Incubator PMC report for March 2023

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

Marvin-AI has completed the retirement IPMC voting process. There are some podlings that are also in the discussion of retirement, like Spot.

Regarding PonyMail, it should be explained that even though it is difficult for them to build a huge community, since the current PMC is composed of ASF members, and PonyMail also serves as the infrastructure of ASF. Therefore, we hope that PonyMail will graduate to gain more brand exposure and further expand the community.

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Community

New IPMC members:

• Becket Qin

People who left the IPMC:

• Jim Jagielski

New Podlings

• OpenDAL

Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

Graduations

• list podling here

The board has motions for the following:

• None

Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of March:

IP Clearance

• [Kylin]Accept donation of Kylin new Modeling System

Legal / Trademarks

Infrastructure

Miscellaneous

Credits

Table of Contents

Baremaps
KIE
Nemo
NLPCraft
OpenDAL
PageSpeed
Spot
Toree
Training
Uniffle
Wayang

Baremaps

Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for creating, publishing, and operating online maps.

Baremaps has been incubating since 2022-10-10.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Getting the code in compliance with Apache standards
2. Making releases  3. Growing the community

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?

The activity has been low in December and January, but the community has stayed steady.

How has the project developed since the last report?

• We addressed most of the critical licensing issues and identified minor issues with license of the data used in the tests
• We improved the layout and the content of the web site
• We launched a vote for a first release candidate with a DISCLAIMER-WIP file
• Some of us will attend the OGC/OSGeo/ASF code sprint with the intent to work on Baremaps

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?

When the project entered incubation.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, the mentors have been very helpful on several topics (community building, licensing, etc.)

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

Yes

Signed-off-by:

•  (baremaps) Bertrand Delacretaz
  Comments:
•  (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
  Comments:
•  (baremaps) Julian Hyde
  Comments:
•  (baremaps) Calvin Kirs
  Comments:
•  (baremaps) George Percivall
  Comments:
•  (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

KIE

KIE (Knowledge is Everything) is a community of solutions and supporting tooling for knowledge engineering and process automation, focusing on events, rules, and workflows.

KIE has been incubating since 2023-01-13.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Software Grant completion, currently waiting on legal.
2. IP clearance. Question: Can this start before the grant has been finalized?
3. Create a release :)

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

Currently no.

How has the community developed since the last report?

This is our first report. We have a number of people signed up for the PPMC, but seeing as we don't have the code moved over yet, there isn't much else to be done at the moment.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We're working through legal both at IBM and Red Hat. This wasn't as quick as any of us had hoped it would be.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

•  Initial setup Mailing lists created Initial committers have signed the ICLA
•  Working towards first release We'll get there, need the software grant first
•  Community building Not much we can do on this front until the code has moved over
•  Nearing graduation N/A
•  Other:

Date of last release:

N/A

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Back in January when we were accepted into the Incubator

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Brian has been very helpful in getting things started, no concerns about any of the mentors.

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

Still working on grants

Signed-off-by:

•  (kie) Brian Proffitt
  Comments:
•  (kie) Claus Ibsen
  Comments:
•  (kie) Andrea Cosentino
  Comments: Looks good.

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:

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:

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

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

[Willem] There are no developement activities in the last three month，and the project failed to submit to report. We may need a rollcall of PPMC for it. It's strange that this project PPMC is thinking about graduation last year.

NLPCraft

A Scala library for NLU applications

NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Community growth.

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?

Community development wasn't grown last months. The main reason is probably due to core committers were engaged in a 1.0 release tests,documentatation and website update. But there were some initial developers requests to join and contribute during last months.  

How has the project developed since the last report?

The project tests were extended, examples added, documentation and website updated, release 1.0.0. prepared.

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:

2023-02-30

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

August of 2021.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

No issues with mentors to report.

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

No issues to report.

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:

OpenDAL

Open Data Access Layer: Access data freely, painlessly, and efficiently.

OpenDAL has been incubating since 2023-02-27.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. The majority of contributions to the OpenDAL project were made by only four committers, with Xuanwo being the most prolific contributor.
2. The adoption rate of OpenDAL has been relatively low, with only a few projects currently using it.

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?

This is the first report of OpenDAL.

Over the past two weeks, the project has successfully attracted four new contributors, one of whom has shown great promise and potential to be considered for committer status in the future.

How has the project developed since the last report?

This is the first report of OpenDAL.

During the past two weeks, OpenDAL has added support for the append function and is currently working on developing Python and Node.js bindings. These updates are expected to be included in the upcoming Apache 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:

Date of last release:

NOTE: it's not an Apache release, because our repo trasnfer is not DONE yet.

2023-03-02

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

OpenDAL has been in incubation since February 27th, 2023. As of yet, no committers have been elected for the project.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes.

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

N/A

Signed-off-by:

•  (opendal) tison Comments:
•  (opendal) Willem Ning Jiang Comments: Just finished the project setup work
•  (opendal) Sheng Wu Comments:
•  (opendal) Ted Liu Comments:
•  (opendal) Xiaoqiao He 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:

[Willem] There is disucssion about retirement of PageSpeed, and none reply it.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/jxw7mqmpcfxxp0mnnx28o0k78tym507b We need to think about retire this project.

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:

[Calvin Kirs] Due to years of not having any active, is currently discussing whether to retire.

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:

[PJF] Activity on mailing lists has dropped a lot recently. In recent months, there have been recurring issues getting the team to submit their Podling report. I suspect we may need a Roll Call to see if there are enough PPMC members willing to continue active engagement.

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:

Uniffle

Uniffle is an unified Remote Shuffle Service

Uniffle has been incubating since 2022-06-06.

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:

•  (uniffle) Felix Cheung
  Comments:
•  (uniffle) Junping Du
  Comments:
•  (uniffle) Liu Xun
  Comments:
•  (uniffle) Weiwei Yang
  Comments:
•  (uniffle) Zhankun Tang
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Wayang

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Community building
2. release a new version
3. redo website and documentation to guide interesting developer

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

Nothing

How has the community developed since the last report?

We got new contributors from different companies and Universities.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Better community traction, adding new features

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

2021-12-13

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?  

2022-01-18: Calvin Kirs

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.

Nothing to add here.

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?

Yes, Wayang got approved by the ™ team, we don't face any trademark related issues.

Signed-off-by:

•  (wayang) Christofer Dutz
  Comments: I can see quite a bit more activity in the podling in this period
•  (wayang) Lars George
  Comments:
•  (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
  Comments:
•  (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes: