The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes December 19, 2018 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:31 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman. Other Time Zones: https://timeanddate.com/s/3q86 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 Brett Porter Roman Shaposhnik Phil Steitz Mark Thomas Directors Absent: none Executive Officers Present: Ross Gardler Tom Pappas Sam Ruby Daniel Ruggeri Matt Sicker Executive Officers Absent: Craig L Russell Ulrich Stärk Guests: Daniel Gruno Greg Stein Jim Jagielski Karen Miller 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 November 21, 2018 See: board_minutes_2018_11_21.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Phil] This month, we continued some important discussions on where we are going as a foundation, how we are going to operate and how Officers and Directors should represent the foundation externally. We continued slow progress on the 5-year plan update. My hope is that in the coming month, we will make enough progress that as we enter budget planning for the next fiscal year, we will have consensus views on what our priorities are and we can use the draft plan update as a guide in making budget decisions. This month we received very good reports from Beam, Incubator, Olingo and Pulsar. PMC chairs and other interested community members are encouraged to look at these reports as examples of the kinds of things we like to see in project reports. Comments this month focused on the usual topics, reminding PMCs to discuss issues that we had seen on private or dev lists, keeping things that can be public public, and making sure that synchronous meetings get reported back to public lists. Best wishes to all for a joyous holiday season and many, many thanks to all whose volunteer efforts have made this a great year for the ASF! B. President [Sam] Overall, we continue to be significantly under budget in expenditures, and ahead of plan in terms of income. Brand Management is operating normally, and Finance has been quiet. While I expect most areas input to to the upcoming five year plan to be incremental changes, this will not be the case for Fundraising where the team has been building an entirely new plan. Expect a draft of that plan to be posted to board@, most likely by the end of the year. Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 7. C. Treasurer [Ulrich] Operating Cash on Nov 30th, 2018 was $2,205.9K, which is up $36.4K from last month's ending balance (Oct 18) of $2,169.5K. Total Cash as of Nov 30th, 2018 is $3,599.8K ( includes the Pineapple and restricted Donation) as compared to $1,611.7K on Nov 30th 2017. The Nov 2018 ending Operating cash balance of $2,205.9K represents an Operating cash reserve of 14 months based on the FY19 conservative Cash forecast average monthly spending of $157.4K/month. The ASF actual Operating reserve of 14 months at the end of Nov 2018 is ahead of the budgeted 10.5 month reserve for YTD through Nov 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 $12.2K . As compared to the FY 19 Budgeted Income, YTD, we are ahead by $345.3K. YTD expenses, through Nov 30th, 2018 are under budget by $254.1K. All depts. are under budget, at the end of Nov 2018. There are still a couple items worth mentioning, one being Infra, as noted in the Board summary is $141.4K 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 $135.9K NI vs a budgeted negative <$463.5K> NI or $599.4K 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 ($230.2K), and therefore trailing NI year over year, by $-218K, but again significantly ahead of FY19 budget in all categories. Current Balances: Boston Private CDARS Account 2,250,000.00 Citizens Money Aprket 1,066,750.68 Citizens Checking 281,663.74 Paypal - ASF 1,402.83 Total Checking/Savings 3,599,817.25 Nov-18 Budget Variance Income Summary: Inkind Revenue 0.00 0.00 0.00 Public Donations 7,504.09 7,828.94 -324.85 Sponsorship Program 105,000.00 20,000.00 85,000.00 Programs Income 0.00 0.00 0.00 Conference/Event Income 20,000.00 0.00 20,000.00 Other Income 0.00 0.00 0.00 Interest Income 679.97 1,444.93 -764.96 Total Income 133,184.06 29,273.87 103,910.19 Expense SumApry: In Kind Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00 Infrastructure 50,335.96 78,128.32 -27,792.36 Programs Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00 Publicity 21,330.77 12,896.21 8,434.56 Brand Management 5,117.09 8,166.67 -3,049.58 Conferences 4,590.06 0.00 4,590.06 Travel Assistance Committee 0.00 0.00 0.00 Fundraising 11,257.67 17,333.34 -6,075.67 Treasury Services 3,350.00 3,475.00 -125.00 General & Administrative 1,773.28 2,137.15 -363.87 Total Expense 97,754.83 122,136.69 -24,381.86 Net Income 35,429.23 -92,862.82 128,292.05 YTD FY19 Budget Variance Income Summary: Inkind Revenue 0.00 0.00 0.00 Public Donations 142,032.14 39,459.31 102,572.83 Sponsorship Program 680,371.47 500,000.00 180,371.47 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 0.00 0.00 0.00 Interest Income 3,682.59 8,387.70 -4,705.11 Total Income 1,091,514.15 746,247.01 345,267.14 Expense SumApry: In Kind Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00 Infrastructure 433,498.46 574,898.24 -141,399.78 Programs Expense 0.00 4,400.00 -4,400.00 Publicity 157,093.10 164,318.98 -7,225.88 Brand Management 36,992.59 57,166.69 -20,174.10 Conferences 197,012.10 200,000.00 -2,987.90 Travel Assistance Committee 0.00 45,000.00 -45,000.00 Fundraising 94,578.23 121,333.38 -26,755.15 Treasury Services 26,085.00 26,475.00 -390.00 General & Administrative 10,362.62 16,143.08 -5,780.46 Total Expense 955,622.10 1,209,735.37 -254,113.27 Net Income 135,892.05 -463,488.36 599,380.41 D. Secretary [Craig] In November, 101 ICLAs and three grants were received and filed. E. Executive Vice President [Ross] Infrastructure ============= Infrastructure is operating as expected. Hiring remains a focus - there are many resumes to review. GitBox migration is now active. Migration is currently voluntary, but the expectation that it will become mandatory has been set. There is currently no date upon which migration becomes mandatory. Marketing and Publicity ======================= Sally continues to handle sponsor outreach and renewal activities. $593K secured in annual renewals thus far (excludes multi-year invoicing/payments). Individual Giving campaign launched (https://s.apache.org/9cCy) during the Giving Tuesday global movement. 745 individuals donated nearly $80K since the program's launch last year. Q2 FY2019 quarterly report has also been published https://s.apache.org/d2Fq . Conferences =========== Planning to open ACNA19 CFP in January. Projects are invited to run their own mini-conference/track/summit/other as we continue our march towards ApacheCon being a convention of project conferences. 6 projects or topic communities have responded so far. ACEU19 planning has resumed, Myrle Krantz is leading the effort. The event will be held in Berlin at the Kulturbrauerei. The DC Roadshow (lead Kevin McGrail) has been rescheduled for Monday, March 25th, 2019. We hope to re-launch promotion for this event soon. Chicago Roadshow (lead Trevor Grant) on schedule for May 13-14 2019, in Logan Square. Travel Assistance Committee =========================== No report submitted at the time of writing. However, I am aware of a conversation regarding the provision of funds for a specific minority group. Initially the TAC rejected this on the grounds that the committee and process is not setup to allow such targeting. However, a proposal has been made that would appear to add no significant overhead on the TAC community and preserves the existing evaluation criteria. This is still under consideration. F. Vice Chairman [Shane] No activities taken 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 / Isabel] 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: # Fundraising [rs] # Gump [rs] # ServiceMix [rb] A. Apache Allura Project [David Philip Brondsema / Rich] See Attachment A B. Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Roman] No report was submitted. C. Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy / Mark] See Attachment C D. Apache Atlas Project [Madhan Neethiraj / Brett] See Attachment D E. Apache Aurora Project [Jake Farrell / Phil] No report was submitted. F. Apache Axis Project [Robert Lazarski / Ted] See Attachment F G. Apache Bahir Project [Luciano Resende / Mark] See Attachment G H. Apache Beam Project [Kenneth Knowles / Shane] See Attachment H I. Apache Bigtop Project [Youngwoo Kim / Roman] See Attachment I J. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Bertrand] No report was submitted. K. Apache BVal Project [Matthew Jason Benson / Isabel] See Attachment K L. Apache Camel Project [Andrea Cosentino / Brett] See Attachment L M. Apache Cayenne Project [Michael Ray Gentry / Rich] See Attachment M N. Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller / Ted] See Attachment N O. Apache CloudStack Project [Mike Tutkowski / Phil] See Attachment O P. Apache Commons Project [Gary D. Gregory / Phil] No report was submitted. Q. Apache Cordova Project [Shazron Abdullah / Roman] See Attachment Q R. Apache cTAKES Project [Pei Chen / Isabel] See Attachment R S. Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman / Ted] See Attachment S T. Apache Eagle Project [Edward Zhang / Bertrand] See Attachment T U. Apache Falcon Project [Pallavi Rao / Shane] See Attachment U V. Apache Felix Project [Karl Pauls / Mark] See Attachment V W. Apache Flex Project [Tom Chiverton / Rich] No report was submitted. X. Apache Flink Project [Stephan Ewen / Brett] See Attachment X Y. Apache Griffin Project [William Guo / Mark] See Attachment Y Z. Apache Guacamole Project [Mike Jumper / Brett] See Attachment Z AA. Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig / Roman] See Attachment AA AB. Apache Hama Project [Chia-Hung Lin / Rich] No report was submitted. AC. Apache HAWQ Project [Lei Chang / Phil] See Attachment AC AD. Apache Helix Project [Kishore G / Bertrand] No report was submitted. AE. Apache Hive Project [Ashutosh Chauhan / Ted] See Attachment AE AF. Apache Incubator Project [Justin Mclean / Shane] See Attachment AF AG. Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig / Isabel] See Attachment AG AH. Apache Joshua Project [Tommaso Teofili / Bertrand] See Attachment AH AI. Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Brett] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache Labs Project [Danny Angus / Shane] No report was submitted. AK. Apache Lucene Project [Adrien Grand / Roman] See Attachment AK AL. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Shad Storhaug / Ted] No report was submitted. AM. Apache Mnemonic Project [Gang Wang / Mark] See Attachment AM AN. Apache Mynewt Project [Justin Mclean / Phil] See Attachment AN AO. Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato / Isabel] See Attachment AO AP. Apache Olingo Project [Michael Bolz / Rich] See Attachment AP AQ. Apache OODT Project [Imesha Sudasingha / Phil] See Attachment AQ AR. Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce / Shane] See Attachment AR AS. Apache OpenNLP Project [Jörn Kottmann / Ted] See Attachment AS AT. Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg / Bertrand] See Attachment AT AU. Apache Pig Project [Koji Noguchi / Roman] See Attachment AU AV. Apache Pivot Project [Roger Lee Whitcomb / Mark] See Attachment AV AW. Apache Polygene Project [Jiri Jetmar / Isabel] No report was submitted. AX. Apache Portable Runtime (APR) Project [Nick Kew / Brett] See Attachment AX AY. Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor / Rich] See Attachment AY AZ. Apache PredictionIO Project [Donald Szeto / Bertrand] See Attachment AZ BA. Apache Pulsar Project [Matteo Merli / Ted] See Attachment BA BB. Apache Royale Project [Harbs / Phil] No report was submitted. BC. Apache Sentry Project [Alex Kolbasov / Brett] See Attachment BC BD. Apache ServiceComb Project [Willem Ning Jiang / Roman] See Attachment BD BE. Apache ServiceMix Project [Krzysztof Sobkowiak / Mark] See Attachment BE BF. Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood / Shane] No report was submitted. BG. Apache Sling Project [Robert Munteanu / Rich] See Attachment BG BH. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Sidney Markowitz / Isabel] See Attachment BH BI. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Mark] No report was submitted. BJ. Apache Storm Project [P. Taylor Goetz / Roman] See Attachment BJ BK. Apache Synapse Project [Isuru Udana / Brett] See Attachment BK BL. Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi / Shane] No report was submitted. BM. Apache Tiles Project [Michael Semb Wever / Isabel] See Attachment BM BN. Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk / Ted] See Attachment BN BO. Apache Trafodion Project [Pierre Smits / Rich] See Attachment BO BP. Apache Twill Project [Terence Yim / Bertrand] No report was submitted. BQ. Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor / Phil] See Attachment BQ BR. Apache VCL Project [Josh Thompson / Rich] See Attachment BR BS. Apache Whimsy Project [Sam Ruby / Ted] See Attachment BS BT. Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst / Roman] See Attachment BT BU. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Bertrand] No report was submitted. BV. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Brett] See Attachment BV BW. Apache XML Graphics Project [Clay Leeds / Phil] See Attachment BW BX. Apache Yetus Project [Allen Wittenauer / Isabel] See Attachment BX BY. Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Paiva Junqueira / Shane] See Attachment BY Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Change the Apache Gora Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Lewis John McGibbney (lewismc) to the office of Vice President, Apache Gora, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Lewis John McGibbney from the office of Vice President, Apache Gora, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Gora project has chosen by vote to recommend Kevin Ratnasekera (djkevincr) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Lewis John McGibbney is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Gora, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Kevin Ratnasekera be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Gora, 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 Gora Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Change the Apache Open Climate Workbench (OCW) Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Michael James Joyce (joyce) to the office of Vice President, Apache OCW, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Michael James Joyce from the office of Vice President, Apache OCW, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache OCW project has chosen by vote to recommend Huikyo Lee (huikyole) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Michael James Joyce is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache OCW, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Huikyo Lee be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OCW, 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 7B, Change the Apache Open Climate Workbench (OCW) Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. C. Terminate the Apache Polygene Project WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Polygene 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 Polygene project due to inactivity; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Polygene 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 Polygene Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Polygene" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Polygene PMC is hereby terminated. Special Order 7C, Terminate the Apache Polygene Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. D. Change the Apache Calcite Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Michael Mior (mmior) to the office of Vice President, Apache Calcite, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Michael Mior from the office of Vice President, Apache Calcite, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Calcite project has chosen by vote to recommend Francis Chuang (francischuang) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Michael Mior is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Calcite, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Francis Chuang be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Calcite, 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 Calcite Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. E. Terminate the Apache Tiles Project WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Tiles 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 Tiles project due to inactivity; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Tiles 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 Tiles Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Tiles" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Tiles PMC is hereby terminated. Special Order 7E, Terminate the Apache Tiles Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. F. Establish the Apache Airflow Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to workflow automation and scheduling that can be used to author and manage data pipelines. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Airflow Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Airflow Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to workflow automation and scheduling that can be used to author and manage data pipelines; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Airflow" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Airflow Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Airflow Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Airflow Project: * Alex Guziel * Alex Van Boxel * Arthur Wiedmer * Ash Berlin-Taylor * Bolke de Bruin * Chris Riccomini * Dan Davydov * Fokko Driesprong * Hitesh Shah * Jakob Homan * Jeremiah Lowin * Joy Gao * Kaxil Naik * Maxime Beauchemin * Siddharth Anand * Sumit Maheshwari * Tao Feng NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Bolke de Bruin be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Airflow, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Airflow Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Airflow podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Airflow podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7F, Establish the Apache Airflow Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. G. Change the Apache Lucene Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Adrien Grand (jpountz) to the office of Vice President, Apache Lucene, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Adrien Grand from the office of Vice President, Apache Lucene, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Lucene project has chosen by vote to recommend Cassandra Targett (ctargett) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Adrien Grand is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Lucene, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Cassandra Targett be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Lucene, 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 7G, Change the Apache Lucene Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. H. Change the Apache Cordova Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Shazron Abdullah (shazron) to the office of Vice President, Apache Cordova, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Shazron Abdullah from the office of Vice President, Apache Cordova, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Cordova project has chosen by vote to recommend Jesse MacFadyen (purplecabbage) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Shazron Abdullah is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Cordova, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jesse MacFadyen be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Cordova, 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 7H, Change the Apache Cordova Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. I. Change the Apache Fineract Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Myrle Krantz (myrle) to the office of Vice President, Apache Fineract, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Myrle Krantz from the office of Vice President, Apache Fineract, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Fineract project has chosen by vote to recommend Vishwas Babu A J (vishwasbabu) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Myrle Krantz is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Fineract, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Vishwas Babu A J be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Fineract, 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 7I, Change the Apache Fineract Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. 8. Discussion Items 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Phil: work with infrastructure (Greg) on plans for projects with extraordinary requirements [ Action Items 2018-05-16 ] Status: * Jim: perhaps the httpd project would be willing to adopt mod_perl as a [ Perl 2018-08-15 ] Status: As reported last 2 months, the httpd project would be willing to take over some parts of the project, but not the entire project. This was relayed to the Perl PMC. No response as of this date. I consider this action CLOSED. * Rich: pursue a report for Lucene.Net [ Lucene.Net 2018-09-19 ] Status: Sent a reminder. They haven't reported since June, when Shad was made chair. * 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: * Phil: document process of reinstatement of emeritus members [ Bylaws 4.5: Reinstatement of Membership of Emeritus Members 2018-09-19 ] Status: * Board: review CCLA discussion on legal-internal and provide input as [ Legal Affairs 2018-11-21 ] Status: * Phil: draft strongly worded message on board list to PMCs that have [ Security Team 2018-11-21 ] Status: complete: Messages were sent on 12/13. * Brett: follow up with Cocoon to encourage a release [ Cocoon 2018-11-21 ] Status: * Sally: work with Sam and Tom to request more budget for stickers for events [ Community Development 2018-11-21 ] Status: * Rich: follow up with the PMC and get a report next month [ Hama 2018-11-21 ] Status: Chia-Hung acknowledged on list that their November report was rejected, but there doesn't appear to be any motion on writing a report for December. Chia-Hung suggested possibly looking for a new chair. * Shane: pursue a report for HAWQ [ HAWQ 2018-11-21 ] Status: Done: They've reported. * Mark: work to verify adequate oversight by PMC [ Juneau 2018-11-21 ] Status: Complete. Oversight confirmed via vote on 7.2.2 release on November. * Rich: pursue a report for Open Climate Workbench [ Open Climate Workbench 2018-11-21 ] Status: New chair resolution is in agenda. PMC pinged again - Shane. * Bertrand: pursue a report for Polygene [ Polygene 2018-11-21 ] Status: done, Attic resolution is in * Roman: work with the community on retiring Xalan [ Xalan 2018-11-21 ] Status: * Rich: pursue a report for Xerces [ Xerces 2018-11-21 ] Status: Complete: Report was received. * Mark: pursue a report for XML Graphics [ XML Graphics 2018-11-21 ] Status: Complete. We have a report for December. For the record, the project did this without any prompting from me. 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 11:48 a.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- 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: - naming of local user group - guidelines for 'founding individuals' (thanks Sally for providing the answer we could point to) - using logos in a presentation - Kafka Summit * REGISTRATIONS No new registrations. Worked with counsel on responses to office actions for a number of in-progress registrations. * INFRINGEMENTS Work continues to address a number of potential infringements. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Daniel Ruggeri] Fundraising continues well financially. Our monthly committee meetings continue and our next meeting is on the 10th of January and guests are welcome. Financially, we continue to add more sponsors and fundraising goals are being met or exceeded. With being under budget, gaining more sponsors and some early sponsor payments, we are now $600K ahead of budget based on Net Income for the Fiscal Year to Date with 10.5 months of reserves in our operating accounts plus additional monies from Pineapple and the restricted donation earmarked for the endowment. An initial prospectus for ApacheCon EU 2019 was sent and we are currently working on verbals for 4 platinum sponsors. Fundraising for ApacheCon EU 2019 and a Roadshow Event in Chicago as well as a combined event in Spain is also under way. The DC Event has a new date of March 25th. We encourage you to visit http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html and thank our sponsors any time the opportunity arises. As a charity, we rely completely on their altruism. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi] [REPORT] ASF Marketing & Publicity - December 2018 I. Budget: we are on budget and on schedule, with no vendor payments outstanding. II. Cross-committee Liaison: Sally Khudairi continues Sponsor outreach and renewal activities, with $593K secured in annual renewals thus far (excludes multi-year invoicing/payments). The annual Individual Giving campaign launched https://s.apache.org/9cCy during the Giving Tuesday global movement. 745 individuals donated nearly $80K since the program's launch last year. The latest "Success at Apache" post, "Cookie Monster", is live at https://s.apache.org/cnSe . The Q2 FY2019 quarterly report has also been published https://s.apache.org/d2Fq . III. Press Releases: no formal announcements were issued via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, or announce@apache.org during this timeframe. IV. Informal Announcements: 7 items were published on the ASF "Foundation" Blog. 4 Apache News Round-ups were issued, with a total of 230 weekly summaries published to date. We tweeted 12 items, and have 51K followers on Twitter, following the bot purge adjustment. We also hit a technical snag the weekend before the "Individual Giving" campaign where Twitter's algorithms caused our account to be shut down. Thanks to assistance from Jim Jagielski, Saša Gargenta, Remy DeCausemaker, Ignasi Barrera, and Mohammad Almalkawi, our account was restored just in time for Giving Tuesday. In addition, We posted 8 items on LinkedIn, which garnered more than 43.4K organic impressions. V. Future Announcements: 4 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 with at least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution. VI. Media Relations: we responded to 2 media queries. The ASF received 1,385 press clips vs. last month's clip count of 1,236. Media coverage of Apache projects yielded 2,955 press hits vs. last month's 3.024. ApacheCon received 2 press hits. VII. Analyst Relations: we received 3 analyst queries during this time. Apache was mentioned in 4 reports by Gartner; 2 reports by Forrester; 2 reports by 451 Research; and 3 reports by IDC. VIII. Graphics: planning for promotional materials, creative assets, and Website refresh for the ASF's 20th Anniversary is underway. Sally created high-resolution graphics for a print article in JAX Magazine, as well as supporting images for a keynote presentation for Flink Forward China. The images were generated by the analytics provided by Snoot. IX. Events liaison: no third party events are planned at this time, however, we are beginning to work with Virtual on ApacheCon North America 2019 and newthinking for ApacheCon Europe 2019. Sally worked with ASF Secretary Craig Russell on securing and creating his keynote presentation for Flink Forward China, as well as the conference producers to ensure that they were in compliance with the ASF’s policies on Apache project brand usage. X. Newswire accounts: we have 4 pre-paid press releases remaining in our contract with GlobeNewswire, which will auto-renew through December 2019. # # # ----------------------------------------- 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. Short Term Priorities ===================== - Move from HipChat over to Slack. We are signed into both platforms, but much of our day-to-day work is still on HipChat. - Perform a Jenkins/plugins upgrade. - Hire new people. Long Range Priorities ===================== - Move to new email infrastructure. General Activity ================ - GitBox migration is now active. Projects have been told they "must" move eventually, and we're taking volunteers right now. Each community can vote when a move is best for them, and we will migrate them. When the flow of volunteers slows, we'll put out another call and/or suggest a deadline when we'll perform a mandatory migration. - Reviewing a huge number of resumes. - Continued movement to rsync-based backups, so we can avoid paying for a Zmanda license in January. - The AOO wiki and forums have been migrated to new cloud hardware (away from our VMware hosts at OSU/OSL), newer software, and the old stuff has been decommissioned. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Conferences [Rich Bowen] ACNA19 This month we have made good progress towards ApacheCon North America 2019. Meetings have started with our producer. We are hoping to open the CFP in January, as we're waiting for a new version of the CFP system from our vendor. We reached out to projects to offer them the opportunity to run their own mini-conference, track, summit, or whatever they choose to call it, as part of our event, as we continue our march towards ApacheCon being a convention of project conferences. We have received requests from 6 projects or topic communities, plus at least one which is discussing it on their mailing list. Once we have a track/room grid documented, we'll begin slotting these into the available space. ACEU19 Meetings have resumed with our producer for ApacheCon Europe 2019. Myrle Krantz is leading that effort, and is working with our producer to nail down details. The event will be held in Berlin at the Kulturbrauerei where we held our 2018 EU event. DC Roadshow The DC Roadshow has been rescheduled for Monday, March 25th, 2019. We hope to re-launch promotion for this event soon. Kevin McGrail is the lead for that event. Chicago Roadshow Trevor Grant continues to work towards a 2019 Roadshow in Chicago, May 13-14 2019, in Logan Square. Look for more details in the next month or two. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald] ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the VP of Finance [Tom Pappas] For the month of November, not much activity on the Finance front, though have been working with Fundraising on a few items with regard to Sponsors ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] Nothing to report this month. ----------------------------------------- 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 24 open (compared to 22 last month) JIRAs with the oldest dating back to Jan 2017. VP Brand Management did a really great job keeping committee posted on latest developments around Common Clause and also keeping our pro-bono counsel in the loop. There's currently no updates to be shared aside from what is already reflected on: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-402 There's been an active discussion among Legal Committee members about what configuration of mailing lists and aliases which would best satisfy the goal of rigorously upholding attorney client privilege. Consensus on the best course of action has not yet emerged. Another useful discussion around official status of convenience binary releases in the foundation appears to have converged and we hope to suggest documentation updates based on its results. ----------------------------------------- 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 November 2018: 5 [license confusion] 12 [support request/question not security notification] Security reports: 34 (last months: 28, 32, 37) 10 [ofbiz] 2 [lucene], [struts] 1 [activemq], [ambari], [commons], [guacamole], [hadoop], [hc], [httpd], [ignite], [incubator/netbeans], [infrastructure], [kafka], [nifi], [openoffice], [pdfbox], [rocketmq], [roller], [spark], [tika], [tomcat], [zeppelin] In total, as of 1st December, we're tracking 93 (last month: 90) open issues across 42 projects, median age 78 (last month: 73) days. 53 of those issues have CVE names assigned. 7 (last month: 5) of these issues, across 6 projects, are older than 365 days. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 11: Report from the VP of Data Privacy [Chris Mattmann] ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Report from the Apache Allura Project [David Philip Brondsema] ## Description: Apache Allura is an open source implementation of a software forge, a web site that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs, and more for any number of individual projects. ## Issues: - No issues needing board attention. ## Activity: - New discussions about making Allura mobile responsive, and reaction features - Various improvements and fixes continue - A some users/devs continue to be active on our list & tickets. ## Health report: - Shalitha has provided many improvements and has joined the project - Overall development remains slow but steady. ## PMC changes: → Shalitha Suranga was added to the PMC on Sun Oct 28 2018 → Last PMC addition: Sun Oct 28 2018 (Shalitha Suranga) → Currently 16 PMC members. ## Committer base changes: → Shalitha Suranga was added as a committer on Mon Oct 29 2018 → Last committer addition: Mon Oct 29 2018 (Shalitha Suranga) → Currently 16 committers. ## Releases: → 1.10.0 was released on Mon Oct 29 2018 → 1.9.0 was released on Sun Sep 23 2018 ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney] ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Report from the Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy] ## Description: Apache Archiva software is an extensible repository management tool that helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact repository. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: Minor activities. Migration of the website to gitpubusb ## Health report: We have enough PMC to cut release. ## PMC changes: - Currently 9 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Martin Stockhammer on Mon Apr 10 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 21 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Martin Stockhammer at Thu Sep 22 2016 ## Releases: - Last release was 2.2.3 on Tue May 16 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - users@archiva.apache.org: - 225 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 25 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter) - dev@archiva.apache.org: - 105 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 23 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter) - issues@archiva.apache.org: - 33 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 5 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter) - notifications@archiva.apache.org: - 15 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 57 emails sent to list (39 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Report from the Apache Atlas Project [Madhan Neethiraj] ## Description: Apache Atlas is a scalable and extensible set of core foundational governance services that enables enterprises to effectively and efficiently meet their compliance requirements within Hadoop and allows integration with the complete enterprise data ecosystem ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - released 0.8.3 on 10/31/2018 - released 1.1.0 on 09/17/2018 - working on 2.0.0 release, to support Hadoop 3, HBase 2, Solr 7, Kafka 2, Hive 3 - updated to support Hadoop trusted-proxy authentication - updated lineage UI to support entity-type specific icons, customizable depth, option to hide process entities - performance related fixes in Hive hook and notification processing - model enhancements to support soft-ref - export/import enhancements to create audit entries containing summary of the operation ## Health report: - 1 new contributor added in last 3 months: Nikhil Bonte ## PMC changes: - Currently 33 PMC members - No new PMC members added in last 3 months - Last PMC member addition was on 6/21/2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 38 committers - 1 new committer was added in last 3 months: Ramesh Mani - Last addition to committer role was on 10/15/2018 ## Releases: 2.0.0 plan to release by 12/31/2018 0.8.3 was released on 10/31/2018 1.1.0 was released on 09/17/2018 1.0.0 was released on 06/02/2018 0.8.2 was released on 02/05/2018 1.0.0-alpha was released on 01/25/2018 0.8.1 was released on 08/29/2017 0.8-incubating was released on 03/16/2017 0.7.1-incubating was released on 01/26/2017 0.7-incubating was released on 07/09/2016 0.6-incubating was released on 12/31/2015 0.5-incubating was released on 07/11/2015 ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Report from the Apache Aurora Project [Jake Farrell] ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Robert Lazarski] # Apache Axis2 Board Report ## Description The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components (both Java and C). ## Issues There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity - Axis2 Java 1.7.9 (stable) - Maintenance only. - Axis2 Java 1.8 (development) - Axis2 C 1.7 (development) ## Health report: We have enough PMC to cut releases. Axis2 is a mature project, but still actively maintained. This past quarter most if not all of the Jira issues created were because of upgrades to new Axis2 versions and JDK upgrades. Most of our users are using legacy SOAP services, to attract new committers work has started on an 'auto configuration module' for spring boot, which supplies a pom.xml for deps and programmatic initialization of REST based JSON services if the axis2 jar is detected. Axis2 C added a new committer, Bill Blough, this past December 2017 and so far that is helping the project pick up speed. There wwa more progress via commits and Jira issues this past quarter. Its been a decade since the last release and while he has no ETA on the next one, the commits and resolved Jira issues indicate that he is making good progress. ## PMC/Committer changes: - Currently 63 PMC/Commiters members. - No new committers were added in the last 90 days, last committer added was Bill Blough on December 7th 2017 who also was added to the PMC on May 9th 2018. ## Releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.7.9 was released on November 16, 2018. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## JIRA Activity - 9 JIRA tickets created in the last 90 days. - 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 90 days. ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Report from the Apache Bahir Project [Luciano Resende] Apache Bahir provides extensions to distributed analytic platforms such as Apache Spark and Apache Flink. Currently, Bahir provides extensions to multiple distributed analytic platforms, extending their reach with a diversity of streaming connectors and SQL data sources. Community Activity: Apache Bahir community was very active in the last few months, we have performed 5 releases, and added couple new members to our contributor list and have seen a good flow of new pull requests and general activity. Activities around Flink extensions are about back to normal levels with few items being updated and discussed. Issues: * No known issues Releases: 12/04/2018 - Bahir for Spark 2.3.2 12/04/2018 - Bahir for Spark 2.3.1 12/04/2018 - Bahir for Spark 2.3.0 09/13/2018 - Bahir for Spark 2.2.2 09/13/2018 - Bahir for Spark 2.1.3 06/27/2018 - Bahir for Spark 2.2.1 06/04/2018 - Bahir for Spark 2.1.2 08/22/2017 - Bahir for Spark 2.2.0 07/11/2017 - Bahir for Spark 2.1.1 05/24/2017 - Bahir for Flink 1.0 03/05/2017 - Bahir for Spark 2.1.0 01/28/2017 - Bahir for Spark 2.0.2 10/28/2016 - Bahir for Spark 2.0.1 Committers or PMC changes (Currently 10 PMC / 38 committers) 10/20/2018 - Prashant Sharma becomes Apache Bahir PMC 10/11/2018 - Joao Boto becomes Apache Bahir committer 06/25/2018 - Zhihong Yu (Ted Yu) becomes Apache Bahir PMC 09/14/2017 - Esteban Laver becomes Apache Bahir committer 04/05/2017 - Robert Metzger becomes Apache Bahir PMC 03/13/2017 - Christian Kadner becomes Apache Bahir PMC 11/30/2016 - Christian Kadner voted as Apache Bahir committer 10/18/2016 - Robert Metzger voted as Apache Bahir committer Trademark/Branding: * No known issues. Legal Issues: * None ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Report from the Apache Beam Project [Kenneth Knowles] ## Description: - Apache Beam is a unified programming model for both batch and streaming data processing, enabling efficient execution across diverse distributed execution engines and providing extensibility points for connecting to different technologies and user communities. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - We are happy to welcome a new integration: A Beam runner for Apache Nemo (incubating) has been authored, and resides in the Nemo repository. - The community held a 2-day Beam Summit London in October with 80 attendees, mostly users. Considered a success, the community intends to hold more, likely planning a bit more in advance. - The project has also added a “Roadmap” to the website, to share with users exciting developments underway that are otherwise only discoverable on dev@. Based on a good discussion, it emphasizes how a roadmap for a community driven ASF project differs from a commercial roadmap. - Other recent community decisions include: - Releasing “vendored” artifacts as an alternative to shading, much as Apache Flink does. - Clarifying the conditions under which Beam’s “rollback first” policy applies. Notably, it does not apply to downstream (potentially non-public) integrations. - Send Jira and Jenkins notifications to separate lists issues@ and builds@, respectively. - Previously, the community agreed to establish a long-term support (LTS) branch. This quarter, the 2.7 minor release family was chosen for a 6 month pilot. - IP clearance has been completed for: - Dataflow Java Worker ## Health report: - Notable this quarter is greatly increased attention to the website and wiki pages pertaining to onboarding new contributors. - The dev@ and user@ mailing lists continue the prior modest linear growth trend. - Email volume to dev@ has increased markedly, especially noting that we have rerouting all automated emails to issues@beam.apache.org and builds@beam.apache.org. ## PMC changes: - Currently 19 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Thomas Weise on Fri Jun 08 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 46 committers. - New commmitters: - David Morávek was added as a committer on Mon Oct 29 2018 - Ankur Goenka was added as a committer on Mon Oct 22 2018 - Matthias Baetens was added as a committer on Mon Nov 26 2018 - Xinyu Liu was added as a committer on Mon Oct 15 2018 ## Releases: - Since the last report, Apache Beam has published two releases, with one more currently in progress: - 2.7.0 was released on Fri Sep 28 2018 - 2.8.0 was released on Thu Oct 25 2018 - 2.9.0 is in progress - The community determined to start the release process every 6 weeks, and we have stuck to this. The smaller gap between 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 is due to variance in the time to a final RC. ## Mailing list activity: - dev@beam.apache.org: - 575 subscribers (up 28 in the last 3 months): - 1939 emails sent to list (1937 in previous quarter) - user@beam.apache.org: - 593 subscribers (up 17 in the last 3 months): - 416 emails sent to list (559 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 881 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months (811 in the previous quarter) - 622 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months (501 in the previous quarter) ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Report from the Apache Bigtop Project [Youngwoo Kim] ## Description: - Apache Bigtop is a software related to a system for integration, packaging, deployment and validation of a big data management software distribution based on Apache Hadoop. ## Issues: - There are no issues at this time. ## Activity: - Bigtop 1.3.0 was released on Sat Nov 17 2018. This release include the AArch64 to supported architecture and also there are improvements and fixes related to docker image, toolchains, smoke tests and support for recent version of ecosystem projects. - Youngwoo Kim was elected as the new PMC chair. ## PMC changes: - Currently 27 PMC members. - Jun He was added to the PMC on Sun Nov 25 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 37 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Jun He at Fri Feb 23 2018 ## Releases: - 1.3.0 was released on Sat Nov 17 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - Activity is consistent. No significant trends to be identified. - dev@bigtop.apache.org: - 152 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 307 emails sent to list (177 in previous quarter) - announce@bigtop.apache.org: - 52 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - ci@bigtop.apache.org: - 17 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 163 emails sent to list (78 in previous quarter) - issues@bigtop.apache.org: - 40 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 357 emails sent to list (441 in previous quarter) - user@bigtop.apache.org: - 180 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 17 emails sent to list (12 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 30 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 33 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin] ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache BVal Project [Matthew Jason Benson] ## Apache BVal Report December 2018 ## - The Apache BVal project implements the Java EE Bean Validation specification(s) and related extensions, and became a top-level project of the foundation on February 15, 2012. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - During the past quarter we released Apache BVal 2.0.0 which delivers an implementation of the latest 2.0 Bean Validation JSR specification. - The recent release included code that, unless deliberately circumvented, would prevent the behavior at the core of the security vulnerability reported during Q2. - The Bean Validation EG leadership has reached out to encourage us to obtain official status as a conforming implementation. This is primarily a matter of configuration tooling which we hope to address in a forthcoming point release. - We have received a small number of post-release bug reports which we intend to address in the immediate future when the team's non-volunteer workload permits. ## Health report: - We retain a small core of developers with the desire to keep this project afloat. ## PMC changes: - Currently 13 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Romain Manni-Bucau on Mon Nov 18 2013 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 14 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. ## Releases: - 2.0.0 was released on Sat Oct 27 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - Activity this quarter reflects the release process of version 2.0.0 and an accompanying JIRA cleanup. Post-release saw some activity in response. - dev@bval.apache.org: - 42 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months): - 118 emails sent to list (26 in previous quarter) - user@bval.apache.org: - 54 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 5 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 21 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache Camel Project [Andrea Cosentino] ## Description: - Apache Camel is a powerful open source integration library based on Enterprise Integration Patterns. Rules for Camel's routing engine can be defined in either a Java based DSL or XML. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - We are working on a new website. We are continuously moving pages from confluence to github .adoc. We moved the security advisories and the release notes too. - We are continuing our work towards Apache Camel 3.0.0. We already have a new branch with updated code for that. - We announced the following vulnerability with the last releases: http://camel.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2018-8041.txt.asc?version=1&modificationDate=1536746339000&api=v2 - We are discussing possible new committers and PMC members. ## Health report: - The project is super healthy, active and stays at a high level ## PMC changes: - Currently 32 PMC members. - Nicola Ferraro is the last new PMC Member added since the last report - Last PMC was added on Mon Jul 16 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 63 committers. - No new committers in the last 3 months. - Dmitry Volodin was added as a committer on Sat May 19 2018 ## Releases: - 2.21.3 was released on Sun Oct 28 2018 - 2.22.1 was released on Fri Sep 07 2018 - 2.22.2 was released on Thu Nov 01 2018 - 2.23.0 was released on Thu Nov 29 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - users@camel.apache.org: - 991 subscribers (down 15 in the last 3 months) - 315 emails sent to list (316 in previous quarter) - dev@camel.apache.org: - 341 subscribers (down 18 in the last 3 months) - 1155 emails sent to list (515 in previous quarter) - issues@camel.apache.org: - 84 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 1748 emails sent to list (2410 in previous quarter) - notifications@camel.apache.org: - 8 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months) ## JIRA activity: - 204 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 152 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Report from the Apache Cayenne Project [Michael Ray Gentry] # Apache Cayenne Board Report, December 2018 ## Description Apache Cayenne is a Java database persistence framework. It takes a distinct approach to object persistence and provides an ORM runtime, remote persistence services, and a cross-platform GUI mapping/modeling tool. ## Issues There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity With the release of Cayenne 4.0, new development is focused on the next milestone iteration. - Cayenne 3.1.3 (aging) - Maintenance only. - Cayenne 4.0 (stable) - Maintenance only. - Cayenne 4.1M3 (development/milestone) - Development continues on Cayenne 4.1M3. ## Health Report Cayenne is healthy. Development activity is stable and and we have a stable user and developer community. ## PMC Changes - Currently 9 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months. - Last PMC addition is Nikita Timofeev on Sun Jun 25 2017. ## Committer Base Changes - Currently 23 committers. - Last committer addition is Arseni Bulatski on Mon Dec 10 2018. ## Releases - Cayenne 3.1.3 on Wed Jul 25 2018. - Cayenne 4.0 on Mon Aug 20 2018. - Cayenne 4.1.M2 on Wed Jul 25 2018. ## JIRA Activity - 27 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months. - 19 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months. ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller] ## Description: Apache Chemistry is an effort to provide an implementation of the CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) specification in Java, Python, PHP, .NET, Objective-C, and JavaScript (and possibly other languages). ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: There was basically no activity in the last three months. ## Health report: - We have a mature code base. No major development is expected. ## PMC changes: - Currently 36 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Laurent Mignon on Sat Sep 23 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 38 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Laurent Mignon at Wed Sep 20 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was cmislib 0.6.0 on Thu Aug 31 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@chemistry.apache.org: - 162 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months): - 43 emails sent to list (31 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Report from the Apache CloudStack Project [Mike Tutkowski] ## Description: Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage and networking devices. ## Issues: ## Activity: - There has been one new release (4.11.2.0) since the previous report. - We held a CloudStack Collaboration Conference within ApacheCon in September in Montreal. ## Health report: - Version 4.12.0 is in development. - Planning is underway for CloudStack Collaboration Conferences next year in Brazil and Las Vegas - Planning on holding virtual dev sync-ups on a regular interval (fist one expected in January 2019) ## PMC changes: - Currently 47 PMC members (same as of the previous report) - Most recently added PMC member was Syed Ahmed on Sun Oct 08 2017 ## Committer base changes (an increase of two people since the previous report): - Currently 119 committers - Most recently added committer was Boris Stoyanov on Wed Dec 12 2018 ## Releases (one release since the previous report): - Release 4.11.2.0 on Nov 13 2018 ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Report from the Apache Commons Project [Gary D. Gregory] ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Shazron Abdullah] ## Description: - A platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: We had three platform patch releases of Android (fixes to gradle repositories and plugin compatibility) and one platform patch release for Windows (fixes bugs related to the last major version release). There was no iOS platform release nor any plugin releases. There were two tool releases of the CLI (minor and patch release) to resolve `npm audit` issues. This will be the last tool release before we move on to Node 6 for the next major version. ## Health report: Our status dashboard at http://status.cordova.io is mostly all green - failures are usually due to external service issues that do device testing. Our nightly builds have been extremely stable. We are actively trying to resolve all existing issues in JIRA while also maintaining all the new issues and pull requests in Github. ## PMC changes: - Currently 94 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Bryan Ellis on Wed Jul 25 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 97 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Bryan Ellis at Thu Jul 26 2018 ## Releases: - cordova-android@7.1.2 was released on Wed Nov 07 2018 - cordova-android@7.1.3 was released on Wed Nov 21 2018 - cordova-android@7.1.4 was released on Fri Nov 23 2018 - cordova-common@3.0.0 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018 - cordova-fetch@1.3.1 was released on Thu Sep 20 2018 - cordova-lib@8.1.0 was released on Thu Sep 20 2018 - cordova-lib@8.1.1 was released on Fri Oct 05 2018 - cordova-windows@6.0.1 was released on Fri Oct 05 2018 - cordova@8.1.0 was released on Wed Sep 26 2018 - cordova@8.1.2 was released on Sun Oct 07 2018 ## JIRA activity: - 0 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months (JIRA has been shut down) - 276 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ## Github activity: Issue close rate of 37%: - 575 Github Issues created in the last 3 months - 212 Github Issues closed in the last 3 months PR close rate of 80%: - 318 Github Pull Requests created in the last 3 months - 253 Github Pull Requests closed/merged in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Report from the Apache cTAKES Project [Pei Chen] ## Description: Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1) - Committee continues to work on bug fixes and improvements documented in Jira ## Health report: - The community continues to be moderately active. - There are new questions/suggestions from new users on the mailing lists - There is steady increase in interest and growth in the community based on the activity on the mailing lists ## PMC changes: - Currently 31 PMC members. - Gandhi Rajan was added to the PMC on Thu Jul 12 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 38 committers. - Last committer addition was Gandhi Rajan at Tue Nov 14 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 4.0.0 on Apr 27 2017 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014 ## Mailing list activity: There was an increase in number of subscribers to the dev and user @ mailing lists. - dev@ctakes.apache.org: - 260 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months): - 34 emails sent to list (63 in previous quarter) - user@ctakes.apache.org: - 271 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months): - 17 emails sent to list (46 in previous quarter) ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Report from the Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman] ## Description: - Apache Curator is a Java/JVM client library for Apache ZooKeeper, a distributed coordination service. It includes a highlevel API framework and utilities to make using Apache ZooKeeper much easier and more reliable. It also includes recipes for common use cases and extensions such as service discovery and a Java 8 asynchronous DSL. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Interestingly, activity has picked up in the last few months. We've had several good submissions and will be having a few releases soon. ## Health report: - Same as before: we continue to mention both Curator and ZooKeeper are slowing into maintenance mode - Curator could still use another committer. We've seen your suggestions and are considering options. ## PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Fangmin Lv on Mon Mar 27 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 12 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Fangmin Lv at Tue Mar 28 2017 ## Releases: - 2.13.0 was released on Sun Dec 02 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@curator.apache.org: - 56 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 204 emails sent to list (201 in previous quarter) - user@curator.apache.org: - 164 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 11 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Report from the Apache Eagle Project [Edward Zhang] ## Description: - Apache Eagle is an open source analytics solution for identifying security and performance issues instantly on big data platforms. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - In Eagle dev mail list, an architecture improvement discussion was raised which is about removing some existing components but focusing on alert policy engine and some important data adaptors. The goal is to make Eagle to be developed and used more easily. It may take some time to finish the discussion. ## Health report: - Auto generated health score seems low. It could be due to no much commits or jira issues which were created recently. Once after PMC/Committers have some agreement on architecture improvements, the community activity should be back to normal. ## PMC changes: - Currently 16 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Deng Lingang on Mon May 08 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 18 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Jay Sen at Thu Mar 16 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 0.5.0 on Sat Sep 09 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@eagle.apache.org: - 76 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 12 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter) - issues@eagle.apache.org: - 19 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 17 emails sent to list (31 previous quarter) - user@eagle.apache.org: - 56 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 1 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache Falcon Project [Pallavi Rao] ABOUT Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed for data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and data discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data and its associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters. ISSUES The project is not seeing much traction in the past few months and seems to have run its course. Will initiate a discussion within the community on the way forward. The summary of the next course of action will be available before the next board meeting. STATUS After 0.11 release there have been no new feature asks from the community. ## PMC changes: - Currently 17 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Sowmya Ramesh on Mon Jun 06 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 25 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Sandeep Samudrala at Thu Mar 09 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 0.11 on Tue Mar 13 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@falcon.apache.org: - 109 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 9 emails sent to list (43 in previous quarter) - user@falcon.apache.org: - 30 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 1 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache Felix Project [Karl Pauls] ## Description: Apache Felix is a project aimed at implementing specifications from the OSGi Alliance as well as implementing other supporting tools and technologies aligned with OSGi technology. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Existing implementations have been improved/enhanced based on community feedback. - Released 9 components (mostly bug fixes and OSGi R7 releated). - Looking into accepting a "Health Check Framework" contribution from the Apache Sling project. ## Health report: - Overall the project is in good health. - Questions on the user list are answered, development concerns are either discussed on the mailing list or directly in the JIRA issues. - The project as well as the OSGi community in general is still in the process of adapting to JPMS and its long term impact. - Attracting new committers needs to be a focus - we added one new committer and we are about to add 3 more. - We had no issues voting on releases and JIRA issues are generally addressed promptly. ## PMC changes: - Currently 26 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Raymond Augé on Thu May 03 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 64 committers. - Timothy James Ward was added as a committer on Tue Nov 13 2018 ## Releases: - maven-bundle-plugin-4.1.0 was released on Mon Oct 22 2018 - org.apache.felix.configadmin-1.9.10 was released on Wed Oct 17 2018 - org.apache.felix.configadmin-1.9.8 was released on Mon Oct 08 2018 - org.apache.felix.converter-1.0.2 was released on Tue Sep 25 2018 - org.apache.felix.dependencymanager-r13 was released on Mon Oct 22 2018 - org.apache.felix.dependencymanager-r14 was released on Sun Dec 02 2018 - org.apache.felix.http.sslfilter-1.2.6 was released on Thu Oct 18 2018 - org.apache.felix.scr-2.1.10 was released on Mon Oct 08 2018 - org.apache.felix.scr-2.1.12 was released on Wed Oct 17 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - users@felix.apache.org: - 566 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months): - 134 emails sent to list (117 in previous quarter) - dev@felix.apache.org: - 324 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 854 emails sent to list (659 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 75 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 67 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Report from the Apache Flex Project [Tom Chiverton] ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Report from the Apache Flink Project [Stephan Ewen] DESCRIPTION Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries for various use cases. Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Calcite, Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others. ISSUES - There are no issues that require board attention. STATUS AND ACTIVITY - The Flink community has released the 1.7 release, with features such as support for Scala 2.12, enhancements to Streaming SQL, Complex Event processing, AWS S3, connectors, and recovery. - The project has entered a phase of many discussions about breaking changes and consolidation of batch and streaming APIs to fix some shortcomings and technical complexity, due to the way the project evolved organically over time. - In the area of Streaming SQL, there is a fruitful collaboration with the Apache Calcite project, which resulted for example in new streaming joins and an integration of complex event processing and SQL. - The program for the Flink Forward Beijing conference is available. Aside from tech talks, there will be a keynote by Craig Russell about the ASF and how to contribute to Apache projects. COMMUNITY No new PMC members were added since the last report. The newest PMC member is Chesnay Schepler, joined on July 26th, 2017 Committers added since the last board report: - Thomas Weise was added as a committer on November 21st, 2018 - Jamie Grier was added as a committer on December 13th, 2018 Flink currently has 43 committers and 19 PMC members. RELEASES The following releases were made since the last board report: - 1.5.4 was released on September 20th, 2018 - 1.5.5 was released on October 29th, 2018 - 1.6.1 was released on September 20th, 2018 - 1.6.2 was released on October 29th, 2018 - 1.7.0 was released on November 30th, 2018 ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS Mailing lists continue to be very active: - user@f.a.o (2239 mails/quarter) - dev@f.a.o (1825 mails/quarter) JIRA continues to be active as well, 807 JIRA tickets created, 569 JIRA tickets resolved in the last 3 months. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: 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 are working on moving code/site from incubator to griffin repository. - Griffin will release 0.4.0 after the migration is done. ## Health report: - The mails and commits activity are as good as usual. ## PMC changes: - Currently 17 PMC members. - Nick Sokolov is the last new PMC Member added since the last report - Last PMC was added on Mon Sep 30, 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 17 committers. - New committers: - Nick Sokolov was added as a committer on Sep 30, 2018 ## Releases: - 0.3.0 was released on Fri Sep 07, 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - 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. ## JIRA activity: - 32 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 21 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Guacamole Project [Mike Jumper] ## Description: - Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway which supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. We call it "clientless" because no plugins or client software are required. Once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Continuing contributions from the community. - Multiple improvements to all supported protocols. New support for Kubernetes. - All known regressions previously blocking the 1.0.0 release have been fixed and the first RC is being prepared for vote. ## Health report: - The project is healthy. Development and community involvement continue to be active. ## PMC changes: - Currently 9 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Carl Harris on Sun Nov 19 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 11 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Jim Chen at Thu Jun 21 2018 ## Releases: - Last release was 0.9.14 on Wed Jan 17 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@guacamole.apache.org: - 90 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months): - 445 emails sent to list (383 in previous quarter) - user@guacamole.apache.org: - 320 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months): - 358 emails sent to list (453 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 52 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 50 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig] Apache Gump is a cross-project continuous integration server. Gump's intention isn't so much to be a CI server but rather a vehicle that makes people look beyond their project's boundaries and helps the projects to collaborate. Gump is written in Python and supports several build tools and version control systems. The Apache installation of Gump builds ASF as well as non-ASF projects and their dependencies. It started in the Java part of the foundation but also builds projects like APR, HTTPd and XMLUnit.NET. == Summary == No changes compared to the last quarter. == Releases == Gump has never done any releases. One reason for this is that the ASF installations of Gump work on the latest code base almost all of the time following its "integrate everything continuously" philosophy. == Activity == The Tomcat and Forrest communities are still using Gump actively. == Changes to the Roster == All ASF committers have write access to the metadata that configure the ASF installations. The last changes to the PMC have seen Konstantin Kolinko and Mark Thomas join in November 2014. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Hama Project [Chia-Hung Lin] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: 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) Finalize the scope of 2.5.0.0 release community. The features will be included in the 2.5.0.0 release are: - New Feature: Support DDL for ORC as a native file format. - New Feature: Support write ORC storage format. - Bug fixes. 2) Finish part of feature for ORC support 3) Talks: - Apache HAWQ Roadmap, The 17th North East Asia OSS Promotion Forum (Speaker: Chang Lei) - New Data warehouse & AI, Data Technology Carnival 2018 (Speaker: Yang Zhe) - AI Anyone, World of Tech 2018 (Speaker: Liu Dawei) - Intel Roundtable Seminar 2018 (Attendee: Song Yixu) ## 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 AD: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore G] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Hive Project [Ashutosh Chauhan] ## Description: - The Apache Hive (TM) data warehouse software facilitates querying and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage. ## Issues: - Apache Impala PMC found a trademark violation of Impala and Hive marks in a press release issued by a company. An email has been sent by Impala PMC to the said company asking to rectify the situation. We are waiting to hear back from them. ## Activity: - Steady stream of bug fixes, enhancements and new features trickling in the project. ## PMC changes: - Currently 47 PMC members. - One addition in PMC this quarter : Zoltan Haindrich (Oct 29 2018) ## Committer changes: - Currently 83 committers. 4 new committers this quarter. → Bharath Krishna : Nov 30 2018 → Janaki Lahorani : Oct 02 2018 → Mahesh Behera was : Nov 16 2018 → Nishant Bangarwa : Mon Oct 15 2018 ## Releases: → 2.3.4 was released on Sun Nov 04 2018 → 3.1.1 was released on Wed Oct 31 2018 ## Lists ; - dev@hive.apache.org: - 884 subscribers (-2 this quarter): - user@hive.apache.org: - 2225 subscribers (-16 this quarter): ## JIRA activity: - 467 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 367 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Justin Mclean] {{{ Incubator PMC report for December 2018 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 52 podlings incubating. During the month of November, podlings executed 11 distinct releases. We added 17 new IPMC members and had 2 IPMC members retire. Several podlings are heading towards graduation. We have also have several new podlings with IotDB, Sharding Sphere, BRPC and Iceburg join our ranks and two podlings Quickstep and ODF toolkit retire. ODF toolkit had spent 7 years in the incubator. Airflow look set to graduate and will be the 200th active Apache project if no other TLP projects retire. BatchEE still seems stuck in performing the last graduation steps. Superset is slowly addressing its issues, but has still not made an Apache release and has continued to make unofficial releases. A meeting has been set up to try and sort out the issues as discussing them on the mailing list doesn't seem to be working. There were 2 IP clearances. A number of podlings, despite prompting, failed to report and will be asked to report next month. The mentor situation has improved but we still have a number of podlings (19) with less than 3 mentors. An email was sent to the members list, to see if we can get more IPMC members and several people stepped forward. We also had a discussion about lowering the bar for IPMC members and seeing how they potential candidates can be more easily recognised. While unusual at the ASF, we've asked people to self identify, they will still be voted on by the IPMC, and several have come forward and have been voted in. Several had more than enough merit and had gone unnoticed or looked over by the IPMC and in a couple of cases were extremely obvious candidates. As a result of both of these we have 17 new IPMC members and several new mentors. One podling had to be reminded that a NOTICE needs to be sent to the IPMC for any new PPMC members. Moderators of the incubator mailing list had gone missing and 3 new moderators have been added. Some IPMC members had previously missed being signed up the private email list as a result of this. A large number (100+) of IPMC members are not signed up to the private mail list, each was sent emails asking them to sign up. A couple asked to be removed from IPMC but the majority of those contacted have not signed up. There's probably not much more that can be done about this. Podlings rosters are now (with a few exceptions) mostly up-to-date. The default podling bylaws/guidelines were posted to the board list, some minor changes were made and have been accepted. Graduating podlings will be pointed to these guidelines rather than encouraged to write their own. * Community New IPMC members: - Chris Lambertus - David Meikle - Felix Cheung - Furkan Kamaci - Ioannis Canellos - Jason Dai - John Kinsella - Kenneth Knowles - Kishore G - Koji Sekiguchi - Myrle Krantz - Paul King - Shaofeng Shi - Sheng Wu - Vinayakumar B - Von Gosling - Woonsan Ko People who left the IPMC: - Mark Dwayne Womack - Sean Busbey * New Podlings - BRPC - Iceburg - IotDB - Sharding-Sphere * Podlings that failed to report, expected next month - Marvin-AI - Pinot * Graduations - Apache Airflow * Releases The following releases entered distribution during the month of November: - PLC4X 0.2.0 - Weex 0.20.0 - MXNet version 1.3.1 - NetBeans 1.6 HTML/Java API - Dubbo 2.6.5 - Release Airflow 1.10.1 - Heron 0.20.0 - NetBeans 10.0 - SkyWalking ersion 6.0.0 - Toree 0.3.0 - Ratis-thirdparty 0.1.0 * IP Clearance - OpenWhisk Composer Python - OpenWhisk Composer * Legal / Trademarks Some issues around the use of CC licensed content need clarification. * Infrastructure No issues. * Miscellaneous - More discussion on reviewing binary releases. - UNICEF wants to bring an open source project to the ASF. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents BRPC Crail Daffodil Druid Dubbo Hivemall Iceberg IoTDB Myriad Nemo Omid OpenWhisk Pony Mail SAMOA ShardingSphere SINGA SkyWalking Spot Superset Taverna Tephra Warble Zipkin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- 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. Collect the SGA and ICLAs of the Initial COmmitters 2. Create the Mailing Lists and Subscribe 3. Move the Repository under Apache. 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? Just getting started. A little slowness on the Mentor / Champion side on the setup. How has the project developed since the last report? 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: No Apache Releases. 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. Mailing list creation fell through the cracks. Corrected now. Signed-off-by: [ ](brpc) Jean-Baptiste Onofre [X](brpc) Kevin A. McGrail [ ](brpc) Von Gosling IPMC/Shepherd notes: Dave Fisher: I wrote up this report and made the mailing list request. Justin Mclean: LDAP and DNS also feel between the cracks. Mentors were pinged but no response. I think it would be good for this project to have an extra mentor. -------------------- 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 issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Community building: attract additional contributors from different companies/affiliations 2. Further increase visibility / PR 3. Develop further fields of applicability of Crail, such as efficient serverless computing 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? * Our twitter account "@ApacheCrail" now has 125 followers * We have only 6 active contributors, here we hope to improve. How has the project developed since the last report? * Second release is out, including binary release * Bug fixes for second release. * Better documentation using readthedoc * Constant activities on bug fixes, quality improvements at https://github.com/apache/incubator-crail * The binary code release as part of the second release sparked discussion on the general@incubator list, clarifying the issues on how to handle those releases. How would you assess the podling's maturity? [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [X] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: 12/05/2018 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2017-11-01 (entering incubation) 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. * 2 of our mentors are very helpful and responsive. We had to remove the third mentor Raphael Bircher due to inactivity. Signed-off-by: [x](crail) Julian Hyde Comments: With two releases completed successfully, community building is the main task for this project to get to graduation. Welcome to Felix as a new mentor! [x](crail) Luciano Resende Comments: [x](crail) Felix Cheung Comments: (signing up as mentor) 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 issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Execute the SGA between EPAM and the ASF so code can be imported. 2. Move bug tracking system including project backlog to Apache issue tracking system – in progress 3. Work toward an initial Apache release – in progress, first release planned for EOY Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Nothing at this point of time. How has the community developed since the last report? We are not at the stage of building community so far, but we hosted two workshops recently and hope to have ˜2 potentials contributors from it. Also we hosted two conferences and hope to have some contributors from it. How has the project developed since the last report? Initial committers have submitted their Apache ICLA, subscribed to all mailing lists and created Jira accounts. Functionality added: · Added support of Java libraries installation · Added support of Spark configuration from Web UI · Implemented support for deployment into two VPC’s for AWS version · Added support for DLab to not use public IP’s for MS Azure · Redesign of DLab Web UI for roles management – in progress · Update version of Zeppelin/Spark/EMR – in progress · Scheduler in idle time – in progress 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: This is going to be our first release. Target date EOY. When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? We are still operating with the set of initial 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. Mentors are very helpful and try to resolve any issues immediately. Open issues: · None of contributors have access to create JIRA SCRUM/Kanban boards (we have migrated the tickets, but can’t formaly create a release/sprint) Signed-off-by: [X](dlab) P. Taylor Goetz Comments: [ ](dlab) Henry Saputra Comments: [ ](dlab) Konstantin I Boudnik Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes: Justin Mclean: Report was submitted past due date, mentors hadn't been paying attention but should be now, however still missing sign-offs. -------------------- 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 issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Increase community growth and participation 2. Establish a frequent release schedule 3. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provided extra functionality Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - None, though an extra mentor would be beneficial. We currently only have 2 mentors. How has the community developed since the last report? - A couple questions were asked and answered on StackOverflow on DFDL schema development using Daffodil - Increased activity on the users@ mailing list from 4 non-committers, with topics such as potential bugs and DFDL schema design best practices - Mike Beckerle gave a Daffodil talk at ApacheCon Montreal - Steve Lawrence gave a Daffodil talk at a local Meetup - Mike Beckerle is scheduled to give a talk at a local Meetup in December - Steve Lawrence submitted a talk to the Apache Roadshow in DC, which is now postponed - Created a logo and twitter account: @ApacheDaffodil - Updated Apache Spark integration, will be presented at a Meetup for feedback and potential community growth - Updated Apache NiFi integration and created a pull request with Apache NiFi. Received positive feedback. How has the project developed since the last report? - 22 commits from 4 different developers - 25 issues created, 46 issues resolved 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: 2018-09-05 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? - None, same as project incubation 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. - No issues Signed-off-by: [ ](daffodil) John D. Ament Comments: [X](daffodil) David Fisher Comments: I'm seeing good user discussions about features and how to use Daffodil. I'd like to see more on how to develop. 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 issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Complete first Apache release (currently in voting phase of 0.13.0-rc4) 2. Move the website to Apache infrastructure 3. Continue to grow the community 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 Druid community has invited 10 active members from 7 different organizations to participate as new committers. All 10 invitees have accepted the invitation. How has the project developed since the last report? - Since the last report, we have had a total of 195 commits from 42 contributors - We have released 0.12.3, a non-incubator bugfix release - We have code frozen a 0.13.0 branch and are currently voting on final release artifacts - We have started work on moving the project pages from druid.io to druid.apache.org 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: - Druid 0.12.3 (non-Apache) was released on 2018-09-18. - Druid 0.13.0-incubating has been proposed and is currently in the voting phase When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? The Druid PPMC elected 10 new committers to the project on November 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. They have been very helpful. Signed-off-by: [x](druid) Julian Hyde Comments: It's taken a few iterations, but the first release looks like it's just about to pass the vote. This was their biggest hurdle. They mastered Apache governance a long while ago, and have built community. I'm not concerned about the weekly sync up meetings as long as they continue to send out minutes and make decisions on the dev list. After one more release this project should consider graduation. [x](druid) P. Taylor Goetz Comments: I agree with Julian. Though would recommend (but not demand) three releases prior to graduation. [x](druid) Jun Rao Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes: Dave Fisher: I'm somewhat concerned that the podling uses weekly sync up meetings. I am happy to see that Julian is gently steering them to use dev@ for decisions. They have made non-Apache releases, but are now on rc4 of an Apache release. -------------------- Dubbo Dubbo is a high-performance, lightweight, java based RPC framework. Dubbo has been incubating since 2018-02-16. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Ensure more discussion and decision making to be happening on the mailing list. 2. Release 2.7.0, the first release after package renaming. 3. Transfer more qualified external Dubbo ecosystem projects into Apache. 4. Add more 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? * New committer: * Minxuan Zhuang has been voted as committer on 2018-09-11 * Jinkai Ma(majinkai) has been voted as committer on 2018-10-31 * Zhenqiang Yi(manzhizhen) has been voted as committer on 2018-11-05 * Victory Cao(cvictory) has been voted as committer on 2018-11-09 * Liandong Chen(purple-force) has been voted as committer on 2018-11-14 * Jeff Lv(Jeff-Lv) has been voted as committer on 2018-11-21 * New PMC member: * Zonghai Shang(yiji) has been voted as pmc member on 2018-11-01 * Yong Zhu(diecui1202) has been voted as pmc member on 2018-12-03 * Github stats is growing rapidly since last report. as of Dec 3rd, * number of stars has grown from 21126 to 22796. * contributors has been grown from 119 to 144. * number of forks has grown from 14625 to 15761. * 14 new companies reported their using of Dubbo since last report, 118 in total * Hangzhou Meetup was held on 2018-06-23: Online registration 500+, on-site registration: 250 * Start transferring dubbo-samples project from external Dubbo ecosystem into Apache, IP clearance process has been completed, SGA from Alibaba has been submitted. * The following projects has been added to external Apache Dubbo ecosystem(http://github.com/dubbo, non-Apache repositories): * dubbo-registry-nacos * dubbo-benchmark * egg-dubbo-rpc * dubbo-remoting-js These projects are being watched by Apache Dubbo PPMC and are planning be moved to Apache once they meet the quality requirement. * Dubbo has ranked Top 3 of most popular open source project in China in 2018. https://www.oschina.net/project/top_cn_2018 Since last report, the communities has welcomed 6 new committers and 2 new PPMC members. Comparing to last quarter, when we have 4 new committers and no new PPMC members. The number of contributors have grown from 119 to 144. The following events have played key parts of helping the community to grow: 0. Ian Luo and Jun Liu have delivered a a talk "Introducing Apache Dubbo(Incubating): What is Dubbo and How it Works" in ApacheCon Montreal. 1. With a discussion with mentors in ApacheCon Montreal, the Dubbo community and learned a lot about how to build the community. One key takeaway is that to keep the bar for becoming a committer low. 2. Dave Fisher has becoming our new mentor. 3. Apache project meetup in ShangHai has been held in Oct 13th 4. Our mentor Justin has visited Alibaba, and give a talk on navigating through the incubator process 5. COSCon'18 has been held in Shenzhen, China, where Craig L.Russell, Dave Fisher, and Justin have delivered a lot of wonderful talks about ASF. How has the project developed since the last report? * Dubbo 2.6.4 is released on 2018-10-8 * Dubbo 2.6.5 is released on 2018-11-23 * Dubbo 2.7.0 is under development, a major feature called separation of config metadata and registry metadata has almost been completed. * New features of Dubbo-ops, e.g. complete support of service governance for 2.6, and support for 2.7 has been added. * Mailing list stats: * 2018-09-01~2018-11-31: 663 emails, 68 participants, 118 topics * 2018-06-01~2018-08-31 : 680 emails, 85 participants, 128 topics * Github stats: * 2018-09-01~2018-11-31: 182 issues closed, 190 pr closed * 2018-06-01~2018-08-31 : 200 issues closed, 287 pr closed 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: 2018-11-23 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Yong Zhu(diecui1202) has been voted as PPMC members on 2018-12-03 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. Mentors have been very helpful to guide the Dubbo community through Apache way. Signed-off-by: [X](dubbo) Justin Mclean Comments: [X](dubbo) Mark Thomas Comments: [X](dubbo) David Fisher Comments: Busy project. 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 issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. One or more Apache Releases as an Incubator project 2. Community growth (committers and users) 3. Documentation improvements 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? * Github watchers/stars are gradually increasing: 181 stars as of Nov 27 (was 169 on Sept 3) * Twitter account @ApacheHivemall followers are gradually increasing: 175 followers as of Nov 27 (was 154 on Sept 3) How has the project developed since the last report? * Prepared the second Apache release, v0.5.2. Now voting started at general@i.a.o on Nov 27th. https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201811.mbox/%3CC AGJoAU%3D-aweJkZuP-%3DKp6XPjfAC%3Dv4Si%2B3mbx4L-4is_jTB_yg%40mail.gmail.com% 3E Since the last report, we have * In the last 3 months, we opened 13 JIRA issues and closed 17 JIRA issues as seen in https://goo.gl/QFQEF5 (as of Nov 27) Created Resolved Sept 2018 4 10 Oct 2018 3 1 Nov 2018 7 6 * Created 14 Pull Requests and closed 12 Pull Requests between Sept 1st and Nov 27th. https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20created%3A201 8-09-01..2018-11-27 https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20closed%3A2018 -09-01..2018-11-27 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 [x] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: March 5, 2018. When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? - Elected Jerome Banks as a committer on April 2. 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. - New mentor Koji is active at mentoring and very helpful. Signed-off-by: [ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng Comments: [ ](hivemall) Daniel Dai Comments: [x](hivemall) Koji Sekiguchi Comments: We're under the new release vote now. I met Makoto Yui in person in Tokyo few days ago and I could find his comprehension of Apache way is great! He leads the development team very well. 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 issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Get the SGA accepted. 2. Finish the name clearance. 3. Make the first Apache release. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? * Gitbox integration has helped a lot, although it is frustrating that the team members are not allowed to configure the project and must go through infra for every change. * The traffic on the dev list from Github pull requests and issues is pretty heavy. It would be nice to have emails from creation go to dev@, while updates and resolutions would go the issues@. How has the community developed since the last report? This is the first report. How has the project developed since the last report? This is the first report. Both the software grant and trademark agreements have been submitted. Code has been imported and updated to use the ASF license header. LICENSE and NOTICE files have been updated to comply with ASF policy. Podling website is up at https://iceberg.apache.org. 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: 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. We're working through the issues as they come up. Signed-off-by: [X](iceberg) Ryan Blue Comments: [ ](iceberg) Julien Le Dem Comments: [X](iceberg) Owen O'Malley Comments: I wrote the first pass of the report. [X](iceberg) James Taylor Comments: [X](iceberg) Carl Steinbach Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- IoTDB Apache 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. Currently, the initial committers are in the progress of signing ICLA and SGA. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Finishing SGA and ICLA 2. Prepare the official website and English documentation 3. Migrate the source code to Apache code repository 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 mail lists have been established. * 6 subjects are discussed in dev mail list. There are 28 replies totally. * Attract a contributor from Apache Calcite. How has the project developed since the last report? * The initial committers are working for merging all existing PRs, so that we can migrate the source code to Apache code repository easily (16 pr are merged) * The initial committers are translating the user manual from Chinese to English Version. (3/7 chapters are finished) How would you assess the podling's maturity? newborn 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? 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. The mentors give the project and committers much help and it is responsive. Signed-off-by: [X](IoTDB) Christofer Dutz Comments: [X](IoTDB) Joe Witt Comments: [X](IoTDB) Justin Mclean Comments: [X](IoTDB) Willem Ning Jiang 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 issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. MYRIAD-280: Improve overall stability 2. MYRIAD-279: Reworking a new UI design 3. MYRIAD-278: Create test-suit Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? A new release is coming, the community is engaged in the process of creating versions every quarter. The new PPMCs are beginners creating releases in the Apache way, and probably they will need some kind of assistance from the mentor side. How has the community developed since the last report? An increment of activity and newcomers with a desire to contribute, in particular in the scope of the user interface, one of our main goals. How has the project developed since the last report? One of our main issues was solved (MYRIAD-264: Upgrade Mesos API to 1.5.x) so a new version can be unlocked 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 [X] Other: new activity and feeling of project recovery. Date of last release: The 0.2.0 release was issued on Jun 29, 2016. The 0.3.0 release is planned for the next days. When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2018-05-22 New committer/PMC member Juan P. Gilaberte. 2018-03-28 New committer/PMC member Javi Roman. 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, really helpful. In particular Ted Dunning was really helpful in the assistance of advice and guidelines. Signed-off-by: [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman Comments: [x](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 issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community: add new contributors/committers 2. Grow the user base 3. Develop a clear roadmap for graduation 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? * Committers actively sent PRs and did code reviews * Committers actively involved in mailing lists * Committers started to interact with other communities How has the project developed since the last report? * Created the first release candidate (in the process of voting) * Code donation to ASF * Added Beam stream support * Created a Beam Nemo runner * Added Nemo Web UI * Hardened the Nemo runtime (scheduling, data transfer, etc.) 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: None yet. In the process of voting for the first release. 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. Yes. Our mentors have been helpful and responsive. Signed-off-by: [X](nemo) Davor Bonaci Comments: the podling is doing really well; first release to come shortly. [ ](nemo) Hyunsik Choi Comments: [X](nemo) Byung-Gon Chun Comments: [X](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 issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Finish integration with Apache Phoenix – Omid side was implemented and released. 2. Document additional features added for the integration with Apache Phoenix, as well as, the low latency algorithm. 3. Get positive feedback from other projects currently in Apache. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? N/A How has the community developed since the last report? New committer, Yonatan Gottesman, was added to Omid’s community. Yonatan is very active and contributed to the integration with Phoenix. Moreover, Yonattan implemented the low latency version of Omid which is currently part of release 1.0.0. Integration with Apache Phoenix will be ready in a few days, early December. How has the project developed since the last report? The vote for major release 1.0.0 passed successfully in the incubator general list. This release includes all the Phoenix required features. The release is currently being deployed to Nexus and a formal announcement of the release will be send shortly. Omid and Apache Phoenix integration is at its final stage. Omid release 1.0.0 includes all Phoenix required features, therefore, from the Omid side, the integration with Phoenix is over. The Phoenix code is also ready and currently located in a feature branch that will be merged in a few days. 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: 2018-06-10 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2018-09-25 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 mentors are very helpful and responsive. We appreciate their help. Signed-off-by: [X](omid) Alan Gates Comments: [x](omid) James Taylor Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes: Drew Farris (Shepherd) - Mentors active on the mailing lists, active development, and progress towards graduation observed. -------------------- OpenWhisk OpenWhisk is an open source, distributed Serverless computing platform able to execute application logic (Actions) in response to events (Triggers) from external sources (Feeds) or HTTP requests governed by conditional logic (Rules). It provides a programming environment supported by a REST API-based Command Line Interface (CLI) along with tooling to support packaging and catalog services. Additionally, it now provides options to host the platform components as Docker containers on various Container Frameworks such as Mesos, Kubernetes, and Compose. OpenWhisk has been incubating since 2016-11-23. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Improve release automation to decrease manual steps in creating release artifacts. a. Release process/automation/documentation are here https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-release). b. We have made the initial releases of 12 core software components. In the process we have developed some release automation, but there is a need to further automate the process and formalize the mechanisms for make a coordinated release of all components. 2. Increase additional company and individual Contributors to maintain all project repos. and address Issue / PR backlog. 3. Close legal transferred of Trademark handoff for "OpenWhisk" name and logo to ASF Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? 1. Issue backlog building on incubator-openwhisk is still a major issue (partly due to #2 above). As of this report, the "open" issue backlog on the "main" platform repo is 397 (up from 384 as of last report). The open PR count on the main repo has held steady at around 30 (down from 50+ 6 months ago), but still 1/3 of the ready-to-merge PRs are more than 1 month old. The PR and Issue backlog on other project repositories is generally much lower and of less concern than the Issue backlog on the main repo. 2. Need to prioritize and work to reduce while advancing major proposals around restructuring around abstractions to accommodate running on Knative while enhancing support for better logging/scheduling and performance testing enhancements. 3. Trying to add more active Committers to augment those who have dropped off in their activity; however, we have reached an impasse where potential new Contributor pull requests are not getting timely reviews/merges. We have potential new Contribs. to front-end Runtimes we will look to nominate ASAP, but we still lack back-end Contribs. 4. The project is still working on establishing an open staging environment to enable proper testing without depending on closed testing infrastructure at involved companies. Unfortunately, even after finally arranging a corporate donation to the ASF in June to support this need, it took until late October for Apache Infra to finish provisioning the machines. 5. Formal hand-off of OpenWhisk trademark/logo from IBM needs to be executed; need to identify process for this. See #3 above. * Discussion started w/ Apache legal via "legal-discuss" mailing list with subject "Trademark handoff for "OpenWhisk" name and logo". * IBM intends to hand-off ownership of trademarks at time of graduation. 6. Announcements from Google (Knative) in late July and AWS (Firecracker) just last week apply pressure on our community in order to both explain to developers/operators how OW is differentiated from, as well as compatible with, both popular providers’ frameworks. How has the community developed since the last report? * dev mailing list activity – was relatively light with the main discussion topics/activity being (reflected in comments below as well): Golang runtime and new ActionLoop (runtime) Interpretation of "main" for GoLang and ActionLoop docker images Promises (or equivalent) in Python and GoLang Submitted PR for hopefully now stable GoLang OpenWhisk runtime Re: Completing the integration of the Go lang runtime Contributing an actionloop based runtime for Python - and creating an actionloop repo The ActionLoop based runtime for Python3.6 for OpenWhisk is 5 times faster than the curre... Donation of Composer to OW Donation of ibm-functions/composer to Apache OpenWhisk towards the first apache release of openwhisk-composer Re: Donation of ibm-functions/composer to Apache OpenWhisk Performance and Logging Active acks from invoker to controller Proposal to Remove Artifact Store Polling for Blocking Invocations Relieve CouchDB on high load Release OpenWhisk officially first-time released all the 12 modules under Apache as incubator pro... Re: [DISCUSSION]: Proposing to use 1.12.0 as the version for all runtimes for the first-t... Instruction documented to release openwhisk projects under apache Re: Change the package name into org.apache.openwhisk for openwhisk modules Other: Autonomous Container Scheduler v2 proposal * incubator-openwhisk Github stars: 3657 (+185 since last report) * incubator-openwhisk GitHub forks: 692 (+40 since last report). Note lots of more competing projects entering the Serverless space. * Slack community: * 1,072 members (+103 from last report). Very active in most channels from both end users or the project and contributors * To-date: 126,282 messages sent across all channels (+13956 since last report) * Analytics: https://openwhisk-team.slack.com/admin/stats * 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 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/2018-09-12+OW+Tech+Int erchange+-+Meeting+Notes https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/2018-09-26+OW+Tech+Int erchange+-+Meeting+Notes https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/2018-10-10+OW+Tech+Int erchange+Meeting+Notes https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/2018-10-24+OW+Tech+Int erchange+Meeting+Notes https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/2018-11-07+OW+Tech+Int erchange+Meeting+Notes * New Contributors * ICLAs received: Manjiri Tapaswi Andreas Tsagkaropoulos Neeraj Laad * Joined Community Interchange calls and introduced themselves: Shawn Black: Architect at a reinsurance company in St. Louis. Stanciu - at Adobe, joined runtime team a few weeks ago Victor: Grad. student at USC. Working on a thesis on real-time computing in the Cloud. Goal is looking into how to apply real-time components into OpenWhisk. Markus: now with Red Hat Prabhash Rathnayake, intern at WSO2, proposed JIRA package to catalog How has the project developed since the last report? Emphasis on these areas have been featured since last report: Google Knative Knative and the general popularity of Kubernetes is driving the community to design and document how OW can be compatible with Knative concepts of “Serving”, “Build” and “Eventing”. Primarily we are increasing our friendliness to the Kube community to hopefully attract more developers to help us by improving Kube deployment docs and configs. for both developers and operators to more easily “get started”. Proposals on Wiki have stalled since Sept. need to revitalize the conversation. Release process Initial releases of all “core” repos (both back-end platform and front-end tooling) are complete. We are adding the release of the new IBM donation of Composer at the time of authoring this report (currently undergoing IPMC VOTE). Rename of all "packages" (lib.) names to "apache.org", see: Re: Change the package name into org.apache.openwhisk for openwhisk modules We look forward to creating a unified release to assure we have a major/minor version that is tested to be compat. with one another (as now all are disparate releases). Need more mentor help at getting release votes through IPMC. Website revamp Completed. Now linking in critical developer and operator docs. to be friendlier and provide “how tos” / tutorials to teach OW key features such including Web Actions, Provider samples, Added “getting started” sections for Ruby and Swift, as well as for new Docker Desktop (with Kubernetes). Runtime updates: ActionLoop (part of Go Runtime as of today), supports a general, very fast mechanism for creating new Runtimes (or migrating existing). New runtime for the .NET language needs to be taken “over the finish line" See initial discussion: dotnet 2.1 Runtime for OpenWhisk Composer Passed IP Clearance, IPMC vote completed http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/openwhisk-composer-python.html original IBM donated code was here: https://github.com/ibm-functions/composer-python/ Other Notable discussions/changes/issues/features: No update How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release (nearly complete, see above) [X] Community building [X] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Comments: Need greater variety of contributors and contributing companies; especially on the “back-end” platform side and to align us with Knative. Need more mentor help at getting release votes through IPMC with the large # of components we have now. Date of last release: Links to latest component releases can be found here: https://openwhisk.apache.org/downloads.html Composer (new), v0.90 RC1, undergoing IPMC vote: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8b182e4b0ad7e402f4be61500285abedf440672 15a5d351bdaeb005b@%3Cdev.openwhisk.apache.org%3E When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? New Committers+PPMC: None since last report New Committers: None since last report (PPMC will work on this) Signed-off-by: [X](openwhisk) Bertrand Delacretaz Comments: I have asked on list for clarification on the "It seems that Apache Infra. will not provide us servers" comment, to see what could be done. [X](openwhisk) Jim Jagielski Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes: Justin Mclean: There was a conversation that mentioned unapproved releaseson the dev kist. This situation needs to be clarified. -------------------- Pony Mail 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 issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Growing Community 2. Working on release processes 3. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Nothing of note How has the community developed since the last report? It's been very quiet. We have sufficient oversight, but the project has not seen much new development. There are outstanding bug reports, but to the best of my knowledge, no vulnerabilities exist. How has the project developed since the last report? No noteworthy development since last report. 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: 2018-02-05 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? No new committers since last report. Sharan Foga has joined as a mentor in August 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. Signed-off-by: [ ](ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: [x](ponymail) Sharan Foga Comments: Some work really needs to be done on community building to get more people involved with the project. I suspect that there are a few users within several ASF projects so reaching out to them for feedback could be good way to get some interest started. 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 issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Revitalize the project by resuming development 2. Enlarge the user base and contributing community 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? * Mailing list activity (September 2018 - November 2018): * @dev: 30 messages How has the project developed since the last report? * 2 new PRs created * Working on code for supporting Apache Heron 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: 2016-09-30 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? January 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, the mentors have been helpful and responsive. Signed-off-by: [X](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 issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Move codebase to Apache. 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? N/A(This is the first report.) How has the project developed since the last report? N/A(This is the 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: 2018-10-23 (before joining Apache Incubator.) 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](shardingsphere) Craig L Russell Comments: [ ](shardingsphere) Benjamin Hindman Comments: [X](shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang Comments: shardingsphere is in the middle of moving the repo to Apache. IPMC/Shepherd notes: The migration of the repository has been deferred for a final release outside Apache. -------------------- SINGA SINGA is a distributed deep learning platform. SINGA has been incubating since 2015-03-17. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Release version 2.0 in December and integrate Rafiki code 2. Preparing for graduation https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SINGA-405 3. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? N/A How has the community developed since the last report? The dev email list is more activate with more users. A new committer is nominated. Number of emails from Sep to Dec. Dec 2018, 23 Nov 2018, 71 Oct 2018, 51 Sep 2018, 14 How has the project developed since the last report? We have developed a submodule of Singa, called Rafiki to provide automated machine learning. Two major features are developed for Singa, i.e., autograd (finished) and onnx (almost done). There are 265 Commits since last report (including the commits for Rafiki). How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. The system is getting stable and there are more and more users. We are preparing the graduation process, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SINGA-405, and are discussioning it in the dev list. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [ ] Community building [X] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: 2018-06-06 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2018-12-04 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. The mentors are helpful and have given the suggestions on graduation. Signed-off-by: [X](singa) Alan Gates Comments: [x](singa) Ted Dunning Comments: [ ](singa) Thejas Nair Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- SkyWalking SkyWalking Skywalking is an APM (application performance monitor), especially for microservice, Cloud Native and container-based architecture systems. Support observe system by distributed tracing agents/SDKs or through Service Mesh telemetry data. SkyWalking has been incubating since 2017-12-08. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. IP clearance. 3. First ASF release. (SkyWalking 5.0) 3. Further ASF culture and processes. 4. 5.x releases are stable for product, and have 5 open end users, at least. 5. Support multiple languages agents/SDKs. 6. Integration with other pupolar OSS systems. Zipkin data format supported. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Have six Apache releases already. 5.0.0-alpha, 5.0.0-beta, 5.0.0-beta2, 5.0.0-RC2, 5.0.0-GA, 6.0.0-alpha Started the `Graduate Apache SkyWalking (incubating) as a TLP` discussion in IPMC. IPMC addressed a main issue before graduation, need to promote more committers by given the number of contributors. SkyWalking community has recognised, and voted/passed three new committers, more committers are in discussion and voting process. The PPMCs have learned from the graduation discussion. How has the community developed since the last report? 1. SkyWalking is working with Istio community, in the 6.0.0-alpha release, we support telemetry format from Istio. 2. Near 50 companies have confirmed they are using SkyWalking through issue report or our powered-by page. 3. There are 74 people to contribute codes to our main repo. 17 more than the last report. 4. Three new committors voted and joined. Wenbin Wang, Can Li and Jian Tan. 5. A new UI project open source. https://github.com/TinyAllen/rocketbot. It runs as a secondary choice and very cool UI for SkyWalking, by following our query protocol. 6. baiyang, wangkai, liyuntao, ilucky, zhangkewei, and wangsheng added to SkyWalking PPMC, because they are initial committers. How has the project developed since the last report? The project has a diverse community, many users, contributors are from different companies. There has been over 100 commits by more than 22 contributors in the three months. In 5.0.0-RC2 release milestones, there are 130 issues and pull requests solved. In 5.0.0-GA release milestones, there are 32 issues and pull requests solved. In 6.0.0-alpha release milestones, there are 202 issues and pull requests solved. 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 [ ] Other: Date of last release: 5.0.0-GA 17 Oct 2018 6.0.0-alpha 14 Nov 2018 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Dec. 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. Signed-off-by: [X](skywalking) Luke Han Comments: [ ](skywalking) Willem Ning Jiang Comments: [X](skywalking) Mick Semb Wever Comments: 'issues to address' probably doesn't need to be so technical, the board can presume technical momentum by release frequency and new committers. Graduation is more dependent on the ASF community dynamics. Adding the new committers for example. [X](skywalking) Ignasi Barrera Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes: Drew Farris (shepherd) - Mentors active on mailing lists, active progress towards graduation. -------------------- 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 issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Revive community activity (Discussion in mailing lists, increase frequency of commits) 2. Make it easier for Devs to contribute to the project (e.g. documentation, framework). 3. Developing a workflow in Spot that allows for intuitive analytics. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? We are currently down to 1 mentor. Although we put a request for an additional mentor, we are not going to push the request until we wrap up what we need to do for the next release. Once we have finished up work and are ready to set up a vote we will push harder to invite another mentor to help us with the process. We anticipate having a lot of questions around the release process. How has the community developed since the last report? Since having pushed through some stagnant pull requests we have noticed a little more activity. We are trying out different ways to make it easier for developers to contribute. We are talking to users to understand what pieces of Spot are important to them. How has the project developed since the last report? We have identified issues we think would block our release; mainly around the ease of installation and use. We are doing some documentation write-ups and code updates to make the Install process easier. We’re also testing out setup on a VM with the aim to make it easier for developers to contribute. 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: 2017-09-08 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2018-01-18 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. Holding off on pushing for more mentors until we are ready to start the official release process. Signed-off-by: [X](spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G Comments: Project is seeking for additional mentors. 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 issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Project operations - There are 3 specific issues that have been brought to our attention that we are committed to addressing: Discussions happening offline from dev@superset.incubator.apache.org (more below under issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board should be aware of) Unapproved releases (more below under issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board should be aware of) Trademark - Some research has been conducted here https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/PODLINGNAMESEARCH/issues/PODLINGNAME SEARCH-124 , but more details have been requested. The expected format output described is not very prescriptive. Just commented asking for a example of a well executed name search. 2. Plan and execute our first Apache release. Though we have been in incubation for a year and a half, we are committed to planning and following through on our first Apache release together with the community by kicking off a discussion thread on dev@superset.incubator.apache.org to align on the deliverables for the first Apache release. 3. Align on a long-term product roadmap with the broader Apache Superset community. As a part of planning our first Apache release, we would also like to build out the high-level roadmap for the project with a look ahead of 1 year. We plan to create this by starting a discussion thread on dev@superset.incubator.apache.org to work collaboratively on a vision and roadmap for 2019. Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of? * Discussions happening offline from email - The dev@superset.incubator.apache.org email list has not been very active as a channel of discussion. To be clear, this is both a result of 1) when the list started, GitHub spammed the email list with notifications and our hypothesis is that many people filtered this email alias 2) the Apache email list does not support images making it challenging to support a project that is UI-heavy as a tool for data visualization and 3) other communication channels are being used to compliment the email list. On #3, there is an open bi-weekly meeting for contributors and committers to discuss issues (no decisions are made here - please see the update on SIPs in the project development section) and while the link to the Google Doc with the notes was posted to the dev@superset.incubator.apache.org email list, we could have done a better job of posting the notes from the meetings and we recognize that it is more challenging for some community members who live in other timezones to participate. There are also two reasonably active forums for live discussions (Slack Group http://apache-superset.slack.com and Gitter Channel https://gitter.im/airbnb/superset) however, we now know that casual conversations should only happen on these channels and that the majority of the discussion needs to happen via email. As a next step, we will have an initial meeting with the Mentors, PPMC and Committers on Thursday, December 13th to figure out what it takes to address this issue and help get the project on track. We will also use this meeting as an opportunity to align across the PPMC and Committers about our obligations and responsibilities as well as to receive coaching from our Mentors on the Apache Way. * Unapproved releases - Currently, committers working on the project have not been following the proper procedures in discussing the content of releases on the dev@superset.incubator.apache.org email list nor have we been consistent in bringing releases to a vote. This negatively impacts the ability of other community members to participate. We were uncertain how to manage the LICENSE/COPYRIGHT files and how they relate to convenience releases and we have struggled to understand how to proceed with the name search requirement. That said, it doesn’t justify pushing a release forward and at a minimum we will discontinue this practice. We will also discuss this with our Mentors on 12/13 to receive coaching on this topic. * As mentioned earlier, having an Apache email list that doesn’t support images makes it very challenging for our project. We would be interested to know if the ASF Infrastructure Team has any plans to address this. * We currently only have 3 active PMCs (1 inactive). We should strive to add more PMCs to the project. How has the community developed since the last report? * Organic growth of our Github contributors (274->306), forks (3627->3974), watchers (1077->1157) and stars (20,519->22,097) * Added Krist Wongsuphasawat as a new committer. How has the project developed since the last report? * We have been intentional in discussing and voting on issues using GitHub (for SIPs) as it supports images (a current challenge with the Apache email listserv) and held votes for them on the dev@superset.incubator.apache.org list * Faster, easier editing of datasources (adding new metrics, dimensions, metadata) - We've now added the ability to modify datasources directly from the Explore view. * New time range filter with added simple default options, and relative date filters. * Url shortener for dashboards, for easier sharing. * Improvements to the visualize flow - You can now go from a sql query right to a chart without needing to configure columns. * A healthy, constant flow of bug fixes, quality improvements and new features, take a look at the project’s Pulse on Github for more details How does the podling rate their own maturity. [ ] Initial setup [X] Working towards first release [ ] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: No official release yet since being voted into Apache Incubation. (Planning for the first Apache release in Q1, 2019) When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? * Krist Wongsuphasawat - Committer (2018-11-06) Signed-off-by: [ ](superset) Ashutosh Chauhan Comments: [ ](superset) Luke Han Comments: [X](superset) Alan Gates Comments: This is a very nice detailed report, thanks. IPMC/Shepherd notes: Justin Mclean: Thanks for recognising the issues this project faces and taking steps towards fixing them. -------------------- 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 issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Re-engage PPMC members 2. Fix licence issues 3. Graduate Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? INFRA-16698 moved 2 repos out of Apache git although they are still listed on https://git.apache.org/. How has the community developed since the last report? How has the project developed since the last report? Clearing up the last couple of licence issues and merging or removing pull requests. Project is ready for graduation although more activity from PPMC and members would be good. 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 [x] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: 2018-01-18 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2018-02-26 (PPMC) 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 but a bit thin on the ground. Overly reliant on a small number of them. Signed-off-by: [x](taverna) Andy Seaborne Comments: The project has two mentors showing any level of activity although as the project is "about to graduate" it should be almost self-sufficent. Graduation is possible though close to the minimum requirements; more active PPMC members would be very helpful. Due to lack of time I have to resign as mentor. [ ](taverna) Marlon Pierce Comments: [x](taverna) Stian Soiland-Reyes Comments: PPMC has increased activity levels and are resolving remaining licensing issues. Agree with Andy that more of the PPMC members being active would be ideal. [ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas 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. Two most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Improve community engagement 2. Increase adoption 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? - 1 new subscriber in dev mailing list since the last report How has the project developed since the last report? - Working on 0.16.0-incubating release 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: 2018-09-04 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? - None since coming to incubation 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 and responsive Signed-off-by: [X](tephra) Alan Gates Comments: [X](tephra) James Taylor Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- Warble a distributed endpoint monitoring solution where the agent is hosted on your own hardware. Warble has been incubating since 2018-06-11. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Engage initial committers. 2. Set core design and feature set, avoid creep of new features before the core is complete. 3. Expand committers and community 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? Chris Lambertus has fully moved to role as mentor. How has the project developed since the last report? Development is still slow with plans to better engage our existing devs. How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [X] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [X] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: NA When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? NA 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. NA Signed-off-by: [ ](warble) Daniel Takamori Comments: [X](warble) Chris Lambertus Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- Zipkin Zipkin is a distributed tracing system. It helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in microservice architectures. Zipkin has been incubating since 2018-08-29. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Finalize the migration of the GitHub repositories 2. Wrap up and agree upon release process, the draft discussion has been started already 3. Plan to integrate one of the repositories (zipkin-karaf) with Apache CI (Jenkins) Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? The podling is presently blocked on INFRA-16989 however from the ASF side all concerns are cleared out. How has the community developed since the last report? The workshop regarding major Zipkin UI rework in planned on 3-7 of December, 2018. How has the project developed since the last report? Not much progress to report since the repositories have not been migrated yet. The new mentor, Sheng Wu, has joined the project. Also, the team has established a process to reflect project updates which is to create a wiki at the same time as the incubator reports (called LastMonthInZipkin). 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? 2018-11-16 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. Not much involvement from the mentors for the past month. Signed-off-by: [X](zipkin) Michael Semb Wever Comments: [ ](zipkin) John D. Ament Comments: [ ](zipkin) Willem Ning Jiang Comments: [X](zipkin) Andriy Redko Comments: [x](zipkin) Sheng Wu Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes: }}} ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig] ## Description: The Apache Jackrabbit™ content repository is a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java™ Technology API (JCR, specified in JSR 170 and 283). The Jackrabbit content repository is stable, largely feature complete and actively being maintained. Jackrabbit Oak is an effort to implement a scalable and performant hierarchical content repository as a modern successor to the Apache Jackrabbit content repository. It is targeted for use as the foundation of modern world-class web sites and other demanding content applications. In contrast to its predecessor, Oak does not implement all optional features from the JSR specifications and it is not a reference implementation. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: Apache Jackrabbit Oak receives most attention nowadays. All maintenance branches and the unstable development branch are continuously seeing moderate to high activity. We are running up to our 5th major release of Oak (1.10). Branching is expected to happen early January. A hackathon was held in Bucharest this quarter (https://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/Oakathon%20November%202018) where many ideas have been drafted and pondered. Amongst them improvements to our release model and better CI coverage for components depending on 3rd party services (i.e. cloud providers). Apache Jackrabbit itself is mostly in maintenance mode with most of the work going into bug fixing and tooling. New features are mainly driven by dependencies from Oak. ## Health report: The project is healthy with a continuous stream of traffic on all mailing lists reflecting the activity of the respective component. There is a wide range of topics being discussed on the dev and user lists as well as on the various JIRA issues. Commit activity is moderate to high mirroring the activity on the JIRA issues and the desire of the individual contributors to bring the features in for Oak 1.10. ## PMC changes: - Currently 52 PMC members. - Woonsan Ko was added to the PMC on Tue Sep 25 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 52 committers. - Woonsan Ko was added as a committer on Tue Sep 25 2018 ## Releases: - Jackrabbit-2.14.6 was released on Thu Sep 06 2018 - Jackrabbit-2.17.6 was released on Mon Oct 01 2018 - Jackrabbit-2.17.7 was released on Fri Nov 23 2018 - Jackrabbit-2.18.0 was released on Fri Nov 30 2018 - Oak-1.2.30 was released on Tue Sep 11 2018 - Oak-1.4.23 was released on Wed Sep 26 2018 - Oak-1.6.14 was released on Wed Sep 12 2018 - Oak-1.6.15 was released on Wed Nov 14 2018 - Oak-1.8.8 was released on Tue Sep 25 2018 - Oak-1.8.9 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018 - Oak-1.9.10 was released on Thu Nov 01 2018 - Oak-1.9.11 was released on Mon Nov 12 2018 - Oak-1.9.12 was released on Mon Nov 26 2018 - Oak-1.9.9 was released on Tue Oct 09 2018 - Vault-3.2.4 was released on Thu Sep 27 2018 - Vault-3.2.6 was released on Fri Nov 30 2018 ## JIRA activity: - 236 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 235 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Joshua Project [Tommaso Teofili] ## Description: Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit. ## Activity: Joshua has been incubating from 2016-02-13 to 2018-10-03. The Joshua community has been mostly silent since graduation resolution has passed. Since mid December some more activity has been seen in the dev@ mailing list to perform post graduation steps and discuss migration to Gitbox together with some Jira activity / commits. ## PMC changes -- No new PMC members in the last 3 months. -- Currently 10 PMC members. ## Releases -- Last release (6.1) is from June 22, 2017 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré] ## Description: - Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc). ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Once Karaf 4.2.2 will be released, master will become Karaf 4.3.x, upgrading to OSGi R7. - We are working on two new PoC for Karaf: * Karaf Vineyard is a API management platform powered by Karaf, providing API registry and gateway * Karaf Winegrower is the new karaf boot name. The purpose is to provide a complete framework/tool allowing developers to start very easily with the Karaf ecosystem - We also start discussion about improving the Karaf features service to better leverage resources repositories. ## Health report: - We can see interaction with different community (jclouds, OpenNMS, ...) and a general activity increase especially from users community - We also agree to define a cadence in Karaf runtime and subprojects release cycle (every 3 months). It allows to include fixes/jira update most often in release and gives a better roadmap to our users. ## PMC changes: - Currently 17 PMC members. - New PMC members added in the last 3 months: François Papon, Grzegorz Grzybek - Last PMC addition was François Papon & Grzegorz Grzybek on Mon Nov 29 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 31 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Francois Papon at Sat May 19 2018 ## Releases: - 4.1.7 was released on Thu Nov 29 2018 - Cave 4.1.1 was released on Mon Sep 10 2018 - Cellar 4.0.5 was released on Sun Oct 14 2018 - Cellar 4.1.2 was released on Sun Oct 14 2018 - Decanter 2.1.0 was released on Tue Sep 11 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@karaf.apache.org: - 189 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 160 emails sent to list (163 in previous quarter) - issues@karaf.apache.org: - 43 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 1182 emails sent to list (890 in previous quarter) - user@karaf.apache.org: - 362 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 578 emails sent to list (500 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 139 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 123 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Labs Project [Danny Angus] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Lucene Project [Adrien Grand] ## Description: - Lucene Core is a search-engine toolkit - Solr is a search server built on top of Lucene Core ## Issues: - There are no new issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: We are in the process of releasing Lucene and Solr 7.6. Lucene 7.6 most notably features better indexing of shapes via a KD tree that we effectively use as a R-tree. Solr 7.6 is making first steps to discourage users from using FieldCache to sort or compute facets and contains a number of incremental improvements to the Stream Evaluator framework. The release has been a bit frustrating due to the fact that our process requires that tests pass for the artifacts to be built, yet Solr has a number of tests that are flaky that forced the release manager to first disable these tests, and then also attempt to build a new release multiple times until tests pass. Release management is already challenging on its own so this is something that needs fixing. There have been efforts recently to improve stability of tests, but this was only merged to the master and 7.x branches. So hopefully this issue that we have had with 7.6 won't occur again when we want to release 7.7. There are also discussions to release 8.0 in the near future. We wanted to release 7.6 first but we now expect a branch to be cut any day and master to move from 8.0 to 9.0. Uwe Schindler, our "Generics and sophisticated Backwards Compatibility Policeman", now has access to the OpenJDK bug tracker. We expect it to be helpful in order to more quickly iterate with JDK developers in the future when we report bugs. ## PMC changes: - No new PMC members - Last addition was Cao Mạnh Đạt on on April 2nd 2018 - Currently 49 PMC members. ## Committer base changes: - Gus Heck was added as a committer on October 30th 2018 - Tim Allison was added as a committer on November 2nd 2018 - Currently 75 committers. ## Releases: - Lucene/Solr 7.5.0 was released on September 24th. - PyLucene 7.5.0 was released October 19th. - There are ongoing discussions to release 7.6.0 and 8.0.0. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Lucene.Net Project [Shad Storhaug] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Mnemonic Project [Gang Wang] Description: Apache Mnemonic is an open-source Java library for durable object-oriented programming on hybrid storage-class memory(e.g. NVM) space. it comes up with durable object model (DOM) and durable computing model(DCM) and takes full advantages of storage-class memory to simplify the code complexity, avoid SerDe/(Un)Marshal, mitigate caching for constructing next generation computing platform. Mnemonic makes the storing and transmitting of massive linked objects graphs simpler and more efficient. The performance tuning could also be mostly converged to a single point of tuning place if based on Mnemonic to process and analyze linked objects. The programmer is able to focus on the durable object oriented business logic instead of worrying about how to normalize/join, serDe(un)marshal, cache and storing their linked business objects with arbitrary complexity. Issues: There are no board-level issues at the moment. Activity: In this period of reporting, A new major feature has being added to Mnemonic code base that this new feature is to support PMDK that is the new SDK that Intel® developed for their Intel® Optane™ technology. The Intel® Optane™ technology is a unique combination of Intel® 3D XPoint™ memory media with Intel-built advanced system memory controller, interface hardware, and software IP. Together, these building blocks deliver a game-changing technology that presents new computer architecture opportunities and computing possibilities for a breadth of markets. The deployment of PMDK requires special configuration for the system, our community are working on that to preparing a stable PMDK runtime and development environment with PMDK on varieties of Docker containers. The community also considers about the Apache Flink integration with Apache Mnemonic. We have not yet get much activities and releases in this reporting period, probably, the vacation, holidays & shopping seasons, but we have a new committer joined our community. Health Report: Basically unchanged since the last report. Users are generally quiet in public but development continues. PMC Changes: - Currently 13 PMC members. - Last PMC joined in Jun. 2018 Committer Base Changes: - Currently 14 committers. - Last Committer joined in Dec. 2018 Releases: - Last release was v0.12.0 on Sep. 2018 - Still active development on next major version (0.13.0) JIRA Activity: - 11 JIRA tickets created since the last report (Sep. 2018) - Also 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved this period Sincerely, Gang(Gary) Wang on behalf of the Apache Mnemonic PMC ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Mynewt Project [Justin Mclean] ## Description: Mynewt is a real-time operating system for constrained embedded systems like wearables, lightbulbs, locks and doorbells. It works on a variety of 32-bit MCUs (microcontrollers), including ARM Cortex-M, RISC-V and MIPS architectures. ## Issues: None. ## Activity: - Release 1.5.0 completed on Nov 5, 2018 following release 1.4.1 on July 1, 2018 - Community work in serval areas including encrypted flash support, new Cortex-M3 and Cortex M-7 MCUs,logging enhancements, improved RTT integration, common set of error codes for the I2C HAL, drivers for new sensors and more. - Travis Continuous Integration (CI) can now be used to build and test Apache Mynewt on both Linux and OSX systems. ## Health report: - PMC and committers are active - Users questions and contributor's pull requests are quickly dealt with - Promotion of Apache Mynewt at Embedded Linux Conference + OpenIoT Summit Europe, Oct 2018 - Talk on MyNewt at ApacheCon in Montreal - Talk at 2018 China Open Source Conference (which was live translated and video recorded) ## PMC changes: - Currently 19 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Aditi Hilbert on Wed Jun 21 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 28 committers - No new committers added or voted on since last report ## Releases: - 1.5.0 was released on Nov 5, 2018 - 1.4.1 was released on July 1, 2018 - Making mcuboot the default bootloader for Apache Mynewt and splitting out component nffs into a separate repo planned for next release ## Mailing list activity: - Mailing list activity seeing new users and responders to questions asked (esp. questions from newcomers) - Mailing list exchanges are mostly around BLE, graceful shutdown, error recovery and reporting, Mynewt 1.5 release, bootloaders. - Mailing list average activity (# of topics, messages, people responding) dropped by about a third compared to previous quarter. - Slack activity up significantly and weekly/daily active users up 15% from last period (from 362 to 415 active users) ## GitHub Issues activity: - Issue types seen include change/feature requests, bug reports, contributions/PR, Q&A ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Report from the Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato] ## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Highlights: - Trademarks: since our last report we cleared the backlog of domains needing our attention and provided an update to the Trademark team; note that for one of the domains (ofbiz.de) the PMC's recommendation to the ASF was to ask the current owner to transfer the domain to the foundation (since the owner was willing to do so) and we filed a request for this [1]; after our request was rejected by the ASF one of our PMC members, Michael Brohl, kindly offered to get the ownership of the domain and redirect it to the project's official web site - Vulnerability reports: we are experiencing a remarkable increase in the number of security vulnerability reports we receive; although this is great because it means that there is interest in the OFBiz product and because they are helping us to make OFBiz more solid, processing all these new reports is also challenging for our security team; thus, in order to manage them efficiently, we are trying to grow the security team and we are discussing better ways to organize our work (e.g., using an issue tracker to keep better track of the status of each reports, creating templates to help us to promptly reply to various emails, etc...) - Releases: we have published a new release for the 16.11 series; it is a bug fix release that also addresses two security vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-8033 and CVE-2011-3600); since it is the 5th release of the series it is named 16.11.05; the stabilization of the new release branch, 17.12, is proceeding well but we have not scheduled a publication date, yet; - Various bug fixes and enhancements have been contributed and committed to the trunk: a summary of the main changes is available as usual in the project's blog [2] - More details about the community activities are published in the official blog [2], on Twitter [3] and other social media [4]. ## Health report: the committer and PMC base didn't change in the last quarter but we have some candidates in our watchlist; the community is actively involved in improving the trunk, fixing vulnerabilities, stabilizing the release branches and in various discussions and support requests posted mostly in the mailing list and in Jira ## PMC changes: - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Paul Foxworthy on Mon Mar 19 2018 - Currently 20 PMC members. ## Committer base changes: - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Aditya Sharma at Tue Jun 26 2018 - Currently 46 committers. ## Releases: - 16.11.05 was released on Tue Oct 02 2018; it is a bug fix release that also contains fixes for two security vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-8033 and CVE-2011-3600 ## Mailing list activity: There is nothing significant to report in the mailing list activity and statistics. ## JIRA activity: - 145 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 160 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ## References [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-17163 [2] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [3] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [4] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Olingo Project [Michael Bolz] ## Description: Apache Olingo is a Java and JavaScript library that implements the Open Data Protocol (OData). Apache Olingo serves client and server aspects of OData. It currently supports OData 2.0 and OData 4.0. The latter is the OASIS version of the protocol: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - After the vote for the new Olingo VP the resolution to change the chair of a project was sent to Apache Board. The Apache Board approved Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Olingo Project Chair, by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. - A planned activity is to start discussion about current (not) active and possible new members in the Olingo PMC (beginning of 2019). This is also related to last board report feedback: > mt: It has been 18 months since the last PMC or committer addition. > Is the PMC monitoring any potential candidates? ## Health report: - The Olingo project is still healthy and has no issues that require board involvement (beside already mentioned activity ). - The V4 code line is on steady development also reflected in related discussions on mailing list and new created JIRA items. - The V2 code line has no new contributions but open and new created JIRA items. Based on that last release was one year ago it is planned to do a vote for a new minor maintenance release. ## PMC changes: - Currently 13 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Ramesh Reddy on Thu Oct 08 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 25 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Archana Rai at Fri May 26 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 4.5.0 on Mon Aug 13 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@olingo.apache.org: - 88 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 163 emails sent to list (103 in previous quarter) - user@olingo.apache.org: - 203 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 6 emails sent to list (11 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 30 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 18 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache OODT Project [Imesha Sudasingha] ## Description: Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Last release was 1.2.5 on September 18th 2018 - A discussion is ongoing on plan to containerize OODT - 1.9 release is yet to be made even though the required developments are almost complete. ## Health report: During this reporting period, there has been an increased activity due to contributions from a new community member and active usage of OODT in user projects. We plan to release 1.9 (which was delayed) in the coming reporting period. Furthermore, we plan to containerize OODT components along with a docker build. In addition to that, we are planning on what GSoC project ideas to make available for GSoC 2019 and possible mentors. Overall this period can be considered as an active period where new contributions and active users were involved. ## PMC changes: - Currently 45 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Imesha Sudasingha on Mon Aug 28 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 46 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Imesha Sudasingha at Tue Aug 29 2017 ## Releases: - 1.2.5 was released on Thu Sep 13 2018 ## Mailing list activity: There was increased activity in this period due an ongoing discussion on containerization, a new contributor fixing some bugs and some users actively using OODT in their projects. - dev@oodt.apache.org: - 95 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 139 emails sent to list (118 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce] Open Climate Workbench is a library for evaluating climate models on regional and continental scales using observational datasets from a variety of sources. * There are no Board-level issue at this time. * Version 1.3.0 was released on April 23, 2018. * The latest release version (version 1.3.0) and its application has been published in Geoscientific Model Development (Lee et al., 2018). After the release, several minor bugs have been reported and fixed. * More than 100 students at Portland State University used OCW-based software to learn about regional climate change in their physical geography lab in October 2018. * We are currently refactoring OCW by applying xarray and dask. * The latest commit was made by a new committer on November 24, 2018/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Report from the Apache OpenNLP Project [Jörn Kottmann] ## Description: - Apache OpenNLP is a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text. ## Issues: - There are no issues ## Activity: - The activity on the 1.x branch of slowed down a bit and more time was spent developing the future 2 version of OpenNLP based on Deep Learning concepts. There are now proof-of-concepts for three NLP components. - Suneel Marthi and Joern Kottmann will present at FOSDEM 2019 and BigData Warsaw 2019 about Streaming pipelines for Neural Machine Translation leveraging Apache OpenNLP for Language Detection, Tokenization, Sentence Detection from an Apache Flink streaming pipelines. ## Health report: - The project has a very active committer base and there’s healthy activity on mailing lists. ## PMC changes: - Currently 15 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Koji Sekiguchi on Tue Oct 10 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 21 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Jeffrey T. Zemerick at Wed Apr 26 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 1.9.0 on Mon Jul 02 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - The dev and user lists have the usual amount of activity. - users@opennlp.apache.org: - 448 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 23 emails sent to list (16 in previous quarter) - dev@opennlp.apache.org: - 237 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 7 emails sent to list (25 in previous quarter) - issues@opennlp.apache.org: - 51 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 82 emails sent to list (123 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 8 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Report from the Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg] ## Description: Apache OpenWebBeans is an ALv2-licensed implementations of the "Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform" specifications which are defined as JSR-299 (CDI-1.0), JSR-346 (CDI-1.1 and CDI-1.2 MR) and JSR-365 (CDI-2.0). The OWB community also maintains a small server as Apache Meecrowave subproject. Meecrowave bundles latest releases of the ASF projects Tocmat9 + OpenWebBeans + CXF + Johnzon + log4j2. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: We got slightly less activity this quarter but still shipped a few releases. We are currently preparing a maintenance release for OWB-1.7.x (EE7 level) and OWB-2.0.9. Both for improved Java11 support. Please keep in mind that the CDI-2.0 spec is now almost 3 years old. So we are per definition in a maintenance mode. ## Health report: Community is doing fine. We get feedback and tickets from our own folks but also from random contributors. ## PMC changes: - Currently 13 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Reinhard Sandtner on Mon Oct 09 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 20 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was John D. Ament at Mon Oct 09 2017 ## Releases: - Meecrowave-1.2.4 was released on Tue Sep 25 2018 - OWB-2.0.8 was released on Mon Nov 12 2018 ## Mailing list activity: Interestingly the dev list saw more traffic while from the feeling we did push a bit less things. - dev@openwebbeans.apache.org: - 68 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 293 emails sent to list (196 in previous quarter) - user@openwebbeans.apache.org: - 96 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 9 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 42 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 38 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Pig Project [Koji Noguchi] ## Description: - Apache Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets on Hadoop. It provides a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - We're behind on the next major release of 0.18. From last board feedback > rs: Last PMC member was added more than 2 years ago. This in > conjunction with the number of committers being twice as PMC > members make me think that perhaps some of these non-PMC > committers may be active (and interested enough!) to be coach > into PMC membership? > > Not having much activity among these non-PMC committers > (if that's the case) would be a useful data point to know in the next report. Overall activity is comparatively low for the past year as project is mostly mature and stable. There are new features and enhancements being worked on, but the pace is slow as we have fewer people working on Pig who also divide their time contributing to other Apache projects. ## Health report: - Mostly bug fixes and enhancements being worked on. ## PMC changes: - Currently 17 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Koji Noguchi on Thu Aug 04 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 31 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Nándor Kollár at Thu Sep 06 2018 ## Releases: - Last release was 0.17.0 on Thu Jun 15 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@pig.apache.org: - 364 subscribers (down -12 in the last 3 months): - 337 emails sent to list (222 in previous quarter) - user@pig.apache.org: - 1070 subscribers (down -7 in the last 3 months): - 3 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 14 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 13 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Pivot Project [Roger Lee Whitcomb] Description: Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Issues: There are no board-level issues at this time. Activity: Very little development activity this quarter, mostly due to my personal issues (death of my wife). Otherwise same low level of user activity as the past couple of years. We will need some serious work related to Java applets being gone and the Nashorn engine going away soon as well. Health report: Basically unchanged for several years: development is ongoing, but users are quiet. PMC changes: - Currently 7 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016 Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago Releases: - Last release was 2.0.5 on Mon Jul 03 2017 - Still active development on next major version (2.1.0). Mailing list activity: - dev@pivot.apache.org: - 61 subscribers (down one in the last 3 months) - 20 emails sent to list (44 in previous quarter) - user@pivot.apache.org: - 169 subscribers (down 2 in the last 3 months) - 1 email sent to list (1 in previous quarter) JIRA activity: - 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - No JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Polygene Project [Jiri Jetmar] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) Project [Nick Kew] ## Description: - The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. There are three sub-projects: APR, APR-UTIL and APR-ICONV, of which the first two are the main focus of developer interest. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Most of the activity this quarter has been around the bugfix release in September. Apart from that, the project has reverted to quiet and stable. ## Health report: - The project remains quiet but healthy. ## PMC changes: - Currently 41 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Evgeny Kotkov on Wed Sep 13 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 67 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Evgeny Kotkov at Wed Sep 13 2017 ## Releases: - A bugfix release APR-1.6.5 was released on September 14th 2018. No new releases of APR-UTIL or APR-ICONV. ## Mailing list activity (from reporter.apache.org): - The subscriber base remains stable. - dev@apr.apache.org: - 328 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 91 emails sent to list (198 in previous quarter) - bugs@apr.apache.org: - 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 22 emails sent to list (37 in previous quarter) ## Bugzilla Statistics: - 5 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months - 2 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor] ## Description: Apache Portals exists to promote the use of open source portal technology. We intend to build freely available and interoperable portal software in order to promote the use of this technology. With the Pluto project, we provide a reference implementation for the Java portlet standard. The Jetspeed project is a full feature enterprise open source portal. The Portals Applications project is dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available portlet applications. ## Activity: Apache Portals has released 3 releases since the last report. Pluto: Earlier this year, a Security Vulnerability Report was logged against Pluto 3.0.0 by the Apache Security Team (Mark J. Cox) titled “Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution”. This issue has been fixed and is included in the June 21, 2018 Pluto version 3.0.1 release. Pluto 3.0.1 was released June 21, 2018. This is the second GA release of Pluto conformant to the Java Portlet 3.0 Standard. In addition, version 3.0.1 of generic-portlet-archetype and bean-portlet-archetype have been released. No additional members since last report 12 Feb 2017 - Two new PMC members added 27 April 2017 - Apache Portals Pluto team released Pluto Maven Archetypes 3.0 to support to developing new portlets to the new 3.0 spec ## Mailing list activity: Not much activity. Some discussions around TCK implementation on the Pluto list. Low volume activity on the Jetspeed lists. ## Issues: We have no board-level issues at this time. ## PMC/Committership changes: Last Added PMC Members: 12 Feb 2017 - Scott Martin Nicklaus 12 Feb 2017 - Neil Griffin Last Added Committers: 05 August 2016 Mohd Ahmed Kahn 11 Dec 2014 Martin Scott Nicklous 11 Dec 2014 Neil Griffin ## Releases: Pluto 3.0.1 - 21 June 2018 Pluto Maven Portlet Archetype 3.0.1 - 21 June 2018 Pluto Maven Generic Archetype 3.0.1 - 21 June 2018 Pluto Maven Archetype 3.0.0 - 27 April 2017 Pluto 3.0.0 - 18 January 2017 Jetspeed 2.3.1- 09 May 2016 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache PredictionIO Project [Donald Szeto] ## Description: - PredictionIO is an open source Machine Learning Server built on top of state-of-the-art open source stack, that enables developers to manage and deploy production-ready predictive services for various kinds of machine learning tasks. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Improved PySpark support. - Most client SDKs have been updated. - Successful GitBox migration of all repos. - Re-architecture discussion towards version 1.0 started. - Continued community support and driving for contributions. ## PMC changes: - Currently 28 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Mars Hall on Fri Jul 28 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 29 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. - Last committer addition was Mars Hall on Fri Jul 28 2017 ## Releases: - 0.13.0 was released on Wed Sep 19 2018 ## JIRA activity: - 36 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 29 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Pulsar Project [Matteo Merli] ## Description: Pulsar is a highly scalable, low latency messaging platform running on commodity hardware. It provides simple pub-sub semantics over topics, guaranteed at-least-once delivery of messages, automatic cursor management for subscribers, and cross-datacenter replication. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - The project has graduated as TLP on Sep. 19th. - Several meetup and conferences talk on Pulsar * Ivan Kelly has presented Pulsar at BigData Spain on Nov 15th * A Pulsar intro talk was presented at LeadDevAustin * Apache Pulsar meetup scheduled for Dec 15th in Shanghai with talk from several members of community * Sijie and Jia will present "Unifying the Batch and Stream Elastic Processing with Apache Pulsar and Apache Flink" at Flink Forward in Beijing on Dec 20th. - A patch release (2.2.1) is being prepared to address all the issues reported in 2.2.0 release - Work is ongoing for next release (2.3.0), scheduled for end of December for which we plan to include: * Apache BookKeeper 4.9.0 * Schema support for C++ and Python * Token based authentication ## Health report: - There is healthy grow in the community - Activity on the Slack channel is still high, many first time users come to ask questions while getting started. There are 103 weekly active users on the channel, up from 92 in November. - Several new developers have joined the community providing new feature proposals that were discussed with the community and finally contributed to the project. We have voted one new committer and we plan to start discussion on more committers/PMC pipeline soon. ## PMC changes: - Currently 23 PMC members - No new PMC added in the last month -- All existing PPMC member have joined the PMC ## Committer base changes: - Currently 24 committers - 1 Committer added in the last month (Penghui Li - Dec 7th) ## Releases: - 2.2.0 was released on Oct. 24th ## 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@pulsar.apache.org: - 84 subscribers (+5 from Nov 2018) - 32 emails sent to list in Nov (35 in Oct) - dev@pulsar.apache.org: - 80 subscribers (+5 from Nov 2018) - 40 emails sent to list in Nov (99 in Oct) ## GitHub activity: - 144 PR from 24 contributors were merged in the last 1 month (up from 131) - 57 Issues were created and 52 closed in the last 1 month ----------------------------------------- Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Royale Project [Harbs] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Sentry Project [Alex Kolbasov] ## Description: Apache Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role based authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop Cluster. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - 2.1.0 release complete. - Started discussion about changing PMC chair - Performance optimizations for HDFS sync functionality - Work on importing and exporting Sentry data ## Health report: - Development activity seems pretty consistent; - New developers starting contributng to the project; ## PMC changes: ## PMC changes: - Currently 38 PMC members. - Na Li was added to the PMC on Mon Dec 10 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 40 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Arjun Mishra at Fri Jul 06 2018 ## Releases: - 2.1.0 was released on Sun Sep 30 2018 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BD: Report from the Apache ServiceComb Project [Willem Ning Jiang] ## Description: - ServiceComb is a full stack microservice framework which provides a set of SDK's, Service Registry and Transaction Management Services for rapid development of Cloud native applications. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - ServiceComb PMC did the first around graduate release this month. - We began to hold the online community meeting[1] to discuss about the roadmap of the project. - ServiceComb saga will be rename to pack[2] to provide the TCC and Saga supports in the pack architecture [1]https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SERVICECOMB/Community+Meeting [2]https://bit.ly/2zQqcWM ## 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. - New committers: - Haishi Yao was added as a committer on Tue Nov 13 2018 - Jun Zhao was added as a committer on Tue Nov 13 2018 ## Releases: - ServiceComb Saga 0.2.1 on Nov 24, 2018 - ServiceComb Java-Chassis 1.1.0 on Dec 1, 2018 - ServiceComb Service-Center 1.1.0 on Dec 1, 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@servicecomb.apache.org: - This month, there were 197 emails sent by 25 people, divided into 27 topics - 130 subscribers (up 19 in the last 3 months): - 485 emails sent to list (535 in previous quarter) - issues@servicecomb.apache.org: - 8 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 2145 emails sent to list (2737 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 176 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 179 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BE: Report from the Apache ServiceMix Project [Krzysztof Sobkowiak] Description =========== Apache ServiceMix is a flexible, open-source integration container that unifies the features and functionality of Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF and Karaf to provide a complete, enterprise-ready ESB powered by OSGi. Issues ====== There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. Activity ======== The project focus of Apache ServiceMix is the assembly of the integration container, the actual functionality is being maintained in related projects like Apache Karaf, Apache CXF, Apache Camel and Apache ActiveMQ. - We have released 3 sets of OSGi bundles and some Specs bundles. - We plan to migrate our repositories to gitbox during the next weeks. - We should focus more intensively on ServiceMix assembly based on the newest Apache Camel and Apache Karaf, what was a bit outstanding last months. - We should focus on documentation and samples improvement. Health report ============= - Activity on the mailing lists and in JIRA is on the same level like in the last period. We had some contributions. PMC changes =========== - Currently 21 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Andrea Cosentino on Wed Mar 15 2017 Committer base changes ====================== - Currently 50 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Andrea Cosentino at Sun Mar 13 2016 Releases ======== - Apache ServiceMix Bundles 2018.09 on September 23 2018 - Apache ServiceMix Bundles 2018.10 on November 06 2018 - Apache ServiceMix Specs (jaxb-api, jaxws-api) on November 19 2018 - Apache ServiceMix Bundles 2018.11 on December 06 2018 JIRA activity ============= - 94 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 94 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Sling Project [Robert Munteanu] ## Description: Apache Sling™ is a framework for RESTful web-applications based on an extensible content tree. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: Sling 11 was released on October 23, 2018 with a large number of fixes and improvements. We have also made a good number of module releases. ## Health report: Good activity level overall, contributions from different people continue. ## PMC changes: - Currently 26 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Andrei Dulvac on Mon Jul 30 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 43 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was A. J. David Bosschaert at Fri Mar 09 2018 ## Releases: - Apache Sling App CMS 0.10.0 was released on Fri Sep 21 2018 - Apache Sling App CMS 0.11.0 was released on Fri Nov 09 2018 - Apache Sling App CMS 0.11.2 was released on Wed Nov 28 2018 - Apache Sling Capabilities 0.1.0 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018 - Apache Sling Capabilities JCR 0.1.0 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018 - Apache Sling Commons Log 5.1.10 was released on Mon Sep 10 2018 - Apache Sling Context-Aware Configuration API 1.1.2, Context-Aware Configuration SPI 1.3.4, Context-Aware Configuration Impl 1.4.14 was released on Wed Sep 05 2018 - Apache Sling Discovery Oak 1.2.28 was released on Fri Aug 31 2018 - Apache Sling Distributed Event Admin 1.1.4 was released on Fri Nov 09 2018 - Apache Sling File Optimization 0.9.2 was released on Wed Sep 12 2018 - Apache Sling Form Based Authentication Handler 1.0.12 was released on Fri Oct 19 2018 - Apache Sling HTL Maven Plugin 1.2.0-1.4.0 was released on Tue Oct 02 2018 - Apache Sling HTL Maven Plugin 1.2.2-1.4.0 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018 - Apache Sling Installer Vault Package Install Hook was released on Mon Oct 15 2018 - Apache Sling JUnit Tests Teleporter 1.0.18 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018 - Apache Sling Jackrabbit JSR-283 Access Control Manager Support 3.0.2 was released on Mon Sep 17 2018 - Apache Sling Jackrabbit UserManager Support 2.2.8 was released on Mon Sep 17 2018 - Apache Sling Launchpad Integration Tests 1.0.8 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018 - Apache Sling Launchpad Test Bundles 0.0.6 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018 - Apache Sling Launchpad Testing 11 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018 - Apache Sling Launchpad Testing Fragment Bundle 2.0.16 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018 - Apache Sling Launchpad Testing Services 2.0.16 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018 - Apache Sling Launchpad Testing Services WAR 2.0.16 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018 - Apache Sling Launchpad Testing WAR 11 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018 - Apache Sling Models API 1.3.8 was released on Thu Nov 08 2018 - Apache Sling Resource Filter version 1.0.0 was released on Sun Sep 09 2018 - Apache Sling Scripting HTL Compiler 1.1.0-1.4.0 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018 - Apache Sling Scripting HTL Engine 1.0.56-1.4.0 was released on Tue Oct 02 2018 - Apache Sling Scripting HTL Engine 1.1.0-1.4.0 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018 - Apache Sling Scripting HTL JS Use Provider 1.0.28 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018 - Apache Sling Scripting HTL Java Compiler 1.1.0-1.4.0 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018 - Apache Sling Scripting HTL Models Use Provider 1.0.28 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018 - Apache Sling Scripting HTL Runtime 1.0.0-1.4.0 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018 - Apache Sling Scripting HTL Testing 1.0.14-1.4.0 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018 - Apache Sling Scripting HTL Testing Content 1.0.14-1.4.0 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018 - Apache Sling Servlets Annotations 1.1.0 was released on Tue Sep 11 2018 - Apache Sling Servlets Get 2.1.34 was released on Fri Aug 31 2018 - Apache Sling Servlets Get 2.1.36 was released on Mon Sep 24 2018 - Apache Sling Slingshot Sample 0.9.0 was released on Mon Sep 17 2018 - Apache Sling Slingstart Archetype 1.0.8 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018 - Apache Sling Starter Application 11 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018 - Apache Sling Starter Content 1.0.2 was released on Fri Oct 19 2018 - Apache Sling Tenant 1.1.2 was released on Wed Sep 05 2018 - Apache Sling Testing JCR Mock 1.4.2, OSGi Mock 2.4.4 was released on Mon Nov 19 2018 - Apache Sling Testing OSGi Mock 2.4.2, Sling Mock 2.3.4 was released on Mon Sep 03 2018 ## JIRA activity: - 264 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 243 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BH: Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Sidney Markowitz] Apache SpamAssassin report to Board for Dec 2018 SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. The project provides a framework/engine and regular rule updates that reflect the changing nature of spam email seen in the wild. Updated rules are generated through a combination of hand crafted contributions and automated processing of spam and anonymized processed non-spam that are contributed by volunteers. Status and health report: The project activities, including running of our rule update infrastructure and our dev and user mailing lists, are continuing smoothly. We are close to releasing SpamAssassin version 3.4.3. We have added two new PMC members. Releases: The last release was Apache SpamAssassin version 3.4.2 on 16 September 2018. We are close to releasing version 3.4.3 to address some issues that were deferred, in part so we could quickly release security fixes in 3.4.2. After we release 3.4.3 we expect to resume development in our main branch for 4.0. Note that we maintain online rule updates that are continuously updated through a combination of developer contributions and automated processing via our mass-check facility. Committer/PMC changes: Most recent new committer: Paul Stead (pds) 12 September 2018 New PMC members this quarter: Giovanni Bechis (gbechis) 24 Sep 2018 Henrik Krohns (hege) 25 Sep 2018 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Storm Project [P. Taylor Goetz] ## Description: - Apache Storm is a distributed real-time computation system. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Project activity has been relatively quiet this quarter, with a significant uptick toward the end of the quarter as the community focuses on resolving the remaining JIRA tickets necessary for the 2.0 release. ## Health report: - New contributors continue to engage and that engagement tends to keep up activity levels, even as some contributors move on. ## PMC changes: - Currently 37 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Ethan Li on Tue Apr 10 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 38 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Ethan Li at Wed Apr 11 2018 ## Releases: - Last release was 1.1.3 on Mon Jun 04 2018 ## JIRA activity: - 79 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 77 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Synapse Project [Isuru Udana] ## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Activity: There was a slight increase of the activity in the project compared to last quarter. ## Health report: All PMC members and committers active on the project in the recent past got busy with their other work, so they couldn’t contribute to the project. We hope to bring back the project to life at towards the end of the year during December vacation. ## PMC changes: - Currently 27 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on Thu May 04 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 34 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Prabath Ariyarathna at Fri Feb 10 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 3.0.1 on Sat Dec 09 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@synapse.apache.org: - 185 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 18 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter) - user@synapse.apache.org: - 177 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 1 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BM: Report from the Apache Tiles Project [Michael Semb Wever] ## Description: Apache Tiles is a free open-sourced templating framework for Java applications. Based upon the Composite pattern it is built to simplify the development of user interfaces. ## Issues: After discussion on both user and dev ML, a successful vote agreed to move the project to the Apache Attic. The resolution has been added to the board report as Special Order (E). The vote results for the Attic move are found at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5d61f74e9ea0883c53c433d18b2416f0b415b671b988b65520de5004@%3Cdev.tiles.apache.org%3E ----------------------------------------- Attachment BN: Report from the Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk] ## Description: - A Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java WebSocket and Java Unified Expression language specifications implementation. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Continued healthy activity across multiple components and responsiveness on both dev and user lists. - We recently started a community effort to expand our localisation support by adding additional languages and expanding the coverage of the existing languages, using web-based collaboration tool (poeditor.com) - We also had a constructive debate as to whether the translations were valuable to our users or not. ## PMC changes: - Currently 27 PMC members. - Last addition May 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 45 committers. - Last addition May 2018 ## Releases: - Apache Tomcat 7.0.91 was released on Wed Sep 19 2018 - Apache Tomcat 7.0.92 was released on Thu Nov 15 2018 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.35 was released on Wed Nov 07 2018 - Apache Tomcat 9.0.13 was released on Wed Nov 07 2018 - Apache Tomcat JK Connector jk-1.2.46 was released on Sat Oct 13 2018 - Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.18 was released on Sun Oct 21 2018 - Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.19 was released on Thu Dec 06 2018 ## Trademark: - No new trademark issues in the last 3 months and there are currently no outstanding trademark issues that the Apache Tomcat PMC is working on. - Detailed history is available at: https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/tomcat/trademark-status.txt ## Security: - Detailed status: http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html - Moderate: Open Redirect CVE-2018-11784 Version Affected Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.11 Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.33 Apache Tomcat 7.0.23 to 7.0.90 - Important: Information disclosure CVE-2018-11759 Version Affected Apache Tomcat JK Connector jk-1.2.0 to jk-1.2.44 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BO: Report from the Apache Trafodion Project [Pierre Smits] ## Description: - Apache Trafodion extends the Apache Hadoop ecosystem to guarantee transactional integrity and operational workloads for new kinds of Big Data applications. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - The community continued working on tickets and participating on the Project's mailing list in line with previous months. - Work continues on getting a new release out. - The PMC onboarded one new member in this quarter. - Focus of the PMC remains on growing the community, and is expected to onboard two new members in next quarter. ## Health report: - Subscriptions to the (public) mailing lists showed stable numbers compared to previous quarter (for details see section Mailing List activity below). - Compared to previous quarter, the community involvement showed a stable participation on the dev mailing list, while sharp declines were noticed for the user mailing list and regarding notifications for code review and ticket creation, comment and resolution (for details see section Mailing List activity below). - Despite the mentioned sharp declines, the PMC still regards the project as being healthy. ## PMC changes: - Currently 13 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Sandhya Sundaresan on Tue Aug 14 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 24 committers. - New commmitters: - Sheng-Chen Ma was added as a committer on Mon Nov 05 2018 - Narendra Goyal was added as a committer on Mon Nov 05 2018 - Prashanth Vasudev was added as a committer on Tue Nov 13 2018 - Weiqing Xu was added as a committer on Thu Nov 08 2018 ## Releases: - Last release was 2.2.0 on Sat Mar 10 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@trafodion.apache.org: - 98 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 246 emails sent to list (227 in previous quarter) - codereview@trafodion.apache.org: - 25 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 221 emails sent to list (494 in previous quarter) - issues@trafodion.apache.org: - 34 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 370 emails sent to list (822 in previous quarter) - user@trafodion.apache.org: - 105 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 4 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter) - security@trafodion.apache.org: - 6 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - Currently no automated insights in number of ml postings provided by ComDev-reporter services. - private@trafodion.apache.org: - currently 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - Currently no automated insights in number of ml postings provided by ComDev-reporter services. ## JIRA activity: - 50 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 21 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ## Social media activity: - Followers: 267 (+2) - Tweets: 93 (+1) - Likes: 73 (+0) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BP: Report from the Apache Twill Project [Terence Yim] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BQ: Report from the Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor] Board report for Apache UIMA, for December 2018. Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. ## PMC changes: - Currently 16 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Lou DeGenaro on Mon May 02 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 25 committers. - Last new committer: Viorel Morari was added as a committer on Thu Sep 20 2018 ## Releases: 2 releases of the main UIMA Java SDK were done; - 2.10.3SDK was released on Wed Nov 28 2018 - 3.0.1SDK was released on Wed Nov 28 2018 Activity: We updated our project-wide parent POM to current levels, and incorporated changes to accommodate Apache policies on changes to SHA1 / MD5 checksums. We upgraded our build release process to work with Java 11, as well as Java 8. The Java SDK, uimaFIT, UIMA-AS, DUCC, RUTA are actively being worked on. The UIMA C++ version, after a long while of no volunteers to work on it, has sprung to life, with one new contributor working to upgrade it to current levels and get the test cases working again. Community: The community continues to be moderately active. Issues: No Board level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BR: Report from the Apache VCL Project [Josh Thompson] ## Description: - VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - The PMC is currently voting to extend committer invitations to the two previously mentioned individuals. ## Health report: - As per our normal state of things, we're very slowly creeping toward getting a new release out. ## PMC changes: - Currently 7 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 8 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013 ## Releases: - Last release was 2.5 on Thu Aug 17 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@vcl.apache.org: - 118 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 41 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter) - user@vcl.apache.org: - 155 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 33 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BS: Report from the Apache Whimsy Project [Sam Ruby] ## Description: Tools that help automate various administrative tasks or information lookup activities ## Issues: None ## Health report: A relatively quiet couple of months, development wise. Apologies for the missing and late report. We continue to have more than adequate oversight, with two to three active committers, and two to four occasional committers. ## Development: - Update the secretary workbench to use different PDF manipulation tools as an OS update applied a fix for a security issue that in turn made the previous set of tools useless for the purposes needed by the workbench. - Minor changes, mostly additional providing additional cross-checks and reducing the backlog of issues. ## PMC and committer base: - Currently 10 committers, all on the PMC. - Last addition: Thu Jun 2017 (John D. Ament) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BT: Report from the Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst] Report from the Apache Wicket project [Martijn Dashorst] Apache Wicket is an open source Java component oriented web application framework. ## Noteworthy items: - Wicket 8.2.0, 7.11.0 and 6.30.0 were released - Wicket 8 is received very well, download statistics for Maven central keep increasing and are reportedly more than doubled since last year ## Issues: - No issues require board attention. ## Health report: - The community is stable as is to be expected from a mature server side Java web framework. We don't anticipate a sudden large growth or large decline. - Questions to the user list and dev list are answered, resolved and discussed. - We keep on the look out for new committers and PMC members. The PMC is aware that to keep the project healthy new blood is necessary, but are realistic that server side Java web frameworks are not the newest and hottest technologies at this time. ## PMC changes: - Currently 30 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Maxim Solodovnik on Thu Apr 13 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 31 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Maxim Solodovnik at Thu Apr 13 2017 ## Releases: - 8.2.0 was released on Mon Nov 12 2018 - 7.11.0 was released on Fri Nov 30 2018 - 6.30.0 was released on Mon Dec 10 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - Looking at these statistics, we can see an increase in activity not only in downloads, but also on mailinglist activity as well. So usage of Wicket seems steady and healthy. - users@wicket.apache.org: - 845 subscribers (down -8 in the last 3 months): - 197 emails sent to list (150 in previous quarter) - dev@wicket.apache.org: - 348 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 285 emails sent to list (118 in previous quarter) - announce@wicket.apache.org: - 343 subscribers (down -12 in the last 3 months): - 8 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BU: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BV: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich] Xerces-J There were some minor updates to the code. Most of the activity in the last quarter was in JIRA (new bug reports from the community and discussion with one of the developers). Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 50+ posts on the j-dev and j-users lists since the beginning of September 2018. No new releases since the previous report. The latest release is Xerces-J 2.12.0 (April 30th, 2018). Xerces-C A patch release (Xerces-C 3.2.2) was released in September to address some build issues and a libcurl improvement. Since then the developers have been responding to recent JIRA issues raised by the community. Mailing list traffic has been moderate; roughly 110+ posts on the c-dev and c-users lists since the beginning of September 2018. The latest release is Xerces-C 3.2.2 (September 19th, 2018). Xerces-P Nothing in particular to report. There was no development activity over the reporting period. XML Commons No activity over the reporting period. Committer / PMC Changes The most recent committers were added in April 2017 (Xerces-C) and May 2017 (Xerces-J). No new PMC members since the last report. The most recent addition to the PMC was in June 2016. Three committers have committed changes to SVN since September 2018. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BW: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Clay Leeds] Apache XML Graphics Project Board Report ================================== The Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software intended for the creation & maintenance of the conversion of XML formats to graphical output & related software components. ISSUES FOR THE BOARD ===================== No issues at present. ACTIVITY ======== No releases during this activity period. PROJECT HEALTH REPORT ======================= The level of community and developer activity remains at a consistent, moderate, level with respect to the previous reporting period. PMC CHANGES ============= Currently 12 PMC members. Simon Steiner was added to the PMC on Tue Jan 19 2016 Clay Leeds was approved for XML Graphics PMC Chair position on March 26, 2018. Committers ========== Currently 21 committers. No new committers added in the last 3 months Last committer addition was Matthias Reischenbacher at Wed May 13 2015 Most Recent Releases ================== There were no releases in the last quarter. XMLGraphics Commons 2.3 was released on Mon May 14, 2018 XMLGraphics FOP 2.3 was released on Mon May 14, 2018 XMLGraphics Batik 1.10 was released on Mon May 14, 2018 = SUB PROJECTS = ================ XML GRAPHICS COMMONS ==================== Community activity was light, although there were a few bugs resolved. New Release? ------------ There were no releases this quarter. Latest Release -------------- XMLGraphics Commons 2.3 was released on Mon May 14, 2018 FOP === A number of patches have been processed and several bugs fixed. New Release? ------------ There were no releases this quarter. Latest Release -------------- XMLGraphics FOP 2.3 was released on Mon May 14, 2018 BATIK ===== No commits to SVN this quarter. A handful of new bugs have been reported by users via JIRA New Release? ------------ There were no releases this quarter. Latest Release -------------- XMLGraphics Batik 1.10 was released on Mon May 14, 2018 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BX: Report from the Apache Yetus Project [Allen Wittenauer] ## Description: Apache Yetus provides libraries and tools that enable contribution and release processes for software projects. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: There were three big changes in the project over the past quarter. 1) The project has moved to a Maven-based build system. This change will enable the project to clean up a lot of automation, additional testing, and lots of other exciting things. Before Maven, Yetus was built via a shell script that lacked much functionality. Moving to a real build tool has been on the TODO list for a very long time (YETUS-15!). 2) We've changed contributions to be Lazy Consensus with a 72-hour window. This change was done primarily to unblock contributions that were having trouble getting past the patch phase due to lack of review time. It is hoped that this will increase project velocity. The release process is unchanged. 3) We've started publishing convenience artifacts on hub.docker.com. Combined with other changes, the Docker images will hopefully increase project adoption on services such as Circle CI, Travis CI, and GitLab CI in addition to more traditional Jenkins shops now utilizing Docker. ## Health report: As predicted, health-wise, this quarter was relatively quiet. With the above changes combined with the forced relocation of ASF projects to Gitbox, the next quarter may prove interesting and/or challenging. ## PMC changes: - Currently 8 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Ajay Yadav on Thu Dec 01 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 12 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Akira Ajisaka at Tue Feb 06 2018 ## Releases: - Last release was 0.8.0 on Wed Aug 29 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@yetus.apache.org: - 45 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 81 emails sent to list (62 in previous quarter) - notifications@yetus.apache.org: - 16 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 514 emails sent to list (584 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 43 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 40 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BY: Report from the Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Paiva Junqueira] ## Description: Apache ZooKeeper is a system for distributed coordination. It enables the implementation of a variety of primitives and mechanisms that are critical for safety and liveness in distributed settings, e.g., distributed locks, master election, group membership, and configuration. ## Issues: No issues requiring board attention. ## Activity: - No new releases during the reporting period. - Facebook hosted a ZooKeeper meetup on Nov. 08. (https://www.facebook.com/zkmeetup) - We had one issue reported to the security list, which is under discussion. ## Health report: - We added one new committer during the reporting period and we are always on the look for new contributors who are interested in stepping their community participation up. - We had a significant growth in the dev list activity: 62% increase compared to the previous quarter. ## PMC changes: - Currently 13 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Michael Han on Wed Jun 21 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 24 committers. - Fangmin Lv was added as a committer on Wed Oct 24 2018 ## Releases: - Last release was 3.4.13 on Mon Jul 16 2018 ## Mailing list activity: We observed a 62% increase in the dev list traffic compared to the previous reporting period, and a negligible decrease (3%) on the user list traffic. The user has not been heavily used historically in this project historically. - dev@zookeeper.apache.org: - 501 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months): - 3850 emails sent to list (2362 in previous quarter) - user@zookeeper.apache.org: - 1217 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months): - 150 emails sent to list (155 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 70 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 69 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the December 19, 2018 board meeting.