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# Incubator PMC report for November 2025
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
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## 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
October:
## IP Clearance
## Legal / Trademarks
## Infrastructure
## Miscellaneous
## Credits
## Table of Contents
[Burr](#burr)
[Cloudberry](#cloudberry)
[Fesod](#fesod)
[GeaFlow](#geaflow)
[GraphAr](#graphar)
[Hamilton](#hamilton)
[HoraeDB](#horaedb)
[Pegasus](#pegasus)
[Pony Mail](#ponymail)
[Seata](#seata)
[Texera](#texera)
[Toree](#toree)
[XTable](#xtable)
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## Burr
Burr is a lightweight in-process python framework that standardizes the
expression and execution of state machines as action-driven graphs, while
making graph execution easily observable. It is particularly
suited for AI agent workflows, simulations, and other dynamic
systems, and comes with a self-hostable observability UI that
integrates with OpenTelemetry.
Burr has been incubating since 2025-05-24.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Release
2. Build PPMC release muscle
3. Build 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?
New issues from new users and new small time contributions added.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
We're gearing up for the first release. Most of the PPMC is on Hamilton
so we're taking those learnings and applying them here.
### 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 -- almost there!
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
May 2025
### 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.
N/A
### 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?
N/A
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (burr) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
- [ ] (burr) Ayush Saxena
Comments:
- [ ] (burr) PJ Fanning
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Cloudberry
Cloudberry Database, built on the latest PostgreSQL kernel, is one of the
most advanced and mature open-source MPP (Massively Parallel
Processing) databases available.
Cloudberry has been incubating since 2024-10-11.
### 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:
- [ ] (cloudberry) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
- [ ] (cloudberry) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
- [ ] (cloudberry) Kent Yao
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Fesod
Fesod is a high-performance and memory-efficient Java library for reading
and writing Excel files, designed to simplify development and
ensure reliability.
Fesod has been incubating since 2025-09-17.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1.Ensure that the website and codebase are fully compliant with ASF policies.
2.Publish the first release under the Apache Incubator.
3.Continue to grow the community and word towards the ASF maturity Model.
### 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?
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### 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 addressedporject's website,now you can see details in [Apache Analytics](https://s.apache.org/2w3sw).
2. We have 5 new contributors.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
The community is actively working on the first release under the Apache Incubator, which is currently planned for December.
1. Developement of new features is in progressing.
2. The project executed the Fuzz chaos test and fix bugs at the suggestion of the mentor.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] 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?
N/A
### 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.
Yes.They are very nice and actively.
1. Dave Fisher pointed some wrong process about the election of committer(fixed).
2. PJ Fanning give suggestions about porject-module and jdk-version.
3. Huajie Wang help community on how to design logo.
4. tison tells many of the small but important copyright details.
### 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.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (fesod) tison
Comments:
- [ ] (fesod) Dave Fisher
Comments:
- [ ] (fesod) Huajie Wang
Comments:
- [ ] (fesod) PJ Fanning
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## GeaFlow
GeaFlow is a distributed stream and batch integration graph compute engine.
GeaFlow has been incubating since 2025-06-06.
### 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:
- [ ] (geaflow) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
- [ ] (geaflow) Xin Wang
Comments:
- [ ] (geaflow) Jingsong Lee
Comments:
- [ ] (geaflow) Paul Klingelhuber
Comments:
- [ ] (geaflow) Justin Mclean
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## GraphAr
GraphAr is an open-source and language-independent data file format designed
for efficient graph data storage and retrieval.
GraphAr has been incubating since 2024-03-25.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Growing the community(attracting more committers, contributors and
users)
2. Release more ASF-compliant versions
3. Extend the GraphAr format to support more systems
### 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. Released a new version V0.13.0
2. 5 new contributors completed PR merge
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Merged 23 PRs since the last report
2. The java-info module changed user-facing API
3. Improve the ci test and coverage report
### 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:
2025-08-29
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-07-14
### 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 are very helpful and responsive.
### 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:
- [ ] (graphar) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
- [ ] (graphar) tison
Comments:
- [ ] (graphar) Xiaoqiao He
Comments:
- [ ] (graphar) Yu Li
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Hamilton
Hamilton is a lightweight in-process framework to define, execute, and
observe directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that express data
transformations. In Hamilton, one can express complex DAGs of
transformations, e.g. from dataframe transformations (using
pandas, polars, PySpark), machine learning pipelines, through to regular
software engineering API request and LLM API based workflows.
Observability hooks are built into the framework. The Hamilton
UI is a self-hostable service to capture observability output
from workflow runs.
Hamilton has been incubating since 2025-04-12.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Release other packages under apache process.
2. Train more of PPMC to run a release.
3. Have more releases.
### 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?
Several new contributors to the repo.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
We published our first main package under apache!
### 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:
2025-10-11
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
April 2025
### 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.
We're not a java project, so things aren't as straightforward to release -- which most of the documentation is geared towards.
### 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 -- no 3rd parties with issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (hamilton) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
- [ ] (hamilton) Ayush Saxena
Comments:
- [ ] (hamilton) PJ Fanning
Comments:
### 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.
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:
- [ ] (horaedb) tison
Comments:
- [ ] (horaedb) Shaofeng Shi
Comments:
- [ ] (horaedb) Gang Li
Comments:
- [ ] (horaedb) Von Gosling
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Pegasus
Pegasus is a distributed key-value storage system which is designed to be
simple, horizontally scalable, strongly consistent and high-performance.
Pegasus has been incubating since 2020-06-28.
### 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:
- [ ] (pegasus) Duo zhang
Comments:
- [ ] (pegasus) Liang Chen
Comments:
- [ ] (pegasus) Von Gosling
Comments:
- [ ] (pegasus) Liu Xun
Comments:
### 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:
- [ ] (ponymail) Dave Fisher
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Seata
Seata(Simple Extensible Autonomous Transaction Architecture)is an easy-to-
use and high-performance distributed transaction solution, used
to solve the data consistency problem.
Seata has been incubating since 2023-10-29.
### 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:
- [ ] (seata) Sheng Wu
Comments:
- [ ] (seata) Justin Mclean
Comments:
- [ ] (seata) Huxing Zhang
Comments:
- [ ] (seata) Heng Du
Comments:
- [ ] (seata) Xin Wang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Texera
Texera is an open-source system to support collaborative data science, AI,
and ML using GUI-based workflows. Our vision is to develop a
system to support cloud platforms on which users can easily
analyze data and use AI/ML techniques provided as operators.
Users with various backgrounds, irrespective of whether they know coding or
not, can collaborate on the same project to construct a pipeline.
Experienced users can use programming languages such as Python,
R, Java, and Scala to implement customized computation logic.
The platform allows users to pause the execution of a workflow to
investigate the operator states, and resume the execution at a later time.
The platform can be used by a research community to publish
valuable resources such as data sets, workflows, and ML models
to share their domain-specific knowledge and support
reproducibility of scientific research. The platform also allows users to
elastically request computing resources from public clouds for
computationally-intensive tasks.
Texera has been incubating since 2025-04-12.
### 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:
- [ ] (texera) Cezar Andrei
Comments:
- [ ] (texera) Gordon King
Comments:
- [ ] (texera) PJ Fanning
Comments:
- [ ] (texera) Ian Maxon
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.Increase active contributors
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None, Nothing much of news from previous report
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Release 0.6 has been voted by PPMC and is being reviewed in incubator general
mailing list. The new release brings Scala 2.13 and Spark 3.4.4 support.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Release 0.6.0 preparation and votes
### 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?
- Cheng Pan was added to the PPMC on 2023-08-28
### 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: The podling should push graduation after release is out
process
- [ ] (toree) Ryan Blue
Comments:
- [ ] (toree) Weiwei Yang
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) Stamatis Zampetakis
Comments:
- [ ] (xtable) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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