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# Incubator PMC report for August 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
  - list podling here

  The board has motions for the following:

  - Your podling here?

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  July:


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents  
[Annotator](#annotator)  
[Celeborn](#celeborn)  
[DevLake](#devlake)  
[Liminal](#liminal)  
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)  
[OpenDAL](#opendal)  
[Paimon](#paimon)  
[PonyMail](#ponymail)  
[SDAP](#sdap)  
[StreamPark](#streampark)  
[Toree](#toree)  
[Training](#training)  


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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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## Celeborn

Celeborn is an intermediate data service for big data computing engines to
boost performance, stability, and flexibility.

Celeborn has been incubating since 2022-10-18.

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

  1. Grow the community
  2. Release more versions

### 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. One new PPMC joined the community.
  2. One new committer is proposed and under voting.

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

  1. One new release was published.
  2. Important features like supporting Flink, graceful upgrade are GA.


### 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:

  2023-07-27, 0.3.0-incubating was released.

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

  2023-07-01, Jiashu Xiong was elected as our new PPMC member.

### 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:

  - [ ] (celeborn) Becket Qin  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (celeborn) Lidong Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (celeborn) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (celeborn) Duo Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (celeborn) Yu Li  
     Comments: It's great to see the latest 0.3.0 release supports more computing engine (Apache Flink) thus extends its ecology. New contributors joining also indicates a good growth of the community.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## DevLake

DevLake is a development data platform, providing the data infrastructure
for developer teams to analyze and improve their engineering productivity.

DevLake has been incubating since 2022-04-29.

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

  1. Grow the community, add committers and PPMC members, and mailing list subscribers.
2.  2.Grow the project, support more data sources and use cases, and improve the user experience.
  3. Elect another release manager, now we only have two.
 
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? 
No issues at the moment.

### How has the community developed since the last report? 
1.  16 new contributors have joined the community (109 contributors in total)
2.  154 new community members in Slack (756 in total)
3.  2 new committers were elected, and 1 PPMC was elected.
4.  Hosted a total of 3 community meetups.  

### How has the project developed since the last report? 
1.  Made one new major release v0.17 with no compliance issues, and v0.18 is at the beta testing stage.
2.  Supported new data sources such as Azure DevOps and PaterDuty, etc.
3.  Re-defined deployments in DevLake and update the algorithm for DORA accordingly.
4.  Redesigned user experience for transformation rules in Config UI.
5.  Supported the data deletion in v0.18.
  
### 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:

  2023-07-24

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  2023-07-25

### 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 helped tremendously throughout version releases and community governance.  

### 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?

There are no known brand and naming issues.
  
### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (devlake) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (devlake) Liang Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (devlake) Lidong Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (devlake) Sijie Guo  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (devlake) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (devlake) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Liminal

Apache Liminal is an end-to-end platform for data engineers and scientists,
allowing them to build, train and deploy machine learning models in a robust
and agile way.

Liminal has been incubating since 2020-05-23.

### 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:

  - [ ] (liminal) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (liminal) Henry Saputra  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (liminal) Uma Maheswara Rao G  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (liminal) Davor Bonaci  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (liminal) Liang Chen  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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 ## NLPCraft

A Scala API 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 python developers and ML engineers. 


### How has the project developed since the last report?
 -  Research related to usage in the project last AI technologies.
 -  Research related to usage python API to be connected with last AI libraries.
 -  Site updated, dependencies updated etc .

### 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:  
  - [ ] (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. Higher Quality Release Workflow   
  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?

According to incomplete statistics from GitHub, Opendal currently has 114 contributors and is being used by 205 projects.  

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

Added support for storage services such as tikv, persy and dropbox, as well as  language bindings for haskell, zig, lua, etc. In addition, we have also implemented  the sink API for cloud storage services.

### 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:

  2023-07-21 v0.38.1  

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

  2023-07-21

### 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.Paimon Website: release note page, power by page.
  2.Release 0.5-incubating.
  3.More publicity for the English community

### 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?

  - Paimon Website: add community page, security page.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 
  - Prepare release 0.5-incubating
  - Introduce Tag creation on snapshots
  - Paimon Metrics integration to Flink
  - Spark integration to write to Paimon with schema evolution.

### 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:

  2023-06-07

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

  2023-08-01 Chong Zhuang was added as a new committer

### 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:  
  - [ ] (paimon) Stephan Ewen  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (paimon) Yu Li  
     Comments: The development activities (code contribution, tech discussion, etc.) are frequent, new contributor / committer keeps joining, and people care about document and website building, all indicate a good community development.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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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.
  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:

  - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## SDAP

SDAP is an integrated data analytics center for Big Earth Science problems.

SDAP has been incubating since 2017-10-22.

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

  1. Make a third release with new release manager
  2. Continue dev discussion thread on graduating
  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?

Discussion and development is active.

Started discussion thread on graduating and working towards third release.

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

1 issue closed, 13 issues new/updated, 8 PRs merged.

### 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:

2023-05-16 (Version 1.1.0)

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

Jason Kang was added as a committer on 2023-05-22

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes. Our mentor, Julian Hyde, continues to provide guidance in SDAP releases and graduation.

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

PPMC is not aware of any issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (sdap) Julian Hyde  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (sdap) Jörn Rottmann  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## StreamPark

StreamPark is a streaming application development platform.

StreamPark has been incubating since 2022-09-01.

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

  1. Grow the community   
  2. Release more versions
  3. Develop more contributors
  
### 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. Tow new PPMC member join the community
2. Tow new committer join the community
3. Four new contributors join the community, total contributors 104


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

1. New version 2.1.1 released
2. Many bug fixed and Many new features in progress like supporting catalog 


### 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:

  2023-06-30, 2.1.1-incubating was released.




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

  2023-06-26, Zhou li and Yuepeng Pan was elected as our new committer.

  2023-06-27, Muchunjin and Sizhu Wang was elected as our new PPMC member.


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive


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

  Yes, The VP, Brand has approved the project name.
   
### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (streampark) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampark) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampark) Stephan Ewen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampark) Thomas Weise  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampark) Duo Zhang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



--------------------  ## 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.Increase active contributors

### 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?
   The community is working on wrapping up support for recent versions
   of Apache Spark that has moved to use Scala 2.13.

   We still see much of the users asking questions in the gitter channel
   rather than using the mailing lists.

   There is also a discussion started around retirement process, and discussion
   is happening on the dev list.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
   We need to wrap up the new Toree release supporting Spark with Scala 2.13

### 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:

  2022-04-11

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

   Kevin Bates was added to the PPMC on 2019-08-14

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

   None

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

   No Trademark issues

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (toree) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  With my contributor hat, I am planning to
     try to move Toree trough graduation on the next couple
     months
  - [x] (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: