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# Incubator PMC report for November 2021

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 37 podlings incubating. In June and August, podlings 
executed 10 distinct releases. We added 2 new IPMC members, and none 
retired.

There was 4 IP clearance in June and August. A couple of new podlings are 
under discussion, and Kyuubi and Linkis have joined the Incubator. Pinot 
graduated last month.

A couple of podlings are heading towards graduation in the next few months. 
This month we were missing reports from Annotator, Milagro and Toree, and 
they will be asked to report next month.

There was a lengthy discussion on the IP clearance for Terraform as 
information around the donation, IP and licensing was initially unclear but 
was eventually resolved.

There was also a discussion about IP provenance of files in the Tuweni 
release and the Hop release.

Some updates were made to the podling retirement guide.
As usual, most discussions on the mailing list were around graduations, 
releases, new project proposals and new mentors.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - none

### People who left the IPMC:
  - none

## New Podlings
  - none

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - Livy
  - PageSpeed
  - SDAP
  - Toree
  - Training

 ## Graduations
  - None

  The board has motions for the following:
  - None

## Releases
  The following releases entered distribution during the months of
  October and September:
  - BRPC 1.0.0
  - Hop 1.0.0
  - InLong 0.10.0
  - Kyuubi 1.3.0
  - Kyuubi 1.3.1
  - Sedona 1.1.0
  - Shenyu 2.4.1  

## IP Clearance
  - Apache AsterixDB - JDBC Driver
  - Apache Daffodil VSCode Debugger

## Legal / Trademarks
  N/A

## Infrastructure
  N/A

## Table of Contents  
[DataLab](#datalab)  
[Doris](#doris)  
[EventMesh](#eventmesh)  
[Heron](#heron)  
[Kyuubi](#kyuubi)  
[MXNet](#mxnet)  
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)  
[Sedona](#sedona)  
[Spot](#spot)  
[Tuweni](#tuweni)  

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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?

  It’s not completed yet. We have just started two processes of voting for 
  the new committers.

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

   - We are working towards the release 2.5.1
   - 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:  

  2021-09-08

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

  The last committer was elected on June 22, 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:

  - [ ] (datalab) P. Taylor Goetz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (datalab) Henry Saputra  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (datalab) Konstantin I Boudnik  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (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. Code refactor to reduce references to other project code.
  2. The official website need to be updated to meet the requirement of ASF.
  3. Some unofficial code repos or mirrors names related to Doris need to 
  be processed.

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

  The main branding issue has been addressed(DorisDB renamed to StarRocks).

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

  Since the last report, we have added 30 contributors. There are currently 
  213 contributors and 29 committers.

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

  1. We are working on release 0.15

### 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:

  2021-05-26

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

  1. zhangjiafeng, committer, 2021-09-24
  2. lihaopeng, committer, 2021-11-08
  3. xuyang, committer, 2021-09-24

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  All mentors are very helpful!

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

  Yes

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (doris) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (doris) Shao Feng Shi  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (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. 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?
  N/A

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  1. Serveral new contributors added
  2. Participated in several online and offline conferences to share 
  eventmesh
  3. One-week meeting is scheduled for serveral months by tencent meeting
  4. Serveral blogs were delivered on wechat public 
  account、infoq、思否、csdn、开源中国等

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  v1.3.0 is nearing 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:
  2021-08-11

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  2021-02

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  yes

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (eventmesh) Francois Papon  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (eventmesh) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (eventmesh) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (eventmesh) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (eventmesh) Von Gosling  
     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. Fixing the OSX build (ease of use/adoption)
  3. Add new convenience binaries to be distributed after a successful 
  release. E.g. Helm charts, CentOS Docker image

### 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?    
  * The current community has stayed consistent and stable. 
  * We had a few more discussions about kubernetes support and made some 
  progress in having new people contribute code

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  * Heron has had many improvements to the 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
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] 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?
  * 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?
  * Yes

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (heron) Jake Farrell  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (heron) Julien Le Dem  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (heron) P. Taylor Goetz  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (heron) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  The PPMC is managing the brand and the name was approved 
     years ago
  - [X] (heron) Ming Wen  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (heron) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     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?

  1. 4 new contributors participate in the community since the last one. 
  There are currently 50 contributors and 9 committers.
  2. 26 authors have pushed 99 commits to master and 113 commits to all 
  branches. On master, 227 files have changed and there have been 7,240
  additions and 2,676 deletions.
  3. Several discussions/bug reports on the GitHub Issues/WeChat groups, 
  etc.
  4. Participate in 1 off line meetup (Apache Hadoop Meetup 2021, Beijing, 
  China) to promote the project.

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

  1. We have released 1.3.1-incuabating in 2021 Oct 25
  2. the community is working on implementation of RESTful API
  3. Z-Order Support under dev
  4. Flink engine support in progress

### 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:

  2021-10-25

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

  No new committer added yet

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

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (kyuubi) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (kyuubi) Jeff Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (kyuubi) Duo Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (kyuubi) Akira Ajisaka  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## MXNet

A Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep Learning

MXNet has been incubating since 2017-01-23.

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

  1. Successfully and smoothly make releases without WIP disclaimer.
     - ONGOING.

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

  No blocking issue.

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

  * The number of GitHub contributors increased to currently 967
  * 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/ 1.49k
    subscriber (+2% since last report)
    * Chinese YouTube channel
    (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjeLwTKPMlDt2segkZzw2ZQ) w/ 6.96k
     subscribers (+3%)

  * Highlights in MXNet ecosystem
    * 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 v0.8.1 release
      (https://github.com/awslabs/gluon-ts/releases/tag/v0.8.1)
    * DeepInsight (https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface)
    * Sockeye 2.3.24 release (https://github.com/awslabs/sockeye)

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

  1) 1.9.0 release is in progress.
  1.9.0 release is going through rc8 after a thorough review on the licenses
  from the community and PPMC.
  https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.9.0.rc8
  with 100+ patches of new features, improvements, and fixes.
  This will be the first recent release without DISCLAIMER-WIP.
  2) 2.0.0 development is close to completion.
  MXNet 2.0 features interoperable ML and DL programming with Array API 
  standard implementation. This project aims to make array libraries like
  NumPy, MXNet, Pytorch more interoperable. Besides standardized operators,
  new methods and mechanism will be introduced to improve the
  interoperability. 1) in MXNet2.0, Context class and some related array
  methods like as_in_ctx will be replaced by Device and to_device to reduce
  the learning curve for new users. 2) The improved DLPack API in MXNet
  leverages the syncobject introduced in Async GPU dependency engine and can
  well handle the cuda stream to improve the array libraries 
  interoperability
  on different devices.
  3) Github statistics of last month:
     * October 6, 2021 – November 6, 2021: Excluding merges, 17 authors 
  have
  pushed 49 commits to master and 58 commits to all branches. On master, 466
  files have changed and there have been 17,398 additions and 11,371
  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?

  2021-11-03

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes.

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

  Yes. From past brand usage review for MXNet third-party distributions,
  we found several listings on AWS marketplace that needed update. The PPMC
  reached out to the publishers of these listings for correction and fixed 
  them.
  In recent review, we found the following three entries to have regression 
  in branding and have reached out to them again.

  https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-7nxhayhlbxwam (pending 
  update)
  https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-wktuc2vochjwe (pending 
  update)
  https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-dpniaffpcxfhc (pending 
  update)

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (mxnet) Markus Weimer  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (mxnet) Bob Paulin  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (mxnet) Jason Dai  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (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. Community growth.
  2. Stable 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?
  We had several active collaborators since the last report, specifically 
  working on our Python support. We expect them to reach the committer level
  soon. However, the Python support in NLPCraft will like undergo the
  architectural change that may delay this process.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  NLPCraft community decided to make a deep refactoring in the project 
  based on the initial user feedback. The primary goal here is to
  significantly simplify the usage patterns and provide better support for
  human curation and dialog support. The design & planning for this
  refactoring resulted in low commit activity in the last 60 days.

### 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:
  2021-7-30

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  Same as the last report - no new committers.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Mentors feedback delay is improving but still takes about a week to get 
  responses on vote emails.

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

### Signed-off-by:

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

### 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?

  Discussion and development continue.

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

#### Completed Issues:  

  - SDAP-217	Add ingest processor to flip tiles vertically
  - SDAP-343	Fix reading of time stamp in GPM data
  - SDAP-351	Fix reading of data with cftime.datetime.Gregorian type
  - SDAP-354	Add initial version of in situ data services to Apache 
  GitHub
  - SDAP-327	New multivariable reading processors missing from granule 
  ingester module
  - SDAP-355	Update matchup parameter and output to use primary and 
  secondary
  - SDAP-353	Update match-up output to only return variables that are 
  provided by the source e.g. for ASCAT only return winds variables
  - SDAP-338	Update match up implementation to support multi-variable 
  tiles
  - SDAP-315	Update match up algorithm for satellite to satellite
  - SDAP-311	Collect performance metrics in current match-up algorithm
  - SDAP-312	Optimize reprojection to UTM in matchup algorithm
  - SDAP-305	Get current match up working with AVHRR OI data that is 
  currently ingested in the bigdata cluster

#### New/Updated Issues:  

  - SDAP-303	Add Elasticsearch support for metadata store in Nexus 
  webapp & ningester
  - SDAP-347	Add day_of_year_i field in Tile class
  - SDAP-162	Create build for nexus-webapp
  - SDAP-352	Fix tile artifact in GPM time averaged map
  - SDAP-326	Make ingest processors optional in incubator-sdap-ingestor
  - SDAP-319	Fix misleading comment in helm/values.yaml
  - SDAP-318	TimeSeriesSpark returns empty list for bounding box larger 
  than a hemisphere.
  - SDAP-316	Update webapp to python version 3 in helm chart.
  - SDAP-346	PySpark environment variables incorrectly set
  - SDAP-345	Add ability to read time stamp from the filename
  - SDAP-344	Add ability to read time stamp from global attributes
  - SDAP-342	Update webapp to use spark 3.1.1
  - SDAP-321	Allow wildcards in S3 paths for collections
  - SDAP-350	Question about described bug in aiomultiprocess
  - SDAP-324	Kelvin to Celsius processor not working during ingest after 
  adding support for multiple variables
  - SDAP-323	Update summarizing processor and Solr schema to support 
  multiple variables
  - SDAP-322	Add support for ingestion of data with multiple variables
  - SDAP-332	Add OpenAPI specification for data matchup related endpoints
  - SDAP-339	Granule ingestion pod needs a way to fetch new AWS access 
  key for reading data from Earthdata Cloud archive
  - SDAP-349	Inefficient swath tile causes memory issues
  - SDAP-341	Terraform deployment of Kubernetes and Spark cluster
  - SDAP-320	Integrate 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT work into SDAP
  - SDAP-357	As an administrator, I would like SDAP to support multiple 
  s3 buckets, with different credential for each
  - SDAP-356	ingress does not find loadbalancer on AWS, 404 error
  - SDAP-340	allow null when standard_name is missing

### 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:

  XXXX-XX-XX

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

  One new member was invited to the PPMC in August 2021.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Trevor has been a very helpful mentor

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

  PPMC is not aware of any issues

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (sdap) Jörn Rottmann  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (sdap) Trevor Grant  
     Comments:  Looking good- this note is to the board are there any other 
     Python first projects we can look to for guidance on Python releases. IF
     this project had versions, it would be v1+ as it is in prod at various US
     Government agencies.

### 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. Inviting new committers and PMC members
  2. Find alternative release manager
  3.

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

  All good here

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

  The community is growing fast. Our releases under the ASF brand now have 
  reached 400k downloads per month.

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

  We published one more release 1.1.0-incubating in October.

### 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:

  2021-10-06

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

  N/A

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  All good here.

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

  All good here.

### 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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## Spot

Apache Spot is a platform for network telemetry built on an open data model
and Apache Hadoop.

Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23.

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

  1. Revive community activity (Discussion in mailing lists, increase 
  frequency of commits)
  2. Create a new roadmap and release plan that will improve adoption
  3. Make it easier to contribute to the project (eg, documentation, 
  framework)

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

  We last reported on June 2021.  Our ordinarily scheduled quarterly report 
  was due in October 2021.  The ASF board meeting notes for October 2021
  noted that the report reminders did not go out, and so we did not report as
  expected.  We were expected to report for November 2021.  On November 6,
  2021, we were informed that our quarterly report was due to be completed on
  November 3, 2021.  Therefore, this report is being done quickly, to do as
  much as possible to comply with ASF expectations.  Regrettably this means
  this is being done with minimum community discussion.

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

  We're continuing to solidify a short term and long term on a roadmap with 
  the community that will allow more contributors to focus and work on
  different levels of the project (i.e. data modeling and schema design,
  use-cases, ingestion, ml, ui, dev ops, docs, etc). These discussions have
  been delayed this quarter due to COVID and getting schedules aligned
  relative to other workloads.

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

  The master branch of Apache Spot was largely developed for commercial but 
  freely available Hadoop software (i.e. Cloudera, Hortonworks) that now have
  been either End of Life’d (or will be in 2022) in favor of the newer
  Cloudera Data Platform (CDP), or have been put behind a paywall to get
  updates. The cloud provider landscape has also changed drastically in the
  last few years and it's time that we start looking at better support for
  Quickstart options in each major cloud providers so we can further develop
  the project for the community with wider platform support, and give
  committers better options for creating development environments to more
  efficiently contribute to the project.

  The following topics are planned for the next set of discussions with the 
  community to determine what we focus on for the next several quarters:

  Add more native support on cloud infrastructure and software (i.e. AWS, 
  Azure, GCP)
  In the short-term we can focus on AWS EMR on standing up Spot and fixing 
  any issues related to getting the software installed and working.
  In the long term we will want to support several cloud providers and 
  on-premise options depending on the interest of the community.
  Add an infrastructure module to Spot to automate creating clusters in 
  each providers we plan to support.
  Initially we can focus on Cloudformation support with AWS EMR.
  Our goal will be to generalize further in the long term with Terraform 
  across each provider.
  Investigate and explore alternative replacement for Spot UI (i.e. Apache 
  Supersets)
  In the short-term Apache Supersets may give us a basic authentication and 
  visualization layer into the data landed and processed by Spot.
  In the long-term we will need to develop a more comprehensive security 
  and use-case roadmap for the UI and determine if it makes sense to develop
  something from scratch.
  The next step will be to create Jira Epic’s and tasks for these items so 
  we can start to distribute the work across the community.

### 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:

  2017-09-08

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

  2019-09-02

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentor has been helpful.  However, we notice the board has suggested 
  we request an additional mentor to help us keep on top of things.  We will
  undertake this for the next quarter.

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

  Yes

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G  
     Comments:  I don't think this project is anywhere near to graduation. 
     And I don't see any noticeable activities in mailing lists. This project
     needs additional mentors.

### 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?

  * 4+ new contributors and 1+ new PPMC participate in the community 
    since entered the 
  last report. There are currently 211 contributors and 26 committers.
  * 50+ pull request since entered the last report
  * There is regular traffic on the mailing list 
  (~40+ mailing list discussions/month).
  * Number of GitHub stars increased 
  (last report: 5341, currently: 5440).
  * Held 2 community meetings to discuss development tasks 
  and how to build an open governance community.

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

  * release 2.4.1.
  * Support external cross filter config.
  * Implement the async dubbo invoking for alibaba-dubbo.
  * Refactor shenyu client.
  * Add uri plugin.
  * Add agent classloader.

### 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:

  Oct 2021.

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

  Oct 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:  
  - [ ] (shenyu) Jincheng Sun  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (shenyu) Duo Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (shenyu) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (shenyu) Atri Sharma  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (shenyu) Justin Mclean  
     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?
  Some development happened, mainly a new JSON-RPC proxy module for 
  Ethereum clients.

### 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?

  No problems.

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

  No problems reported.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (tuweni) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments: 
  - [ ] (tuweni) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments: 
  - [X] (tuweni) Antoine Toulme  
     Comments: 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: