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Timeline

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

Shepherd Assignments

Calvin Kirs	Livy
Calvin Kirs	PonyMail
Dave Fisher	Grails
Dave Fisher	HugeGraph
Drew Farris	Otava
Drew Farris	Teaclave
Justin Mclean	Pegasus
P. Taylor Goetz	Annotator
P. Taylor Goetz	Iggy
PJ Fanning	HertzBeat
Timothy Chen	Gluten
Timothy Chen	ResilientDB
Willem Jiang	StormCrawler
Xuanwo	Amoro

Incubator PMC report for April 2025

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:

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Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of March:

Amoro

Amoro is a Lakehouse management system built on open data lake formats like Apache Iceberg and Apache Paimon.

Amoro has been incubating since 2024-03-11.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

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:

(amoro) Justn Mclean
Comments:
(amoro) Zhongyi Tan
Comments:
(amoro) Yu Li
Comments:
(amoro) Xinyu Zhou
Comments:
(amoro) Kent Yao
Comments:

Annotator

Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and humans.

Annotator has been incubating since 2016-08-30.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

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

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

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

Signed-off-by:

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

Gluten

Gluten is a middle layer responsible for offloading JVM-based SQL engines' execution to native engines.

Gluten has been incubating since 2024-01-11.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

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:

(gluten) Yu Li
Comments:
(gluten) Wenli Zhang
Comments:
(gluten) Kent Yao
Comments:
(gluten) Shaofeng Shi
Comments:
(gluten) Felix Cheung
Comments:

Grails

A powerful Groovy-based web application framework for the JVM built on top of Spring Boot

Grails has been incubating since 2025-01-25.

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:

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:

(grails) Paul King
Comments:
(grails) Soeren Glasius
Comments:

HertzBeat is an easy-to-use, open source, real-time monitoring system. It features an agentless architecture, high-performance clustering, Prometheus compatibility, and powerful custom monitoring and status page building capabilities.

HertzBeat has been incubating since 2024-04-05.

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:

(hertzbeat) Yonglun Zhang
Comments:
(hertzbeat) Yu Xiao
Comments:
(hertzbeat) Justn Mclean
Comments:
(hertzbeat) Francis Chuang
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

HugeGraph

A large-scale and easy-to-use graph database

HugeGraph has been incubating since 2022-01-23.

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:

(hugegraph) Lidong Dai
Comments:
(hugegraph) Trista Pan
Comments:
(hugegraph) Xiangdong Huang
Comments:
(hugegraph) Yu Li
Comments:
(hugegraph) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Iggy

Iggy is a high-performance, ultra-low latency and large-scale persistent message streaming platform written in Rust.

Iggy has been incubating since 2025-02-04.

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:

(iggy) Hao Ding
Comments:
(iggy) Yonik Seeley
Comments:
(iggy) Zili Chen
Comments:
(iggy) Hulk Lin
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:

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:

Otava

             Otava, a command-line tool, written in Python, that detects

statistically significant changes in time-series data stored either in databases or CSV files. Otava entered Incubation as Hunter

Otava has been incubating since 2024-11-27.

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:

(otava) Dave Fisher
Comments:
(otava) Enrico Olivelli
Comments:
(otava) Lari Hotari
Comments:
(otava) Mick Semb Wever
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:

Supplement and revise the documentation on the official website (https://pegasus.apache.org/), and complete the English versions of the documents.
Make more releases in ASF policy regularly.
Improve the Pegasus project performance, stability, and usage scenarios.

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 saw more active users and contributors of Apache Pegasus.

How has the project developed since the last report?

The release of 2.6.0, originally scheduled for the end of 2024, has been postponed due to the incomplete implementation of some features. The new release date is yet to be determined.

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:

2023-12-12

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

None

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, our mentors gave us a lot of help, including version release, holding meetup, prepare the graduation and etc.

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.

Signed-off-by:

(pegasus) Duo zhang
Comments:
(pegasus) Liang Chen
Comments:
(pegasus) Von Gosling
Comments:
(pegasus) Liu Xun
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

PonyMail

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:

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:

(resilientdb) Junping Du
Comments:
(resilientdb) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
(resilientdb) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

StormCrawler

StormCrawler is a collection of resources for building low-latency, customisable and scalable web crawlers on Apache Storm.

StormCrawler has been incubating since 2024-03-19.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

There are no remaining issues. After list discussions with our mentors, we have confirmed that it would be the right time for graduation.0

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?

StormCrawler remains well-established, with a steady user base over the past decade. While the number of committers and contributors remains small, the project's activity level is comparable to some established TLPs.

Seasoned committers with experience across various ASF projects continue to contribute, ensuring the project's stability and sustainability.

Although community growth has been minimal (but did happen), there has been some progress.

Additionally, the rise of generative AI has shifted focus toward production-ready, turnkey solutions, reducing the incentive for many users to contribute directly to StormCrawler. Instead, they often prefer to adopt mature, off-the-shelf software like StormCrawler rather than actively participating in development.

This industry trend may explain the limited influx of new contributors despite the project's ongoing relevance.

How has the project developed since the last report?

The project has seen steady progress with various bug fixes and dependency updates. Additionally, there have been some external contributions to the documentation, indicating ongoing interest and engagement from 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:

The project is well-established, has maintained steady activity, and has experienced contributors who are familiar with ASF processes. While community growth has been modest, the project's engagement level and stability suggest it is ready for graduation.

The presence of seasoned committers and ongoing development efforts further support this assessment.

Date of last release:

2025-03-24

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2024-09-21

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, our mentors have been supportive, providing guidance throughout the process. They have been available for discussions, particularly regarding the project's readiness for graduation, and have helped ensure we are on the right track.

Their experience and insights have been valuable in navigating ASF Incubator processes.

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

Yes. The name was approved by VP Trademarks.

Signed-off-by:

(stormcrawler) Dave Fisher
Comments:
(stormcrawler) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
(stormcrawler) Ayush Saxena
Comments: Successfully managed multiple releases during incubation and now preparing for graduation.
(stormcrawler) PJ Fanning
Comments: