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

This monthly report is in markdown so that it's easier to read. If you are not viewing this in that format, it can be seen here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/December2019

There are presently 45 podlings incubating. In December, podlings executed XX distinct releases. We added no new IPMC members and no IPMC members retired. There were one IP clearances.

We have one new podling this month StreamPipes; other is under discussion NuttX and two others a possibility. No projects graduated last month. Omin and Tephra exited the Incubator and became subprojects of Phoenix. BatchEE is trying to complete becoming a subproject of Geronimo. At least one podling is heading towards graduation in the next few months. XXX podlings did not submit reports and will be asked to report again next month.

Weex is actively working on its branding issues mentioned last month.

Further work was done on cleaning up the incubator web site, including the cookbook.

Podlings, have continued to use the new disclaimer policy, and this seems to be working well. TVM asked the Incubator to review a release candidate before making a release, and several issues were identified and fixed. PageSpeeed, which joined the Incubator in October 2017, also put its first release up for a vote. A couple of releases needed IPMC prodding to get votes, but most were quickly voted on.

Some statistics were generated, showing how many project enter and leave and how long they stay in incubating to see if any trends were visible. While the overall trend is up, there has been a decrease in podlings joining the Incubator in the last couple of years. There may be a number of reasons for this, including the outside perception of the ASF. It is likely that the carrying capacity of the Incubator had been exceeded in years before this. There have been 315 projects helped by the Incubator, and 77% of them have graduated, most spend 1 1/2 years in incubation. There's been more than a 1000 mentors.

The Incubator release area was cleaned up and old releases from retired and graduated projects removed.

A new branding/trademark question was added the podling report and the podling proposal as a few podling have not realised the importance of this. 

A new top level project called Petri, was approved by the board. It's goal is to help external projects go straight to TLP, not using the Incubating process.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - None

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings
  - StreamPipes

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  TODO

## Graduations
  - None

  The board has motions for the following:

  - None

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  November:

  TODO

## IP Clearance
  - Weex UI

## Legal / Trademarks
  - New podling branding/trademark questions

## Infrastructure
  - No issues

## Miscellaneous


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                       Table of Contents
[Batchee](#Batchee)  
[brpc](#brpc)  sha
[Crail](#Crail)  
[Daffodil](#Daffodil)  
[Druid](#Druid)  
[Hivemall](#Hivemall)  
[IoTDB](#IoTDB)  
[Marvin-AI](#Marvin-AI)  
[MesaTEE](#MesaTEE)  
[Nemo](#Nemo)  
[SAMOA](#SAMOA)  
[ShardingSphere](#ShardingSphere)  
[Spot](#Spot)  
[StreamPipes](#StreamPipes)  
[Superset](#Superset)  
[Warble](#Warble)  

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## BatchEE

BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and a set of useful extensions for this specification.

BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.


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

  1. Project needs to finish its migration to Geronimo and exit incubator.
  2.
  3.

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

No

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

No change

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

Minor dependency upgrades

### 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
  - [X] Other: exiting incubation in favor of a Geronimo subproject

### Date of last release:

  2017-12-01

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

  2019-24-01


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

-

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

-

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  BatchEE is discussing move into Geronimo project, and I think it makes sense.
  - [ ] (batchee) Mark Struberg  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (batchee) Olivier Lamy 
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:


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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. make more apache release
  2. attract more committer
  3. clean branding issue

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  No big issues.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  1. Website for brpc has been setup, https://brpc.apache.org
  2. Organized brpc workshop on coscon 2019 Shanghai, more than 30 people attended

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. released 0.97 rc1
  2. vote for apache release 0.97 rc1 failed ，due to some minor problem
  3. working on 0.97rc2 release, will call for vote in one week


### 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 on first apache release

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  No new committer , will search for some candidate next.

### 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.

Our mentor Von pointed out some minor problem for 0.97 rc1，
and gave some detail instruction through phone calls.
JB and Kevin helped to sign the pod report。

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

Not ready for the branding issue, will check it next month.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (brpc) Kevin A. McGrail  
     Comments: None
  - [X] (brpc) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (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. Community building: Increase on number of contributors and users.
  2. Establish new use cases in the community
  3. Make release cycles more steady

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

 No issues.

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

 We released a new blog reporting "YCSB Benchmark with Crail
 on DRAM, Flash and Optane over RDMA and NVMe-over-Fabrics"

 Samsung Research uses the data store for showcasing KV disk
 performance.

 Stanford University used the data sore within their serverless
 'Pocket' project.

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

 - Significant improvements to TCP/DRAM tier stability
 - Added resource elasticity to better fit serverless deployment
   model. According to current storage capacity needs, data nodes
   can be dynamically added and removed.
 - A new release 1.2 with above features is ongoing.

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2018-11-26

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

 December 4th, 2018

### 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.

  Our mentors are very helpful.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

 Yes, others are using the podling's name correctly
 (e.g. Samsung Research, Stanford University)
### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (crail) Julian Hyde  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (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.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Dolphin Scheduler

Dolphin Scheduler is a distributed and easy-to-expand visual DAG workflow scheduling system dedicated to solving the complex dependencies in data processing, making the scheduling system out of the box for data processing.

Dolphin Scheduler has been incubating since 2019-8-29.

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

1. Make first  Apache releases. (In voting progress)
2. Appeal more users and contributors.
3. Make more interactive e-mail discussion besides github, wechat

#### 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?

1. Now there are 42 external contributors. 

2. 2 committers were voted to join Dolphin Scheduler committers group.

3. Over 62 company users is willing to announce that he is using Dolphin Scheduler: <https://github.com/apache/incubator-dolphinscheduler/issues/57>

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

1. PPMC is voting for an Apache release 1.2.0 on Nov,27,which includes 9 features and 18 enhancements and bug fix.

2. Build a CI/CD base on Github actions.

3. Default DB is changed from MySQL to PostgreSQL.

4. 241 issues created，237 PRs  merged .

      
 #### How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

#### Date of last release:

      \-

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

2019-11-11

#### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, our mentors help a lot on our firtst Apache Release, including first time on CI/CD, license check, Apache checklist, and so on.  Wu Sheng gave us many useful advice

### Signed-off-by:


### 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.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

### 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. Community growth (committers and users)
  2. One or more Apache Releases as an Incubator project

### 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?

- Takuya (PPMC) gave a talk at ApacheCon, Europe 2019.
  https://aceu19.apachecon.com/session/apache-hivemall-meets-pyspark-scalable-machine-learning-hive-spark-and-python
- Two external contributors are trying to create patches. Good sign for community growth.
  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMALL-280
  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMALL-186
- Github watchers/stars are gradually increasing: 243 stars as of Dec 2 (was 234 on Sept 1)
- Twitter account @ApacheHivemall followers are gradually increasing: 214 followers as of Dec 2 (was 208 on Sept 1)

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

- Issued and finished vote for v0.6.0-rc1 (for Third ASF apache)
  https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/fae10ab709f0e6e61f529d234a7a8e8f7900eafa5964852e929ce803@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E
- In the last 3 months, we opened 19 JIRA issues and closed 49 JIRA issues as seen in https://goo.gl/QFQEF5
  Active development to v0.6.0-rc1.

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2018-12-03

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

  Elected Jerome Banks as a committer on April 2, 2018.

### 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.

  Koji is active at mentoring.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

 - We initiate an initial podling name search and created a ticket to get the name approved in Jira
   https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-176

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (hivemall) Xiangrui Meng  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hivemall) Daniel Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (hivemall) Koji Sekiguchi  
     Comments:  Makoto Yui is very active in the community.

### 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. Learn to discuss things on the mailing list, rather than just post an ISSUE created or closed message, or discuss on Github.
  2. More committers should know how to release a version. And more PPMC should join to vote.
  3. Write more documentation to help new contributors.

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

  No

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

  1. New contributors appears, e.g., HT Hou for PR527, liutaohua for PR578, yx-zhang for PR540, francisdu for ISSUE293,  SilverNarcissus for PR327, nlosilva1 for PR298,  Zesong Sun  etc.. 
  2. According to github's records, there are 50 contributors now.
  3. New committer Jack Tsai. 
  4. New PPMC: Julian Feinauer
  5. Twitter account is created: Apacheiotdb
  6. More than 137 mails are recorded on dev@ mailing list


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

  1. IoTDB released v0.8.1. And vote for 0.9.0 has passed. 
  2. IoTDB v0.9.0 fixed 16 bugs, introduced 31 new features and 27 improvements. (According to the statistics of 0.9.0's RELEASE_NOTE)


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

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

  1.  The community is more diverse than before. As far as the reporter knows, the contributors come from  more than 10 companies/organizers.
  2. More users begin to report the bugs, which means that more and more users are using IoTDB.  
  3. According to the reporter's view, IoTDB is more stable and  has better performance than before.

### Date of last release:

  2019-10-30 (0.8.1)

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

  2019-11-05 for new committer and 2019-11-07 for new PPMC

### 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.

  1. Few PPMCs have permissions to maintain IoTDB JIRA (e.g., add label, close issues.). 
     The permission may need to be fixed.
 
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

  Required Name Search is done. A google search didn’t show any major branding issues that the PPMC needs to deal with.
  

### 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.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:


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## MesaTEE

MesaTEE is the next-gen solution to enable general computing service for
security-critical scenarios. It will allow even the most sensitive data to
be securely processed to enable offshore businesses without leakage.

MesaTEE has been incubating since 2019-08-19.

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

  1. Finish the initial setup for MesaTEE and its sub-repos.
  2. Choose a suitable name for MesaTEE and rename the repos.
  3. Make the access control mechanism and RPC framework more scalable and
  ergonomic.

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

  Regarding to the CI system, we do have some problem with migrating the
webhooks. MesaTEE definitely requires CI runs on customized hardware.
However, the Apache INFRA team is pretty conservative on adopting novel CI
systems which support customized hardware and self-hosted agent, such as
Github Action, Drone etc. We observed that Apache projects depending on CI
running on customized hardware, such as incubator-tvm, experienced
difficulty to migrate its webhooks and was challenged several times on the
reason of using customized hardware in CI. Besides, we observed that Apache
Spark is using Github Action, while we are blocked on it (see INFRA-19381).

  The bootstrapping process seems slow due to the above problem. We have a
temporary workaround to use our Drone CI system. It leverages a sync bot
which automatically sync up incubator-mesatee and a testing fork and
triggers the webook of the testing fork. For management, we force the
developers to put the link of CI status for each PR in their PR message. It
works, but we really desire the integration to new CI and self-hosted CI
agents.

  For the renaming, we found a new name "Teaclave" which is not used
anywhere.

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

  MesaTEE has one more contributor this month, and merged 50+ PRs from 13
contributors.

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

We implemented the new access control system in MesaPy, and merged into
MesaTEE. The new access control system is much more powerful and flexible
than traditional user/role/group based access control system, and is
memory-safe and trusted with the help of MesaPy and MesaTEE.

We improved the MesaTEE infrastructure to make it k8s-friendly. We
refactored parts of the MesaTEE system and are doing on others.

We improved the build system. We deprecated the old-fashioned Makefile, and
only kept the cmake system.

We figured out a temporary solution for integrating the Drone CI system and
self-hosted agents by syncing up incubator-mesatee and testing fork, and
triggering tests on the testing fork.

We are improving the built-in RPC framework to use prost to automatically
generate Rust source codes from protobuf's protocol definitions.

We fixed a couple of bugs reported from the open source community.

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

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

### Date of last release:

  N/A

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

  N/A

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

We received instructions on the project renaming process from our mentors.
Thanks to every one!

### Signed-off-by:
 - [ ] (MesaTEE) Felix Cheung
        Comments:
 - [X] (MesaTEE) Furkan Kamaci
        Comments:
 - [ ] (MesaTEE) Jianyong Dai
        Comments:
 - [X] (MesaTEE) Luciano Resende
        Comments:
 - [ ] (MesaTEE) Matt Sicker
        Comments:
 - [ ] (MesaTEE) Zhijie Shen
        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. Grow the community (committers, contributors, users)
  2. Create more releases

### 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?

  - Attracted contributors through the GSoC program and 
    class offering

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

  - Preparing for a new release
  - Improved code quality by addressing many sonarcloud issues
  - Stream processing features implemented but not merged yet 
    into the master

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

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

### Date of last release:

  Release 0.1 on Dec. 31, 2018

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

  None yet.
  We have a couple of candidates we would like to invite.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes.

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.
  
  No.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

  Yes.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (nemo) Hyunsik Choi  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nemo) Byung-Gon Chun  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nemo) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nemo) Markus Weimer  
     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. Revitalize the project by resuming development
  2. Enlarge the user base and contributing community

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

  Nothing important. It took more than 2 months to create the account 
of Corey Sterling, as it seems that some things are still done manually, 
and there was a mistake with his email address. Finally, we could solve it out.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  *  Mailing list activity:
  	* @dev: 33 messages

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

  * Retirement has been suggested due to its very low activity
  * To restart engagement, Corey Sterling has been elected as commiter in 
  late August. With his help, we prepared a new release of Apache 
  SAMOA, that is already being discussed and voted (RC). 

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2016-09-30

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

  August 2019

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, the mentors have been helpful and responsive.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

Yes. There are no 3rd parties incorrectly using the podling‘s name and brand for now.

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## ShardingSphere

ShardingSphere 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. Clear Brand issues with other ecosystem projects.
  2. Further ASF culture and processes.
  3. Make more apache releases.

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

  No. Right now, the brand issues are under control, so we think board or 
  IPMC may do not need do any actions for now.
  
  There are still several related project on GitHub org in ShardingSphere
  ecosystem, before or during project joined the ASF incubator, such as
  extension modules, extension module examples and acceptance test are not in Apache repo. 
  We have already moved some extension modules into into Apache repo, 
  and plan to transfer all of them soon.
  
### How has the community developed since the last report?
  
  1. Ya Li, Zhiyi Yan have been voted and joined as committer.
  2. There are 89 people to contribute codes to the main repo, there are 15 new contributors during last report. 
     We are happy to see the community are growing up.
  3. Over 100 companies have confirmed they are using ShardingSphere through issue report, and show at powered-by page[1]. 
     Individuals from different companies and communities have provided some patches to feed back ShardingSphere community.
  4. Share a topic for Apache way and how to join ShardingSphere community in Apache meetup at Tsinghua University.
  5. Finish Podling Maturity Assessment for ShardingSphere[2].
  6. Plan to establish a co-meetup with Apache DolphinScheduler(incubator) in Beijing at Dec 8th.
  
  [1]https://shardingsphere.apache.org/community/en/poweredby/
  [2]https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SHARDINGSPHERE/Podling+Maturity+Assessment+for+ShardingSphere 
  

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  
  1. Release 4.0.0-RC3 last month, main features are UI and SQL92 supported.
  2. Accept donated sharding-scaling project and will merge to trunk before next release.
  3. Plan to release 4.0.0 stable version soon.
  
### 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
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2019-11-22

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

  2019-11-13

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Mentors are responsive and helpful. Things tend to be on the right way.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  
  Yes. We don't find any 3rd parties incorrectly using the podling‘s name and brand for now.

### Signed-off-by:

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

### 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.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## StreamPipes

StreamPipes is a self-service (Industrial) IoT toolbox to enable non-
technical users to connect, analyze and explore (Industrial) IoT data
streams.

StreamPipes has been incubating since 2019-11-11.

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

  1. Finish the initial setup
  2. Make a first Apache release
  3. Grow the community


### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  
  There are no issues right now.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  
  All initial committers have subscribed to the new mailing list. 
  We started to spread the project on Twitter and other channels to 
  reach more potential community members, but currently, the main priority 
  is to move the project infrastructure to Apache. 
  There was also one event focused on extending the developer base:
  * We gave a talk at a meetup on "Self-Service IoT Data Analytics with StreamPipes" (~70 participants)


### How has the project developed since the last report?
  
  This is the first report after StreamPipes joined the incubator on November 11th.
  Most work during the last month was focused around setting up StreamPipes and 
  doing some legal paperwork to transition StreamPipes to Apache:

  * Creation of mailing lists
  * Setting up the new StreamPipes Jira
  * We made a last pre-Apache release and started to refactor our code 
  (restructuring the code base to reflect the new repository structure)
  * The website and documentation is already moved to Apache Git repositories, 
  and a draft is online at streampipes.apache.org, however, we need to wait to 
  "announce" the web page   and forward traffic from the existing domains until
  the Git repos are all transferred
  * All initial committers have signed and submitted their ICLAs
  * FZI has submitted a CCLA and donated the initial code base to Apache
  * Right now, we are waiting to transfer our existing Git repos from the 
  streampipes organization to the Apache organization on Github
  * We are also waiting to get admin access to the StreamPipes instance on Jira 
  to import existing issues to the new issue tracker


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

  - [x] 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?
  
  No new committers were elected beyond the initial committers. 
  We'll focus on attracting new committers once the initial setup is finished.

### 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.
  
  We would really like to thank our mentors. Chris was very helpful and responsive
  in setting up the infrastructure, and all questions we had on the mailing list 
  were answered immediately by our mentors.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?
  
  * We initiated an initial podling name search and created a ticket to get the name 
  approved in Jira (November 25th).
  * The name "Apache StreamPipes" got approved by VP Brand Management on December, 12th

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (streampipes) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampipes) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampipes) Julian Feinauer  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampipes) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampipes) Kenneth Knowles  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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##  Superset
Apache Superset (incubating) is a modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence web application.
###  Graduation Progress
A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation.
 1. Next steps with Trademark process ; Suitable name search is approved.
###  How has the project developed since the last report?
 - 2-3 more official ASF releases
-   New committer + PMC Daniel Gaspar
-   [Suitable name search was approved](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-173)
-   Major dev milestones:
--   Enhancing Big Query integration
--   Improving Elastic search and Superset
###  How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
 - [ ] Initial setup
 - [ ] Working towards first release
 - [ ] Community building
 - [X] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:
###  Date of last release:
November 26th, 2019 (0.35.1), released by user: dgaspar
[https://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/superset/0.35.1](https://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/superset/0.35.1)
###  How has the community developed since the last report?
 -  Organic growth of our Github Contributors:
 --  Stars (25,200 → 27,034)
 --  Forks (5076→ 5,400)
 --  Watchers (1212 → 1,245)
 - Added 295 commits (August, Sept, November to date)
 -  Grew Superset slack users to (973→ 1,023)
 -  Set up Meetup Group w/ Bug Bash + Happy Hour with first meetup on 12/2 in partnership with other committers
 - Published by Community Members: [https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/an-inside-look-at-linkedins-data-pipeline-monitoring-system-](https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/an-inside-look-at-linkedins-data-pipeline-monitoring-system-)
###  When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 - Daniel Gaspar (committer + PPMC) - announced september 27th
###  Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, Alan Gates validates and votes on releases, and are generally responsive when we ask for their attention.
###  Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes.
###  Signed-off-by:
 - [ ] (superset) Ashutosh Chauhan Comments:
 - [ ] (superset) Luke Han Comments:
 - [ ]  (superset) Alan Gates Comments:
Apache Superset (incubating) is a modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence web application.
###  Graduation Progress
A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation.
 1. Get the trademark search / name approved; Suitable name search has been submitted.
###  How has the project developed since the last report?
 - 2-3 more official ASF releases
-   New committer + PMC Daniel Gaspar
-   Submitted our [suitable name search](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-173) (waiting for approval)
-   Major dev milestones:
--   Enhancing Big Query integration
--   Improving Elastic search and Superset
###  How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
 - [ ] Initial setup
 - [ ] Working towards first release
 - [ ] Community building
 - [X] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:
###  Date of last release:
November 26th, 2019 (0.35.1), released by user: dgaspar
[https://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/superset/0.35.1](https://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/superset/0.35.1)
###  How has the community developed since the last report?
 -  Organic growth of our Github Contributors:
 --  Stars (25,200 → 27,034)
 --  Forks (5076→ 5,400)
 --  Watchers (1212 → 1,245)
 - Added 295 commits (August, Sept, November to date)
 -  Grew Superset slack users to (973→ 1,023)
 -  Set up Meetup Group w/ Bug Bash + Happy Hour with first meetup on 12/2 in partnership with other committers
 - Published by Community Members: [https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/an-inside-look-at-linkedins-data-pipeline-monitoring-system-](https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/an-inside-look-at-linkedins-data-pipeline-monitoring-system-)
###  When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 - Daniel Gaspar (committer + PPMC) - announced september 27th
###  Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, Alan Gates validates and votes on releases, and are generally responsive when we ask for their attention.
###  Signed-off-by:
 - [ ] (superset) Ashutosh Chauhan Comments:
 - [ ] (superset) Luke Han Comments:
 - [X] (superset) Alan Gates Comments:  After a slow start the Superset podling has really picked up momentum.  They are consistently making releases and have been adding new members to the community.  It is good to see.
 - [ ] (superset) Jakob Homan Comments:
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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.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: