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# Incubator PMC report for December 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 41 podlings incubating. In November, podlings executed 
10 distinct releases. We added one new IPMC member, and none retired. There 
were two IP clearances in November. We have no new projects, although a 
couple are under discussion, including Wayang. Superset and TVM graduated 
last month and Warble was retired.

This month we were missing reports from Annotator, BRPC and Liminal. 
Annotator has reached out to the IPMC, added a new mentor and will report 
next month.

BlueMarlin report mentions an unexpected release, and they still seem to be 
having trouble operating as an Apache project. One mentor has given up on 
them due to lack of communication.

Liminal has failed to report several times, but there is ongoing activity 
in the project. It also seems they are making unapproved releases which the 
IPMC will follow up on.

There was still no response from S2Graph, and unless there any objections 
they will be retired shortly.

Weex, who was considering retirement, tried to make a release and brought 
the release to the IPMC without the needed 3 +1 votes. They were asked to 
find the needed PPMC votes. It may be that they do not have enough of an 
active PPMC to do this.

SAMOA currently has no mentors, and little or no activity and the IPMC is 
considering retiring the project.

TubeMQ is considering renaming itself to something else.

NuttX made a release that was voted on the IPMC private list as it 
contained some critical security fixes.

There was no visible progress made on MXNet issues, and this will be 
discussed at the board meeting. An active mentor retired, and a new mentor 
was added to help them.

Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases and graduations. 
There were graduation discussions around ECharts, Flagon, DataSketches and 
Goblin.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - Lars George

### People who left the IPMC:
  - none

## New Podlings
  - none

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - Annotator
  - BRPC
  - Liminal

## Graduations
  - Superset
  - TVM 

The board has motions for the following:
  - DataSketches
  - ECharts 

## Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of
November:
  - Daffodil 3.0.0 
  - DolphinScheduler 1.3.3
  - NLPCraft 0.7.1
  - NLPCraft 0.7.2
  - NuttX 10.0.0
  - Pegasus 2.1.0
  - Pinot 0.6.0 
  - Superset 0.38.0
  - TubeMQ 0.7.0
  - Tuweni 1.3.0

## IP Clearance
  - Apache APISIX ingress controller
  - Apache Arrow Julia library
 
## Legal / Trademarks
  - MXNet issues still unresolved.

## Infrastructure
  - N/A

## Miscellaneous
  - N/A

## Table of Contents 
[AGE](#age)  
[BlueMarlin](#bluemarlin)  
[Crail](#crail)  
[Daffodil](#daffodil)  
[Hivemall](#hivemall)  
[Hop](#hop)  
[Livy](#livy)  
[Marvin-AI](#marvin-ai)  
[Nemo](#nemo)  
[SAMOA](#samoa)  
[Spot](#spot)  
[StreamPipes](#streampipes)  
[Toree](#toree)  

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## AGE

AGE is a multi-model database that enables graph and relational models built
on PostgreSQL.

AGE has been incubating since 2020-04-29.

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

  1. First release
  2. Grow developers community
  3. Schedule release cycles

### 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 do have two new contributors that are also interested to become 
  Committers of AGE project.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  The project has been actively developed and new development has been 
  pushed actively.
  The website has been deployed and it is available.

### 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:

  2020-06-30

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  None for now, but we do have two new people contributing to the project 
  and willing to become committers.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes, they have been helpful and very responsive.

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (age) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (age) Von Gosling  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (age) Raphael Bircher  
     Comments:
  - [X] (age) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## BlueMarlin

BlueMarlin will develop a web service to add intelligence functionality to a
plain ad system.

BlueMarlin has been incubating since 2020-06-09.

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

  1. DL-based performance forecasting
  2. DL-based spend recommendation
  3. DL-based Inventory allocation

### 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?
  The following features were added to predictor_dl_model:
  1.	We added new features of user residency and user IPL (IP location).

  2. We added pipeline and product tags to config file. Config file has 
  placeholders to resolve the names of intermediate tables instead of 
  having user to fill them up.

  3. We pushed model-stats into Hive instead of Elasticsearch. This makes 
  the pipeline to create one set of coherent tables that are associates 
  with a pipeline run instead of having the artifacts into different
  types of data storage.

### 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:
  Plan to have a release in Jan, 2021

### 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:

  - [X] (bluemarlin) Craig Russell  
     Comments: The podling has not yet done anything on list.
     The SGA was filed late October 2020 so they are just starting.
     They do not have a repository or a web page.
     They claim in this report to have done a release but there
     is no evidence of this.
  - [ ] (bluemarlin) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (bluemarlin) Von Gosling  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (bluemarlin) Junping Du  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (bluemarlin) Uma Maheswara Rao G  
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Dave Fisher - I resigned from mentoring this podling. They refuse
  to discuss activity on the mailing list. They do not communicate.
  They claim to make a release. This report is the first time we've
  heard of it.

  Justin Mclean - The issues to be resolved before graduation need
  to be ones related to the community and how Apache operates not
  functionality. I'm concerned about the release and comments by
  other mentors. There are also section in this report that are
  unanswered.
  What can be done to get this project back on track?

  Dave Fisher - There is no back. This podling has never been on
  track.

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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. Convincing use cases
  3. Steady release cycles

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

 No reply.

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

  We got one new contributors. We are looking forward to see
  him applying as a committer.

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

  A new contributor was working in the field of adding elasticity.

  Elastic scaling is a needed pre-requisite to use Apache Crail as
  an efficient ephemeral data store for serverless frameworks.
  We expect pull requests for code integration in the coming weeks.
  With added elasticity, a new release would be due.

### 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?

  Yes, our mentors have been supportive and responsive.

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

  There are no known cases of a 3rd party podling name/brand incorrect use.

  Podling name search has been completed - see 
  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-138

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (crail) Julian Hyde  
     Comments: Activity is very low. Crail are trying to find ways to 
     stimulate activity by bringing in a new contributor.
  - [X] (crail) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:
  - [X] (crail) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:

### 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 (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 contributors (one non-Owl)
  * Continued involvement in mailing lists
  * dev: 167 emails sent by 22 people, divided into 43 topics,
    49 subscribers (+17)
  * users: 14 emails sent by 5 people, divided into 9 topics,
    59 subscribers (+16)
  * Owl is continuing to encourage other companies with known Daffodil
  interests to make public contributions and increase involvement
  * Smooks (https://www.smooks.org) 2.0.0-M2 has been released with
  Daffodil integration

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

  * Released Daffodil 3.0.0
  * 44 commits merged from 10 different contributors
  * 55 issues created, 54 issues resolved
  * Changes include SAX support, ability to stream data larger than
  available memory, reduced memory usage, improved diagnostics, and
  numerous bug fixes
  * Upcoming changes include support for parser/unparser code generation
  and improved validation with new APIs and plugability

### 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:

  2020-11-20

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

  * 2020-06-15 - John Interrante (PPMC)
  * 2019-11-26 - Olabusayo Kilo (Committer)
  * 2019-06-20 - Brandon Sloane (PPMC)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  * Yes, recently helped to find a third mentor which should help the
  release process.

### 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:
  - [X] (daffodil) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:
  - [X] (daffodil) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## 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:

  1. Community growth (committers and users)
  2. One or more Apache Releases as an Incubator project

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

  PPMCs are considering exit approaches including retiring.

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

  No particular topic.

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

  No progress.

### 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:

  2019-12-19

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

  Elected Jerome Banks as a committer on April 2, 2018.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes

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

  Yes, we keep tracking podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (hivemall) Daniel Dai  
     Comments:
  - [X] (hivemall) Koji Sekiguchi  
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Hop

Hop is short for the Hop Orchestration Platform. Written completely in Java
it aims to provide a wide range of data orchestration tools, including a
visual development environment, servers, metadata analysis, auditing
services and so on. As a platform, Hop also wants to be a reusable library
so that it can be easily reused by other software.

Hop has been incubating since 2020-09-24.

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

  1. identify and resolve the last remaining incompatibly licensed 
  dependencies (if any)
  2. create a first release
  3. grow the community

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  No known significant issues at this moment

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

  - 2 additional committers, committers are increasingly active
  - 9 new registered chat members (99 -> 108)
  - 21 subscribers to dev, 11 to user mailing list
  - significant follower growth on social media, mainly on LinkedIn (+46) 
  and Twitter (+15)

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

  - After JIRA and the website, code and documentation repositories have 
  been migrated.
  - For the code migration, a copyright header related fix was required, 
  which was delivered and accepted.
  - All existing builds have been recreated and updated to run on ASF 
  Jenkins
  - new functionality has been created (new transform and action plugins, 
  UI updates and more)
  - significant documentation updates
  - discussion of and preparation for a first release (0.50) has started

  Full details are available in the November monthly roundup: 
  https://hop.apache.org/blog/2020/12/roundup-2020-12/

### 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:
  No releases so far

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  2020-11-18

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  We have mainly been working on infrastructure and or software items over 
  the last month.
  Mentor input will become more important now we've started working towards 
  a first release.
  Julian Hyde regularly checks in and provides valuable input.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  There are no known brand and naming issues.
  The PPMC only uses "Apache Hop (Incubating)" as the official project name 
  and has explicitly called "Project Hop" deprecated as of the moment of 
  acceptance in the Incubator.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (hop) Tom Barber  
     Comments:
  - [X] (hop) Julian Hyde  
     Comments: Plenty of work on features, good cooperation on dev list,
     appointing the first committers since incubation, and pushing
     hard for the first release. Hop is doing great.
  - [ ] (hop) Maximilian Michels  
     Comments:
  - [X] (hop) Francois Papon  
     Comments: Community is growing well (new committer, dev list, 
     mattermost channel) and a great work is done on the source code for
     the first release. The Hop team is very active.
  - [X] (hop) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments: Significant progress has been made through out past time 
     period, with related to first release and community growth.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## 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:

  1. Start preparing towards graduation
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  Apache Livy is a stable project that is used widely in conjuction with 
  Apache Spark.
  It seems to have met its project goals and there is not much active 
  development going on as a result. 2020 may definitely not be the best
  year for community activity and Livy certainly seems to have taken a hit
  on this aspect. Seeking guidance from the IPMC/Board on what could be next
  steps for the project. Its not very active but at the same time its not a
  defunct/unused project.

### 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
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2020-01-07

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

  2019-01-22

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  No reply

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (livy) Bikas Saha  
     Comments:
  - [X] (livy) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Justin Mclean: As long as there is an active PPMC with at last 3 PPMC 
  members providing oversight the project should be fine. Is anything else
  needed to graduate the project? Have you looked at the ASF maturity
  model? I am concerned that users questions are going unanswered on the
  dev list.

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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. Release a new version.

### 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.

  We had an online meeting to discuss architectural approaches, we also 
  found out about new members joining the community, some of them are 
  utilizing the platform in their companies.

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

  1. Minor bug fix;
  2. Last adjustments on the new toolbox version;
  3. Preliminary version of AutoML wrapper (Marvin AutoML);
  4. Organization of the structure of a documentation for the new toolbox;
  5. Architectural discussions on dev mailing list and online meeting about 
  integrating TFX and Apache Beam.

### 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:

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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. Address a few remaining items in the Apache Project Maturity model
  2. Grow the community
  3. Create another release

### 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 new contributions
  * Actively involved in addressing the items in the Apache Project
    Maturity model
  * Applied the project for a global-scale streaming system

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

  * Release 0.3 in progress
  * Improved streaming support in Nemo
  * Added combiners in streaming
  * Added in-process data communication optimization
  * Made Nemo run on geo-distributed datacenters
  * Dynamic task scheduling in progress

### 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:

  2020-03-06 (Release 0.2)

### 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:

  - [ ] (nemo) Hyunsik Choi  
     Comments:
  - [X] (nemo) Byung-Gon Chun  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (nemo) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:
  - [X] (nemo) Markus Weimer  
     Comments: There is another release in flight as this report is 
     prepared.

### 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: 4 messages

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

  We are working in an implementation of adaptive random forests.

### 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?

  There are no mentors since June.

### 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:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Justin Mclean: I suggest you reach out the the IPMC general list and
  ask for more mentors. Given the low activity it may be hard to attract
  one. Can the project point to me to where this development on adaptive
  random forests is? There doesn't seem to be any commits for almost a year.

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## 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:

  1. Increase community activity in mailing list and commits
  2. Make the product more approachable for new contributors and users
  3. Develop a roadmap that focuses on delivering one use case effectively

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

  Not at this time.

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

  We're continuing to work on a roadmap with the community that will allow 
  more contributors to focus and work on different levels of the project 
  (i.e. data modeling and schema design, use-cases, ingestion, ml, ui, dev 
  ops, docs, etc).

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

  We've started regular weekly discussions around several topics, including 
  configuration management, authentication, and authorization models within 
  Spot so that we have a better backbone for adding more features and can 
  also backport existing functionality to a stronger foundation. These 
  discussions were delayed this quarter due to COVID and getting schedules 
  aligned relative to other workloads so we don't have any proposals 
  documented yet, but that is our next step.

### 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:

  2017-09-08

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

  2020-08-24 - We removed PPMC members who were not subscribed to the 
  private mailing list and who did not respond to an email asking them to 
  subscribe

### 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.

  Our mentors have been helpful in onboarding new contributors, and in 
  getting us the Whimsy and Clutch reports and updating the website so we 
  more completely conform to ASF policy requirements for podlings.

### 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?

  We have no knowledge of any issues with the brand or trademark.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G  
     Comments: This community needs few more mentors. 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Justin Mclean: Where are these weekly discussion taking place? Is what is
  discussed in them brought back to the mailing list?

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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. Grow the community
  2. Attract more users
  3. Complete maturity assessment

### 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?

  * First of all, we are quite happy with the current 
    community-driven development and all major things are being 
    discussed on the mailing lists
  * We gave several talks at meetups and events during the past months
    * Two talks at ApacheCon @Home
    * SF Big Analytics Meetups
    * StreamPipesWebinar Brazil
    * several industry-focused talks
    * All the talks are available on YouTube
  * A large german computer magazine published an article about StreamPipes
    (https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2020/12/apache-streampipes/)
  * We had several remote training sessions to show users how to use 
    StreamPipes
  * There is a continuous flow of messages on the mailing list and more 
    people are contributing to discussions and give feedback
  * Several new people showed up on the mailing list asking for 
    support or reporting problems
  * We updated the installation guide to ease the first steps with 
StreamPipes 
  * Number of Twitter followers increased (last report: 148, currently: 156)
  * Number of Github stars increased (last report: 163, currently: 186)

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  * We released version 0.67.0, our second release in the ASF
  * Currently, most contributors are working on issues around stability bug 
    fixing
  * The community currently discusses the future roadmap and there are some 
    new features community members are working on
    * mqtt support 
    * pipeline monitoring
    * python wrapper
    * externally exposed REST APIs for pipelines and pipeline elements
  * We are currently discussing the integration of 
    incubator-streampipes-extensions into the core project to ease future
    release processes

### 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:

  2020-10-28

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

  2020-05-22, but we expect several new committers and PPMC members to 
  being elected soon

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, mentors are helpful and responsive. We get quick feedback in case 
  there are any questions. 
  Thanks to all mentors and IPMC members who took the time to vote on our 
  last release.

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

  Yes, we are actively managing the brand. 
  New logo is still an open issue that is being discussed in the community.
  The project name has been approved.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (streampipes) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (streampipes) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (streampipes) Julian Feinauer  
     Comments:
  - [X] (streampipes) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (streampipes) Kenneth Knowles  
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## 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:

  In my opinion, I believe Toree is one of those small but useful projects 
  that, except for being very active, would be ready to graduate. Having
  said  that, where there is an important issue or for voting new members
  and releases the PPMC show up and participate (see example of last
  committer/release thread).

  The project will likely start graduation process on the next couple 
  months.

  1. Increase active contributors 
  2. 
  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?

  Similar pattern with a few Q&A on both Gitter and mailing list.
  We also saw increased flow of questions related to Spark 3.0.

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

  We attempted a new release, but while waiting for vote process to
  complete the Incubator release process changed and we are working
  on adapting to the new rules.

### 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:

  2020-07-31

### 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?

  There was nothing requiring mentor intervention on the last quarter.

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

  No Trademark issues

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (toree) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (toree) Julien Le Dem  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (toree) Ryan Blue  
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: