Apache Joshua Project Incubation Status

Joshua is an open-source statistical machine translation toolkit. It includes a Java-based decoder for translating with phrase-based, hierarchical, and syntax-based translation models, a Hadoop-based grammar extractor (Thrax), and an extensive set of tools and scripts for training and evaluating new models from parallel text.

News

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.
2016-09-10 John Hewitt (johnhew) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
2016-09-10 Thamme Gowda (thammegowda) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
2016-04-11 Felix Hieber (fhieber) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
2016-04-11 Kellen Sunderland (kellen) joins the Joshua PPMC + Committership.
2016-02-13 Project enters incubation.

Project info

Joshua Website - http://joshua.incubator.apache.org

link to the project status file (Committers,non-incubation action items,project resources, etc)

If the project website and code repository are not yet setup, use the following table:

item	type	reference
Website	www	http://joshua.incubator.apache.org
.	wiki	Wiki
Mailing list	dev	`dev@joshua.incubator.apache.org`
.	user	`user@joshua.incubator.apache.org`
.	commits	`commits@joshua.incubator.apache.org`
Bug tracking	.	https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/joshua
Source code	Git	https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-joshua.git
Mentors		.
.	mattmann	Chris Mattmann
.	pramirez	Paul Ramirez
.	magicaltrout	Tom Barber
.	lewismc	Lewis John Mcgibbney
Committers	.	.
.	mjpost	Matt Post
.	lewismc	Lewis John McGibbney
.	mattmann	Chris Mattmann
.	hsaputra	Henry Saputra
.	tommaso	Tommaso Teofili
.	magicaltrout	Tom Barber
.	kellen	Kellen Sunderland
.	fhieber	Felix Hieber
.	thammegowda	Thamme Gowda
.	johnhew	John Hewitt
.	mthomas	Max Thomas

Incubation status reports

Board 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
2016-03-24	Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist. Please follow the guide to ensure a suitable project/product name.
....-..-..	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.
....-..-..	If request from outside Apache to enter an existing Apache project, then post a message to that project for them to decide on acceptance.
2016-02-13	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
2016-02-13	Ask infrastructure to create source repository modules and grant the committers karma.
2016-02-13	Ask infrastructure to set up and archive mailing lists.
2016-02-13	Ask infrastructure to set up issue tracker (JIRA, Bugzilla).
2016-02-13	Ask infrastructure to set up wiki (Confluence, Moin).
2016-03-04	Migrate the project to our infrastructure.

Mentor-related responsibility/oversight

date	item
2016-02-19	Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists.
2016-02-19	Give all Mentors access to the incubator SVN repository. (to be done by the Incubator PMC chair or an Incubator PMC Member with karma for the authorizations file)
2016-02-13	Tell Mentors to track progress in the file 'incubator/projects/{project.name}.html'

Copyright

date	item
2016-03-29	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.
2016-11-14	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
2016-11-14	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.
2016-11-14	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
2016-04-11	Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors agreement.
2016-11-14	Add all active committers in the STATUS file.
2016-11-14	Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts on home.apache.org.

Project specific

Add project specific tasks here.

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

Exit

Things to check for before voting the project out.

Organizational acceptance of responsibility for the project

If graduating to an existing PMC, has the PMC voted to accept it?
If graduating to a new PMC, has the board voted to accept it?

Incubator sign-off

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