron integrates a variety of open source big data technologies in order
to offer a centralized tool for security monitoring and analysis. Metron
provides capabilities for log aggregation, full packet capture indexing,
storage, advanced behavioral analytics and data enrichment, while applying
the most current threat-intelligence information to security telemetry
within a single platform.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
There was concerted effort in creating the 0.7.0 release during this period.
This release contained substantially maturity of the UI components as well
as efforts around decoupling some of our infrastructural components from
the underlying distributed stream processing system (e.g. Storm).
Additionally, we have migrated to a more stable and future-proof API from
Elasticsearch.
## Health report:
We continued the good habits mentioned in the previous board report around
discussion of features. I have not seen evidence justifying concerns around
Slack bleeding traffic from the mailing list. Also, we continue to get
interesting and helpful user@ traffic showing real usage.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 27 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Justin Leet on Sun Dec 03 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 39 committers.
- Shane Ardell was added as a committer on Fri Nov 16 2018
## Releases:
- 0.7.0 was released on Sun Dec 16 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 149 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 117 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Guillaume Nodet]
## Description:
Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop
high performance and high scalability network applications easily.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
No new releases this quarter.
The discussions around moving Vysper to the Attic have not progressed.
The git repositories need to be migrated asap.
## Health report:
Both Mina SSHD and Mina Core subprojects have only two active committers
(different committers though). The SSHD subproject has external
contributions so we may have new committers in the future.
The FtpServer and Vysper have very low activity: a single commit since a
year for FtpServer, no activity since 4 years for Vysper.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Jonathan Valliere on Mon Aug 27 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 27 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Jonathan Valliere at Thu Feb 15 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was Apache Mina SSHD 2.1.0 on Mon Oct 01 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- users@mina.apache.org:
- 483 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 25 emails sent to list (22 in previous quarter)
- dev@mina.apache.org:
- 333 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 413 emails sent to list (312 in previous quarter)
- ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org:
- 133 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 32 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 33 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache MyFaces Project [Bernd Bohmann]
## Description:
The Apache MyFaces project is an umbrella project of the Apache Software
Foundation for projects relating to the JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity and health:
- Apache Myfaces Core is healthy, and the community is working on fixes and
improvements on the new JSF 2.3 specification features.
UI-Component Sets:
- Apache Tobago is healthy and active.
- Apache Trinidad is in maintenance mode. Last developer commit was Sept 2017.
- Myfaces Tomahawk is in maintenance mode. Last developer commit was May 2016.
Last commit on behalf of a contributor was May 2016.
Add-ons and Extensions:
- Apache MyFaces Portlet Bridge is in maintenance mode. Last developer commit
was Jan 2014. Last commit on behalf of a contributor was May 2015.
- Apache MyFaces CODI is in maintenance mode. CODI was replaced by Apache
DeltaSpike so new development happens there. Last commit March 2014.
- Apache MyFaces Orchestra is in maintenance mode. New projects use CDI and
DeltaSpike instead. Last commit on behalf of a contributor was August 2016.
- Apache MyFaces ExtVal is in maintenance mode. Last commit June 2014.
- Apache MyFaces Commons is in maintenance mode. Last commit August 2012.
- Apache MyFaces Ext-Scripting is in maintenance mode. Last commit Sept 2017.
- Apache MyFaces Test is in maintenance mode (Used by Myfaces Core). Last
commit May 2017.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 44 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Eduardo Breijo-Baullosa on Tue Jan 30 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 78 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Eduardo Breijo at Thu Jun 29 2017
## Releases:
- tobago-2.3.0 was released on Fri Nov 02 2018
- tobago-3.1.1 was released on Tue Nov 27 2018
- tobago-4.3.1 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018
- tobago-4.3.2 was released on Tue Nov 27 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 54 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 69 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache NiFi Project [Joe Witt]
## Description:
- Apache NiFi is an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and
distribute data.
- Apache NiFi MiNiFi is an edge data collection agent built to seamlessly
integrate with and leverage the command and control of NiFi. There are both
Java and C++ implementations.
- Apache NiFi Registry is a centralized registry for key configuration items
including flow versions, assets, and extensions for Apache NiFi and Apache
MiNiFi.
- Apache NiFi Nar Maven Plugin is a release artifact used for supporting the
NiFi classloader isolation model.
- Apache NiFi Flow Design System is a theme-able set of high quality UI
components and utilities for use across the various Apache NiFi web
applications in order to provide a more consistent user experience.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Released Apache NiFi 1.8.0 containing numerous new features, bug fixes, and
improvements. This included powerful features like load-balanced cluster
aware connections and node decommissioning.
- Discussions and work are underway to release the Apache NiFi Registry and
necessary improvements to NiFi to support storing extensions in the
registry and accessing them at run-time as needed via NiFi. This will
reduce the size of our distribution greatly reducing burden on Apache
infrastructure and improving the overall user experience.
- Discussions and code review underway for a powerful and amazingly simple
concept of NiFi flows executed as functions. The model honors the NiFi API
but offers wide variation in execution environments and will be useful for
optimizing performance of certain common use cases.
## Health report:
- Health of the community remains strong. Mailing list and JIRA activity has
remains very active and we find the Apache NiFi slack channel increasing
valuable as a tool to engage with the community and as a source of redirect
to the mailing lists.
- We have voted in two new committers in this period and there appears to be
additional pipeline strength brewing as well for committer and PMC merit.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 29 PMC members.
- No new PMC members in the last three months.
- Last PMC additional was Jeremy Dyer on Mon Jul 30 2018.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 42 committers.
- New committers:
- Ed Berezitsky was added as a committer on Wed Jan 02 2019.
- Nathan Gough was added as a committer on Wed Jan 02 2019.
## Releases:
- Apache NiFi 1.8.0 was released on Sat Oct 27 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Activity on the mailing lists remains high with a mixture of new users,
contributors, and deeper more experienced users and contributors sparking
discussion and questions and filing bugs or new features.
- users@nifi.apache.org:
- 652 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 737 emails sent to list (702 in previous quarter)
- dev@nifi.apache.org:
- 432 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 436 emails sent to list (430 in previous quarter)
- issues@nifi.apache.org:
- 52 subscribers (down 2 in the last 3 months):
- 5439 emails sent to list (6245 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 300 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 200 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel]
Apache Nutch is a highly extensible and scalable open source web crawler
software project. Stemming from Apache Lucene®, the project has diversified
and now comprises two codebases, based respectively on Apache Hadoop® data
structures and Apache Gora for leveraging NoSQL databases.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
RELEASES
Nutch 1.15 was released on Aug 09 2018.
The last release on the 2.x branch (2.3.1) dates to Jan 20 2016.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
A discussion on the dev mailing list resulted in overall agreement to move the
build from Ant/Ivy to Maven - users are more adapted to Maven and we expect to
simplify the release procedure
The release of 1.16 should land in the next weeks with already 40 issues
resolved.
COMMUNITY
No new PMC members added in the last 3 months. Last committer and PMC addition
was Roannel Fernandez at Sat Jun 23 2018.
The traffic on the user mailing list is at a steady level:
- dev@nutch.apache.org:
- 500 subscribers (down -10 in the last 3 months):
- 419 emails sent to list (309 in previous quarter)
(mostly machine-generated emails from Jira, Jenkins, Wiki)
- user@nutch.apache.org:
- 1035 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 116 emails sent to list (86 in previous quarter)
JIRA ACTIVITY
- 36 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 32 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache ODE Project [Sathwik]
## Description:
Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services
orchestration using flexible process definitions.
## Issues:
The ODE PMC has successfully voted to move the project to Attic. Vote:
https://s.apache.org/11Fv Result: https://s.apache.org/NegQ
Project termination resolution has been added to the board agenda as item
7B.
## Activity:
An user on the mailing list came up with a new project proposal here
[https://s.apache.org/rSlq], it's a completely new approach and is a
definite canditate for the incubator as it gives an opportunity to build
user and developer base around the new concept.
As indicated in the last quarter report, we no more have an active user and
developer base.
## Health report:
- There has been not much user/dev activity since the last reporting period
Oct
2018.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- Last committer was Sathwik on Dec 23 2012.
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.8 on Fri Mar 23 2018
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Mark Struberg]
## Description:
Apache OpenJPA is a persistent object management kernel for databases,
relational as well as non-relational. For relational databases, OpenJPA is
compliant to the Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) version 2.0.
OpenJPA runs in stand-alone Java SE as well as containers e.g Java EE,
Tomcat, Spring or OSGi.
We are currently working on implementing the JPA-2.2 specification
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
Moving to GIT got us some more traffic. We also started adding Maven
profiles to start up various databases via Docker. This heavily
simplifies contributing to different database dictionaries.
We also had a discussion about what our 3.0.x line currently supports.
We are right now a little bit in a limbo between JPA-2.0 and 2.2 due
to not having had access to the JPA TCK. We hope this will soon
become better as the JPA TCK is now freely available via JakartaEE.
It is a lot work to adopt though, so we expect this to take up some
months.
## Health report:
Community is ok. I hope we get some bigger changes done due to the
move to GIT. We've re-added Craig as PMC member as he got lost somehow
in Whimsy. We are also discussing about 2 new PMC members.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- Craig L Russell was added to the PMC on Sat Jan 05 2019
(note: this is a false positive, see above)
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 34 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Maxim Solodovnik at Mon Sep 24 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.4.3 on Tue Jun 12 2018
## Mailing list activity:
We still have decent activity on the mailing lists.
- users@openjpa.apache.org:
- 228 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 26 emails sent to list (11 in previous quarter)
- dev@openjpa.apache.org:
- 127 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 276 emails sent to list (125 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 17 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 9 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Maxim Solodovnik]
## Description:
- Openmeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging,
white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware
tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for
Remoting and Streaming.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- There is some constant activity on mailing lists as well as
development activity. Two versions were released.
## Health report:
- Activity level is a bit lowered due do Christmas/NY as well
as development
## PMC changes:
- Currently 26 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aaron Hepp on Tue Jun 05 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 28 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Aaron Hepp at Tue Jun 05 2018
## Releases:
- 4.0.6 was released on Sat Oct 13 2018
- 4.0.7 was released on Wed Jan 02 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 135 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 179 emails sent to list (178 in previous quarter)
- user@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 343 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 289 emails sent to list (429 in previous quarter)
- user-espanol@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 66 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 13 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter)
- user-russian@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 42 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 7 emails sent to list (9 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 31 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 50 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BF: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Peter Kovacs]
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache ORC Project [Owen O'Malley]
## Description:
- A high-performance columnar file format for Hadoop workloads.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring the board's attention.
## Activity:
- There are talks about ORC scheduled for:
* DataWorks Summit - Barcelona (18-21 March 2019)
* DataWorks Summit - Washington DC (20-23 May 2019)
- HAWQ is adding ORC support.
## Health report:
- The project is doing well and working toward the next release.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Eugene Koifman on Tue Sep 05 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 39 committers.
- Dongjoon Hyun was added as a committer on Fri Jan 11 2019
## Releases:
- 1.5.4 was released on Wed Dec 19 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- The mailing list activity has been stable. There has been a bit less
traffice on dev this month because we are between releases.
- dev@orc.apache.org:
- 64 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 76 emails sent to list (223 in previous quarter)
- issues@orc.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 290 emails sent to list (267 in previous quarter)
- user@orc.apache.org:
- 66 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 7 emails sent to list (9 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 40 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 27 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Parquet Project [Julien Le Dem]
## Description:
Parquet is a standard and interoperable columnar file format for efficient
analytics. Parquet has 3 sub-projects:
- parquet-format: format reference doc along with thrift based metadata
definition (used by both sub-projects bellow)
- parquet-mr: java apis and implementation of the format along with
integrations to various projects (thrift, pig, protobuf, avro, ...)
- parquet-cpp: C++ apis and implementation of the format along with Python
bindings and arrow integration.
## Issues:
No issue at this time
## Activity:
Current activity around: encryption Page indexing cutting a new release
improvement on parquet-proto
## Health report:
The discussion volume on the mailing lists is stable. Tickets get created and
closed at a reasonable pace.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 24 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Zoltan Ivanfi on Sun Apr 15 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Benoit Hanotte at Mon May 28 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was Format 2.6.0 on Mon Oct 01 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@parquet.apache.org:
- 216 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 529 emails sent to list (757 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 49 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 65 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BI: Report from the Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler]
## Description:
- the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF
documents.
## Issues:
- there are no issue requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- more than 20 JIRA tickets were fixed since releasing 2.0.13 so that most
likely 2.0.14 is about to be released soon
- due to Sallys post "Apache in 2018 - By The Digits" Tilman is among the top
5 committers of 2018 although we are a small community compared to other
ASF projects, see https://s.apache.org/Apache2018Digits
- Maruan managed to move (with the help of infra) all of our repos from
git-wip-us to gitbox to support infra with the decommission of git-wip-us
## Health report:
- there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the
mailing lists
## PMC changes:
- Currently 21 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Matthäus Mayer on Mon Oct 16 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 21 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Joerg O. Henne at Mon Oct 09 2017
## Releases:
- 2.0.13 was released on Sun Dec 02 2018
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Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Ranger Project [Selvamohan Neethiraj]
## Description:
- The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Jira activities are normal for a post release of 1.2.0 release and working towards new major release, 2.0.0.
- SVN (ranger site updates): 2 commits over last 3 months - mainly to update migration to gitbox repository;
## Health report:
- Team is working on a major release of Ranger - version 2.0.0 with supporting for securing new version of other apache projects (Kafaka 2.0, Knox 1.1.0, Kylin 2.5.0, ...)
- Team is also working on a minor release of Ranger on 1.2.1 on top of the last release of 1.2.0 to fix few minor issues.
- Worked with Apache INFRA team to move our repository to gitbox
## PMC changes:
- Currently 18 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Abhay Kulkarni on Fri Dec 15 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 28 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Bhavik Patel was added as a committer on Thu Nov 01 2018
- Nitin Galave was added as a committer on Thu Nov 01 2018
## Releases:
- Apache Ranger 1.2.0 was released on Wed Oct 03 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ranger.apache.org:
- 104 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1004 emails sent to list (874 in previous quarter)
- user@ranger.apache.org:
- 180 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 15 emails sent to list (34 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 77 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 78 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Royale Project [Harbs]
## DESCRIPTION
Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex but
designed for JavaScript runtimes instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache
Royale is designed to improve developer productivity in creating applications
for wherever Javascript runs, including browsers as well as Apache Cordova
applications, Node, etc.
## ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## RELEASES
- Apache Royale 0.9.4 was released on November 19 2018.
- Apache Royale 0.9.5 was skipped due to an error in releasing to npm.
## ACTIVITY
- More progress on the Jewel component set.
- More progress on the new "Flex Emulation" component set is being worked on
to ease migrations.
- There was slight decrease in list activity, but that was probably expected
due to the holiday seasons.
- Work is being started to add compiler features.
## COMMUNITY
- No new committers this quarter.
- No new PMC Members yet
- Piotr Zarzycki voted in as new PMC Chair
## Mailing list activity:
It's been more-or-less constant this quarter.
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Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Samza Project [Yi Pan]
## Description:
- Apache Samza is a distributed stream processing engine that are highly
configurable to process events from various data sources, including
real-time messaging system (e.g. Kafka) and distributed file systems (e.g.
HDFS).
## Issues:
- No issues requires board attention
## Activity:
- Samza 1.0 is released:
- News coverage:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/real-time-data-proces sing-just-got-more-options-linkedin-releases-apache-samza-1-0-streaming/
- Engineering blogs:
https://engineering .linkedin.com/blog/2018/11/samza-1-0--stream-processing-at-massive-scale
- Major online website refresh: http://samza.apache.org/
- Critical improvement projects completed:
- Changelog restore parallelization
- Evaluated HDFS based backup/restore of state stores
- Multiple SEP projects initiated or in-progress:
- SEP-18: allows manipulating starting offsets and time-based rewind
- SEP-19: Fast failover for stateful jobs on container failure (i.e.
standby container)
- SEP to come soon: async high-level API
- Beam Samza runner upgrade to use Samza 1.0
- Go and Python support via Beam Samza runner
## Health report:
- Project is in healthy status with 1.0 released in Nov 2018
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- Prateek Maheshwari was added to the PMC on Thu Nov 01 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 22 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Aditya Toomula was added as a committer on Mon Nov 05 2018
- Hai Lu was added as a committer on Mon Nov 05 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.0 on Nov 28, 2018
## /dist/ errors: 9
- Project is in healthy status with a major release pending in Oct
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@samza.apache.org:
- 271 subscribers (down -13 in the last 3 months):
- 445 emails sent to list (288 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 111 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 57 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BM: Report from the Apache ServiceComb Project [Willem Ning Jiang]
## Description:
- a microservice framework that provides a set of tools and components to
make development and deployment of cloud applications easier.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
In response to the board query to the previous board report:
bd: Are the outcome of your community meetings documented on your dev list?
servicecomb: Yeah, we have a wiki[1] page to track the discussion topics, we
already sent a mail[2] in the dev-list for the link and started a vote in the
mailing list if there is a big decision, such as the vote[3] of the repo
rename of servicecomb-saga to servicecomb-pack at the discussion of the
meetup.
[1]https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SERVICECOMB/Community+Meeting
[2]https://s.apache.org/E8Kz
[3]https://s.apache.org/YIFX
## Activity:
- ServiceComb PMC did saga-actuator and pack release this month.
- We participated in three[1] open source exchange conferences and delivered
five times keynote speeches to promote ServiceComb.
- Apache ServiceComb won the first prize of China's outstanding open source
project organized by China Open Source Cloud Alliance. reference news
link[2]
- Apache ServiceComb community join Chuanzhiboke Education Technology
sub-brand Itheima, Boxuegu and Wisdom Gathering release Apache ServiceComb
tutorial. reference news link[3]
[1]
1.China Alliance of Industrial Internet Conference, reference link
http://www.sohu.com/a/278199186_774700
2.China Cloud Computing Standards and Applications Conference, reference
link http://www.zhiding.cn/special/8th_Cloud_Conference#Agenda
3.Chuanzhiboke Carnival and Apache ServiceComb Meetup, reference link
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/GzWuPHpyZut4H0cuSfTOYA
[2]https://blog.csdn.net/ServiceComb/article/details/84989759
[3]http://servicecomb.apache.org/docs/chuanzhiboke-servicecomb-tutoria-release/
## Health report:
- The mails and commits activity are as good as usual.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 committers.
## Releases:
- ServiceComb Pack 0.3.0 was released on Wed Jan 02 2019
- ServiceComb Saga Actuator 0.3.0 was released on Tue Dec 18 2018
## Mailing list activity:
This month there are 1225 emails sent to servicecomb.apache.org by 38 people,
divided into 796 topics Top 5 member: GitBox: 541 email(s) ASF GitHub Bot
(JIRA): 208 email(s) ningjiang@apache.org: 118 email(s) Willem Jiang (JIRA):
105 email(s) liubao@apache.org: 45 email(s)
- dev@servicecomb.apache.org:
- This month there are 56 emails sent by 18 people, divided into 12
topics.
- 137 subscribers (up 17 in the last 3 months):
- 347 emails sent to list (634 in previous quarter)
- issues@servicecomb.apache.org:
- 8 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1674 emails sent to list (2708 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 152 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 153 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BN: Report from the Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood]
2019 January - Board report for Apache Shiro
Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.
Releases:
- Last release was 1.4.0 on 05-May-2017
Community & Project:
- We have a new committer and PMC member! François Papon was voted in on 10 Dec 2018.
- Mailing list traffic has dipped slightly in the last quarter
- Feature development is planned to continue against master.
- The 1.4.0 Release has been a step toward modernizing Shiro as well
as retain backwards compatibility
- Discussion has resumed for Shiro 2.0 development
Last committer voted in: François Papon on 10 Dec 2018
Last PMC Member voted in: François Papon on 10 Dec 2018
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Attachment BO: Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Venkat Ranganathan]
## Description:
Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data
between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational
databases. It can be used to import data from external structured
datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like
Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from
Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores such as relational
databases and enterprise data warehouses.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
Development activity continues on both trunk and sqoop 2 branches - both
our major versions that we currently support and develop.
## Health report:
Community is healthy, we see a new contributors showing up and contributing
to the project.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 18 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Boglarka Egyed was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 15 2018
- Vasas Szabolcs was added to the PMC on Mon Nov 05 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 32 committers.
- Fero Szabo was added as a committer on Thu Nov 08 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.4.7 on Tue Jan 23 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 32 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 40 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BP: Report from the Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ]
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Attachment BQ: Report from the Apache Steve Project [Daniel Gruno]
## Description:
- Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation
uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Same old, same old. We have had no activity this quarter, but are going to
slowly prepare for the annual members meeting by assessing if there are
issues from the previous meeting that have to be addressed.
## Health report:
- We did the usual check for sufficient oversight, and I am happy to report
that we do indeed have enough awake PMC members for oversight, even if it's
just the bare minimum 3 PMC members responding.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015
## Releases:
- No releases have been made yet.
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Attachment BR: Report from the Apache Streams Project [Steve Blackmon]
## Description:
- Apache Streams unifies a diverse world of digital profiles and online
activities into common formats and vocabularies, and makes these datasets
accessible across a variety of databases, devices, and platforms for
streaming, browsing, search, sharing, and analytics use-cases.
## Issues:
- More code has been unintentionally deprecated due to loss of functionality
of upstream APIs.
- Instagram turned off quite a few endpoints this quarter and Google announced
they will shut down Google+ entirely.
## Activity:
- Some additional development occurred on existing modules and one new module
is in an open pull request, but activity was low this quarter.
- Project is over-due for a release to incorporate new ActivityStreams 2.0
support and updates to several of our core dependencies
- Three Apache members have recently expressed some interest in getting
involved, potentially joining PMC, although not yet officially on-list.
## Health report:
- Mailing list and commit participation was low again. Adding committers and
growing the PMC needs to be a focus this year.
## PMC changes:
- None. There are currently 8 PMC members. The most recent PMC addition
occurred on July 19, 2017.
## Committer base changes:
- None. There are currently 8 committers. The most recent PMC addition
occurred on July 19, 2017.
## Releases:
- Apache Streams 0.6.0 was released on June 17, 2018
## Upcoming Project Initiatives:
- More support for RDF/JSON-LD Activity Streams 2.0 vocabulary as well as JSON
Activity Streams 1.0 vocabulary.
- Continue developing the new functionality that sources data from export
archives of online services (twitter, facebook, google, etc).
- Complete release version that includes binary distribution and official
docker container.
- Drop remaining maven dependencies on java SDKs for accessing third-party
APIs in favor of HTTP/REST interfaces via Apache Foundation code.
- Reduce disparities between normalized activities and objects of like type
collected from various data sources.
- Reduce disparities between the configuration objects that initialize similar
providers from various data sources.
- More tweets and blog posts of zeppelin notebooks demonstrating data
pipelines and analyses based on Apache Streams.
- More official examples in source tree demonstrating integration of Apache
Streams with complementary technologies.
- Improve the interfaces by which components are created, configured,
activated, and executed via SDK and CLI.
- Joint development with complementary projects including Apache Any23, Apache
Juneau, and Apache Kibble.
- Refactoring work to support compiling and tests passing on newer JDK
versions 9, 10, and 11.
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Attachment BS: Report from the Apache Struts Project [René Gielen]
The Apache Struts MVC framework is a solution stack for creating elegant
and modern action-based Java web applications. It favors convention over
configuration, is extensible using a plugin architecture, and ships with
plugins to support technologies such as REST, AJAX and JSON.
The Struts team made two GA releases in the last quarter:
* Struts 2.5.18 - Bug fix release (2018-10-15)
* Struts 2.3.36 - Bug fix release (2018-08-22)
Furthermore, the Struts Team announced End-of-Life for the Struts 2.3.x
development line (2018-11-14)[1], effective on 2018-05-11. Struts 2.3.x
is guaranteed to receive security updates during the transition period.
Within the last quarter we saw increased development activity with over
50 closed pull requests. Work on a new release line 2.6.x has started,
with the plan to put 2.5.x in maintenance mode soon and EOL it within a
year’s period. Upcoming Struts feature releases will be JDK 11
compatible. Currently we are in the process of releasing Struts 2.5.20
and 2.3.37.
Especially notable is the fact that quite a few new contributors are
showing up with mostly high quality contributions. We are keeping an eye
on these individuals for possible addition to the committership.
No committers or PMC members were added in the last quarter.
Last committer addition:
* 2017-11-14 - Yasser Zamani (yasserzamani)
Last PMC addition:
* 2018-06-12 - Yasser Zamani (yasserzamani)
We have no issues that require board assistance at this time.
[1] https://struts.apache.org/struts23-eol-announcement
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Attachment BT: Report from the Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi]
## Description:
- Tajo is an open source big data warehouse system in Hadoop for processing
web-scale data sets.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Tajo 0.11.3 was released on May 18, 2016
## Health report:
- The activity of this project is still low. However, PMC members
can answer immediately any issue.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Hyoung Jun Kim on Sun Dec 07 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Jong-young Park at Sun May 29 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.11.3 on Wed May 18 2016
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Attachment BU: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo]
## Description:
- Description goes here
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Tapestry 5.4.4 was released in December 18th, the first release for a long
time.
- Tapestry 5.5.0-beta-1 was released in December 19th, preparing for the new
major release.
## Health report:
- We have a new commiter and a new PMC member votes. More people are
contributing with discussions and patches. We're having now a period with
more activity than we were having.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Bob Harner on Thu Apr 06 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Dmitry Gusev at Fri May 26 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.4.4 on December 18 2017
## JIRA activity:
- 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BV: Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Georgios Petasis]
## Description:
- Apache Tcl is home to the Tcl-Apache integration efforts. The purpose of
our project is to combine the power of the Apache web server with the
capabilities of the mature, robust and flexible Tcl scripting language.
Currently only the Apache Rivet project is actively maintained.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Rivet released several artifacts (both in the 2.x and 3.x release
channels), providing fixes to tickets created in the reporting period, and
fixing problems surfaced by the test suite under various platforms.
- The CMake build system was further developed, to perform all actions the
autoconf based build system does, such as using the version from the
VERSION file, and generating the correct pkgIndex.tcl file for the rivet
library, after the library has been installed, in the installation
directory.
- The move to git (and integration to GitHub) has increased visibility, which
along with the relatively new feature of supporting Apache HTTPD under
Windows, raised some more interest from users (and not developers). Trying
to help new users run rivet under Windows, revealed that building under
Windows was been accidentally broken by the (re)addition of a preprocessor
definition, and has not been detected. The bug has been fixed, and release
of new artifacts is planned for early January.
- As a response to the inability of rivet to link correctly under Windows, we
tried to setup continuous integration for Windows through AppVeyor. This is
still work in progress, as the needed webhooks could not be added to the
rivet's GitHub project, and builds are currently triggered manually.
As a temporary solution, a fork has been created in GitHub, which is synced
periodically with its upstream through the "Pull" GitHub application. It
provides some synchronisation, although it has a delay of several hours to
trigger a build after a commit has been made. We are searching for a better
solution.
- Regarding comment from previous report:
"It will be interesting to see if the move to git increased contribution
levels. Please keep us updated." I think that the move to git has helped.
The fact that it has eased integration with GitHub, which has automated
tasks like monitoring commits
(i.e. through e-mail notifications), creating and monitoring forks,
applying patches through pull requests, etc. And for sure, has allowed the
integration with CI tools, like AppVeyor and Travis (which is planned),
which will help in detecting build problems under various operating
systems earlier.
## Health report:
- The project activity is limited to Apache Rivet.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Brice Hamon De Crevecoer on Tue Nov 25 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 12 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Brice B. Hamon at Tue Nov 25 2014
## Releases:
- rivet-2.4.0 was released on Wed Nov 28 2018
- rivet-3.0.3 was released on Sun Nov 18 2018
- rivet-3.1.0 was released on Wed Nov 28 2018
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 3 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BW: Report from the Apache Tez Project [Jonathan Turner Eagles]
## Description:
- Apache Tez is an effort to develop a generic application framework which
can be used to process arbitrarily complex directed-acyclic graphs (DAGs)
of data-processing tasks and also a re-usable set of data-processing
primitives which can be used by other projects.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- New developers are getting support on using Tez for new projects and much
community work is going toward that effort as well as support for JDK 11 and
Apache Hadoop 3.0. Preparing for move to gitbox upon yetus 0.9.0 release.
- Change in by-laws by removing emeritus/inactive clauses is inline with
Apache
## Health report:
- Delay of Tez 0.9.2 release due to jetty 9 CVE issues. Branch 0.10.0 branch
cut and waiting on RM to post artifacts
## PMC changes:
- Currently 35 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kuhu Shukla on Sun Mar 25 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 38 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kuhu Shukla at Wed May 10 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.9.0 on Thu Jul 27 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@tez.apache.org:
- 144 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 115 emails sent to list (102 in previous quarter)
- issues@tez.apache.org:
- 48 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 328 emails sent to list (531 in previous quarter)
- user@tez.apache.org:
- 212 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 28 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 17 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BX: Report from the Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell]
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Attachment BY: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Tim Allison]
## Description:
- Apache Tika is a dynamic toolkit for content detection, analysis, and
extraction. It allows a user to understand, and leverage information from,
a growing a list over 1200 different file types including most of the major
types in existence (MS Office, Adobe, Text, Images, Video, Code, and
science data) as recognised by IANA and other standards bodies.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- The project had two releases in the last quarter, one a bug fix; and one
with more substantial changes.
- The project refreshed its 1TB regression corpus (hosted by Rackspace) from
Common Crawl data, with heavy oversampling in binary file formats and a
better diversity of character encodings and languages. This revealed
several areas for improvements in Tika and its dependencies.
- Work continues on the new 2.x based master.
## Health report:
- Health is in decent shape. No significant changes in health.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 30 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Thejan Wijesinghe on Tue Apr 17 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Thejan Wijesinghe at Wed Apr 18 2018
## Releases:
- 1.19.1 was released on Mon Oct 08 2018
- 1.20 was released on Fri Dec 21 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 60 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 39 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BZ: Report from the Apache TinkerPop Project [Stephen Mallette]
## Description:
Apache TinkerPop is a graph computing framework for both graph databases
(OLTP) and graph analytic systems (OLAP).
## Activity:
TinkerPop just completed the release process for 3.2.11, 3.3.5 and
3.4.0. The 3.2.x line of code is largely closed off to general development
now with changes there reserved for the worst types of bugs. General
development focus is currently on 3.3.5 and 3.4.0. While 3.3.5 has a few
new features and bug fixes, 3.4.0 contains the culmination of nearly a
year's worth of effort with large and important changes to the Gremlin
graph traversal language.
Of particular general interest in 3.4.0, is the release of
sparql-gremlin[1], which compiles SPARQL[2] queries into Gremlin so that
SPARQL can be executed on any TinkerPop-enabled graph system. In providing
this functionality, TinkerPop helps provide a bridge from the Semantic
Web community with it's RDF model to TinkerPop's community with the
property graph model.
The wider TinkerPop community saw some additional growth with two new
third-party libraries:
* gremlin-ide[3] an IDE for Apache TinkerPop enabled systems
* JUGRI[4] a Jupyter Gremlin Interface
In our last report, we mentioned that we were still awaiting acceptance
for an invitation sent to a new PMC member. That invitation has since been
accepted by Jorge Bay-Gondra.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Releases:
- 3.2.11 (January 2, 2019)
- 3.3.5 (January 2, 2019)
- 3.4.0 (January 2, 2019)
## PMC/Committer:
- Last PMC addition was Jorge Bay-Gondra - October 2018
- Last committer addition was Harsh Thakkar - August 2018
## Links
[1] http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/3.4.0/reference/#sparql-gremlin
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL
[3] https://github.com/bechbd/gremlin-ide
[4] https://github.com/meltwater/jugri
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Attachment CA: Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Bryan Call]
## Description:
Apache Traffic Server is a HTTP and HTTP/2 proxy server and cache. What makes
ATS unique across the landscape of HTTP proxy caches is a focus on
extensibility (plugins), HTTP and HTTP/2 protocol conformity, and performance.
ATS is driving some of the largest CDNs in the world, delivering a significant
portion of all Internet traffic.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- There was an ATS QUIC summit in Tokyo at the Apple office in November. Six
ATS Committers attended and we worked on resolving issue and increasing the
performance of the IETF QUIC implementation in ATS.
## Health report:
- ATS 8.0.1 and 7.1.5 were released and included bug fixes for our LTS and
our newest major release. We are working on the ATS 8.0.2 and 7.1.6
releases and should be released in January. One major user of ATS is
running our latest 8.0.1 release of ATS.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 48 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Randall Meyer on Thu Aug 02 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 57 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Randall Meyer at Fri Jul 06 2018
## Releases:
- 7.1.5 was released on Fri Nov 23 2018
- 8.0.1 was released on Wed Nov 28 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- I am still concerned that the number of subscribers continue to decline.
On the positive side the activity on the mailing lists have increased
year over year.
- users@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 484 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 174 emails sent to list (123 in previous quarter)
- dev@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 309 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
- 218 emails sent to list (268 in previous quarter)
- announce@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 17 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (16 in previous quarter)
- issues@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 28 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 190 emails sent to list (295 in previous quarter)
- summits@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 17 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
## GitHub Issue activity:
- 58 issues created in the last 3 months
- 21 issues closed in the last 3 months
## Commit activity:
- 65,626 lines of code changed (down 27%)
- 518 commits (down 25%)
- 22 committer email addresses (up 10%)
- 42 author email addresses (down 11%)
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Attachment CB: Report from the Apache Twill Project [Terence Yim]
Apache Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop YARN to reduce the
complexity of developing distributed applications.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Added one new contributor
## Health report:
- Made one release since July 2018
## PMC changes:
- Currently 6 PMC members
- Last PMC addition was Henry Saputra on August 4, 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers and 25 contributors
- No new committer added in the last 3 months
- One new contributor added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Yuliya Feldman on Mar 6, 2018
- Last contributor addition was Hongyuan Li on Dec 12, 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was release 0.13.0 on July 17, 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@twill.apache.org:
- 68 subscribers
- 17 emails sent to the list in past three months (19 in last report)
- commits@twill.apache.org:
- 17 subscribers
- 4 emails sent to the list in past three months (9 in last report)
## JIRA activity:
- 0 new JIRA tickets created in the last month
- 1 JIRA tickets resolved in the last month
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Attachment CC: Report from the Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann]
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
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Attachment CD: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Daniel Kulp]
Apache Web Services is a collection of shared technologies related to
SOAP/XML based Web Services that can be shared by different implementations.
Spring-WS, Axis2, CXF, and others use parts of the technology created within
Apache Web Services.
Community:
WebServices is a mature project based on standards that are also quite
mature. As such, there is not a significant amount of activity required.
However, user questions are being answered promptly, bugs are being fixed,
and there are at least 3 independent PMC members around making sure
the project can continue to produce releases as needed. Since
SOAP/XML based Web Services is no longer considered state of the art,
we don't expect a major uptick in new development efforts, new
committers, etc...
Activity:
Much of the activity this quarter was around trying to get things building
and tests running with Java 11. Also minor bug fixes for issues submitted
by users. In general, not a lot of activity, but not much expected either.
PMC changes:
- Currently 42 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Alessio Soldano on Tue May 17 2016
Committer base changes:
- Currently 224 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Alessio Soldano at Sun Sep 14 2014
Releases this quarter:
* XmlSchema-2.2.4 was released on Sun Dec 09 2018
* Axiom-1.2.21 was released on Thu Nov 01 2018
Last releases for other technologies:
* WSS4J 2.2.2 : Jun 2018
* XmlSchema 2.2.4 : Dec 2018 (XML schema object model)
* Neethi 3.1.1 : Jan 2018 (WS-Policy Framework)
* Axiom 1.2.21 : Nov 2018 (StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model)
* Woden 1.0M10 : Sept 2015 (WSDL 2.0 implementation)
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Attachment CE: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway]
The Apache Xalan Project develops and maintains libraries and programs
that transform XML documents using XSLT standard stylesheets. Our subprojects
use the Java and C++ programing languages to implement the XSLT libraries.
Xalan is a mature project, but we are hoping to acquire more committers
who can help with integration builds for a new release of the Xalan C/C++
library.
The libraries need little work to make sure the code base is operational
in the newer software development studios and platforms.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
Our current chair no longer has the time to pursue PMC activities.
There is a need to assign a new chair person.
Active membership is becoming insufficient to hold binding votes.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Most activity has been through JIRA issue tracking. The email lists
have seen little activity.
There has been some work to put patches into JIRA but we still need to get
the patches integrated into the XALAN-C for an update release. The contributors
are active with other source projects and currently have little time to
devote on the Xalan C/C++ library. There still is some activity devoted
to the Xalan Java library.
MEMBERSHIP
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last new committer:
May 2014
PROJECT RELEASES
Xalan Java 2.7.2 April 15, 2014
Xalan C/C++ 1.11 October 31, 2012
Publishing of project releases was refreshed Oct 30, 2014.
OTHER ISSUES
We would still appreciate more active persons to build Xalan-C tests.
We continue to get requests for Xalan to support XSLT version 2. The
Xalan libraries currently support XSLT version 1. Feature ugrades and
migration will require more than a few committers.
The libraries need little work to make sure the code base is operational
in the newer software development studios and platforms.
BRANDING ISSUES
None.
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Attachment CF: Report from the Apache Zeppelin Project [Lee Moon Soo]
## Description:
- Apache Zeppelin is a collaborative data analytics and visualization tool for general-purpose data processing systems.
## Issues:
- PMCs are trying to address security issues reported
## Activity:
- 0.8.1 release is in discussion
## Health report:
- +6 new code contributors since last report. 272 total
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- Last PMC addition was Jeff Zhang on Thu Jan 25 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 17 committers.
- Last committer addition was Park Hoon at Jun 22 2017
## Releases:
- 0.8.0 was released on Wed Jul 18 2018
- 0.7.3 was released on Wed Sep 20 2017
- 0.7.2 was released on Mon Jun 12 2017
- 0.7.1 was released on Fri Mar 31 2017
- 0.7.0 was released on Sun Feb 05 2017
- 0.6.2 was released on Fri Oct 14 2016
- 0.6.1 was released on Aug 15 2016
- 0.6.0 was released on Jul 02 2016
- 0.5.6-incubating was released on Jan 22 2016
- 0.5.5-incubating was released on Nov 18 2015
- 0.5.0-incubating was released on Jul 23 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@zeppelin.apache.org:
- 707 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 175 emails sent to list (251 in previous quarter)
- dev@zeppelin.apache.org:
- 316 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 767 emails sent to list (1267 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 132 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 47 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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End of minutes for the January 16, 2019 board meeting.
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