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# Incubator PMC report for May 2021

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

TODO add narrative

## Community

### New IPMC members:


### People who left the IPMC:


## New Podlings


## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month


## Graduations
  - list podling here

  The board has motions for the following:

  - Your podling here?

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  April:


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents  
[Annotator](#annotator)  
[Doris](#doris)  
[Heron](#heron)  
[Livy](#livy)  
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)  
[PageSpeed](#pagespeed)  
[Pinot](#pinot)  
[SDAP](#sdap)  
[Sedona](#sedona)  
[Spot](#spot)  
[Toree](#toree)  
[Training](#training)  
[Tuweni](#tuweni)  
[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) Tommaso Teofili  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (annotator) Benjamin Young  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Doris

Doris is a MPP-based interactive SQL data warehousing for reporting and
analysis.

Doris has been incubating since 2018-07-18.

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

  1.
  2.
  3.

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


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


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


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

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

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

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


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

### 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:

  - [ ] (doris) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (doris) Shao Feng Shi  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (doris) Ming Wen  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Heron

A real-time, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine.

Heron has been incubating since 2017-06-23.

### 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:

  - [ ] (heron) Jake Farrell  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (heron) Julien Le Dem  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (heron) P. Taylor Goetz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (heron) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (heron) Ming Wen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (heron) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     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.
  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:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## NLPCraft

A Java API for NLU applications

NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.

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

  1.
  2.
  3.

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


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


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


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

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

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

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


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

### 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:

  - [ ] (nlpcraft) Roman Shaposhnik  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nlpcraft) Evans Ye  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nlpcraft) Paul King  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nlpcraft) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## PageSpeed

PageSpeed represents a series of open source technologies to
help make the web faster by rewriting web pages to reduce
latency and bandwidth.

PageSpeed has been incubating since 2017-09-30.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
  1. Grow the number of active developers
  2. Enhance the release process: switch to github tagged release to simplify.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
While there is a healthy user base, the number of active developers remains
persistently low. This seems to be a hard to address challenge.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
Mailing lists and git issues are active. The number of active developers is
unchanged.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
Minor activity, updating deps on the 2.0-alpha.

### 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:

We'll be blogging about the 2.0 Envoy PoC, hopefully that will get some
developer interest as we pivot into the service mesh world 

### Date of last release:

  The week of May 11th, 2020

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

  May 27 2019 (Longinos Ferrando, elected as both committer and PMC member)

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

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
As far as we know the brand is respected by third parties.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (pagespeed) Jukka Zitting  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pagespeed) Leif Hedstrom  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pagespeed) Nick Kew  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Pinot

Pinot is a distributed columnar storage engine that can ingest data in real-
time and serve analytical queries at low latency.

Pinot has been incubating since 2018-10-17.

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

  1.
  2.
  3.

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


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


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


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

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

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

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


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

### 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:

  - [ ] (pinot) Kishore Gopalakrishna  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pinot) Jim Jagielski  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pinot) Olivier Lamy  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pinot) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## SDAP

SDAP is an integrated data analytic center for Big Science problems.

SDAP has been incubating since 2017-10-22.

### 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:

  - [ ] (sdap) Jörn Rottmann  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (sdap) Trevor Grant  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Sedona

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to
use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process
geospatial data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

### 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:

  - [ ] (sedona) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (sedona) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Spot

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

Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23.

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

  1.
  2.
  3.

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


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


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


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

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

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

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


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

### 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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## Toree

Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely
access Apache Spark.

Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.

### 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:

  - [ ] (toree) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (toree) Julien Le Dem  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (toree) Ryan Blue  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Training

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache
and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

### 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:

  - [ ] (training) Craig Russell  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (training) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (training) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (training) Lars Francke  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Tuweni
 
Tuweni is a set of libraries and other tools to aid development of
blockchain and other decentralized software in Java and other JVM languages.
 
Tuweni has been incubating since 2019-03-25.
 
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
 
  1. More contributors!
  2. Getting started, docs, videos
  3. Finishing the Ethereum client
 
### 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?
Community is increasing in size a bit, just with a bit more interest - the dev list increased to 29 subscribers.
 
### How has the project developed since the last report?
The project is under active development.
 
We need to cut another release but keep pushing it back, too much work.
 
### 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:
 
  XXXX2020-XX11-XX27
 
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Nicolas Melendez as committer on 2021-04-29.
 
### 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.
 
All good, need a release out.
 
### 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?
 
No problems reported.
 
### Signed-off-by:
 
  - [ ] (tuweni) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tuweni) Furkan Kamaci  
     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.
  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:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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