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Timeline

Wed July 03	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun July 07	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun July 07	Summary due by end of day
Tue July 9	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed July 10	Report submitted to Board
Wed July 17	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Calvin Kirs	Annotator
Calvin Kirs	Liminal
Dave Fisher	Amoro
Dave Fisher	Pegasus
Drew Farris	HertzBeat
Drew Farris	Toree
Justin Mclean	StormCrawler
P. Taylor Goetz	GraphAr
P. Taylor Goetz	Gravitino
P. Taylor Goetz	Teaclave
PJ Fanning	Livy
PJ Fanning	ResilientDB
Timothy Chen	Gluten
Timothy Chen	HugeGraph
Willem Jiang	OpenServerless
Willem Jiang	Pny Mail

Incubator PMC report for July 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 July:

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:

Release our first Apache release.
Build and grow a diverse 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?

The Amoro community has submitted two topics to Community Over Code Asia 2024, and both have been accepted.
2 new contributors joined the Amoro community.

How has the project developed since the last report?

The release manager of version 0.7.0 has organized the project release process, fixed the project's license information, and is now ready with RC1.
Merged 52 PRs in last month.

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?

2024-03-11, when the project was accepted into the incubator.

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: Glad to see new contributors joining and look forward to the first ASF release.
(amoro) Xinyu Zhou
Comments:
(amoro) Kent Yao
Comments: LGTM

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:

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:

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

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:

1st Apache Release: Plan to be released in July
Enhance website and documentation to meet apache standards: plan to be update in July with 1st Apache release as well
Community Growth

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 342 to 376.
The number of star is from 959 to 1064.
The number of contributors is from 118 to 134.
Add 6 new committers
Regular monthly meeting with notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g-veyoNB1QYFJY4-TMdewAq8wMkQqltbEt46CPxBrfE/edit?usp=sharing
4 topics related to Gluten have been accepted at CommunityOverCode Asia 2024.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Preparing 1st Apache Release in July

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?

2024-05-28, when adding new committer

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Truly, their expert direction plays a crucial role in guiding the project to a successful outcome.

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

Yes, everything is fine.

Signed-off-by:

(gluten) Yu Li
Comments: Good to see new committers joining and the community is developing in an open and healthy way. Look forward to the first ASF release.
(gluten) Wenli Zhang
Comments: GLTM
(gluten) Kent Yao
Comments: Glad to see the community growing rapidly and looking forward to the talks in the coming CoC Asia 2024
(gluten) Shaofeng Shi
Comments: LGTM, looking forward the first apache release;
(gluten) Felix Cheung
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?

2 new contributors joined the GraphAr community.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Merged 15 PRs in last month.
Improved the document about the release and verify process.
Released our first apache release v0.12.0.

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?

No new committers yet.

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: Great to see the first ASF release delivered and more contributors joining.

Gravitino is a high-performance, geo-distributed, and federated metadata 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:

Set up the project and website, continue to iterate with Apache way.
Prepare the first ASF release.
Grow the community to have more contributors and committers.

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 just entered the incubator, so far we have 82 code contributors

How has the project developed since the last report?

The project was transfered to Apache organization on July 2 and we are still in the process of settuing everytuing up. Mailing lists have been created and repos transfered. Work is ongoing on making the exting content in line with various ASF polies, and good progress is being made. Not all of the PPMC members have signed up to the private list yet.

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

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

N/A

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, they're helping a lot with project bootstrap.

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

Yes.

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: Smooth and good start. Thanks !

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:

Grow the community and attract more users.
More ppmc publish the HertzBeat Apache release.

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?

Over the past month, the project has successfully attracted 2 new contributors, some of whom has shown great promise and potential to be considered for committer status in the future. Excluding merges, 20 authors have pushed 80 commits to master and 120 commits to all branches. On master, 618 files have changed and there have been 33,793 additions and 10,635 deletions.
And there has two new committers has been elected to join the HertzBeat community.

How has the project developed since the last report?

During the past month, HertzBeat has successful published the 1st Apache release. The team did a lot of work on this first release, thanks to them.

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:

2024-06-11

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2024-06-24

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, they are very nice.

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

No.

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:

(hertzbeat) Yonglun Zhang
Comments: It's great to see the completion of the first ASF release and the addition of two new committers to the community.
(hertzbeat) Yu Xiao
Comments:
(hertzbeat) Justn Mclean
Comments:
(hertzbeat) Francis Chuang
Comments: Great progress! Good to see that the project has gone through a few release voting cycles to iron out issues.

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
Unified different versions & introduce a new Graph Dashboard & LLM/AI system
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 for now

How has the community developed since the last report?

Participated in activities such as GSoC, GLCC, OSPP, with more students involved in the construction of the community.

How has the project developed since the last report?

A series of tasks involving server fixes, submodule integrations, configuration migrations, license updates, comment translations, and Docker deployment support for feature enhancements and improvements have been completed in the hugegraph repository.
The iterative development of the features of hugegraph-ai
In hugegraph-toolchain, we are currently planning a completely new version of Hubble.

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:

2024-04-01

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2024-02-24

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Thanks for the mentor, no issues to address 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:

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:

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:

(liminal) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments: Vote to retire Liminal started, I will close it.
(liminal) Henry Saputra
Comments:
(liminal) Uma Maheswara Rao G
Comments:
(liminal) Davor Bonaci
Comments:
(liminal) Liang Chen
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

[Calvin Kirs]: The last report was in Oct 2023, but it wasn't signed by mentors, mailing list traffic has been nearly zero, retirement vote has been initiated on the community mailing list.

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
Focus on Contributors rather than primarily on Users (Docs for processes)

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

None at this time.

How has the community developed since the last report?

There has been a handful of new PRs with one large contribution for kubernetes support in Livy. There has been some discussion/mention of a new release once that PR is merged and tested. Activity generally low this quarter.

How has the project developed since the last report?

The commitment to get kubernetes support into the project and to commit to a new PR with active members is good and will get this in.

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?

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.

No issues.

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 issues.

Signed-off-by:

(livy) Bikas Saha
Comments:
(livy) Luciano Resende
Comments:
(livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
(livy) Madhawa Kasun Gunasekara
Comments:
(livy) Larry McCay
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

[PJF] No podling report filled in by July 4. Not a great deal happening on the mailing lists. There are some PRs but quite a few are not being engaged with. Low activity generally.

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:

Setting up mailing lists, Git repos, etc.
Community Building
First Release

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?

Only just getting set up.

How has the project developed since the last report?

First 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?

None 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?

Name check done. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-222

Signed-off-by:

(openserverless) Bertrand Delacretaz
Comments:
(openserverless) Enrico Olivelli
Comments:
(openserverless) François Papon
Comments:
(openserverless) JB Onofré
Comments: Resources have been created (mailing list, repositories, ...).
(openserverless) PJ Fanning
Comments: The mailing lists don't seem to be set up. I produced an outline report. Feel free to adjust it.

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

The project just entered the incubator.

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?

We saw more users are using the Apache Pegasus.

How has the project developed since the last report?

2.6.0 is being prepared for 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:

2023-12-12

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: Let's try to make more releases.
(pegasus) Liang Chen
Comments:
(pegasus) Von Gosling
Comments:
(pegasus) Liu Xun
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Pony Mail

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:

ResilientDB

ResilientDB is a distributed blockchain framework that is open-source, lightweight, modular, and highly performant.

ResilientDB has been incubating since 2023-10-21.

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:

(resilientdb) Junping Du
Comments:
(resilientdb) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
(resilientdb) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
(resilientdb) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
(resilientdb) Christian Grobmeier
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

[PJF] The podling report was not filled in before July 4. A few RCs have reached the Incubator list but were not approved due to multiple issues. No releases yet. A recent vote for a new PPMC member. was announced as passed but well before the deadline specified in the original email. Hopefully, the new PPMC member, JB Onofré, can help the PPMC get a valid RC together. Very very few of the 30+ PPMC members are in any way active.

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:

Attract more people from outside the usual suspects (community building)

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

Nothing to note.

How has the community developed since the last report?

We got some PRs from a person outside the usual suspects. We still need to increase our outreach and attract more users / developers to foster a healthy community development on the long run

How has the project developed since the last report?

We received some PRs and fixed the feedback from our 3.0 release. There was a talk covering StormCrawler at the BerlinBuzzwords conference in June. 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?

Nothing to note

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

Signed-off-by:

(stormcrawler) Dave Fisher
Comments:
(stormcrawler) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
(stormcrawler) Ayush Saxena
Comments: Going good, did the first release, Working towards building community
(stormcrawler) PJ Fanning
Comments: Progress seems good

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?