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# Incubator PMC report for April 2024

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

TODO add narrative

## Community

### New IPMC members:


### People who left the IPMC:


## New Podlings


## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month


## Graduations
  - list podling here

  The board has motions for the following:

  - Your podling here?

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  March:


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents  
[Amoro](#amoro)  
[Annotator](#annotator)  
[Fury](#fury)  
[Gluten](#gluten)  
[HoraeDB](#horaedb)  
[HugeGraph](#hugegraph)  
[Liminal](#liminal)  
[Livy](#livy)  
[Milagro](#milagro)  
[Pegasus](#pegasus)  
[Pony Mail](#pony mail)  
[ResilientDB](#resilientdb)  
[StormCrawler](#stormcrawler)  
[Teaclave](#teaclave)  
[XTable](#xtable)  


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## Amoro

Amoro is a Lakehouse management system built on open data lake formats like
Apache Iceberg and Apache Paimon.

Amoro has been incubating since 2024-03-11.

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

  1. Improve the website and transfer it to Apache.
  2. Release our first Apache release.
  3. Build and grow a diverse community.

### 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 for Amoro.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
This is the first report for Amoro.

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

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

### Date of last release:
N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2024-03-11, when the project was accepted into the incubator.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, Amoro's mentors actively participate in the project, contribute insights, and help advance the project towards graduation.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? 
Yes,
- The name "Amoro" has been approved by Mark Thomas, the VP of Brand Management.(https://s.apache.org/lyif8)

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (amoro) Justn Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (amoro) Zhongyi Tan  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (amoro) Yu Li  
     Comments:  The podling initial setup is in good progress with code repository transferred and website built. Look forward to its first apache release.
  - [X] (amoro) Xinyu Zhou  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (amoro) Kent Yao  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Fury

A blazing fast multi-language serialization framework powered by jit and
zero-copy

Fury has been incubating since 2023-12-15.

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

  1. Grow the community(attracting more committers, contributors, and users)
  2. Publish Apache releases
  3. Improve project documentation and align the implementation of Java/Python/JavaScript/C++/Golang/Rust.

### 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 started the community vote of the first release.
   2. We received 7 new issues and closed 6 issues.
   3. Community development wasn't grown too much in last month. The main reason is probably due to core committers were engaged in the first release and the standardization of fury serialization protocol. But there were some new developers continuing contributing to fury in recent months.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
   1. Created 28 PR in last month
   2. Standardized the fury cross-language serialization protocol, which will make the project develops q

### 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:

We haven't make a release since Fury joined Apache incubator.

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

We haven't elected new committers or PPMC members. Currently all the committers and PPMC members are the initial committers.

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

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (fury) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (fury) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (fury) Yu Li  
     Comments:  Good to see the first apache release on the way.
  - [ ] (fury) Xin Wang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fury) Enrico Olivelli  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Gluten

Gluten is a middle layer responsible for offloading JVM-based SQL engines'
execution to native engines.

Gluten has been incubating since 2024-01-11.

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

  1. Publish 1st Apache release
  2. Community Growth Initiative
  3. Enhance the website and documentation to meet Apache standards

### 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 number of fork is 342.
- The number of star is 959.
- The number of contributors is 118.
- Regular monthly meeting.

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

- Complete to transfer the project source code from oap-project to apache
- Complete to set up a website in gluten.apache.org

### 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:

  2024-03-02

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

2024-01-11, when the project was accepted into the incubator.  

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Indeed, their guidance is valuable for steering the project towards success.

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

Yes, everything is fine.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (gluten) Yu Li  
     Comments: Good to see the initial setup is in good progress and look forward to its first apache release.
  - [ ] (gluten) Wenli Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gluten) Kent Yao  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (gluten) Shaofeng Shi  
     Comments:  Glad to see the repository be transfered to asf and the website be online. Is there an ETA for the first Apache release? For the community growth, the fork and star number might not be that important, comparing with the number of contributors, committers and IPMCs. Please put these numbers ahead of those two. Thank you!   
  - [ ] (gluten) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## HoraeDB

HoraeDB is a high-performance, distributed, cloud native time-series
database.

HoraeDB has been incubating since 2023-12-11.

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

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (horaedb) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (horaedb) Shaofeng Shi  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (horaedb) Gang Li  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (horaedb) Von Gosling  
     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. Unified different versions & introduce a new Graph Dashboard & LLM/AI system
  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 for now

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

 1. First time taken part in GSoC to let more students participate in the community.
 2. Nominated a new PPMC @simon (also is the first one) & 2 new committers
 3. At least 7 committers take part in the release processes & 2 of them could handle it by themselves

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

 1. Release 2 major version 1.2 & 1.3 (And all modules move to Java11 in next release version)
 2. Introduce a new repository: hugegraph-ai (About KG/Graph RAG/LLM related system)
 3. Fixed 3 security issues & first time communicate with the SEC reporter/finder/SEC Team
 4. Keep improving docs & some downloading issues have been fixed.
 5. The distributed storage system HugeGraph-PD & HugeGraph-Store is coming soon~

### 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:

  2024-04-01

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

 2024-02-24

### 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.

Thanks for the mentor, no issues to address now

### 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:  
  - [X] (hugegraph) Yu Li  
     Comments: Good to see the community growing at a steady pace. 
  - [ ] (hugegraph) Willem Ning Jiang  
     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?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (liminal) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  Regarding we don't have any update from the PPMC and almost no activity, I propose to start a retirement vote on the podling.
  - [ ] (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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## Livy

Livy is web service that exposes a REST interface for managing long running
Apache Spark contexts in your cluster. With Livy, new applications can be
built on top of Apache Spark that require fine grained interaction with many
Spark contexts.

Livy has been incubating since 2017-06-05.

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

  1. Revitalization of the Community
  2. Dependable Release Cadence
  3. Focus on Contributors rather than primarily on Users (Docs for processes)

### 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?
There have been a number of PRs from the community and some activity on the
mailing lists. The overall activity is still rather low as to be expected
with a mature project even if a podling. Activity should pick up again
as we begin to plan our next release.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
There have been minor improvements and bug fixes. Most activity would be
considered maintenance during this period. Again, once we start the plan
for the next release, I believe activity will pick up.

### 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:

  2023-10-10

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
October 2023

### 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.

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (livy) Bikas Saha  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments: Great to see new potential contributors joining the Slack channel and mailing list :)
  - [ ] (livy) Madhawa Kasun Gunasekara  
     Comments:
  - [X] (livy) Larry McCay  
     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.
  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?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
[PJF] Milagro is being retired.


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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?

2.5.0 is released on Dec 12, 2023

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

2.6.0 is being prepared for 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
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2023-12-12

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

None

### 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: Let's make the 2.6.0 release soon, and also make some progresses towards graduation.
  - [ ] (pegasus) Liang Chen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pegasus) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pegasus) Liu Xun  
     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.
  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?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
[PJF] There is minimal activity but discussions on graduating PonyMail seem blocked by the fact that the community is small but that the tool is too important to retire.


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## ResilientDB

ResilientDB is a distributed blockchain framework that is open-source,
lightweight, modular, and highly performant.

ResilientDB has been incubating since 2023-10-21.

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

1. Transfer related websites to Apache domain.
2. Grow the community by facilitating more applications being built on ResDB.
3. Improve and extend documentation.  

### 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?

Regular meeting continues every week.

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

We launched an [ResView](https://github.com/apache/incubator-resilientdb/pull/138) Application.

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

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

### Date of last release:    

None
 
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

November of 2023

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

The mentors helped tremendously throughout the project build-up and transfer.


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

There are no known brand and naming issues as reported here.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (resilientdb) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (resilientdb) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (resilientdb) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (resilientdb) Roman Shaposhnik  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (resilientdb) Christian Grobmeier  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## StormCrawler

StormCrawler is a collection of resources for building low-latency,
customisable and scalable web crawlers on Apache Storm.

StormCrawler has been incubating since 2024-03-19.

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

  1. Set up Git Repos and Builds
  2. Community building
  3. Work towards a new release

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
Nothing yet.


### How has the community developed since the last report?
First Report.


### How has the project developed since the last report?
N/A


### 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?
No new committers yet.


### 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.
Nothing to note.

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (stormcrawler) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (stormcrawler) Lewis John McGibbney  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (stormcrawler) Ayush Saxena  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (stormcrawler) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Teaclave

Teaclave is a universal secure computing platform.

Teaclave has been incubating since 2019-08-20.

### 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?


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

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (teaclave) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Jianyong Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Matt Sicker  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Zhijie Shen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Gordon King  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## XTable

XTable is an omni-directional converter for table formats that facilitates
interoperability across data processing systems and query engines.

XTable has been incubating since 2024-02-11.

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

  1.Complete tasks related to code base and website migration to ASF.
  2. Publish a release under ASF.
  3. Foster community growth.  

### 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 are seeing more people trying to use XTable and submitting issues while trying to run the project.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
We are nearing completion of the renaming of classes to reflect the new project name. 


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

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

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX There hasn't been any release for XTable yet.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?  
No new PPMC members or committers have been elected.

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

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

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (xtable) Jesús Camacho Rodríguez  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (xtable) Hitesh Shah  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (xtable) Stamatis Zampetakis  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (xtable) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  Waiting report populated, the podling is just post-bootstrapping.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: