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# Incubator PMC report for October 2025

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

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## 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
  September:


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents  
[Amoro](#amoro)  
[Fesod](#fesod)  
[Fluss](#fluss)  
[Gluten](#gluten)  
[Livy](#livy)   
[ResilientDB](#resilientdb)  


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## Amoro

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

Amoro has been incubating since 2024-03-11.

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

1. Polish our website and document.
2. Release more versions under ASF.
3. Build and grow community.

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

Currently no.

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

* Added 2 new Committers
* Added 6 new contributors
* Github stars reached ~1.1K

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

* Released Amoro 0.8.1-incubatiing
* Merged 68 PRs

### 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:

  2025-09-11, released Amoro 0.8.1-incubatiing

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

* 2025-08-22, committer:Nico CHen(GitHub ID: nicochen)
* 2025-09-25, committer:Zhuojun Jiang(GitHub ID: Jzjsnow)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? 

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

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

Yes, everything is fine.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (amoro) Justn Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (amoro) Zhongyi Tan  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (amoro) Yu Li  
     Comments: Good to see new release produced and new committers joining. The community is developing in a good shape.
  - [ ] (amoro) Xinyu Zhou  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (amoro) Kent Yao  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Fesod

Fesod is a high-performance and memory-efficient Java library for reading
and writing Excel files, designed to simplify development and ensure reliability.

Fesod has been incubating since 2025-09-17.

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

  1. Ensure that the website and codebase are fully compliant with ASF policies.
  2. Publish the first release under the Apache Incubator.
  3. Continue to grow the community and work towards the ASF 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?  

  The project is still in the preparation phase, but we have welcomed several new code contributors. 

  In addition to the required code migration and compliance work, development of new features is also progressing. 

### How has the project developed since the last report? 
  
The community is actively working on the first release (v2.0.0) under the Apache Incubator, which is currently planned for December.


### 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: 

  We are still in the process of initial setup. The GitHub repository and project website have been migrated to the Apache organization. 

  The community is also planning to set up CI/CD pipelines to streamline future development and deployment. 

### Date of last release:
  N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  N/A

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes.
  They remain actively engaged with the project and continue to provide valuable input to guide its progress.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Yes, everything is fine.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (fesod) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fesod) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (fesod) Huajie Wang  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (fesod) PJ Fanning  
     Comments: Rapid progress with initial tasks   

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Fluss

Fluss is a streaming storage built for real-time analytics which can serve
as the real-time data layer for Lakehouse architectures.

Fluss has been incubating since 2025-06-04.

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

  1. Publish the first release under the ASF incubator
  2. Grow the community and attract more committers, contributors and users.
  3. Fill out the maturity model

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

Fluss plans to release its first version (v0.8) under ASF incubator in October and will need IPMC assistance, including validation and voting.


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

- Add 2 new committers, currently with total 15 committers.
- The Fluss PPMC created a [LinkedIn page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/apachefluss/), which has 625 followers within ~3 months, all organic growth.
- [Regular Monthly Community Call](https://docs.google.com/document/d/18b7G_dvYx-1FogV7LWEFMHXze5D5T9XZ3h9zSU75dDA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.9aenn0fakn4l) for July, Aug, Sept.
- Jark Wu presented Fluss at CommunityOverCode Asia 2025 on July 26th.
- Jark Wu and Giannis Polyzos are going to Flink Forward Barcelona 2025 to present Fluss on October 15th.
- Leonard Xu is going to QCon Shanghai to represent Fluss on October 24th. 
- Giannis Polyzos is going to Big Data Europe to present Fluss on November 19-21.
- Fluss participated #hacktoberfest2025

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

We have completed the full migration of the website and codebase from Alibaba to Apache.

Additionally, we’ve finalized development of Fluss v0.8 which was started since the project entered ASF incubator. 

This version introduces Streaming Lakehouse support with Apache Iceberg and Lance. Now, all streaming events written to Fluss are automatically converted into either Iceberg or Lance format in real-time, enabling seamless lakehouse integration.

Besides, since introducing the Fluss Improvement Proposal (FIP) process in July, we have already created 17 FIPs, many of which have been approved and implemented. 

### 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:

N/A

We released fluss-shaded-1.0-incubating in August, but this is not considered an official Fluss release, as it is a shaded utility module rather than part of the core Fluss system. The community is working on the official release of Fluss core (v0.8).


### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 
2025-07-29

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


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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (fluss) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  Good "start" for the podling, growing the community already happens. I'm looking for the first Apache release.
  - [x] (fluss) Becket Qin  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (fluss) Yu Li  
     Comments: Good to see new committers joining and rich community activities. Looking forward to the first apache release.
  - [ ] (fluss) Jingsong Lee  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (fluss) Zili Chen  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Gluten

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

Gluten has been incubating since 2024-01-11.

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

  1. 5th Apache Release for Gluten v1.5.0
  2. Community Growth
  3. Ready for Apache TLP graduation.  

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

N/A

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

  - The number of fork is from 552 to 583.
  - The number of star is from 1379 to 1451.
  - The number of contributors is from 170 to 174.
  - Regular Monthly Meeting Minutes(Oct.): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g-veyoNB1QYFJY4-TMdewAq8wMkQqltbEt46CPxB rfE/edit?usp=sharing

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

  - Gluten 1.5.0 is on the way as 5th Apache 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:

  2025-06-19

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

  2025-05-26 for vote result published

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, they continue to play an active role in the project, offering helpful contributions such as reminders about the release timeline and thoughtful perspectives on the community’s overall well-being.

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

  Yes, everything is fine.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (gluten) Yu Li  
     Comments: The community keeps developing and I believe we are on a good way towards graduation.
  - [ ] (gluten) Wenli Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gluten) Kent Yao  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gluten) Shaofeng Shi  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gluten) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Livy

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

Livy has been incubating since 2017-06-05.

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

  1. Revitalization of the Community
  2. Dependable Release Cadence
  3. Keep the project up to date with security fixes and in terms of Spark support

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

None at this time. There was a ping of the PPMC to make sure there were enough folks monitoring the pivate@ list which resulted in 5 +1's and a couple 0's.

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

We have received PRs and merged the upgrade to Spark 3.5.

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

The PR to support for the latest Spark 3.5.x has been merged. A new PR is raised to support JDK17. We are preparing a new version that we may need help with.

### 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:

  2023-10-10

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

October 2023

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes.

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

No answer

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (livy) Bikas Saha  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  I think we should move forward on a discussion about graduation.
  - [ ] (livy) Madhawa Kasun Gunasekara  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Larry McCay  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (livy) Gyorgy Gal  
     Comments:  


### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## ResilientDB

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

ResilientDB has been incubating since 2023-10-21.

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

  1.  Grow the community by facilitating more applications being built on ResDB. 
  2.  Grow the community by facilitating more applications being built on ResDB.  
  3.  Grow the community by facilitating more applications being built on ResDB.    


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


### How has the community developed since the last report? 
Regular meeting continues every week.


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

We have released a new release [1.11.0](https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/resilientdb/1.11.0/) to publish new applicatioins built on top of ResilientDB core platform.



### 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
  - [x] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2025-10-06

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?   
  Bismanpal Singh and Harish Krishnakumar have become our PPMCs in 2025-07


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

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


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

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


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (resilientdb) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (resilientdb) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (resilientdb) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: