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Incubator PMC report for May 2019

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

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* Community

New IPMC members:




People who left the IPMC:




* New Podlings




* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month




* Graduations

The board has motions for the following:

- Your podling here?
- Your podling here?

* Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of
April:


* IP Clearance




* Legal / Trademarks




* Infrastructure




* Miscellaneous




* Credits

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Table of Contents
brpc
DataSketches
Doris
ECharts
Edgent
Heron
Milagro
MXNet
PageSpeed
Pinot
Ratis
S2Graph
SDAP
Tamaya
Toree
Training
Tuweni
TVM

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brpc

brpc is an industrial-grade RPC framework for building reliable and high-performance services.

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DataSketches

DataSketches is an open source, high-performance library of stochastic
streaming algorithms commonly called "sketches" in the data sciences. Sketches
are small, stateful programs that process massive data as a stream and can
provide approximate answers, with mathematical guarantees, to computationally
difficult queries orders-of-magnitude faster than traditional, exact methods.

DataSketches has been incubating since 2019-03-30.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Finish IP Assignments
2. Code Migration
3. Perform a Release

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

No


How has the community developed since the last report?

We have the key committers signed up. We are all learning how
to navigate in the Apache environment and how to find things.

How has the project developed since the last report?

This is our first report.

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:

Our DataSketches.GitHub.io site is quite active as we are
very active with new code and releases from this site.
For example, our latest release of sketches-core was yesterday,
25 April 2019.

We are a long way from being able to release from the migrated
Apache code base as it doesn't yet exist.

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

We have just signed up are initial list of committers.

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.

Kenneth Knowles has been extremely helpful! Thank you!

Signed-off-by:

[X](datasketches) Liang Chen
Comments:
[X](datasketches) Kenneth Knowles
Comments: Initial set up has been a bit slow; that's on me
[X](datasketches) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:




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Doris

Doris is a MPP-based interactive SQL data warehousing for reporting and
analysis.

Doris has been incubating since 2018-07-18.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Hold a Meetup to communicate with developers and users.
2. Prepare for the second Apache Release.
3. Grow the community encouraging patches and recognizing sustained
contributions by adding as Committers and PPMC members.

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?

There are 29 contributors now.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Excluding merges, 12 authors have pushed 75 commits to master and 233 commits to all branches.
On master, 253 files have changed and there have been 14,050 additions and 3,027 deletions.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

[ ] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:

Date of last release:

2019-02-21

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.

Yes, our mentors have been helpful and responsive.

Signed-off-by:

[ X](doris) Dave Fisher
Comments: Will need to start discussions about possible new committers.
[ ](doris) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
[ ](doris) Shao Feng Shi
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:




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ECharts

ECharts is a charting and data visualization library written in JavaScript.

ECharts has been incubating since 2018-01-18.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Apache domain name should be used for the Website.
echartsjs.com and echarts.baidu.com should redirect to echarts.apache.org.
Currently they are not redirecting due to slow loading time in China.
We are working on with a CDN to improve the loading time in China.
2. Website Analytics information should be accessed by PPMC members.
We are going to create an Analytics account that can be accessed by PPMC members.
3. Develop more committers from the community.
Currently there are some contributors in the community that have contributed
continously and should be considered as new committers.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We haven't come to a conclusion whether we could use Baidu Tongji in the Website,
which is a product quiet similar to Google Analytics.
We've consulted John Kinsella <jlkinsel@gmail.com> as our mentor suggested, but got
no reply. See https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/efa62d1ace0cc27f7ee4e47df94c346e863b6419f1d1e3ea6fe32c10@%3Cdev.echarts.apache.org%3E
My suggestion is to use bothe Baidu Tongji and Google Analytics. The reason is that
Baitu Tongji has only Chinese UI, while Google Analytics may have the potential of
losing some data in China since many Google products are not accessible in China.
If IPMC and ASF Board are OK with it, we will start a vote for the plan.

How has the community developed since the last report?
We have announced our first new committer from the community.
More people come to contribute in the community, in the forms of code changes, document
mending, and so on.

How has the project developed since the last report?
We released v4.2.1.

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:

2019-03-21

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2019-04-03

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:

[ ](echarts) John D. Ament
Comments:
[ ](echarts) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments:
[ X](echarts) Dave Fisher
Comments: Thanks to Infra the issues blocking a full move to apache.org domains are being addressed.
The change is to build a one off CDN in China.
[ ](echarts) Ted Liu
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:




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Edgent

Edgent is a stream processing programming model and lightweight runtime to
execute analytics at devices on the edge or at the gateway. (Formerly known as
Quarks)

Edgent has been incubating since 2016-02-29.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1.
2.
3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?




How has the community developed since the last report?




How has the project developed since the last report?


How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

[ ] Initial setup
[ ] 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?


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:

[ ](edgent) Luciano Resende
Comments:
[ ](edgent) Justin Mclean
Comments:
[ ](edgent) Christofer Dutz
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:




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Heron

A real-time, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine.

Heron has been incubating since 2017-06-23.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Making a new release with artifacts (more review required).
2. Making several Releases.
3. Continuing to grow the community.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

None at this time.


How has the community developed since the last report?

The community has been growing. Monthly meetups have been regularly and successfully organized.
The April meetup was back in Twitter office and it was very successful.
Many discussions and works have been done by the community.



How has the project developed since the last report?

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How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

[ ] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 4 new committers were elected and invited in Feb 2019.


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.

Dave has been helpful on answering questions and voting for releases.


Signed-off-by:

[ ](heron) Jake Farrell
Comments:
[ ](heron) Julien Le Dem
Comments:
[ ](heron) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments:
[ X](heron) Dave Fisher
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:




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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 unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1.
2.
3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?




How has the community developed since the last report?




How has the project developed since the last report?


How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

[ ] Initial setup
[ ] 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?


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:

[ ](milagro) Nick Kew
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:




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MXNet

A Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep Learning

MXNet has been incubating since 2017-01-23.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Increase diversity in contributors, committers, and PMC members — NEAR COMPLETION.
2. Identify remaining ICLAs or SGAs that need signing – NEAR COMPLETION.
3. Revisit Apache Maturity Model Assessment — TODO

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
1. Community reached consensus on Gluon branding. In the context of the Gluon API in MXNet, it would be mentioned as MXNet Gluon. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/af7dcb430e2cedf23d1531e79877e8bf2b40ec392e40853a2d7015da@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E
2. Community addressed the IP/licensing issues discovered during previous releases. Updated status can be found here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/MXNet+Source+Licenses
3. MXNet has significant user presence in China that are worth optimizing for in terms of infrastructure. Setting up CDN in China requires ICP filing.

How has the community developed since the last report?
* The number of GitHub contributors increased to currently 682 (2019-04-22; +4.4% since last report)
* Active discussions on user forums
  https://discuss.mxnet.io/ (English, 1.6K registered users and 5.6K posts)
  https://discuss.gluon.ai/ (Chinese, 6K registered users and 19.2K posts)
* Active blogs and social media presence
Medium (https://medium.com/apache-mxnet) w/ 1.3k followers (+30% since last report).
Twitter account (https://twitter.com/ApacheMXNet) w/ 2k followers on (+16% since last report)
Meetup group (https://www.meetup.com/pro/deep-learning-with-apache-mxnet/) w/ 10 groups in 8 countries, 1998 members (+65% since last report)
(in China) Zhihu w/ 7.5k followers, WeChat official account w/ 3k followers. (reported for the first time)
* Active video channels
YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/apachemxnet) w/ 627 subscriber (+29% since last report)
Chinese YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjeLwTKPMlDt2segkZzw2ZQ) w/ 4.1k subscribers (reported for the first time)
(in China) bilibili space (https://space.bilibili.com/209599371) w/ 13k subscriber (reported for the first time)
* Highlights in MXNet ecosystem
MXNet Gluon book (www.d2l.ai, Dive into Deep Learning/D2L) released v1.0.0-rc0 (https://github.com/d2l-ai/d2l-zh/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc0) in Chinese and v0.6.0 (https://github.com/d2l-ai/d2l-en/releases/tag/v0.6.0) in English. Dive into Deep Learning has 47.5K 28-day active users, and has attracted 9.3K stars & 200+ contributors on GitHub. It has been adopted as a textbook or reference book by 15+ universities in U.S., China, Spain, and Australia, such as UC Berkeley.
GluonCV v0.4.0 release (https://github.com/dmlc/gluon-cv/releases/tag/v0.4.0)
GluonNLP v0.6.0 release (https://github.com/dmlc/gluon-nlp/releases/tag/v0.6.0)
MXNet Model Server v1.0.2 release (https://github.com/awslabs/mxnet-model-server/releases/tag/v1.0.2)
GluonFace (https://github.com/THUFutureLab/gluon-face)
DeepInsight (https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface)

How has the project developed since the last report?
1) Released v1.4.0: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.4.0; https://blogs.apache.org/mxnet/entry/apache-mxnet-1-4-is1
2) Started v1.4.1 patch release https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3bb49a1016fafd0840d14f099ce47c7a1822da45f7ca2187c0f03c64@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E; Started roadmap discussion on short-term 1.5.0 release https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/14619; Started roadmap discussion on long-term 2.0 plan https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/9686;
3) Code donation from dmlc/mshadow. Community expressed the desire to assimilate dmlc/mshadow code base into mxnet. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c1ba34330b0eb52ef3a3a30da6d34964a35a01c320e93067e94ed306@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E. After discussion, DMLC reached agreement to donate dmlc/mshadow code to mxnet, which is its sole consumer.
4) Many ongoing projects: numpy-compatbile deep learning: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/projects/14; CPU performance and quantization: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/projects/15; Mixed precision GPU training (AMP): https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/14173, etc.
5) Github statistics of last month:
* March 24, 2019 – April 24, 2019: Excluding merges, 53 authors have pushed 102 commits to master and 137 commits to all branches. On master, 495 files have changed and there have been 14,977 additions and 5,391 deletions.

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
[x] Nearing graduation

Date of last release:
2019-03-04 MXNet 1.4.0

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

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