Incubator PMC report for April 2020

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 March:

IP Clearance

Legal / Trademarks

Infrastructure

Miscellaneous

Credits

Table of Contents
Annotator
APISIX
DLab
Flagon
Gobblin
Hivemall
Hudi
Iceberg
Livy
Milagro
MXNet
NLPCraft
NuttX
Pony Mail
Teaclave
TubeMQ
TVM
Weex
YuniKorn

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:

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:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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 has been incubating since 2019-10-17.

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:

•  (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:

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:

•  (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?

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:

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

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Hivemall

Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.

Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.

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:

•  (hivemall) Daniel Dai
  Comments:
•  (hivemall) Koji Sekiguchi
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

PonyMail

Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms.

Annotator has been incubating since 2016-05-27.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Grow community
2. Work on release scheduled

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

How has the community developed since the last report?

The project is discussing graduating from the incubator. Feedback is positive, and we are drafting a resolution to the fact.

How has the project developed since the last report?

See above.

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:

2019-04-20

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Sebastian Bazley was added as committer on 2017-06-10

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?

All good here.

Signed-off-by:

•  (ponymail) Sharan Foga Comments:
•  (ponymail) John D Ament 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:

1. Project is ready to graduate from incubator.

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. 683 conversations on dev ML across 130 topics [1]
2. 75 participants during this period

How has the project developed since the last report?

1. ~180 Commits in gitbox [2]
2. ~260 issues opened on Jira [3]. ~140 issues resolved in Jira [4]
3. Hudi 0.5.1 released on Jan 31, 2020
4. Hudi 0.5.2 released on March 26, 2020
5. Work in progress for Hudi 0.6.0 planned for Apr 2020.
6. 1 new committer - Sivabalan Narayanan
7. 2 new PPMCs - Leesf, Vino Yang
8. Completed the Apache Maturity Matrix for the project [5]
9. Apache Hudi talk at Hadoop Summit Bangalore [6]
10. Apache Hudi & Apache Kylin Online Meetup, China [7] [8]

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

1. The project now has a diverse developer and user community, and excellent community traction.
2. The project’s committers and PPMC members are drawn from diverse places - Tencent, Uber, Confluent, Snowflake, Lyft, Shopify, Double Verify.
3. Apache Hudi is being used across various industries for creating data lakes and also for managing Machine Learning feature stores.
   • AWS, Alibaba, Uber, Tencent, Kyligence, EMIS Health, Tathastu.ai, Logical Clocks

•  Initial setup
•  Working towards first release
•  Community building
•  Nearing graduation
•  Other:

Date of last release:

2020-03-26 Apache Hudi-incubating 0.5.2 Release 2020-01-31 Apache Hudi-incubating 0.5.1 Release

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Sivabalan Narayanan was made committer on Feb 15, 2020 Vino Yang and Leesf were added to PPMC on Feb 15, 2020

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, very helpful

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

Yes.

Signed-off-by:

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

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

[1] https://lists.apache.org/trends.html?dev@hudi.apache.org:lte=3M [2] git log --since="2019-12-25" --no-merges | grep -e 'commit [a-zA-Z0-9]*' | wc -l [3] project = HUDI AND created >= 2019-12-25 AND created <=now() [4] project = HUDI AND status = Closed AND status changed to Closed DURING ("2019/12/25",now()) [5] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HUDI/Apache+Hudi+Maturity+Matrix [6]https://www.slideshare.net/SyedKather/building-robust-cdc-pipeline-with-apache-hudi-and-debezium [7] https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dmH2kWJF69PNdifPp37QBgjivOHaSLDn [8] https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Pk_WdFxfEZxMMfAOn0R8-m3ALkcN6G9e

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:

1. Launch the first Apache release.
2. Grow community
3. Make development document more easily to read

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 are applying TubeMQ to the actual environment, at this stage we have discovered and fixed some bugs; at the same time, we are learning and preparing for the first release. It is expected that in the next stage we will release the first release

How has the project developed since the last report?

Near the first Apache release launch.

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:

None

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Aloys Zhang was added as committer on 2020-02-20

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes.

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

Yes, all good here.

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:

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:

1. Branding issues. There are about 10 git repos violating the trademark of Apache Weex, together with their NPM/Maven artifact.
2. 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?

NO

How has the project developed since the last report?

• We have 14 incoming pull request, and 8 of them are merged.
• We have 5 threads in Weex mailing list .
• We have solved 21 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:

Date of last release:

2019-10-23

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2019-12-05

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, they are very helpful.

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?

No. We are collecting a list of branding issues, and we shall fix the problem one by one.

Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

No yet. We have not done Podling name search.

Signed-off-by:

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

IPMC/Shepherd notes: