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CMDA provides web services for multi-aspect physics-based and phenomenon-
oriented climate model performance evaluation and diagnosis through the
comprehensive and synergistic use of multiple observational data, reanalysis
data, and model outputs.
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer has been incubating since 2015-05-08.
The achievements in October of 2016 are:
1. Drafted the Apache CMDA project web page
2. Developed a mechanism to keep track of user id in each service call
3. Designed a mechanism to define a workflow, to execute a workflow, to
collect the result and provenance from the workflow execution.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. To facilitate workflow scenarios in which a scientist can chain two or
more services;
2. To develop a suite of science use cases;
3. To demonstrate the use of provenance in recommendation of data, users,
and services.
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?
A climate scientist Frank Lee has joined the project to develop science use
cases. The priority has been shifted to helping him in adding new source
data files and modifying the software to accommodate these new data files.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The issues that we found from our 2016 Caltech/JPL climate summer school
have been addressed. Examples are: a mechanism to capture and store user id
for provenance data collection, and removal of some functionalities that
are not meant for users that do not have login accounts on our website.
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman
[X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Chris Mattmann:
I'm worried still about this podling. Discussion seemed to still happen
offlist and to be summarized to the list, instead of actively involving
others in the community. Also, it says the website has been drafted -
where is it? Where are the corresponding JIRA issues? Where are the public
discussions about the site. The podling is/was on a short leash since the
[DISCUSS] Retirement vote. I'd say give it one more month, and would
appreciate others chiming in here. The other thing I'd say is that there
is definitely mentor attrition here. I don't think we have enough active
mentors reinforcing and sending the message (myself included) day to day.
It's definitely more reactive now than proactive. The podling could use
some help in that area.
CMDA provides web services for multi-aspect physics-based and phenomenon-
oriented climate model performance evaluation and diagnosis through the
comprehensive and synergistic use of multiple observational data, reanalysis
data, and model outputs.
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer has been incubating since 2015-05-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Enlarge the CMDA community;
2. Develop stable platform to allow broad contributors to turn in code;
3. Develop a streamline procedure to allow the entire community to develop
the CMDA project
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?
In this month, the CMDA community focuses on developing the summer school
program, in order to advocate and distribute CMDA 2.0, to educate more
students on our latest product, and to attract more people to join our
community. So far, we have received about 25 graduate students who show
interest and will come to our summer school to learn CMDA 2.0 product and
the platform.
Meanwhile, with the great guidance from our mentors, the CMDA community
has learned to run the project from various aspects in an Apache way. Many
community meetings were held to streamline and develop our operation
regulations. Here we just name a few strategies. Weekly community meetings
are arranged with pre-distributed meeting agenda. Meeting invites are sent
to all community members with open access to the weekly meetings. After
each community meeting, various contributors/groups summarize their to-do
items on the community mailing list, to welcome all community members'
input. Community communication always adopts the community mailing list as
carrier. More committers join the voting group. More committers are
recommended based on their active performance in the community.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have successfully encapsulated and deployed CMDA 2.0 onto Amazon cloud
environment, leveraging docker technology to ensure scalability.
Provenance engine is also deployed onto Amazon cloud to ensure that we
gather all provenance during the summer school for further study and
development of our project after the summer school.
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman
[X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Gregory D. Reddin
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
* Chris Mattmann - The community has shown progress in addressing a near vote
to terminate the podling. There were and still are concerns that need to be
tended to and watched but as a mentor I am pleased by the efforts of Jia,
Seungwon, and Lei whom I have seen contribute to the discussion. I think we
should continue to closely evaluate the progress, but I am happy with this
month.
* Drew Farris - Three mentors active on the mailing lists. Kudos to Chris to
the amount of engagement here. After choosing to avoid retirement the
community is taking concrete steps to increase its engagement with ASF by
establishing a web presence at Apache, creating committer accounts,
preparing code for contribution and moving processes to the mailing lists.
This podling is moving to a monthly reporting cycle for the next three
months progress can be monitored closely.
CMDA provides web services for multi-aspect physics-based and phenomenon-
oriented climate model performance evaluation and diagnosis through the
comprehensive and synergistic use of multiple observational data, reanalysis
data, and model outputs.
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer has been incubating since 2015-05-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Moving project communication to the mailing list;
2. Moving development activities to be owned by Apache;
3. Working on community building.
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?
* Started using the mailing list dev@cmda.incubator.apache.org
to communicate project development issues;
* Created a Docker container that will be used for our future
development as well as deployment vehicle (in progress);
* Working on a unified git repository to host both the CMU and
the JPL code bases;
How has the project developed since the last report?
* The JPL team developed the following new services:
* Time series for multiple datasets
* Conditional probability density function calculation
* Empirical orthogonal function calculation
* Random forest feature importance calculation
* Anomaly calculation
* The JPL team improved these features:
* A new color scheme of data visualization of some services
* The URL for a RestFul service call has been constructed
* The JPL team is working on
* supporting a workflow with CMDA services. identified first examples to
work on.
* modifying the CMDA services to be “chainable” (callable in a
workflow).
* The CMU team created a unified github repository that
has both the CMU and JPL code bases. Needs cleanup;
* The CMU team created a new Docker container that has
the latest Ubuntu operating system and the run-time
environment for the CMU deployment;
* The JPL team installed the run-time environment in
the Docker container for the JPL deployment.
An integrated test is pending;
* The JPL team acquired a GPU server that will be used
as the testbed for speeding up their web services;
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann
[X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Gregory D. Reddin
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Great news! The community wrote the report this month! Thank you to
Lei Pan for pushing forward and I have high hopes over the next few months
we can light a fire under this project.
CMDA provides web services for multi-aspect physics-based and phenomenon-
oriented climate model performance evaluation and diagnosis through the
comprehensive and synergistic use of multiple observational data, reanalysis
data, and model outputs.
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer has been incubating since 2015-05-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase email and communication traffic
2. Build a CMDA website at Apache
3. Learn more about Apache way
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The project is still in its nascence and the PPMC is still learning the
Apache way and moving out of JPL/CMU centric development. The project team
wants to do a good job they are just moving along slowly.
How has the community developed since the last report?
More commits and code are being done on the Apache Git repo, almost
exclusively. They still come in bulk rather than incrementally. Also
notes from meetings held between JPL and CMU project members are being
flushed to the list to increase awareness and participation.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Deployed to the Amazon Cloud (AWS);
2. Students from the 2015 JPL center for climate sciences summer school
used the Amazon Cloud deployment for class projects;
3. New design and implementation of front end web interface for
flexibility and to facilitate provenance;
4. Acquired new ECMWF data;
5. Created a knowledge graph based on provenance accumulated from the 2015
Summer School usages;
6. New services to come soon: Random Forests and Empirical Orthogonal
Function Analysis (EOF).
More code is coming. Need to do a website, and start to use
issue tracking, etc.
Date of last release:
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman
[X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann
[X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall
[X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Gregory D. Reddin
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
John D. Ament (johndament):
There are a couple of concerns raised in this report, specifically that
ASF infrastructure is not the canonical source of truth for the podling
and limited external participation.
CMDA provides web services for multi-aspect physics-based and phenomenon- oriented climate model performance evaluation and diagnosis through the comprehensive and synergistic use of multiple observational data, reanalysis data, and model outputs. Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer has been incubating since 2015-05-08. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Start developing at the ASF 2. Start using ASF JIRA 3. Get code pushed to ASF Git repo 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? See below How has the project developed since the last report? CMDA has not really gotten started at the ASF yet. Very little has changed since the last report. The most important thing is getting the community started. At the moment the CMDA JIRA is completely empty and the code base has yet to be pushed to the git repo. Mailing list activity is largely non-existent and there's no website up for the project yet. Hopefully these hurdles will be crossed during this next month so that more active develop can start for the project. Date of last release: None yet When were the last committers or PMC members elected? None yet Signed-off-by: [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann [X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Gregory D. Reddin
CMDA provides web services for multi-aspect physics-based and phenomenon- oriented climate model performance evaluation and diagnosis through the comprehensive and synergistic use of multiple observational data, reanalysis data, and model outputs. Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer has been incubating since 2015-05-08. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Get all initial committers/IPMCers ICLA filed 2. Get all initial committers/IPMCers on the mailing lists 3. Get code into ASF repo 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? No change, see below. How has the project developed since the last report? CMDA is still in spin up mode. 4 out 7 initial members have ICLAs on file. Mentors are working with the rest to move this forward. The project has JIRA and git setup. Code and development still need to be moved. The mailing lists are setup but not all of the initial members have registered. Again, mentors are working to help move this forward. Date of last release: None yet When were the last committers or PMC members elected? None yet Signed-off-by: [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann [X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Gregory D. Reddin