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1. Est. release process for ZIP of source code
2. Est. release process for Docker and other platform binaries
3. Increase additional company and individual Contributors to maintain all project repos.

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How has the community developed since the last report?    

• incubator-openwhisk Github stars: 2181 (+253 since last report)

• incubator-openwhisk GitHub forks: 469 (+52 since last report)

• dev mailing list activity continues to be activeTBD

• The  bi-weekly Zoom "Technical Interchange" continues to be well received and attended.
  
  • Complete videos posted to OW YouTube channel and detailed notes to our CWIKI.
    • YouTube Channel: Apache Meetings Playlist
    • CWiki Meeting Notes: OpenWhisk Technical Interchange Meeting Notes
      
      • 2017-09-27 OW Tech Interchange - Meeting Notes
      • 2017-10-11 OW Tech Interchange - Meeting Notes
      • 2017-10-25 OW Tech Interchange - Meeting Notes
      • 2017-11-08 OW Tech Interchange - Meeting Notes

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• Brendan McAddams: Red Hat: Akka expert working on creating separate Akka dispatchers for CouchDB and Kafka Clients

• Kavitha Vallari Devara: Samsung FaaS team in "Open Service Lab of Convergence Team (SW R&D Center): incubator-openwhisk organizing project directory structure.

• Gabriel Nicolas Avellaneda: independent. CLI contributions

• Manjiri Tapaswi: N. Caroline State Univ. (NCSU): Fixed all "good first issues" for "incubator-wskdeploy"

• Stig Bakken, Zedge (mobile phone customization), first review of PR in Kube repo.

How has the project developed since the last report?

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incubator-openwhisk Github stars: 2181 (+253 since last report)

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• Focus on improved per-invocation (of Actions) performance via logging and other improvements.
• Continued focus in HA/Clustering enablement while continuing to reduce reliance on Ansible for configuration. 
  • e.g., controller creates health and cacheInvalidation topics #2991
• Kubernetes (incubator-openwhisk-deploy-kube)

  • Moved travis Travis testing to using Minikube & more current kubernetes Kubernetes version (1.7.4)

  • Significant progress on supporting deploy of complete OpenWhisk system on Kubernetes, eliminating custom containers, and streamlining deploy process

• Separation of CLI and language Language runtimes into their own top-level repos. (10/17):

  • Move docker runtime into it's own repo #2850

  • Move python runtime into it's own repo #2843

  • Move nodejs runtime into it's own repo #2834

  • Move php runtime into it's own repo #2823

  • Move swift runtime into it's own repo #2822

  • Move java runtime into it's own repo #2821

• Generate maven snapshot artifacts #3060

• openwhisk-package-deploy:

  • New repo created with proper license, docs, tests, and Travis CI

  • New action wskdeploy allows to deploy wskdeploy git repos

• openwhisk-packages-cloudant/couchdb:

  • Update to feed action to update trigger config (dbName)

  • Update to feed action to return config and status

• openwhisk-packages-kafka:

  • New ability for feed action to return config and status

  • Update to feed action to update trigger config (topic)

• openwhisk-packages-alarms:

  • New ability for feed action to return config and status

  • New alarm trigger type interval

  • New alarm trigger type fire once

  • New StartDate and stopDate parameters for cron

• openwhisk-cli:

  • New canonical source after duplication removal from main repo

  • New open issues moved from main repo to CLI repo

  • New triiger feed lifecyles on `trigger get` and `trigger update`

  In addition to CLI and Runtime separation work, other work related to preparing for releases has begun as well.
  • e.g., Generate maven artifacts #3060

• Note: there was an issue with pushing Docker images to DockerHub for ~2 week period fixed on 11/27; effects were that Travis builds on 11/28 suddenly experienced a issues from the backlog of updates that went untested.
  

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