Incubator PMC report for June 2022  

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. There are presently 37 podlings incubating. podlings executed 3 distinct releases. We added one new IPMC members.

Mxnet start a graduation discussion, but some trademark issues have not been well resolved. Inlong is graduating next month, A new proposal Uniffle is under voting.

Nuttx is having trouble getting its mentors or IPMC members to vote on its releases.

Crail started retirement vote on dev@crail, likewise, some podling may need to consider retiring.

Some podings need to be guided in the add new Committer & PPMC process.

This month we were missing reports from Hivemall, Livy, Nemo, SDAP, and Spot. Marvin-AI and PonyMail do not have signoff by mentors and will also be asked to report next month.

Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases, new project proposals, graduations, and finding new mentors.  

TODO add narrative

Community

New IPMC members:

• Zhankun Tang

People who left the IPMC:

• None

New Podlings

• Devlake

Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

• Hivemall
• Nemo
• SDAP
• Spot
• PonyMail
• MarvinAI

Graduations

• list podling here

The board has motions for the following:

• Your podling here?

Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of May:

• Apache Linkis 1.1.1 - 2022-05.25
• Apache Flagon-UserALE.js 2.3.0 - 2022-05-26
• Apache MXNet 1.9.1 - 2022-05-28  

IP Clearance

N/A

Legal / Trademarks

N/A

Infrastructure

N/A

Miscellaneous

Credits

Table of Contents

brpc
Crail
Hivemall
Kvrocks
Kyuubi
Livy
Marvin-AI
Nemo
Pegasus
PonyMail
SDAP
Spot
StreamPipes
Wayang
DevLake

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:

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:

•  (brpc) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
  Comments:
•  (brpc) Von Gosling
  Comments:
•  (brpc) Juan Pan
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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. More frequent code contributions
2. A steady release process
3. Growing the ecosystem: more committers, more use cases

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

Very low project activity. Started discussion on Crail podling retirement on dev mailing list.

How has the community developed since the last report?

No new committer or known new use cases.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We are aware of a proprietary elasticity extension of Crail. We do not expect anymore the creator of that code might contribute it to the project. No other development since last 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:

2021-05-03

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2021-05-16

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Our mentors are helpful and always responsive.

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

Yes.

Signed-off-by:

•  (crail) Julian Hyde
  Comments: Started retirement vote on dev@crail
•  (crail) Luciano Resende
  Comments:
•  (crail) Felix Cheung
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Hivemall

Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.

Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

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:

•  (hivemall) Daniel Dai
  Comments:
•  (hivemall) Koji Sekiguchi
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Kvrocks

Kvrocks is a distributed key-value NoSQL database, supporting the rich data structure

Kvrocks has been incubating since 2022-04-23.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Prepare first Kvrocks release at Apache
2. Prepare Apache Kvrocks website
3. Promote the project and grow user and dev 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?

We are preparing the Kvrocks website and blog posts to promote Kvrocks and grow the user and dev communities. Also, we have submitted a topic of ApacheCon Asia and ITPub to let more guys know Kvrocks community.

How has the project developed since the last report?

1. Most of the resources are ready, including GitHub/mailing list, etc.
2. SGA and the ICLA of all initial committers are submitted.
3. Built the first version of the Kvrocks website: https://kvrocks.apache.org, but many improvements are to be made.
4. Working towards Kvrocks first Apache 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

Not yet available

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2022-04-23

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, mentors help to solve most of issues when setuping the podling project, also helps a lot on how to maintain issues and PRs.

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

No 3rd parties used the podling and brand. Will move forward to send the project name audit request.

Signed-off-by:

•  (kvrocks) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
  Comments: Good bootstrap for this podling. Team is committed and eager to move forward.
•  (kvrocks) Xiaoqiao He
  Comments:
•  (kvrocks) tison
  Comments:
•  (kvrocks) Von Gosling
  Comments:
•  (kvrocks) Liang Chen
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Kyuubi

Kyuubi is a distributed multi-tenant Thrift JDBC/ODBC server for large-scale data management, processing, and analytics, built on top of Apache Spark and designed to support more engines.

Kyuubi has been incubating since 2021-06-21.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Gain more active contributors/committers to build a diverse community
2. Make Apache releases regularly and keep the quality for all releases
3. Improve project structure and documentation

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 committers: Zhen Wang
• 1 new contributor join code contribution. There are currently 75 contributors, 14 committers, and 9 PPMC members.
• Chinese version website is now available on [1] contributed by zhenjiaguo

How has the project developed since the last report?

• Improvement Proposal Approved: [KPIP-5] Introduce Kyuubi Web UI
• Improvement Proposal Approved: [KPIP-4] Support to submit batch job

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:

• 2022-04-21

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

• 2022-05-24 Zhen Wang

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

• Mentors are helpful and always responsive.

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

Yes

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

Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? （yes）If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? （yes）

Signed-off-by:

•  (kyuubi) Willem Ning Jiang
  Comments: It's good to see there was a new committer elected.
•  (kyuubi) Jeff Zhang
  Comments:
•  (kyuubi) Duo Zhang
  Comments:
•  (kyuubi) Akira Ajisaka
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

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:

•  (livy) Bikas Saha
  Comments:
•  (livy) Luciano Resende
  Comments:
•  (livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
  Comments: AFAIR, there was a vote to retire Livy ?

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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. Release a new architecture.
3. Documentation and new community roadmap.

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 now have 3 new interns that are actively contributing with the new design document, and will continue to contribute in coding tasks.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We are preparing for a new release of the features added before the architecture change. The main work was in the design document that has ideas to modernize Apache Marvin-AI's architecture.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

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

Date of last release:

2019-07-18

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2021-09-17 - Lucas Cardoso Silva was approved as a committer.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes.

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

Yes.  

Signed-off-by:

•  (marvin-ai) Luciano Resende
  Comments:
•  (marvin-ai) William Colen
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

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:

•  (nemo) Hyunsik Choi
  Comments:
•  (nemo) Byung-Gon Chun
  Comments:
•  (nemo) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
  Comments:
•  (nemo) Markus Weimer
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Pegasus

Pegasus is a distributed key-value storage system which is designed to be simple, horizontally scalable, strongly consistent and high-performance.

Pegasus has been incubating since 2020-06-28.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Grow the community (attracting more committers, contributors, users).
2. Make more releases in ASF policy regularly.
3. Resolve the license problems.

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?

• Attracted more active contributors.
• Sub-projects such as different language implemented client libraries which are in other organization repositories have been merge to apache/incubator-pegasus on GitHub

How has the project developed since the last report?

We’re planning to merge Pegasus underlying library (XiaoMi/rDSN) to the main repository, and we have listed the license problems we have to fix, and now it discussing on maillist.

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:

2021-11-26

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2021-7-7, Yanzhao Tang (Smityz), Committer

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, our mentors gave us a lot of help, including IP clearance, version release, project website building, and etc. There is an open issue to be addressed:

• https://lists.apache.org/thread/x50vst4lt2bh2p0no064j9yf24tjvd4n

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

No issues that we are aware of.

Signed-off-by:

•  (pegasus) Duo zhang
  Comments:
•  (pegasus) Liang Chen
  Comments:
•  (pegasus) Von Gosling
  Comments:
•  (pegasus) Liu Xun
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

PonyMail

Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms.

Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Growing the 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?

No material development has occurred. Pony Mail has a stable group of contributors and are dealing with any important issues as they arise.

How has the project developed since the last report?

No noteworthy change.

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:

2019-04-20

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Sean Palmer was elected committer on 2021-02-04

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: With the departure of Sharan, the podling needs extra hands to help out.

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

SDAP

SDAP is an integrated data analytic center for Big Science problems.

SDAP has been incubating since 2017-10-22.

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:

•  (sdap) Jörn Rottmann
  Comments:
•  (sdap) Trevor Grant
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

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:

•  (spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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. Complete maturity assessment
2. Prepare graduation process

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?

Several active discussions on the mailing list

Several users have asked for help on the user mailing list, further they provide new contributions to the project

Number of Twitter followers has increased (last report: 208, current: 226)

Number of Github stars increased (last report: 307, current: 315)

How has the project developed since the last report?

The focus is on improvements and bug fixes. We plan to have a first stable release 1.0 within the next months.

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:    

2022-03-21

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2022-03-16 (Stefan Obermeier)

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, our mentors are helpful.

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

Yes, project name is approved and the brand is actively managed.

 ### Signed-off-by:

•  (streampipes) Christofer Dutz
  Comments:
•  (streampipes) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
  Comments: I think streampipes is not so far from graduation.
•  (streampipes) Julian Feinauer
  Comments:
•  (streampipes) Justin Mclean
  Comments:
•  (streampipes) Kenneth Knowles
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Wayang

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Simplifying and documenting the release process
2. Had a significant growth (stars/forks at GitHub), but we want to gain

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

When establishing whether "Apache Wayang" was a proper name, it was rejected because the 'wayang' word was wrong translated by Google Translator as 'puppet' but instead of that means 'Imagination' or 'shadow'. Because of the confusion and to avoid future problems, the process is under "ASF's trademark counsel". The process started in January, and until these days, the community did not get any status updates.

How has the community developed since the last report?

The community growth is significant (according to Github); during the last month, the main repository had been cloned at least one time per day from a unique IP, and two persons outside of the committer registered had been contributing to the code.

In addition to that, the community is presenting some projects for GSOC and OSPP.

How has the project developed since the last report?

The community is stabilizing the code for the new release, which will include python API to create more options for users to join and use Apache Wayang(Incubating)

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:

December 13, 2021

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2022-01-18 : Calvin Kirs

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, the mentors are very responsive and helpful, nevertheless, two of them have prolonged inactivity

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?

The name is under the process of "ASF's trademark counsel."

Signed-off-by:

•  (wayang) Christofer Dutz
  Comments: That there's been no update on the Podling Namesearch ist not good, I'll try and help find out the current status.
•  (wayang) Lars George
  Comments:
•  (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
  Comments:
•  (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
  Comments: Very active and interesting podling. I think the podling is close to graduation. The effort is around expanding the community. I will help there.

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

DevLake  

DevLake is an open-source dev data platform that ingests, analyzes, and visualizes the fragmented data from DevOps tools to distill insights for engineering productivity. DevLake has been incubating since 2022-04-29

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Learn the ASF release process and make the first ASF release
2. Grow the community, add committers and PPMC members
3. Grow the ecosystem, support more data sources and use cases

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?

This is our first report. Since entering the incubator:

1. 9 new contributors have joined the community (35 in total)
2. The first committer proposal is going through the voting process
3. Hosted three community meetups on Zoom
4. Signed up for the Open Source Promotion Plan with two summer projects for students

How has the project developed since the last report?

1. This is our first report. Since entering the incubator:
2. Signed SGA and ICLAs
3. Built official website: devlake.apache.org
4. Migrated two repos to apache org on GitHub and set up their CI
5. Made official announcement in DevLake's blog
6. Functionality wise, we added a data source (TAPD) and support for PostgreSQL.
7. Now working towards DevLake's first Apache 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:

Not applicable. DevLake is working towards making its first Apache release.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

The first committer proposal is going through the voting process on private@devlake.apache.org.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, our mentors are very helpful and responsive.

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

Merico is processing the registration of the DevLake trademark in China. We'll make sure that the trademark is transferred to ASF before graduation.

Signed-off-by:

•  (devlake) Willem Ning Jiang
  Comments: Finished the podling setup and had a onboard training.
•  (devlake) Felix Cheung Comments:
•  (devlake) Liang Zhang   Comments:
•  (devlake) Lidong Dai   Comments:
•  (devlake) Sijie Guo Comments:
•  (devlake) Jean-Baptiste Onofré   Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes: