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Timeline

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

Shepherd Assignments

Calvin Kirs	Toree
Calvin Kirs	Training
Dave Fisher	OpenServerless
Dave Fisher	ResilientDB
Drew Farris	ResilientDB
Drew Farris	XTable
Justin Mclean	StreamPark
P. Taylor Goetz	Annotator
P. Taylor Goetz	Answer
P. Taylor Goetz	NLPCraft
PJ Fanning	GraphAr
PJ Fanning	Seata
Timothy Chen	Fury
Timothy Chen	HoraeDB
Timothy Chen	Teaclave
Willem Jiang	Gravitino
Willem Jiang	Pony Mail
	OzHera

Incubator PMC report for August 2024

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 August:

Answer

A Q-and-A platform software for teams at any scales.

Answer has been incubating since 2023-10-09.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Release more ASF-compliant versions.
Build and grow a diverse community, while attracting more committers and PPMC members.

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

So far so good.

How has the community developed since the last report?

There are 99 contributors in total of 3 repositories without duplication.
We've reached 139 translation contributors in total on Crowdin.
Two new committers passed the votes and joined the community.
We joined WeAreDevelopers World Congress to show more people our project. Later, we joined keynote and 2 tracks in CommunityOverCode Asia 2024 to share lessons and tips we've learnt in the incubator.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We released two new versions: v1.3.1 and v1.3.5.
There were five new features, 11 improvements and 17 bug fixes.

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-July-16th.

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, they've been helpful and provided us valuable advice.

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:

(answer) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
(answer) tison
Comments:
(answer) Justin Mclean
Comments:
(answer) Christofer Dutz
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:

Grow the community and attract more users.
Add more committers and PPMC members.
Grow the project, support more data sources and use cases, and improve the user experience.

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

No issues at the moment.

How has the community developed since the last report?

12 new contributors have joined the community (156 contributors in total)
161 new community members in Slack (1302 in total)
1 new committer was elected, and no PPMC was elected.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Made one major release v1.0.0, and v1.0.1 is at the beta testing stage.
Add an onboarding workflow for new users.
Support DORA benchmarks in 2023.
Support devolopers and teams to observe their daily work via the worklogs dashboard.
Huge improvements on user experience for Config UI.

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?

2024-07-15

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, the mentors helped tremendously throughout version releases and community governance.

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:

(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: The project is in a good sharp to graduation.

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:

Grow the community (attracting more committers, contributors, and users)
Improve project documentation and align the implementation of Java/Python/JavaScript/C++/Golang/Rust.
Add more PPMC members and release managers.

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?

Steady progress

How has the project developed since the last report?

4 releases. The most recent was v0.7.0 on August 4.

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?

2024-04-23. Added a new mentor in May.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, the mentors helped a lot for version releases and community governance.

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:

(fury) tison
Comments:
(fury) PJ Fanning
Comments: Releases made. Steady progress.
(fury) Yu Li
Comments:
(fury) Xin Wang
Comments:
(fury) Enrico Olivelli
Comments:
(fury) Hao Ding
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
Improve the project document and align the libraries implementation of GraphAr format.

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?

We just voted and accepted our first new committer.
2 new contributors joined the GraphAr community.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Merge 24 PRs in last month.
Improve the C++ library by reorganize the code structure,.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

Initial setup
Working towards first release
[WIP] Community building
Nearing graduation
Other:

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2024-08-07

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, the mentors are very helpful and responsive.

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

We don't find any 3rd parties incorrectly using the podling's name and brand. The VP, Brand has approved the project name. (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-221)

Signed-off-by:

(graphar) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
(graphar) tison
Comments:
(graphar) Xiaoqiao He
Comments:
(graphar) Yu Li
Comments: Good to see new committer joining and developing in good progress.

Gravitino is a high-performance, geo-distributed, and federated metadata like designed to manage metadata seamlessly across diverse data sources, vendors, and regions. Its primary goal is to provide users with unified metadata access for both data and AI assets.

Gravitino has been incubating since 2024-06-04.

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:

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:

(gravitino) Daniel Dai
Comments:
(gravitino) Junping Du
Comments:
(gravitino) Justin McLean
Comments:
(gravitino) Shaofeng Shi
Comments:
(gravitino) Larry McCay
Comments:
(gravitino) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

HertzBeat

HertzBeat is an easy-to-use, open source, real-time monitoring system. It features an agentless architecture, high-performance clustering, Prometheus compatibility, and powerful custom monitoring and status page building capabilities.

HertzBeat has been incubating since 2024-04-05.

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:

(hertzbeat) Yonglun Zhang
Comments:
(hertzbeat) Yu Xiao
Comments:
(hertzbeat) Justn Mclean
Comments:
(hertzbeat) Francis Chuang
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:

Build and grow community(attract more committers and users)
Polish website
Release more versions under ASF

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?

Provide three presentations at Community Over Code Asia 2024, RustTour Chengdu, Apache DataFusion Hangzhou Meetup.

How has the project developed since the last report?

7 PRs get merged, and 5 are in review status
Two major features are in progress, remote compaction and WAL based on local file.

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:

2024-07-11

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2023-12-27

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, the mentors helped a lot for version releases.

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

There are no known brand and naming issues.

Signed-off-by:

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

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. Retired on 2024-07-18.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Liminal is now retired.

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: retired

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:

(liminal) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments: Liminal is now retired.
(liminal) Henry Saputra
Comments:
(liminal) Uma Maheswara Rao G
Comments:
(liminal) Davor Bonaci
Comments:
(liminal) Liang Chen
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

NLPCraft

A Scala library for NLU applications

NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Community growth.
Python part development.

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 engaged with Python community developers who are interested in contributing, reviewing the current state of Python NLP libraries in relation to advancements in LLMs.
We are continuing to investigate LLM integration challenges to enhance our existing functionality.
We are in ongoing negotiations with potential customers and contributors for humatron.ai..

How has the project developed since the last report?

Examples extended.
Technical PRs processed.

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:

2023-02-30

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

August of 2021.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

No issues with mentors to report.

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

No issues with mentors to report.

Signed-off-by:

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

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

OpenServerless

OpenServerless is an open source, cloud-agnostic, serverless platform. It offers a complete environment for serverless applications development, based on Kubernetes. With Apache OpenWhisk as its FaaS engine, it provides an unified developer experience with a plethora of services (SQL or noSQL databases, key-value stores, object storage, LLMs services, function schedulers) managed by the platform's core: the operator, along with tooling (the CLI) to simplify (and interact with) deployments, integrated ide and starter application and optimized runtimes integrated with the staters.

OpenServerless has been incubating since 2024-06-17.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Finish the bootstrap
Prepare first release
Grow 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?

Bootstrapping

How has the project developed since the last report?

Bootstrapping

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:

(openserverless) Bertrand Delacretaz
Comments:
(openserverless) Enrico Olivelli
Comments:
(openserverless) François Papon
Comments:
(openserverless) JB Onofré
Comments: good start for the podling, eager to move forward
(openserverless) PJ Fanning
Comments: steady progress

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

OzHera

OzHera is an application observation platform (APM) in the era of cloud native, with the application as its core, integrating capabilities such as metric monitoring, trace tracking, logging, and alerting.

OzHera has been incubating since 2024-07-11.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1.Transfer the project to ASF and set up necessary resources in ASF.
2.Make the first apache release.
3.Build a diverse 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? This is the first report from OzHera.

We have set up the mailing list in ASF. We have submitted the SGA from Xiaomi for the OzHera project. Most initial committers have already signed ICLAs and gotten their apache id.

How has the project developed since the last report?

This is the first report from OzHera.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Initial setup
Working towards first release
Community building
Nearing graduation
Other:

Date of last release:

There is no apache release yet.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

We have not elected new committers or PPMC members yet. Currently all committers and PPMC members are initial committers.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, mentors are helpful and responsive.

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

Not yet.

Signed-off-by:

(ozhera) Duo Zhang
Comments: Let's finish the bootstraping soon
(ozhera) Yu Xiao
Comments:
(ozhera) Yu Li
Comments:
(ozhera) Kevin Ratnasekera
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:

More efficient management of compliance issues, such as quickly checking whether licenses are compliant.
More active developers and release managers.
International collaboration of the project.

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

No issues at the moment.

How has the community developed since the last report?

13 new contributors have joined the community (510 contributors in total)
The new committers and PPMC members are currently voting.
From the Seata project on GitHub, it can be seen that there are over 3,000 "used by" (dependencies on Seata).

How has the project developed since the last report?

Since the last report, over 100 PRs have been merged, including more than 5 features, along with numerous optimizations and bug fixes.
We attempted to release more than five RCs, addressing some compliance issues and learning about ASF's branding policies from the process.
The front-end UI has been refactored, the original framework has been deprecated. A large number of outdated dependencies have been removed, numerous vulnerable dependencies have been fixed, and some non-compliant license dependencies have been eliminated.

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:

Preparing for the first release

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2024-02-27

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.

Our mentors have been 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?

No Trademark issues

Signed-off-by:

(seata) Sheng Wu
Comments:
(seata) Justin Mclean
Comments:
(seata) Huxing Zhang
Comments: Looking forward to the first release
(seata) Heng Du
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

[PJF] No apparent issues.

StormCrawler

StormCrawler is a collection of resources for building low-latency, customisable and scalable web crawlers on Apache Storm.

StormCrawler has been incubating since 2024-03-19.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Community building

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?

Nothing new to report. One contributor showed up and provided some PRs, which is a good sign.

How has the project developed since the last report?

A first release was made.

A slight source of concern is that 3 out of the initial 5 committers have so far shown no or very little involvement in the project since its incubation, which makes it even more urgent to increase the committer base.

### 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:

2024-05-16

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

No new committers yet.

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. Nothing of note.

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? No progress yet.

Signed-off-by:

(stormcrawler) Dave Fisher
Comments:
(stormcrawler) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
(stormcrawler) Ayush Saxena
Comments: Working towards building community
(stormcrawler) PJ Fanning
Comments: Release made but may need more work on community building.

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:

Have an agreement on the members of the PMC for project graduation
Go through Apache Project Maturity Model and evaluate our status for project graduation

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?

Since the last report, 24 new developers have joined the community, bringing the total number of developers to 146, We release 3 apache versions, Currently, based on our collection, there are 70 + users(issue/163) using it in production.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Since the last report, the community release three versions: 2.12, 2.13, and 2.14, the documentation has been improved, and several blog posts on production practices have been added.

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:

2024-05-24

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2024-08-05, ZihaoXiang was elected as our new committer.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Our mentors have been 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?

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:

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:

Increase active contributors

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 saw a boost in activity working on the bringup of support for Apache Spark 3.3 and Scala 2.13 which culminate in a new committer, but after that it went back to regular activity flow of a stable/mature project.

We still see much of the users asking questions in the gitter channel rather than using the mailing lists.

The discussion around retirement process was stopped with the boost in community activity.

The Apache Toree project recently had two presentations at the European Community over Code conference, drawing a good audience. The attendees showed great interest, posing several questions. This indicates the community should look into opportunities for us to further promote awareness of the project.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Most of the remaining tasks related to Apache Spark 3.3 and Scala 2.13 are completed and comunity should start planning 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:

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?

Not applicable as we had not needed mentors attention

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

No Trademark issues

Signed-off-by:

(toree) Luciano Resende
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?

Signed-off-by:

(training) Craig Russell
Comments:
(training) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
(training) Justin Mclean
Comments:
(training) Lars Francke
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:

Publish a release under ASF (0.1.0 release voting is in progress).
Foster community growth.
Modularize code to reduce the binary size and dependencies.

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?

Seeing more engagement in the OSS community to try XTable with different query engines and catalogs.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Improved documentation, fixed bugs and blockers raised by users in Github issues have been actively addressed and resolved.
Kicked off the first release process, setting up infra and release guide based on apache guidelines to streamline future 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:

There hasn't been an official release of XTable yet, 0.1.0 release voting is in progress.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

No new committers or PPMC members have been elected yet.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes. Shoutout to Stamatis Zampetakis for helping resolve infra issues related to release.

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

To the best of our knowledge, and after searching the web for mentions of "XTable" it seems there are no violations of the branding/naming policy at the moment.

The XTable name has been approved by the VP, Brand as part of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-218

Signed-off-by:

(xtable) Jesús Camacho Rodríguez
Comments: Excited to be approaching the first release!
(xtable) Stamatis Zampetakis
Comments:
(xtable) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

Apache Annotator is unable to produce releases due to low activity
PMC is largely inactive
Motivation to contribute is low due to inability of producing enough release votes

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

See above. Unless there is interest by new people to join the project and help getting out releases, IMHO it would make more sense to retire the podling, fork it and release it without the three-vote hurdle.

How has the community developed since the last report?

The community has not grown.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Yarn has been dropped from the project in favor of npm. Since then, a number of dependabot issues have piled up.

There have been a few mails regarding potentially adding support for the Highlight API instead of using mark elements (while keeking the elements as a fallback).

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: it is so stable that it is probably ready for retirement ;)

(annotator) Nick Kew
Comments:
(annotator) Tommaso Teofili
Comments:
(annotator) Benjamin Young
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

This report was submitted by me (@reckart). Unfortunately, at the time of submission, we had no sign-offs from the sheperds.

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