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# Incubator PMC report for August 2025

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and 
codebases wishingseeking to becomejoin 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)  
[BifroMQ](#bifromq)  
[Burr](#burr)  
[Cloudberry](#cloudberry)  
[DevLake](#devlake)  
[Fory](#fory)  
[GeaFlow](#geaflow)  
[GraphAr](#graphar)  
[Hamilton](#hamilton)  
[HoraeDB](#horaedb)  
[KIE](#kie)  
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)  
[PonyMail](#ponymail)  
[Seata](#seata)  
[Texera](#texera)  
[Toree](#toree)  
[Training](#training)  
[XTable](#xtable)  


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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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## BifroMQ

BifroMQ is a Java-based, high-performance, distributed MQTT broker with
native multi-tenancy support, designed for large-scale connections and
message delivery.

BifroMQ has been incubating since 2025-04-22.

### 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:

  - [ ] (bifromq) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bifromq) Xiangdong Huang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bifromq) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bifromq) Penghui Li  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bifromq) Sheng Wu  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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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.
  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:

  - [ ] (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:  
  - [ ] (cloudberryAs of July, there are 34 podlings in incubation. Podlings executed 10 
releases during the month, and two IP clearances were completed. 
ResilientDB encountered difficulties in following the correct ASF release 
process.

Several new proposals were discussed, and one new podling, Blaze, entered 
incubation. Fory graduated last month, while Annotator and NLPCraft were 
retired by the IPMC. No changes were made to IPMC membership.

Only PonyMail failed to submit a report and will be asked to report next 
month. Given its repeated lapses, it may be time to revisit earlier 
discussions about the project’s future, as past conversations have not 
reached a clear consensus.

Several talks were given at Community Over Code Asia in the Incubator Track.

Discussion on the mailing list in July focused on releases, new projects 
and graduations, mentor involvement, clarification of ICLA requirements for 
non-committers, and further development of mentor onboarding and training 
materials, including scenario-based learning material for mentors and IPMC
members. There is concern about the lack of activity in HoraeDB.

Among the long-term podlings, Toree continues to make very gradual progress 
toward graduation, and the Livy PPMC is also moving forward slowly. All 
other long-running podlings have either graduated or retired.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - none

### People who left the IPMC:
  - none

## New Podlings
 - Blaze (renamed Auron)

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - PonyMail

## Graduations
  - Fory

  The board has motions for the following:
  - Teaclave
  - Training

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  July: 
  - Devlake 1.0.2
  - Fory 0.11.2
  - Gluten 1.4.0
  - Hertzbeat 1.7.2
  - KIE 10.1.0
  - Seata 2.4.0
  - Teaclave 0.5.1
  - Otava 0.6.1
  - Polaris 1.0.0
  - XTable 0.3.0

## IP Clearance
 - OpenDAL Reqsign
 - Spark Connect Rust

## Legal / Trademarks
- N/A

## Infrastructure
- N/A

## Table of Contents  
[BifroMQ](#bifromq)  
[Burr](#burr)  
[Cloudberry](#cloudberry)  
[DevLake](#devlake)  
[GeaFlow](#geaflow)  
[GraphAr](#graphar)  
[Hamilton](#hamilton)  
[HoraeDB](#horaedb)  
[KIE](#kie)  
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)  
[Seata](#seata)  
[Texera](#texera)  
[Toree](#toree)  
[Training](#training)  
[XTable](#xtable)  

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## BifroMQ

BifroMQ is a Java-based, high-performance, distributed MQTT broker with
native multi-tenancy support, designed for large-scale connections and
message delivery.

BifroMQ has been incubating since 2025-04-22.

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

  1. Complete the first incubator release
  2. Gain more public exposure and grow the community

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

  The signed documents for transferring the trademark have been accepted. 
  We are waiting for the process to be completed and for a copy of the
  ASF-stamped agreement, so we can complete the donation contract workflow.

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

  I attended Apache Community Over Code Asia and spoke at the Incubator 
  Track, making connections with potential users and adopters.

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

  * We are working toward a code freeze for the first incubator release
  * Updated the website with a detailed contribution guide in the community 
  section

### 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:    

   2025-02-25

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

  None since entering the incubator

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, we get helpful and timely guidance from the mentors

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

  The transfer of BifroMQ’s trademark is in progress.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (bifromq) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bifromq) Xiangdong Huang  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (bifromq) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bifromq) Penghui Li  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bifromq) Sheng Wu  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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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. Finish check list to be able to make a release
  2. Start releasing
  3. Enable more contributors

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

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  Flat. Discord continues to trickle in.
  One user wants to contribute a UI.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. One new feature was merged.
  2. Some PRs were merged for licensing etc. But still more work needed for 
  first release.

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

  - [X] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release <== here
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  May 2025

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Time for the committers has been an issue this summer to get through
  the checklist required to release under Apache.

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

  I think so. No issues thus far.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (burr) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (burr) Ayush Saxena  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (burr) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  Podling name is approved. We got it approved before setting 
     up ASF resources.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Cloudberry

Cloudberry is an advanced and mature open-source Massively Parallel
Processing (MPP) database, derived from the open-source version of Pivotal
Greenplum Database®️ but built on a more modern PostgreSQL 14 kernel,
whereas Greenplum is based on PostgreSQL 12. This upgrade brings enhanced
enterprise capabilities, making Cloudberry well-suited for data
warehousing, large-scale analytics, and AI/ML workloads.

Cloudberry has been incubating since 2024-10-11.

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

  1. Publish the first Apache release following ASF release processes.
  2. Grow the contributor and community to ensure long-term sustainability.

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

  We're working on the first ever Apache release. Hope to get enough
  reviews and binding votes when the first Release vote email is sent to the
  Incubator mailing list.

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

  - Mailing list Activity: 221 new emails on the Dev mailing list since the
  last report (98 emails in May, 60 emails in June and 63 emails in July),
  covering technical and Apache-related discussions.
  - Slack Activity: 15 new threads in `general` channel, 5 new members
  since last report.
  - GitHub Discussions: 16 new threads since last report (8 new in May, 5
  new in June, 3 new in July).
  - New Committers:
    - May 21, 2025 - Wenchao Zhang (zhangwenchao-123)
    - July 9, 2025 - Xun Gong (gongxun0928)
  - Events:
    - Community Over Code Asia 2025: six presentations on Cloudberry at
  this conference, covering AI, Data Warehouse, OLAP and Incubator tracks.
  There was one Cloudberry booth.
    - HOW2025: PostgreSQL & IvorySQL Eco Conference in Jinan, China: PPMC
  members Dianjin Wang and Max Yang attended this conference and introduced
  Apache Cloudberry to the audience.
    - 10-minute T3D session on Apache Cloudberry from PPMC Member Tushar
  Pednekar with the host Joshua Drake: https://youtu.be/0mPCoEXG0XU
    - PPMC member Tushar Pednekar had a presentation on Cloudberry + Flink
  at Flink Forward Asia, Singapore 2025:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9d572vOvNY
    - Presentation recording available at
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMYqOoE4p5A, by contributor @Leonid 
  Borchuk
  and PPMC Member @Kirill Reshke at the sql-ninja conference.

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

  - Compliance with ASF policy:
    - Renamed `greenplum_path` to `cloudberry-env.sh` for better compliance
  with ASF rules.
    - Updated Apache RAT license metadata for release.
    - Changed PAX's cpp-stub from submodule to subdir to avoid introducing
  binary files.
    - Changed Python modules for gpMgmt from bundling their source tarballs
  to downloading them during the build process via `pip3 install`.
  - Working on the first Apache Cloudberry (Incubating) 2.0.0 release:
    - Already had RC1 & RC2 rounds and fixed some license issues, will have
  an RC3 round for the dev vote and Apache Incubator vote.
  - PostgreSQL Kernel upgrade: the community developer has started the
  kernel upgrade work from PG 14.4 to PG 16.6.
  - 130 new commits to main branch since the last report, focusing on
  performance improvements, bug fixes and new features.
  - Ecosystem:
    - Apache SeaTunnel added official connector support for Apache
  Cloudberry in its latest 2.3.11 release (See https://s.apache.org/baj30).
    - Flink JDBC Connector v3.3.0+ now supports Cloudberry via PR
  https://s.apache.org/jt29r
  - Our GitHub main repo has reached 1k+ GitHub stars!

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

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

### Date of last release:

  N/A

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

  - May 21, 2025 - Wenchao Zhang (zhangwenchao-123)
  - July 9, 2025 - Xun Gong (gongxun0928)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, we can get suggestions and support on licensing and release matters.

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

  Yes.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (cloudberry) Roman Shaposhnik  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (cloudberry) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  PPMC is trying they best to cut the first release by 
     following ASF release policy.
  - [X] (cloudberry) Kent Yao  
     Comments:  The community is active

### 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 and attract more users. 
  2. Add more committers and PPMC members. 
  3. Maintain the project, fix bugs, and improve the user experience based 
  on the feedback from 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?

  1. 11 new contributors have joined the community (205 contributors in 
  total).
  2. 79 new community members in Slack (1640 in total). 
  3. 2 new committers were elected, and 2 PPMCs were elected.

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

  1. Support importing QA domain data via CSV templates. 
  2. Release a new ASF version 'v1.0.2'. 
  3. Bugfixes and UX refinement. 

### 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:

  With the help of our mentors, we have started the graduation process of 
  DevLake. We just finished the maturity analysis and will start the vote in
  our dev channel. Check details at:
  https://devlake.apache.org/community/maturity

### Date of last release:

   2025-07-02

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

   2025-06-25

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, the mentors helped tremendously throughout version releases and 
  community governance.

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

  Yes. There are no known brand and naming issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (devlake) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (devlake) Liang Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (devlake) Lidong Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (devlake) Sijie Guo  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (devlake) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  I would suggest to start discussion about graduation.
  - [X] (devlake) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
The project -is [a ]good (cloudberry)sharp Kent Yao  
     Comments:  

of graduation.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## DevLakeGeaFlow

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

DevLake streaming graph computing engine for distributed large-scale 
real-time graph storage and analysis. It supports trillion-level graph 
storage, hybrid graph and table processing, real-time/offline graph 
computing, and interactive graph analysis. 

GeaFlow has been incubating since 20222025-0406-2906.

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

  1. Release the first version.
  2.. Establish a well-defined community governance framework.
  3. Enhance the diversity of community (attracting more committers, 
  contributors, and users).
  4. Drive the community forward in accordance with the technial roadmap in 
  3issues.

### 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 have joined the community.
  2. Submit a task in OSPP(Open Source Promotion Plan)2025.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. Group id, documents and ASF configuration file updates.
  2. Some fixes by community developers.
  3. The feature development of the first release version.

### 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 are  XXXX-XX-XXactively preparing for the first release version.

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


### Have yourWhen mentorsthe beenincubator helpfulGeaFlow and responsive?
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### Signed-off-by:

  - [ X] (devlakegeaflow) Willem FelixNing CheungJiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (devlake) Liang Zhang  
     Comments:  Get started
  - [ X] (devlakegeaflow) LidongXin DaiWang  
     Comments:  
  - [ X] (devlakegeaflow) SijieJingsong GuoLee  
     Comments:  
  - [ X] (devlakegeaflow) Jean-BaptistePaul OnofréKing  
     Comments:  
  - [ X] (devlakegeaflow) WillemJustin NingMclean Jiang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## ForyGraphAr

AGraphAr blazingis fastan multiopen-source and language serialization framework powered by jit and
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for efficient graph data storage and retrieval.

GraphAr has been incubating since 20232024-1203-1525.

### 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?


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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 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:

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. Voted and accepted 1 new committer.
   2. Attend the OSPP 2025 activity with two projects.

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

   1. Merged 14 PRs since the last report
   2. Support WriterOption in SDK to allow users to configure writer options
  3. Support multi-property in GraphAr format and C++ SDK

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

  - [X] Initial setup
  - [ ] (fory)Working tisontowards first release
  - [X] Community Comments:  building
  - [ ] (fory) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fory) Yu Li  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fory) Xin Wang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fory) Enrico Olivelli  
     Comments:   Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2024-07-02

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

  2025-07-14 

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, the mentors are very helpful and responsive.

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

  There are no known brand and naming issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ X] (forygraphar) HaoCalvin DingKirs  
     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.
  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 [ ] (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. Finish check list to be able to make a release
  2. Start releasing
  3. Enable more contributors

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

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  Flat. Slack continues to trickle in.
  Non PPMC users contributed some code.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. We have many merged features that haven't been released.
  2. Some PRs were merged for licensing etc. Docs were updated.
  3. But still more work needed for first release.

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

  - [X] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release <== here
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  April 2025

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Time for the committers has been an issue this summer to get through
  the checklist required to release under Apache.

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

  I think so. No issues thus far.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation(hamilton) Kevin Ratnasekera  
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:
Comments:  
  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:

  - [ ] (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.
  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 [X] (hamilton) Ayush Saxena  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (hamilton) PJ Fanning  
     Comments: Podling name is approved. We got it approved before setting 
     up ASF resources.

### 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. Release more version
  2. Grow community(attract more users/committers)
  3. Finish the new metrics engine

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

  Several core developers have left the project, causing a slowdown in 
  development this year.
  We expect development to get back on track next year.

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

  Attend the OSPP 2025 with one project.

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

  There has been no significant progress 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
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2024-12-10

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

  Neo Chen, at 2024-12-25

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, they are helpful when release version and other trivial things.

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

  Yes, we're doing well with this.

  ### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] Working(horaedb) towardstison first release
   - [ ]Comments: 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:

  - [ ] (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?


(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. Continuing to build the community
  2. Removing dependencies which do not comply (almost there)
  3. Ensuring branding is correct

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

  No, we’re moving along well. Slowly, but still making progress.

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

  We have some new people submitting changes and are looking at add more to 
  the list of committers, but we would like them to be more active on the
  mailing lists besides just submitting code.

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


### How has the project developed since the last report?
  We're in the process of redirecting the old community sites to the new 
  Apache KIE website. We released 10.1.0 July 10th!

### 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:

  XXXX2025-XX07-XX10

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

  Start of the year

### 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 the report. The mentors are doing well.

### 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:

  - [ X] (horaedbkie) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (horaedb) Shaofeng ShiBrian Proffitt  
     Comments:  Thank you for the clarifications.
  - [ X] (horaedbkie) GangClaus LiIbsen  
     Comments:  
  - [ X] (horaedbkie) VonAndrea GoslingCosentino  
     Comments:  All good.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:     

  [PJF] GPL licensed source and libs (and similar Category X licenses) are 
  proving to be a major roadblock on the path to graduation.

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## KIESeata

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

KIESeata(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 2023-0110-1329.

### 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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## NLPCraft

A Java API for NLU applications

NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.

### 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:

  - [ ] (nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci before graduating:

  1. Complete the transfer of Seata's existing trademarks to the ASF.  
  2. Finalize pre-graduation discussions and address any remaining gaps in 
  required tasks.

### 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. 24 new code contributors have joined the community (596 contributors 
  in total)
  2. 5 new committers were elected, and 1 PPMC members were elected.
  3. We presented two sessions on Apache Seata at the CommunityOverCode 
  Asia conference and organized a face-to-face community meetup offline.
  4. We have finalized the Apache Seata (incubating) [Maturity Model 
  Assessment](https://seata.apache.org/docs/next/developers/maturity) and
  facilitated community-driven discussions.

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

  1. Since the last report, we've merged 194 PRs, which include over 10 new
  features.
  2. Since the last report, we have released two official versions: 2.4.0 
  and 2.5.0.
  3. Since the last report, we have addressed and disclosed two CVEs: 
  CVE-2025-32897 and CVE-2025-53606.

### 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:    

  2025-08-05    

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

  2025-08-06  

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive.

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

  No Trademark issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (seata) Sheng Wu  
     Comments:  Work on
  - [X] (seata) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (seata) Huxing Zhang  
     Comments:  The project is in good progress working towards graduation.
  - [X] (seata) Heng Du  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (seata) Xin Wang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  [PJF] Discussing Graduation

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## Texera

Texera is an open-source [system ]to (nlpcraft)support Evanscollaborative Yedata science, AI,
and ML using GUI-based workflows. Our Comments:vision is 
to develop -a [system ] (nlpcraft) Paul King  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik  
     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:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



--------------------
## 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?
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. Donate the codebase to Apache.
  2. Clean up parts in the codebase that are conflicting with Apache
  3. Set up the Apache Texera webpage http://texera.apache.org/. Work is 
  underway to consolidate user guides, developer setup instructions, and
  governance policies. We are analyzing the documentation structures of
  successful projects like Apache Flink and Spark to ensure an optimal user
  experience.

### 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?

  * August 02, 2025: We have completed the SGA form. It has been submitted 
  and documented by Apache. We are ready to donate codebase now!
  * July 30, 2025: We conducted our monthly group sync meeting with the 
  PPMC members, committers, and contributors.
  * July 31, 2025: Zuozhi Wang joined as a PPMC member.
  * We have engaged in significant community outreach and educational 
  activities this month, increasing the users, including 17 undergraduate
  students, 34 students from high schools and community colleges, and 32
  middle school students.
  * Texera has been deployed and used for research at the UCI Department of 
  Ophthalmology.

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

  * Cloud Deployment: Texera now runs on AWS EKS with better resource 
  management.
  * Machine Learning: Added scikit-learn training operators.
  * UI Enhancements: Dynamic workflow setup and richer port-level metrics.
  * Performance: Faster Texera Hub resource access.
  * Docs: New tutorial videos in the works.

### 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:    

  2025-04-04 (non ASF)

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

  The PPMC voted to add a new member on July 4 2025.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, our mentors were highly responsive and joined our meetings. We thank 
  PJ for guiding us on the SGA form. We also thank Ian for his help with his
  experience from Apache AsterixDB.

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (texera) Cezar Andrei  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (texera) Gordon King  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (texera) PJ Fanning  
     Comments: SGA is now accepted by ASF Secretary and Git repo has been 
     moved to ASF
  - [ ] (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?

  Slow activity with discussions about 0.6 release before merging
  Scala 2.13 support. Having said that, actions started and slowed down.

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


### How hasFew theprs projectand developedactivity sincearound the last report?
release started

### 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:

  XXXX2022-XX04-XX11

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


 members elected?

  - Cheng Pan was added to the PPMC on 2023-08-28

### 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. None

### 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? HasNo the VP, Brand approved the project name?trademark issues

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ X] (texeratoree) CezarLuciano AndreiResende  
     Comments:  
The podling -should [push ]for (texera)release Gordonand Kingstart graduation 
     Comments:  process
  - [ ] (texeratoree) PJRyan FanningBlue  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (texeratoree) IanWeiwei MaxonYang  
     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 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.

A graduation discussion has been started at
https://lists.apache.org/thread/5d87do2wl6yxvgt6kxwx6b90p7zb8dro
and there's a vote underway for graduation.

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

  1.
  2Nothing.
 We 3.

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


are ready to graduate.

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


###  HowWe hashave thedetermined projectto developedgraduate. sincePlease thesee last report?
link above.

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

  - [ ] Initial setupX] Ready for graduation

### Date of last release:

  -While [we ]have Workingdone towardsa firstformal release, this is more of a content-producing 
  project, rather than releasing software -artifacts. [The ]most Communityrecent buildingcontent
  artifact was an -update [to ]the NearingAirflow graduation
presentation, which -lives [at
 ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XXhttps://training.apache.org/presentations/airflow/index.html#/table-of-conte
  nts

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


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are
 things fallingMentors throughhave thebeen cracks?very Ifhelpful so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressedand 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?

  Yes. Since our name is "Training", which is generic, we use the full 
  "Apache Training", which is unique and protected by the ASF name. We have
  passed a name search.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (toreetraining) LucianoCraig ResendeRussell  
     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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## 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?
training) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (training) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (training) Lars Francke  
     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. Ironing out license issues with bundled jars for new features. This is 
  becoming increasingly relevant as we add new modules for integrations with
  other projects and for our own REST service that allows
  2. Strengthening community building by actively engaging with users.
  3. Removing dependency on Spark for our project. This dependency adds 
  friction for users and makes it harder to quickly build and run the project.

### 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. We have been collaborating with the Polaris community to provide a 
  conversion service that their catalog service can use to convert metadata
  between table formats.
  2.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. A REST Service was added so that users can run the project as a long 
  running service and call an endpoint to perform the conversion. This will
  help users more easily integrate with the project, especially when callers
  are not in the Java ecosystem.
  2. We release 0.3.0 which includes the ability to sync tables to catalogs 
  in multiple table formats. The sync to a catalog was required for users to
  query their data in the table format of their choice and helps
  operationalize this data.

### 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:

  XXXX2025-XX06-XX05

### 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 members elected?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
nameFeb 2024

### Have your mentors been helpful and brandresponsive?
 If not what actions has No answer.

### Is the PPMC takenmanaging to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?the podling's brand / trademarks?
  No answer.

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  [PJF] Mailing list traffic remains low. It seems like most of the 
  interactions happen in GitHub.