Incubator PMC report for August 2023

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

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Community

New IPMC members:

People who left the IPMC:

New Podlings

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:

IP Clearance

Legal / Trademarks

Infrastructure

Miscellaneous

Credits

Table of Contents

Annotator
Celeborn
DevLake
Liminal
NLPCraft
OpenDAL
Paimon
PonyMail
SDAP
StreamPark
Toree
Training

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:

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:

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

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Celeborn

Celeborn is an intermediate data service for big data computing engines to boost performance, stability, and flexibility.

Celeborn has been incubating since 2022-10-18.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Grow the community
2. Release more versions

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. One new PPMC joined the community.
2. One new committer is proposed and under voting.

How has the project developed since the last report?

1. One new release was published.
2. Important features like supporting Flink, graceful upgrade are GA.

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:

2023-07-27, 0.3.0-incubating was released.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2023-07-01, Jiashu Xiong was elected as our new PPMC member.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive

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

 The VP, Brand has approved the project name.

Signed-off-by:

•  (celeborn) Becket Qin
  Comments:
•  (celeborn) Lidong Dai
  Comments:
•  (celeborn) Willem Ning Jiang
  Comments:
•  (celeborn) Duo Zhang
  Comments:
•  (celeborn) Yu Li
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

DevLake

DevLake is a development data platform, providing the data infrastructure for developer teams to analyze and improve their engineering productivity.

DevLake has been incubating since 2022-04-29.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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:

•  (devlake) Felix Cheung
  Comments:
•  (devlake) Liang Zhang
  Comments:
•  (devlake) Lidong Dai
  Comments:
•  (devlake) Sijie Guo
  Comments:
•  (devlake) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
  Comments:
•  (devlake) Willem Ning Jiang
  Comments:

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:
•  (liminal) Henry Saputra
  Comments:
•  (liminal) Uma Maheswara Rao G
  Comments:
•  (liminal) Davor Bonaci
  Comments:
•  (liminal) Liang Chen
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

NLPCraft

A Scala API for NLU applications

NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Community growth.

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

None.

How has the community developed since the last report?

We have communicated with developers which have interest to contribute to the project, especially python developers and ML engineers.

How has the project developed since the last report?

• Research related to usage in the project last AI technologies.
• Research related to usage python API to be connected with last AI libraries.
• Site updated, dependencies updated etc .

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

2023-02-30

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

August of 2021.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

No issues with mentors to report.

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

No issues with mentors to report.

Signed-off-by:

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

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

OpenDAL

Open Data Access Layer: Access data freely, painlessly, and efficiently.

OpenDAL has been incubating since 2023-02-27.

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:

•  (opendal) tison
  Comments:
•  (opendal) Willem Ning Jiang
  Comments:
•  (opendal) Sheng Wu
  Comments:
•  (opendal) Ted Liu
  Comments:
•  (opendal) Xiaoqiao He
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Paimon

Paimon is a unified lake storage to build dynamic tables for both stream and batch processing with big data compute engines, supporting high-speed data ingestion and real-time data query.

Paimon has been incubating since 2023-03-12.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1.Paimon Website: release note page, power by page. 2.Release 0.5-incubating. 3.More publicity for the English community

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?

• Paimon Website: add community page, security page.

How has the project developed since the last report?

• Prepare release 0.5-incubating
• Introduce Tag creation on snapshots
• Paimon Metrics integration to Flink
• Spark integration to write to Paimon with schema evolution.

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:

2023-06-07

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2023-08-01 Chong Zhuang was added as a new committer

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

• Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive.

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

• The VP, Brand has approved the project name.

Signed-off-by:

•  (paimon) Becket Qin
  Comments:
•  (paimon) Robert Metzger
  Comments:
•  (paimon) Stephan Ewen
  Comments:
•  (paimon) Yu Li
  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:

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:

SDAP

SDAP is an integrated data analytics center for Big Earth Science problems.

SDAP has been incubating since 2017-10-22.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Make a third release with new release manager
2. Continue dev discussion thread on graduating

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?

Discussion and development is active.

Started discussion thread on graduating and working towards third release.

How has the project developed since the last report?

1 issue closed, 13 issues new/updated, 8 PRs merged.

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:

2023-05-16 (Version 1.1.0)

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Jason Kang was added as a committer on 2023-05-22

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes. Our mentor, Julian Hyde, continues to provide guidance in SDAP releases and graduation.

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

PPMC is not aware of any issues.

Signed-off-by:

•  (sdap) Julian Hyde
  Comments:
•  (sdap) Jörn Rottmann
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

StreamPark

StreamPark is a streaming application development platform.

StreamPark has been incubating since 2022-09-01.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Grow the community
2. Release more versions
3. Develop more contributors  

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

None

How has the community developed since the last report?

1. Tow new PPMC member join the community
2. Tow new committer join the community
3. Four new contributors join the community, total contributors 104

How has the project developed since the last report?

1. New version 2.1.1 released
2. Many bug fixed and Many new features in progress like supporting catalog

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:

2023-06-30, 2.1.1-incubating was released.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2023-06-26, Zhou li and Yuepeng Pan was elected as our new committer.

2023-06-27, Muchunjin and Sizhu Wang was elected as our new PPMC member.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive

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

Yes, The VP, Brand has approved the project name.  

Signed-off-by:

•  (streampark) tison
  Comments:
•  (streampark) Willem Ning Jiang
  Comments:
•  (streampark) Stephan Ewen
  Comments:
•  (streampark) Thomas Weise
  Comments:
•  (streampark) Duo Zhang
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

-------------------- ## Toree

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

Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1.Increase active contributors

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

None

How has the community developed since the last report?

The community is working on wrapping up support for recent versions of Apache Spark that has moved to use Scala 2.13.

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

There is also a discussion started around retirement process, and discussion is happening on the dev list.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We need to wrap up the new Toree release supporting Spark with Scala 2.13

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

2022-04-11

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Kevin Bates was added to the PPMC on 2019-08-14

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

None

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

No Trademark issues

Signed-off-by:

•  (toree) Luciano Resende
  Comments: With my contributor hat, I am planning to try to move Toree trough graduation on the next couple months
•  (toree) Weiwei Yang
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Training

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

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

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

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

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

Signed-off-by:

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

IPMC/Shepherd notes: