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Timeline
Wed August 02 | Podling reports due by end of day |
Sun August 06 | Shepherd reviews due by end of day |
Sun August 06 | Summary due by end of day |
Tue August 08 | Mentor signoff due by end of day |
Wed August 09 | Report submitted to Board |
Wed August 16 | Board meeting |
Shepherd Assignments
Calvin Kirs | Paimon |
Calvin Kirs | SDAP |
Dave Fisher | StreamPark |
Drew Farris | NLPCraft |
Justin Mclean | OpenDAL |
P. Taylor Goetz | Celeborn |
PJ Fanning | Training |
Timothy Chen | DevLake |
Willem Jiang | Toree |
Incubator PMC report for August 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
Community
New IPMC members:
People who left the IPMC:
New Podlings
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 July:
IP Clearance
Legal / Trademarks
Infrastructure
Miscellaneous
Credits
Table of Contents
Annotator
Celeborn
DevLake
Liminal
NLPCraft
OpenDAL
Paimon
PonyMail
SDAP
StreamPark
Toree
Training
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:
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:
- (annotator) Nick Kew
Comments: - (annotator) Tommaso Teofili
Comments: - (annotator) Benjamin Young
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Celeborn
Celeborn is an intermediate data service for big data computing engines to boost performance, stability, and flexibility.
Celeborn has been incubating since 2022-10-18.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
- Grow the community
- Release more versions
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?
- One new PPMC joined the community.
- One new committer is proposed and under voting.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- One new release was published.
- Important features like supporting Flink, graceful upgrade are GA.
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:
2023-07-27, 0.3.0-incubating was released.
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2023-07-01, Jiashu Xiong was elected as our new PPMC member.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive
Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
The VP, Brand has approved the project name.
Signed-off-by:
- (celeborn) Becket Qin
Comments: - (celeborn) Lidong Dai
Comments: - (celeborn) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: - (celeborn) Duo Zhang
Comments: - (celeborn) Yu Li
Comments: It's great to see the latest 0.3.0 release supports more computing engine (Apache Flink) thus extends its ecology. New contributors joining also indicates a good growth of the community.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
DevLake
DevLake is a development data platform, providing the data infrastructure for developer teams to analyze and improve their engineering productivity.
DevLake has been incubating since 2022-04-29.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
- Grow the community, add committers and PPMC members, and mailing list subscribers.
- Grow the project, support more data sources and use cases, and improve the user experience.
- Elect another release manager, now we only have two.
Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No issues at the moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- 16 new contributors have joined the community (109 contributors in total)
- 154 new community members in Slack (756 in total)
- 2 new committers were elected, and 1 PPMC was elected.
- Hosted a total of 3 community meetups.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Made one new major release v0.17 with no compliance issues, and v0.18 is at the beta testing stage.
- Supported new data sources such as Azure DevOps and PaterDuty, etc.
- Re-defined deployments in DevLake and update the algorithm for DORA accordingly.
- Redesigned user experience for transformation rules in Config UI.
- Supported the data deletion in v0.18.
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:
2023-07-24
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2023-07-25
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 version releases and community governance.
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:
- (devlake) Felix Cheung
Comments: - (devlake) Liang Zhang
Comments: - (devlake) Lidong Dai
Comments: - (devlake) Sijie Guo
Comments: - (devlake) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments: - (devlake) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Liminal
Apache Liminal is an end-to-end platform for data engineers and scientists, allowing them to build, train and deploy machine learning models in a robust and agile way.
Liminal has been incubating since 2020-05-23.
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:
- (liminal) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments: - (liminal) Henry Saputra
Comments: - (liminal) Uma Maheswara Rao G
Comments: - (liminal) Davor Bonaci
Comments: - (liminal) Liang Chen
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
NLPCraft
A Scala API for NLU applications
NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
- 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?
We have communicated with developers which have interest to contribute to the project, especially python developers and ML engineers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Research related to usage in the project last AI technologies.
- Research related to usage python API to be connected with last AI libraries.
- Site updated, dependencies updated etc .
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 with mentors 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:
- Higher Quality Release Workflow
- Grow the community.
- Collect more use cases.
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?
According to incomplete statistics from GitHub, Opendal currently has 114 contributors and is being used by 205 projects.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Added support for storage services such as tikv, persy and dropbox, as well as language bindings for haskell, zig, lua, etc. In addition, we have also implemented the sink API for cloud storage services.
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:
2023-07-21 v0.38.1
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2023-07-21
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes.
Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes.
Signed-off-by:
- (opendal) tison
Comments: - (opendal) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: - (opendal) Sheng Wu
Comments: - (opendal) Ted Liu
Comments: - (opendal) Xiaoqiao He
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Paimon
Paimon is a unified lake storage to build dynamic tables for both stream and batch processing with big data compute engines, supporting high-speed data ingestion and real-time data query.
Paimon has been incubating since 2023-03-12.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1.Paimon Website: release note page, power by page. 2.Release 0.5-incubating. 3.More publicity for the English community
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?
- Paimon Website: add community page, security page.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Prepare release 0.5-incubating
- Introduce Tag creation on snapshots
- Paimon Metrics integration to Flink
- Spark integration to write to Paimon with schema evolution.
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:
2023-06-07
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2023-08-01 Chong Zhuang was added as a new committer
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
- Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive.
Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
- The VP, Brand has approved the project name.
Signed-off-by:
- (paimon) Becket Qin
Comments: - (paimon) Robert Metzger
Comments: - (paimon) Stephan Ewen
Comments: - (paimon) Yu Li
Comments: The development activities (code contribution, tech discussion, etc.) are frequent, new contributor / committer keeps joining, and people care about document and website building, all indicate a good community development.
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:
- Growing the community
- Growing the community
- Growing the community...
Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No issues other than the perennial lack of new contributors.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No development of note here.
How has the project developed since the last report?
No noteworthy development. Couple of bugfixes.
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:
2019-04-20
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Sean Palmer was elected committer on 2021-04-02
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:
SDAP
SDAP is an integrated data analytics center for Big Earth Science problems.
SDAP has been incubating since 2017-10-22.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
- Make a third release with new release manager
- Continue dev discussion thread on graduating
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?
Discussion and development is active.
Started discussion thread on graduating and working towards third release.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1 issue closed, 13 issues new/updated, 8 PRs merged.
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:
2023-05-16 (Version 1.1.0)
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Jason Kang was added as a committer on 2023-05-22
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes. Our mentor, Julian Hyde, continues to provide guidance in SDAP releases and graduation.
Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
PPMC is not aware of any issues.
Signed-off-by:
- (sdap) Julian Hyde
Comments: - (sdap) Jörn Rottmann
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
StreamPark
StreamPark is a streaming application development platform.
StreamPark has been incubating since 2022-09-01.
Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
- Grow the community
- Release more versions
- Develop more contributors
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?
- Tow new PPMC member join the community
- Tow new committer join the community
- Four new contributors join the community, total contributors 104
How has the project developed since the last report?
- New version 2.1.1 released
- Many bug fixed and Many new features in progress like supporting catalog
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:
2023-06-30, 2.1.1-incubating was released.
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2023-06-26, Zhou li and Yuepeng Pan was elected as our new committer.
2023-06-27, Muchunjin and Sizhu Wang was elected as our new PPMC member.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive
Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes, The VP, Brand has approved the project name.
Signed-off-by:
- (streampark) tison
Comments: - (streampark) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: - (streampark) Stephan Ewen
Comments: - (streampark) Thomas Weise
Comments: - (streampark) Duo Zhang
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
-------------------- ## 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:
1.Increase active contributors
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?
The community is working on wrapping up support for recent versions of Apache Spark that has moved to use Scala 2.13.
We still see much of the users asking questions in the gitter channel rather than using the mailing lists.
There is also a discussion started around retirement process, and discussion is happening on the dev list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We need to wrap up the new Toree release supporting Spark with Scala 2.13
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:
2022-04-11
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Kevin Bates was added to the PPMC on 2019-08-14
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
None
Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No Trademark issues
Signed-off-by:
- (toree) Luciano Resende
Comments: With my contributor hat, I am planning to try to move Toree trough graduation on the next couple months - (toree) Weiwei Yang
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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: