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# Incubator PMC report for January 2020

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/January2020
 There are 
presently 46 podlings incubating. In December, podlings executed 
XX 
distinct releases. We added no new IPMC members and no IPMC members 
retired. There was one requested IP clearance, but it has an outstanding 
issue.
 We have one new podling this month NuttX; another is under 
discussion 
YuniKorn. The Druid project graduated last month. BatchEE exited 
the 
incubator to become a subproject of Geronimo. At least one podling is 
heading towards graduation in the next few months. Several podlings did not 
report and will be asked to report again next month,; they include 
Annotator, 
Iceberg, Livy, Milagro, Myriad, Taverna and TubeMQ. I would 
guess this is 
due to the holiday season, despite advance warning being given and 
asking 
podling to get the reports in early.
 We also had a large number of 
reports that needed manual fixing this month, 
podlings in question have 
been reminded.
 TubeMQ is still having trouble bootstrapping and some of itits 
mentors seem 
missing, I've asked for mentors to respond on it private list. 
The Incubator release area was continuescontinued to be cleaned up.
 The new 
branding/trademark question (added the podling report ) has made a 
number 
of podlings realise they were not paying attention to this important 
area and has 
increased awareness of what is needed requiredhere.
 An open source site awarded 
several podlings awards but had several 
branding and trademark issues. 
These waswere quickly resolved.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  None

### People who left the IPMC:
  None

## New Podlings
  - NuttX

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - Annotator
  - Iceberg
  - Livy
  - Milagro
  - Myriad
  - Taverna
  - TubeMQ

## Graduations
  - Druid

  The board has motions for the following:

  - None

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  December:
  - TODO

## IP Clearance
  - airflow-on-k8s-operator to Airflow (not accepted yet)

## Legal / Trademarks
  - An open source site awarded several podlings awards but had several 
  branding and trademark issues. These was quickly resolved.

## Infrastructure
  - JIRA tickets and cloning issues issue

## Miscellaneous
  - None

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                       Table of Contents  
[Annotator](#Annotator)   
[APISIX](#APISIX)  
[DLab](#DLab)  
[Flagon](#Flagon)  
[Gobblin](#Gobblin)  
[Hudi](#Hudi)  
[Iceberg](#Iceberg)  
[Livy](#Livy)  
[Milagro](#Milagro)  
[MXNet](#MXNet)  
[Myriad](#Myriad)  
[NuttX](#NuttX)  
[PonyMail](#PonyMail)
[StreamPipes](#StreamPipes)  
[Taverna](#Taverna)  
[Teaclave](#Teaclave)  
[TubeMQ](#TubeMQ)  
[TVM](#TVM)  
[Weex](#Weex)  

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

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## Annotator

Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and
humans.

Annotator has been incubating since 2016-08-30.

### 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:

  - [ ] (annotator) Nick Kew  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (annotator) Steve Blackmon  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (annotator) Tommaso Teofili  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## APISIX

APISIX is a cloud-native microservices API gateway, delivering the ultimate 
performance, security, open source and scalable platform for all your APIs 
and microservices.

APISIX is based on Nginx and etcd. Compared with traditional API gateways, 
APISIX has dynamic routing and plug-in hot loading, which is especially 
suitable for API management under micro-service system.

APISIX has been incubating since 2019-10-17.

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

  1. More Apache Releases and more committers act as release manager to 
  release a version.
  2. More committers and PPMC members.
  3. Branding issues in the documentation, code, website, etc.

### 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?

  - We have some talks about the best practices of high-performance API 
  gateway on COSCon 2019, Dec 8th and OpenTalk, Dec 8th.
  - We have solved the Apache APISIX major brand issues in documentation, 
  code, website, etc.
  - We have 13 committers and 50 contributors (including 13 committers) 
  contributing to Apache APISIX.
  - Over 19 company users have announced that they are using APISIX and more 
  than 50% of them also submitted code or fixed the documentation for APISIX 
  : https://github.com/apache/incubator-apisix/issues/487

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

  The project has been quite health, with more than 29 pull requests, 25 of 
  them have being merged in December. These pull requests are authored by a 
  diverse set of contributors. We also suggest and guide users from QQ group 
  to make issues at Apache APISIX mailing list, which is helpful for people 
  who have the same issue and tracking bugs.

  This month's Pull Request is mainly divided into three aspects:
  - Fixing Apache APISIX bug.
  - Supporting more configuration items and optimizing the experience on 
  Apache APISIX Dashboard.
  - Supplement Apache APISIX function manual

### 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:

  Mon Nov 25 2019 (0.9)

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

  At Nov 28 2019 PPMC members elected a new commiter @lilien1010 who worked 
  for HelloTalk.

### 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 keep tracking podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (apisix) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:
  - [X] (apisix) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (apisix) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:
  - [X] (apisix) Von Gosling  
     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. Come up with a new name for DLab.
  2. Extend the amount of committers.
  3. After release 2.2 is made, the team will have to do major refactoring 
  of the code, updating of product documentation, which might potentially
  slow down the process of releasing version 2.3.

### 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?

  Following committers have been added:
  - Mykola Bodnar (ICLA file was signed off and submitted in previous
  Sep 2019 report and Apache ID was created later on September 12th, 2019)
  - Dmytro Gnatyshyn

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

  - The team has released v.2.2 and now it is working on release v.2.3
  - Web site was created and moved to apache servers

### 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
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2019-10-12

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  
  The last committer was elected on December 2, 2019.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes our mentors are super helpful. We do receive answers to all our 
  questions timely. Special thanks for Furkan, who was super helpful 
  and provided the majority of responses.

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

  Out team has finally chosen a name. We'll soon create for a JIRA ticket
  for Podling name search. If no conflict found (preliminary there are
  zero conflicts), we'll have to reflect this in our codebase/documentation
  in upcoming release.

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Justin Mclean: Is infra aware there is going to be a name change? It
    might be best to change name on graduation rather than before.
    Please discuss with infra first.

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## DolphinScheduler

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 3rd round voting progress)
  2. Develop more committers and contributors.
  3. Clean up the license issue on JS lib.

### 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. Developed 13 more contributors from 42 to 55 who contributes codes to 
  github.
  2. Successfully held a co-meetup with Sharding Sphere in Dec, 8th in 
  Beijing, more than 70 people attended the meet up.
  3. E-mail discussion was accepted by community step by step: about 9 
  proposals and many  discussion were communicated by e-mail since the 
  training on the last meet-up.
  4. Many contributors were developed and found while overcoming the 
  difficulty on Apache release, and some of them would be voted to committers 
  next month.

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

  1. Apache 1.2.0 release was still in progress. Committers fix the 
  commercial problems on fonts and icons, and was cleaning up the 
  dependencies on JS libs.
  2. Formal auto CI/CD was accepted by community with UT 60%.
  3. 1.2.x was developing and there is a proposal to refactor some key part 
  of the project for better concurrent performance. 

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

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  No answer.

### 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 first Apache Release.

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

  Yes, We keep tracking podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (dolphinscheduler) Sheng Wu  
    Comments:  Mail list communications become more active. Good to see this.
  - [ ] (dolphinscheduler) ShaoFeng Shi  
    Comments:  
  - [X] (dolphinscheduler) Liang Chen  
    Comments:  
  - [X] (dolphinscheduler) Furkan KAMACI   
    Comments: 
  - [ ] (dolphinscheduler) Kevin Ratnasekera  
    Comments: 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Flagon

Flagon is a behavioral logging platform for web pages and apps

Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.

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

  1. Grow the Flagon Committer/Contributor/Community Base 
  2. Refine release processes for core analytic product (Distill)
  3. Finalize (through vote) Flagon logo, get marketing approvals (e.g swag)

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

  * None at this time. Following mentors' comments in last (Q3 2019) 
  report, Flagon will likely draft and vote on a graduation resolution in the 
  new year.

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

  * continued improving [release 
  processes](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLAGON/UserALE.js+Rel
  ease+Management+Procedure) and code base
  * continued to generate a wide user base
  * discussing collaborations for R&D applications
  * new potential committers have been identified and will be introduced to 
  the community in the new year

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

  * Project maturity roadmaps & release plans (JIRA) are maintained
  * JIRA boards continue to be maintained.
  * Core product source code is well maintained
  * Analytical products are being refactored to grow user base
  * Continued attention and improvement in Apache Process
  * Expect UserALE.js v 2.1.0 RC in Q1 2020 

### 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:

  *  2019-08-21 Flagon UserALE.js (Incubating) 2.0.2

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

  *  Furkan Kamaci (Mentor) 2019-07-24
  *  Tim Allison (Mentor) 2019-07-17

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  * Things feel on track. Our mentors have been very supportive and 
  responsive.

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

  No answer.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (flagon) David Meikle  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Gobblin

Gobblin is a distributed data integration framework that simplifies common
aspects of big data integration such as data ingestion, replication,
organization and lifecycle management for both streaming and batch data
ecosystems.

Gobblin has been incubating since 2017-02-23.

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

  1. Revisit Apache Maturity Model assessment. [In progress since last 
  report]
  2. Ensure heavy contributors are awarded committership. [In progress 
  since last report]
  3. Complete house-keeping tasks like revisiting website, podling 
  namesearch. [In progress since last report]

### 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?

  * 84% of commits were from non-committer contributors. (Active contributors 
  are being discussed for being voted as committers)
  * Healthy engagement and activity of committers and contributors.
  * Email stats since last report: user@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 23 
  dev@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 2010
  * There have been 94 Commits since last report: git log --format='%ci' | 
  grep -cE '((2019-1(0|1|2)))'
  * 79 ie. 84% of those commits were by non-committers: git log --format='%ae 
  %ci' | grep -E '((2019-1(0|1|2)))' | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | 
  sort -n

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  * Add support to deploy GaaS in Azure.
  * Converter to eliminate recursion in Avro schemas.
  * Make token refresh mechanism pluggable for long running Gobblin-on-Yarn 
  applications.
  * Refactor code for reporting Kafka Extractor stats to allow greater reuse.
  * Add support in GaaS to recognize Http and Hive based datasets.
  * Add multi-dataset support in GaaS to allow movement of multiple datasets 
  in a single flow.
  * Add support to recognize datasets with Unix timestamp based versions for 
  file based distcp.
  * Custom progress reporting from jobs running in MR mode to enable 
  speculative execution.
  * Source-based PK chunking for the Salesforce connector to use a single PK 
  chunking query to improve chunk distribution and conserve batch API calls.
  * Parquet support for complex types and support both apache parquet and 
  twitter parquet

### 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:

  2018-12-09

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

  Sudarshan Vasudevan in January, 2019. (Active contributors are being 
  discussed for being voted as committers)

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

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (gobblin) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gobblin) Olivier Lamy  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gobblin) Jim Jagielski  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Hudi

Hudi provides atomic upserts and incremental data streams on Big Data

Hudi has been incubating since 2019-01-17.

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

  1. Making sufficient number of releases in the Apache way.
  2. Continue to growing the community.
  3.

### 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. 630 conversations on dev ML across ~100 topics
  2. 70 participants during this period

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. ~130 Commits in gitbox
  2. ~200 issues opened on Jira. ~80 issues resolved in Jira
  3. Hudi 0.5.0 (first Apache Release) released. Next release 0.5.1 planned 
  for January 2020.
  4. 3 new committers (vinoyang, leesf and bhavanisudha) added to project.
  5. Apache Hudi is now packaged as part of AWS EMR. Apache Hudi talk in 
  AWS re:Invent was well received
  6. Project took a first pass at assessing Apache Maturity Model for the 
  project.

### 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:

  2019-10-24

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

  2019-11-08 

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes. Very helpful!

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (hudi) Thomas Weise  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hudi) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hudi) Kishore Gopalakrishnan  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (hudi) Suneel Marthi  
     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.

### 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:

  - [ ] (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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## Livy

Livy is web service that exposes a REST interface for managing long running
Apache Spark contexts in your cluster. With Livy, new applications can be
built on top of Apache Spark that require fine grained interaction with many
Spark contexts.

Livy has been incubating since 2017-06-05.

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

  1. Grow the community to get more reviews and content. 
     
     However, at this point, the community might want to consider that it is a stable project that has met its initial functional goals. With multiple public releases under its belt, it might be worth discussing a time to graduate. A substantial increase in community activity in terms of code contribution and related community growth might occur after a new set of functionality/scope is identified for the project. But to date, the existing community and code are following the Apache way.
  2.
  3.

### 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?

Moderate activity on mailing lists and code

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

Livy thrift JDBC part is GA now. Currently the community is working on HA feature. And 0.7.0 release 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
  - [x] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2019-04-01

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

  2019-01-22

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes

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

  Yes

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (livy) Bikas Saha  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Brock Noland  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Milagro

Milagro is core security infrastructure and crypto libraries for
decentralized networks and distributed systems.

Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.

### 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:

  - [ ] (milagro) Nick Kew  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (milagro) Jean-Frederic Clere  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## MXNet

A Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep Learning

MXNet has been incubating since 2017-01-23.

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

  1. Address past release issues. Successfully and smoothly make releases
  - ONGOING.
  2. Improve development process and tooling to help reduce the overhead of
  releases
  - ONGOING.

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

  1. MXNet 2.0 has started:
     https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/projects/18
     RFC: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/16167

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

  * The number of GitHub contributors increased to currently 763
  (2019-12-31; +3.8% since last report)
  * Active discussions on user forums
      * https://discuss.mxnet.io/ (English, 2.3K registered users (+9.5%)
      and 7.4K posts (+7.2%))
      * https://discuss.gluon.ai/ (Chinese, 8.5K registered users (+10.4%)
      and 21.6K posts(+2.3% since last report))
  * Active blogs and social media presence
    * Medium (https://medium.com/apache-mxnet) w/ 1.7k followers (+6.2%)
    * Twitter account (https://twitter.com/ApacheMXNet) w/ 2.4k followers
   	(+4.3%)
    * Meetup group
    (https://www.meetup.com/pro/deep-learning-with-apache-mxnet/) w/ 10
    groups in 8 countries, 2207 members

  * Active video channels
    * YouTube channel  (https://www.youtube.com/apachemxnet) w/ 949
    subscriber (+12.8% since last report)
    * Chinese YouTube channel
    (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjeLwTKPMlDt2segkZzw2ZQ) w/ 5.4k
     subscribers (+8.2%)
    * (in China) bilibili space (https://space.bilibili.com/209599371) w/
    21k subscriber (+15.4% since last report)

  * Highlights in MXNet ecosystem
    * MXNet Gluon book published (https://zh.d2l.ai/) first 34k hard copies
    * Dive into Deep Learning has 59K 28-day active users, and has
      attracted 15K stars & 210+ contributors on GitHub. It has been adopted
      as a textbook or reference book by 30+ universities in U.S., China,
      Spain, Brazil, India, and Australia, such as MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU,
      IIT Bombay, PKU, and SJTU.
    * GluonCV v0.6.0 release
      (https://github.com/dmlc/gluon-cv/releases/tag/v0.6.0)
    * GluonNLP v0.8.2 release
      (https://github.com/dmlc/gluon-nlp/releases/tag/v0.8.2)
    * GluonTS v0.4.2 release
      (https://github.com/awslabs/gluon-ts/releases/tag/v0.4.2)
    * MXNet Model Server v1.0.9 release
      (https://github.com/awslabs/mxnet-model-server/releases/tag/v1.0.9)
    * GluonFace (https://github.com/THUFutureLab/gluon-face)
    * DeepInsight (https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface)

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

  1) 1.5.1 patch release and 1.6.0 in progress:
  https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.5.1
  https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.6.0
  with over 830+ patches of new features, improvements, and fixes.
  2) 2.0 project: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/projects/18
  3) Many ongoing projects:
      * numpy-compatbile deep learning:
        https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/projects/14
      * CPU performance and quantization:
        https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/projects/15
      * MKLDNN 1.0 upgrade:
        https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/projects/16
      * New Website Launch:
        https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/projects/17
  4) Github statistics of last month:
  * Nov 30, 2019 – Dec 30, 2019: Excluding merges, 45 authors have pushed
  109 commits to master and 131 commits to all branches. On master, 314
  files have changed and there have been 20,474 additions and 3,842
deletions.

### 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:

  2019-10-01

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

  2019-11-24

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, mentors have been responsive and helpful as usual

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (mxnet) Henri Yandell
     Comments:
  - [ ] (mxnet) Markus Weimer
     Comments:
  - [x] (mxnet) Michael Wall
     Comments:
  - [ ] (mxnet) Bob Paulin
     Comments:
  - [ ] (mxnet) Jason Dai
     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.

### 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:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## NuttX

NuttX is a mature, real-time embedded operating system (RTOS) with  
emphasis on standards compliance and small footprint.

NuttX has been incubating since 2019-12-09.

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

  1. Clear any potential infringing use of the NuttX trademark
  2. Grow the community outside the old project and around Apache 
     infrastructure
  3. Make the first release under the Apache umbrella.

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

  Even though the project is in its early incubation stages, its maturity  
  allowed us to elect 3 new members:  
  Ken and Masayuki are both long time contributors to NuttX. They were  
  interested in becoming Committers/PPMC members and supposed to be in the  
  initial committers list but missed the window by few hours (the voting had  
  already started).  
  Brennan is also a long time contributor, and recently has put in some crazy 
  hours to convert our old DokuWiki to Confluence.  

  The project consists of two main repositories, _nuttx_ and _apps_.  
  These two repositories are hosted by Apache in  
  https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-nuttx.git  
  and https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-nuttx-apps.git  
  There are also 3 supporting repositories that have GPL licenses  
  and hence can't be released under the Apache license.  
  Nothing in these GPL repositories is ever delivered with NuttX releases.  
  There are only references in the documentation to aid in building and  
  installing the operating system.  
  It is unclear where these repositories should reside.  

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

  The project used to have a google group where questions, patches and  
  technical issues were discussed.

  Now, three mailing lists are in place: _dev_, _commit_ and _private_.  
  _dev_ has 100 subscribers and is getting quite heavy traffic as the  
  community is debating the next steps of the project.  
  In the meantime, some contributors have already submitted a few patches  
  and PRs.

  However, as it was expected, user activity has dropped down a little  
  compared to the google group.  
  First, not all google group subscribers are subscribed to the _dev_  
  mailing list.  
  Additionally, moving to Apache required reviewing the previous workflow  
  and developing new requirements. This is currently the center of almost  
  all discussions in the mailing list.  
  Things are anticipated to settle down and get back to normal once  
  our new way of working is sorted out.  

  Regarding the project committee, it started with 12 members  
  (4 mentors and 8 initial committers).  
  Since incubation, 2 committers and 1 PPMC member have been added.  

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

  The project is only in its early days of incubation.  
  The necessary resources are set up. The repositories have moved from  
  Bitbucket to GitHub/GitBox and the Wiki from DokuWiki to Confluence.  
  As noted above, the workflow requirements are still under development,  
  it is expected that the project will see more contributions once this  
  has been taken care of.  

  First version of the website is available in github.io  
  (https://apache-nuttx-website.github.io/).  It will be moved to Apache  
  servers.

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

  - [X] Initial setup. Repositories, accounts and mailing lists are in place.
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2019-11-16  
  This is the date of the last NuttX release.  
  There is yet to be a release for Apache NuttX.  

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

  Last elected committers:  
  - Brennan Ashton: 2019-12-19  
  - Kenneth Pettit: 2019-12-22  

Last elected PPMC:  
  - Masayuki Ishikawa: 2019-12-23  

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Mentors are helpful and responsive.

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

 * Gregory Nutt registered the NuttX trademark in the US.
 * Some projects are distributing modified versions of NuttX under the  
   name NuttX. These issues need to be addressed before graduation.  

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (nuttx) Junping Du  
  Comments:
  - [X] (nuttx) Justin Mclean  
  Comments:
  - [ ] (nuttx) Mohammad Asif Siddiqui  
  Comments:
  - [ ] (nuttx) Flavio Paiva Junqueira  
  Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Justin Mclean: The While off to a good start the podling has run into several issues, which is not
  that unusual on starting upissues, and seems to need a bit more focus before
  it has a functioning PPMC.
  Some of these issues are due to ignoring
  mentors/incubator advice. I'd suggest
  the project focus on more immediate needs rather than hypothetical issues that
  may or may not occur in the future.

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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. Growing contributor base
  2. Getting release processes nailed to a tee
  3. Expanding unit tests

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

  No answer.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  Not much progress although we did get a question on the user list which was 
  responded to quickly. Progress is slow paced as usual although any reports 
  of issues is dealt with in a timely manner.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  We have had a couple bug reports that have been worked on 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
  - [x] Community building
  - [x] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2019-04-20

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  2017-06-01 (Sebb). We should be looking for and encouraging more candidates
  :)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  No answer.

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

  No answer.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (ponymail) Sharan Foga  
     Comments:  Good to see that responding to user queries has now 
  improved. Still need to formulate a more concrete engagement strategy for 
  building the community.

### 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 license review of third-party dependencies
  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?
  Although our priority in the last reporting period was on finishing the 
  initial setup, there are some notable things regarding community 
  development:
  - A few new people appeared on the mailing list expressing their interest 
  to contribute to StreamPipes
  - First pull requests from an external committer were merged
  - Many users appeared on the Slack channel or sent emails and asked 
  questions around the installation/usage of StreamPipes, we hope that some 
  of them will consider to contribute in the future
  - We met people from two companies and talked about the possibility to 
  contribute to StreamPipes
  - The number of Twitter followers has increased (currently at 94)
  - The number of Github stars has increased (currently at 102)

  Community development will be the focus of the next reporting period.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  We finished the initial setup:
  * The website is now online at streampipes.apache.org, and we added pages 
  that explain how to participate in the project
  * All Git repos were transferred to the ASF
  * Setup of several CI/CD pipelines based on Github Actions to build the 
  website and code
  * Setup of a CI/CD pipeline in the ASF Jenkins to publish snapshots to the 
  ASF Nexus
  * Finished setup of Jira and migrated old issues from the previous Gitlab 
  to Jira
  * Finished setup of the StreamPipes Confluence space and moved existing 
  content to Confluence
  * Currently, we are finishing a license review to properly create LICENSE 
  and NOTICE files
  * Having completed the initial setup, we are now shifting the focus back to 
  feature development

  In the next month, we plan to work towards the first Apache release and 
  also intensify work on community development.

### 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:

  No answer.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  No new committers were elected beyond the initial committers. Two people 
  mentioned on the mailing list that they might be willing to contribute to 
  StreamPipes.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors are very responsive and provide good feedback. They provided 
  very good guidance during the initial setup phase of the project, thanks a 
  lot. We would also like to thank the people from INFRA who were very 
  responsive and helpful in getting some issues resolved during the 
  transition phase. 

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

  * The project name StreamPipes got approved by VP, Brand on December 2nd.

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Justin Mclean: There is more to managing the brand than just having
  the project name approved.

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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.

### 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:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Teaclave

Teaclave is a universal secure computing platform.

Teaclave has been incubating since 2019-08-20.

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

  1. Improving project structure and documentation
  2. Grow the community (committers, contributors, users)
  3. Publish Apache release

### 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?

  - Since last report, we planned to schedule an online meetup recently.
  - We have also received contributions of two new contributors.
  - We draft a roadmap RFC for discussion.
  - We use GitHub issues to track bugs, features, enhancements. Issues
  labeled with "good first issues" is more approachable for newcomers.

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

  - Resolve all renaming issues of INFRA (INFRA-19532)
  - Refactor four core components
  - Rewrite README.md to clearly explain the project's highlights in
  security, functionality, and usability.
  - Start to use protobuf for RPC definition
  - SGX SDK starts to use Intel SGX SDK v2.7.1

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

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

### Date of last release:

  N/A

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

  We haven't started new committers or PPMC members elections yet.
  Currently, our work focus on improving the design and documents to
  make the project more approachable for newcomers.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes. Last month, we changed name from MesaTEE to Teaclave. There are a
  lot of changes need to be done. The mentors and infra teams help us a
  lot on the transfer.

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

  We don't find any 3rd parties incorrectly using the podling's name and
  brand. The VP, Brand has approve the project name.
  (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-175)

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (teaclave) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (teaclave) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Jianyong Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Matt Sicker  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Zhijie Shen  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## TubeMQ

TubeMQ is a distributed messaging queue (MQ) system.

TubeMQ has been incubating since 2019-11-03.

### 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:

  - [ ] (tubemq) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tubemq) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tubemq) Sijie Guo  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tubemq) Zhijie Shen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tubemq) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## TVM

TVM is a full stack open deep learning compiler stack for CPUs, GPUs, and
specialized accelerators. It aims to close the gap between the productivity-
focused deep learning frameworks, and the performance- or efficiency-
oriented hardware backends.

TVM has been incubating since 2019-03-06.

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

  1. Keep growing the community
  2. Make a few more Apache releases
  3. Improve documentations

### 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?

  TVM community has welcomed two new committers/PPMC members since last 
  report. 
  There are also two on-going new committer nomination that will close in a 
  week.
  The community hosted many meetups and an annual developer conference with 
  more than 200+ attendees.
  These contents are made publically available as per apache way.

  This has been a great year for us doing the Apache way and grow the 
  community. 
  The community has grown 70% in terms of number of contributors and 
  committers,
  while these statistics do not necessarily indicate success, they suggest we 
  are on the right track.

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

  We made our first Apache release. Thanks to the help of IPMC members, in 
  particular Justin, we were able to
  hold the Apache standard and release without using the WIP disclaimer

  A lot of improvements have been made. Including TensorCore support, 
  embedded system support and performance improvements

  See also our monthly report for detailed improvements
  - Sep https://discuss.tvm.ai/t/tvm-monthly-september-2019/4219
  - Oct https://discuss.tvm.ai/t/tvm-monthly-oct-2019/4587
  - Nov https://discuss.tvm.ai/t/tvm-monthly-nov-2019/5038

### 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
  - [x] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2019-12-1

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

  Dec 1 2019

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors are super helpful.

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

  We have yet check with the VP. 
  Given the long history of the project, we want to keep the name,
  will reach out to brand formally.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (tvm) Byung-Gon Chun  
     Comments: Great progress! Good job on the first Apache release! 
  - [ ] (tvm) Sebastian Schelter  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tvm) Henry Saputra  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tvm) Timothy Chen  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (tvm) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (tvm) Tianqi Chen  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Weex

Weex is a framework for building Mobile cross-platform high performance UI.

Weex has been incubating since 2016-11-30.

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

  1. [Branding 
  issues](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WEEX/Branding+issues). 
  There are about 10 git repos violating the trademark of Apache Weex, 
  together with their NPM/Maven artifact.
  2. [Community 
  diversity](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WEEX/Communtiy+divers
  ity). Apache Weex needs more PPMCs and committers from community, no 
  employees from a single company shall have majority vote in PPMC and 
  committer.

### 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?
  * Four Committers joined us, excalibur, tw93, cnryb and teining.
  * The project [weex-ui](https://github.com/apache/incubator-weex-ui) join 
  us.  

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  * Released a new version (v0.28.0) of Weex.  
  * We have 135 incoming pull request, and 132 of them are merged.  
  * We have 57 threads in Weex mailing list .  
  * We have solved 135 Github issues.  

### 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:
  2019-10-23

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  2019-12-05

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Mentors are very helpful.

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

  * We are collecting a list of [branding 
  issues](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WEEX/Branding+issues), 
  and we shall fix the problem one by one.
  * We have not done Podling name search.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (weex) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (weex) Myrle Krantz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (weex) Jan Piotrowski  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: