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Timeline

Wed January 01	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun January 05	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun January 05	Summary due by end of day
Tue January 07	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed January 08	Report submitted to Board
Wed January 15	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Dave Fisher	Hudi
Dave Fisher	TubeMQ
Drew Farris	Annotator
Drew Farris	TVM
Justin Mclean	Weex
P. Taylor Goetz	Gobblin
P. Taylor Goetz	StreamPipes
P. Taylor Goetz	Taverna
Timothy Chen	DLab
Timothy Chen	Iceberg
Timothy Chen	Livy
	APISIX
	DolphinScheduler
	Flagon
	MXNet
	Milagro
	Myriad
	NuttX
	Pony Mail
	Teaclave

Incubator PMC report for January 2020

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 arrative

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 December:

Credits

Table of Contents Annotator
APISIX
DLab
Flagon
Gobblin
Hudi
Iceberg
Livy
Milagro
MXNet
Myriad
NuttX
PonyMail
Taverna
Teaclave
TubeMQ
TVM
Weex

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:

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:

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) Steve Blackmon
Comments:
(annotator) Tommaso Teofili
Comments:

APISIX

APISIX is a cloud-native microservices API gateway, delivering the ultimate performance, security, open source and scalable platform for all your APIs and microservices.

APISIX is based on Nginx and etcd. Compared with traditional API gateways, APISIX has dynamic routing and plug-in hot loading, which is especially suitable for API management under micro-service system.

APISIX has been incubating since 2019-10-17.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

More Apache Releases and more committers act as release manager to release a version.
More committers and PPMC members.
Branding issues in the documentation, code, website, etc.

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

None

How has the community developed since the last report?

We have some talks about the best practices of high-performance API gateway on COSCon 2019, Dec 8th and OpenTalk, Dec 8th.
We have solved the Apache APISIX major brand issues in documentation, code, website, etc.
We have 13 committers and 50 contributors (including 13 committers) contributing to Apache APISIX.
Over 19 company users have announced that they are using APISIX and more than 50% of them also submitted code or fixed the documentation for APISIX : https://github.com/apache/incubator-apisix/issues/487

How has the project developed since the last report?

The project has been quite health, with more than 29 pull requests, 25 of them have being merged in December. These pull requests are authored by a diverse set of contributors. We also suggest and guide users from QQ group to make issues at Apache APISIX mailing list, which is helpful for people who have the same issue and tracking bugs.

This month's Pull Request is mainly divided into three aspects:

Fixing Apache APISIX bug.
Supporting more configuration items and optimizing the experience on Apache APISIX Dashboard.
Supplement Apache APISIX function manual

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:

Mon Nov 25 2019 (0.9)

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

At Nov 28 2019 PPMC members elected a new commiter @lilien1010 who worked for HelloTalk.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Mentors are responsive and helpful. Things tend to be on the right way.

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

Yes, We keep tracking podling's brand / trademarks.

Signed-off-by:

(apisix) Willem Ning Jiang Comments:
(apisix) Justin Mclean Comments:
(apisix) Kevin Ratnasekera Comments:
(apisix) Von Gosling Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

DLab

DLab is a platform for creating self-service, exploratory data science environments in the cloud using best-of-breed data science tools.

DLab has been incubating since 2018-08-20.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Come up with a new name for DLab.
Extend the amount of committers.
After release 2.2 is made, the team will have to do major refactoring of the code, updating of product documentation, which might potentially slow down the process of releasing version 2.3.

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

No issues.

How has the community developed since the last report?

Following committers have been added:

Mykola Bodnar (ICLA file was signed off and submitted in previous Sep 2019 report and Apache ID was created later on September 12th, 2019)
Dmytro Gnatyshyn

How has the project developed since the last report?

The team has released v.2.2 and now it is working on release v.2.3
Web site was created and moved to apache servers

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:

2019-10-12

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

The last committer was elected on December 2, 2019.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes our mentors are super helpful. We do receive answers to all our questions timely. Special thanks for Furkan, who was super helpful and provided the majority of responses.

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

Out team has finally chosen a name. We'll soon create for a JIRA ticket for Podling name search. If no conflict found (preliminary there are zero conflicts), we'll have to reflect this in our codebase/documentation in upcoming release.

Signed-off-by:

(dlab) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments:
(dlab) Henry Saputra
Comments:
(dlab) Konstantin I Boudnik
Comments:
(dlab) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Flagon

Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform

Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
(flagon) David Meikle
Comments:
(flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
(flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Gobblin

Gobblin is a distributed data integration framework that simplifies common aspects of big data integration such as data ingestion, replication, organization and lifecycle management for both streaming and batch data ecosystems.

Gobblin has been incubating since 2017-02-23.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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?

84% of commits were from non-committer contributors. (Active contributors are being discussed for being voted as committers)
Healthy engagement and activity of committers and contributors.
Email stats since last report: user@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 23 dev@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 2010
There have been 94 Commits since last report: git log --format='%ci' | grep -cE '((2019-1(0|1|2)))'
79 ie. 84% of those commits were by non-committers: git log --format='%ae %ci' | grep -E '((2019-1(0|1|2)))' | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

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:

2018-12-09

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Sudarshan Vasudevan in January, 2019. (Active contributors are being discussed for being voted as committers)

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes.

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:

(gobblin) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
Comments:
(gobblin) Olivier Lamy
Comments:
(gobblin) Jim Jagielski
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Hudi

Hudi provides atomic upserts and incremental data streams on Big Data

Hudi has been incubating since 2019-01-17.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(hudi) Thomas Weise
Comments:
(hudi) Luciano Resende
Comments:
(hudi) Kishore Gopalakrishnan
Comments:
(hudi) Suneel Marthi
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Iceberg

Iceberg is a table format for large, slow-moving tabular data.

Iceberg has been incubating since 2018-11-16.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(iceberg) Ryan Blue
Comments:
(iceberg) Julien Le Dem
Comments:
(iceberg) Owen O'Malley
Comments:
(iceberg) James Taylor
Comments:
(iceberg) Carl Steinbach
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Livy

Livy is web service that exposes a REST interface for managing long running Apache Spark contexts in your cluster. With Livy, new applications can be built on top of Apache Spark that require fine grained interaction with many Spark contexts.

Livy has been incubating since 2017-06-05.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(livy) Bikas Saha
Comments:
(livy) Brock Noland
Comments:
(livy) Luciano Resende
Comments:
(livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Milagro

Milagro is core security infrastructure and crypto libraries for decentralized networks and distributed systems.

Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(milagro) Nick Kew
Comments:
(milagro) Jean-Frederic Clere
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

MXNet

A Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep Learning

MXNet has been incubating since 2017-01-23.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(mxnet) Henri Yandell
Comments:
(mxnet) Markus Weimer
Comments:
(mxnet) Michael Wall
Comments:
(mxnet) Bob Paulin
Comments:
(mxnet) Jason Dai
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Myriad

Myriad enables co-existence of Apache Hadoop YARN and Apache Mesos together on the same cluster and allows dynamic resource allocations across both Hadoop and other applications running on the same physical data center infrastructure.

Myriad has been incubating since 2015-03-01.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(myriad) Benjamin Hindman
Comments:
(myriad) Ted Dunning
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

NuttX

NuttX is a mature, real-time embedded operating system (RTOS).

NuttX has been incubating since 2019-12-09.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(nuttx) Junping Du
Comments:
(nuttx) Justin Mclean
Comments:
(nuttx) Mohammad Asif Siddiqui
Comments:
(nuttx) Flavio Paiva Junqueira
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

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) Sharan Foga
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Taverna

Taverna is a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute data-driven workflows.

Taverna has been incubating since 2014-10-20.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(taverna) Stian Soiland-Reyes
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Teaclave

Teaclave is a universal secure computing platform.

Teaclave has been incubating since 2019-08-20.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(teaclave) Felix Cheung
Comments:
(teaclave) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
(teaclave) Jianyong Dai
Comments:
(teaclave) Luciano Resende
Comments:
(teaclave) Matt Sicker
Comments:
(teaclave) Zhijie Shen
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

TubeMQ

TubeMQ is a distributed messaging queue (MQ) system.

TubeMQ has been incubating since 2019-11-03.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(tubemq) Junping Du
Comments:
(tubemq) Justin Mclean
Comments:
(tubemq) Sijie Guo
Comments:
(tubemq) Zhijie Shen
Comments:
(tubemq) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

TVM

TVM is a full stack open deep learning compiler stack for CPUs, GPUs, and specialized accelerators. It aims to close the gap between the productivity- focused deep learning frameworks, and the performance- or efficiency- oriented hardware backends.

TVM has been incubating since 2019-03-06.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Keep growing the community
Make a few more Apache releases
Improve documentations

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?

TVM community has welcomed two new committers/PPMC members since last report. There are also two on-going new committer nomination that will close in a week. The community hosted many meetups and an annual developer conference with more than 200+ attendees. These contents are made publically available as per apache way.

This has been a great year for us doing the Apache way and grow the community. The community has grown 70% in terms of number of contributors and committers, while these statistics do not necessarily indicate success, they suggest we are on the right track.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We made our first Apache release. Thanks to the help of IPMC members, in particular Justin, we were able to hold the Apache standard and release without using the WIP disclaimer

A lot of improvements have been made. Including TensorCore support, embedded system support and performance improvements

See also our monthly report for detailed improvements

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:

2019-12-1

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Dec 1 2019

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Our mentors are super helpful.

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

We have yet check with the VP. Given the long history of the project, we want to keep the name, will reach out to brand formally.

Signed-off-by:

(tvm) Byung-Gon Chun
Comments: Great progress! Good job on the first Apache release!
(tvm) Sebastian Schelter
Comments:
(tvm) Henry Saputra
Comments:
(tvm) Timothy Chen
Comments:
(tvm) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
(tvm) Tianqi Chen
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Weex

Weex is a framework for building Mobile cross-platform high performance UI.

Weex has been incubating since 2016-11-30.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Branding issues. There are about 10 git repos violating the trademark of Apache Weex, together with their NPM/Maven artifact.
Community diversity. Apache Weex needs more PPMCs and committers from community, no employees from a single company shall have majority vote in PPMC and committer.

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?

Four Committers joined us, excalibur, tw93, cnryb and teining.
The project weex-ui join us.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Released a new version (v0.28.0) of Weex.
We have 135 incoming pull request, and 132 of them are merged.
We have 57 threads in Weex mailing list .
We have solved 135 Github issues.

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:

We are collecting a list of branding issues, and we shall fix the problem one by one.
We have not done Podling name search.

Signed-off-by:

(weex) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
(weex) Myrle Krantz
Comments:
(weex) Jan Piotrowski
Comments:

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