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# Incubator PMC report for August 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
  August:


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents  
[Answer](#answer)  
[DevLake](#devlake)  
[Fury](#fury)  
[GraphAr](#graphar)  
[Gravitino](#gravitino)  
[HertzBeat](#hertzbeat)  
[HoraeDB](#horaedb)  
[Liminal](#liminal)  
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)  
[OpenServerless](#openserverless)  
[OzHera](#ozhera)   
[Seata](#seata)  
[StormCrawler](#stormcrawler)  
[StreamPark](#streampark)  
[Toree](#toree)  
[Training](#training)  
[XTable](#xtable)  


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## Answer

A Q-and-A platform software for teams at any scales.

Answer has been incubating since 2023-10-09.

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

  1. Release more ASF-compliant versions.   
  2. Build and grow a diverse community, while attracting more committers and PPMC members.

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

So far so good.

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

1. There are 99 contributors in total of 3 repositories without duplication.
2. We've reached 139 translation contributors in total on [Crowdin](https://crowdin.com/profile/answerdev). 
3. Two new committers passed the votes and joined the community.
4. We joined WeAreDevelopers World Congress to show more people our project. Later, we joined keynote and 2 tracks in CommunityOverCode Asia 2024 to share lessons and tips we've learnt in the incubator.   

### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. We released two new versions: v1.3.1 and v1.3.5.
2. There were five new features, 11 improvements and 17 bug fixes.

### 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-July-1st.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  
  2024-July-16th.


### 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.

Yes, they've been helpful and provided us valuable advice.

### 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? 

There are no known brand and naming issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (answer) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (answer) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (answer) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (answer) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## DevLake

DevLake is a development data platform, providing the data infrastructure
for developer teams to analyze and improve their engineering productivity.

DevLake has been incubating since 2022-04-29.

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

  1. Grow the community and attract more users.
  2. Add more committers and PPMC members.   
  3. Grow the project, support more data sources and use cases, and improve the user experience.  

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? 
No issues at the moment.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  1. 12 new contributors have joined the community (156 contributors in total)
  2. 161 new community members in Slack (1302 in total)
  3. 1 new committer was elected, and no PPMC was elected.     

### How has the project developed since the last report? 
  1. Made one major release v1.0.0, and v1.0.1 is at the beta testing stage.
  2. Add an onboarding workflow for new users.
  3. Support DORA benchmarks in 2023.
  4. Support devolopers and teams to observe their daily work via the worklogs dashboard.
  5. Huge improvements on user experience for Config UI.


### 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:

  2024-06-27

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

  2024-07-15 

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? 
Yes, the mentors helped tremendously throughout version releases and community governance.

### 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?

There are no known brand and naming issues.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (devlake) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (devlake) Liang Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (devlake) Lidong Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (devlake) Sijie Guo  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (devlake) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (devlake) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  The project is in a good sharp to graduation.

### 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.
  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:

  - [ ] (fury) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fury) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fury) Yu Li  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fury) Xin Wang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fury) Enrico Olivelli  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fury) Hao Ding  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## GraphAr

GraphAr is an open-source and language-independent data file format designed
for efficient graph data storage and retrieval.

GraphAr has been incubating since 2024-03-25.

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

  1. Growing the community(attracting more committers, contributors and users)
  2. Release more ASF-compliant versions
  3. Improve the project document and align the libraries implementation of GraphAr format.

### 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. We just voted and accepted our first new committer

### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Merge 24 PRs in last month.
2. Improve the C++ library by reorganize the code structure,.


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

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

### Date of last release:

  2024-07-02

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2024-08-07

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, the mentors are very helpful and responsive.

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

We don't find any 3rd parties incorrectly using the podling's name and brand. The VP, Brand has approved the project name. (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-221)

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (graphar) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (graphar) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (graphar) Xiaoqiao He  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (graphar) Yu Li  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Gravitino

Gravitino is a high-performance, geo-distributed, and federated metadata
like designed to manage metadata seamlessly across diverse data sources,
vendors, and regions. Its primary goal is to provide users with unified
metadata access for both data and AI assets.

Gravitino has been incubating since 2024-06-04.

### 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:

  - [ ] (gravitino) Daniel Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gravitino) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gravitino) Justin McLean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gravitino) Shaofeng Shi  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gravitino) Larry McCay  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gravitino) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## HertzBeat

HertzBeat is an easy-to-use, open source, real-time monitoring system. It
features an agentless architecture, high-performance clustering, Prometheus
compatibility, and powerful custom monitoring and status page building
capabilities.

HertzBeat has been incubating since 2024-04-05.

### 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:

  - [ ] (hertzbeat) Yonglun Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hertzbeat) Yu Xiao  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hertzbeat) Justn Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hertzbeat) Francis Chuang  
     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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## 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. Retired on 2024-07-18.
 
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Liminal is now retired. 

### 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
  - [x] Other: retired

### 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:  Liminal is now retired. 
  - [ ] (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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## NLPCraft

A Java API for NLU applications

NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.

### 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:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## OpenServerless

OpenServerless is an open source, cloud-agnostic, serverless platform. It
offers a complete environment for serverless applications development, based
on Kubernetes. With Apache OpenWhisk as its FaaS engine, it provides an
unified developer experience with a plethora of services (SQL or noSQL
databases, key-value stores, object storage, LLMs services, function
schedulers) managed by the platform's core: the operator, along with tooling
(the CLI) to simplify (and interact with) deployments, integrated ide and
starter application and optimized runtimes integrated with the staters.

OpenServerless has been incubating since 2024-06-17.

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

  1. Finish the bootstrap
  2. Prepare first release
  3. Grow 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?
Bootstrapping

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

### 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

### 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:

  - [ ] (openserverless) Bertrand Delacretaz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (openserverless) Enrico Olivelli  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (openserverless) François Papon  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (openserverless) JB Onofré  
     Comments: good start for the podling, eager to move forward
  - [ ] (openserverless) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## OzHera

OzHera is an application observation platform (APM) in the era
of cloud native, with the application as its core, integrating
capabilities such as metric monitoring, trace tracking, logging,
and alerting.

OzHera has been incubating since 2024-07-11.

### 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:

  - [ ] (openserverless) Duo Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (openserverless) Yu Xiao  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (openserverless) Yu Li  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (openserverless) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Seata

Seata(Simple Extensible Autonomous Transaction Architecture)is an easy-to-
use and high-performance distributed transaction solution, used to solve the
data consistency problem.

Seata has been incubating since 2023-10-29.

### 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:

  - [ ] (seata) Sheng Wu  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (seata) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (seata) Huxing Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (seata) Heng Du  
     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.
  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:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## StreamPark

StreamPark is a streaming application development platform.

StreamPark has been incubating since 2022-09-01.

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

  1. Have an agreement on the members of the PMC for project graduation
  2. Go through Apache Project Maturity Model and evaluate our status for project 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?



Since the last report, 24 new developers have joined the community, bringing the total number of developers to 146, We release 3 apache versions, Currently, based on our collection, there are 70 + users(issue/163) using it in production.


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

Since the last report, the community release three versions: 2.12, 2.13, and 2.14, the documentation has been improved, and several blog posts on production practices have been added.

### 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:
  2024-05-24

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


2024-08-05, ZihaoXiang was elected as our new PPMC member.


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive


### 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?



Brand approved the project name
### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (streampark) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampark) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampark) Stephan Ewen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampark) Thomas Weise  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampark) Duo Zhang  
     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?
   The community saw a boost in activity working on the
   bringup of support for Apache Spark 3.3 and Scala 2.13 which
   culminate in a new committer, but after that it went back to
   regular activity flow of a stable/mature project.

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

   The discussion around retirement process was stopped with the boost in
   community activity.

   The Apache Toree project recently had two presentations at the 
   European Community over Code conference, drawing a good audience. The attendees
   showed great interest, posing several questions. This indicates the community
   should look into opportunities for us to further promote awareness of the project. 

### How has the project developed since the last report?
   Most of the remaining tasks related to Apache Spark 3.3 and Scala 2.13 are
   completed and comunity should start planning next release.

### 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?

   Cheng Pan was added to the PPMC on 2023-08-28

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

   Not applicable as we had not needed mentors attention

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

   No Trademark issues

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (toree) Luciano Resende  
     Comments: 
  - [ ] (toree) Weiwei Yang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:


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## Training

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for
training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache
and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

### 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:

  - [ ] (training) Craig Russell  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (training) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (training) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (training) Lars Francke  
     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. Publish a release under ASF (0.1.0 release voting is in progress).  
  2. Foster community growth.
  3. Modularize code to reduce the binary size and dependencies.  

### 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? 
Seeing more engagement in the OSS community to try XTable with different query engines and catalogs.  

### How has the project developed since the last report?
Improved documentation, fixed bugs and blockers raised by users in Github issues have been actively addressed and resolved.     
Kicked off the first release process, setting up infra and release guide based on apache guidelines to streamline future releases.
  
### 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:
There hasn't been an official release of XTable yet, 0.1.0 release voting is in progress.

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

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes. Shoutout to Stamatis Zampetakis for helping resolve infra issues for release.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? 
To the best of our knowledge, and after searching the web for mentions of "XTable" it seems there are no violations of the branding/naming policy at the moment.

The XTable name has been approved by the VP, Brand as part of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-218

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (xtable) Jesús Camacho Rodríguez  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (xtable) Stamatis Zampetakis  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (xtable) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: