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# Incubator PMC report for October 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 September, podlings executed 
6 distinct releases.

Datalab is retiring, and Liminal is discussing retirement. Two new podlings 
have joined the incubator Answer and ResilientDB.

There has been discussion on several incubating proposals. A proposed
project Seata has been proposed; it may not be a good fit for the ASF, 
but the project is responsive to address any IPMC concerns. A proposed 
project OzHera may be too soon to join the Incubator as they don't have a 
community.

There was some minor cleanup of outstanding Jira issues. 

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - Huxing Zhang
  - Sammi Chen

### People who left the IPMC:
  - none

## New Podlings
 - Answer
 - ResilientDB

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
 - Livy  
 - Pony Mail
 - Teaclave

## Graduations
  - none

  The board has motions for the following:

  - none

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  September:
  - Devlake 0.18.0
  - Opendal v0.40.0
  - Paimon 0.5.0
  - Pekko persistence JDBC 1.0.0
  - Pekko connectors 1.0.0
  - Wayang 0.7.1

## IP Clearance
  - kvrocks controller

## Legal / Trademarks
 - NA

## Infrastructure
 - NA

## Miscellaneous
 - NA

## Table of Contents  
[Annotator](#annotator)  
[DataLab](#datalab)  
[HugeGraph](#hugegraph)  
[Liminal](#liminal)  
[Milagro](#milagro)  
[Pegasus](#pegasus)  
[Pekko](#pekko)   

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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.    Incubation issues identified by Whimsy still need addressing.
  2.    Project activity is very low.
  3.    Release activity is very low.

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

  The project and community has remained quiet through 2023. We are
  attempting again to revitalize the community by...
  a) simplifying build tooling--both for making releases and for use within
  other projects
  b) communicating and coordinating future planning on the mailing list with
  other contributors (who we hope will "reactivate")
  c) working to move the project closer to the needs of higher level Web
  developers who need "drop-in" annotation help (vs. our current low level
  "advanced" library only)

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

  Minimal activity on the mailing list.

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

  No code since last board 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
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2022-05-05

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

  2022-08-17

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Mentors have been helpful when engaged directly with questions.

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

  No known issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (annotator) Nick Kew  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (annotator) Tommaso Teofili  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (annotator) Benjamin Young  
     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.
  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? 

  in the process of retirement

### 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: in the process of retirement

### Date of last release:

  2022-11-30

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  The last committer was added on April 10, 2023

### 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:  
  - [ ] (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. Overall easier to use, more stable and reliable & more communication
  with other Graph Community(Like Tinkerpop/JanusGraph etc)
  3. At least 2 new PPMC & 5 committers selected and take deep part in the
  community

### 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. We have taken part in 2 activities to let more students participate in
  the construction of HugeGraph.
  2. We took part in CommunityOverCode Asia 2023, and shared experiences and
  insights from building the open source community, as well as the use of
  HugeGraph in enterprises and its optimizations.
  3. 10+ new contributors with 80+ Pull Requests

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. hugegraph-toolchain has introduced Kafka source and
  hugegraph-spark-connector.
  2. A new HTTP client solution has been introduced to resolve the dependency
  issues in hugegraph-common and improve compatibility with Spring Boot 2.
  3. Dockerfile and CI processes for all hugegraph sub projects have been
  optimized.
  4. The hugegraph-computer module has added a snapshot feature.
  5. A distributed development version of hugegraph-server is under
  development.
  6. Documents have been improved and some bugs have been fixed.

### 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?

  No issues to report now

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

  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 HugeGraph keep building the community.

### 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. Integrations with eco-system projects.

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

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

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

### 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:  
  2022-03-10

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 
  2022-04-06

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? 
  They have been very responsive and helpful.

### Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
  open issues that need to be addressed.
  NA

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (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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## 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. Introduce policies for correct corporate involvement (see
  https://github.com/orgs/apache/projects/171/views/1)
  2. Continue to build relevant and useful crypto libraries and 
  applications for decentralized networks in order to grow the ecosystem of
  users and contributors to the project.
  3. Improve automated quality pipelines, improve existing releases and 
  demonstrate improved compliance with the Apache Way.
  4. Correct the use of branding on our own website, updating the technical 
  documentation to match.

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

  No issues are known as of now.

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

  Several employees were laid off by their sponsoring employer and and are 
  now contributing as individuals, increasing the community diversity.

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

  - CVE-2023-33241 affected the experimental MPC code, thanks to 
  responsible disclosure a fix was committed and released about a month
  before public disclosure.
  - The path to graduation map has been updated [in a GitHub 
  project](https://github.com/orgs/apache/projects/171/views/1). This map 
  keeps being
  our north start to lead us to graduation.

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2022-11-11 

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

  December 2022

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  No third party are using the brand's name incorrectly

### Signed-off-by:

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

  None

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

  2.5.0 release is being 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
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2022-11-05

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

  - 2022-9-18, committer: Guohao Li (GitHub ID: GehaFearless)
  - 2022-9-18, committer: Hao Wang (GitHub ID: WHBANG)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, our mentors gave us a lot of help, including
  version release, holding meetup, prepare the graduation
  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:  We should start to prepare graduation now
  - [ ] (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. Continue v1.0.0 releases. The main modules have v1.0.0 releases but 
  some modules are not yet released.
  2. Community Building.
  3. Plan future priorities.

### 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?

  Community engagement is pretty low. We're still hoping to increase it now
  that main modules have releases.

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

  Main modules have seen releases.

### 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:

  2023-09-05

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

  2023-03-09 (new committer) -- no new PPMC members added - a recent
  committer invite was rejected by the person we invited

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Mentors have been supportive. One issue is that we need some help with
  Incubator release votes. We have one open for 2 weeks and haven't yet
  received 3 votes.

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

  VP, Brand has approved the name (https://s.apache.org/h2cwg)

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (pekko) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (pekko) Justin McLean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pekko) Roman Shaposhnik  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pekko) Wu Sheng  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pekko) Ryan Skraba  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pekko) JB Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pekko) Claude Warren  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

  The Podling Project is keep moving, and the project active contributor is
  around 15 for a year.