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Timeline

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

Shepherd Assignments

Calvin Kirs	Heron
Calvin Kirs	SDAP
Dave Fisher	Annotator
Dave Fisher	Pony Mail
Drew Farris	DevLake
Drew Farris	Marvin-AI
Justin Mclean	Toree
P. Taylor Goetz	PageSpeed
PJ Fanning	Celeborn
PJ Fanning	StreamPark
Timothy Chen	Training
Timothy Chen	Tuweni
Willem Jiang	Kvrocks
Willem Jiang	NLPCraft

Incubator PMC report for February 2023

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

None

The board has motions for the following:

Flagon

Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of January:

SDAP 1.0.0
EventMesh 1.8.0
Liminal 0.0.5

IP Clearance

[Arrow]Accept donation of datafusion-substrait crate

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:

Incubation issues identified by Whimsy still need addressing.
Project activity is very low.
Release activity is very low.

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

The project has struggled to make a third release. The last attempt ran into issues with voting and testing. Since then, the project has added new member to the PPMC, which may help with getting releases moving.

How has the community developed since the last report?

The community continues to have low, but not zero, activity on its mailing list and its issue tracker, with some new folks expressing interest in getting involved in passing.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Not much has happened since the last report, owing partially to the project's low level of activity and to holiday season.

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:

2022-05-05

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2022-08-17

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Mentors have been helpful when engaged directly with questions.

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

No known issues.

Signed-off-by:

(annotator) Nick Kew
Comments:
(annotator) Tommaso Teofili
Comments:
(annotator) Benjamin Young
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Celeborn

Celeborn is an intermediate data service for big data computing engines to boost performance, stability, and flexibility.

Celeborn has been incubating since 2022-10-18.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Publish our first release.
Grow the community.

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?

2 new contributors have joined the community.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Created 3 release candidates.

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:

N/A

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2022-11-21, nafiyaix was added as new committer.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive.

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

The VP, Brand has approved the project name.

Signed-off-by:

(celeborn) Becket Qin
Comments:
(celeborn) Lidong Dai
Comments:
(celeborn) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: Podling is working on the first Apache release
(celeborn) Duo Zhang
Comments:
(celeborn) Yu Li
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

DevLake

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

DevLake has been incubating since 2022-04-29.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Grow the community, add committers and PPMC members
Grow the ecosystem, support more data sources and use cases
Automate license and compliance checking for smoother release process

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

No issues at the moment.

How has the community developed since the last report?

22 new contributors have joined the community (78 contributors in total)
One new committer was elected
Hosted a total of 10 community meetups, including an end-of-year community celebration event

How has the project developed since the last report?

Made one new major release (currently in voting process)
Support for projects in DevLake for custom aggregation of metrics
Better support for parallelism in blueprint executions
GitHub data colection now uses GraphQL queries by default where possible for much better performance
Support for skipping failed pipeilnes stages to alow partial data collection

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:

2023-01-31 (in progress)

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2022-11-01

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.

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

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?

There are no known brand and naming issues.

Signed-off-by:

(devlake) Felix Cheung
Comments:
(devlake) Liang Zhang
Comments:
(devlake) Lidong Dai
Comments:
(devlake) Sijie Guo
Comments:
(devlake) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
(devlake) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: Good to see

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Kvrocks

Kvrocks is a distributed key-value NoSQL database, supporting the rich data structure

Kvrocks has been incubating since 2022-04-23.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Promote the project and grow the user and dev community
Need more further releases by multiple release manager

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 got 4 new contributors since the last report
Attend the CCF meeting and share a topic about Kvrocks

How has the project developed since the last report?

Improvements and bug fixes, like upgrade the rocksdb to improve the performance of the compaction, as well as refactor the files structure
Add ZLIB dependency for compression in rocksdb
Use clang-format and clang-tidy to keep the code style consistency

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

Initial setup
Working towards the next release
Community building
Nearing graduation
Other:

Date of last release:

2022-11-10

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2023-01-02 we elected xiaobiaozhao as a Kvrocks committer

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, they mentored us a lot on how to maintain the community, and also did many contributions for Kvrocks.

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

The project name has been approved, ticket: PODLINGNAMESEARCH-204
No 3rd parties used the podling and brand.

Signed-off-by:

(kvrocks) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
Comments:
(kvrocks) Xiaoqiao He
Comments:
(kvrocks) tison
Comments:
(kvrocks) Von Gosling
Comments:
(kvrocks) Liang Chen
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:

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:

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

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

[CalvinKirs]: community has started voting for retirement

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:

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:

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:

(pagespeed) Leif Hedstrom
Comments:
(pagespeed) Nick Kew
Comments:
(pagespeed) Atri Sharma
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:

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

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

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

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

Signed-off-by:

(ponymail) John D. Ament
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

Make a new release in 2 months with a different release manager
Update SDAP home page

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?

Discussion and development is active.

Worked through process of creating first official SDAP release.

How has the project developed since the last report?

First SDAP release (v1.0.0) is available for download at https://sdap.apache.org/downloads

16 issues closed and 14 issues new/updated.

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:

2023-01-18 (Version 1.0.0)

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Riley Kuttruff was added as a committer on 2022-11-16

Kevin Marlis was added as a committer on 2023-01-27

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Our new mentor, Julian Hyde, guided us in creating the first official SDAP v1.0.0 release.

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

PPMC is not aware of any issues.

Signed-off-by:

(sdap) Julian Hyde
Comments: The first release was a major achievement. I have asked them to make another release, with a different release manager, to prove that the process is reproducible, and to remove release exceptions in the WIP-DISCLAIMER. Also, there are several components, and not all have so far had a release.) After that release, SDAP is ready to graduate.
(sdap) Jörn Rottmann
Comments:
(sdap) Trevor Grant
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

StreamPark

StreamPark is a streaming application development platform.

StreamPark has been incubating since 2022-09-01.

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:

(streampark) tison
Comments:
(streampark) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
(streampark) Stephan Ewen
Comments:
(streampark) Thomas Weise
Comments:
(streampark) Duo Zhang
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) Ryan Blue
Comments:
(toree) Weiwei Yang
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?