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Timeline

Wed November 03	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun November 07	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun November 07	Summary due by end of day
Tue November 09	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed November 10	Report submitted to Board
Wed November 17	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Dave Fisher	Doris
Dave Fisher	Toree
Drew Farris	EventMesh
Drew Farris	Tuweni
Justin Mclean	PageSpeed
P. Taylor Goetz	Linkis
P. Taylor Goetz	Sedona
P. Taylor Goetz	Training
Timothy Chen	Heron
Timothy Chen	Kyuubi
Timothy Chen	Spot
	DataLab
	Livy
	MXNet
	NLPCraft
	SDAP

Incubator PMC report for November 2021

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 November:

DataLab

DataLab is a platform for creating self-service, exploratory data science environments in the cloud using best-of-breed data science tools.

DataLab has been incubating since 2018-08-20.

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:

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:

(datalab) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments:
(datalab) Henry Saputra
Comments:
(datalab) Konstantin I Boudnik
Comments:
(datalab) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:

Doris

Doris is a MPP-based interactive SQL data warehousing for reporting and analysis.

Doris has been incubating since 2018-07-18.

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:

(doris) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
(doris) Shao Feng Shi
Comments:
(doris) Ming Wen
Comments:

EventMesh

EventMesh is a dynamic cloud-native basic service runtime used to decouple the application and middleware layer.

EventMesh has been incubating since 2021-02-18.

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:

(eventmesh) Francois Papon
Comments:
(eventmesh) Junping Du
Comments:
(eventmesh) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
(eventmesh) Justin Mclean
Comments:
(eventmesh) Von Gosling
Comments:

Heron

A real-time, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine.

Heron has been incubating since 2017-06-23.

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:

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:

(heron) Jake Farrell
Comments:
(heron) Julien Le Dem
Comments:
(heron) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments:
(heron) Dave Fisher
Comments:
(heron) Ming Wen
Comments:
(heron) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:

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:

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:

(kyuubi) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
(kyuubi) Jeff Zhang
Comments:
(kyuubi) Duo Zhang
Comments:
(kyuubi) Akira Ajisaka
Comments:

Apache Linkis is a computation middleware project, which decouples the upper applications and the underlying data engines, provides standardized interfaces (REST, JDBC, WebSocket etc.) to easily connect to various underlying engines (Spark, Presto, Flink, etc.).

Linkis has been incubating since 2021-08-02.

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:

(linkis) Duo Zhang
Comments:
(linkis) Lidong Dai
Comments:
(linkis) Shaofeng Shi
Comments:
(linkis) Saisai Shao
Comments:
(linkis) Junping Du
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:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

MXNet

A Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep Learning

MXNet has been incubating since 2017-01-23.

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:

(mxnet) Markus Weimer
Comments:
(mxnet) Bob Paulin
Comments:
(mxnet) Jason Dai
Comments:
(mxnet) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
(mxnet) Zhenxu Ke
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

NLPCraft

A Java API for NLU applications

NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.

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:

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

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

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:

(pagespeed) Jukka Zitting
Comments:
(pagespeed) Leif Hedstrom
Comments:
(pagespeed) Nick Kew
Comments:

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:

Sedona

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

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:

(sedona) Felix Cheung
Comments:
(sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
(sedona) George Percivall
Comments:
(sedona) Von Gosling
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:

Toree

Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely access Apache Spark.

Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

(toree) Luciano Resende
Comments:
(toree) Julien Le Dem
Comments:
(toree) Ryan Blue
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Training

The Training project aims to develop resources which can be used for training purposes in various media formats, languages and for various Apache and non-Apache target projects.

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

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

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

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