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# Incubator PMC report for August 2025

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
  July:


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents  
[Annotator](#annotator)  
[BifroMQ](#bifromq)  
[Burr](#burr)  
[Cloudberry](#cloudberry)  
[DevLake](#devlake)  
[Fory](#fory)  
[GeaFlow](#geaflow)  
[GraphAr](#graphar)  
[Hamilton](#hamilton)  
[HoraeDB](#horaedb)  
[KIE](#kie)  
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)  
[PonyMail](#ponymail)  
[Seata](#seata)  
[Texera](#texera)  
[Toree](#toree)  
[Training](#training)  
[XTable](#xtable)  


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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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## BifroMQ

BifroMQ is a Java-based, high-performance, distributed MQTT broker with
native multi-tenancy support, designed for large-scale connections and
message delivery.

BifroMQ has been incubating since 2025-04-22.

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

  1. Complete the first incubator release
  2. Gain more public exposure and grow the community

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

The signed documents for transferring the trademark have been accepted. We are waiting for the process to be completed and for a copy of the ASF-stamped agreement, so we can complete the donation contract workflow.

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

I attended Apache Community Over Code Asia and spoke at the Incubator Track, making connections with potential users and adopters. 

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

* We are working toward a code freeze for the first incubator release
* Updated the website with a detailed contribution guide in the community section

### 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:    

   2025-02-25

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

None since entering the incubator

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, we get helpful and timely guidance from the mentors

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

The transfer of BifroMQ’s trademark is in progress.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (bifromq) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bifromq) Xiangdong Huang  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (bifromq) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bifromq) Penghui Li  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bifromq) Sheng Wu  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Burr

Burr is a lightweight in-process python framework that standardizes the
expression and execution of state machines as action-driven graphs, while
making graph execution easily observable. It is particularly suited for AI
agent workflows, simulations, and other dynamic systems, and comes with a
self-hostable observability UI that integrates with OpenTelemetry.

Burr has been incubating since 2025-05-24.

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

  1. Finish check list to be able to make a release
  2. Start releasing
  3. Enable more contributors

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


### How has the community developed since the last report?
Flat. Discord continues to trickle in.
One user wants to contribute a UI.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. One new feature was merged.
2. Some PRs were merged for licensing etc. But still more work needed for first release.

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

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

### Date of last release:

  N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  May 2025

### 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.

Time for the committers has been an issue this summer to get through
the checklist required to release under Apache.

### 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?

I think so. No issues thus far.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (burr) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (burr) Ayush Saxena  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (burr) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Cloudberry

Cloudberry is an advanced and mature open-source Massively Parallel
Processing (MPP) database, derived from the open-source version of Pivotal
Greenplum Database®️ but built on a more modern PostgreSQL 14 kernel,
whereas Greenplum is based on PostgreSQL 12. This upgrade brings enhanced
enterprise capabilities, making Cloudberry well-suited for data
warehousing, large-scale analytics, and AI/ML workloads.

Cloudberry has been incubating since 2024-10-11.

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

  1. Publish the first Apache release following ASF release processes.
  2. Grow the contributor and community to ensure long-term sustainability.

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

We're working on the first ever Apache release. Hope to get enough
reviews and binding votes when the first Release vote email is sent to the
Incubator mailing list.

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

  - Mailing list Activity: 221 new emails on the Dev mailing list since the
last report (98 emails in May, 60 emails in June and 63 emails in July),
covering technical and Apache-related discussions.
  - Slack Activity: 15 new threads in `general` channel, 5 new members
since last report.
  - GitHub Discussions: 16 new threads since last report (8 new in May, 5
new in June, 3 new in July).
  - New Committers:
    - May 21, 2025 - Wenchao Zhang (zhangwenchao-123)
    - July 9, 2025 - Xun Gong (gongxun0928)
  - Events:
    - Community Over Code Asia 2025: six presentations on Cloudberry at
this conference, covering AI, Data Warehouse, OLAP and Incubator tracks.
There was one Cloudberry booth.
    - HOW2025: PostgreSQL & IvorySQL Eco Conference in Jinan, China: PPMC
members Dianjin Wang and Max Yang attended this conference and introduced
Apache Cloudberry to the audience.
    - 10-minute T3D session on Apache Cloudberry from PPMC Member Tushar
Pednekar with the host Joshua Drake: https://youtu.be/0mPCoEXG0XU
    - PPMC member Tushar Pednekar had a presentation on Cloudberry + Flink
at Flink Forward Asia, Singapore 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9d572vOvNY
    - Presentation recording available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMYqOoE4p5A, by contributor @Leonid Borchuk
and PPMC Member @Kirill Reshke at the sql-ninja conference.

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

  - Compliance with ASF policy:
    - Renamed `greenplum_path` to `cloudberry-env.sh` for better compliance
with ASF rules.
    - Updated Apache RAT license metadata for release.
    - Changed PAX's cpp-stub from submodule to subdir to avoid introducing
binary files.
    - Changed Python modules for gpMgmt from bundling their source tarballs
to downloading them during the build process via `pip3 install`.
  - Working on the first Apache Cloudberry (Incubating) 2.0.0 release:
    - Already had RC1 & RC2 rounds and fixed some license issues, will have
an RC3 round for the dev vote and Apache Incubator vote.
  - PostgreSQL Kernel upgrade: the community developer has started the
kernel upgrade work from PG 14.4 to PG 16.6.
  - 130 new commits to main branch since the last report, focusing on
performance improvements, bug fixes and new features.
  - Ecosystem:
    - Apache SeaTunnel added official connector support for Apache
Cloudberry in its latest 2.3.11 release (See https://s.apache.org/baj30).
    - Flink JDBC Connector v3.3.0+ now supports Cloudberry via PR
https://s.apache.org/jt29r
  - Our GitHub main repo has reached 1k+ GitHub stars!

### 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:

  N/A

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

  - May 21, 2025 - Wenchao Zhang (zhangwenchao-123)
  - July 9, 2025 - Xun Gong (gongxun0928)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, we can get suggestions and support on licensing and release matters.

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

  Yes.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (cloudberry) Roman Shaposhnik  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (cloudberry) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  PPMC is trying they best to cut the first release by 
following ASF release policy. 
  - [x] (cloudberry) Kent Yao  
     Comments:  The community is active

### 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. Maintain the project, fix bugs, and improve the user experience based on the feedback from the 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. 11 new contributors have joined the community (205 contributors in total). 
  2. 79 new community members in Slack (1640 in total). 
  3. 2 new committers were elected, and 2 PPMCs were elected.

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

  1. Support importing QA domain data via CSV templates. 
  2. Release a new ASF version 'v1.0.2'. 
  3. Bugfixes and UX refinement. 

### 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:

With the help of our mentors, we have started the graduation process of DevLake. We just finished the maturity analysis and will start the vote in our dev channel. Check details at: https://devlake.apache.org/community/maturity

### Date of last release:


   2025-07-02

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

   2025-06-25

### 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, the mentors helped tremendously throughout version releases and community governance.


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




  There are no known brand and naming issues.




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?


  Yes.


### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Fory

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

Fory 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:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## GeaFlow
GeaFlow is a streaming graph computing engine for distributed large-scale real-time graph storage and analysis. It supports trillion-level graph storage, hybrid graph and table processing, real-time/offline graph computing, and interactive graph analysis. 

GeaFlow has been incubating since 2025-06-06.

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

  1. Release the first version.
  2. Establish a well-defined community governance framework.
  3. Enhance the diversity of community (attracting more committers, contributors, and users).
  4. Drive the community forward in accordance with the technial roadmap in issues.


### 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. 4 new contributors have joined the community.
  2. Submit a task in OSPP(Open Source Promotion Plan)2025.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. Group id, documents and ASF configuration file updates.
  2. Some fixes by community developers.
  3. The feature development of the first release version.

### 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 are actively preparing for the first release version.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
When the incubator GeaFlow project is officially approved through voting.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, the montors are very helpful and responsive.

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (geaflow) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  Get started
  - [x] (geaflow) Xin Wang  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (geaflow) Jingsong Lee  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (geaflow) Paul King  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (geaflow) Justin Mclean  
     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. Extend the GraphAr format to support more systems

### 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. Voted and accepted 1 new committer.
   2. Attend the OSPP 2025 activity with two projects.

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

   1. Merged 14 PRs since the last report
   2. Support WriterOption in SDK to allow users to configure writer options
   3. Support multi-property in GraphAr format and C++ SDK

### 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:

  2024-07-02

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

  2025-07-14 

### 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, the mentors are 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?

There are no known brand and naming issues.

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Hamilton

Hamilton is a lightweight in-process framework to define, execute, and
observe directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that express data transformations. In
Hamilton, one can express complex DAGs of transformations, e.g. from
dataframe transformations (using pandas, polars, PySpark), machine learning
pipelines, through to regular software engineering API request and LLM API
based workflows. Observability hooks are built into the framework. The
Hamilton UI is a self-hostable service to capture observability output from
workflow runs.

Hamilton has been incubating since 2025-04-12.  

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

  1. Finish check list to be able to make a release
  2. Start releasing
  3. Enable more contributors

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


### How has the community developed since the last report?
Flat. Slack continues to trickle in.
Non PPMC users contributed some code.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. We have many merged features that haven't been released.
2. Some PRs were merged for licensing etc. Docs were updated.
3. But still more work needed for first release.

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

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

### Date of last release:

  N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  April 2025

### 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.

Time for the committers has been an issue this summer to get through
the checklist required to release under Apache.

### 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?

I think so. No issues thus far.  ### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (hamilton) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hamilton) Ayush Saxena  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hamilton) PJ Fanning  
     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. Release more version
  2. Grow community(attract more users/committers)
  3.  Finish the new metrics engine    

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

Several core developers have left the project, causing a slowdown in development this year.
We expect development to get back on track next year.

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

Attend the OSPP 2025 with one project.

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

There 

### 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:

  2024-12-10


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

Neo Chen, at 2024-12-25

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, they are helpful when release version and other trivial things.


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

Yes, we're doing well with this.

 ### 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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## 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. Continuing to build the community
2. Removing dependencies which do not comply (almost there)
3. Ensuring branding is correct  

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

No, we’re moving along well. Slowly, but still making progress.  ### How has the community developed since the last report?

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

We have some new people submitting changes and are looking at add more to the list of committers, but we would like them to be more active on the mailing lists besides just submitting code. We're also in the process of redirecting the old community sites to the new Apache KIE website. We released 10.1.0 July 10th!

### 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:

  2025-07-10

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

Start of the year

### 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 the report. The mentors are doing well.


### 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?

Yes

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:     

[PJF] GPL licensed source and libs (and similar Category X licenses) are proving to be a major roadblock on the path to graduation.

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## PonyMail

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:



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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. Complete the transfer of Seata's existing trademarks to the ASF.  
  2. Finalize pre-graduation discussions and address any remaining gaps in required tasks.

### 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. 24 new code contributors have joined the community (596 contributors in total)
  2. 5 new committers were elected, and 1 PPMC members were elected.
  3. We presented two sessions on Apache Seata at the CommunityOverCode Asia conference and organized a face-to-face community meetup offline.
  4. We have finalized the Apache Seata (incubating) [Maturity Model Assessment](https://seata.apache.org/docs/next/developers/maturity) and facilitated community-driven discussions.    

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

  1. Since the last report, we've merged 194 PRs, which include over 10 new
  features.
  2. Since the last report, we have released two official versions: 2.4.0 and 2.5.0.
  3. Since the last report, we have addressed and disclosed two CVEs: CVE-2025-32897 and CVE-2025-53606.  

### 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:    

  2025-08-05    

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

  2025-08-06  

### 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.

  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?

   No Trademark issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (seata) Sheng Wu  
     Comments:  Work on
  - [ ] (seata) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (seata) Huxing Zhang  
     Comments:  The project is in good progress working towards graduation.
  - [x] (seata) Heng Du  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (seata) Xin Wang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
[PJF] Discussing Graduation



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## Texera

Texera is an open-source system to support collaborative data science, AI,
and ML using GUI-based workflows. Our vision is to develop a system to
support cloud platforms on which users can easily analyze data and use AI/ML
techniques provided as operators. Users with various backgrounds,
irrespective of whether they know coding or not, can collaborate on the same
project to construct a pipeline. Experienced users can use programming
languages such as Python, R, Java, and Scala to implement customized
computation logic. The platform allows users to pause the execution of a
workflow to investigate the operator states, and resume the execution at a
later time. The platform can be used by a research community to publish
valuable resources such as data sets, workflows, and ML models to share
their domain-specific knowledge and support reproducibility of scientific
research. The platform also allows users to elastically request computing
resources from public clouds for computationally-intensive tasks.

Texera has been incubating since 2025-04-12.

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

  1. Donate the codebase to Apache.
  2. Clean up parts in the codebase that are conflicting with Apache
  3. Set up the Apache Texera webpage http://texera.apache.org/. Work is underway to consolidate user guides, developer setup instructions, and governance policies. We are analyzing the documentation structures of successful projects like Apache Flink and Spark to ensure an optimal user experience.

### 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?

  * August 02, 2025: We have completed the SGA form. It has been submitted and documented by Apache. We are ready to donate codebase now!
  * July 30, 2025: We conducted our monthly group sync meeting with the PPMC members, committers, and contributors.
  * July 31, 2025: Zuozhi Wang joined as a PPMC member.
  * We have engaged in significant community outreach and educational activities this month, increasing the users, including 17 undergraduate students, 34 students from high schools and community colleges, and 32 middle school students.
  * Texera has been deployed and used for research at the UCI Department of Ophthalmology.  

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

  * Cloud Deployment: Texera now runs on AWS EKS with better resource management.
  * Machine Learning: Added scikit-learn training operators.
  * UI Enhancements: Dynamic workflow setup and richer port-level metrics.
  * Performance: Faster Texera Hub resource access.
  * Docs: New tutorial videos in the works.

### 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:    

  2025-04-04 (non ASF)

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

The PPMC voted to add a new member on July 4 2025.

### 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, our mentors were highly responsive and joined our meetings. We thank PJ for guiding us on the SGA form. We also thank Ian for his help with his experience from Apache AsterixDB.  
 
### 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:

  - [ ] (texera) Cezar Andrei  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (texera) Gordon King  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (texera) PJ Fanning  
     Comments: SGA is now accepted by ASF Secretary and Git repo has been moved to ASF
  - [ ] (texera) Ian Maxon  
     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, Nothing much of news from previous report

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

  Slow activity with discussions about 0.6 release before merging
  Scala 2.13 support. Having said that, actions started and slowed down.

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

  Few prs and activity around release started

### 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?

  None

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

  No trademark issues

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (toree) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  The podling should push for release and start graduation 
     process
  - [ ] (toree) Ryan Blue  
     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.

A graduation discussion has been started at
https://lists.apache.org/thread/5d87do2wl6yxvgt6kxwx6b90p7zb8dro
However, there have been no responses. We welcome comments.

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

  1. Nothing. We are ready to graduate.

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

We have determined to graduate. Please see link above.

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

  - [x] Ready for graduation

### Date of last release:

While we have done a formal release, this is more of a content-producing project, rather than releasing software artifacts. The most recent content artifact was an update to the Airflow presentation, which lives at https://training.apache.org/presentations/airflow/index.html#/table-of-contents

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


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Mentors have been very helpful and responsive.

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

Yes. Since our name is "Training", which is generic, we use the full "Apache Training", which is unique and protected by the ASF name. We have passed a name search.

### 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. Ironing out license issues with bundled jars for new features. This is becoming increasingly relevant as we add new modules for integrations with other projects and for our own REST service that allows 
  2. Strengthening community building by actively engaging with users.
  3. Removing dependency on Spark for our project. This dependency adds friction for users and makes it harder to quickly build and run the project.

### 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 been collaborating with the Polaris community to provide a conversion service that their catalog service can use to convert metadata between table formats.
 2. 

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 1. A REST Service was added so that users can run the project as a long running service and call an endpoint to perform the conversion. This will help users more easily integrate with the project, especially when callers are not in the Java ecosystem.
 2. We release 0.3.0 which includes the ability to sync tables to catalogs in multiple table formats. The sync to a catalog was required for users to query their data in the table format of their choice and helps operationalize this data.


### 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:

  2025-06-05

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Feb 2024

### 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:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
[PJF] Mailing list traffic remains low. It seems like most of the interactions happen in GitHub.