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Timeline

Wed May 07	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun May 11	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun May 11	Summary due by end of day
Tue May 13	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed May 14	Report submitted to Board
Wed May 21	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Calvin Kirs	Cloudberry
Calvin Kirs	Pony Mail
Calvin Kirs	Seata
Dave Fisher	DevLake
Dave Fisher	Fury
Drew Farris	Amoro
Justin Mclean	HugeGraph
P. Taylor Goetz	GraphAr
P. Taylor Goetz	Training
PJ Fanning	Otava
PJ Fanning	XTable
Timothy Chen	NLPCraft
Timothy Chen	ResilientDB
Timothy Chen	Toree
Willem Jiang	Iggy
Xuanwo	Annotator
Xuanwo	HoraeDB

Incubator PMC report for May 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 May:

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 1 new PPMC member
Added 11 new contributors
Hosted an online Amoro meetup, inviting 5 Amoro users to share their best practices in using Amoro in 2024-12-21.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Released Amoro 0.7.1-incubatiing
Amoro 0.8.0-incubating is currently undergoing a release vote in the incubator.
Merged 200 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:

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2024-12-02, PPMC member:Congxian Qiu(GitHub ID: Klion26)

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:
(amoro) Xinyu Zhou
Comments:
(amoro) Kent Yao
Comments:

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:

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:

(cloudberry) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
(cloudberry) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
(cloudberry) Kent Yao
Comments:

DevLake

DevLake is a development data platform, providing the data infrastructure for developer teams to analyze and improve their engineering productivity.

DevLake has been incubating since 2022-04-29.

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:

(devlake) Felix Cheung
Comments:
(devlake) Liang Zhang
Comments:
(devlake) Lidong Dai
Comments:
(devlake) Sijie Guo
Comments:
(devlake) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
(devlake) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:

Fury

A blazing fast multi-language serialization framework powered by jit and zero-copy

Fury has been incubating since 2023-12-15.

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:

(fury) tison
Comments:
(fury) PJ Fanning
Comments:
(fury) Yu Li
Comments:
(fury) Xin Wang
Comments:
(fury) Enrico Olivelli
Comments:
(fury) Hao Ding
Comments:

HugeGraph

A large-scale and easy-to-use graph database/computing/AI system

HugeGraph has been incubating since 2022-01-23.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Release new graph dashboard & make graph computer easy to use
Release a stable Graph LLM/AI system
At least 2 new PPMC & 5 committers selected and take deep part in the communityty

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

Some PPMC members are inactive for a while, an adjustment may be required before graduation

How has the community developed since the last report?

Release 1.5.0(include the new distributed design) , the most important version before graduating
Submit a task in GSoC & 4+ tasks in OSPP (Open Source Activity)
12+ new contributors take part in the community (with PR/code)
Elected first new PPMC + 1 committer

How has the project developed since the last report?

Move forward to 1.7.0 (Maybe the last version before graduating)
Enhance GraphAI system/repo to follow the user needs
Release the most important/major change (distributed storage system PD & Store) & keep improving it
The new graph dashboard/UI & graph computing system are also on the way (should be done in next 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:

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2025-04-21

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, thanks all of them

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

No answer.

Signed-off-by:

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

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:

Growing the community(attracting more committers, contributors and users).
Release more ASF-compliant versions.
Implementing key features requested in GitHub issues and discussions.

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?

Voted and accepted one new committer.
Attracted one new contributor.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Merged 7 PRs since the last report.
Remove Hadoop dependency and shade protobuf dependency in Java SDK.

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?

2025-02-17

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, the mentors are very helpful and responsive.

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

There are no known brand and naming issues.

Signed-off-by:

(graphar) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
(graphar) tison
Comments:
(graphar) Xiaoqiao He
Comments:
(graphar) Yu Li
Comments:

Hamilton

Hamilton is a lightweight declarative python DAG framework with an optional observability solution.

Hamilton has been incubating since 2025-05-01.

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:

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:

(horaedb) tison
Comments:
(horaedb) Shaofeng Shi
Comments:
(horaedb) Gang Li
Comments:
(horaedb) Von Gosling
Comments:

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:

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:

(horaedb) tison
Comments:
(horaedb) Shaofeng Shi
Comments:
(horaedb) Gang Li
Comments:
(horaedb) Von Gosling
Comments:

Iggy

Iggy is a high-performance, ultra-low latency and large-scale persistent message streaming platform written in Rust.

Iggy has been incubating since 2025-02-04.

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:

(iggy) Hao Ding
Comments:
(iggy) Yonik Seeley
Comments:
(iggy) Zili Chen
Comments:
(iggy) Hulk Lin
Comments:

NLPCraft

A Java API for NLU applications

NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.

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:

(nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
(nlpcraft) Evans Ye
Comments:
(nlpcraft) Paul King
Comments:
(nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik
Comments:

Apache Otava (incubating) performs statistical analysis of performance test results stored in CSV files, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, or Graphite database. It finds change-points and notifies about possible performance regressions.

A typical use-case of otava is as follows:

A set of performance tests is scheduled repeatedly, such as after each commit is pushed.
The resulting metrics of the test runs are stored in a time series database (Graphite) or appended to CSV files.
Otava is launched by a Jenkins/Cron job (or an operator) to analyze the recorded metrics regularly.
Otava notifies about significant changes in recorded metrics by outputting text reports or sending Slack notifications.
Otava is capable of finding even small, but persistent shifts in metric values, despite noise in data. It adapts automatically to the level of noise in data and tries to notify only about persistent, statistically significant changes, be it in the system under test or in the environment.

Otava has been incubating since 2024-11-27. Otava entered Incubation as Hunter. The project name Otava was approved by VP Brand 2025-02-09.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Publish the first release under the new name. (https://github.com/apache/otava/issues/51) The first release was under voting as the deadline to submit this report to the Incubator PMC passed.
Publish the existence of Apache Otava (Incubating), and our first release.
Nurture a growing community that includes also new members/contributors that have not used Otava (Hunter) before we joined Apache Incubator
Make more releases. In particular, the first release intentionally is not that different from what already existed before we became an Incubator project. It is merely a change of project name and ownership (ASF) and the license, and a re-union of many forks into a clear upstream project. For future releases we hope to modernize python version, build tooling, and of course add new features and integrations.

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

Nothing is blocking us now.

How has the community developed since the last report?

We recently accepted the first (documentation) contribution from a user who does not belong to the pre-ASF group of Otava users and contributors. A handful of more people submitted issues or sent an email to the mailing list. This level of attention is already more than we are used to receiving during the previous 8 years developing this code base.

The interactions we had, were mostly held back by the fact we have not yet made our first release, and that until then, Otava only supported python 3.8, which is no longer officially supported. We expect interest in the project to increase after the first release (as ASF incubating project) and upgrading python version. (The release will include support for python 3.9 and 3.10 and will likely happen within hours after the deadline to submit this report.

How has the project developed since the last report?

The last time we submitted a report was in February 2025.

We apologize for twice failing to submit a report. There seems to still be teething issues with basic project governance tasks and responsibilities. We know we can do better, there's just a lot to absorb when becoming a proper ASF project for the first time.

Shortly after our previous report, a new name "Otava" was approved for the project. Otava is the Finnish name for the "Big Bear" constellation, one of the largest and brightest star constellations in the Northern night sky. Otava historically had an important function in navigating, as it was commonly used to find the North Star, which is at the other end of a straight line drawn from the right most 2 stars in Otava.

Most work in the project since then was to

Change the project name across ASF infrastructure
Change the project name everywhere in code and documentation. This includes file names, executable names and tar file name.
Publish a project website at otava.apache.org
As this report was submitted, our first release was undergoing voting on the incubator general mailing list.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

A self review based on https://community.apache.org/apache-way/apache-project-maturity-model.html

Code 3/5
Licenses and Copyright: 5/5
Releases: 4/5
Quality: 5/5
Community: 7/7
Consensus: 4/5 (Missing: CS10)
Independence: 2/2
Brand: 4/4

Date of last release:

The first release was happening as this report was submitted

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

So far, the initial committers and PPMC members were those listed in the initial proposal.

Some of those, haven't actually showed up in the incubator project now that we are active.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes!

Submitting this report is a routine we need to get more accustomed to doing.

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

Not an issue yet, as the name is new.

Signed-off-by:

(otava) Dave Fisher
Comments:
(otava) Enrico Olivelli
Comments:
(otava) Lari Hotari
Comments:
(otava) Mick Semb Wever
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?

Signed-off-by:

(ponymail) John D. Ament
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

(toree) Luciano Resende
Comments:
(toree) Ryan Blue
Comments:
(toree) Weiwei Yang
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Training

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

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?