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# Incubator PMC report for March 2024

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
  February:


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents  
[Answer](#answer)  
[Baremaps](#baremaps)  
[Fury](#fury)  
[Gluten](#gluten)  
[HoraeDB](#horaedb)  
[KIE](#kie)  
[Nemo](#nemo)  
[ResilientDB](#resilientdb)  
[Uniffle](#uniffle)  
[Wayang](#wayang)  
[XTable](#xtable)  


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## Answer

A Q-and-A platform software for teams at any scales.

Answer has been incubating since 2023-10-09.

### 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:

  - [ ] (answer) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (answer) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (answer) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (answer) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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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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## Fury

A blazing fast multi-language serialization framework powered by jit and
zero-copy

Fury has been incubating since 2023-12-15.

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

  1. Standardize cross-language serialization protocol of Fury.
  2. Align the serialization implementation of Java/Python/JavaScript/C++/Golang/Rust to the cross-language serialization protocol.
  3. Grow the community (attracting more committers, contributors, users)

### 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?
This is the first report for Fury. We attracted about 10 new contributors since Fury starts incubating in 2023-12-15.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
This is the first report for Fury. The main progress are:
  1. Standardized Fury java serialization protocol.
  2. Optimized Fury JavaScript performance.

### 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:
We haven't make a release since Fury joined Apache incubator.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
We haven't elect new committers or PPMC members. Currently all the committers and PPMC members are the initial committers.

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


### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (fury) tison  
     Comments: Let's try to make the first release in the follow two months. 
  - [ x] (fury) PJ Fanning  
     Comments: All looking good 
  - [x] (fury) Yu Li  
     Comments: Good to see all necessary infra are set for the project and team is working towards the first release as an incubator project. 
  - [x] (fury) Xin Wang  
     Comments: The team is working towards the first apache release. 
  - [ ] (fury) Enrico Olivelli  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Gluten

Gluten is a middle layer responsible for offloading JVM-based SQL engines'
execution to native engines.

Gluten has been incubating since 2024-01-11.

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

  1. Complete Code Transfer to Apache
  2. Publish 1st Apache release
  3. Community Growth Initiative
  
### 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 1st report for Gluten.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
This is 1st report for Gluten.

### 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? 
2024-01-11, when the project was accepted into the incubator.  

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, Gluten's mentors actively participate in the project, contributes insights, and helps advance the project towards graduation.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? 
Yes,
- The name "Gluten" has been approved by Mark Thomas, the VP of Brand Management.(https://issues.apache.org/jira/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-220)
- Gluten's logo is currently being designed  .

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (gluten) Yu Li  
     Comments: The podling setup is in good progress and the team actively cooperates. Hopefully we could complete the code transfer and website setup, and start preparing the first apache release in the next report cycle. 
  - [x] (gluten) Wenli Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (gluten) Kent Yao  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (gluten) Shaofeng Shi  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (gluten) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  good to see code transfer in progress.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## HoraeDB

HoraeDB is a high-performance, distributed, cloud native time-series
database.

HoraeDB has been incubating since 2023-12-11.

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

  1. Implement a new table engine, designed for high-throughput, low-latency workloads
  2. Support Prometheus query protocol(a.k.a PromQL) natively
  3. Implement toolset to deploy/maintain HoraeDB cluster, mainly for Kubernetes.

### 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?

This is the first report for HoraeDB.

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

This is the first report for HoraeDB.

### 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:

  We haven't make a release since join Apache incubator.

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

2023-12-27

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?


Yes, they are very kind to work with.

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

No

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (horaedb) tison  
     Comments: Already made a release for the horaedb-proto subproject, working at the main repo release. 
  - [x] (horaedb) Shaofeng Shi  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (horaedb) Gang Li  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (horaedb) Von Gosling  
     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.
  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:

  - [ ] (kie) Brian Proffitt  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (kie) Claus Ibsen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (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. Motivate growth in the community
  2. Address remaining items before graduation   

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

  The issue raised in our previous podling report (Dec. 2023) still exists. This is a project initiated from academia, and many of the committers have graduated with their degree and moved
  on to something else. The project itself is very promising, known that many outstanding academic papers have been developed on top of Apache Nemo [1-5], so it would be ideal 
  if it finds its purpose, however it seems quite challenging at this particular moment. It is quite disappointing to see the project lose its momentum during the covid-19 
  pandemics, which made it extremely challenging for us to build the community. Nevertheless, the project itself, I believe, deserved to be in the TLP, but it seems like if 
  there is no breakpoint for the project regarding the project community, I think we could start discussing about sending it to the attic. Any suggestions or opinions are welcome!

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/yang-youngseok
[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3468144 
[3] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3064176.3064181
[4] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3546591.3547524
[5] https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc23/presentation/song


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

  Trying to have a discussion towards the issue raised above

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

  Trying to have a discussion towards the issue raised above

### 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?

  Please refer to the issue raised above.
 
### 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 polling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## ResilientDB

ResilientDB is a distributed blockchain framework that is open-source,
lightweight, modular, and highly performant.

ResilientDB has been incubating since 2023-10-21.

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

  1. Transfer related websites to apache domain.
  2. Grow the community by facilitating more applications being built on ResDB.
  3. Improve and extend documentation.
    

### 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? 

  Regular meeting continues every week.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
   Many applications built on ResDB have been launched, like [Desktop Wallet](https://blog.resilientdb.com/2023/12/20/DesktopWallet.html), [CrypGo](https://blog.resilientdb.com/2023/12/17/CrypoGo.html), [Rust SDK](https://blog.resilientdb.com/2023/12/10/Getting-Started-with-Rust-SDK.html), and [TypeScript SDK](http://blog.resilientdb.com/2023/12/17/TypeScriptSDK.html).
  More application details can be found in [resilientdb](https://resilientdb.com/)

### 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:

  None

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

  November of 2023

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? 

  The mentors helped tremendously throughout the project build-up and transfer.

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

 There are no known brand and naming issues as reported here

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (resilientdb) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (resilientdb) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (resilientdb) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (resilientdb) Roman Shaposhnik  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (resilientdb) Christian Grobmeier  
     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. Regular meeting every two weeks
2. 5 new contributors

### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. 113 pull requests are created and 92 pull requests are merged.
2. 68 issues are created and 61 issues are closed.


### 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:

  2023-12-13, we released 0.8.0 version

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Qing Liu, elected as the committer on 2024.02.
Junfan Zhang, elected as the PPMC on 2023.06.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, they are 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.
  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:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## XTable

XTable is an omni-directional converter for table formats that facilitates
interoperability across data processing systems and query engines.

XTable has been incubating since 2024-02-11.

### 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:

  - [ ] (xtable) Jesús Camacho Rodríguez  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (xtable) Hitesh Shah  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (xtable) Stamatis Zampetakis  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (xtable) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: