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Timeline

Wed December 02	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun December 06	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun December 06	Summary due by end of day
Tue December 08	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed December 09	Report submitted to Board
Wed December 16	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Dave Fisher	Samoa
Dave Fisher	Toree
Drew Farris	Spot
Drew Farris	brpc
Justin Mclean	Nemo
P. Taylor Goetz	Crail
P. Taylor Goetz	Daffodil
P. Taylor Goetz	Liminal
Timothy Chen	Annotator
Timothy Chen	Hivemall
Timothy Chen	Livy

Incubator PMC report for December 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 narrative

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 November:

AGE

AGE is a multi-model database that enables graph and relational models built on PostgreSQL.

AGE has been incubating since 2020-04-29.

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:

(age) Kevin Ratnasekera Comments:
(age) Von Gosling Comments:
(age) Raphael Bircher Comments:
(age) Felix Cheung Comments:

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) Tommaso Teofili Comments:

BlueMarlin

BlueMarlin will develop a web service to add intelligence functionality to a plain ad system.

BlueMarlin has been incubating since 2020-06-09.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

DL-based performance forecasting
DL-based spend recommendation
DL-based Inventory allocation

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?

The following features were added to predictor_dl_model:

We added new features of user residency and user IPL (IP location).
We added pipeline and product tags to config file. Config file has placeholders to resolve the names of intermediate tables instead of having user to fill them up.
We pushed model-stats into Hive instead of Elasticsearch. This makes the pipeline to create one set of coherent tables that are associates with a pipeline run instead of having the artifacts into different types of data storage.

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:

2020-10-15: DL-predicator released (alpha v1.0)

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:

(bluemarlin) Craig Russell Comments:
(bluemarlin) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments:
(bluemarlin) Von Gosling Comments:
(bluemarlin) Junping Du Comments:
(bluemarlin) Uma Maheswara Rao G Comments:

brpc

brpc is an industrial-grade RPC framework for building reliable and high- performance services.

brpc has been incubating since 2018-11-13.

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:

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:

(brpc) Kevin A. McGrail Comments:
(brpc) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments:
(brpc) Von Gosling Comments:

Crail

Crail is a storage platform for sharing performance

critical data in distributed data processing jobs at

very high speed.

Crail has been incubating since 2017-11-01.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Grow developers community
Convincing use cases
Steady release cycles

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

How has the community developed since the last report?

We got one new contributors. We are looking forward to see him applying as a committer.

How has the project developed since the last report?

A new contributor was working in the field of adding elasticity.

Elastic scaling is a needed pre-requisite to use Apache Crail as

an efficient ephemeral data store for serverless frameworks.

We expect pull requests for code integration in the coming weeks.

With added elasticity, a new release would be due.

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?

December 4th, 2018

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, our mentors have been supportive and responsive.

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

There are no known cases of a 3rd party podling name/brand incorrect use.

Podling name search has been completed - see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-138

Signed-off-by:

(crail) Julian Hyde Comments:
(crail) Luciano Resende Comments:
(crail) Felix Cheung Comments:

Daffodil

Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.

Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Increase community growth and participation beyond Owl (main priority)
Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provide extra functionality
Continue frequent release schedule

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?

Pull requests merged from three first-time contributors (one non-Owl)
Continued involvement in mailing lists
- dev: 167 emails sent by 22 people, divided into 43 topics, 49 subscribers (+17)
- users: 14 emails sent by 5 people, divided into 9 topics, 59 subscribers (+16)
Owl is continuing to encourage other companies with known Daffodil interests to make public contributions and increase involvement
Smooks (https://www.smooks.org) 2.0.0-M2 has been released with Daffodil integration

How has the project developed since the last report?

Released Daffodil 3.0.0
44 commits merged from 10 different contributors
55 issues created, 54 issues resolved
Changes include SAX support, ability to stream data larger than available memory, reduced memory usage, improved diagnostics, and numerous bug fixes
Upcoming changes include support for parser/unparser code generation and improved validation with new APIs and plugability

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?

2020-06-15 - John Interrante (PPMC)
2019-11-26 - Olabusayo Kilo (Committer)
2019-06-20 - Brandon Sloane (PPMC)

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, recently helped to find a third mentor which should help the release process.

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

No known cases of a 3rd party incorrectly using the Daffodil name/brand
Podling name search has been completed and approved by Brand Management Committee: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-147

Signed-off-by:

(daffodil) Dave Fisher Comments:
(daffodil) Christofer Dutz Comments:
(daffodil) Kevin Ratnasekera Comments:

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:

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:

Hop is short for the Hop Orchestration Platform. Written completely in Java it aims to provide a wide range of data orchestration tools, including a visual development environment, servers, metadata analysis, auditing services and so on. As a platform, Hop also wants to be a reusable library so that it can be easily reused by other software.

Hop has been incubating since 2020-09-24.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

identify and resolve the last remaining incompatibly licensed dependencies (if any)
create a first release
grow the community

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

No known significant issues at this moment

How has the community developed since the last report?

2 additional committers, committers are increasingly active
9 new registered chat members (99 -> 108)
21 subscribers to dev, 11 to user mailing list
significant follower growth on social media, mainly on LinkedIn (+46) and Twitter (+15)

How has the project developed since the last report?

After JIRA and the website, code and documentation repositories have been migrated.
For the code migration, a copyright header related fix was required, which was delivered and accepted.
All existing builds have been recreated and updated to run on ASF Jenkins
new functionality has been created (new transform and action plugins, UI updates and more)
significant documentation updates
discussion of and preparation for a first release (0.50) has started

Full details are available in the November monthly roundup: https://hop.apache.org/blog/2020/12/roundup-2020-12/

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:

No releases so far

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2020-11-18

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

We have mainly been working on infrastructure and or software items over the last month. Mentor input will become more important now we've started working towards a first release. Julian Hyde regularly checks in and provides valuable input.

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

There are no known brand and naming issues. The PPMC only uses "Apache Hop (Incubating)" as the official project name and has explicitly called "Project Hop" deprecated as of the moment of acceptance in the Incubator.

Signed-off-by:

(hop) Tom Barber Comments:
(hop) Julian Hyde Comments: Plenty of work on features, good cooperation on dev list, appointing the first committers since incubation, and pushing hard for the first release. Hop is doing great.
(hop) Maximilian Michels Comments:
(hop) Francois Papon Comments:
(hop) Kevin Ratnasekera Comments: Significant progress has been made through out past time period, with related to first release and community growth.

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

IoTDB

IoTDB is a data store for managing large amounts of time series data such as timestamped data from IoT sensors in industrial applications.

IoTDB has been incubating since 2018-11-18.

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:

(iotdb) Justin Mclean Comments:
(iotdb) Christofer Dutz Comments:
(iotdb) Willem Ning Jiang Comments:
(iotdb) Kevin A. McGrail Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Liminal

Apache Liminal is an end-to-end platform for data engineers and scientists, allowing them to build, train and deploy machine learning models in a robust and agile way.

Liminal has been incubating since 2020-05-23.

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:

(liminal) Jean-Baptiste Onofre Comments:
(liminal) Henry Saputra Comments:
(liminal) Uma Maheswara Rao G Comments:
(liminal) Davor Bonaci Comments:
(liminal) Liang Chen 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:

Start preparing towards graduation

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

Apache Livy is a stable project that is used widely in conjuction with Apache Spark. It seems to have met its project goals and there is not much active development going on as a result. 2020 may definitely not be the best year for community activity and Livy certainly seems to have taken a hit on this aspect. Seeking guidance from the IPMC/Board on what could be next steps for the project. Its not very active but at the same time its not a defunct/unused project.

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:

2020-01-07

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2019-01-22

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) Luciano Resende Comments:
(livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofre Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Marvin-AI

Marvin-AI is an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform that helps data scientists, prototype and productionalize complex solutions with a scalable, low-latency, language-agnostic, and standardized architecture while simplifies the process of exploration and modeling.

Marvin-AI has been incubating since 2018-08-21.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Increase activity from current contributors and community.
Finish the new version of Toolbox.
Release a new version.

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?

We have expanded "Marvin-lab" at the university and several postgraduate students in the artificial intelligence field are using marvin as their research tool.

We had an online meeting to discuss architectural approaches, we also found out about new members joining the community, some of them are utilizing the platform in their companies.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Minor bug fix;
Last adjustments on the new toolbox version;
Preliminary version of AutoML wrapper (Marvin AutoML);
Organization of the structure of a documentation for the new toolbox;
Architectural discussions on dev mailing list and online meeting about integrating TFX and Apache Beam.

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:

2019-07-18

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Wei Chen added as new PPMC member (2019-06-07)

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes.

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

Yes.

Signed-off-by:

(marvin-ai) Luciano Resende Comments:
(marvin-ai) William Colen Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Nemo

Nemo is a data processing system to flexibly control the runtime behaviors of a job to adapt to varying deployment characteristics.

Nemo has been incubating since 2018-02-04.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Address a few remaining items in the Apache Project Maturity model
Grow the community
Create another release

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?

Attracted new contributions
Actively involved in addressing the items in the Apache Project Maturity model
Applied the project for a global-scale streaming system

How has the project developed since the last report?

Release 0.3 in progress
Improved streaming support in Nemo
Added combiners in streaming
Added in-process data communication optimization
Made Nemo run on geo-distributed datacenters
Dynamic task scheduling in progress

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:

2020-03-06 (Release 0.2)

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

February 27, 2020

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.

Our mentors have been helpful and responsive.

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

Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

The PPMC manages the podling's brand / trademarks.

Signed-off-by:

(nemo) Hyunsik Choi Comments:
(nemo) Byung-Gon Chun Comments:
(nemo) Jean-Baptiste Onofre Comments:
(nemo) Markus Weimer Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

SAMOA

SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the most common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification, clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop new algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines (DSPEs). It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on several DSPEs such as Apache Storm, Apache S4, and Apache Samza.

SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Revitalize the project by resuming development
Enlarge the user base and contributing community

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?

Mailing list activity:
@dev: 14 messages

How has the project developed since the last report?

We are working in an implementation of adaptive random forests.

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:

2020-04-23

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

August 2019

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, the mentors have been helpful and responsive.

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

Yes. There are no 3rd parties incorrectly using the podling‘s name and brand for now.

Signed-off-by:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Spot

Apache Spot is a platform for network telemetry built on an open data model and Apache Hadoop.

Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23.

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:

(spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

StreamPipes

StreamPipes is a self-service (Industrial) IoT toolbox to enable non- technical users to connect, analyze and explore (Industrial) IoT data streams.

StreamPipes has been incubating since 2019-11-11.

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?