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# Incubator PMC report for June 2023

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
  
- SeaTunnel
  
The board has motions for the following:

- Kvrocks

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  May:
  - Teaclave 0.5.1
  - SDAP 1.0.0
  - StreamPark 2.1.0
  - Kvrocks 2.4.0


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents  
[Baremaps](#baremaps)  
[KIE](#kie)  
[Nemo](#nemo)  
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)  
[OpenDAL](#opendal)  
[Paimon](#paimon)   
[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.
  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:

  - [ ] (baremaps) Bertrand Delacretaz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (baremaps) Julian Hyde  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (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. Getting the code into Apache git repos
  2. Finishing the software grant
  3. 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?
It has been a slow quarter for us. Red Hat had a round of layoffs this quarter which affected their legal team, and the ones working on the Software Grant for Apache. 
It has pushed us back quite a ways as we've had to redo a bunch of the work.
We're now targeting the end of June to have all the legal issues finished and the software grant completed.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
See the above question.

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

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

### Date of last release:
N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Back in December when we were accepted as a podling

### 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.

No issues with the mentors

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

So far, yes.

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Nemo

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

Nemo has been incubating since 2018-02-04.

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

  1. Address remaining items before graduation
  2. Motivate growth in the community
  3. A new release after finalizing new features in our codebase

### 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?

- In order to develop the community, we are working on reinforcing the documentations for better usability with visual aids.
- We have also integrated Disqus on our website for better communication with the users.

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

- Discussions for graduation
- Finalizing the code cleanup and documentations for new features and filing existing PRs (e.g., for supporting features regarding offloading bottleneck tasks to serverless frameworks)

### 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:

  2022-09-02

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

September 28, 2021

### 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.

- The mentors have been helpful.

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

- The PPMC manages the podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

  

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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?

  - We have communicated with developers which have interest to contribute 
to the project, especially with Python developers.

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

  - Research related to usage in the project last AI technologies.
  - Site updated, examples extended.

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

  - [X] Initial setup
  - [ ] 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 with mentors to report.

 ### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (nlpcraft) Roman Shaposhnik  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (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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## 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. Making the first release.
  2. Grow the community.
  3. Collect more use cases.

### 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?

In the past month, we have welcomed 5 new contributors, bringing the total number to 91.

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

In the past month, we added new services integrations like sftp, supabase, vercel artifacts and cos.

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2023-05-23 (it's not an official ASF release)

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

2023-05-29

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes.

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

Yes.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (opendal) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (opendal) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (opendal) Sheng Wu  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (opendal) Ted Liu  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (opendal) Xiaoqiao He  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Paimon

Paimon is a unified lake storage to build dynamic tables for both stream
and batch processing with big data compute engines, supporting high-
speed data ingestion and real-time data query. 

Paimon has been incubating since 2023-03-12.

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

  1.Publish our first release
  2.Grow the community
  3.Improve our website to contain security page, committer/ppmc list, contributor guide, and etc.

### 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?

  1. Committed our LOGO
  2. Several PIPs are in discussion on the dev mailing list, and several have agreed to start development: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PAIMON/Paimon+Improvement+Proposals

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

  1. First release under voting in general@incubator.apache.org
  2. Support Kafka CDC data ingestion
  3. Support Consumer-id to consume from the previous progress without resuming from the state

### 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:

  XXXX-XX-XX

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

N/A

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive.

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

The VP, Brand has approved the project name.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (paimon) Becket Qin  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (paimon) Robert Metzger  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (paimon) Stephan Ewen  
     Comments: Team seems to operate maturely and to understand community processes well (which is not surprising, given they are all committers in other projects).
  - [X] (paimon) Yu Li  
     Comments: Team is actively working towards the first apache release (after entering incubation) and has addressed several legal issues found during IPMC review. Meantime discussions happen frequently and adequately on the dev mailing list, which indicates a good community build-up.

### 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) Ryan Blue  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (toree) Weiwei Yang  
     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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## 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. 9 new contributors from different affiliations contributed to Uniffle project.
2. 75 issues have been created, among 57 issues were discussed and resolved.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. 75 issues have been created, among 57 issues were discussed and resolved.
2. 109 prs have been created, among 90 prs have been merged.
3. We released 0.7.0

### 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:

  2023-04-10

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Jingxiong Zhong, elected as committer on 2023-03-16

### 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:  
  - [X] (uniffle) Liu Xun  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (uniffle) Weiwei Yang  
     Comments:  
  - [ X] (uniffle) Zhankun Tang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

[Calvin Kirs]2 mentors and multiple PPMCs are not subscribed to the private mailing list, also, 
it seems that more than half of the PPMC members are not active, which is normal, but I am curious about what happened. 

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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. Release 1.0 (in progress)
  2. Update Website (we have issues to get the pipeline running, its messed a bit and INFRA could not help)
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No, everything works!


### How has the community developed since the last report?
We got significant traction, received commits from multiple individuals and organizations.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
Activity increasing, commits and dev activity climbing. 

### 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:    
2021-12-13  

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2023 - 26 - 04

### 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.

Only the website pipeline. 

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

Yes.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (wayang) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (wayang) Lars George  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:




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