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Timeline

Wed August 02Podling reports due by end of day
Sun August 06Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun August 06Summary due by end of day
Tue August 08Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed August 09

Report submitted to Board

Wed August 16Board meeting


Shepherd Assignments

Calvin KirsPaimon
Calvin KirsSDAP
Dave FisherStreamPark
Drew FarrisNLPCraft
Justin McleanOpenDAL
P. Taylor GoetzCeleborn
PJ FanningTraining
Timothy ChenDevLake
Willem JiangToree


# Incubator PMC report for August 2023

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and 
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. There are 
presently 24 podlings incubating.
This month we were missing a report from Liminal, which was also missed the 
previous month. There were no graduations and no new proposals to the board 
for graduation, although a couple were discussed. Tuweni voted to retire, 
as did DataLab, despite discussing it becoming a TLP the month before.
ASF Marketing & Publicity have updated the Podling Publicity/Media 
Guidelines.
The Wayang podling mistakenly made a release without involving the IPMC.
None of the mentors signed off the Devlake, NLPCraft, OpenDAL or Streampark reports.
There was one IP clearance and podlings executed 8 distinct releases. 
Discussion on the general list has been chiefly about podling releases.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - Matthew de Detrich

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings
  - None

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

## Graduations
  - None

  The board has motions for the following:

  - None

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  July:
  - Celeborn 0.3.0
  - Devlake 0.17.0
  - OpenDAL 0.38.0
  - OpenDAL 0.38.1
  - Pekko 1.0.0
  - Pekko 1.0.1
  - Uniffle 0.7.1
  - Wayang 0.7.0

## IP Clearance
  - Pekko HTTP CORS code donation

## Legal / Trademarks
  - N/A

## Infrastructure
  - N/A

## Miscellaneous
  - N/A

## Table of Contents  
[Annotator](#annotator)  
[Celeborn](#celeborn)  
[DevLake](#devlake)  
[NLPCraft](#nlpcraft)  
[OpenDAL](#opendal)  
[Paimon](#paimon)  
[PonyMail](#ponymail)  
[SDAP](#sdap)  
[StreamPark](#streampark)  
[Toree](#toree)  
[Training](#training)  

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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. Grow community.
  2. Involve mentors.
  3. Release a 1.0

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

  We need advice from the IPMC (or our mentors) about our future. There
  is use of our libraries within various production systems, but community
  activity (let alone contribution) has not materialized.

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

  Not at all.

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

  Also no real progress.

### 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:

  2022-05-05 - v0.3.0-rc.1

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

  2022-08-17

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors have been as quiet as the rest of the project.
  They have provided help in the past--when requested.

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

  No known issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (annotator) Nick Kew  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (annotator) Tommaso Teofili  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (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. Grow the community
  2. Release more versions

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

  None

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

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

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

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

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

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

### Date of last release:

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

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

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

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive.

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

  The VP, Brand has approved the project name.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (celeborn) Becket Qin  
     Comments:  I'm glad to see the new version has been released. 
  - [X] (celeborn) Lidong Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (celeborn) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (celeborn) Duo Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (celeborn) Yu Li  
     Comments: It's great to see the latest 0.3.0 release supports more 
     computing engine (Apache Flink) thus extends its ecology. New
     contributors joining also indicates a good growth of the community.

### 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, and mailing list 
  subscribers.
  2. Grow the project, support more data sources and use cases, and improve 
  the user experience.
  3. Elect another release manager, now we only have two.

### 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.  16 new contributors have joined the community (109 contributors in 
  total)
  2.  154 new community members in Slack (756 in total)
  3.  2 new committers were elected, and 1 PPMC was elected.
  4.  Hosted a total of 3 community meetups.

### How has the project developed since the last report? 
  1.  Made one new major release v0.17 with no compliance issues, and v0.18 
  is at the beta testing stage.
  2.  Supported new data sources such as Azure DevOps and PaterDuty, etc.
  3.  Re-defined deployments in DevLake and update the algorithm for DORA 
accordingly.
  4.  Redesigned user experience for transformation rules in Config UI.
  5.  Supported the data deletion in v0.18.

### 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:

  2023-07-24

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  2023-07-25

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  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:  
  - [ ] (devlake) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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 ## NLPCraft

A Scala API for NLU applications

NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.

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

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

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  -  Research related to usage in the project last AI technologies.
  -  Research related to usage python API to be connected with last AI 
     libraries.
  -  Site updated, dependencies updated etc .

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2023-02-30

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  August of 2021.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  No issues with mentors to report.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  No issues with mentors to report.

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## OpenDAL

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

OpenDAL has been incubating since 2023-02-27.

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

  1. Higher Quality Release Workflow   
  2. Grow the community.   
  3. Collect more use cases.  

### 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?

  According to incomplete statistics from GitHub, Opendal currently has 114 
  contributors and is being used by 205 projects.

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

  Added support for storage services such as tikv, persy and dropbox, as 
  well as  language bindings for haskell, zig, lua, etc. In addition, we have 
  also implemented  the sink API for cloud storage services.

### 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:

  2023-07-21 v0.38.1  

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

  2023-07-21

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes.

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

  Yes.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (opendal) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (opendal) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (opendal) Sheng Wu  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (opendal) Ted Liu  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (opendal) Xiaoqiao He  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Paimon

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

Paimon has been incubating since 2023-03-12.

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

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

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

  - N/A

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

  - Paimon Website: add community page, security page.

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

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

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2023-06-07

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

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

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  - Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive.

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

  - The VP, Brand has approved the project name.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (paimon) Becket Qin  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (paimon) Robert Metzger  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (paimon) Stephan Ewen  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (paimon) Yu Li  
     Comments: The development activities (code contribution, tech 
     discussion, etc.) are frequent, new contributor / committer keeps joining, 
     and people care about document and website building, all indicate a good 
     community development.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## PonyMail

Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service,
that can be integrated with many email platforms.

Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.

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

  1. Growing the community
  2. Growing the community
  3. Growing the community...

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  No issues other than the perennial lack of new contributors.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  No development of note here.

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

### 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 analytics center for Big Earth Science problems.

SDAP has been incubating since 2017-10-22.

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

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

  Started discussion thread on graduating and working towards third release.

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

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

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2023-05-16 (Version 1.1.0)

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

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

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

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

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

  PPMC is not aware of any issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (sdap) Julian Hyde  
     Comments:  I think SDAP is ready to graduate. In my opinion, a third 
     release is not necessary for graduation. The low participation in the 
     graduation  discussion is a little concerning, but not unexpected,
     because SDAP has never been very active on dev@.
  - [ ] (sdap) Jörn Rottmann  
     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. Grow the community   
  2. Release more versions
  3. Develop more contributors

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

  None

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

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

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

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

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

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

### Date of last release:

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

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

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

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

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive

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

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (streampark) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampark) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampark) Stephan Ewen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampark) Thomas Weise  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (streampark) Duo Zhang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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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:

  1. Increase active contributors

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
   None

### How has the community developed since the last report?
   The community is working on wrapping up support for recent versions
   of Apache Spark that has moved to use Scala 2.13.

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

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

### How has the project developed since the last report?
   We need to wrap up the new Toree release supporting Spark with Scala 2.13

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2022-04-11

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

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

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

   None

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

   No Trademark issues

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Training

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

Training has been incubating since 2019-02-21.

In June 2023, we started adjusting the project goals. Besides a pure focus 
on content creation tools we have identified the need for two additional 
aspects:

(1) For ASF processes some documentation exists, e.g. 
https://community.apache.org/contributor-ladder, but the ASF member journey 
is still a challenge for many new members, especially those with less 
coding experience. 
As a solution it has been suggested to provide training material for the 
following problems: 
* You've just graduated to a TLP. What are the challenges you will now face?
* New committer onboarding
* New PMC member onboarding
* New PMC Chair onboarding
* New board member onboarding

(2) Creation of some general recommendations/guidelines for:
 * managing/validation of training material contributions of arbitrary ASF 
projects has been proposed.

We expand our focus now on the following aspects:

We have to work on strategies to increase the participation and the 
visibility of the project and its goals.

Besides requests for contributions from individual contributors from other 
Apache projects we want to show what the Apache Training project can offer 
to those projects.

We should build on the assumption that synergy and network effects can help 
us to increase the community around training and skill management topics.

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

  1. Improve the community participation (other Apache projects should 
  actively be linked to this project, since they "have the content")
  2. (Re)define the short-, mid-, and long-term goals of the project.
  3. Select an approach to handle non coding / non document related tasks 
  (e.g., community related activities on events)
  4. Create a strategy how this projects contributes to or is supported by 
  other Apache projects
  5. Create a tutorial on how the tools provided by this project can be 
  used to create own content
  6. Review current policies around contribution review and releases to 
  find a pragmatic compromise

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

  The Training Project needs more contribution from other Apache projects, 
  hence a clear communication strategy for interlinking existing projects 
  with the Apache Training project is needed.

  We need feedback from other Apache projects on the presentations and 
  trainings developed till now.

  In order to improve this collaboration we suggest to investigate the 
  status of other project’s documentation in a systematic approach, 
  especially with an eye on available training related material.

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

  no changes

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

  Initial discussion regarding usage of content created/delivered by LLMs 
  has been started.

  In July, a first documentation inspection and fact extraction tool 
  (Python script) has been provided.
  A pull request is open: 
  https://github.com/apache/incubator-training/pull/87.

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

  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  Initial setup oft he project’s structure: Goals and strategy needs 
  refinement.

  Working towards first release: What type of artefacts to release is not 
  clear, due to unclear goals and strategy.

  Community building: The community exists of a very small number of people 
  but is more or less invisible, as of today (April 2023).

  Nearing graduation: Currently, we are far away from graduation.

### Date of last release:

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

  November 2020

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Mentors have been responsive and helpful when reached out to.

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

  The name search process has not yet been started, as there is still time 
  to do that if and when graduation draws nearer.

  The PPMC is actively monitoring usage of the Podlings current name on 
  other sites.

  The Podling is not directly affiliating with any sponsors donating 
  content and presenting an independent image on the webpage.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (training) Craig Russell  
     Comments:  Happy to see new activity here.
  - [X] (training) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments: It seems that finally a bit of life has been coming back to 
     the project, I'll continue my best to help with that staying that way. 
  - [X] (training) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (training) Lars Francke  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: