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# Incubator PMC report for April 2021

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

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and 
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are presently 36 podlings incubating. In March, podlings executed 6 
distinct releases. We added 2 new IPMC members, and none retired. There was 
one IP clearance in March, and there were no new podlings. DolphinScheduler 
graduated last month.
This month we were missing reports from Livy, Milagro, PageSpeed, Spot, and 
Weex.  Livy, PageSpeed, and Spot have missed multiple reports, and roll 
calls will be taken to check these projects are still viable. Weex is in 
the process of retiring. Annotator and BlueMarlin do not have signoff by 
mentors and will also be asked to report next month.
Pinot made a process error in making a release but will make sure it 
doesn't happen again.
As with last month, MXNet still has outstanding trademark and branding 
issues, but they are working on it. As noted in the previous report, they 
are also having trouble getting IPMC votes on releases.
Some old Incubator JIRA issues were cleared up, and some Incubator web 
pages updated.  Further cleanup was done in removing old releases from 
retired podlings.
As usual, most discussions on the mailing list were around releases, new 
project proposal and finding new mentors.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - Atri Sharma
  - Juan Pan

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings
  - None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - Livy
  - Milagro
  - PageSpeed
  - Spot
  - Weex

## Graduations
  - DolphinScheduler

  The board has motions for the following:
  - None

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  March:
  - Liminal 0.0.1 
  - MXnet 1.8.0
	- MXnet 2.0.0
  - Pinot 0.7.0
  - Teaclave 0.2.0
  - TubeMQ 0.8.0

## IP Clearance
  - dubbo-go-pixiu

## Legal / Trademarks
  N/A

## Infrastructure
  N/A

## Miscellaneous
  N/A

## Table of Contents  
[Annotator](#annotator)  
[BlueMarlin](#bluemarlin)  
[DataLab](#datalab)  
[EventMesh](#eventmesh)  
[Flagon](#flagon)  
[Hivemall](#hivemall)  
[Liminal](#liminal)  
[MXNet](#mxnet)  
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)  
[NuttX](#nuttx)  
[Pegasus](#pegasus)  
[PonyMail](#ponymail)  
[Teaclave](#teaclave)  
[Toree](#toree)  
[TubeMQ](#tubemq)  
[YuniKorn](#yunikorn)  

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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. Add active contributors
  2. Stabilize a release cadence
  3. Continue to demonstrate good governance

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

  Community building has been very slow and it has been a long time since
  the project added new committers or PPMC members. After a period of
  relative inactivity and a conversion of the codebase to TypeScript, the
  project is long overdue for a second release. The IPMC should expect to
  see the project vote on a second release before the next board report to
  demonstrate forward momentum.

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

  There have been some one-off contributions to project documentation and
  questions raised by people evaluating the project for use, but there
  have not been sustained contributions or involvement from new folks yet.

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

  The project is now making continuous development packages to make it
  easier for developers to test upcoming releases. There is now tooling
  in place for generating API documentation, with plans to integrate the
  generated documentation into the website. The existing interfaces have
  all been documented. These efforts are all focused around the current
  goal of building community by making it easier for developers to become
  familiar with the project.

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2020-07-11

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

  2018-09-04

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes. Mentors have been as available when needed, but the project will
  reach out to get advice on what else could be done to make the project
  more accessible to new contributors and to grow the community.

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

  There are no branding issues that the PPM is aware of.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (annotator) Nick Kew  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (annotator) Tommaso Teofili  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (annotator) Benjamin Young  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Justin Mclean: With no sign-offs, it might be time to see if you can find 
  an additional mentor.

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## BlueMarlin

BlueMarlin will develop a web service to add intelligence functionality to a
plain ad system.

BlueMarlin has been incubating since 2020-06-09.

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

  1. Migrate issues from https://github.com/Futurewei-io/blue-marlin 
  repository to https://github.com/apache/incubator-bluemarlin
  2. Prepare a new Release
  3. Clarify the policies to maintain the code and accept pull-requests 
  from contributors

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  No Issues.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  No answer.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. Bug fix for Lookalike Model project
  2. Add tests for Lookalike Model project
  3. Bug fix for Lookalike Application

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

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

### Date of last release:

  NA

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  None yet.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  No answer.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  No answer.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (bluemarlin) Craig Russell  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bluemarlin) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bluemarlin) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bluemarlin) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bluemarlin) Uma Maheswara Rao G  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## DataLab

DataLab is a platform for creating self-service, exploratory data science
environments in the cloud using best-of-breed data science tools.

DataLab has been incubating since 2018-08-20.

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

  1. Finish preparing all artifacts necessary for graduation
  2.
  3.

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

  No issues

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

  We have new PPMC members (Yurii Kinash, Mykola Bodnar, Leonid Frolov) 
  and a new committer (Yurii Tykhun).

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

  - We are working towards the release 2.5.0
  - Migration to Py3 (in progress)
  - Edge node recreation capability (in progress)
  - Support of Spark v.3.x.x (open)
  - Localization (done)
  - Switch to modular architecture (in progress)
  - Augment an administrative page (done)
  - Implement possibility of GPU usage for Jupyter and Dataproc on GCP 
    (in progress)
  - Bug fixing

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2020-17-09

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

  The last committer was elected on February 26, 2021.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, our mentors are very helpful and responsive.

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

  There are no known brand and naming issues. New name was approved and 
  our team changed all references to DLab that are publicly accessible 
  to DataLab.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (datalab) P. Taylor Goetz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (datalab) Henry Saputra  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (datalab) Konstantin I Boudnik  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (datalab) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## EventMesh

EventMesh is a dynamic cloud-native basic service runtime used to decouple
the application and middleware layer.

EventMesh has been incubating since 2021-02-18.

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

  1. Make more releases in ASF policy regularly.
  2. Building community.

### 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?
  Preparing for some open talks, such as EDASubbmit and ApacheCon Asia.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  Waiting for code migration to apache, and ready for first release of 1.2.2.

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

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

### Date of last release:
  None

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

  None

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes, Our mentors are very helpful and responsive.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  The VP, Brand has approved the project name.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (eventmesh) Francois Papon  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (eventmesh) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (eventmesh) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (eventmesh) Justin Mclean  
     Comments: Already working towards first release, well done!
  - [ ] (eventmesh) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Flagon

Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform

Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.

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

  1. Currently discussing Graduation path (TLP, other TLP (e.g., Superset))
  2. Continue VOTE thread for Graduation on general@incubator
  3. (see commentary under podling maturity section)

### 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?
  We have seen increased user and contributor engagement:
  - in development, this quarter we have contributed 60 new commits to 
  UserALE.js alone, 15 of those were from 7 contributor PRs.
  - we have seen an increase in visits to our GitHub UserALE.js from unique 
  users (https://tinyurl.com/4cmcnn9a)
  - we have seen a marked increase in contributor/user issue discussion 
  (https://tinyurl.com/88wafvhk)
  - we have also seen user/contributor participation in VOTEs (2.2.0 RC and 
  new PPMC VOTEs)

  We have also included and are now onboarding a new committer and PPMC
  member (see below).

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  We added a range of new features and hardened our core product (e.g.,
  UserALE.js). Development has been consistent.

  New features in the last quarter will frame an upcoming release candidate
  for UserALE.js v.2.2.0, and include:
  - Redesigned logging pipelines
  - Journey Tests
  - Modernized Unit Tests
  - Updated build pipeline

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

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

  We anticipate reviving a VOTE for graduation in 2021 Q2.
  We have addressed most issues raised by IPMC during last graduation VOTE
  (2020 Q4):
  - [X] Add DISCLAIMER to subprojects to be retired (TAP, STOUT, 
  UserALE.pyqt5, user-ale)
  - [ ] Make subprojects to be retired Read Only (in progress, but 
  non-blocking)
  - [X] Add logo to https://apache.org/logos/?#flagon
  - [X] Update UserALE.js release processes for consistency with Apache 
  policies for NPM Package Releases (see 2.1.1 release)
  - [X] Get all committers subscribed to appropriate lists (might still be 
  missing one, but have contacted all)

### Date of last release:

  2020-03-27 (UserALE.js 2.1.0)

  Note: UserALE.js 2.1.1 has passed a successful release VOTE. 
  2.1.1 Release announcement is pending website update. Artifacts are 
  currently available on mirrors, GitHub, and NPM.

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

  2021-03-26 (Gedd Johnson). ICLA has been received by Secretary. He 
  originates from one of our core user communities.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Mentors are supportive.

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

  - To date, there are no known issues of 3rd Party misuse of brand
  - 'Flagon' was cleared through the Apache PODLINGNAMESEARCH workflow.
  - 'Flagon' branded graphics will conform to Apache's Trademark and 
  Branding policies.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (flagon) David Meikle  
     Comments:  Great to see the community engagement.
  - [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments: Thanks for the detailed report!

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Hivemall

Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive
UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.

Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.

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

  1. Community growth (committers and users)
  2. One or more Apache Releases as an Incubator project

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

  PPMCs are considering exit approaches including retiring.

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

  - Few traffics on mailing lists including requests to join the project from
  a Hive committer.
  - 2-3 users issued JIRA tickets

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

  - not so active. Only applied minor hotfixes.

### 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:

  2019-12-19

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

  Elected Jerome Banks as a committer on April 2, 2018.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes

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

  Yes, we keep tracking podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (hivemall) Daniel Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (hivemall) Koji Sekiguchi  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## 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:

  1. Grow developers community.
  2. Adoption of the project by a few companies.
  3. More releases - provide out-of-the-box usability for common 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?

  We have started to engage with Airflow community
  (https://airflow.apache.org/ecosystem/).
  We plan to push the first release through social media.

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

  We have released our first official Apache version + notes on running it on
  AWS.
  We have planned the timeline and content of the second version (due to May
  2021).

### 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:

  2021-03-16

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

  NA

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  J.B. and Davor have been super helpful in approving the first release and
  in pushing infra issues.

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

  NA

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (liminal) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (liminal) Henry Saputra  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (liminal) Uma Maheswara Rao G  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (liminal) Davor Bonaci  
     Comments: Very happy to see the first release completed!
  - [ ] (liminal) Liang Chen  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

  Dave Fisher - I sent a note to the PPMC suggesting that they start their
    Suitable Name Search soon.

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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. Address release issues, improve automation for license checks, and
  make it easier for auditing.
     - DONE
  2. Successfully and smoothly make releases without WIP disclaimer.
     - ONGOING.
  3. Improve brand management.
     - ONGOING.

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

  1. The community fixed the issues in INCUBATOR-253 and will continue to
  perform regular trademark and branding review.
  2. Following the completion of license and release issue fixes, MXNet had 
  difficulty finishing the
  releases votes in Incubator. Here are the stats for the two recent 
  successful releases:

  |                                        | 1.8.0   | 2.0.0.alpha |
  |----------------------------------------|---------|-------------|
  | duration                               | 39 days | 27 days     |
  | issues uncovered (fixed after release) | 5       | 2           |
  | mentor participation                   | 50%     | 25%         |

  We have one mentor who indicated the desire to step down if we can find 
  more mentors.
  We will request for a few more active mentors to help us smoothly finish 
  the last mile before graduation.

  3. We conduct regular brand management review as part of the regular 
  reporting.
  From recent brand usage review for MXNet third-party distributions,
  we found several listings on AWS marketplace that need update. The PPMC
  reached out to the publishers of these listings for correction. See status
  in brand management section.

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

  * The number of GitHub contributors increased to currently 955
  * Active blogs and social media presence
    * Medium (https://medium.com/apache-mxnet) w/ 2k followers (+3%)

  * Active video channels
    * YouTube channel  (https://www.youtube.com/apachemxnet) w/ 1.39k
    subscriber (+4.5% since last report)
    * Chinese YouTube channel
    (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjeLwTKPMlDt2segkZzw2ZQ) w/ 6.55k
     subscribers (+1.8%)
    * (in China) bilibili space (https://space.bilibili.com/209599371) w/
    28k subscriber (+7.6% since last report)

  * Highlights in MXNet ecosystem
    * Dive into Deep Learning has 67K 30-day active users, and has
  attracted 31.3K stars & 350 contributors on GitHub. It has been adopted as
  a textbook or reference book by 180+ universities from 40 countries, such
  as Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, UCambridge.
    * GluonCV v0.10.0 release
      (https://github.com/dmlc/gluon-cv/releases/tag/v0.10.0)
    * GluonNLP MX2 NumPy version
      (https://github.com/dmlc/gluon-nlp/tree/master)
    * GluonTS v0.6.7 release
      (https://github.com/awslabs/gluon-ts/releases/tag/v0.6.7)
    * DeepInsight (https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface)
    * Sockeye 2.3.14 release (https://github.com/awslabs/sockeye)

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

  1) 1.8.0 is released:
  https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.8.0
  with 100+ patches of new features, improvements, and fixes.
  2) 2.0.0 alpha is released:
  https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/projects/18
  https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/2.0.0.alpha
  3) Github statistics of last month:
     * March 7, 2021 – April 7, 2021: Excluding merges, 18 authors have 
  pushed 33 commits to master and 67 commits to all branches. On master, 10
  files have changed and there have been 206 additions and 71 deletions.

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2021-03-24

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

  2021-02-03

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes. Furkan has helped with all our recent releases (thanks!).
  Markus expressed desire to step down as a mentor if we find more
  mentors. Because of the large scope of the project and the several issues
  we faced so far, we definitely wish to have more mentors to help.

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

  Yes. From recent brand usage review for MXNet third-party distributions,
  we found several listings on AWS marketplace that need update. The PPMC
  reached out to the publishers of these listings for correction.
  Here we report the status of these items.

  https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07MP6Y8XT?qid=1609989161134&sr=0-17&r
  ef_=srh_res_product_title (done)

  https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07C49CVC1?qid=1609989286506&sr=0-30&r
  ef_=srh_res_product_title (done)

  https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01JJ31R8C?qid=1609989286506&sr=0-22&r
  ef_=srh_res_product_title (done)

  https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07F3YBMT9?qid=1609989286506&sr=0-23&r
  ef_=srh_res_product_title (done)

  https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B084FXK9XH?qid=1609989286506&sr=0-24&r
  ef_=srh_res_product_title (done)

  https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results?x=0&y=0&searchTerms=%22MX
  (pending)

  https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B073SHB43M?qid=1609989286506&sr=0-21&r
  ef_=srh_res_product_title (pending update)

  https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B079225XXC?qid=1609989161134&sr=0-14&r
  ef_=srh_res_product_title (pending update)

  https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B08L8H9NWD?qid=1609989286506&sr=0-28&r
  ef_=srh_res_product_title (pending update)

  https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B08G8VXC1Q?qid=1609989286506&sr=0-29&r
  ef_=srh_res_product_title (pending update)

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (mxnet) Markus Weimer  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (mxnet) Bob Paulin  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (mxnet) Jason Dai  
     Comments:
  - [X] (mxnet) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## NLPCraft

Apache NLPCraft is an open source library for adding natural language 
Interface to modern applications. Apache NLPCraft has been incubating since 
2020-02-13.

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

  1. Community growth & outreach. 
  2. Multiple release managers.
  3. Presenting the project at ApacheCon 2021.

### 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?
  Project have several new contributors that we are expecting to formally
  join the project/ASF in the future. These are individuals outside of the
  original NLPCraft community. We are also getting number of offline
  contributions when it comes to ideas, testing and website. We are working
  on promoting these contributions and inviting these individuals to be more
  active. We need, however, to get much better at the general project
  outreach via meetups, conferences, etc.

  Project has 8 forks on the Github.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  Project produced 2 releases. Both releases were an interim, bug fix
  releases. So far, they were produced by the same release manager (Aaron
  Radzinski). The community is working on the major release 0.7.5 right now
  that should go GA in the April 2021 with significant changes and
  improvements (all of which are relfected in JIRA tickets for 0.7.5
  version). At this point, the community does not have a formalized roadmap
  with many internal discussions happening on Slack channels. We are
  generally expecting to formalize the long-term roadmap towards 1.0.0
  release with hopefully a larger community around the project.

### 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:
  NLPCraft 0.7.4 released on Jan 31, 2021.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  Aug, 2020 - Gleb Zernov (ifropc), committer.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  We have some problems with getting attention from mentors. Release voting
  can go for weeks without attention from mentors that is slowing down the
  progress on the project. However, the mentors' participation has improved
  lately. We've also identified some of the communication inefficiencies that
  would help us to engage mentors better going forward.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Yes, no issues to report.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (nlpcraft) Roman Shaposhnik  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  Thanks for giving so much time to this month's report.
  - [ ] (nlpcraft) Evans Ye  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nlpcraft) Paul King  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nlpcraft) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  Thanks for the more detailed report.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## NuttX

NuttX is a mature, real-time embedded operating system (RTOS).

NuttX has been incubating since 2019-12-09.

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

  1. Clear any potential infringing use of the NuttX trademark
  2. Make more releases under Apache
  3. Continue to grow the community with people from different background

### 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?

  * Most communications have moved from old venues to dev@nuttx.apache.org. 

  The dev list contains 230 subscribers, an increase of 9% since our
    previous report, and is the home of all development discussions and  
    user questions.  
  * GitHub's PRs and Issues also have their own discussions.  
  * We are seeing new contributors to the project through GitHub.  
  * No new committer(s) have been added since the last report.  

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

  * We have made significant steps toward license clearing, needed for  
    graduation: In this quarter, thousands of files have been cleared  
    and changed to the Apache 2.0 License through the large effort of  
    our volunteers. Since joining the Incubator, more than 10,000 files  
    have been changed to the Apache 2.0 License with the permission of  
    more than 60 individuals and 16 organizations who signed ICLAs, CCLAs,  
    and SGAs to assist us in getting closer to graduation. We are  
    grateful to everyone for their invaluable support through this  
    important process.  
  * We continue to secure ICLAs and SGAs from from past and present  
    contributors and have secured 8 new ICLAs and 3 new SGAs this  
    quarter.  
  * Contributions are flowing regularly as PRs in GitHub with occasional  
    patches in the dev list.  
  * Many technical improvements, bug fixes, and new architectures have  
    been collaborated and work continues with an average of 9 and  
    sometimes more than a dozen pull requests merged per day.  
  * We have not made any new releases during this quarter but have begun  
    discussing the next release, tentatively set for next month.  
  * We have listened to the valuable feedback received during our  
    previous releases and continue to improve our documentation. This can  
    be found at https://nuttx.apache.org/docs/latest/.  
  * We are working to streamline our GitHub PR checks to use fewer  
    resources while still giving providing early feedback of potentially  
    disruptive problems. The GitHub PR checks have helped us immensely in  
    improving our code quality and compliance to project standards.  

### 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:

  NuttX-10.0.1 and NuttX-9.1.1 were released on 2020-12-08.

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

  Last elected PPMC: 2020-01-10

  Last committer added: 2020-12-30

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Mentors are helpful and responsive.  

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

  Podling name was approved on May 17th 2020: https://s.apache.org/4hfzx

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (nuttx) Duo Zhang  
     Comments: Glad to see the big step on license clearing!
  - [ ] (nuttx) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nuttx) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  Great work on the license, ICLA and SGA work. You could 
     graduate without that 100% done as long at the 3rd party licenses are ALv2
     compatible.
  - [ ] (nuttx) Mohammad Asif Siddiqui  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nuttx) Flavio Paiva Junqueira  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## 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:

  1. Make roadmap of Pegasus annually.
  2. Make more releases in ASF policy regularly.
  3. Resolve the license problems.

### 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?

  Not significantly.

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

  We have prepared to raise voting for the release 2.2.0 as we have
  well-tested the beta version in Xiaomi.

  The changes were summarized here:
  https://github.com/apache/incubator-pegasus/issues/696.

### 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:

  2020-11-30

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

  N/A

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes

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

  Yes

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (pegasus) Kevin A. McGrail  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (pegasus) Duo zhang  
     Comments: I think we'd better add 'Growing the community' to our 
     important issues.
  - [ ] (pegasus) Liang Chen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pegasus) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## 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:

  1. Further grow community
  2. Work towards foal 1.0
  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?
  The community welcomes Sean Palmer to the committers roster, and appreciates
  his work on DKIM parsing for Pony Mail and Foal.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  Work is underway for a release-worthy edition of Foal.

### 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
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2019-04-02

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  Sean Palmer was elected committer on April 2nd, 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.

### 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:  
  - [X] (ponymail) Sharan Foga  
     Comments: Great to see a new committer added to the project. Community 
     size is still small so hope that the work around the Foal release may help
     attract new users or contributors.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Teaclave

Teaclave is a universal secure computing platform, making computation on 
privacy-sensitive data safe and simple.

Teaclave has been incubating since 2019-08-20.

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

  1. Improve project structure and documentation
  2. Grow the community (attracting more committers, contributors, users)
  3. Publish Apache releases (resolving logistics on Apache release)

### 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?

  Since the last report, we have started monthly virtual meetups for three
  times. Many people from the community share their usage experience of
  Teaclave. Also, we invited some contributors to talk about some technical
  details of the design and implementation. For each meetup, we have minutes
  write-up published on the Teaclave blog.
  - Teaclave Meetup #1: 
  https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-01-27-teaclave-meetup-1/
  - Teaclave Meetup #2: 
  https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-02-24-teaclave-meetup-2/
  - Teaclave Meetup #3: 
  https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-03-24-teaclave-meetup-3/

  In addition, we have one more project (Crust Network) powered by Teaclave
  joined in our "Powered By" page on the Teaclave homepage.
  - https://teaclave.apache.org/powered-by/

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

  During this period, we also accepted the Rust OP-TEE TrustZone SDK project
  to Teaclave as a sub-project, named as Teaclave TrustZone SDK. Similar to
  Teaclave SGX SDK, Teaclave TrustZone SDK will be the foundation of the
  Teaclave FaaS platform to support multiple trusted execution environments.
  - Welcome Rust OP-TEE TrustZone SDK TO Teaclave: 
  https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-03-14-welcome-rust-optee-trustzone-sdk
  /

  We published a project roadmap in 2021:
  - Roadmap in 2021: Project Maturity and Community Buildup: 
  https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-01-19-roadmap-in-2021-project-maturity
  -and-community-buildup/

  We also announce the 0.2.0 release. In 0.2.0, we focus on various
  components including built-in functions, SDKs in different languages,
  docker, command line interface, documents, etc.
  - Announcing Apache Teaclave (incubating) 0.2.0: 
  https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-03-01-announcing-teaclave-0-2-0/

### 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:

  2021-03-02: Apache Teaclave (incubating) 0.2.0

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

  2020-10-22, Ran Duan (rduan), Committer

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, our mentors work responsively to help us with accepting new project
  donation into Teaclave.

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

  We don't find any 3rd parties incorrectly using the podling's name and 
  brand. The VP, Brand has approved the project name. (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-175)

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (teaclave) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (teaclave) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Jianyong Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Matt Sicker  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Zhijie Shen  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## 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
  2.
  3.

### 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?

  It has been a quiet few months, with a few bug reported related to
  Apache Spark 3.x. The community also needs to update the latest RC
  to conform to the changes on release requirements for python packages.

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

  Quiet few months with work needed to be done on the failed RC.

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2020-07-31

### 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?

  There was nothing requiring mentor intervention on the last quarter.

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

  No Trademark issues

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (toree) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (toree) Julien Le Dem  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (toree) Ryan Blue  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## TubeMQ

TubeMQ is a distributed messaging queue (MQ) system.

TubeMQ has been incubating since 2019-11-03.

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

  1.Complete the project rename task
  2.Improve and optimize the system to solve system Short board
  3.Promote the system, to let more people to use and participate in the 
  community

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  One,
  Our rename implementation Jira[1] still has no clear completion time. Since
  the new name passed and mentor JB submitted the rename Jira[1] on March 11,
  after the priority of the jira was adjusted from Major to Minor on March
  13, the mentors has pinged several times, but still no more movement.

  1.
  https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/INFRA/issues/INFRA-21558?filter=allo
  penissues

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  We have recently deployed the community TubeMQ 0.8.0 version in our
  environment, from the comparison of before and after the gray-scale, the
  performance of the version is at least 5% higher than before, especially
  the metric of the number of disks written has dropped significantly, and
  the problems found have been reported back to the community for repair.

  At the same time, we have conducted three times offline technical exchanges
  with the technical teams of other different companies (the relevant
  communication documents have been placed on the external website for other
  business review and analysis). Through the comparison of the environmental
  issues of different companies in the big data scenario, TubeMQ has
  relatively good cost advantages and technical characteristics. We will
  continue to choose to cooperate with companies with similar scenario
  requirements to let more people, company, who need this ability uses this
  component, and participates in the operation of the community.

  In addition to using email to synchronize information, we created an
  "inlong" channel in ASF on Slack to meet and solve the needs of users  for
  timely communication.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  When we were preparing for the release of TubeMQ 0.8.0 without the "-WIP"
  tag, we discovered that the BDB component that the project metadata
  management module relies on has a license authorization problem, we are
  refactoring this part to meet Apache's license requirements.

  At the same time, our project has submitted an application for name change
  and has been approved by Apache. We are currently preparing for the content
  of the project after the name change, including the project homepage, Logo,
  modules to be open sourced, documentation, etc, and some of the content has
  been completed and is waiting to be applied online after the name change is
  completed; the name change implementation Jira [1] has been submitted by
  Mentor JB on March 11, and is still in pending status without clear
  implementation completion time.

  1.
  https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/INFRA/issues/INFRA-21558?filter=allo
  penissues

### 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:
  2021-03-05

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  yuanboliu    - was added as committers on 2020-12-10

  dockerzhang  - was added as PPMC on 2020-12-15

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes, the mentors Justin and JB in the project improvement stage gave us a
  lot of help.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Yes, all good here.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (tubemq) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (tubemq) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  Rename issue has been resolved.
  - [ ] (tubemq) Sijie Guo  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tubemq) Zhijie Shen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tubemq) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## YuniKorn

YuniKorn is a standalone resource scheduler responsible for scheduling batch
jobs and long-running services on large scale distributed systems running in
on-premises environments as well as different public clouds.

YuniKorn has been incubating since 2020-01-21.

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

  1. Gain more contributors and active committers. 
  2. Release regularly, split large changes over multiple releases. 
  3. Improve the ease of deployment and documentation quality. 

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

  No issues at this point in time.

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

  Added one new committer, and several new contributors.  
  Delivered two large features in new release v0.10.  
  Release v0.10 has been approved by the community and is up for a vote in 
  the
  IPMC.

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

  New release with a new release manager (3rd for 3 releases) voted on by 
  community. Voting thread just created for a IPMC vote.  
  Major new functionality gang scheduling delivered.  
  New community members tested pre-release code and were active in the
  development phase.

  Some statistics for the report period (2021-01-01 till 2021-03-31):   
  JIRA: 125 created, 99 resolved  
  PRs: 86 opened, 84 resolved  
  12 unique active code contributors (cumulative for all repos)

### 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:

  2020-08-26

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

  2021-02-04 committer added

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  yes

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

  No issues that we are aware of.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (yunikorn) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (yunikorn) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (yunikorn) Jason Lowe  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (yunikorn) Holden Karau  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: