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Timeline

Wed September 06	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun September 10	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun September 10	Summary due by end of day
Tue September 12	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed September 13	Report submitted to Board
Wed September 20	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Dave Fisher	Baremaps
Drew Farris	KIE
Justin Mclean	Liminal
P. Taylor Goetz	Uniffle
PJ Fanning	Nemo
Timothy Chen	Wayang

Incubator PMC report for September 2023

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

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The board has motions for the following:

Your podling here?

Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of August:

Baremaps

Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for creating, publishing, and operating online maps.

Baremaps has been incubating since 2022-10-10.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Getting the code and documentation website in compliance with Apache standards
Growing the community
Making releases

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 have had several new commiters join the project. We are also getting some new activity from people asking questions and creating issues.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We addressed most of the podling website requirements and updated the content and layout of the website
We...

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.

Yes, the mentors' advice has been very helpful especially to comply to Apache licensing issues and guidelines

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?

Yes

Signed-off-by:

(baremaps) Bertrand Delacretaz
Comments:
(baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
Comments:
(baremaps) Julian Hyde
Comments:
(baremaps) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
(baremaps) George Percivall
Comments:
(baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
Comments:

KIE

KIE (Knowledge is Everything) is a community of solutions and supporting tooling for knowledge engineering and process automation, focusing on events, rules, and workflows.

KIE has been incubating since 2023-01-13.

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:

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:

(kie) Brian Proffitt
Comments:
(kie) Claus Ibsen
Comments:
(kie) Andrea Cosentino
Comments:

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:

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: I think it's a good time to discuss about the concrete state of the podling and roadmap.
(liminal) Henry Saputra
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(liminal) Uma Maheswara Rao G
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(liminal) Davor Bonaci
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(liminal) Liang Chen
Comments:

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:

Motivate growth in the community
Address remaining items before graduation

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 published a paper, Sponge, at ATC 2023 conference (https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc23/presentation/song) and promoted Nemo in the publication in order to grow our community and work on further potential projects based on Nemo.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We have published a paper on supporting features regarding offloading bottleneck tasks to serverless frameworks with Nemo in ATC 2023.
Introducing Nemo to researchers that were interested in the publication through the academic conference.
Discussions for community growth.

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?

September 28, 2021

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.

The mentors have been helpful.

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 PPMC manages the podling's brand / trademarks.

Signed-off-by:

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

Uniffle

Uniffle is an unified Remote Shuffle Service

Uniffle has been incubating since 2022-06-06.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Promote the project and grow the user and dev community.

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?

More companies choose Uniffle and join the community such as Beike, Huolala, etc. More important features were developed by more companies.
We have a regular meeting once every two weeks now. We discuss the important issues and send discussion results to the dev mail list.
We post a new blog in our website and repost the blog in the Linedin, Reddit.
11 new contributors.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We released 0.7.1We're trying to release 0.8.0 version.

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?

Xianming Lei, elected as the committer on 2023-08-19 Junfan Zhang, elected as the PPMC on 2023-0625

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, they're helpful in guiding the podding project.

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

Yes.

Signed-off-by:

(uniffle) Felix Cheung
Comments:
(uniffle) Junping Du
Comments:
(uniffle) Liu Xun
Comments:
(uniffle) Weiwei Yang
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(uniffle) Zhankun Tang
Comments:

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:

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:

(wayang) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
(wayang) Lars George
Comments:
(wayang) Bernd Fondermann
Comments:
(wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
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