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Timeline

Wed September 04	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun September 08	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun September 08	Summary due by end of day
Tue September 10	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed September 11	Report submitted to Board
Wed September 18	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Dave Fisher	SAMOA
Dave Fisher	Warble
Drew Farris	Pony Mail
Drew Farris	Tephra
Justin Mclean	BRPC
P. Taylor Goetz	Daffodil
P. Taylor Goetz	SDAP
P. Taylor Goetz	Spot
Timothy Chen	Crail
Timothy Chen	DLab
Timothy Chen	IoTDB
	Amaterasu
	Druid
	Hivemall
	Iceberg
	Marvin-AI
	Myriad
	Nemo
	Omid
	SINGA
	ShardingSphere
	Superset
	Tamaya
	Taverna
	Toree

Incubator PMC report for September 2019

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

TODO add arrative

Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

Graduations

list podling here

The board has motions for the following:

Your podling here?

Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of August:

Credits

Table of Contents BRPC
Crail
Daffodil
DLab
Druid
Hivemall
Iceberg
IoTDB
Marvin-AI
Myriad
Nemo
Omid
PonyMail
SAMOA
ShardingSphere
SINGA
Spot
Superset
Taverna
Tephra
Toree Warble

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 unfinished issues to address before graduating:

finish Apache release regularly
attract more users and contributors
build website

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

None.

How has the community developed since the last report?

brpc team had organized a forum on Aug 3rd in Shanghai China, over 100 engineers attended it, Contributors from Baidu/bilibili/iQiyi shared their experience on using brpc in their projects. we hope to attract more engineers to use and contribute to brpc project.

A new team from baidu shanghai office have began to working on brpc, including liuzhiwei, shizhan, tangjie, xingyongxu and yuhao.

How has the project developed since the last report?

we proposed the first apache release, the vote of rc1 was failed due to one 3rd party's license missed from LICENSE. the vote of rc2 was still on, waiting for JB's comments.

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:

Still working on the first release

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

No new ones.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

JB promised to check our release candidate 2. Von gave us many suggestions about how to discuss in maillist.

Signed-off-by:

(brpc) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments: None. Good work on the rc2 work. Thanks to Von and JB for their input.
(brpc) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
(brpc) Von Gosling
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Crail

Crail is a storage platform for sharing performance critical data in distributed data processing jobs at very high speed.

Crail has been incubating since 2017-11-01.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(crail) Julian Hyde
Comments:
(crail) Luciano Resende
Comments:
(crail) Felix Cheung
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Daffodil

Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.

Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(daffodil) Dave Fisher
Comments:
(daffodil) Christofer Dutz
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

DLab

DLab is a platform for creating self-service, exploratory data science environments in the cloud using best-of-breed data science tools.

DLab has been incubating since 2018-08-20.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Come up with a new name for DLab
Extend the amount of committers. The plan here is to participate in a number of conferences, starting with ApacheConf in Berlin on October 23, EPAM SEC conference in Gansk on SolutionsHub area
After release 2.2 is made, the team will have to do major refactoring of the code, updating of product documentation, which might potentially slow down the process of releasing version 2.3

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

No issues.

How has the community developed since the last report?

A new committer is added:

Adams Disturber (Andrii Dumych) Also awaiting for committer Mykola Bodnar, pending account creation. ICLA files are signed off and submitted, waiting for Apache ID to be created.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Team is actively working on release 2.2 features. There will be many new features and conceptual changes introduced in upcoming release. We are introducing the concept of projects within DLab, which will allow to control permissions for groups of DLab users, improve collaboration capabilities. Major improvements will be made in terms of GCP platform deployment. GCP will support the majority of the features, currently available in DLab for AWS and Azure Clouds. One of the conceptual features implemented is the ability to provision DLab's self-service noe in k8s and being able to integrate with many identity providers, supporting OAuth2 and SAML2.0 via Keycloak.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

Initial setup
Working towards first release
Working towards next release
Community building
Nearing graduation
Other:

Date of last release:

2019-15-04

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2019-20-08

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Yes, mentors have been helpful and responsive.

Signed-off-by:

(dlab) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments:
(dlab) Henry Saputra
Comments:
(dlab) Konstantin I Boudnik
Comments:
(dlab) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Druid

Druid is a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store.

Druid has been incubating since 2018-02-28.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(druid) Julian Hyde
Comments:
(druid) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments:
(druid) Jun Rao
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Hivemall

Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.

Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(hivemall) Xiangrui Meng
Comments:
(hivemall) Daniel Dai
Comments:
(hivemall) Koji Sekiguchi
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Iceberg

Iceberg is a table format for large, slow-moving tabular data.

Iceberg has been incubating since 2018-11-16.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(iceberg) Ryan Blue
Comments:
(iceberg) Julien Le Dem
Comments:
(iceberg) Owen O'Malley
Comments:
(iceberg) James Taylor
Comments:
(iceberg) Carl Steinbach
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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 unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(iotdb) Justin Mclean
Comments:
(iotdb) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
(iotdb) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
(iotdb) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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 unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(marvin-ai) Luciano Resende
Comments:
(marvin-ai) William Colen
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Myriad

Myriad enables co-existence of Apache Hadoop YARN and Apache Mesos together on the same cluster and allows dynamic resource allocations across both Hadoop and other applications running on the same physical data center infrastructure.

Myriad has been incubating since 2015-03-01.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

MYRIAD-295: Multiple versions of Apache Hadoop YARN as a Service
MYRIAD-280: Improve overall stability
MYRIAD-279: Reworking a new UI design

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

We need new mentors, we have only one active mentor right now. We have to increase the community and we have to increase the number of mentors too.

How has the community developed since the last report?

We have four active committers (PPMCs) right now. We have 60 users in the dev list and 1171 Twitter account followers. The new cycle of releases and the new ongoing project features (actively working the new committers on it) is a sign of a successful project rebooting.

How has the project developed since the last report?

The most important thing is the activity of creating new releases in a regular way. The Apache resources (project page, documentation page, …) are maintained and enhanced with new content.

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: New important features focuses in production environments

Date of last release:

The 0.4.0 release was issued on Aug 25, 2019

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2019-08-02 New committer/PMC member Oscar Fernandez

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

We have only two mentors right now. One of the is for ever missing, and the other is ready for help when the project needs. So we have only one active mentor. This is an issue to address with the help of IPMC.

Signed-off-by:

(myriad) Benjamin Hindman
Comments:
(myriad) Ted Dunning
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Nemo

Nemo is a data processing system to flexibly control the runtime behaviors of a job to adapt to varying deployment characteristics.

Nemo has been incubating since 2018-02-04.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(nemo) Davor Bonaci
Comments:
(nemo) Hyunsik Choi
Comments:
(nemo) Byung-Gon Chun
Comments:
(nemo) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
Comments:
(nemo) Markus Weimer
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Omid

Omid is a flexible, reliable, high performant and scalable ACID transactional framework that allows client applications to execute transactions on top of MVCC key/value-based NoSQL datastores (currently Apache HBase) providing Snapshot Isolation guarantees on the accessed data.

Omid has been incubating since 2016-03-28.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(omid) Alan Gates
Comments:
(omid) James Taylor
Comments:
(omid) Lars Hofhansl
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

PonyMail

Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms.

Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(ponymail) John D. Ament
Comments:
(ponymail) Sharan Foga
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

SAMOA

SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the most common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification, clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop new algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines (DSPEs). It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on several DSPEs such as Apache Storm, Apache S4, and Apache Samza.

SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(samoa) Alan Gates
Comments:
(samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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 unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Continuing to grow the community
Make several candidate releases
Make a GA release to make user API stable

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

No

How has the community developed since the last report?

The community has been growing. We have more contributors during those 3 months. A UI project has already donate to ShardingSphere. We have finished the second apache release on 24 August. The count of GitHub issues are 1800+, the count GitHub pull requests are 1000+.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We are merging new UI project to dev branch. The new features data mask and distribute transaction have finished.

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:

2019-08-24

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2019-01-21, but there are 4 active potential committers may prompt soon. The GitHub account of them are wqzwh, wgy8283335, nancyzrh and sunbufu.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Mentors are responsive and helpful. Things tend to be on the right way.

Signed-off-by:

(shardingsphere) Craig L Russell
Comments:
(shardingsphere) Benjamin Hindman
Comments:
(shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: It's good to see that shardingsphere PPMC put lot efforts on building community, and making a good release.
(shardingsphere) Von Gosling
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

SINGA

SINGA is a distributed deep learning platform.

SINGA has been incubating since 2015-03-17.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(singa) Alan Gates
Comments:
(singa) Ted Dunning
Comments:
(singa) Thejas Nair
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Spot

Apache Spot is a platform for network telemetry built on an open data model and Apache Hadoop.

Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Superset

Superset is an enterprise-ready web application for data exploration, data visualization and dashboarding.

Superset has been incubating since 2017-05-21.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(superset) Ashutosh Chauhan
Comments:
(superset) Alan Gates
Comments:
(superset) Jakob Homan
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Taverna

Taverna is a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute data-driven workflows.

Taverna has been incubating since 2014-10-20.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(taverna) Stian Soiland-Reyes
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Tephra

Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top of Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board 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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by:

(tephra) Alan Gates
Comments:
(tephra) James Taylor
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Toree

Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely access Apache Spark.

Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Active community
Increase active contributors

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?

After the release of Toree 0.3.0 the community slowed down, mostly due to Toree being somewhat stable and running on top of Spark, where the public APIs in use are also stable.

The community needs to work on a release that supports Apache Spark 2.4.x and Scala 2.12.

Toree might be one of those low activity projects which have enough active PPMCs (see last ppmc voting thread), and we might start graduation talks based on these facts.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Very little activity on the last few months after the Toree 0.3.0 release

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:

(toree) Luciano Resende Comments:
(toree) Julien Le Dem Comments:
(toree) Ryan Blue Comments:

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

(warble) Daniel Takamori
Comments:
(warble) Chris Lambertus
Comments:

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