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Timeline

Wed August 04	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun August 08	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun August 08	Summary due by end of day
Tue August 10	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed August 11	Report submitted to Board
Wed August 18	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Dave Fisher	Milagro
Dave Fisher	Tuweni
Drew Farris	Annotator
Drew Farris	BlueMarlin
Justin Mclean	Pony Mail
P. Taylor Goetz	EventMesh
P. Taylor Goetz	Liminal
P. Taylor Goetz	Teaclave
Timothy Chen	Flagon
Timothy Chen	PageSpeed
Timothy Chen	Pinot
	DataLab
	Doris
	Heron
	InLong
	Livy
	MXNet
	NLPCraft
	NuttX
	Pegasus
	SDAP
	Sedona
	ShenYu
	Toree
	Training
	YuniKorn

Incubator PMC report for August 2021

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 August:

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:
(annotator) Benjamin Young 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:

Finalize bootstrap of the project (move existing issues to github, etc)
Review all files (ASF headers, ...)
Prepare a first release

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

No real issue, but the bootstrap is very very slow.

How has the community developed since the last report?

No really community development, the project bootstrap is still on the way.

How has the project developed since the last report?

The bootstrap is very slow. JB (mentor) proposed several calls with the team. A new meeting is planned to move forward. The initial team should be more involved and take lead on some tasks.

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:

(bluemarlin) Craig Russell Comments:
(bluemarlin) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments: I do my best to move forward, but the team should take lead and have the willing to move forward.
(bluemarlin) Von Gosling Comments:
(bluemarlin) Junping Du Comments:
(bluemarlin) Uma Maheswara Rao G Comments:

DataLab

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

DataLab has been incubating since 2018-08-20.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Finish preparing all artifacts necessary for graduation

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?

We have a new committer (Iana Redko).

How has the project developed since the last report?

We are working towards the release 2.5.0
Migration to Py3 (done)
Localization (done)
Augment an administrative page (done)
Implement possibility of GPU usage for Jupyter, Dataproc and Data Engine (standalone cluster) on GCP (done)
Support specific python versions via virtual environments for all notebooks and compute resources (except Data Engine Service and DeepLearning) (done)
Update third-party software (done)
Bug fixing (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: working towards next release

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

The last committer was elected on June 21, 2021.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, our mentors are very helpful and responsive.

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

There are no known brand and naming issues. New name was approved and our team changed all references to DLab that are publicly accessible to DataLab.

Signed-off-by:

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

Doris

Doris is a MPP-based interactive SQL data warehousing for reporting and analysis.

Doris has been incubating since 2018-07-18.

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:

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:

(doris) Willem Ning Jiang Comments:
(doris) Shao Feng Shi Comments:
(doris) Ming Wen Comments:

EventMesh

EventMesh is a dynamic cloud-native basic service runtime used to decouple the application and middleware layer.

EventMesh has been incubating since 2021-02-18.

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:

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:

(eventmesh) Francois Papon Comments:
(eventmesh) Junping Du Comments:
(eventmesh) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments:
(eventmesh) Justin Mclean Comments:
(eventmesh) Von Gosling Comments:

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:

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:

Heron

A real-time, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine.

Heron has been incubating since 2017-06-23.

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:

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:

(heron) Jake Farrell Comments:
(heron) Julien Le Dem Comments:
(heron) P. Taylor Goetz Comments:
(heron) Dave Fisher Comments:
(heron) Ming Wen Comments:
(heron) Kevin Ratnasekera Comments:

InLong

InLong is a one-stop data streaming platform that provides automatic, secure, distributed, and efficient data publishing and subscription capabilities.

This platform helps you easily build stream-based data applications. is a distributed messaging queue (MQ) system.

InLong has been incubating since 2019-11-03.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1.Improve and optimize the system to solve the system shortboard

2.Promote the system, to let more people use and participate in the community

3.Building a diverse community with open governance.

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?

3+ new contributors participate in the community since the last report(currently: 56)
Held 1 online meetup to discuss the renamed project architecture and goals.
InLong history issues have migrate from JIRA to GitHub Issues successfully, include all issues status.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Improve the ease of deployment and documentation quality.
Refactor the submodules to be more unified.
Develop the issues for next release.

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?

The last PPMC was elected on on 2020-12-15

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, our mentors are very helpful and responsive.

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

Yes, all good here.

Signed-off-by:

(inlong) Junping Du Comments:
(inlong) Justin Mclean Comments:
(inlong) Sijie Guo Comments:
(inlong) Zhijie Shen Comments:
(inlong) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments:

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:

Grow developers community.
Adoption of the project by a few companies.
More releases - provide out-of-the-box usability for common use-cases.

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 released V 0.0.2 with seamless integration with AWS + we are working on a joint blogpost with the AWS technical team on using Liminal with MWAA. We got accepted to present Liminal in both ApacheCon and ApacheCon Asia 2021. We are going to present in August in 2 public companies, hoping to attract them to join the community effort.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We have released V 0.0.2 and going to release in August v 0.0.3 - a major milestone to Liminal, containing out-of-the-box functionality to run an ML pipeline locally and in AWS, using Airflow, Kubernetes & Spark.

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:

2021-04-20

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

NA

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. J.B. and Davor have been super helpful in approving the second release and assist with any issue raised.

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? NA

Signed-off-by:

(liminal) Jean-Baptiste Onofré 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:

Cut a new release
Fill maturity matrix
Discuss about graduation

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

No real issue, the podling is mature, and I think we can discuss about graduation.

How has the community developed since the last report?

Several messages have been seen showing an interest for the podling.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Not a lot of activity as the podling is mature.

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) Luciano Resende Comments:
(livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments: I think the podling (in term of features) is mature, so, moving forward to new release and graduation would make sense.

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) Markus Weimer Comments:
(mxnet) Bob Paulin Comments:
(mxnet) Jason Dai Comments:
(mxnet) Furkan Kamaci Comments:
(mxnet) Zhenxu Ke Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

NLPCraft

A Java API for NLU applications

NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.

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:

(nlpcraft) Roman Shaposhnik Comments:
(nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci Comments:
(nlpcraft) Evans Ye Comments:
(nlpcraft) Paul King Comments:
(nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik Comments:
(nlpcraft) Dave Fisher 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:
(nuttx) Duo Zhang Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

PageSpeed

PageSpeed represents a series of open source technologies to help make the web faster by rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth.

PageSpeed has been incubating since 2017-09-30.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Grow the number of active developers
Enhance the release process: switch to github tagged release to simplify.

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

While there is a healthy user base, the number of active developers remains persistently low. This seems to be a hard to address challenge.

How has the community developed since the last report?

Mailing lists and git issues are active. The number of active developers is unchanged.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Minor activity.

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'll be blogging about the 2.0 Envoy PoC, hopefully that will get some developer interest as we pivot into the service mesh world

Date of last release:

The week of May 11th, 2020

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

May 27 2019 (Longinos Ferrando, elected as both committer and PMC member)

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes.

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

As far as we know the brand is respected by third parties.

Signed-off-by:

(pagespeed) Jukka Zitting Comments:
(pagespeed) Leif Hedstrom Comments:
(pagespeed) Nick Kew Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Pegasus

Pegasus is a distributed key-value storage system which is designed to be simple, horizontally scalable, strongly consistent and high-performance.

Pegasus has been incubating since 2020-06-28.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Grow the community, attracting more users, contributors and committers
Resolve the license problems
Publish more releases in ASF policy regularly

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

N/A

How has the community developed since the last report?

Since the last report, we have added 1 committer.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Since the last report, we have published a new release 2.2.0.

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:

2021-06-28: Apache Pegasus (incubating) 2.2.0

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

New committer: Yanzhao Tang (2021-07-07).

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes.

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

Yes.

Signed-off-by:

(pegasus) Kevin A. McGrail Comments:
(pegasus) Duo zhang Comments:
(pegasus) Liang Chen Comments:
(pegasus) Von Gosling Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Pinot

Pinot is a distributed columnar storage engine that can ingest data in real- time and serve analytical queries at low latency.

Pinot has been incubating since 2018-10-17.

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:

(pinot) Kishore Gopalakrishna Comments:
(pinot) Jim Jagielski Comments:
(pinot) Olivier Lamy Comments:
(pinot) Felix Cheung Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Pony Mail

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:

Growing community size and software adoption rate
Getting Foal to a production-/release-ready state

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

How has the community developed since the last report?

Our latest committer has helped revitalize the development, and we are seeing decent levels of commitment from our committer base.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Work continues on the Foal edition of Pony Mail, with levels of engagement slightly up in the community.

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?

The last committer to be invited was Sean Palmer at 2021-04-02.

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:

SDAP

SDAP is an integrated data analytic center for Big Science problems.

SDAP has been incubating since 2017-10-22.

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:

(sdap) Jörn Rottmann Comments:
(sdap) Trevor Grant Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Sedona

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

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:

(sedona) Felix Cheung Comments:
(sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments:
(sedona) George Percivall Comments:
(sedona) Von Gosling Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

ShenYu

ShenYu is a high performance Microservices API gateway in Java ecosystem, compatible with a variety of mainstream framework systems, it supports hot plugin loading.

ShenYu has been incubating since 2021-05-03.

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:

(shenyu) Willem Ning Jiang Comments:
(shenyu) Jincheng Sun Comments:
(shenyu) Duo Zhang Comments:
(shenyu) Kevin Ratnasekera Comments:
(shenyu) Atri Sharma Comments:
(shenyu) Justin Mclean Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Teaclave

Teaclave is a universal secure computing platform, making computation on privacy-sensitive data safe and simple.

Teaclave has been incubating since 2019-08-20.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Improve project structure and documentation
Grow the community (attracting more committers, contributors, users)
Publish Apache releases (resolving logistics on Apache 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?

Since the last report, we have organized three monthly virtual meetups. Many people from the community share their usage experience of Teaclave. Also, we invited some contributors to talk about some technical details of the design and implementation. For each meetup, we have minutes write-up published on the Teaclave blog.

Teaclave Meetup #4: https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-04-29-teaclave-meetup-4/
Teaclave Meetup #5: https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-06-24-teaclave-meetup-5/
Teaclave Meetup #6: https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-07-29-teaclave-meetup-6/

We also have two new members:

2020-07-09, Hongbo Chen (ya0guang), Commiter
2020-07-25, Gordon King (garyw), Mentor

How has the project developed since the last report?

Here are the summaries of recent progress of our three sub-projects:

Teaclave:

Change the executor's payload type from String to Vec<u8>.
Unify the launch of teaclave services.
Add WebAssembly Executor and corresponding examples.
Upgrade Intel SGX SDK to the latest release (SGX 2.14.100.2, DCAP 1.11.100.2).
Some minor fixes of the building system and documentation.

Teaclave SGX SDK:

Minor bug fixes.

Teaclave TrustZone SDK:

Release the first Apache Incubator version 0.1.0: Announcing Apache Teaclave TrustZone SDK (Incubating) 0.1.0.
Update to OP-TEE 3.13.0.
Implement the iSocket APIs and corresponding examples.
Implement loadable plugin for TA and corresponding examples.
Some minor fixes and repository cleanups.

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:

2021-06-10: Apache Teaclave TrustZone SDK (incubating) 0.1.0

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2020-07-25, Gordon King (garyw), Mentor

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, our mentors work responsively to help us with electing new mentors, proposing new features, and expanding the community.

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

We don't find any 3rd parties incorrectly using the podling's name and brand. The VP, Brand has approved the project name. (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-175)

Signed-off-by:

(teaclave) Felix Cheung Comments:
(teaclave) Furkan Kamaci Comments:
(teaclave) Jianyong Dai Comments:
(teaclave) Matt Sicker Comments:
(teaclave) Zhijie Shen Comments:
(teaclave) Gordon King Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

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:

(toree) Luciano Resende Comments:
(toree) Julien Le Dem Comments:
(toree) Ryan Blue Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

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:

Tuweni

Tuweni is a set of libraries and other tools to aid development of blockchain and other decentralized software in Java and other JVM languages.

Tuweni has been incubating since 2019-03-25.

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:

(tuweni) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments:
(tuweni) Furkan Kamaci Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

YuniKorn

YuniKorn is a standalone resource scheduler responsible for scheduling batch jobs and long-running services on large scale distributed systems running in on-premises environments as well as different public clouds.

YuniKorn has been incubating since 2020-01-21.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Gain more contributors and active committers.
Release regularly, split large changes over multiple releases.
Improve the ease of deployment and documentation quality.

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

No issues at this point in time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

Added one new committer and several new contributors. Elected a new PPMC member. Finalising the next release v0.11, planning for release v1.0.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Stabilising the previous release major features (gang scheduling). Upgrading protobuf build and dependency for the scheduler interface. Implemented a new REST interface. The interface changes are all in preparation for a v1.0 release which is in planning.

Some statistics for the report period (2021-04-01 till 2021-06-30):
JIRA: 105 created, 112 resolved
PRs: 65 opened, 70 resolved
11 unique active code contributors (cumulative for all repos)

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:

2021-04-09

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2021-07-07 committer and PPMC member added

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

yes

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

No issues that we are aware of.

Signed-off-by:

(yunikorn) Junping Du
Comments:
(yunikorn) Felix Cheung
Comments:
(yunikorn) Jason Lowe
Comments:
(yunikorn) Holden Karau
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

ShenYu

ShenYu is a high performance Microservices API gateway in Java ecosystem, compatible with a variety of mainstream framework systems, supports hot plug. Users can write their own plugin meet the current requirement and future needs in a variety of scenarios, especially in large-scale scenes.

ShenYu has been incubating since 2021-05-03.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Make an Apache Release.
Build new website document.
Building a diverse community with open governance.

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?

11+ new contributors and 1+ new committers participate in the community since entered the last report. There are currently 188 contributors and 25 committers.
40+ pull request since entered the last report
There is regular traffic on the mailing list (~120+ mailing list discussions/month).
Number of GitHub stars increased (last report: 4927, currently: 5063).
Held 2 community meetings to discuss development tasks and how to build an open governance community.
Opened ShenYu source code activity.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Ready for release 2.4.0.
Add Ui Dependencies Licenses.
Refactor shenyu-bootstrap release package structure.
Use h2 for integrated test.
Improve health check for divide plugin.
Add domain type filter.

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:

(shenyu) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: Finished the project setup, now Shenyu should work on its first release.
(shenyu) Jincheng Sun
Comments:
(shenyu) Duo Zhang
Comments:
(shenyu) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
(shenyu) Atri Sharma
Comments:
(shenyu) Justin Mclean
Comments:

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