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# Incubator PMC report for June 2020

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 43 podlings incubating. In May, podlings executed nine 
distinct releases. We added one new IPMC members and three retired.

There was one IP clearance in May. There are still two new podlings under 
discussion or VOTE, and they are HBlock and Pegasus. Two projects, Hudi and 
Iceberg, graduated last month. 

At least one podling is heading towards graduation in this or the next 
board report, the next one to graduate is likely to be APISIX. This month 
we were missing reports from Liminal, Spot, Hivemall and Warble. Liminal and 
Spot asked to report next month. Hivemall and Warble didn't report and will 
be asked to report next month.

It was found that the MXNet podling's releases and download page were not 
in line with ASF release and distribution policy. The project had been 
distributing releases with Category X code and distributing unreleased 
code. There has been a lengthy discussion both on legal-dicusss and the 
incubator general list on this. The project has taken some small steps to 
correct the issues but seems to be hesitant to do so and currently. These 
issues are still publically unresolved. The Incubator PMC may need to take 
further action on this.

A couple of established podlings seem to be having trouble following the 
correct process for adding PPMC members. It's not clear why this is the 
case as the process is well documented and simple.

Huddi graduated, but there was a small issue with its proposed PMC list 
that was corrected. Iceberg also graduated, there was some discussion about 
some issues with its license and notice files in its releases.

A couple of mentors have been added and removed from projects. Most on list 
traffic was around releases and graduations.

Two podlings SDAP and Spot still need to sort out their roster and private 
mailing list subscriptions.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - Wangda Tan

### People who left the IPMC:
  - Alan Gates
  - Joe Witt
  - Jakob Homan

## New Podlings
  - BlueMarlin

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

## Graduations
  - Iceberg
  - Hudi

  The board has motions for the following:

  - None

## Releases
  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  May:
  - APISIX 1.3
  - DLab 2.3.0
  - DataSketches 1.3.0
  - ECharts 4.8.0
  - Iceberg 0.8.0
  - IoTDB 0.9.3
  - Nuttx 9.0.0
  - StreamPipes 0.66.0
  - Yunikorn 0.8.0

## IP Clearance
  - ShardingSphere ElasticJob


## Legal / Trademarks
  Discussion on releases containing Category X code.

## Infrastructure
  None.

## Miscellaneous
  None.


## Table of Contents  
[AGE](#age)  
[brpc](#brpc)  
[Crail](#crail)  
[Daffodil](#daffodil)  
[Dolphin Scheduler](#dolphinscheduler)  
[IoTDB](#iotdb)  
[Marvin-AI](#marvin-ai)  
[Nemo](#nemo)  
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)  
[Pinot](#pinot)  
[S2Graph](#s2graph)  
[SAMOA](#samoa)  
[SDAP](#sdap)   
[StreamPipes](#streampipes)  
[Superset](#superset)   

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## AGE

AGE is a multi-model database that enables graph and relational models 
built on PostgreSQL. 
This project is a new generation of a multi-model graph database for the 
modern complex data environment.

AGE has been incubating since 2020-04-29.

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

  1. Complete infrastructure Setup for Podling.
  2. Make official AGE (Incubating) Release.
  3. Build Community around the AGE project.

### 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?
  This is our first report after AGE project is accepted for Apache 
  Incubator.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  This is our first report after AGE project is accepted for Apache 
  Incubator.

### 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:
  We are currently working towards our first Apache based release.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  We are currently working infrastructure setup for migrate repo to Apache.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes, always responsive and helpful.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  VP, Brand has approved the project name on PODLINGNAMESEARCH-181.
  PPMC is not managing the podling's brand / trademarks yet.

### Signed-off-by:
  - [X] (age) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (age) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (age) Raphael Bircher  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (age) Felix Cheung  
     Comments: Welcome and looking forward to it! 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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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 releases 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 organized a meeting to listen to Apache ShardingSphere's chair 
  -zhangliang,
  he shared his experience on how to develop his project's community and 
  how to
  graduate. we learned a lot.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  we discussed about the release schedule of brpc, maybe a quarter per 
  release will be ok for now.
  And new PPMC member helei will participate into the work of release.

### 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:

  2020-01-16

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

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Kevin reminded us for our incubator report, thanks for his reminder.

### 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:  No comments just keep trucking.
  - [X] (brpc) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (brpc) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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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. Grow developers community
  2. Grow Crail use base
  3. More steady release cycle

### 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 see increasing traffic on the dev mailing list from
  Crail users. A recent proposal from Adrian to add elastic
  scaling got positive feedback from other committers.

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

  Crail went through a phase of limited visible activities on
  the code base. It is critical the Crail developers
  community resumes to be more active to keep the project
  making decent progress. Using Crail as an ephemeral data
  store for serverless computing emerges as a very suitable
  use case. Pushing this forward, aiming at inclusion
  in a next release is of common interest among the
  committers.

### 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 have been supportive and responsive.

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (crail) Julian Hyde  
     Comments:  The up-tick in dev activity is encouraging.
  - [X] (crail) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (crail) Felix Cheung  
     Comments: This seems like a good plan to get more interests and grow 
     the community.

### 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 Owl (formerly
     Tresys) (main priority)
  2. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provide extra
     functionality
  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?

  - Pull requests merged from three first-time non-Owl contributors
  - Continued involvement in the mailing lists
      - dev: 78 postings, 5 new subscribers
      - users: 96 postings, 4 new subscribers
  - Owl is actively encouraging other companies with known Daffodil
  interests to make contributions and increase involvement.
  - Nteligen has two student summer interns starting Daffodil-related
  projects next week. Anticipating initial on-list activity to begin
  soon
  - Daffodil has been integrated into Smooks (https://www.smooks.org) by
  outside developers

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

  - Released Daffodil 2.6.0
  - 56 commits merged from 7 different contributors
  - Changes include thread-safe API improvements, cleanups based on
  SonarCloud scans, improved validation of of input XML,
    newVariableInstance feature, and many important misc bug fixes
  - 59 issues created, 61 issues resolved
  - Initial discussions and planning/ramping up on the proposed
  code-generation runtime.
  - New proposals and plans in place to improve Daffodil streaming
    capabilities and memory requirement reduction--main focus for the
    next release

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2020-04-24

### 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: A new PPMC member is being added which increases the
     diversity of the podling.
  - [X] (daffodil) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments: Would love to see some more content on the mailing
     list that would implicate what some people are currently working
     on. From an outside view it is sometimes difficult where movement
     is currently happening.

### 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. Polish the document and let user more easily to find their questions.
  3. Guide community discuss more complicated topic via e-mail instead of
  other channel.

### 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. 5 committers was voted.
  2. Github code contributors grew from 77 to 86.
  3. Organized 1 on-line communication about Apache Dolphin Scheduler 1.3,
  about 700 people watch the program and a few of them asked questions.

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

  1. Support DATAx,sqoop tranfomation and Apache Ambari plug-in 
  installation.
  2. Support condition module on etl process.
  3. Support K8s deployment.

### 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?

  2020-5-28

### 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:
  - [X] (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:

  - More active PPMC/Committers to join votes in the mailing list;
  - Get more user feedback;
  - More technical communications are welcomed to attract more committers 
  joining the project deeply.

### 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. Suggested by Mentor Christofer, we moved the JIRA notifications to a 
  new mailing list notifications@.
  After that, there are 609 emails sent by 80 people, divided into 254 
  topics in these 3 months.

  2. 4 new committers are elected (Dawei Liu, Wangminhao Gou, Yuyuan Kang, 
  and XinWang), who come from 3 different companies/organizations.

  3. A new PPMC is elected (Jincheng Sun).

  4. Many new contributors joining us. For example, Giorgio Zoppi is 
  working for TsFIle/IoTDB C++, Robinet integrated IoTDB with Apache Karaf,
  Xin Wang and Jincheng integrated IoTDB with Flink etc..

  5. The website is refactored.
  - Now Google Search Engine can index it.
  - The website provides a detailed User Guide and some System Designs both 
  in English and Chinese.
  - Meetup and other talk materials (slides and videos) are shared on the 
  website.
  - More documents to let users joining us （like Code of Conduct, How to 
  be a committer, how to release, how to vote new committers, etc..) are
  provided on the website or the wiki.

  6. Dave Fisher shepherded us and pointed out some issues, and all of them 
  are fixed.

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

  - Two versions (v0.9.2 and v0.9.3) are released. They are done by two new 
  Release Managers from the community.

  - The project keeps active, there are 553 commits submitted by 43 authors 
  in these 3 months. (using the gitstats tool to get the result: `gitstats 
  -c
  start_date=2020-03-01 REPO_NAME OUTPUT`)

  - IoTDB is integrated with Apache Karaf and Apache Flink.

  - IoTDB supports MQTT protocol.

  - IoTDB's cluster module is almost done. A PR is submitted.

### 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:

  2020-04-13

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

  2020-05-18 for the last committer, 2020-05-14 for the last PPMC.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, helpful and responsive.

### 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: Thanks for the detailed report. Some of the stats in the
     report don't mean much to people outside you project. If you do
     include please explain why or what they illustrate.
  - [X] (iotdb) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments: I am also happy with the progress the project is making.
  - [ ] (iotdb) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (iotdb) Kevin A. McGrail  
     Comments: +1000 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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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. Finish the new version of Toolbox.
  3. Update old examples

### 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 expanded "Marvin-lab" at the university and several postgraduate
  students in the artificial intelligence field are using marvin as their 
  research tool.

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

  1. Minor bug fix
  2. Refactoring the toolbox to allow the architecture change (Marvin 
  Daemon).
  3. Discussions about architectural changes and a plugin system to make 
  the code less bloated.

### 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?
  Yes.

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (marvin-ai) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (marvin-ai) William Colen  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Dave Fisher: There are discussions and it looks like Luciano is providing 
  guidance.
  If there were another mentor involved it might help the podling.

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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?

  - Two GSoC students working on dynamic task sizing
    and automatic caching
  - Committers continuing to improve code quality

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

  - Release 0.2 announced on March 6, 2020
  - Implemented a simulator estimating job completion time
  - Improved task, job metric collection methods
  - Implemented task execution time estimators

### 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:

  2020-03-06

### 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:

  - [X] (nemo) Hyunsik Choi  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nemo) Byung-Gon Chun  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nemo) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nemo) Markus Weimer  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## NLPCraft

A Java API for NLU applications

NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.

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

  1. Stable release process for all sub-projects involved.
  2. 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've got a new committer joined the project:
  - Gleb Ifropc

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  - Working through release process for the Java Client sub-project.
  - In release vote for the NLPCraft 0.6.0 that contains number of
  improvement and new features.
  - Significant updates to the documentation on https://nlpcraft.apache.org

### 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:
  2020-04-29

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  2020-05-24

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Core group of mentors is active and involved.

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (nlpcraft) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nlpcraft) Evans Ye  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nlpcraft) Paul King  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nlpcraft) David Fisher  
     Comments:  A good start with discussions occurring on the dev list.
  - [X] (nlpcraft) Konstantin I Boudnik  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Pinot

Pinot is a distributed columnar storage engine that can ingest data in real-
time and serve analytical queries at low latency.

Pinot has been incubating since 2018-10-17.

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

  1. What's the criteria on the mailing list activity for graduation? We 
  have 350+ users on slack (almost doubled since last report), and have avg
  ~10 threads per month in the mailing list since Feb.
  2.
  3.

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

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  1. The usage of Pinot kept growing. We have 350+ users on slack (almost 
  doubled since last report), and the usage of the mailing list also
  increased.
  2. Voted Haibo Wang as a new committer.
  3. Number of Pinot contributors crossed 100.
  4. Held the first ever Pinot meetup. LinkedIn, Uber and startups shared 
  their stories with 100+ online attendees.
  5. Added Jim Jagielski as new Mentor.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. 200+ commits in the last 3 months.
  2. Lots of new features were added and working towards 1.0 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
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:
  2020-03-25

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  2020-04-10

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  No answer.

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (pinot) Kishore Gopalakrishna  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (pinot) Jim Jagielski  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pinot) Olivier Lamy  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (pinot) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Justin Mclean: 3 of the questions asked were not answered. Please
  answer them next report.

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## S2Graph

S2Graph is a distributed and scalable OLTP graph database built on Apache
HBase to support fast traversal of extremely large graphs.

S2Graph has been incubating since 2015-11-29.

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

  1. Make the third release
  2. Attract more users and contributors
  3. Build the developer community in both size and diversity
  4. Supporting the mordern ecosystem

### 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?

  Not much activities

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

  1. One new contributor joined in community by submitting the 
  PR(S2GRAPH-255)
  2. Create issue to support Scala ecosystem (S2GRAPH-258)
  3. Several bug fixes PR
  - S2GRAPH-257: SafeUpdateCache#withCache method incorrect behavior 
  - S2GRAPH-259: column_metas miss default_value
  - S2GRAPH-253: adding more api docs; rename deleteLabel to 
  deleteLabelReally
  - S2GRAPH-256: Spelling mistakes
  - S2GRAPH-255: Enable incremental processing of s2jobs

### 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:

  2017-08-26

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

  2019-02-05

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentor is very helpful and responsive.

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

  No Answer.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (s2graph) Sergio Fernández  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (s2graph) Woonsan Ko  
     Comments: Thanks to Daewon Jung for drafting report and asking for 
     reviews this time.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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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: 11 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.

### 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:

  2020-04-23

### 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:  Good to see an initial release.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## 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:

  1. Make official SDAP (Incubating) Release
  2. Improve committer participation
  3. Improve/create user guide documentation

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

  Subscription of PPMC members to the @private mailing list should be
  resolved. All PPMC members should now be subscribed to @private. If this 
  is not accurate, please advise.

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

  New committers have been added.

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

  1. Integrated SDAP analytics with Esri ArcGIS front end.
  2. Added new temporal variance (2D map) analytic algorithm.
  3. Further improvements in Kubernetes-based deployment procedures.

### 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?

  Two new committers were elected in April 2020.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Mentors have been helpful.

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

  PPMC is not managing the podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (sdap) Jörn Rottmann  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (sdap) Trevor Grant  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Justin Mclean: Can I ask why the PPMC is not managing the podlings
  brand and trademarks? Also there still 1/3 of of your PPMC members
  not signed up to your private list. Also please include a date of
  your last release in your next report. 

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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. Multiple Apache releases
  2. Grow the developer community
  3. Attract more users

### 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?

  In the past three months, the community developed rather well: New users
  appeared on the mailing lists, and we were able to elect the first
  external committers. The mailing list activity has increased and many 
  discussions on development-related tasks were done on the developer 
  mailing list. Overall, we feel that the community is more and more 
  following the Apache way.

  Some specific community development activities include:
  - We updated the wiki with developer information, getting started guides
    and step-by-step manuals for release management (see
    https://s.apache.org/ocz7t)
  - Updated website to include better overview of existing pipeline elements
  - Intensified work with manufacturing company to use StreamPipes for IIoT
    analytics
  - We published a blog post on how to run StreamPipes on Kubernetes, we now
    plan to publish blog posts at regular intervals
  - Added "communication channels & strategy" page in the wiki and gathered
    potential communication channels in close exchange with our mentors
    planning to intensify community growth
  - Took part in webinar series about open source for small and medium 
    sized companies (video on YouTube, currently only in German)
  - Number of Twitter followers increased (last report: 103, currently: 128)
  - Number of Github stars increased (last report: 109, currently: 144)

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

  - We successfully released our first official Apache release (version
    0.66.0) including several improvements (see release notes
    https://s.apache.org/2grsk), to name the most prominent changes:
    completely new dashboard and notification design in UI, more pipeline 
    elements and improved connectors  
  - Many new pipeline elements have been added by newly elected committers
  - Both documentation and website were improved in order to increase the
    adoption of Apache StreamPipes and grow the user base

  In the next month, we plan to add better support for edge computing and
  improve the UI.

### 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:

  2020-05-19 (Version 0.66.0)

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

  Four new committers were elected and joined the team since the last report
  aiding in contributing/maturing the project.

  - Florian Micklich (2020-03-26)
  - Daniel Ebi (2020-05-12)
  - Felix John (2020-05-12)
  - Grainier Perera (2020-05-22)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors provided very good support in preparing and performing our
  first Apache release. We would like to thank them for very helpful advice,
  also for some licensing questions we had on the list.

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

  Yes, we started to prepare a wiki page to develop a communication
  strategy, which also includes brand management. The next step is to 
  create a new logo that will be voted on by the community. We are 
  constantly monitoring the usage of the Apache StreamPipes name in 
  external websites and posts.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (streampipes) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments: Looking forward to them starting to use the normal 
     incubation disclaimer as they are on a pretty good path with 
     their release. 
  - [X] (streampipes) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (streampipes) Julian Feinauer  
     Comments: I think the project really adopts the Apache Way
     and I am happy to see that more and more Comitters are 
     added to the lineup!
  - [X] (streampipes) Justin Mclean  
     Comments: Congratulations on the new committers.
  - [ ] (streampipes) Kenneth Knowles  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Dave Fisher: Podling looks to be very much on track!

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## Superset

Superset is an enterprise-ready web application for data exploration, data
visualization and dashboarding.

Superset has been incubating since 2017-05-21.

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

  1. Keep producing a steady stream of approved Apache releases
  2. Produce a project charter
  3. 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?

  1. [Superset Virtual Meetup](https://s.apache.org/fv4iv) was a success!
  2. Organic growth of our Github Contributors:
    * Stars (27,885 → 28,870)
    * Forks (5,636 → 5,909)
    * Watchers (1,241 → 1,255)
  3. Added 349 commits (Feb 24, 2020 to June 1, 2020)
  4. Grew Superset slack users to (1,309 → 1,665)

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

  4. Released 0.36.0 on 2020-04-02

### 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:

  2020-04-02

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

  * 2020-05-21 Bogdan Kyryliuk
  * 2020-05-27 Tai Dupree
  * 2020-05-27 Aaron Sudjian
  * 2020-05-29 Jesse Yang

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Open issues:
  * Asked Jim Jagielski for help with a Tai's problematic JIRA account.
    (He has access to someone's preexisting account. Issue remains open but 
  work is proceeding on it)
  * There was an open question about if/how steps for onboarding
    committers might be streamlined and/or automated. Any advice 
    on that front is welcomed, as the process is seemingly error prone.
    Sorry for any confusing missteps as we continue to learn to navigate 
  this.
  * Asked about Bogdan Kyryliuk's process, no answer
  * Generally experencing glitches when onboarding committers & PMCs

  Other interactions of note:
  * We have a new mentor! Welcome to the team, Jim Jagielski!
  * Mentor Justin Mclean helped us with font licensing.
  * Mentor Justin Mclean provided clarity on report formatting. 
    (Hope this one works!) 
  * Jakob is stepping down. Thanks for everything!

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

  All is well. Name has been approved.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (superset) Alan Gates  
     Comments: An account has been created now for Bogdan, I'm not sure 
     what caused the delay.
  - [X] (superset) Jim Jagielski  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Justin Mclean: Just a note that I'm not a mentor of this project. If you
  need help with on-boarding new PPMC members or committers just ask your
  mentors but it can be easily done with Whimsey.