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# Incubator PMC report for March 2023

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

Marvin-AI has completed the retirement IPMC voting process. There are some podlings that are also in the discussion of retirement, like Spot and PageSpeed.

Regarding PonyMail, it should be explained that even though it is difficult for them to build a huge community, since the current PMC  is composed of ASF members, and PonyMail also serves as the infrastructure of ASF. Therefore, most IPMC member hope that PonyMail will graduate to gain more brand exposure and further expand the community.  

Two podlings join the incubator this month:

One is OpenDAL, It's a Rust library that helps
developers access data freely, painlessly, and efficiently over multiple
services, including AWS S3, HDFS, POSIX-compatible file systems, and so on.

The other is Paimon, which is a sub-project of Flink, originally (Flink-Table-Store), It's a unified lake storage to build dynamic tables for both streams
and batch processing with big data computing engines (Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Trino, etc.), supporting high-speed data ingestion and real-time data query. 

## Community

### New IPMC members:

 - Becket Qin
 - Yu Xiao

### People who left the IPMC:

- Jim Jagielski

## New Podlings

- OpenDAL
- Paimon


## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

- Nemo
- PageSpeed
- Spot
- Toree
- Training

## Graduations
  - None

  The board has motions for the following:
  - EventMesh

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  March:

- HugeGraph  1.0.0
- Kvrocks        2.3.0
- StreamPark  2.0.0
- DevLake       0.15.0
- NLPCraft      1.0.0   

## IP Clearance

- [Kylin]Accept donation of Kylin new Modeling System

## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents  
[Baremaps](#baremaps)  
[KIE](#kie)  
[Nemo](#nemo)  
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)  
[OpenDAL](#opendal)  
[PageSpeed](#pagespeed)  
[Spot](#spot)  
[Toree](#toree)  
[Training](#training)  
[Uniffle](#uniffle)  
[Wayang](#wayang)  


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## Baremaps

Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for
creating, publishing, and operating online maps.

Baremaps has been incubating since 2022-10-10.

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

  1. Getting the code in compliance with Apache standards
  2. Making releases
  3. Growing the community

### 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?

The activity has been low in December and January, but the community has stayed steady.

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

  - We addressed most of the critical licensing issues and identified minor issues with license of the data used in the tests
  - We improved the layout and the content of the web site
  - We launched a vote for a first release candidate with a DISCLAIMER-WIP file
  - Some of us will attend the OGC/OSGeo/ASF code sprint with the intent to work on Baremaps

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

  - [x] 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?

When the project entered incubation.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, the mentors have been very helpful on several topics (community building, licensing, etc.)

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

Yes

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (baremaps) Bertrand Delacretaz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (baremaps) Julian Hyde  
     Comments:  Reviewing the first release candidate now, and quality
       looks good for a podling's first RC. Development has been rather
       narrow (in a few individuals), so I'm hoping to see broadening
       of community participation around the first release.
  - [x] (baremaps) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (baremaps) George Percivall  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## KIE

KIE (Knowledge is Everything) is a community of solutions and supporting
tooling for knowledge engineering and process automation, focusing on
events, rules, and workflows.

KIE has been incubating since 2023-01-13.

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

  1. Software Grant completion, currently waiting on legal.
  2. IP clearance. Question: Can this start before the grant has been finalized?
  3. Create a release :)

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

### How has the community developed since the last report? 
This is our first report. We have a number of people signed up for the PPMC, but seeing as we don't have the code moved over yet, there isn't much else to be done at the moment.

### How has the project developed since the last report? 
We're working through legal both at IBM and Red Hat. This wasn't as quick as any of us had hoped it would be. 

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

  - [ ] Initial setup
		Mailing lists created
		Initial committers have signed the ICLA
  - [ ] Working towards first release
		We'll get there, need the software grant first
  - [ ] Community building
		Not much we can do on this front until the code has moved over
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
		N/A
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

	N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Back in January when we were accepted into the Incubator

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Brian has been very helpful in getting things started, no concerns about any of the mentors.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Still working on grants

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (kie) Brian Proffitt  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (kie) Claus Ibsen  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (kie) Andrea Cosentino  
     Comments: Looks good.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Nemo

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

Nemo has been incubating since 2018-02-04.

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

  1.
  2.
  3.

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


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


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


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

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

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

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


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

### 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:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:


[Willem] There are no developement activities in the last three month，and the project failed to submit to report. 
We may need a rollcall of PPMC for it. It's strange that this project PPMC is thinking about graduation last year. 


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## NLPCraft

A Scala library for NLU applications

NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.

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

  1. Community growth.
  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?

Community development wasn't grown last months. The main reason is probably due to core committers were engaged in a 1.0 release tests,documentatation and website update. But there were some initial developers requests to join and contribute during last months.  

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

The project tests were extended, examples added, documentation and website updated, release 1.0.0. prepared.

### 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:

  2023-02-30

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

August of 2021.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

No issues with mentors to report.

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

No issues to report.

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## OpenDAL

Open Data Access Layer: Access data freely, painlessly, and efficiently.

OpenDAL has been incubating since 2023-02-27.

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

  1. The majority of contributions to the OpenDAL project were made by only 
four committers, with Xuanwo being the most prolific contributor.
  2. The adoption rate of OpenDAL has been relatively low, with only a few 
projects currently using it.

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

N/A

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

This is the first report of OpenDAL.

Over the past two weeks, the project has successfully attracted four new 
contributors, one of whom has shown great promise and potential to be 
considered for committer status in the future.

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

This is the first report of OpenDAL.

During the past two weeks, OpenDAL has added support for the append 
function and is currently working on developing Python and Node.js 
bindings. These updates are expected to be included in the upcoming Apache 
release.

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

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

### Date of last release:

NOTE: it's not an Apache release, because our repo trasnfer is not DONE yet.

  2023-03-02

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

OpenDAL has been in incubation since February 27th, 2023. As of yet, no 
committers have been elected for the project.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes.

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

N/A

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (opendal) tison
     Comments:
  - [x] (opendal) Willem Ning Jiang
     Comments: Just finished the project setup work
  - [ ] (opendal) Sheng Wu
     Comments:
  - [ ] (opendal) Ted Liu
     Comments:
  - [x] (opendal) Xiaoqiao He
     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.
  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:

  - [ ] (pagespeed) Leif Hedstrom  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pagespeed) Nick Kew  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pagespeed) Atri Sharma  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

[Willem] There is disucssion about retirement of PageSpeed, and none reply it.  
https://lists.apache.org/thread/jxw7mqmpcfxxp0mnnx28o0k78tym507b
We need to think about retire this project.

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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:


[Calvin Kirs] Due to years of not having any active, is currently discussing whether to retire.

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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) Ryan Blue  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (toree) Weiwei Yang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

[PJF] Activity on mailing lists has dropped a lot recently. In recent months, there have been recurring issues getting the team to submit
their Podling report. I suspect we may need a Roll Call to see if there are enough PPMC members willing to continue active engagement.


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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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## Uniffle

Uniffle is an unified Remote Shuffle Service

Uniffle has been incubating since 2022-06-06.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
Promote the project and grow the user and dev community

### 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. 4 new contributors from different affiliations contributed to Uniffle project.
2. 70 issues have been created, among this 75 were discussed and resolved.
3. 2 discussion were occurred

### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. 70 issues have been created, among this 75 were discussed and resolved. 234 PRs has been created, among this 144 PRs were merged.
2. We're preparing v0.7.0 release

### 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:

  2022-12-09

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Xianjing Feng, elected on 2023-02-08

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, they're helpful in guiding the podding project

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (uniffle) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (uniffle) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (uniffle) Liu Xun  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (uniffle) Weiwei Yang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (uniffle) Zhankun Tang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Wayang

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

  1. Community building
  2. release a new version
  3. redo website and documentation to guide interesting developer

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

Nothing

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

We got new contributors from different companies and Universities.

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

Better community traction, adding new features

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2021-12-13

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?  
  2022-01-18: Calvin Kirs

### 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.

Nothing to add here.

### 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, Wayang got approved by the ™ team, we don't face any trademark related issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (wayang) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  I can see quite a bit more activity in the podling in this period
  - [ ] (wayang) Lars George  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: