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# Incubator PMC report for February 2023

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and 
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. 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 31 podlings incubating. Podlings made 3 distinct 
releases.
This month we were missing reports from Marvin-AI, NLPCraft, PageSpeed, 
Toree and Training. They will be asked to report next month except for 
Marvin-AI, who has voted to retire.
Annotator and Pony Mail have missed two reports and may need a roll call. 
Flagon is ready to graduate but has not submitted a resolution. A vote for 
EventMesh graduation is underway.
KIE has joined the Incubator. Discussion of a few new projects, including 
HyperIoT and a quantum computing project, is ongoing. Heron has retired 
from the Incubator.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - Brian Proffitt

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings

 - KIE

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - Marvin-AI
  - NLPCraft
  - PageSpeed
  - Toree
  - Training

## Graduations
  - None

  The board has motions for the following:

  - None

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  January:
  - SDAP 1.0.0
  - EventMesh 1.8.0
  - Liminal 0.0.5

## IP Clearance
  - [Arrow]Accept donation of datafusion-substrait crate

## Legal / Trademarks
 - N/A

## Infrastructure
 - N/A

## Miscellaneous
 - N/A

## Table of Contents  
[Annotator](#annotator)  
[Celeborn](#celeborn)  
[DevLake](#devlake)  
[Kvrocks](#kvrocks)   
[Pony Mail](#pony mail)  
[SDAP](#sdap)  
[StreamPark](#streampark)   
[Tuweni](#tuweni)  

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## 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:

  1. Incubation issues identified by Whimsy still need addressing.
  2. Project activity is very low.
  3. Release activity is very low.

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

  The project has struggled to make a third release. The last attempt ran 
  into issues with voting and testing. Since then, the project has added
  new member to the PPMC, which may help with getting releases moving.

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

  The community continues to have low, but not zero, activity on its 
  mailing list and its issue tracker, with some new folks expressing
  interest in getting involved in passing.

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

  Not much has happened since the last report, owing partially to the 
  project's low level of activity and to holiday season.

### 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:

  2022-05-05

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

  2022-08-17

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Mentors have been helpful when engaged directly with questions.

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

  No known issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (annotator) Nick Kew  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (annotator) Tommaso Teofili  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (annotator) Benjamin Young  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## 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. Publish our first release.
  2. Grow the 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?
  1. 2 new contributors have joined the community.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. Created 3 release candidates.

### 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:

  * N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  * 2022-11-21, nafiyaix was added as 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:

  - [ ] (celeborn) Becket Qin  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (celeborn) Lidong Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (celeborn) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments: Podling is working on the first Apache release  
  - [X] (celeborn) Duo Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (celeborn) Yu Li  
     Comments: The first Apache release is in the RC phase and now handling 
     license/dependency issues, and expected to come out soon. 

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## 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:

  1. Grow the community, add committers and PPMC members
  2. Grow the ecosystem, support more data sources and use cases
  3. Automate license and compliance checking for smoother release process

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

  No issues at the moment.

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

  1. 22 new contributors have joined the community (78 contributors in 
  total)
  2. One new committer was elected 
  3. Hosted a total of 10 community meetups, including an end-of-year 
  community celebration event

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

  1. Made one new major release (currently in voting process)
  2. Support for projects in DevLake for custom aggregation of metrics
  3. Better support for parallelism in blueprint executions
  4. GitHub data colection now uses GraphQL queries by default where 
  possible for much better performance
  5. Support for skipping failed pipeilnes stages to alow partial data 
  collection

### 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:

  2023-01-31 (in progress)

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

  2022-11-01

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, the mentors helped tremendously throughout version releases and 
  community governance.

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

  There are no known brand and naming issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (devlake) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (devlake) Liang Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (devlake) Lidong Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (devlake) Sijie Guo  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (devlake) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (devlake) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments: Good to see the process that Devlake made in community 
     building.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Kvrocks

Kvrocks is a distributed key-value NoSQL database, supporting the rich data
structure

Kvrocks has been incubating since 2022-04-23.

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

  - Promote the project and grow the user and dev community
  - Need more further releases by multiple release manager

### 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 got 4 new contributors since the last report
  - Attend the CCF meeting and share a topic about Kvrocks

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

  - Improvements and bug fixes, like upgrade the rocksdb to improve the 
    performance of the compaction, as well as refactor the files structure
  - Add ZLIB dependency for compression in rocksdb
  - Use clang-format and clang-tidy to keep the code style consistency

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

  - 2022-11-10

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

  - 2023-01-02 we elected xiaobiaozhao as a Kvrocks committer

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, they mentored us a lot on how to maintain the community, and also 
  did many contributions for Kvrocks.

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

  - The project name has been approved, ticket: 
  [PODLINGNAMESEARCH-204](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-204)

- No 3rd parties used the podling and brand.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (kvrocks) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (kvrocks) Xiaoqiao He  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (kvrocks) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (kvrocks) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (kvrocks) Liang Chen  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Pony Mail

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:

  1. Growing community
  2. Finalizing graduation, getting discussions going again
  3. Roll call?

### 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?
  No material changes since last report. The community has been rather 
  quiet, albeit present.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  No noteworthy development since last report.

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

### Date of last release:

  2019-04-20

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  Sean Palmer was elected committer on 2021-04-02

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

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament  
     Comments:  

### 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 a new release in 2 months with a different release manager
  2. Update SDAP home page
  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?

  Discussion and development is active.

  Worked through process of creating first official SDAP release.

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

  First SDAP release (v1.0.0) is available for download at 
  https://sdap.apache.org/downloads

  16 issues closed and 14 issues new/updated.

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

### Date of last release:

  2023-01-18 (Version 1.0.0)

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

  Riley Kuttruff was added as a committer on 2022-11-16

  Kevin Marlis was added as a committer on 2023-01-27

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our new mentor, Julian Hyde, guided us in creating the first official 
  SDAP v1.0.0 release.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  PPMC is not aware of any issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (sdap) Julian Hyde  
     Comments: The first release was a major achievement. I have asked them
       to make another release, with a different release manager, to prove
       that the process is reproducible, and to remove release exceptions
       in the WIP-DISCLAIMER. Also, there are several components, and not
       all have so far had a release.) After that release, SDAP is ready
       to graduate.
  - [ ] (sdap) Jörn Rottmann  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (sdap) Trevor Grant  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## 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. Make first StreamPark release at Apache
  2. Attract more active contributors and committers to build a diverse 
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?

  1. added 2 new contributors, the total contributors is 89 now
  2. Fixed many license-related issues, and conducted three rounds of 
  release vote

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

  A lot of testing work has been done this month and fixed many 
  license-related issues , many features will be released in our first
  Apache release.

### 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 release yet

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

  None

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, always responsive and helpful.

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

  Yes

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (streampark) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (streampark) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments: Streampark is doing the fifth release, hope we can get it 
     ready this time.  
  - [ ] (streampark) Stephan Ewen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampark) Thomas Weise  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (streampark) Duo Zhang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Tuweni

Tuweni is a set of libraries and other tools to aid development of
blockchain and other decentralized software in Java and other JVM languages.

Tuweni has been incubating since 2019-03-25.

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

  1. build community
  2. have several release managers
  3. build the PMC

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

  No particular issues.

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

  We have worked in earnest towards graduation, and have held discussions 
  and votes on how we could go about this.

  Here is some of this preparation on 
  https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TUWENI/Graduation+preparation

  Unfortunately, we didn't meet the requirements for graduation at this 
  time. The work continues.

### 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.

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

### Date of last release:

  2022-11-29

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

  Stefan Pingel and Sally MacFarlane are both elected as committers on 
  2022-05-12.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Mentors are very helpful!

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (tuweni) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tuweni) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (tuweni) Antoine Toulme  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (tuweni) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: