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# Incubator PMC report for March 2023

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 31 podlings incubating. Podlings made 5 distinct 
releases.
This month we were missing reports from Nemo, PageSpeed, Spot and Training. 
There are votes underway to retire PageSpeed and Spot and Marvin-AI has 
retired. Nemo and Training projects will be asked to report next month. The 
Training project is discussing how to move forward.
Flagon and EventMesh have proposals to the board for graduation.  Two new 
podlings Palimon and OpenDAL have joined the Incubator.
There is ongoing discussion around a few new projects and the graduation of 
DataLab.

## Community

### New IPMC members:

  - Becket Qin
  - Yu Xiao

### People who left the IPMC:

  - Jim Jagielski

## New Podlings

- OpenDAL
- Paimon

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

- Nemo
- PageSpeed
- Spot
- Training

## Graduations
  - None

  The board has motions for the following:
  - EventMesh
  - Flagon

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  March:

- HugeGraph  1.0.0
- Kvrocks        2.3.0
- StreamPark  2.0.0
- DevLake       0.15.0
- NLPCraft      1.0.0  

## IP Clearance

  - [Kylin]Accept donation of Kylin new Modeling System

## Legal / Trademarks

  N/A

## Infrastructure

  N/A

## Miscellaneous

  N/A

## Table of Contents
[Baremaps](#baremaps)
[KIE](#kie)
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)
[OpenDAL](#opendal)
[Uniffle](#uniffle)
[Wayang](#wayang)

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## Baremaps

Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for
creating, publishing, and operating online maps.

Baremaps has been incubating since 2022-10-10.

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

  1. Getting the code in compliance with Apache standards
  2. Making releases
  3. Growing the community

### 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?

  The activity has been low in December and January, but the community has
  stayed steady.

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

  - We addressed most of the critical licensing issues and identified minor 
  issues with license of the data used in the tests
  - We improved the layout and the content of the web site
  - We launched a vote for a first release candidate with a DISCLAIMER-WIP 
  file
  - Some of us will attend the OGC/OSGeo/ASF code sprint with the intent to 
  work on Baremaps

### 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:

  N/A

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

  When the project entered incubation.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, the mentors have been very helpful on several topics (community
  building, licensing, etc.)

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

  Yes

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (baremaps) Bertrand Delacretaz  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux  
     Comments:
  - [X] (baremaps) Julian Hyde  
     Comments:  Reviewing the first release candidate now, and quality
       looks good for a podling's first RC. Development has been rather
       narrow (in a few individuals), so I'm hoping to see broadening
       of community participation around the first release.
  - [X] (baremaps) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (baremaps) George Percivall  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux  
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## KIE

KIE (Knowledge is Everything) is a community of solutions and supporting
tooling for knowledge engineering and process automation, focusing on
events, rules, and workflows.

KIE has been incubating since 2023-01-13.

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

  1. Software Grant completion, currently waiting on legal.
  2. IP clearance. Question: Can this start before the grant has been 
  finalized?
  3. Create a release :)

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

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  This is our first report. We have a number of people signed up for the
  PPMC, but seeing as we don't have the code moved over yet, there isn't 
  much else to be done at the moment.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  We're working through legal both at IBM and Red Hat. This wasn't as quick
  as any of us had hoped it would be.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?

  - [ ] Initial setup
                Mailing lists created
                Initial committers have signed the ICLA
  - [ ] Working towards first release
                We'll get there, need the software grant first
  - [ ] Community building
                Not much we can do on this front until the code has moved 
  		over
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
                N/A
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

        N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  Back in January when we were accepted into the Incubator

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Brian has been very helpful in getting things started, no concerns about
  any of the mentors.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Still working on grants

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (kie) Brian Proffitt  
     Comments:
  - [X] (kie) Claus Ibsen  
     Comments:
  - [X] (kie) Andrea Cosentino  
     Comments: Looks good.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## NLPCraft

A Scala library for NLU applications

NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.

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

  1. Community growth.
  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?

  Community development wasn't grown last months. The main reason is 
  probably
  due to core committers were engaged in a 1.0 release tests,documentatation
  and website update. But there were some initial developers requests to 
  join and contribute during last months.

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

  The project tests were extended, examples added, documentation and website
  updated, release 1.0.0. prepared.

### 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:

  2023-02-30

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

  August of 2021.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  No issues with mentors to report.

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

  No issues to report.

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## OpenDAL

Open Data Access Layer: Access data freely, painlessly, and efficiently.

OpenDAL has been incubating since 2023-02-27.

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

  1. The majority of contributions to the OpenDAL project were made by only
  four committers, with Xuanwo being the most prolific contributor.
  2. The adoption rate of OpenDAL has been relatively low, with only a few
  projects currently using it.

### 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?

  This is the first report of OpenDAL.

  Over the past two weeks, the project has successfully attracted four new
  contributors, one of whom has shown great promise and potential to be
  considered for committer status in the future.

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

  This is the first report of OpenDAL.

  During the past two weeks, OpenDAL has added support for the append
  function and is currently working on developing Python and Node.js
  bindings. These updates are expected to be included in the upcoming Apache
  release.

### 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:

  NOTE: it's not an Apache release, because our repo trasnfer is not DONE 
  yet.

  2023-03-02

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

  OpenDAL has been in incubation since February 27th, 2023. As of yet, no
  committers have been elected for the project.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes.

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

  N/A

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (opendal) tison  
     Comments:
  - [X] (opendal) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments: Just finished the project setup work
  - [ ] (opendal) Sheng Wu  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (opendal) Ted Liu  
     Comments:
  - [X] (opendal) Xiaoqiao He  
     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

### 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 still see much of the users asking questions in the gitter channel
   rather than using the mailing lists.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
   The community has received a contribution adding support for Scala 2.13 
   and Apache Spark 3.3 and are discussing how to better handle the support
   for both versions versus one. 

### 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:

  2022-04-11

### 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?

   None

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

   No Trademark issues

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (toree) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  With my contributor hat, I am planning to
     try to move Toree trough graduation on the next couple
     months
  - [ ] (toree) Julien Le Dem  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (toree) Ryan Blue  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (toree) Weiwei Yang  
     Comments:  

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## Uniffle

Uniffle is an high performance, general purpose remote shuffle service for 
distributed computing engines.

Uniffle has been incubating since 2022-06-06.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
  Promote the project and grow the user and dev community

### 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?
  1. 4 new contributors from different affiliations contributed to Uniffle
  project.
  2. 70 issues have been created, among this 75 were discussed and resolved.
  3. 2 discussion were occurred

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. 70 issues have been created, among this 75 were discussed and resolved.
  234 PRs has been created, among this 144 PRs were merged.
  2. We're preparing v0.7.0 release

### 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:

  2022-12-09

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  Xianjing Feng, elected as committer on 2023-02-08

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes, they're helpful in guiding the podding project

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (uniffle) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:
  - [X] (uniffle) Junping Du  
     Comments:
  - [X] (uniffle) Liu Xun  
     Comments:
  - [X] (uniffle) Weiwei Yang  
     Comments:
  - [X] (uniffle) Zhankun Tang  
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Wayang

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

  1. Community building
  2. release a new version
  3. redo website and documentation to guide interesting developer

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

  Nothing

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

  We got new contributors from different companies and Universities.

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

  Better community traction, adding new features

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2021-12-13

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?  
  2022-01-18: Calvin Kirs

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Nothing to add here.

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

  Yes, Wayang got approved by the ™ team, we don't face any trademark 
  related issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (wayang) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  I can see quite a bit more activity in the podling in this 
     period
  - [ ] (wayang) Lars George  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann  
     Comments:
  - [X] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: