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# Incubator PMC report for August 2021

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
August:


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents 
[Annotator](#annotator) 
[BlueMarlin](#bluemarlin) 
[DataLab](#datalab) 
[Doris](#doris) 
[EventMesh](#eventmesh) 
[Flagon](#flagon) 
[Heron](#heron) 
[InLong](#inlong) 
[Liminal](#liminal) 
[Livy](#livy) 
[Milagro](#milagro) 
[MXNet](#mxnet) 
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft) 
[NuttX](#nuttx) 
[PageSpeed](#pagespeed) 
[Pegasus](#pegasus) 
[Pinot](#pinot) 
[PonyMail](#ponymail) 
[SDAP](#sdap) 
[Sedona](#sedona) 
[ShenYu](#shenyu) 
[Teaclave](#teaclave) 
[Toree](#toree) 
[Training](#training) 
[Tuweni](#tuweni) 
[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.
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.

### 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:



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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. Finalize bootstrap of the project (move existing issues to github, etc)
2. Review all files (ASF headers, ...)
3. Prepare a first release

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

No real issue, but the bootstrap is very very slow.

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

No really community development, the project bootstrap is still on the way.

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

The bootstrap is very slow. JB (mentor) proposed several calls with the team. A new meeting is planned to move forward.
The initial team should be more involved and take lead on some tasks.

### 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:

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:

- [ ] (bluemarlin) Craig Russell 
Comments: 
- [X] (bluemarlin) Jean-Baptiste Onofré 
Comments: I do my best to move forward, but the team should take lead and have the willing to move forward.
- [ ] (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 a new committer (Iana Redko). 

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

  - We are working towards the release 2.5.0
  - Migration to Py3 (done)
  - Localization (done) 
  - Augment an administrative page (done) 
  - Implement possibility of GPU usage for Jupyter, Dataproc and Data Engine (standalone cluster) on GCP (done) 
  - Support specific python versions via virtual environments for all notebooks and compute resources (except Data Engine Service and DeepLearning) (done) 
  - Update third-party software (done) 
  - Bug fixing (in progress) 

### 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 June 21, 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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## Doris

Doris is a MPP-based interactive SQL data warehousing for reporting and
analysis.

Doris has been incubating since 2018-07-18.

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

1. A smoother channel for communication with developers.
2. There are some branding issues need to be addressed.
3. Code refactor to reduce references to other project code.

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

There are some branding issues need to be addressed, which has been discussed in [1] And we are working on it.
[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf51fad9228bf38f9fdf8ee0f691550e69853c7 b1a31a8d23381a52ce%40%3Cprivate.doris.apache.org%3E
We hope that it can be addressed at end fo Sept.

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

Since the last report, we have added 29 contributors. There are currently 183 contributors and 26 committers.

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

1. We have released 0.14 since 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:

2021-05-26

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

1. caiconghui, PPMC member, 2021-05-31
2. liulijia, committer, 2021-06-23
3. wangxixu, committer, 2021-06-23
4. laiyingchun, committer, 2021-07-07
5. weizuo, committer, 2021-06-30

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

All mentors are helpful, especially on the issue of branding, they helped us a lot.

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

Yes

### Signed-off-by:

- [X] (doris) Willem Ning Jiang 
Comments: We are working closely with Doris PPMC when resolving the branding issue. 
- [ ] (doris) Shao Feng Shi 
Comments: 
- [ ] (doris) Ming Wen 
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. Growing the community.
2. N/A
3. N/A

### 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?
1. The first release of v1.2.0 has been successful to vote in IPMC.
2. We did 3 promotions on The Stack、ITPUB、and ApacheCon Asia 2021, 5 students of SOC is on going and seems good. A meetup is on schedule.
3. We have 12 new contributors.
4. Two-weeks meeting is scheduled.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Enhanced Plugin and make it singleton and will not be a dependency of runtime, only use config to enable plugin.
2. Security Plugin is abstracted, Registry Plugin and ProtocolServer Plugin is developing.
3. Kafka-connector plugin and redis-connector plugin is developing.
4. Switch properties to ymal format is developing.
5. CloudEvents and EventStreaming integration is desgining.
6. OpenSchema integration is developing.

### 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:

  2021-8-6

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

  The last committer was elected on Feb 18, 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. 

### Signed-off-by:

- [ ] (eventmesh) Francois Papon 
Comments: 
- [ ] (eventmesh) Junping Du 
Comments: 
- [X] (eventmesh) Jean-Baptiste Onofré 
Comments: First release on the way, good one. We still have work to do for community building and podling guidance.
- [ ] (eventmesh) Justin Mclean 
Comments: 
- [X] (eventmesh) Von Gosling 
Comments: Good shape, very close to the first release. Community building will be the next direction.

### 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.
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.

### 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:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Heron

A real-time, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine.

Heron has been incubating since 2017-06-23.

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

1. Growing the community
2.
3.

### 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?
   - New questions have come across the user@heron mailing list with a request for a new feature. 
   - The current community has stayed consistent and stable.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  -  Heron has had many improvements to help the project be more “cloud native”. 
  -  Many improvements have been related to Kubernetes support.

### 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:

  - 2021-05-26: 0.20.4-incubating

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

  The last two new committers voted in:
    - Oliver Bristow (July 22, 2020)
    - Windham Wong (July 3, 2020)


### 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.
  - We’ve recently added Ming and Kevin to help with mentorship. They have been extremely helpful.

### 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?
  - No

### Signed-off-by:

- [ ] (heron) Jake Farrell 
Comments: 
- [ ] (heron) Julien Le Dem 
Comments: 
- [ ] (heron) P. Taylor Goetz 
Comments: 
- [X] (heron) Dave Fisher 
Comments: The current community is small, but active.
- [ ] (heron) Ming Wen 
Comments: 
- [ ] (heron) Kevin Ratnasekera 
Comments: 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## InLong

InLong is a one-stop data streaming platform that provides automatic, secure, distributed, and efficient data publishing and subscription capabilities. This platform helps you easily build stream-based data applications. 

InLong has been incubating since 2019-11-03.

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

1.Improve and optimize the system to solve the system shortboard

2.Promote the system, to let more people use and participate in the community

3.Building a diverse community with open governance.

### 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?
- 3+ new contributors participate in the community since the last report(currently: 56)
- Held 1 online meetup to discuss the renamed project architecture and goals.
- InLong history issues have migrate from JIRA to GitHub Issues successfully, include all issues status.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Improve the ease of deployment and documentation quality.
- Refactor the submodules to be more unified.
- Develop the issues for next release.

### 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:

2021-07-12

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
The last PPMC was elected on on 2020-12-15

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

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

### Signed-off-by:

- [ ] (inlong) Junping Du 
Comments: 
- [ ] (inlong) Justin Mclean 
Comments: 
- [ ] (inlong) Sijie Guo 
Comments: 
- [ ] (inlong) Zhijie Shen 
Comments: 
- [X] (inlong) Jean-Baptiste Onofré 
Comments: The podling is moving forward cleanly and I have the chance to chat with them on Slack. Great podling.

### 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 released V 0.0.2 with seamless integration with AWS + we are working on a joint blogpost with the AWS technical team on using Liminal with MWAA.
We got accepted to present Liminal in both ApacheCon and ApacheCon Asia 2021. 
We are going to present in August in 2 public companies, hoping to attract them to join the community effort. 

### How has the project developed since the last report?
We have released V 0.0.2 and going to release in August v 0.0.3 - a major milestone to Liminal, containing out-of-the-box functionality to run an ML pipeline locally and in AWS, using Airflow, Kubernetes & Spark.

### 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:

2021-04-20

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

### 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.
J.B. and Davor have been super helpful in approving the second release and assist with any issue 
raised.

### 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?
NA

### Signed-off-by:

- [X] (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:



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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. Cut a new release
2. Fill maturity matrix
3. Discuss about graduation

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

No real issue, the podling is mature, and I think we can discuss about graduation.

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

Several messages have been seen showing an interest for the podling.

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

Not a lot of activity as the podling is mature.

### 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
- [X] 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:

- [X] (livy) Bikas Saha 
Comments: 
- [ ] (livy) Luciano Resende 
Comments: 
- [X] (livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofré 
Comments: I think the podling (in term of features) is mature, so, moving forward to new release and graduation would make sense.

### 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.

### 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:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## MXNet## 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. Successfully and smoothly make releases without WIP disclaimer.
     - ONGOING.
  2. Improve brand management.
     - ONGOING.

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

  Since last report, we recruited two new mentors for MXNet and they have
  been very helpful in MXNet activities.

  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 with only
  last three remaining.

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

  * The number of GitHub contributors increased to currently 963
  * Active blogs and social media presence
    * Medium (https://medium.com/apache-mxnet) w/ 2k followers (+1%)

  * Active video channels
    * YouTube channel  (https://www.youtube.com/apachemxnet) w/ 1.46k
    subscriber (+5% since last report)
    * Chinese YouTube channel
    (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjeLwTKPMlDt2segkZzw2ZQ) w/ 6.75k
     subscribers (+3%)

  * Highlights in MXNet ecosystem
    * GluonCV v0.10.4 release
      (https://github.com/dmlc/gluon-cv/releases/tag/v0.10.4)
    * GluonNLP MX2 NumPy version
      (https://github.com/dmlc/gluon-nlp/tree/master)
    * GluonTS v0.8.0 release
      (https://github.com/awslabs/gluon-ts/releases/tag/v0.8.0)
    * DeepInsight (https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface)
    * Sockeye 2.3.17 release (https://github.com/awslabs/sockeye)

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

  1) 1.9.0 release is in progress.
  https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.9.0.rc6
  with 100+ patches of new features, improvements, and fixes.
  This will be the first recent release without DISCLAIMER-WIP.
  2) Github statistics of last month:
     * July 4, 2021 – August 4, 2021: Excluding merges, 14 authors have
     pushed 14 commits to master and 29 commits to all branches. On master,
     66 files have changed and there have been
     12,224 additions and 5,745 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?

  2021-07-16

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes.

### 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/B073SHB43M?qid=1609989286506&sr=0-21&r
  ef_=srh_res_product_title (done)

  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:
  - [ ] (mxnet) Kezhen Xu  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (mxnet) Atri Sharma  
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## NLPCraft

A Java API for NLU applications

NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.

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

1. User and developer community growth.
2. Project maturity.
3. Project awareness.

### 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 several new collaborators that community is planning to promote to committer level in the future. The project/community is finally working project awareness by launching dedicated YouTube channel, submitting and presenting at relevant conferences (ApacheCon Asia 20221, ApacheCon 2021, Scala By The Bay), writing technical blogs, and reworking website documentation based on the feedback from the early users.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
Ptoject made two major releases 0.8.0 and 0.9.0 since the last report. Both releases introduced significant new features as well as number of bug fixes and improvements.

### 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:

2021-07-30

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
August 2020. We, however, have number of collaborators that we are planning to put on election shortly.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Generally, the project is experiences some problems with engaging mentors. Release votes can go for 5-10 days and ony collect 1-2 mentors votes requireing repeated email reminders. 

### 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?
Yes, no problems here.

### Signed-off-by:

- [ ] (nlpcraft) Roman Shaposhnik 
Comments: 
- [X] (nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci 
Comments: 
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Evans Ye 
Comments: 
- [ ] (nlpcraft) Paul King 
Comments: 
- [X] (nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik 
Comments: 
- [X] (nlpcraft) Dave Fisher 
Comments: 

### 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.
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.

### 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:

- [ ] (nuttx) Junping Du 
Comments: 
- [ ] (nuttx) Justin Mclean 
Comments: 
- [ ] (nuttx) Mohammad Asif Siddiqui 
Comments: 
- [ ] (nuttx) Flavio Paiva Junqueira 
Comments: 
- [ ] (nuttx) Duo Zhang 
Comments: 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## PageSpeed

PageSpeed represents a series of open source technologies to
help make the web faster by rewriting web pages to reduce
latency and bandwidth.

PageSpeed has been incubating since 2017-09-30.

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

1. Grow the number of active developers
2. Enhance the release process: switch to github tagged release to simplify.

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

While there is a healthy user base, the number of active developers remains
persistently low.  This seems to be a hard to address challenge.

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

Mailing lists and git issues are active. The number of active developers is unchanged.

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

Minor activity.

### 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
- [X] Other:
We'll be blogging about the 2.0 Envoy PoC, 
hopefully that will get some developer interest as we pivot into the service mesh world

### Date of last release:

The week of May 11th, 2020

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

May 27 2019 (Longinos Ferrando, elected as both committer and PMC member)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes.

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

As far as we know the brand is respected by third parties.


### Signed-off-by:

- [ ] (pagespeed) Jukka Zitting 
Comments: 
- [ ] (pagespeed) Leif Hedstrom 
Comments: 
- [ ] (pagespeed) Nick Kew 
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. Grow the community, attracting more users, contributors and committers
2. Resolve the license problems
3. Publish more releases in ASF policy regularly

### 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?
Since the last report, we have added 1 committer.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
Since the last report, we have published a new release 2.2.0.

### 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:

2021-06-28: Apache Pegasus (incubating) 2.2.0

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
New committer: Yanzhao Tang (2021-07-07).

### 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: 
- [ ] (pegasus) Duo zhang 
Comments: 
- [ ] (pegasus) Liang Chen 
Comments: 
- [X] (pegasus) Von Gosling 
Comments: 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Pinot

Pinot is a distributed columnar storage engine that can ingest data in real-
time and serve analytical queries at low latency.

Pinot has been incubating since 2018-10-17.

Pinot graduated in July 2021. No further Incubator reports will be provided.

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

1. n/a
2. n/a
3. n/a

### 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
- [X] Other: Graduated

### 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:

- [ ] (pinot) Kishore Gopalakrishna 
Comments: 
- [X] (pinot) Jim Jagielski 
Comments: 
- [ ] (pinot) Olivier Lamy 
Comments: 
- [ ] (pinot) Felix Cheung 
Comments: 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Pony Mail

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. Growing community size and software adoption rate
2. Getting Foal to a production-/release-ready state
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?
Our latest committer has helped revitalize the development, and 
we are seeing decent levels of commitment from our committer base.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
Work continues on the Foal edition of Pony Mail, with 
levels of engagement slightly up in the community.

### 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:

2019-04-20

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
The last committer to be invited was Sean Palmer at 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: 
- [X] (ponymail) Sharan Foga 
Comments: 
A discussion around possible graduation has just been started and although the community remains is relatively small, work continues to happen.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## SDAP

SDAP is an integrated data analytic center for Big Science problems.

SDAP has been incubating since 2017-10-22.

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

1. Make official SDAP (Incubating) Release
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?

Discussions in ASF slack channel: https://the-asf.slack.com/archives/CN8UJ3D0V

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

Completed issues:
SDAP-308	deletebyquery.py not working after Nexus Python3 upgrade
SDAP-213	Update dependencies in EDGE requirements.txt
SDAP-310	Update match up output to use CF standard name for satellite variable
SDAP-154	Python 3

New/Updated issues:
SDAP-316	Update webapp to python version 3 in helm chart.
SDAP-318	TimeSeriesSpark returns empty list for bounding box larger than a hemisphere.
SDAP-320	Integrate 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT work into SDAP
SDAP-317	Open multiple netcdf files in order to generate granules with multiple time steps
SDAP-314	Add Elasticsearch support
SDAP-312	Optimize reprojection to UTM in matchup algorithm
SDAP-309	Watch collections iwhich path is a regex
SDAP-307	nexustiles get_tiles_by_polygon() & get_tiles_by_polygon_sorttimeasc() gets data out of the requested polygon from Solr
SDAP-319	Fix misleading comment in helm/values.yaml
SDAP-321	Allow wildcards in S3 paths for collections
SDAP-315	Update match up algorithm for satellite to satellite
SDAP-311	Collect performance metrics in current match-up algorithm
SDAP-304	Making Cassandra keyspace creation optional
SDAP-313	Make Cassandra keyspace variable for granule_ingester

### 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:

N/A

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

Two new committers were elected in March 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?
PPMC is not aware of any issues


### Signed-off-by:

- [ ] (sdap) Jörn Rottmann 
Comments: 
- [ ] (sdap) Trevor Grant 
Comments: 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Sedona

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to
use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process
geospatial data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

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

1. Find alternative release manager
2. Fix the data copyright issue occurred in test data
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?

All good here. We have active users on Gitter and mailing list

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

We successfully published our second release Apache Sedona 1.0.1-incubating

### 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:

2021-05-25

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

N/A

### 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.

All good here

### 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:

- [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung 
Comments: 
- [X] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré 
Comments: 
- [ ] (sedona) George Percivall 
Comments: 
- [X] (sedona) Von Gosling 
Comments: 

### 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:

- Improve project structure and documentation
- Grow the community (attracting more committers, contributors, users)
- 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 organized three monthly virtual meetups. 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 #4: <https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-04-29-teaclave-meetup-4/>
- Teaclave Meetup #5: <https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-06-24-teaclave-meetup-5/>
- Teaclave Meetup #6: <https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-07-29-teaclave-meetup-6/>

We also have two new members:

- 2020-07-09, Hongbo Chen (ya0guang), Commiter
- 2020-07-25, Gordon King (garyw), Mentor

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

Here are the summaries of recent progress of our three sub-projects:

Teaclave:

- Change the executor's payload type from `String` to `Vec<u8>`.
- Unify the launch of teaclave services.
- Add WebAssembly Executor and corresponding examples.
- Upgrade Intel SGX SDK to the latest release (SGX 2.14.100.2, DCAP 1.11.100.2).
- Some minor fixes of the building system and  documentation.

Teaclave SGX SDK:

- Minor bug fixes.

Teaclave TrustZone SDK:

- Release the first Apache Incubator version 0.1.0: [Announcing Apache Teaclave TrustZone SDK (Incubating) 0.1.0](https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-06-16-announcing-teaclave-trustzone-sdk-0-1-0/).
- Update to OP-TEE 3.13.0.
- Implement the `iSocket` APIs and corresponding examples.
- Implement loadable plugin for TA and corresponding examples.
- Some minor fixes and repository cleanups.

### 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:

  2021-06-10: Apache Teaclave TrustZone SDK (incubating) 0.1.0

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

  2020-07-25, Gordon King (garyw), Mentor

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, our mentors work responsively to help us with electing new mentors, proposing new features, and expanding the community.

### 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: good progress
- [X] (teaclave) Furkan Kamaci 
Comments: 
- [ ] (teaclave) Jianyong Dai 
Comments: 
- [ ] (teaclave) Matt Sicker 
Comments: 
- [ ] (teaclave) Zhijie Shen 
Comments: 
- [ ] (teaclave) Gordon King 
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.
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.

### 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) Julien Le Dem 
Comments: 
- [ ] (toree) Ryan Blue 
Comments: 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## 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:

1. Add more contributing members to the project
2. Make the Training project popular among users
3. Grow the overall knowledgebase of Training project

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
We need some broad forums where use of Training project can be explained and popularized.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
Quite low communication between members since the last report. Need to find more ways to increase the contribution and participation.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
No new PR added to project 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:

2020-11-27

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

November 2020

### 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: 
- [X] (training) Christofer Dutz 
Comments: 
- [ ] (training) Justin Mclean 
Comments: 
- [ ] (training) Lars Francke 
Comments: 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Tuweni
 
Tuweni is a set of libraries and other tools to aid development of
blockchain and other decentralized software in Java and other JVM languages.
 
Tuweni has been incubating since 2019-03-25.
 
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
 
  1. More contributors!
  2. Getting started, docs, videos
  3. Finishing the Ethereum client
 
### 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?
We have had a couple contributions. We set out a number of getting started issues.
 
### How has the project developed since the last report?
The project is under active development.
 
### 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:
 
  2021-06-17
 
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Nicolas Melendez as committer on 2021-05-06.
 
### 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.
 
We squeezed out our 2.0.0 release. It was not a smooth process
and we had a follow-up on the private@incubator list.
 
### 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?
 
No problems reported.
 
### Signed-off-by:
 
  - [X] (tuweni) Jean-Baptiste Onofré 
     Comments: 
  - [X] (tuweni) Furkan Kamaci 
     Comments: 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Dave Fisher: A draft report is being reviewed. The podling could use more
  mentors. I will rejoin the effort soon and I recommend that Antoine as an
  IPMC member and Tuweni PPMC member be added as a mentor.

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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.
  Elected a new PPMC member.
  Finalising the next release v0.11, planning for release v1.0.

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

  Stabilising the previous release major features (gang scheduling).
  Upgrading protobuf build and dependency for the scheduler interface.
  Implemented a new REST interface. The interface changes are all in
  preparation for a v1.0 release which is in planning.

  Some statistics for the report period (2021-04-01 till 2021-06-30):   
  JIRA: 105 created, 112 resolved  
  PRs: 65 opened, 70 resolved  
  11 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:

  2021-04-09

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

  2021-07-07 committer and PPMC member 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:  
  - [ ] (yunikorn) Holden Karau  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## ShenYu

ShenYu is a high performance Microservices API gateway in Java ecosystem, 
compatible with a variety of mainstream framework systems, supports hot 
plug. Users can write their own plugin meet the current requirement and 
future needs in a variety of scenarios, especially in large-scale scenes.

ShenYu has been incubating since 2021-05-03.

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

  1. Make an Apache Release.
  2. Build new website document.
  3. Building a diverse community with open governance.

### 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?

  * 11+ new contributors and 1+ new committers participate in the community since entered the 
 last report. There are currently 188 contributors and 25 committers.
  * 40+ pull request since entered the last report
  * There is regular traffic on the mailing list 
  (~120+ mailing list discussions/month).
  * Number of GitHub stars increased 
  (last report: 4927, currently: 5063).
  * Held 2 community meetings to discuss development tasks 
  and how to build an open governance community.
  * Opened ShenYu source code activity.

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

  * Ready for release 2.4.0.
  * Add Ui Dependencies Licenses.
  * Refactor shenyu-bootstrap release package structure.
  * Use h2 for integrated test.
  * Improve health check for divide plugin.
  * Add domain type filter. 

### 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:

  No Release yet.

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

  July 2021

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors have been helpful and responsive.

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

  The PPMC manages the podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (shenyu) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  Finished the project setup, and the first release is out.
  - [ ] (shenyu) Jincheng Sun  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (shenyu) Duo Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (shenyu) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (shenyu) Atri Sharma  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (shenyu) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Kyuubi

Kyuubi is a distributed multi-tenant Thrift JDBC/ODBC server for large-scale data management, processing, and analytics, built on top of Apache Spark and designed to support more engines.

Kyuubi has been incubating since 2021-06-21.

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

  1. Gain more active contributors/committers to build a diverse community
  2. Make Apache releases regularly and keep the quality for all releases
  3. Improve project structure and documentation

### 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?

  * 14 new contributors participate in the community since entered Apache incubation. There are currently 37 contributors and 9 committers.
  * 100+ pull requests since entered Apache incubation.
  * Several discussions/bug reports on the GitHub Issues/WeChat groups, etc.
  * Number of GitHub stars increased (last report: 460, currently: 644).
  * A talk on ApacheConf Asia 2021 in BigData session on Aug. 6
  * Participate in 3 meetups to promote the project.

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

  * Preparing for the first release 1.3.0 after entering Apache incubation.
  * Add new modules kyuubi-spark-monitor, kyuubi-hive-jdbc, tools/spark-block-cleaner,
    rename module kyuubi-extension-spark_3.1 to kyuubi-extension-spark-3-1, and add
    scala version suffix in scala modules.
  * Reduce redundant test suites, switch to in-memory catalog and other refactors 
    to speed up unit tests.
  * Several improvements on kyuubi-spark-engine.
  * Several improvements on kyuubi-extension-spark.
  * Several improvements on Kubernetes integration.
  * Default build against spark 3.1.
  * Support JDK 11.
  * Restful API design under discussion.

### 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:

  No Release yet.

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

  No new committer added yet

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors have been helpful and responsive.

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

  The PPMC manages the podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (kyuubi) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments: Finished the project setup, now it's time to work 
   on first release.
  - [ ] (kyuubi) Akira Ajisaka 
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (kyuubi) Duo Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (kyuubi) Jeff Zhang
     Comments:  


### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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