We would like to finish the data migration and UX work to manage the podling lifecycle and related data from Whimsy. What follows is a description of the data currently in podlings.xml
, the data needed that is not in the podlings.xml
, an initial plan for the Podling Lifecycle UX to be discussed, and then examples of podlings in various states from podlings.xml
The podling catalog is in this file: podling.xml
Values are stored for all Incubator podlings in a single xml file each in a podling
node. Not all of the data pertain to current podlings.
podlings.xml
We have to decide how best to handle the data that is in the Podlings Status page and the Podlings YML file. We should narrow this down to what is critical to keep and then decide where it should go.
These items seem to be the most critical:
There are design choice here. Do we fold all of these additional pieces of information into podlings.xml
, or do we normalize the Podling YML file to only include these fields. A third option is to replace the Podling YML with a data file in another format.
Eliminating the need to hand edit files without removing the ability is a goal. Let's discuss the actions that need to be recorded. Work was started in this direction in Whimsy and this can be continued.
New Podling - begins incubation. This adds the podling
record to podlings.xml
. We should discuss if this a first time only page or can be combined with Rename and Exit. If so then this could be termed the Podling Lifecycle Page.
Podling Roster / Status - this page exists and currently handles roster changes. It could be expanded to cover updates:
Also, the page can show the clutch analysis for the podling. The current generated JSON file which can be abbreviated to remove redundant information like “LDAP”.
Rename Podling - this expensive operation needs to be discouraged, but when it is needed appropriate guidance should be provided.
Exit Incubation - a page that covers the several transitions a podling may make as it exits the Incubator by graduating or retiring.
podlings.xml
A current podling:
<podling name="Crail" status="current" resource="crail" sponsor="Incubator" startdate="2017-11-01"> <description>Crail is a storage platform for sharing performance critical data in distributed data processing jobs at very high speed.</description> <reporting group="3"/> <champion availid="lresende">Luciano Resende</champion> <mentors> <mentor username="jhyde">Julian Hyde</mentor> <mentor username="lresende">Luciano Resende</mentor> </mentors> </podling>
A brand new podling:
<podling name="DataSketches" status="current" resource="datasketches" sponsor="Incubator" startdate="2019-03-30"> <description>DataSketches is an open source, high-performance library of stochastic streaming algorithms commonly called "sketches" in the data sciences. Sketches are small, stateful programs that process massive data as a stream and can provide approximate answers, with mathematical guarantees, to computationally difficult queries orders-of-magnitude faster than traditional, exact methods.</description> <reporting group="2" monthly="true">May, June, July</reporting> <champion availid="jbonofre">Jean-Baptiste Onofré</champion> <mentors> <mentor username="chenliang613">Liang Chen</mentor> <mentor username="kenn">Kenneth Knowles</mentor> <mentor username="kamaci">Furkan Kamaci</mentor> </mentors> </podling>
A podling that changed its name (highlights the INCUBATOR-199 issue):
<podling name="Flagon" status="current" resource="flagon" resourceAliases="senssoft" sponsor="Incubator" startdate="2016-07-13"> <description>Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform</description> <reporting group="1"/> <champion availid="lewismc">Lewis John McGibbney</champion> <mentors> <mentor username="lewismc">Lewis John McGibbney</mentor> <mentor username="dmeikle">David Meikle</mentor> <mentor username="atri">Atri Sharma</mentor> </mentors> </podling>
A podling graduated to a TLP:
<podling name="CXF" status="graduated" resource="cxf" sponsor="Incubator" startdate="2006-08-15" enddate="2008-04-16"> <description>The CXF project will create a SOA services framework by merges the ObjectWeb Celtix project and the Codehaus XFire project.</description> <resolution tlp="true"/> <mentors> <mentor username="jim">Jim Jagielski</mentor> <mentor username="jstrachan">James Strachan</mentor> </mentors> </podling>
A podling sponsored by a PMC that graduated into the PMC:
<podling name="Derby" status="graduated" resource="derby" sponsor="DB" startdate="2004-08-15" enddate="2005-07-18"> <description>Java relational database</description> <resolution link="DB Derby" url="http://db.apache.org/derby/"/> <mentors> <mentor username="coar">Ken Coar</mentor> </mentors> </podling>
A podling that graduated with a name change:
<podling name="OpenOffice.org" status="graduated" resource="openofficeorg" resourceAliases="ooo" sponsor="Incubator" startdate="2011-06-13" enddate="2012-10-17"> <description>OpenOffice.org is comprised of six personal productivity applications: a word processor (and its web-authoring component), spreadsheet, presentation graphics, drawing, equation editor, and database.</description> <resolution link="OpenOffice" url="https://openoffice.apache.org/"/> <mentors> <mentor username="jim">Jim Jagielski</mentor> <mentor username="rubys">Sam Ruby</mentor> <mentor username="danese">Danese Cooper</mentor> <mentor username="curcuru">Shane Curcuru</mentor> <mentor username="noirin">Noirin Plunkett</mentor> <mentor username="joes">Joe Schaefer</mentor> <mentor username="grobmeier">Christian Grobmeier</mentor> <mentor username="rgardler">Ross Gardler</mentor> </mentors> </podling>
A podling that retired:
<podling name="Provisionr" status="retired" resource="provisionr" sponsor="Incubator" startdate="2013-03-07" enddate="2013-11-22"> <description>Provisionr provides a service to manage pools of virtual machines on multiple clouds.</description> <resolution>Failed to grow a community. Retired at request of PPMC.</resolution> <champion availid="tomwhite">Tom White</champion> <mentors> <mentor username="rvs">Roman Shaposhnik</mentor> <mentor username="tomwhite">Tom White</mentor> <mentor username="mnour">Mohammad Nour El-Din</mentor> </mentors> </podling>
A podling that retired and moved development elsewhere:
<podling name="Heraldry" status="retired" resource="heraldry" sponsor="Incubator" startdate="2005-07-14" enddate="2007-06-09"> <description>Identity for the rest of us.</description> <resolution link="OpenID.net" url="http://openid.net/">Project retired. Some activity moved to OpenID.net</resolution> <mentors> <mentor username="ben">Ben Laurie</mentor> <mentor username="pquerna">Paul Querna</mentor> <mentor username="twl">Ted Leung</mentor> <mentor username="farra">J. Aaron Farr</mentor> <mentor username="wrowe">William Rowe</mentor> </mentors> </podling>