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Timeline

Wed September 06	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun September 10	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun September 10	Summary due by end of day
Tue September 12	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed September 13	Report submitted to Board
Wed September 20	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Dave Fisher	Baremaps
Drew Farris	KIE
Justin Mclean	Liminal
P. Taylor Goetz	Uniffle
PJ Fanning	Nemo
Timothy Chen	Wayang

# Incubator PMC report for September 2023

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 24 podlings incubating. In August, podlings executed 6 
distinct releases. 

Datalab has completed a retirement vote, while Liminal still needs to 
submit the report, and we will take a PPMC roll call. As some inactive 
projects are retiring, the number of absent reports each month is 
decreasing.

There is a new project, Hexagon Toolkit, seeking a mentor, but the project 
may have applied too early and needs to do more work on building a 
community around the project first. IPMC members also provided other useful 
feedback. Another new project, ResilientDB, a Blockchain Platform, also 
seeks entry into the incubator. Several IPMC members have expressed 
interest, and we may see it entering the incubator in the coming months. 
There has also been some off-list discussion about several other projects 
that wish to join the ASF via the Incubator.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - None

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings
  - None

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - Liminal

## Graduations
  - None

  The board has motions for the following:
  - None.

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  August:

	- pekko-connectors-kafka 1.0.0
    - pekko-http 1.0.0
    - pekko-management 1.0.0
    - pekko-grpc 1.0.0
    - pekko-sbt-paradox 1.0.0
    - OpenDAL 0.39.0

## IP Clearance
- None

## Legal / Trademarks
- None

## Infrastructure
- None

## Table of Contents  
[Baremaps](#baremaps)  
[KIE](#kie)  
[Liminal](#liminal)  
[Nemo](#nemo)  
[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 and documentation website in compliance with Apache
     standards
  2. Growing the community
  3. Making releases

### 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 several new commiters join the project. We are also seeing
  new activity from people asking questions and creating issues.

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

  - We addressed most of the podling website requirements and updated the
    content and layout of the website
  - We implemented new features and fixed numerous issues.

### 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:

  2023-04-04

  We are working on a new release (the vote for the first release candidate 
  failed).

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

  2023-08-31

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, the mentors' advice has been very helpful especially to comply to
  Apache licensing issues and guidelines.

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

  Yes

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (baremaps) Bertrand Delacretaz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (baremaps) Julian Hyde  
     Comments:  Community seems to be growing and evolving well
       (judging by commit activity, new committers, moderate dev
       list activity, bugs being logged). I would like to hear
       more about Baremaps' efforts to grow community (e.g. talks
       at meetups, online demos) and will ask them for an update
       next reporting cycle. 
  - [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. Finish code migration and IP clearance
  2. Release
  3. Grow the community

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  I do not believe so.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  There has been more interest in KIE over the last couple of months. No 
  new members yet, but we have had people asking about it and expressing 
  interest once we get the code moved over.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  We were finally able to get legal documents signed! SGA has been accepted 
  by the ASF, trademarks will be coming once we graduate, as agreed upon by 
  the ASF. We’re working on migrating code, getting headers in place, and 
  exploring CI/CD options.

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

  - [ ] Initial setup - Pretty good, code migration of a large repo is not 
    easy :)

  - [ ] Working towards first release - Slow progress, but we’re getting 
    there.

  - [ ] Community building - Glad to see interest from people, I expect 
    this to continue

  - [ ] Nearing graduation - It is a goal that’s out there, we’re 
    progressing, albeit slowly.

  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  Middle of August

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Brian has been very helpful. The others have also pitched in, no concerns.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? 
  We have not yet turned over the brand, per an agreement with the ASF and 
  Red Hat.

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Liminal

Apache Liminal is an end-to-end platform for data engineers and scientists,
allowing them to build, train and deploy machine learning models in a robust
and agile way.

Liminal has been incubating since 2020-05-23.

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

  1.
  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?

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (liminal) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  I think it's a good time to discuss about the concrete 
     state of the podling and roadmap.
  - [ ] (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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## 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. Motivate growth in the community
  2. Address remaining items before graduation

### 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 published a paper, Sponge, at ATC 2023 conference 
  (https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc23/presentation/song) and promoted 
  Nemo in the publication in order to grow our community and work on further 
  potential projects based on Nemo.

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

  - We have published a paper on supporting features regarding offloading 
  bottleneck tasks to serverless frameworks with Nemo in ATC 2023.
  - Introducing Nemo to researchers that were interested in the publication 
  through the academic conference.
  - Discussions for community growth.

### 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?

  - The mentors have been helpful.

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

  - 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:   

  PJ Fanning: Activity on the mailing lists is quite low. It's difficult to 
  see if there is progress towards graduation. The podling has been
  in incubation for more than 5 years.

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## Uniffle

Uniffle is an unified Remote Shuffle Service

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. More companies choose Uniffle and join the community such as Beike, 
  Huolala, etc. More important features were developed by more companies.
  2. We have a regular meeting once every two weeks now. We discuss the 
  important issues and send discussion results to the dev mail list.
  3. We post a new blog in our website and repost the blog in the Linedin, 
  Reddit.
  4. 11 new contributors.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. We released 0.7.1. We're trying to release 0.8.0 version.
  2. We have finished many important features such as Tez support, data 
  transport, Hadoop 3 support.More exciting features will come soon, such as 
  Flink Support, object storage support, dynamic allocation, server based on 
  Rust implement, dashboard and so on.
  3. 115 pull requests are created, 136 pull requests are merged.
  4. 150 issues are created, 94 issues are closed.

### 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:

  2023-07-10

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  Xianming Lei, elected as the committer on 2023-08-19
  Junfan Zhang, elected as the PPMC on 2023-0625

### 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:

  - [ ] (uniffle) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (uniffle) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (uniffle) Liu Xun  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (uniffle) Weiwei Yang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (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. Grow the community, we really need some help here
  2. Website issues not solved
  3.

### 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?
  Stagnating, see unfinished issues (1)

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  We are in the process to create our next release, fixed bugs and added 
  features. We do a 0.71 release before we prepare 1.0 which involves code 
  base restructuring.

### 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:

  2021-12-13

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

  2023-06-05	

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes.

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

  Yes, everything good here.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (wayang) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (wayang) Lars George  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: