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
Cloudberry
Fesod
GeaFlow
GraphAr
Hamilton
HoraeDB
Pegasus
Pony Mail
Seata
Texera
Toree
XTable

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.

•  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:

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:

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:

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.
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
•  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:

•  (fesod) tison
  Comments:
•  (fesod) Dave Fisher
  Comments:
•  (fesod) Huajie Wang
  Comments:
•  (fesod) PJ Fanning
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

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:

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
3. Extend the GraphAr format to support more systems

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 23 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.

•  Initial setup
•  Working towards first release
•  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:
•  (graphar) tison
  Comments:
•  (graphar) Xiaoqiao He
  Comments:
•  (graphar) Yu Li
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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.

•  Initial setup
•  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:

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:

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:

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

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:

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:
•  (ponymail) Dave Fisher
  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:

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:

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:

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:

1.Increase active contributors

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
•  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:

•  (toree) Luciano Resende
  Comments: The podling should push graduation after release is out process
•  (toree) Ryan Blue
  Comments:
•  (toree) Weiwei Yang
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

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: