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# Incubator PMC report for September 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
  August:


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents  
[Auron](#auron)  
[Baremaps](#baremaps)  
[BifroMQ](#bifromq)  
[Burr](#burr)  
[Grails](#grails)  
[Iggy](#iggy)  
[KIE](#kie)  
[OpenServerless](#openserverless)  
[Otava](#otava)  
[OzHera](#ozhera)  
[Polaris](#polaris)  
[PonyMail](#ponymail)  
[PouchDB](#pouchdb)  
[Texera](#texera)  
[Wayang](#wayang)  


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## Auron

The Auron accelerator for big data engine (e.g., Spark, Flink) leverages native vectorized execution to accelerate query processing. It combines the power of the Apache DataFusion library and the scale of the distributed computing framework.  

Auron has been incubating since 2025-08-05.

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

  1. Finish the source code cleanup. 
  2. Publish the first Apache release.
  3. Grow the community and attract more contributors and users

### 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?

    One new committer joined the project.


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

    No


### 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?
 
    Sept. 1, 2025 - Fei Wang(turboFei)


### 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, all the mentors are helpful and responsive on the projecr bootstrap and community growth.

### 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:

  - [ ] (auron) Becket Qin  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (auron) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:  Progressing well.
  - [x] (auron) Hao Ding  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (auron) Nicholas Jiang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Baremaps

Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for
creating, publishing, and operating online maps.

Baremaps has been incubating since 2022-10-10.

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

  1.
  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:

  - [ ] (baremaps) Bertrand Delacretaz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (baremaps) Julian Hyde  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (baremaps) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:  The community has shown very little activity.
  - [ ] (baremaps) George Percivall  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Seems the PPMC didn't fill this report? Do we need to take actions for this?


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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 userbase.
  3. Attract more contributors.

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

We received confirmation from Mark that the paperwork for the trademark transfer has been submitted. The process is expected to take around six months to complete.

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

  1. One contributor joined the community.
  2. A press release was published via a company media channel to promote Apache BifroMQ.
  3. One of the largest smart home appliance companies adopted Apache BifroMQ.

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

  1. Working toward a code freeze for the first incubator release (9 PRs merged).
  2. Fixed multiple issues identified in real production usage.

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

  - [ ] 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 have received helpful guidance.

### 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.
  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:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Grails

A powerful Groovy-based web application framework for the JVM built on top
of Spring Boot

Grails has been incubating since 2025-01-25.

### 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:

  - [ ] (grails) Paul King  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (grails) Soeren Glasius  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Iggy

Iggy is a high-performance, ultra-low latency and large-scale persistent
message streaming platform written in Rust.

Iggy has been incubating since 2025-02-04.

### 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:

  - [ ] (iggy) Hao Ding  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (iggy) Yonik Seeley  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (iggy) Zili Chen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (iggy) Hulk Lin  
     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.
  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:

  - [ ] (kie) Brian Proffitt  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (kie) Claus Ibsen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (kie) Andrea Cosentino  
     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.
  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) Bertrand Delacretaz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (openserverless) Enrico Olivelli  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (openserverless) François Papon  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (openserverless) JB Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (openserverless) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Otava 

  Apache Otava (incubating) performs statistical analysis of performance test
  results stored in CSV files, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, or Graphite database. It
  finds change-points and notifies about possible performance regressions.
  
  A typical use-case of otava is as follows:
  
  * A set of performance tests is scheduled repeatedly, such as after each
  commit is pushed. 
  * The resulting metrics of the test runs are stored in a time series
  database (Graphite) or appended to CSV files. 
  * Otava is launched by a Jenkins/Cron job (or an operator) to analyze the
  recorded metrics regularly. 
  * Otava notifies about significant changes in recorded metrics by
  outputting text reports or sending Slack notifications. 
  * Otava is capable of finding even small, but persistent shifts in metric
  values, despite noise in data. It adapts automatically to the level of
  noise in data and tries to notify only about persistent, statistically
  significant changes, be it in the system under test or in the environment. 
  * Otava has been incubating since 2024-11-27. Otava entered Incubation as
  Hunter. The project name Otava was approved by VP Brand 2025-02-09. 

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

  1. Upgrade to support the latest versions of Python, including upgrading to
  the latest signal-processing-algorithms library. 
  2. Do more releases, so that it is a routine, repeatable process. 
  3. Grow the community and ultimately vote to admit new committers and PPMC
  members. Do more publicity around the releases and the project in general.
  This is an item where we certainly hope to see new contributors. 

### 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've seen engagement in the mailing lists and/or PRs from four out of five
  of the project's committers since the last report.

  Three new contributors have reached out via the mailing list and/or GitHub,
  showing interest in the project and starting work on open issues.

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

  * We have completed our first release. 
  * Updated our build system to use `uv` instead of `poetry`. 
  * Changed our configuration management for ease of use. 
  * Starting the work to migrate to modern python versions. 

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

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

  A self review based on https://s.apache.org/727vc
  
  * Code 5/5
  * Licenses and Copyright: 5/5
  * Releases: 4/5
  * Quality: 5/5
  * Community: 7/7
  * Consensus: 4/5 (Missing: CS10)
  * Independence: 2/2
  * Brand: 4/4

### Date of last release:  

  The last release was on July 17, 2025.

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

  The major contributors during the past 8 years were listed as PPMC members
  in the project application pase. We have not elected any new members after
  that.

### 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 helpful and responsive.
  Nothing is falling through the cracks.

### 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?

  This isn't yet an issue, as the new name of the project is quite unknown
  yet.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (otava) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (otava) Enrico Olivelli  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (otava) Lari Hotari  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (otava) Mick Semb Wever  
     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.Make more apache release.  
  2.Build and grow 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?

Improve the community website and prepare to deploy the online demo in the new environment.  
Develop more committers and contributors.


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

  1、Enhance intelligent link analysis capabilities.  
  2、Optimize trace data collection strategy and processing performance, with an added degradation control switch.  
  3、Introduce intelligent log analysis functionality.  
  4、Optimize log collection across multiple dimensions, including configuration management, distribution logic, and dedicated collection thread pool.  
  5、Refactor the custom metric monitoring SDK.  
  6、Add business metrics support in the monitoring module.  

### 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:

  2025-03-26

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

2025-01-13


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, mentors are helpful and responsive.


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

Not yet.  


### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Polaris

Polaris is a catalog for data lakes. It provides new levels of choice,
flexibility and control over data, with full enterprise security and Apache
Iceberg interoperability across a multitude of engines and infrastructure.

Polaris has been incubating since 2024-08-09.

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

  1. Review maturity model

### 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?

Regarding the user community:
* On Slack, we note an increase of 7% of the number of messages (with a peak of 580 messages during last month). These Slack messages happen 77% on public channels and 21% as direct messages (which is a good ratio). NB: we are using the free plan for Slack, meaning that the messages retention is 90 days. It's interesting to note that we got messages from 21 threads started by new Slack users.
* On GitHub Issues, we had 19 issues created by new users.
* On the dev mailing list, we had 196 messages in August, 278 messages in July, and 311 messages in June.

Regarding the dev community:
* We had 46 Pull Requests from 13 new contributors
* Community meetings happened on 2025-06-12, 2025-06-26, 2025-07-24, 2025-08-28, all recorded and shared publicly (on the dev mailing list and the website, see https://polaris.apache.org/community/meetings/)

We participated in events to promote Apache Polaris:
* Apache Beam Summit 25 New York City
* Apache Iceberg Meetup Paris June 25
* Snowflake Summit SF June 25
* Data and AI - Lakehouse MiniSummit SF June 25

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

We released 1.0.0-incubating, which is an important milestone for the podling:
* Binary distributions (.tgz/.zip) and Docker images
* Official Helm chart for Kubernetes
* Quarkus runtime for fast startup
* Policy store with built-in data TMS policies
* Rollback compaction on conflicts
* 3rd Party IdP integration
* Federation and generic table support (experimental)

We also released 1.0.1-incubating, mostly to fix an issue on the Helm chart.

In order to faster ship fixes and new features, we agreed about a monthly release cadence.

We are also discussing several proposals:
* Table Source
* Client/Authentication API
* Event API
* Async & Reliable Tasks
* Commit Deconfliction
* Row and Column Based Access Control
* S3 Remote Signing
* FGAC
* ...

### 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:

  2025-08-16

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

Last committers: Yun Zou elected on 2025-06-08
Last PPMC members: Dmitri Bourlatchkov, Dennis Huo, Yufei Gu elected on 2025-03-25

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? 

Yes, helpful in releases review mostly.

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

Polaris PPMC is working with 3rd parties willing to use Polaris brand/trademarks, according to https://incubator.apache.org/guides/publicity.html and https://incubator.apache.org/guides/branding.html.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (polaris) Bertrand Delacretaz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (polaris) Holden Karau  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (polaris) Kent Yao  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (polaris) Ryan Blue
     Comments:  Good progress on the project. I think that the community is getting more used to the Apache Way but still needs guidance. This is based on uncertainty about when to use the private list and when to use a vote (vs asking for further discussion).
  - [X] (polaris) JB Onofre  
     Comments: I'm happy to see new contributors and people active in the Polaris community. Also the podling did good progress on the releases front. 

### 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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## PouchDB

PouchDB is an open-source JavaScript database inspired by Apache CouchDB
that is designed to run well within the browser.

PouchDB has been incubating since 2025-04-15.

### 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:

  - [ ] (pouchdb) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pouchdb) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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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. Set up the Apache Texera webpage [http://texera.apache.org/](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? 
1.  **August 06, 2025:** The repository has officially transferred to Apache organization
2.  **August 28, 2025:** We conducted our monthly group sync meeting with the PPMC members, committers, and contributors.  

### How has the project developed since the last report? 
* Cloud Deployment: Investigated on AWS ECS for low cost deployment of Texera.
* Preparing for NIH: Added option to allow owner to give download access to public datasets.
* UI Enhancements: 
    * Added user's activeness to admin dashboard
    * Displayed file upload speed and time
    * Added dashboard tab for computing units
* Docs: All design decisions are documented in `issues` tab in Github.  

### 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 (not an ASF release)

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 
July 4 2025.  

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? 
Yes, our mentors were highly responsive and joined our meetings. They also actively worked on our JIRA tickets.  


### Signed-off-by:
  - [X] (texera) PJ Fanning  
     Comments: Next priority must be to get the web site working 
  - [X] (texera) Ian Maxon  
     Comments:  It's great to see the code donation cleared up. Looking forward to an incubating release in the near future!

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Wayang

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

  1. We are prepared for, and ready to initiate discussion for graduation.

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

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

### How has the project developed since the last report?
We've completed a release with various new functionality, current progress has focus on bug fixes related to that 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:

  2025-07-24

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  2025-02-05

### 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, mentors have been helpful. No issues 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?

Yes.

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: