Incubator PMC report for June 2024

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

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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 May:

IP Clearance

Legal / Trademarks

Infrastructure

Miscellaneous

Credits

Table of Contents

Amoro
Annotator
Baremaps
GraphAr
HertzBeat
KIE
Liminal
Nemo
StormCrawler
Teaclave
Toree
Training
Uniffle
Wayang

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:

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:

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

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

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:

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:

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

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

GraphAr

GraphAr is an open-source and language-independent data file format designed for efficient graph data storage and retrieval.

GraphAr has been incubating since 2024-03-25.

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:

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:

•  (graphar) Calvin Kirs
  Comments:
•  (graphar) tison
  Comments:
•  (graphar) Xiaoqiao He
  Comments:
•  (graphar) Yu Li
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

HertzBeat

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:

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:

1. Release
2. Better website
3. Community building (always ongoing)

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

Nope.

How has the community developed since the last report?

We've really been going steady. There hasn't been a big up-tick in new members or anything else.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We are pushing hard for a release. We're working on getting all of the 't's crossed and 'i's dotted. We were hoping to have a vote already, but we have found some issues in our pipelines and some missing headers in files. We're pushing for all of that.

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:

Haven't had one yet, but we are very close.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

About three months ago.

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.

No, I don't believe anything is falling through the cracks. We've been pretty constant communication with Infra, the wider Incubator community, and speaking with our mentors as needed.

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: All looks good and the project is in good shape

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:

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:

1. Motivate growth in the community
2. Address remaining items before graduation  

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

The issue raised in our previous podling report (Mar. 2024) still exists. This is a project initiated from academia, and many of the committers have graduated with their degree and moved on to something else. The project itself is very promising, known that many outstanding academic papers have been developed on top of Apache Nemo [1-5], so it would be ideal if it finds its purpose, however it seems quite challenging at this particular moment. It is quite disappointing to see the project lose its momentum during the covid-19 pandemics, which made it extremely challenging for us to build the community. Nevertheless, the project itself, I believe, deserved to be in the TLP, but it seems like if there is no breakpoint for the project regarding the project community, I think we could start discussing about sending it to the attic. Any suggestions or opinions are welcome!

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/yang-youngseok [2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3468144 [3] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3064176.3064181 [4] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3546591.3547524 [5] https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc23/presentation/song

How has the community developed since the last report?  

Trying to have a discussion towards the issue raised above

How has the project developed since the last report?

Trying to have a discussion towards the issue raised above

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 polling'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:

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:

1. Community building

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

Nothing yet.

How has the community developed since the last report?

We got some involvement (issues, simple PRs) from outside the usual suspects. We need to increase our outreach to attract more users / developers to foster a healthy community development.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We have published our first release (3.0). We are currently working on adding the feedback received for 3.0.

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:

2024-05-16

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

No new committers yet.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Nothing to note.

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

No answer.

Signed-off-by:

•  (stormcrawler) Dave Fisher
  Comments:
•  (stormcrawler) Lewis John McGibbney
  Comments:
•  (stormcrawler) Ayush Saxena
  Comments:
•  (stormcrawler) PJ Fanning
  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:

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:

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:

•  (toree) Luciano Resende
  Comments:
•  (toree) Ryan Blue
  Comments:
•  (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:

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:

We're starting to discuss the graduation.

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?

112 pull requests are created and 69 pull requests are merged. 75 issues are created and 61 issues are closed.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We developed many exciting features. First, Netty data transportation is production available. Second, the we polish the feature stage recomputation. Third, we supported K8S operator for new K8S version. Fourth, we break origin limitation of blockId to support long run time job.

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:

2023-12-13. We released 0.8.0. We are preparing to release 0.9.0 now.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, they are helpful.

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

No.

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.

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:

•  (wayang) Christofer Dutz
  Comments:
•  (wayang) Lars George
  Comments:
•  (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
  Comments:
•  (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes: