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Timeline

Wed October 01	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun October 05	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun October 05	Summary due by end of day
Tue October 07	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed October 08	Report submitted to Board
Wed October 15	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Calvin Kirs	Livy
Dave Fisher	Gluten
Drew Farris	Pegasus
Justin Mclean	ResilientDB
P. Taylor Goetz	Fesod
PJ Fanning	Pony Mail
Timothy Chen	Amoro
Willem Jiang	Fluss
Xuanwo	HugeGraph

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.

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 September:

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:

Polish our website and document.
Release more versions under ASF.
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
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:

(amoro) Justn Mclean
Comments:
(amoro) Zhongyi Tan
Comments:
(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:

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:

Ensure that the website and codebase are fully compliant with ASF policies.
Publish the first release under the Apache Incubator.
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.

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.

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:

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

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:

Publish the first release under the ASF incubator
Grow the community and fill out the maturity model
Make the core features of the project very stable at large scale.

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.
Regular Monthly Community Call (July, Aug, Sept): https://docs.google.com/document/d/18b7G_dvYx-1FogV7LWEFMHXze5D5T9XZ3h9zSU75dDA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.9aenn0fakn4l
Jark Wu and Giannis Polyzos is going to Flink Forward Barcelona 2025 to present Fluss on October 15th.
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
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:

(fluss) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments: Good "start" for the podling, growing the community already happens. I'm looking for the first Apache release.
(fluss) Becket Qin
Comments:
(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:
(fluss) Zili Chen
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

5th Apache Release for Gluten v1.5.0
Community Growth
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
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:

(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:

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:

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:

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

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

Revitalization of the Community
Dependable Release Cadence
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
Community building
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:
(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:
(livy) Gyorgy Gal
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:

The graduation preparation discussion among the PPMC members has not yet been completed.

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?

None.

How has the project developed since the last report?

For the Java client, some bugs have been fixed and its dependent libraries have been upgraded to secure versions; the underlying network communication has been optimized; and the idempotent write testing framework has been further improved.

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:

2023-12-12

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2024-09-26

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.

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:

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

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

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?