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Timeline

Wed December 03	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun December 07	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun December 07	Summary due by end of day
Tue December 09	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed December 10	Report submitted to Board
Wed December 17	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Calvin Kirs	KIE
Dave Fisher	OpenServerless
Drew Farris	Fesod
Justin Mclean	Iggy
P. Taylor Goetz	PouchDB
PJ Fanning	Auron
Timothy Chen	BifroMQ
Timothy Chen	OzHera
Willem Jiang	Otava
Willem Jiang	Polaris
Xuanwo	Baremaps

Incubator PMC report for December 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:

Your podling here?

Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of November:

Auron

Auron accelerates Apache Spark SQL by providing an alternative vectorized execution layer implemented in Rust, enabling native performance while maintaining full Spark compatibility.

Auron has been incubating since 2025-08-05.

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:

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:

(auron) Becket Qin
Comments:
(auron) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
(auron) Hao Ding
Comments:
(auron) Nicholas Jiang
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 Delacrétaz
Comments:
(baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
Comments:
(baremaps) Julian Hyde
Comments:
(baremaps) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
(baremaps) George Percivall
Comments:

BifroMQ

BifroMQ is a Java-based, high-performance, distributed MQTT broker with native multi-tenancy support, designed for large-scale connections and message delivery.

BifroMQ has been incubating since 2025-04-22.

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:

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:

(bifromq) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
(bifromq) Xiangdong Huang
Comments:
(bifromq) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
(bifromq) Penghui Li
Comments:
(bifromq) Sheng Wu
Comments:

Fesod

Fesod is a high-performance and memory-efficient Java library for reading and writing Excel files, designed to simplify development and ensure reliability.

Fesod has been incubating since 2025-09-17.

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:

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:

(fesod) tison
Comments:
(fesod) Dave Fisher
Comments:
(fesod) Huajie Wang
Comments:
(fesod) PJ Fanning
Comments:

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:

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:

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:

OpenServerless is an open source, cloud-agnostic, serverless platform. It offers a complete environment for serverless applications development, based on Kubernetes. With Apache OpenWhisk as its FaaS engine, it provides an unified developer experience with a plethora of services (SQL or noSQL databases, key-value stores, object storage, LLMs services, function schedulers) managed by the platform's core: the operator, along with tooling (the CLI) to simplify (and interact with) deployments, integrated ide and starter application and optimized runtimes integrated with the staters.

OpenServerless has been incubating since 2024-06-17.

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:

(openserverless) Bertrand Delacrétaz
Comments:
(openserverless) Enrico Olivelli
Comments:
(openserverless) François Papon
Comments:
(openserverless) JB Onofré
Comments:
(openserverless) PJ Fanning
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:

OzHera

OzHera is an application observation platform (APM) in the era of cloud native, with the application as its core, integrating capabilities such as metric monitoring, trace tracking, logging, and alerting

OzHera has been incubating since 2024-07-11.

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:

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:

(ozhera) Yu Xiao
Comments:
(ozhera) Yu Li
Comments:
(ozhera) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
(ozhera) Duo Zhang
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Polaris

Polaris is a catalog for data lakes. It provides new levels of choice, flexibility and control over data, with full enterprise security and Apache Iceberg interoperability across a multitude of engines and infrastructure.

Polaris has been incubating since 2024-08-09.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Check the Polaris existing trademarks at the ASF (transfer has been done, to be verified)

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?

Between 2025-07-31 and 2025-10-31:

2 new releases
17 new contributors
649 PRs opened / 517 PR merged
745 messages on the dev@ mailing list
Apache Polaris is now integrated to analytics.apache.org, ~10k monthly visitors to polaris.apache.org across the globe here

We are happy to see new contributors who contributed important new features:

OPA support.
Polaris Console (UI) is coming.
S3 KMS support.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We did 1.1.0-incubating and 1.2.0-incubating releases since the last report. 1.3.0-incubating release is also in preparation.

Here's the highlights about project development since the last report:

Improvement on the website, adding new blog posts (StarRocks and Polaris integration)
Moving forward on NoSQL support
New OPA Authorizer
New MetricsReport interface
New JDBC schema evolution support
A lot of improvements on Python (CLI, ...)
Enhanced support for S3-compatible (on-prem) storage
Automated release workflows are in place, ongoing work to support ATR

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:

2025-10-27

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Last PPMC member has been elected on 2025-11-19 (Yong Zheng).

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.

Mentors are helpful and responsive.

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, the podling manages the brand/trademarks, especially working with 3rd parties organizing meetups.