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Timeline
Wed October 04 | Podling reports due by end of day |
Sun October 08 | Shepherd reviews due by end of day |
Sun October 08 | Summary due by end of day |
Tue October 10 | Mentor signoff due by end of day |
Wed October 11 | Report submitted to Board |
Wed October 18 | Board meeting |
Shepherd Assignments
Calvin Kirs | Liminal |
Dave Fisher | Milagro |
Drew Farris | HugeGraph |
Drew Farris | Teaclave |
Justin Mclean | Annotator |
P. Taylor Goetz | Pegasus |
PJ Fanning | Livy |
Timothy Chen | DataLab |
Willem Jiang | Pekko |
Willem Jiang | Pony Mail |
Incubator PMC report for October 2023
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are presently 24 podlings incubating. In September, podlings executed 6 distinct releases.
Datalab is retiring, and Liminal is discussing retirement. Two new podlings have joined the incubator Answer and ResilientDB.
There has been discussion on several incubating proposals. A proposed project Seata has been proposed; it may not be a good fit for the ASF, but the project is responsive to address any IPMC concerns. A proposed project OzHera may be too soon to join the Incubator as they don't have a community.
There was some minor cleanup of outstanding Jira issues.
Community
New IPMC members:
- Huxing Zhang
- Sammi Chen
People who left the IPMC:
- none
New Podlings
- Answer
- ResilientDB
Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
- Livy
- Pony Mail
- Teaclave
Graduations
- none
The board has motions for the following:
- none
Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of September:
- Devlake 0.18.0
- Opendal v0.40.0
- Paimon 0.5.0
- Pekko persistence JDBC 1.0.0
- Pekko connectors 1.0.0
- Wayang 0.7.1
IP Clearance
- kvrocks controller
Legal / Trademarks
- NA
Infrastructure
- NA
Miscellaneous
- NA
Table of Contents
Annotator
DataLab
HugeGraph
Liminal
Milagro
Pegasus
Pekko
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:
- Incubation issues identified by Whimsy still need addressing.
- Project activity is very low.
- Release activity is very low.
Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
The project and community has remained quiet through 2023. We are attempting again to revitalize the community by... a) simplifying build tooling--both for making releases and for use within other projects b) communicating and coordinating future planning on the mailing list with other contributors (who we hope will "reactivate") c) working to move the project closer to the needs of higher level Web developers who need "drop-in" annotation help (vs. our current low level "advanced" library only)
How has the community developed since the last report?
Minimal activity on the mailing list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
No code since last board 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:
2022-05-05
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2022-08-17
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Mentors have been helpful when engaged directly with questions.
Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No known issues.
Signed-off-by:
- (annotator) Nick Kew
Comments: - (annotator) Tommaso Teofili
Comments: - (annotator) Benjamin Young
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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?
How has the community developed since the last report?
How has the project developed since the last report?
in the process of retirement
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: in the process of retirement
Date of last release:
2022-11-30
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
The last committer was added on April 10, 2023
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:
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:
- Release distributed storage module (include PD/store) & make graph computer easy to use
- Overall easier to use, more stable and reliable & more communication with other Graph Community(Like Tinkerpop/JanusGraph etc)
- At least 2 new PPMC & 5 committers selected and take deep part in the community
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?
- We have taken part in 2 activities to let more students participate in the construction of HugeGraph.
- We took part in CommunityOverCode Asia 2023, and shared experiences and insights from building the open source community, as well as the use of HugeGraph in enterprises and its optimizations.
- 10+ new contributors with 80+ Pull Requests
How has the project developed since the last report?
- hugegraph-toolchain has introduced Kafka source and hugegraph-spark-connector.
- A new HTTP client solution has been introduced to resolve the dependency issues in hugegraph-common and improve compatibility with Spring Boot 2.
- Dockerfile and CI processes for all hugegraph sub projects have been optimized.
- The hugegraph-computer module has added a snapshot feature.
- A distributed development version of hugegraph-server is under development.
- Documents have been improved and some bugs have been fixed.
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:
2023-02-22
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2023-03-12 (last committer)
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
No issues to report now
Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
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: It's good to see HugeGraph keep building the community.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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
How has the community developed since the last report?
NA
How has the project developed since the last report?
NA
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:
2022-03-10
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2022-04-06
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
They have been very responsive and helpful.
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed. NA
Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
NA
Signed-off-by:
- (liminal) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments: - (liminal) Henry Saputra
Comments: - (liminal) Uma Maheswara Rao G
Comments: - (liminal) Davor Bonaci
Comments: - (liminal) Liang Chen
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:
- Introduce policies for correct corporate involvement (see https://github.com/orgs/apache/projects/171/views/1)
- Continue to build relevant and useful crypto libraries and applications for decentralized networks in order to grow the ecosystem of users and contributors to the project.
- Improve automated quality pipelines, improve existing releases and demonstrate improved compliance with the Apache Way.
- Correct the use of branding on our own website, updating the technical documentation to match.
Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No issues are known as of now.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Several employees were laid off by their sponsoring employer and and are now contributing as individuals, increasing the community diversity.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- CVE-2023-33241 affected the experimental MPC code, thanks to responsible disclosure a fix was committed and released about a month before public disclosure.
- The path to graduation map has been updated in a GitHub project. This map keeps being our north start to lead us to graduation.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
- Initial setup
- Working towards first release
- Community building
- Nearing graduation
- Other:
Date of last release:
2022-11-11
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
December 2022
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes
Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No third party are using the brand's name incorrectly
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?
None
How has the project developed since the last report?
2.5.0 release is being prepared.
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?
- 2022-9-18, committer: Guohao Li (GitHub ID: GehaFearless)
- 2022-9-18, committer: Hao Wang (GitHub ID: WHBANG)
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, our mentors gave us a lot of help, including version release, holding meetup, prepare the graduation 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: We should start to prepare graduation now - (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:
- Continue v1.0.0 releases. The main modules have v1.0.0 releases but some modules are not yet released.
- Community Building.
- Plan future priorities.
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?
Community engagement is pretty low. We're still hoping to increase it now that main modules have releases.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Main modules have seen releases.
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:
2023-09-05
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2023-03-09 (new committer) -- no new PPMC members added - a recent committer invite was rejected by the person we invited
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Mentors have been supportive. One issue is that we need some help with Incubator release votes. We have one open for 2 weeks and haven't yet received 3 votes.
Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
VP, Brand has approved the name (https://s.apache.org/h2cwg)
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: - (pekko) Claude Warren
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
The Podling Project is keep moving, and the project active contributor is around 15 for a year.