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Timeline

Wed October 02Podling reports due by end of day
Sun October 06 Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun October 06Summary due by end of day
Tue October 08Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed October 09

Report submitted to Board

Wed October 16Board meeting


Shepherd Assignments

Dave Fisher

SDAP

Dave Fisher

Weex

Drew Farris

Rya

Drew Farris

TVM

Justin Mclean

Livy

P. Taylor Goetz

BatchEE

P. Taylor Goetz

Gobblin

P. Taylor Goetz

ShardingSphere

Timothy Chen

Annotator

Timothy Chen

MesaTEE

Timothy Chen

Tephra


Amaterasu


DolphinScheduler


Flagon


Hudi


MXNet


Milagro


Omid


Tamaya

MesaTEE


# Incubator PMC report for October 2019

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 arrative

## 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
  September:


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

|----------------------------------------------------------------------
                       Table of Contents
[Amaterasu](#Amaterasu)  
[Annotator](#Annotator)  
[BatchEE](#BatchEE)  
[Flagon](#Flagon)  
[Gobblin](#Gobblin)
[Hudi](#Hudi)  
[Livy](#Livy)  
[MesaTEE](#MesaTEE)  
[Milagro](#Milagro)  
[MXNet](#MXNet)  
[Rya](#Rya)  
[TVM](#TVM)  
[Weex](#Weex)  

|----------------------------------------------------------------------

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## Amaterasu

Apache Amaterasu is a framework providing continuous deployment for Big Data
pipelines.

Amaterasu has been incubating since 2017-09-07.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### 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.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (amaterasu) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (amaterasu) Olivier Lamy  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (amaterasu) Davor Bonaci  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## 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:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### 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.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (annotator) Nick Kew  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (annotator) Steve Blackmon  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (annotator) Tommaso Teofili  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## BatchEE

             BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka
JSR352)             and a set of useful extensions for this specification.

BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### 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.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (batchee) Olivier Lamy  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (batchee) Mark Struberg  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Flagon

Flagon is a behavioral logging platform for web pages and apps

Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Grow the Flagon Committer/Contributor/Community Base 
  2. Refine release processes for core analytic product (Distill)
  3. Finalize (through vote) Flagon logo, post name change

### 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?

  * continued improving [release processes](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLAGON/UserALE.js+Release+Management+Procedure) and code base
  * continued to generate a wide user base
  * discussing collaborations for R&D applications
  * the community has organically grown with a new contributors
  * the community has begun a refactoring of Flagon-Distill 

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  * Completed major updates to website and repos following name change
  * Project maturity roadmaps & release plans (JIRA) are maintained
  * JIRA boards continue to be maintained.
  * Core product source code is well maintained
  * Analytical products are being refactored as of report date 
  * Continued attention and improvement in Apache Process 

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [X] Initial setup
  - [X] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  *  2019-08-21 Flagon UserALE.js (Incubating) 2.0.2
  *  2019-07-01 Flagon UserALE.js (Incubating) 2.0.0
  *  2019-06-21 Flagon UserALE.js (Incubating) 1.0.0 (ReRelease)

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  *  Furkan Kamaci (Mentor) 2019-07-24
  *  Tim Allison (Mentor) 2019-07-17

### 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.

  * Flagon thanks its new Mentors for their engagement this quarter.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (Flagon) Lewis John McGibbney  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (Flagon) David Meikle  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (Flagon) Tim Allison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (Flagon) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Gobblin

Gobblin is a distributed data integration framework that simplifies common
aspects of big data integration such as data ingestion, replication,
organization and lifecycle management for both streaming and batch data
ecosystems.

Gobblin has been incubating since 2017-02-23.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### 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.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (gobblin) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gobblin) Olivier Lamy  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gobblin) Jim Jagielski  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:


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## ShardingSphere

Sharding-Sphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database middleware, 
focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and database orchestration.

ShardingSphere has been incubating since 2018-11-10.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Clear Brand issues with other ecosystem projects.
  2. Further ASF culture and processes.
  3. Make more apache releases.

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

  1. Have two Apache releases already. There are 4.0.0-RC1 and 4.0.0-RC2.
     All licenses and checklist are fine.
  2. There are other several related project on GitHub org in ShardingSphere
     ecosystem, before or during project joined the ASF incubator, such as
     extension modules, UI, benchmark and acceptance test, they were using 
     ShardingSphere-* prefix in project name, which may cause brand issue.
     We are trying to fix these. All ShardingSphere-* have been renamed to 
     OpenSharding-*, and all old releases with ShardingSphere- are declared 
     for not apache release. 
     We have already transfer benchmark and UI project to apache repo and plan
     to merge extension modules and acceptance test into Apache repo.
  3. Another brand related issue is ShardingSphere in DockerHub, including some
     binary releases, which have been moved apache release versions to ASF Infra
  
     - https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/sharding-proxy

     All of these are only including the approved releases.
  
     Right now, the brand issues are under control, so we think board or IPMC may 
     do not need do any actions for now.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  
  1. Yanan Zhao, Haisheng Sun, Guangyuan Wang and Qi Wang have been voted and joined as committer.
  2. There are 74 people to contribute codes to the main repo, it increase pretty quickly.
     More and more people starting to provide pull requests for new features, minor enhancement, 
     bug fix, example, documentation and answer questions. We are happy to see the community are growing up.
  3. Over 100 companies have confirmed they are using ShardingSphere through issue report, our powered-by page
     Some companies has already provided some patches to feedback the community.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  
  1. Release 4.0.0-RC2 last month, main feature is data encryption.
  2. Setup benchmark report which can generate data every day to show performance status of ShardingSphere's changes.
  3. Manage contributions for squash merge pull requests, forbidden push dev branch directly and setup code review procedure.
  4. Merge donated Sharding-UI project to dev branch and planning to release it at 4.0.0-RC3.
  5. Process donated auto scale up tool from community, processing dependencies and licenses now.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [X] Initial setup
  - [X] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2019-08-24

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2019-09-23

### 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 responsive and helpful. Things tend to be on the right way.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (shardingsphere) Craig L Russell
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (shardingsphere) Benjamin Hindman
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (shardingsphere) Von Gosling

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:


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## Hudi

Hudi provides atomic upserts and incremental data streams on Big Data

Hudi has been incubating since 2019-01-17.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### 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.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (hudi) Thomas Weise  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hudi) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hudi) Kishore Gopalakrishnan  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hudi) Suneel Marthi  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## 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:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### 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
  - [X] 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.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (livy) Bikas Saha  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Brock Noland  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## MesaTEE

MesaTEE is a framework for universal secure computing

MesaTEE has been incubating since 2019-08-20.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### 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.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (mesatee) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (mesatee) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (mesatee) Jianyong Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (mesatee) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (mesatee) Matt Sicker  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (mesatee) Zhijie Shen  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Milagro

Milagro is core security infrastructure and crypto libraries for
decentralized networks and distributed systems.

Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### 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.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (milagro) Nick Kew  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (milagro) Jean-Frederic Clere  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## MXNet

A Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep Learning

MXNet has been incubating since 2017-01-23.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### 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.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (mxnet) Henri Yandell  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (mxnet) Markus Weimer  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (mxnet) Michael Wall  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (mxnet) Bob Paulin  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (mxnet) Jason Dai  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Rya

Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built
on top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and
query processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across
multiple nodes. Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through
SPARQL, a conventional query mechanism for RDF data.

Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### 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.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (rya) Josh Elser  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (rya) Billie Rinaldi  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## TVM

TVM is a full stack open deep learning compiler stack for CPUs, GPUs, and
specialized accelerators. It aims to close the gap between the productivity-
focused deep learning frameworks, and the performance- or efficiency-
oriented hardware backends.

TVM has been incubating since 2019-03-06.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### 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.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (tvm) Byung-Gon Chun  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tvm) Sebastian Schelter  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tvm) Henry Saputra  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tvm) Timothy Chen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tvm) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tvm) Tianqi Chen  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Weex

Weex is a framework for building Mobile cross-platform high performance UI.

Weex has been incubating since 2016-11-30.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### 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.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (weex) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (weex) Myrle Krantz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (weex) Jan Piotrowski  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: