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# Incubator PMC report for April 2023

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

Marvin-AI has retired, and PageSpeed and Spot have completed 
the voting process for retirement.

The version release of Podlings still needs to be checked by Mentor and 
IPMC to prevent errors in the statistics of binding votes.

Justin has a pretty good idea. He made a small game about Incuabtor. 
Maybe some ASF rules can be integrated into these small games to 
help podlings learn Apache Way.  

Some podlings participated in GSoC. 

Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases.  TODO add narrative

## Community

### New IPMC members:
- Ayush Saxena
- Xinyu Zhou

### People who left the IPMC:
- None

## New Podlings
- None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

- Annoator
- Liminal
- Livy
- Millagro
- Nemo
- NlpCraft
- Pony Mail
- SeaTunnel
- Teaclave
- Toree
- Training

## Graduations
  - Flagon
  - EventMesh

## Releases
  - Baremaps 0.7.1
  - Celeborn 0.2.1
  - SeaTunnel 2.3.1
  - Uniffle 0.7.0


## IP Clearance
  - None

## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents   
[DataLab](#datalab)  
[HugeGraph](#hugegraph)  
[Nemo](#nemo)  
[OpenDAL](#opendal)   
[Pegasus](#pegasus)  
[Pekko](#pekko)  


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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.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No, there aren't any issues.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
New committers or PPMCs have not been added since the last report

### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Graduation process 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
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [X] Other: Started graduation process

### Date of last release:

  2022-11-30

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
The last committer was added on July 22, 2022. 

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

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Brand and naming issues are absent.

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## HugeGraph

A large-scale and easy-to-use graph database

HugeGraph has been incubating since 2022-01-23.

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

  1. Release distributed storage module (include PD/store) & make graph computer easy to use
  2. At least 2 new PPMC & 5 committers take deep part in the community
  3. Overall easier to use, more stable and reliable

### 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 committers elected, 2 new contributors submit PR, 
we have cooperation with G6VP & GraphAR (open source) community

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

Release 1.0.0 for the first ASF release, then we have a roadmap to plan for the next release.
We expect to provide a native distributed storage feature, which will be the biggest change,
and currently we're discussing the details of the integration.

### 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:

  2023-02-22

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

  2023-03-12 (last committer)

### 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.

Yep, thanks for their help during the first release stage.

### 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?

None

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (hugegraph) Lidong Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hugegraph) Trista Pan  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hugegraph) Xiangdong Huang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hugegraph) Yu Li  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (hugegraph) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments: It's good to see Hugergraph made a first release and 
     invited new PPMC members. 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Nemo

Nemo is a data processing system to flexibly control the runtime behaviors of a job to adapt to varying deployment characteristics.

Nemo has been incubating since 2018-02-04.

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

  1. Address remaining items before graduation
  2. Motivate growth in the community
  3. A new release after finishing handling of a few existing PRs

### 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 communicated, interviewed, and have selected GSoC students in order to grow our community and work on potential projects based on Nemo.

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

- Discussions for graduation
- Organizing code for filing PRs for past work (e.g., for supporting features regarding offloading bottleneck tasks to serverless frameworks)

### 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:

  2022-09-02

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

September 28, 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.

- The mentors have been 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?

- The PPMC manages the podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (nemo) Hyunsik Choi  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (nemo) Byung-Gon Chun  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (nemo) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nemo) Markus Weimer  
     Comments:  

### 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?

- We have communicated with developers which have interest to contribute to the project. 

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

- New version released and related tasks and issues finished.
- Site updated, examples extended

### 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 with mentors 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:  
  - [ ] (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. Grow the community (attracting more committers, contributors, users)   
  2. Publish Apache releases (resolving logistics on Apache release)   
  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?

OpenDAL has now been adopted by llama-hub to provide support for cloud object storage services. Additionally, we have noticed that a command-line tool called dilu has been using OpenDAL. We are also planning to provide webhdfs support for object store in the near future.

In the past month, we have had close to 20 new contributors and elected two new committers. 

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

- Core: We are now pushing for support for copy/rename.
- Cli: The implementation of the oli command-line tool is still ongoing, and we support configuration files and some common operations such as `ls` and `cat`.
- Bindings: We now have a basic Ruby binding implementation, and further improvements have been made to Python and Node.js bindings.

### 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:

  2023-03-31

NOTE: v0.30.5 - 2023-03-31 is not yet an official ASF release. We are still in the process of learning how to create a formal one.  

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

March 24th, 2023. In the last month, we selected two committers who are maintainers of python bindings and nodejs bindings, respectively.   

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes.

### 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?

N/A

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (opendal) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (opendal) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments: Good to see OpenDAL made it's first release.
  - [ ] (opendal) Sheng Wu  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (opendal) Ted Liu  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (opendal) Xiaoqiao He  
     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 committers, contributors, users).

  2. Make more releases in ASF policy regularly.

  3. Improve the Pegasus project performance, stability, and usage scenarios.

### 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?

  2.4.0 is released on Oct 30, 2022.

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

  Preparing to release 2.5.0.

### 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:

  2022-10-30

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

  2023-1-3, PPMC member: Dan Wang(GitHub ID: empiredan)

  2023-2-25, PPMC member: Yanzhao Tang (GitHub ID: Smityz)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, our mentors gave us a lot of help, including IP
  clearance, version release, and etc.

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

  No issues that we are aware of.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (pegasus) Duo zhang  
     Comments: The development is active but I think the release frequency is too low, we should try to make more patch releases.
  - [ ] (pegasus) Liang Chen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pegasus) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pegasus) Liu Xun  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Pekko

Pekko is a toolkit and an ecosystem for building highly concurrent,
distributed, reactive and resilient applications for Java and Scala.

Pekko has been incubating since 2022-10-24.

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

  1. Complete the work on updating the file headers and docs to reflect the new branding and licensing.  
  2. Get the core web site and documentation up.  
  3. Get a milestone release done - at least for the core modules. This would facilitate the wider OSS community. We would hope that other OSS projects that currently support Akka would look to also support Apache Pekko.  

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

Nothing of note

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

We recently added a new committer (Arnout Engelen).

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

Some reasonable progress with getting the code migrated.

### 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:  

None yet.

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

2023-03-09 (new committer) -- no new PPMC members added

### 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.

There were some knotty issues to discuss about how to manage the license headers and similar issues but the conversations were very constructive.  

### 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?

* The Pekko project has been widely discussed in Social Media and blogs. No issues to report.
* Pekko project did an initial Trademark search to verify the name availability for software products
* VP, Brand has approved the name (https://s.apache.org/h2cwg)


### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (pekko) PJ Fanning  
     Comments: Progress being made  
  - [ ] (pekko) Justin McLean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pekko) Roman Shaposhnik  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pekko) Wu Sheng  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pekko) Ryan Skraba  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (pekko) JB Onofré  
     Comments:  Good progress so far
  - [ ] (pekko) Claude Warren  
     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
  2. Finalizing graduation, getting discussions going again
  3. Roll call?

### 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?
  No material changes since last report. The community has been rather 
  quiet, albeit present.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  No noteworthy development since last report.

### 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?
  Sean Palmer was elected committer on 2021-04-02

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

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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