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# Incubator PMC report for November 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
  October:


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents  
[Burr](#burr)  
[Cloudberry](#cloudberry)  
[Fesod](#fesod)  
[GeaFlow](#geaflow)  
[GraphAr](#graphar)  
[Hamilton](#hamilton)  
[HoraeDB](#horaedb)  
[Pegasus](#pegasus)  
[Pony Mail](#ponymail)  
[Seata](#seata)  
[Texera](#texera)  
[Toree](#toree)  
[XTable](#xtable)  


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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. Release
  2. Build PPMC release muscle
  3. Build community

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

N/A

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

New issues from new users and new small time contributions added.

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

We're gearing up for the first release. Most of the PPMC is on Hamilton
so we're taking those learnings and applying them here.

### 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 -- almost there!

### 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.

N/A

### 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?

N/A

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Cloudberry

 Cloudberry Database, built on the latest PostgreSQL kernel, is one of the
most             advanced and mature open-source MPP (Massively Parallel
Processing) databases available.

Cloudberry has been incubating since 2024-10-11.

### 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:

  - [ ] (cloudberry) Roman Shaposhnik  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (cloudberry) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (cloudberry) 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 word 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?

  1. We have update project's website, now you can see details in [Apache Analytics](https://s.apache.org/2w3sw). 
  2. We have 5 new contributors. 


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

  The community is actively working on the first release under the Apache Incubator, which is currently planned for December.
  1. Developement of new features is in progressing. 
  2. The project executed the Fuzz chaos test and fix bugs at the suggestion of the mentor. 

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

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

### 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 are very nice and actively.
  1. Dave Fisher pointed some wrong process about the election of committer(fixed). 
  2. PJ Fanning give suggestions about porject-module and jdk-version. 
  3. Huajie Wang help community on how to design logo. 
  4. tison tells many of the small but important copyright details.

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

  Yes, everything is fine.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (fesod) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (fesod) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (fesod) Huajie Wang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fesod) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## GeaFlow

GeaFlow is a distributed stream and batch integration graph compute engine.

GeaFlow has been incubating since 2025-06-06.

### 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:

  - [ ] (geaflow) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (geaflow) Xin Wang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (geaflow) Jingsong Lee  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (geaflow) Paul Klingelhuber  
     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

### 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. Released a new version V0.13.0 
  2. 5 new contributors completed PR merge 

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

  1. Merged 27 PRs since the last report 
  2. The java-info module changed user-facing API 
  3. Improve the ci test and coverage report

### 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:

  2025-08-29

### 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.

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:

  - [ ] (graphar) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (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. Release other packages under apache process.
  2. Train more of PPMC to run a release.
  3. Have more releases.

### 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?

Several new contributors to the repo.

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

We published our first main package under apache!

### 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:

  2025-10-11

### 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.

We're not a java project, so things aren't as straightforward to release -- which most of the documentation is geared towards.

### 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 -- no 3rd parties with issues.

### 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?

An in-house prometheus remote write format parser has been merged.

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

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



### 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, we're doing well with this.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (horaedb) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (horaedb) Shaofeng Shi  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (horaedb) Gang Li  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (horaedb) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Pegasus

Pegasus is a distributed key-value storage system which is designed to be
simple, horizontally scalable, strongly consistent and high-performance.

Pegasus has been incubating since 2020-06-28.

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

  1.
  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:

  - [ ] (pegasus) Duo zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pegasus) Liang Chen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pegasus) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pegasus) Liu Xun  
     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. Make a release of Pony Mail Foal
  2. Decide on the future direction of the project. PMC or retirement.
  3.

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

Nothing at this time.

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

The community is slowly discussing their exit strategy.

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

Responding to some concerns

### 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:

  2019-04-05 Pony Mail 0.11

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

  2021-04-02 Sean B Palmer

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? Yes.
If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.
See above.

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

Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? As far as we know.

If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? 

Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? Yes

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (ponymail) Dave Fisher  
     Comments: Doing my best slowly move the podling one way or another.  

### 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:  
  - [ ] (seata) Xin Wang  
     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.
  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:

  - [ ] (texera) Cezar Andrei  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (texera) Gordon King  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (texera) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (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:

  None

### 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?

  Release 0.6 has been voted by PPMC and is being reviewed in incubator general
  mailing list. The new release brings Scala 2.13 and Spark 3.4.4 support.

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

  Release 0.6.0 preparation and votes

### 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 graduation after release is out
     process
  - [X] (toree) Ryan Blue
     Comments:  Good to see a discussion about graduation in the community.
     You may want to update the "unfinished issues" section and remove #1.
  - [ ] (toree) Weiwei Yang  
     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.
  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:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: