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Timeline

Wed January 04	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun January 08	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun January 08	Summary due by end of day
Tue January 10	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed January 11	Report submitted to Board
Wed January 18	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Drew Farris	datalab
Calvin Kirs	Celeborn
Calvin Kirs	Pegasus
Calvin Kirs	Teaclave
Dave Fisher	Baremaps
Dave Fisher	Flagon
Justin Mclean	HugeGraph
P. Taylor Goetz	Milagro
P. Taylor Goetz	Livy
P. Taylor Goetz	Uniffle
PJ Fanning	Annotator
PJ Fanning	PonyMail
PJ Fanning	StreamPark
Timothy Chen	Pekko
Timothy Chen	SeaTunnel
Timothy Chen	Spot
Willem Jiang	Eventmesh
Willem Jiang	Liminal
Willem Jiang	Marvin-AI

Incubator PMC report for January 2023

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

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 December:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:
(baremaps) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
(baremaps) George Percivall
Comments:
(baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
Comments:

Celeborn

Celeborn is an intermediate data service for big data computing engines to boost performance, stability, and flexibility.

Celeborn has been incubating since 2022-10-18.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

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:

(celeborn) Becket Qin
Comments:
(celeborn) Lidong Dai
Comments:
(celeborn) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
(celeborn) Duo Zhang
Comments:
(celeborn) Yu Li
Comments:

DataLab

DataLab is a platform for creating self-service, exploratory data science environments in the cloud using best-of-breed data science tools.

DataLab has been incubating since 2018-08-20.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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

No, there aren't any issues.

How has the community developed since the last report?

New committers or PPMCs have not been added since the last report.

How has the project developed since the last report?

-We’ve released DataLab version 2.6.0
-The graduation process is 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
Nearing graduation
Other: Started graduation process

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

The last committer was added on July 22, 2022.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, our mentors are helpful and responsive.

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

Brand and naming issues are absent.

Signed-off-by:

(datalab) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments:
(datalab) Henry Saputra
Comments:
(datalab) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:

EventMesh

EventMesh is a dynamic cloud-native basic service runtime used to decouple the application and middleware layer.

EventMesh has been incubating since 2021-02-18.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

More frequent code contributions
A steady release proces
Growing the community: more committers, more use cases

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?

more than 120 new contributors joined. 10 new committers and 2 new PPMC member were added.

How has the project developed since the last report?

apache-eventmesh(incubating)-1.7.0 released

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:

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2022-12-4

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Mentors were all very nice and helpful.

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

Yes.

Signed-off-by:

(eventmesh) Francois Papon
Comments:
(eventmesh) Junping Du
Comments:
(eventmesh) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments: I think eventmesh is close to graduation. The focus should be on the community build, so far so good.
(eventmesh) Justin Mclean
Comments:
(eventmesh) Von Gosling
Comments:

Flagon

Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform

Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

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:

(flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
(flagon) David Meikle
Comments:
(flagon) Tim Allison
Comments:
(flagon) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:

HugeGraph

A large-scale and easy-to-use graph database

HugeGraph has been incubating since 2022-01-23.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Increase diversity contributors
Enhance core product functionality as mentioned in the initial goals
Stable release and planning

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?

13 new contributors since the last report

How has the project developed since the last report?

Prepare and start voting for the first apache version 1.0.0
Support graph computing in stand-alone & k8s mode (OLAP)
Support a string of graph algorithms in OLTP mode
Using github projects & WIKI to manage and show the schedule

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:

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

None, but soon (after the release)

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.

Yep, they remind us the release progress and we'll communicate more in the 2023

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?

None

Signed-off-by:

(hugegraph) Lidong Dai
Comments:
(hugegraph) Trista Pan
Comments:
(hugegraph) Xiangdong Huang
Comments:
(hugegraph) Yu Li
Comments:
(hugegraph) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:

Liminal

Apache Liminal is an end-to-end platform for data engineers and scientists, allowing them to build, train and deploy machine learning models in a robust and agile way.

Liminal has been incubating since 2020-05-23.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Grow developers community.
Adoption of the project by a few companies.
Integrations with eco-system projects.

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

NA

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

NA

How has the community developed since the last report?

NA

How has the project developed since the last report?

We have completed the SageMaker integration and next version is ready to be released

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:

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2022-04-06

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.

They have been very responsive and helpful.

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?

NA

Signed-off-by:

(liminal) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments: Community build is the main target right now.
(liminal) Henry Saputra
Comments:
(liminal) Uma Maheswara Rao G
Comments:
(liminal) Davor Bonaci
Comments:
(liminal) Liang Chen
Comments:

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:

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:

(livy) Bikas Saha
Comments:
(livy) Luciano Resende
Comments:
(livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments: Discussing with Larry to know who will submit report. It should happen soon.
(livy) Madhawa Kasun Gunasekara
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Marvin-AI

Marvin-AI is an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform that helps data scientists, prototype and productionalize complex solutions with a scalable, low-latency, language-agnostic, and standardized architecture while simplifies the process of exploration and modeling.

Marvin-AI has been incubating since 2018-08-21.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(marvin-ai) Luciano Resende
Comments:
(marvin-ai) William Colen
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Milagro

Milagro is core security infrastructure and crypto libraries for decentralized networks and distributed systems.

Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(milagro) Nick Kew
Comments:
(milagro) Jean-Frederic Clere
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

Grow the community(attracting more committers, contributors, users).
Make more releases in ASF policy regularly.
Improve the Pegasus project performance, stability, and usage scenarios.

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?

An offline meetup in Beijing has been held on Nov 5th, 2022.

How has the project developed since the last report?

2.4.0 has been released on Nov 1st, 2022.

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:

2022-11-05

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2022-12-31, PPMC member: Dan Wang(GitHub ID: empiredan)

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, our mentors gave us a lot of help, including IP clearance, version release, and etc.

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

No issues that we are aware of.

Signed-off-by:

(pegasus) Duo zhang
Comments:
(pegasus) Liang Chen
Comments:
(pegasus) Von Gosling
Comments:
(pegasus) Liu Xun
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Pekko

Pekko is a toolkit and an ecosystem for building highly concurrent, distributed, reactive and resilient applications for Java and Scala.

Pekko has been incubating since 2022-10-24.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Complete the work on updating the file headers and docs to reflect the new branding and licensing.
Get the core web site and documentation up.
Get a milestone release done - at least for the core modules. This would facilitate the wider OSS community. We would hope that other OSS projects that currently support Akka would look to also support Apache Pekko.

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

Nothing of note.

How has the community developed since the last report?

There are 24 PPMC members. There are no extra committers (i.e. 24 committers too). A good proportion of these are active.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Very early days.

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:

None yet.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

None added since we started the PPMC.

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.

There were some knotty issues to discuss about how to manage the license headers and similar issues but the conversations were very constructive.

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?

The Pekko project has been widely discussed in Social Media and blogs. No issues to report.
Need to verify if the name has been discussed with the VP, Brand.

Signed-off-by:

(pekko) PJ Fanning
Comments:
(pekko) Justin McLean
Comments:
(pekko) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
(pekko) Wu Sheng
Comments:
(pekko) Ryan Skraba
Comments:
(pekko) JB Onofré
Comments: Podling is ramping up.
(pekko) Claude Warren
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Pony Mail

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:

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:

SeaTunnel

SeaTunnel is a very easy-to-use ultra-high-performance distributed data integration platform that supports real-time synchronization of massive data.

SeaTunnel has been incubating since 2021-12-09.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

None, we plan to graduate.

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

None.

How has the community developed since the last report?

The community ushers in 33 new contributors, bringing the total number to 157 now,300+ pull requests have been merged since SeaTunnel entered the last report.

We participated in the meetup held by ALC India and gained some new contributors and users.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We released SeaTunnel Zeta, which is the result of six months of hard work by the community and an engine specially developed for data synchronization.

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:

Dec 29, 2022

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

We elected Guangdong and Liu Li as a committer.
We elected Chao Tian and Jun Gao as a PPMC.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, always responsive and helpful. They gave a lot of great suggestions on community building.

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

No known issues, but further investigation is still required by the SeaTunnel community.

Signed-off-by:

(seatunnel) Zhenxu Ke
Comments:
(seatunnel) William-GuoWei
Comments:
(seatunnel) Lidong Dai
Comments:
(seatunnel) Ted Liu
Comments:
(seatunnel) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
(seatunnel) JB Onofré
Comments:
(seatunnel) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

StreamPark

StreamPark is a streaming application development platform.

StreamPark has been incubating since 2022-09-01.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(streampark) tison
Comments:
(streampark) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
(streampark) Stephan Ewen
Comments:
(streampark) Thomas Weise
Comments:
(streampark) Duo Zhang
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Teaclave

Teaclave is a universal secure computing platform.

Teaclave has been incubating since 2019-08-20.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(teaclave) Felix Cheung
Comments:
(teaclave) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
(teaclave) Jianyong Dai
Comments:
(teaclave) Matt Sicker
Comments:
(teaclave) Zhijie Shen
Comments:
(teaclave) Gordon King
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes: --------------------

Uniffle

Uniffle is an unified Remote Shuffle Service

Uniffle has been incubating since 2022-06-06.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Promote the project and grow the user and dev 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?

9 contributors from different affiliations contributed to Uniffle project.
104 issues have beed created, among this 58 were discussed and resolved.
7 discussions were occurred.

How has the project developed since the last report?

104 issues has been created, among this 58 issues were closed. 131 PRs has been created, among this 121 PRs were merged.
We have released version 0.6.0 and 0.6.1
We have a share on 2022 Shanghai Hadoop Meetup to let more people know Uniffle

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:

No.

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

Yes.

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:

(uniffle) Felix Cheung
Comments:
(uniffle) Junping Du
Comments:
(uniffle) Liu Xun
Comments:
(uniffle) Weiwei Yang
Comments:
(uniffle) Zhankun Tang
Comments:

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