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Timeline

Wed December 06	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun December 10	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun December 10	Summary due by end of day
Tue December 12	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed December 13	Report submitted to Board
Wed December 20	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Calvin Kirs	Pony Mail
Drew Fisher	KIE
Drew Fisher	Baremaps
Drew Farris	Answer
Justin Mclean	Nemo
PJ Fanning	Teaclave
PJ Fanning	Wayang
Timothy Chen	Livy
Willem Jiang	Uniffle

=== Report content ===

Incubator PMC report for December 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

list podling here

The board has motions for the following:

Your podling here?

Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of November:

Answer

A Q-and-A platform software for teams at any scales.

Answer has been incubating since 2023-10-09.

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:

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:

(answer) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
(answer) tison
Comments:
(answer) Justin Mclean
Comments:
(answer) Christofer Dutz
Comments:

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:

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:

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

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:

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:

(kie) Brian Proffitt
Comments:
(kie) Claus Ibsen
Comments:
(kie) Andrea Cosentino
Comments:

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:

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:

(livy) Bikas Saha
Comments:
(livy) Luciano Resende
Comments:
(livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
(livy) Madhawa Kasun Gunasekara
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:

Motivate growth in the community
Address remaining items before graduation

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

This is a project initiated from academia, and the major problem here is that many of us have graduated and moved on to something else now. Although the project itself is very promising and is a well-developed system (proved by a number of academic papers), the project is losing a bit of its momentum, and there isn't a clear breakpoint where this can get itself back on track in building its community and users. This project, I personally think, is an unlucky one in the sense that Covid-19 hit at the time when it was actively being promoted in ASF conferences and so, trying to build its user base, and hasn't been able to climb up to TLP since then. I think that there are enough resources for users to pick up on where it stands at the moment, but it is unclear on how it should get back on track, where the lack of community action being the major problem on its way to TLP. Any suggestions or help would be nice, but we may also consider archiving the project as well at this point.

How has the community developed since the last report?

We have 1 new contributor.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Discussions for community growth.

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:

2022-09-02

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

September 28, 2021

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.

Please refer to the issue raised above.

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 Onofré
Comments:
(nemo) Markus Weimer
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:

ResilientDB

ResilientDB is a distributed blockchain framework that is open-source, lightweight, modular, and highly performant.

ResilientDB has been incubating since 2023-10-21.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Transfer the codebase to Apache & TM search
Grow the community by facilitating more applications being built on ResDB
Improve and extend documentation

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

The current codebase is still in GitHub and we have a few repositories rather than only one. We need some help to transfer these repositories to Apache.

How has the community developed since the last report?

Our community channels on Discord are active and many users are asking questions on how to develop their applications based on ResilientDB. We have a live testnet of ResilientDB been operational on 5 replicas/replicas for the past two months (ResDB explorer) utilized by over 100 students at both grad/undergrad levels. There have been exciting new projects developed over ResDB. We are expecting to launch/showcase these projects in the coming weeks (e.g., Debitable).

How has the project developed since the last report?

The project is being processed on transferring. We also addressed the feedback from the users and improved our service. We had a new release last week (v1.9) that provided multi-version retrieval functionality to allow fetching the history of each key.

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:

2023-11-29

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

November of 2023

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.

The mentors helped tremendously throughout the project build-up and transfer.

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:

(resilientdb) Junping Du
Comments:
(resilientdb) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
(resilientdb) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
(resilientdb) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
(resilientdb) Christian Grobmeier
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Teaclave

Teaclave is a universal secure computing platform.

Teaclave has been incubating since 2019-08-20.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

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

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

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

Signed-off-by:

(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:

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.