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| Date | Action | Decided by |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-17 | Appointed Tommaso Teofili | the board, by resolution |
| Date | Decision | Item | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-17 | Terminate the Apache Joshua Project | special order | approved |
| 2018-10-17 | Establish the Apache Joshua Project | special order | approved |
No report was submitted.
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No report was submitted. @Roman: follow up with Joshua on project activity
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Apache Joshua is the creation and maintenance of software related to statistical and other forms of machine translation. ## Issues: The main issue is that the project activity is close to zero at the moment. ## Membership Data: Apache Joshua was founded 2018-10-17 (3 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 10 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Felix Hieber on 2018-10-17. - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: We didn't see any actual activity in 2021. A potential GSoC student reached out (to work on language models) but we didn't manage to follow up with him. Before that we: * addressed occasional PRs related to packaging and deployment * started a research effort to foresee what to focus on next as MT approach, we started drafting a survey paper but we didn't manage to complete that (yet?) ## Community Health: The community is silent and small. Beyond a few PMC members, the rest of the community is mostly inactive.
No report was submitted. @Roman: pursue a report for Joshua
No report was submitted. @Niclas: pursue a report for Joshua
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Apache Joshua is the creation and maintenance of software related to statistical and other forms of machine translation. ## Issues: - Very low activity in the project, however it seems that recent roll calls had positive impact on finding new contributors and moving the project onto a more appealing roadmap (switch from statistical ML to neural ML) ## Membership Data: Apache Joshua was founded 2018-10-17 (2 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 10 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Felix Hieber on 2018-10-17. - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: - Apart from a few minor fixes, no coding activity is being performed - A discussion is taking place on dev@ about moving Joshua to leverage neural MT ## Community Health: - The PMC, following previous board recommendation, issued a roll call - The roll call on private@ had three PMC members replying positively, hence it should be possible to have a new release (as we could count on 3 binding votes) - A roll call on dev@ triggered replies from two members of the Joshua community who expressed interest in contributing to the project
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Apache Joshua is the creation and maintenance of software related to statistical and other forms of machine translation. ## Issues: The project has had almost no activity over the past quarter No new community members have shown up in a while The community is almost silent ## Membership Data: Apache Joshua was founded 2018-10-17 (2 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 10 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Felix Hieber on 2018-10-17. - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: There has been only one email thread over the past quarter (two emails) The PMC has not resumed the effort to release Joshua 6.2 ## Community Health: Overall community is silent A roll call to understand how many PMC members are willing to stay may help Moving the project to Attic might be an option if things don't change
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Apache Joshua is the creation and maintenance of software related to statistical and other forms of machine translation. ## Issues: - The project activity is very low - None of the PMC members seem to have resources to work on Joshua at the moment ## Membership Data: Apache Joshua was founded 2018-10-17 (a year ago) There are currently 10 committers and 10 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Felix Hieber on 2018-10-17. - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: - We tried and failed to push a minor 6.2 release out beginning of 2020 - Occasionally we get PRs from external contributors ## Community Health: - The community activity is close to idle - We need to understand whether it makes sense to move Joshua to Attic
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted. @Ted: pursue a report for Joshua
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Apache Joshua is the creation and maintenance of software related to statistical and other forms of machine translation. ## Issues: The only issue within the project relates to low activity. ## Membership Data: Apache Joshua was founded 2018-10-17 (a year ago) There are currently 10 committers and 10 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Felix Hieber on 2018-10-17. - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: Project activity is low, however we are planning a minor 6.2 release and discussing interesting features (language packs for CJK languages) that may help raise interest and activity from the community ## Community Health: No new contributors for a while now, main contributors are still around (we had a roll call in September) but mostly quiet.
## Description: Apache Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit. ## Issues: - Activity in the project is very low ## Activity: - Since last board meeting we merged a PR and there were occasional discussions about implementing language packs for CJK languages, two committers plan to work on them in the next weeks ## Health report: - The community is essentially the same since graduation. No potential new committers / PMC members showed up - Mailing lists have low activity ## PMC changes: - Currently 10 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition: Wed Oct 17 2018 (Felix Hieber) ## Releases: - No releases were performed since graduation
## Description:
Apache Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit.
## Issues:
- Activity in the project is very low
## Activity:
- Since last board meeting a PR from a non committer was merged
- Based on comment from TD to previous board report, a proposal came up for
implementing models for CJK languages using more recent (and accurate)
approaches that use pretrained embeddings
## Health report:
- The community is essentially the same since graduation. No potential new
committers / PMC members showed up
- Mailing lists have very low activity
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition: Wed Oct 17 2018 (Felix Hieber)
## Releases:
- No releases were performed since graduation
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@joshua.apache.org:
- 29 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 17 emails sent to list (40 in previous quarter)
- user@joshua.apache.org:
- 34 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 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
## Description:
Apache Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit.
## Issues:
- The PMC has not been able to report in the past 5 months
- Activity in the project is very low
## Activity:
- Since last board meeting a PR from a non committer was merged and a missing
fix related to post graduation task (dropping -incubating suffix) was
performed
- Since graduation (October 2018) activity in the project has been slowing
down. One of the reasons for that is that some of the major code
contributors moved to using/developing other machine translation libraries
based on deep learning (NMT) rather than on statistical approach (SMT, like
Joshua)
- A potential GSoC candidate approached the project on the dev mailing list,
got a reply but never followed up
## Health report:
- The community is essentially the same since graduation. No potential new
committers / PMC members showed up
- Mailing lists have low activity. a roadmap was discussed and agreed in
March 2019, follow up Jira tasks were created (labelling some with gsoc
label to hopefully foster interest from GSoC students)
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition: Wed Oct 17 2018 (Felix Hieber)
## Releases:
- No releases were performed since graduation
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@joshua.apache.org:
- 29 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 32 emails sent to list (35 in previous quarter)
- user@joshua.apache.org:
- 34 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
No report was submitted. @Craig: pursue a report for Joshua
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted. @Phil: pursue a report for Joshua
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted. @Rich: pursue a report for Joshua
## 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
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit
Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Complete graduation process
2. Further identifying specific use cases that Joshua might excel at.
3. Continue to attrac active developers and users.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The Joshua community has VOTE'd on Graduation with favorable results.
https://s.apache.org/dk8M
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Jeff Zemerick and Suneel Marthi presented 'Embracing Diversity:
Searching over multiple languages' at Haystack Conf, Charlottesville
VA using Apache Joshua, Apache Nifi and Apache OpenNLP on April 10, 2018
https://smarthi.github.io/haystack-embracing-diversity-searching-over-multiple-languages/#/
2. Suneel Marthi and Kellen Sunderland presented - Streaming Pipelines
for Neural Machine Translation using Apache Joshua, Apache Flink,
Apache OpenNLP at DataWorks Summit, Berlin on April 19, 2018
https://smarthi.github.io/DSW-Berlin18-Streaming-NMT/#/
How has the project developed since the last report?
The community has been engaged with the Graduation VOTE
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:
2017-06-22
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- 2016-11-16 Michael A. Hedderich (mhedderich) joins the Joshua PPMC +
Committership.
- 2016-11-16 Tobias Domhan (tdomhan) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
- 2016-11-02 Max Thomas (mthomas) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
Comments:
[X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
[ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
Comments:
[ ](joshua) Tom Barber
Comments:
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit
Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Draft Graduation Resolution
2. Identifying specific use cases that Joshua might excel at.
3. Attracting active developers and users.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Joshua PPMC are in the process of moving towards an initial
graduation resolution draft.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The PPMC has decided not to use the 7.X branch as new master.
Current master branch has more features and we have decided to
use it as the basis for moving forward.
How has the project developed since the last report?
New work is going in to updating the Homebrew Formula. This
will make Joshua available with some 50 or so language packs.
Essentially, this will make Joshua the most comprehensively
packaged open source machine translation library available.
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:
2017-06-22
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- 2016-11-16 Michael A. Hedderich (mhedderich) joins the Joshua PPMC +
Committership.
- 2016-11-16 Tobias Domhan (tdomhan) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
- 2016-11-02 Max Thomas (mthomas) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
Comments:
[X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
[ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
Comments:
[ ](joshua) Tom Barber
Comments:
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Make another Apache Joshua incubating release (7.0.0). 2. Identifying specific use cases that Joshua might excel at. 3. Attracting active developers and users. 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 community mailing lists continue to see a few new users requiring assistance with using the project. Questions have been answered in reasonable time. Community building continues to be the biggest challenge for Joshua right now. How has the project developed since the last report? The PPMC is actively working towards a 7.0.0 release candidate which will essentially be a re-modularization of the Joshua source code for distribution and hopefully improved consumption as a dependency within other projects. We have seen a few pull requests logged specifically addressing source code formatting, this is a positive. 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: 2017-06-22 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? - 2016-11-16 Michael A. Hedderich (mhedderich) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership. - 2016-11-16 Tobias Domhan (tdomhan) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership. - 2016-11-02 Max Thomas (mthomas) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership. Signed-off-by: [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez Comments: [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney Comments: I suspect that the Joshua PPMC will move towards proposing the project graduates post 7.0.0 release. I am working with Tommaso to progress the 7.X branch merge into mainstream development. [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann Comments: [ ](joshua) Tom Barber Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes: johndament: The project seems OK. Not a lot of on list chatter, outside of JIRA. May be ready, may warrant some additional time growing. Will leave it to mentors to decide.
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit
Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make another Apache Joshua incubating release.
2. Identifying specific use cases that we might excel at.
3. Attracting active developers and users.
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 community mailing lists have seen a few new users.
Questions have been answered in reasonable time. Community
building is probably the biggest challenge for Joshua right
now.
Tommaso Teofili and Suneel Marthi, presented 'Embracing Diversity:
Searching Over multiple languages' on June 12, 2017 at Berlin Buzzwords,
Berlin - demonstrating machine translation using Apache Joshua.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Apache Joshua 6.1 (Incubating) was released, which is the first
Apache release for Joshua. The community is actively discussing
the roadmap and where Joshua should be in the near future.
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:
2017-06-22
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- 2016-11-16 Michael A. Hedderich (mhedderich) joins the Joshua PPMC +
Committership.
- 2016-11-16 Tobias Domhan (tdomhan) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
- 2016-11-02 Max Thomas (mthomas) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
Comments:
[X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
[X](joshua) Chris Mattmann
Comments:
I updated status to nearing graduation. The community has grown and we have made a release. Not sure what else we need to do in the Incubator, but willing to wait a few months to sort it out.
[X](joshua) Tom Barber
Comments:
The release was well organized and delivered thanks to Lewis and Tommaso, it feels to me like the Joshua developers need to be a little more proactive. As the report points out, community building is the biggest issue, I'm going to spend some time in the near future working with the PPMC to see what integrations, tutorials and demos we can do to drive developers and adoption which will hopefully expand the community.
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit
Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Release Apache Joshua incubating 6.1 (rc4) and then begin development on
7.X branch.
2. Identifying specific use cases that we might excel at.
3. Attracting active developers and users.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
There is currently an ongoing VOTE thread over on general@incubator regarding
the proposed release of Apache Joshua incubating 6.1 (rc4). If this goes
through it will be a significant achievement for the podling.
How has the community developed since the last report?
There are ongoing discussion threads on user@ regarding integration of Joshua
with Mailman. There are no new community members. Some members of the Joshua
PPMC became Apache members post this years annual meeting. Henry Yandell is
now emeritus mentor.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The community has been iterating on Apache Joshua incubating 6.1 RC's as well
as refining the release process. We have pretty much addressed all concerns
now so subsequent releases should be easier.
How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own
commentary.
[X] Initial setup DONE
[X] Working towards first release VERY CLOSE
[ ] Community building Joshua was not represented at ApacheCon this year
but hopefully we can get involved in future events.
[ ] Nearing graduation possibly one or two more releases... possibly of
the 7.X branch before we graduate.
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- 2016-11-16 Michael A. Hedderich (mhedderich) joins the Joshua PPMC +
Committership.
- 2016-11-16 Tobias Domhan (tdomhan) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
- 2016-11-02 Max Thomas (mthomas) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
Comments:
[X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments: The community will benefit significantly from a 6.1 release if
the
current VOTE on general@incubator passes.
[ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
Comments:
[X](joshua) Tom Barber
Comments: There has been a slight bottleneck with committers bandwidth and
the ability to ship a release, along with getting other people familiar
with
the release process and happy to ship new versions. I'm sure this
bottleneck
will reduce when have iterated through a few more releases to iron out the
kinks.
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Putting together a formal release. 2. Identifying specific use cases that we might excel at. 3. Attracting active developers and users. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None that come to mind. How has the community developed since the last report? We have added some new members. The Joshua PPMC has also been VOTE'ing actively and have received (and are acting upon) feedback from the IPMC on our mlst recent release candidate. How has the project developed since the last report? Things have stalled a bit over the winter holidays, but we have recently started to pick things up again. As always, a release is imminent. Date of last release: N/A. When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Per http://incubator.apache.org/projects/joshua.html: - 2016-11-16 Michael A. Hedderich (mhedderich) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership. - 2016-11-16 Tobias Domhan (tdomhan) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership. - 2016-11-02 Max Thomas (mthomas) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership. Signed-off-by: [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann [X](joshua) Tom Barber [ ](joshua) Henri Yandell
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit. Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Creating our first release. 2. Continue to build the community 3. Identify specific users and use cases. 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? We have added a few new members. How has the project developed since the last report? A new release is imminent; we just need to pull the trigger. We have put together over sixty "language packs" that will be released in a no-dependency version and a Docker container. Date of last release: Forthcoming. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? John Hewitt (August 13, 2016) Max Thomas (pending) Michael Hedderich (pending) Signed-off-by: [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez [ ](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney [X](joshua) Chris Mattmann [ ](joshua) Tom Barber [X](joshua) Henri Yandell
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Ensure first release of Joshua Incubating artifacts (6.1) 2. Continue to build the Joshua PPMC and user community 3. Investigate targeted user communities within Apache 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? We have gained a new contributor, and have continued developing and updating the web page to increase interest. We have not made any real advertising or publicity pushes, but hope to around the time of our first formal release under the Apache banner (targeted for September). How has the project developed since the last report? We have been steadily pushing up stability and design improvements, including a move from an ant+ivy to a maven build system. We have made some changes to our build process, including enabling Travis-CI for continual integration testing. We are in discussion about deeper architectural changes that will facilitate an API. Date of last release: N/A When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Kellen Sunderland and Felix Hieber (April 11, 2016) Thamme Gowda (May 26, 2016) Signed-off-by: [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez [ ](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney [X](joshua) Chris Mattmann [ ](joshua) Tom Barber [X](joshua) Henri Yandell
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Ensure first release of Joshua Incubating artifacts (6.1) 2. Continue to build the Joshua PPMC and user community 3. Investigate targeted user communities within Apache 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? Joshua is being represented at ApacheCon. Currently one presentation is taking place in addition to a meetup. How has the project developed since the last report? The project team have been working on development code as well as official branding. All infrastructure has been migrated over to Apache. We are aiming for our first release some time after ApacheCon. Date of last release: N/A When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Kellen Sunderland and Felix Hieber joined the PPMC and as committers on April 11th, 2016. Signed-off-by: [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann [ ](joshua) Tom Barber [ ](joshua) Henri Yandell
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Migration of the entire project over to Apache infrastructure (nearly complete) 2. Building up community and attracting developers 3. Putting out regular Joshua releases Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None that come to mind. We are occupied with the issues above, and things are proceeding nicely. How has the community developed since the last report? We have voted in two new committers and invitations have been extended to them. How has the project developed since the last report? A large pull request was accepted reporting large speed increases due to caching, and increasing the usability of Joshua as a library. Date of last release: 2015-11-05 (prior to incubation) When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - Felix Hieber (2016-04-01) - Kellen Sunderland (2016-04-01) Signed-off-by: [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann [ ](joshua) Tom Barber [ ](joshua) Henri Yandell
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13. The INFRA bootstrap ticket has been opened[1], and the PPMC and INFRA are active in working through the setup tasks. No concerns for the board at this time. [1] (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11264) Signed-off-by: [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney [X](joshua) Chris Mattmann [ ](joshua) Tom Barber [X](joshua) Henri Yandell Shepherd/Mentor notes: johndament: Report contents are very sparse. All sections should be retained.