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# Incubator PMC report for March 2020

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

This monthly report is in markdown so that it's easier to read. If you are 
not viewing this in that format, it can be seen here:  
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/March2020

There are presently 45 podlings incubating. In February, podlings executed 
9 distinct releases. We added no new IPMC members, but two will be added 
shortly, and 2 IPMC members retired, a further 72 were removed by a board
resolution.

There was four requested IP clearance, some issue around previous IP 
clearances have been resolved. We have one new podling this month NLPCraft; 
another three are under discussion AgensGraph, HBlock and Rainbow. No 
projects graduated last month. Taverna has retired from the Incubator and 
Tamaya is discussing retirement. At least one podling is heading towards 
graduation in the next few months. PageSpeed which didn't report last month 
reported this month. Hivemall did not report and have indicated they will
report next month.

Most podlings have sorted out their private mailing lists. Three podlings 
MXNet, SDAP and Spot are still working on it.

The board proposal to remove IPMC was passed, and they have been removed, 
everything went smoothly. When they were removed a few projects found 
themselves with fewer mentors, and a couple of people have put to hand up 
to help mentor them.

A discussion about the announce email format turned into a discussion about 
release pages. Several podling that have made releases were discovered not 
to have download pages, they have been asked to fix this. A script found 
several other podlings with incorrect download links on download pages and 
those podling are working on fixing those. 

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - None

### People who left the IPMC:
  - 72 IPMC members in board proposal
  - Jacopo Cappellato
  - Naomi Slater

## New Podlings
  - NLPCraft

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
- Hivemall

## Graduations
  - None

  The board has motions for the following:

  - None

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  February:
  - APISIX 1.1
  - APISIX dashboard 1.0
  - BRPC 0.9.7
  - Dolphin Scheduler 1.2.1
  - Livy 0.7.0
  - MXNet 1.6.0
  - Milagro Crypto-C v2.0.1
  - PageSpeed 1.14.36.1
  - Ratis 0.5.0

## IP Clearance
  - Pulsar - DotPulsar
  - OpenWhisk - wskdebug
  - Atomos Codebase
  - Maven Wrapper

## Legal / Trademarks
  - N/A

## Infrastructure
  - Changes to /dist link has an impact on podling download pages.

## Miscellaneous
  - We also had a privacy request for the removal of personal information
  that was passed on to the privacy committee.

Table of Contents  
[brpc](#brpc)  
[Crail](#Crail)  
[Daffodil](#Daffodil)  
[DolphinScheduler](#DolphinScheduler)
[Hivemall](#Hivemall)  
[IoTDB](#IoTDB)  
[Marvin-AI](#Marvin-AI)  
[Nemo](#Nemo)  
[NuttX](#NuttX)  
[PageSpeed](#PageSpeed)  
[SAMOA](#SAMOA)  
[ShardingSphere](#ShardingSphere)  
[Spot](#Spot)  
[StreamPipes](#StreamPipes)  
[Superset](#Superset)  
[TubeMQ](#TubeMQ)  
[Warble](#Warble)  
[YuniKorn](#YuniKorn)  

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## brpc

brpc is an industrial-grade RPC framework for building reliable and high-
performance services.

brpc has been incubating since 2018-11-13.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. release apache standard release regularly
  2. attract more contributors and committers
  3. clean branding issue

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  No big issues

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  We added three new committers, they are helei, cai Daojin, mu gaidong.
  they are all from iqiyi company , using brpc for their business, 
  and contributing a lot to brpc projects, including bugfix/feature/code 
  review/evangelism.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. vote for release 0.97 rc2 failed due to some license issue
  2. vote for release 0.97 rc3 is still ongoing, with WIP disclaimer, 
  hopefully will be done next week

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  2020-01-16

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  2019-12-24

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  von helped a lot with the release discussion, 
  and JB/kevin also help to vote for new committers.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Not ready for the branding issue, will check it next time.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (brpc) Kevin A. McGrail  
     Comments: Nicely done this quarter.
  - [X] (brpc) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (brpc) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  As we get closer to the first apache release, the community 
     needs to further strengthen the building and increase developer 
activity.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Justin Mclean: It seems your release has not been placed in the offical
  release area. Please do so.

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## Crail

Crail is a storage platform for sharing performance critical data in
distributed data processing jobs at very high speed.

Crail has been incubating since 2017-11-01.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Community building: Increase on number of active contributors and 
  users.
  2. Establish new use cases in the community

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

  With Patrick currently unavailable for the project, we lost our main 
  contributor. We need help from new active contributors to drive things 
  forward. 

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  Interest from the community in native C++ client for Crail integration 
with
  ML frameworks such as TensorFlow.
  New users from academia.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  - Release 1.2 is out.
  - Working towards releasing new elasticity extensions of Crail.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  2020-01-14

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  December 4th, 2018

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors are very helpful.

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

  Yes, others are using the podling's name correctly (e.g. Samsung 
Research, 
  Stanford University)

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (crail) Julian Hyde  
     Comments:  Glad to hear about the new release.
                Sorry to hear of Patrick's departure.
  - [x] (crail) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  We should make sure all development, including prototypes,
                happen at Apache repositories. New repos can be created 
                when necessary. 
  - [x] (crail) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  Steady progress, would be great to get more community growth

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Daffodil

Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description
Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.

Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Increase community growth and participation beyond Tresys
     (main priority)
  2. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provide extra
     functionality (NiFi and Drill are current priorities)
  3. Continue frequent release schedule

### 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?

  - Continued mailing lists discussions, with a handful of new faces
    asking questions on the users@ mailing list, hopefully some of these
    can be converted to developers
  - Struggling to get active involvement outside of Tresys. We are
    actively working with known users of Daffodil to encourage
    contributions, including virtual meetings and making time to help
    spin up with the codebase
  - An outside developer has shown interest in contributing to the
    code-generation runtime. Hoping to spin up that user shortly and
    start getting contributions.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  - Released Daffodil 2.5.0
  - 29 commits merged from 5 different contributors
  - 44 issues created, 29 issues resolved, focus was primarily on large
    features rather than bug burn down.
  - Significant improvement to DFDL schema compilation time
  - Incorporated SonarCloud static analysis to help verify code quality
  - Lots of refactoring to improve code quality and type safety
  - Created a container to streamline a repeatable release process
  - Looking like next release will be sometime in March

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  2020-01-12

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  - 2019-11-26 - Olabusayo Kilo (Committer)
  - 2019-06-20 - Brandon Sloane (PPMC)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  - Yes

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

  - No known cases of a 3rd party incorrectly using the Daffodil
    name/brand.
  - Podling name search has been completed and approved by Brand
    Management Committee:
    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-147

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (daffodil) Dave Fisher  
     Comments: Community growth is the main issue blocking graduation.
     Other than that the podling is in good shape following the Apache Way. 
  - [X] (daffodil) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## DolphinScheduler

Dolphin Scheduler is a distributed and easy-to-expand visual DAG workflow 
scheduling system dedicated to solving the complex dependencies in data 
processing, making the scheduling system out of the box for data processing.

Dolphin Scheduler has been incubating since 2019-8-29.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Develop more committers and contributors.
  2. Make development document more easily to read.
  3. make E-mail as an official discussion tool in our communities. 

### 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?

  1. New committers is active in answer Jira issue and other contributions.
  2. More articles were written by users and contributors initiatively.
 

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  1. Apache 1.2.1  without WIP has been released.
  2. Restructure the Master/Worker model for easily to expand.
  3. Refine CI/CD process for more contributors easily to join.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  2020-2-24

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2020-1-24

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, our mentors help a lot on our progress on restruction.

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

  Yes, We keep tracking podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [x] (dolphinscheduler) Sheng Wu  
    Comments:  
  - [ ] (dolphinscheduler) ShaoFeng Shi  
    Comments:  
  - [x] (dolphinscheduler) Liang Chen  
    Comments:  
  - [X] (dolphinscheduler) Furkan KAMACI  
    Comments: 
  - [x] (dolphinscheduler) Kevin Ratnasekera  
    Comments: 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## IoTDB

IoTDB is a data store for managing large amounts of time series data such as
timestamped data from IoT sensors in industrial applications.

IoTDB has been incubating since 2018-11-18.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Get more user feedbacks to the community
  2. More committers should know how to release a version. And more PPMC 
  should join to vote.
  3. make sure the private mailing list is consistent with the PPMC list.

### 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. According to the statistics of https://lists.apache.org/, 
     there are 1079 emails sent by 87 people, divided into 564 topics in 
     these 3 months.
  2. 6 new committers are added into the community.
  3. 6 GSoC2020 ideas are published. 

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  1. IoTDB v0.9.1, which contains 11 bug-fix, was released on 11 Jan 2020. 
     It is finished by the 4th RM in the community.
  2. 124 Pull requests are merged
  3. Now IoTDB docker images and Python client lib are available on 
     dockerHub and pipy.org.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  2020-01-11 (v0.9.1)

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2020-02-01

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Very helpful.

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

  Required Name Search is done. A google search didn’t show any major 
  branding issues that the PPMC needs to deal with.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (iotdb) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (iotdb) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments: By far most email traffic generated by jira (hard to follow 
     especially when trying to keep up to date while commuting)
  - [ ] (iotdb) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (iotdb) Kevin A. McGrail  
     Comments: Discussing what's needed to graduate and the checklist.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Dave Fisher: There are a few small issues I noticed. I fixed one and sent
    an email to the dev@ list with a list.

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## Marvin-AI

Marvin-AI is an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform that helps
data scientists, prototype and productionalize complex solutions with a
scalable, low-latency, language-agnostic, and standardized architecture
while simplifies the process of exploration and modeling.

Marvin-AI has been incubating since 2018-08-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Increase activity from current contributors and community.
  2. Build compatibility with all the mainstream storages for artifact 
  persistence.
  3. Finish the new version of Toolbox.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  * A lot of conversations about the project in last few months happened
    in private channel, because of some contributing groups known to each
    other. We have already warned everyone about the importance of
    discussing on open lists.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  * in the last few months we have focused on development of university 
  communities,
  we set up "Marvin-lab" at the university we have the partnership, and 
  several postgraduate 
  students in the artificial intelligence field started using marvin as 
  their main tool for their research.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  * Minor bug fixes.
  * Compatibility with MS Azure Blob for artifact persistence.
  * New contents and structure improvements in project documentation.
  * AutoML module and integration with Apache Spark MLib in construction.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  2019-07-18

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  * Wei Chen added as new PPMC member (2019-06-07)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  * At least two of the mentors are sometimes active.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  * yes

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (marvin-ai) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  Technical discussions need to happen on the dev list.
                Please ensure contributors submit their individual
                contributions.
  - [X] (marvin-ai) William Colen  
     Comments:	  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Justin Mclean: There has been no traffic to your mailing list for the last
  3 -4 months. Why is this the case? And why was it not mentioned in this
  report?

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## Nemo

Nemo is a data processing system to flexibly control the runtime behaviors
of a job to adapt to varying deployment characteristics.

Nemo has been incubating since 2018-02-04.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Grow the community (committers, contributors, users)
  2. Create releases
  3.

### 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?

  * New committer added: Haeyoon Cho
  * Committers actively involved in improving code quality
  * Committers started to work on interesing features 
    such as dynamic task scheduling and offheap computation

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  * Release 0.2 PPMC vote passed on March 3, 2020
  * Developing a job simulator that estimates stage 
    execution time 
  * Started to work on dynamic task scheduling (DTS)
    that changes task sizes to choose parallelism 
    better  
  * Developing offheap computation that executes UDF 
    functions with offheap data natively 
  * Supported Java 1.11  
  * Fixed code smells throughout the code base

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  Release 0.1 on Dec. 31, 2018

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  February 27, 2020

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors have been helpful and responsive.

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

 The PPMC manages the podling's brand / trademarks. 

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (nemo) Hyunsik Choi  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nemo) Byung-Gon Chun  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nemo) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nemo) Markus Weimer  
     Comments:  Great work on the release!

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Justin Mclean: It seems your release was placed in the release area
  before the vote was complete. This can only be done after the vote
  has finished.

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## NuttX

NuttX is a mature, real-time embedded operating system (RTOS).

NuttX has been incubating since 2019-12-09.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Clear any potential infringing use of the NuttX trademark
  2. Determine the form and location of NuttX releases
  3. Make the first release under Apache

### 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?

  * Most communications have moved from old venues to dev@nuttx.apache.org. 
 
  The dev list contains 128 subscribers and is the home of all 
  development discussions and users questions.  
  * Github's PRs and Issues also have their own discussions.  
  * Some new names are contributing to the project through Github.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  * Contributions are flowing regularly as PRs in GitHub and as patches
    in the dev list.  
  * A bunch of improvements, bug fixes and new architectures were 
  collaborated.  
  * The nightly build is up and running: https://s.apache.org/wnv2u  
  This will improve our review process and push us forward towards 
  making our first Apache release.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  Still working towards making the first Apache release.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  Last elected PPMC: 2020-01-10

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Mentors are helpful and responsive.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
	
  Some concerns and actions regarding podling's brand were noted in the  
  past reports, however, trademarks issues will be dealt with when  
  graduation draws near.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (nuttx) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nuttx) Justin Mclean  
     Comments: I suggest you look at trademark issues before nearing 
     graduation.
  - [ ] (nuttx) Mohammad Asif Siddiqui  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nuttx) Flavio Paiva Junqueira  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## PageSpeed

PageSpeed represents a series of open source technologies to
help make the web faster by rewriting web pages to reduce
latency and bandwidth.

PageSpeed has been incubating since 2017-09-30.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Produce a release
  2. Increase the number of active developers
  3.

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

  After a series of release candidates, a first incubator release was 
  approved
  by both the developer group and the IPMC. However, while doing the final
  release preparation a blocking issue was observed: the scripts that 
  package
  the product would still point to dl.google.com as a repo source.
  This is being addressed.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  Mailing lists and git issues are active. The number of active developers
  is steady.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  A first WIP incubator release made it through the voting rounds, but
  needs some small changes to address a blocking issue observed during 
  finalization. Those have been made, and another vote is in progress.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  May 27 2019 (Longinos Ferrando, elected as both committer and PMC member)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes

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

  As far as we know the brand is respected by third parties
  It's not known if the VP, brand has explicitly approved, so 
  that is something we need to make sure about and resolve.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (pagespeed) Jukka Zitting  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pagespeed) Leif Hedstrom  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (pagespeed) Nick Kew  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Justin Mclean: It seems your release has not been placed in the offical
  release area. Please do so.

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## SAMOA

SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the most
common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification,
clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop
new algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines
(DSPEs). It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on
several DSPEs such as Apache Storm, Apache S4, and Apache Samza.

SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Revitalize the project by resuming development
  2. Enlarge the user base and contributing 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?

  - Mailing list activity:
  - @dev: 31 messages

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  With the help of the new commiter Corey Sterling, we prepared a new 
  release of Apache SAMOA, that is already being discussed and voted (RC3). 

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  2016-09-30

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  August 2019

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, the mentors have been helpful and responsive.

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

  Yes. There are no 3rd parties incorrectly using the podling‘s name and 
  brand for now.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (samoa) Alan Gates  
     Comments:  With the election of the new committer it looks like the 
     project is slowly making some progress.  I'm happy to see it start
     moving forward.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## ShardingSphere

ShardingSphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database 
middleware, focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and database 
orchestration.

ShardingSphere has been incubating since 2018-11-10.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Doing podling name search now, the JIRA ticket here[1]
  2. Clear issues which indicate by incubator status page[2]
  3. Finished discussion about graduation and start to vote to TLP[3]

  [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-178

  [2] https://incubator.apache.org/clutch/shardingsphere.html

  [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2272e5fb70044e07f8ff21e282d84ab88a
  30eac6709a9d0981f6b2c1%40%3Cdev.shardingsphere.apache.org%3E

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

  There is a user wall page[4] to show all user lists. The URL of page may 
  generate confusion with apache powered by policy. We have already change 
  the page url to [5].

  [4] https://shardingsphere.apache.org/community/en/poweredby/

  [5] https://shardingsphere.apache.org/community/en/users/

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  Wen Ouyang, ZongLei Dong, Xiaofeng Jiang have been voted and joined as 
  committer.
  There are 115 people to contribute codes to the main repo, there are 26 
  new contributors during last report. We are happy to see the community
  are growing up.
  Prepare for graduation, finished discussion mail list is [6]. The main 
  resolved issues are:
  1. Major contributors sign ICLA
  2. Confirm PMC and committer list
  3. IP Clearance for OpenSharding GitHub repo[7]
  4. Remove author information in java code
  5. Update incubator status site[8]

  [6] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r885653f36d76c9d842b52f0ba2576dd962
  efd2e9a24acc03515c9e24%40%3Cdev.shardingsphere.apache.org%3E
  
  [7] https://github.com/OpenSharding

  [8] https://incubator.apache.org/clutch/shardingsphere.html

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  Release 4.0.0 last month, it is the stable version of 4.0.0-RC1, 
  4.0.0-RC2 and 4.0.0-RC3.
  Releasing and voting version 4.0.1 now.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  2020-01-13

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2020-01-08

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, the mentors have been helpful and responsive.

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

  Yes. There are no 3rd parties incorrectly using the podling‘s name and 
  brand for now.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (shardingsphere) Craig L Russell  
     Comments:  Graduation vote is underway on the dev list.
     I believe the project is ready to graduate.
  - [x] (shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  It's good to see the project is ready to graduate.
  - [x] (shardingsphere) Von Gosling  
     Comments: Glad to see all necessary graducation affairs have been 
     resolved.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Dave Fisher: The VP, Brand approved your name search on February 20.

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## StreamPipes

  StreamPipes is a self-service (Industrial) IoT toolbox to enable non-
  technical users to connect, analyze and explore (Industrial) IoT data
  streams.

StreamPipes has been incubating since 2019-11-11.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Make a first Apache release 
  2. Grow the community
  3. Diversify PPMC members & committers

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  There are no issues right now.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  * We gave a talk about StreamPipes at Bosch Connected World 2020 (~100 
  participants in the talk)
  * We gave several IIoT demos involving Apache StreamPipes at FZI Open
   House (~300 participants)
  * There was a lot more communication on the mailing list concerning 
  the discussion on upcoming features and improvements
  * An external company mentioned their usage of StreamPipes in one
  of their upcoming products
  * Some new contributions/pull requests from external contributors
  * The number of Twitter followers has increased (currently at 113)
  * The number of Github stars has increased (currently at 117)

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  * The community is currently working on the final steps concerned 
  with the preparation of the first ASF release
  * We performed an upgrade of the UI components to Angular 9, which
  improves performance
  * We implemented a new live dashboard
  * We refactored the code base and removed/rewrote components which 
  relied on non-ASF conformant licenses, e.g., kafka-rest
  * LICENSE and NOTICE files have been created for the 
  incubator-streampipes project

  The first release is planned within the next few weeks.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  No new committers have been added so far.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Our mentors are very responsive and provide good feedback.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  * Currently, no issues are known related to brand misuse, but
  there are still some open issues concerning the transition to 
  the ASF infrastructure (e.g., shutting down the old streampipes 
  organization on Github to avoid confusion)
  * We started to contact external websites who provided links
  to the old streampipes.org website and asked them (or created 
  pull requests) to change this to the new streampipes.apache.org 
  domain.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (streampipes) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments: Perhaps it would help assigning streampipes.org domain 
     to apache and have auto-redirect?
  - [X] (streampipes) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments: The highest priority is a first release and it's planned in 
     few weeks. 
  - [ ] (streampipes) Julian Feinauer  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (streampipes) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampipes) Kenneth Knowles  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Spot

Apache Spot is a platform for network telemetry built on an open data model 
and Apache Hadoop.
Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  - Revive community activity (Discussion in mailing lists, increase 
  frequency of commits)
  - Create a new roadmap and release plan that will improve adoption.
  - Make it easier to contribute to the project (e.g. documentation, 
  framework).

### 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 number of active committers has increased over the past quarter, and 
  we also have several new potential community members looking to become 
  committers. We will work with our mentors to go through the process to 
  onboard them.

  Much of the activity from the community has been focused on stabilizing 
  the codebase and fixing known issues in the documentation and Spot website. 
  This will greatly benefit new users and reduce confusion when standing up 
  the Spot different modules.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  Several projects have been proposed, discussed, and completed during the 
  past quarter. We're also working to close the remaining open PRs as soon 
  once the community finishes its review. Additionally there were some 
  Podling Website check failures in the Whimsy report that we began to look 
  into and resolve. These should be mostly resolved by the next Podling 
  report update.

  We've also begun discussions on the second version of the Open Data Model 
  (ODM v2). There were several problems seen in the implementation with ODM 
  v1 that need to be resolved before substantial adoption of Apache Spot 
  can take place. Its our goal to come to a decision on the design of ODM
  v2 this next quarter. Once a data model redesign is agreed upon this will
  serve as a catalyst to modernizing other Spot modules so everything is
  properly integrated.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  - 2017-09-08

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  - 2019-09-02 - Mark Schoeni

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes our mentors have been helpful. We will be engaging them more soon for 
  guidance on on-boarding new committers, as well as a few other items 
  related to the Whimsy and Clutch reports and also updating the Apache 
  Spot Podling website as this is missing a number of updates.

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

  Yes

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G  
     Comments: There is some improvement on mailing lists recently. 
               IMO, Still needs improvement in community development.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Superset

Apache Superset (incubating) is a modern, enterprise-ready business 
intelligence web application.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  - Keep producing a steady stream of approved Apache releases 
  - Produce a project charter
  - Seek a positive recommendation from the IPMC 

### 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?
  - Suitable name search was 
  [approved](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-173) 
  by Apache legal!
  - The first Superset Meetup took place, hosted by Preset, on 2020-02-11, 
  with talks by Maxime Beauchemin, Beto Dealmeida, and Evan Rusackas
  - Organic growth of our Github Contributors: -- Stars (27,034 → 27,885) 
  -- Forks (5,400 → 5636) -- Watchers (1245 → 1,241)
  - Added 225 commits (Dec 1, 2019 to Feb 24, 2020)
  - Grew Superset slack users to (1,023→ 1,309)

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  - Release 0.35.1
  - Release 0.35.2

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  - 2020-01-06

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  - 2020-02-24 - Evan Rusackas
  - 2020-01-30 - Ville Brofeldt
  - 2019-12-06 - Craig Rueda

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Alan Gates and Jakob Homan approved the prior Podling report

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  No answer

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (superset) Alan Gates  
  Comments:
  - [X] (superset) Jakob Homan  
  Comments:
  - [ ] (superset) Ashutosh Chauhan  
  Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## TubeMQ

TubeMQ is a distributed messaging queue (MQ) system.

TubeMQ has been incubating since 2019-11-03.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.Launch the first Apache release.
  2.Make development document more easily to read.
  3.Grow the community to involve more contributors and increase the 
  diversity.

### 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?
  At this stage, no community activities were initiated, but we internally 
  initiated 
  a vote for the project committer and selected the first committer of the 
  project. 
  I believe this will promote the subsequent development of the project 
  community. 

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  The project is nearing completion of the migration to the Apache 
  incubator: 
  at this stage, we have completed the change of the project's package 
  name, the standardization of file's LICENSE, and the launch of the project
  home page but the documentation and project home page content relatively
  lacking, this part needs to be improved in the next stage.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  None

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  2020-02-20

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Yes.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (tubemq) Junping Du  
     Comments:  I saw there are new committers get voted, good move!
  - [X] (tubemq) Justin Mclean  
     Comments: Showing better progress than before.
  - [ ] (tubemq) Sijie Guo  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tubemq) Zhijie Shen  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (tubemq) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:  Podling is still in bootstrap phase but moving forward.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## YuniKorn

Apache YuniKorn (incubating) is a standalone resource scheduler responsible
for scheduling batch jobs and long-running services on large scale
distributed systems running in on-premises environments as well as
different public clouds.

Yunikorn has been incubating since: 2020-01-21

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  - Gain more contributors and active committers.
  - Launch the first Apache release.
  - Improve documentation and provide a roadmap.

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

  - No critical issues at this point in time

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  This is the first report for YuniKorn. Migration and setup is not fully
  finialised.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  - source code repository moved to apache
  - JIRA setup and configured
  - community design for a new feature started

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [X] 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?

  No new committers or PPMC members have been added since starting
  incubation.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, helped setup project page (Holden) and questions (Junping)

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

  No issues that we are aware of

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (yunikorn) Junping Du  
     Comments:
  - [x] (yunikorn) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:
  - [X] (yunikorn) Jason Lowe  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (yunikorn) Holden Karau  
     Comments:

  Comments: Some projects choose to prepare a new release soon after becoming 
  Apache incubator project. See if YuniKorn would like to follow.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: