Falcon Incubation Status - Apache Incubator

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.

News

2014-12-17: Project established as an Apache Top Level Project
2014-12-05: Released 0.6-incubating
2014-09-22: Released 0.5-incubating
2014-08-28: Ruslan Ostafiychuk added as a committer
2014-08-25: Raghav Kumar Gautam added as a committer
2014-07-04: Jean-Baptiste Onofre added as a committer
2014-03-06: Suhas Vasu added as a committer
2014-03-06: Arpit Gupta added as a committer
2014-02-02: Released 0.4-incubating
2013-09-11: Released 0.3-incuabting
2013-04-02. Apache Falcon enters incubation.

Project info

Project website

Falcon project information

Project Wiki

item	type	reference
Website	www	http://falcon.incubator.apache.org/
.	wiki	https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FALCON
Mailing list	dev	`dev@falcon.incubator.apache.org`
.	commits	`commits@falcon.incubator.apache.org`
.	private	`private@falcon.incubator.apache.org`
Bug tracking	.	https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FALCON
Source code	GIT	https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-falcon.git
Mentors	acmurthy	Arun C. Murthy
.	cdouglas	Chris Douglas
.	gates	Alan Gates
.	omalley	Owen O'Malley
.	ddas	Devaraj Das
Committers	sriksun	Srikanth Sundarrajan
.	venkatesh	Venkatesh Seetharam
.	shwethags	Shwetha GS
.	shaikidris	Shaik Idris
.	sanjay	Sanjay Radia
.	sharad	Sharad Agarwal
.	amareshwari	Amareshwari Sriramadasu
.	samarthg	Samarth Gupta
.	rishumehrothra	Rishu Mehrothra
.	arpit	Arpit Gupta
.	suhasv	Suhas Vasu
.	jbonofre	Jena-Baptiste Onofre
.	rostafiychuk	Ruslan Ostafiychuk
.	raghav	Raghav Kumar Gautam

Incubation status reports

Incubation work items

Project Setup

This is the first phase on incubation, needed to start the project at Apache.

Item assignment is shown by the Apache id. Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (YYYY-MM-dd).

Identify the project to be incubated

date	item
2013-04-02	Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist and check www.nameprotect.com to be sure that the name is not already trademarked for an existing software product. See PODLINGNAMESEARCH-61
N/A	If request from an existing Apache project to adopt an external package, then ask the Apache project for the SVN module and mail address names.
N/A	If request from outside Apache to enter an existing Apache project, then post a message to that project for them to decide on acceptance.
N/A	If request from anywhere to become a stand-alone PMC, then assess the fit with the ASF, and create the lists and modules under the incubator address/module names if accepted.

Infrastructure

date	item
2013-04-05	Ask infrastructure to create source repository modules and grant the committers karma.
2013-04-05	Ask infrastructure to set up and archive mailing lists.
2013-04-05	Ask infrastructure to set up issue tracker (JIRA, Bugzilla).
2013-04-05	Ask infrastructure to set up wiki (Confluence, Moin).
2013-04-05	Migrate the project to our infrastructure.

Mentor-related responsibility/oversight

date	item
2013-03-15	Identify all the Mentors for the incubation, by asking all that can be Mentors.
.	Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists.
2013-04-10	Give all Mentors access to the incubator SVN repository. (to be done by the Incubator PMC chair or an Incubator PMC Member wih karma for the authorizations file)
2013-04-10	Tell Mentors to track progress in the file 'incubator/projects/{project.name}.html'

Copyright

date	item
2013-04-05	Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to the ASF been received. It is only necessary to transfer rights for the package, the core code, and any new code produced by the project.
2013-04-15	Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright.

Verify distribution rights

date	item
2013-04-15	Check and make sure that for all code included with the distribution that is not under the Apache license, we have the right to combine with Apache-licensed code and redistribute.
2013-04-05	Check and make sure that all source code distributed by the project is covered by one or more of the following approved licenses: Apache, BSD, Artistic, MIT/X, MIT/W3C, MPL 1.1, or something with essentially the same terms.

Establish a list of active committers

date	item
2013-04-02	Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors agreement.
2013-04-02	Add all active committers in the STATUS file.
2013-04-02	Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts on people.apache.org.

Project specific

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Incubation

These action items have to be checked for during the whole incubation process.

These items are not to be signed as done during incubation, as they may change during incubation. They are to be looked into and described in the status reports and completed in the request for incubation signoff.

Collaborative Development

Have all of the active long-term volunteers been identified and acknowledged as committers on the project?
Are there three or more independent committers? (The legal definition of independent is long and boring, but basically it means that there is no binding relationship between the individuals, such as a shared employer, that is capable of overriding their free will as individuals, directly or indirectly.)
Are project decisions being made in public by the committers?
Are the decision-making guidelines published and agreed to by all of the committers?

Licensing awareness

Are all licensing, trademark, credit issues being taken care of and acknowleged by all committers?

Project Specific

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Exit

Things to check for before voting the project out.

Organizational acceptance of responsibility for the project

date	item
2014-12-17	If graduating to a new PMC, has the board voted to accept it? see here

Incubator sign-off

Has the Incubator decided that the project has accomplished all of the above tasks?