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# Incubator PMC report for September 2019

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

TODO add arrative

## Community

### New IPMC members:


### People who left the IPMC:


## New Podlings


## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month


## Graduations
  - list podling here

  The board has motions for the following:

  - Your podling here?

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  August:


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

|----------------------------------------------------------------------
                       Table of Contents
[BRPC](#BRPC)  
[Crail](#Crail)  
[Daffodil](#Daffodil)  
[DLab](#DLab)  
[Druid](#Druid)  
[Hivemall](#Hivemall)  
[Iceberg](#Iceberg)  
[IoTDB](#IoTDB)  
[Marvin-AI](#Marvin-AI)  
[Myriad](#Myriad)  
[Nemo](#Nemo)  
[Omid](#Omid)  
[PonyMail](#PonyMail)  
[SAMOA](#SAMOA)  
[ShardingSphere](#ShardingSphere)  
[SINGA](#SINGA)  
[Spot](#Spot)  
[Superset](#Superset)  
[Taverna](#Taverna)  
[Tephra](#Tephra)  
[Warble](#Warble)  

|----------------------------------------------------------------------

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## BRPC

brpc is an industrial-grade RPC framework for building reliable and high-
performance services.

brpc has been incubating since 2018-11-13.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. finish Apache release regularly
  2. attract more users and contributors
  3. build website

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

None.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
brpc team had organized a forum on Aug 3rd in Shanghai China,  over 100 engineers attended it, 
Contributors from Baidu/bilibili/iQiyi shared their experience on using brpc in their projects.
we hope to attract more engineers to use and contribute to brpc project.

A new team from baidu shanghai office have began to working on brpc, including liuzhiwei, shizhan, tangjie, etcxingyongxu and yuhao.


### How has the project developed since the last report?
we proposed the first apache release, 
the vote of rc1 was failed due to one 3rd party's license missed from LICENSE.
the vote of rc2 was still on, waiting for JB's comments.


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [x] Working towards first release
  - [x] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  Still working on the first release

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  No new ones.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  JB promised to check our release candidate 2.
  Von gave us many suggestions about how to discuss in maillist.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (brpc) Kevin A. McGrail  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (brpc) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (brpc) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Crail

Crail is a storage platform for sharing performance critical data in
distributed data processing jobs at very high speed.

Crail has been incubating since 2017-11-01.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (crail) Julian Hyde  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (crail) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (crail) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Daffodil

Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language
(DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.

Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (daffodil) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (daffodil) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## DLab

DLab is a platform for creating self-service, exploratory data science
environments in the cloud using best-of-breed data science tools.

DLab has been incubating since 2018-08-20.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (dlab) P. Taylor Goetz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (dlab) Henry Saputra  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (dlab) Konstantin I Boudnik  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (dlab) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Druid

Druid is a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store.

Druid has been incubating since 2018-02-28.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (druid) Julian Hyde  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (druid) P. Taylor Goetz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (druid) Jun Rao  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Hivemall

Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive
UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.

Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (hivemall) Xiangrui Meng  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hivemall) Daniel Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hivemall) Koji Sekiguchi  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Iceberg

Iceberg is a table format for large, slow-moving tabular data.

Iceberg has been incubating since 2018-11-16.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (iceberg) Ryan Blue  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (iceberg) Julien Le Dem  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (iceberg) Owen O'Malley  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (iceberg) James Taylor  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (iceberg) Carl Steinbach  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## IoTDB

IoTDB is a data store for managing large amounts of time series data such as
timestamped data from IoT sensors in industrial applications.

IoTDB has been incubating since 2018-11-18.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (iotdb) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (iotdb) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (iotdb) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (iotdb) Kevin A. McGrail  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Marvin-AI

Marvin-AI is an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform that helps
data scientists, prototype and productionalize complex solutions with a
scalable, low-latency, language-agnostic, and standardized architecture
while simplifies the process of exploration and modeling.

Marvin-AI has been incubating since 2018-08-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (marvin-ai) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (marvin-ai) William Colen  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Myriad

Myriad enables co-existence of Apache Hadoop YARN and Apache Mesos together
on the same cluster and allows dynamic resource allocations across both
Hadoop and other applications running on the same physical data center
infrastructure.

Myriad has been incubating since 2015-03-01.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (myriad) Benjamin Hindman  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (myriad) Ted Dunning  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Nemo

Nemo is a data processing system to flexibly control the runtime behaviors
of a job to adapt to varying deployment characteristics.

Nemo has been incubating since 2018-02-04.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (nemo) Davor Bonaci  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nemo) Hyunsik Choi  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nemo) Byung-Gon Chun  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nemo) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nemo) Markus Weimer  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Omid

Omid is a flexible, reliable, high performant and scalable ACID
transactional framework that allows client applications to execute
transactions on top of MVCC key/value-based NoSQL datastores (currently
Apache HBase) providing Snapshot Isolation guarantees on the accessed data.

Omid has been incubating since 2016-03-28.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (omid) Alan Gates  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (omid) James Taylor  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (omid) Lars Hofhansl  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## PonyMail

Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service,
that can be integrated with many email platforms.

Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (ponymail) Sharan Foga  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## SAMOA

SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the most
common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification,
clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop
new algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines
(DSPEs). It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on
several DSPEs such as Apache Storm, Apache S4, and Apache Samza.

SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (samoa) Alan Gates  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## ShardingSphere

Sharding-Sphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database
middleware, focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and database
orchestration.

ShardingSphere has been incubating since 2018-11-10.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (shardingsphere) Craig L Russell  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (shardingsphere) Benjamin Hindman  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (shardingsphere) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## SINGA

SINGA is a distributed deep learning platform.

SINGA has been incubating since 2015-03-17.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (singa) Alan Gates  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (singa) Ted Dunning  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (singa) Thejas Nair  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Spot

Apache Spot is a platform for network telemetry built on an open data model
and Apache Hadoop.

Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Superset

Superset is an enterprise-ready web application for data exploration, data
visualization and dashboarding.

Superset has been incubating since 2017-05-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (superset) Ashutosh Chauhan  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (superset) Alan Gates  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (superset) Jakob Homan  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Taverna

Taverna is a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute
data-driven workflows.

Taverna has been incubating since 2014-10-20.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (taverna) Stian Soiland-Reyes  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Tephra

             Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent
transactions on             top of Apache HBase and other storage engines.

Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (tephra) Alan Gates  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tephra) James Taylor  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Warble

a distributed endpoint monitoring solution where the agent is hosted on your
own hardware.

Warble has been incubating since 2018-06-11.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (warble) Daniel Takamori  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (warble) Chris Lambertus  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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