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Timeline

Wed January 07	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun January 11	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun January 11	Summary due by end of day
Tue January 13	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed January 14	Report submitted to Board
Wed January 21	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Calvin Kirs	ResilientDB
Dave Fisher	Amoro
Drew Farris	Pony Mail
Justin Mclean	Livy
P. Taylor Goetz	Fesod
PJ Fanning	Fluss
Timothy Chen	HugeGraph
Willem Jiang	Gluten
Willem Jiang	Pegasus

Incubator PMC report for January 2026

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

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Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of December:

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

Fluss

Fluss is a streaming storage built for real-time analytics which can serve as the real-time data layer for Lakehouse architectures.

Fluss has been incubating since 2025-06-04.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

The second release (v0.9.0) under the ASF incubator
Grow the community and attract more committers, contributors and users.
Fill out the maturity model

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

None at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

Add 2 new committers, currently with total 17 committers.
The Fluss PPMC created a [LinkedIn page] (https://www.linkedin.com/company/apachefluss/), which now has 1,302 followers, doubling organically over the past three months.
[Regular Monthly Community Call] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/18b7G_dvYx-1FogV7LWEFMHXze5D5T9XZ3h 9zSU75dDA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.9aenn0fakn4l) for October and November; December’s call was skipped due to the holiday season.
An “Apache Fluss × Apache Iceberg” joint webinar is scheduled for January 20, 2026, featuring contributors from both communities. 5. Community presentations and outreach:

Jark Wu and Giannis Polyzos presented at Flink Forward Barcelona (2025-10-15)
Leonard Xu presented Fluss at QCon Shanghai (2025-10-24)
Giannis Polyzos spoke at Big Data Europe (2025-11-19)
Jark Wu presented to the CMU Database Group (2025-12-08)

How has the project developed since the last report?

Released v0.8.0 on 2025-11-09 which is the project’s first official release under the Apache Incubator. This milestone represents 4 months of collaborative development with 400+ commits from the community.
8 new Fluss Improvement Proposals (FIPs) were submitted over the past quarter; several have already been approved and implemented.
Active development is underway for v0.9.0, targeted for release by end of January 2026.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

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

Commentary: The project has successfully shipped its first Apache release and is actively growing its contributor and user base. Community engagement is strong, with regular calls, public talks, and cross-project collaboration. While still in its incubation, Fluss is steadily progressing toward graduation readiness.

Date of last release:

2025-11-09 (v0.8.0)

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2025-11-28

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes.

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

Yes, everything is fine.

Signed-off-by:

(fluss) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
(fluss) Becket Qin
Comments:
(fluss) Yu Li
Comments:
(fluss) Jingsong Lee
Comments:
(fluss) Zili Chen
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

Complete more Apache releases: Plan for Gluten v1.6.0 in Jan.
Grow the community: Attract and onboard more contributors to strengthen community diversity.
Graduate from incubation: Prepare for the transition to Apache top-level project.

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

Yes, under reviewing the graduation from incubation.

How has the community developed since the last report?

2 new Committers and 2 new PPMC members, Currently with 44 committers and 35 PPMC members

How has the project developed since the last report?

The project made significant progress in the last quarter. Apache Gluten (incubating) 1.5.0 was released on 2025-10-29, marking the fifth incubating 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:

2025-10-29

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2 new PPMC members were joint on 2025/10/29.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes. The podling’s mentors (Apache members guiding Gluten’s incubation) have been very supportive and responsive.

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

Yes. The PPMC is adequately managing Apache Gluten’s branding and trademarks. There have been no naming conflicts or misuse of the Apache brand identified.

Signed-off-by:

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

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:

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:

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:

(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?