Incubator PMC report for April 2024

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 currently 29 podlings incubating. In March, podlings executed 3 distinct releases and 2 IP clearances occurred.

Several incubating proposals have been discussed on the mailing list, and several podlings graduated last month. SDAP is up for graduation this month and the Milagro podling has retired. 4 podlings, Annotator, Pony Mail, Liminal and Teaclave, failed to report and will be asked to report next month.

An issue arose regarding the misuse of the trademarks of Apache AGE (a graduated project), and it was asked where the incubator might have gone wrong in this process. The incubator did pick up this issue, which delayed graduation. Assurances were given that a 3rd party would stop using the name AgeDB, but it seems they did not do that.

We decided to drop the requirement of having the word incubating in podling domain names.

Community

New IPMC members:

• Charles Zhang
• Francis Chuang
• Hao Ding
• Hulk Lin
• Hyukjin Kwon
• Richard Zowalla
• Yonglun Zhang
• Zhang Yonglun

People who left the IPMC:

• None

New Podlings

• Amoro
• GraphAr
• HertzBeat
• StormCrawler

Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

• Annotator
• Pony Mail
• Liminal
• Teaclave

Graduations

• Pekko
• Celeborn
• Paimon

The board has motions for the following:

• SDAP

Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of March:

• Pekko SBT Paradox 1.0.1
• Sdap 1.2.0
• Streampark 2.1.3

IP Clearance

• Pekko Connectors AWS SPI
• PyHive

Legal / Trademarks

• N/A

Infrastructure

• N/A

Miscellaneous

w/r/t Pony Mail the following comment was added, but omitted since the podling did not report this month:  [PJF] There is minimal activity but discussions on graduating PonyMail seem blocked by the fact that the community is small but that the tool is too important to retire.

Table of Contents

Amoro
Fury
Gluten
HoraeDB
HugeGraph
Livy
Pegasus
ResilientDB
StormCrawler
Teaclave
XTable

Amoro

Amoro is a Lakehouse management system built on open data lake formats like Apache Iceberg and Apache Paimon.

Amoro has been incubating since 2024-03-11.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Improve the website and transfer it to Apache.
2. Release our first Apache release.
3. Build and grow a diverse 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?

This is the first report for Amoro.

How has the project developed since the last report?

This is the first report for Amoro.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

•  Initial setup
•  Working towards first release
•  Community building
•  Nearing graduation
•  Other:

Date of last release:

N/A

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2024-03-11, when the project was accepted into the incubator.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, Amoro's mentors actively participate in the project, contribute insights, and help advance the project towards graduation.

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

Yes, the name "Amoro" has been approved by Mark Thomas, the VP of Brand Management.(https://s.apache.org/lyif8)

Signed-off-by:

•  (amoro) Justn Mclean
  Comments:
•  (amoro) Zhongyi Tan
  Comments:
•  (amoro) Yu Li
  Comments: The podling initial setup is in good progress with code repository transferred and website built. Look forward to its first apache release.
•  (amoro) Xinyu Zhou
  Comments:
•  (amoro) Kent Yao
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Fury

A blazing fast multi-language serialization framework powered by jit and zero-copy

Fury has been incubating since 2023-12-15.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Grow the community(attracting more committers, contributors, and users)
2. Publish Apache releases
3. Improve project documentation and align the implementation of Java/Python/JavaScript/C++/Golang/Rust.

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. We started the community vote of the first release.
2. We received 7 new issues and closed 6 issues.
3. Community development wasn't grown too much in last month. The main reason is probably due to core committers were engaged in the first release and the standardization of fury serialization protocol. But there were some new developers continuing contributing to fury in recent months.

How has the project developed since the last report?

1. Created 28 PR in last month
2. Standardized the fury cross-language serialization protocol, which will make the project develop

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

•  Initial setup
•  Working towards first release
•  Community building
•  Nearing graduation
•  Other:

Date of last release:

We haven't make a release since Fury joined Apache incubator.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

We haven't elected new committers or PPMC members. Currently all the committers and PPMC members are the initial committers.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes

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

No

Signed-off-by:

•  (fury) tison
  Comments:
•  (fury) PJ Fanning
  Comments:
•  (fury) Yu Li
  Comments: Good to see the first apache release on the way.
•  (fury) Xin Wang
  Comments:
•  (fury) Enrico Olivelli
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Gluten

Gluten is a middle layer responsible for offloading JVM-based SQL engines' execution to native engines.

Gluten has been incubating since 2024-01-11.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Publish 1st Apache release
2. Community Growth Initiative
3. Enhance the website and documentation to meet Apache standards

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?

• The number of fork is 342.
• The number of star is 959.
• The number of contributors is 118.
• Regular monthly meeting.

How has the project developed since the last report?

• Complete to transfer the project source code from oap-project to apache
• Complete to set up a website in gluten.apache.org

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

•  Initial setup
•  Working towards first release
•  Community building
•  Nearing graduation
•  Other:

Date of last release:

2024-03-02

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2024-01-11, when the project was accepted into the incubator.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Indeed, their guidance is valuable for steering the project towards success.

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

Yes, everything is fine.

Signed-off-by:

•  (gluten) Yu Li
  Comments: Good to see the initial setup is in good progress and look forward to its first apache release.
•  (gluten) Wenli Zhang
  Comments:
•  (gluten) Kent Yao
  Comments:  Instead of simply attaching star and fork result data, please focus more on the community effort and process behind their growth.
•  (gluten) Shaofeng Shi
  Comments: Glad to see the repository be transferred to asf and the website be online. Is there an ETA for the first Apache release? For the community growth, the fork and star number might not be that important, compared with the number of contributors, committers and IPMCs. Please put these numbers ahead of those two. Thank you!
•  (gluten) Felix Cheung
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Justin Mclean: The data of the last release should be the last ASF release. Also, stars and forks are meaningless without context, please provide some more context in your next report.

HoraeDB

HoraeDB is a high-performance, distributed, cloud native time-series database.

HoraeDB has been incubating since 2023-12-11.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Release more versions under ASF
2. Build a more open community, attract more users.
3. Polish website

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 are planning to host a off-line meetup with one club of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

How has the project developed since the last report?

1. We are preparing for a ASF-compliant 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
•  Nearing graduation
•  Other:

Date of last release:  

We haven't make a release since join Apache incubator, but we're working on it.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2023-12-27

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes

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

Yes

Signed-off-by:

•  (horaedb) tison
  Comments:
•  (horaedb) Shaofeng Shi
  Comments: Looking forward to the first Apache release!
•  (horaedb) Gang Li
  Comments:
•  (horaedb) Von Gosling
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Justin Mclean: Please make sure you bring what was dicussed at the offline meeting back to the community.

HugeGraph

A large-scale and easy-to-use graph database

HugeGraph has been incubating since 2022-01-23.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Release distributed storage module (include PD/store) & make graph computer easy to use
2. Unified different versions & introduce a new Graph Dashboard & LLM/AI system
3. At least 2 new PPMC & 5 committers selected and take deep part in the community

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

None for now

How has the community developed since the last report?

1. First time taken part in GSoC to let more students participate in the community.
2. Nominated a new PPMC @simon (also is the first one) & 2 new committers
3. At least 7 committers take part in the release processes & 2 of them could handle it by themselves

How has the project developed since the last report?

1. Release 2 major version 1.2 & 1.3 (And all modules move to Java11 in next release version)
2. Introduce a new repository: hugegraph-ai (About KG/Graph RAG/LLM related system)
3. Fixed 3 security issues & first time communicate with the SEC reporter/finder/SEC Team
4. Keep improving docs & some downloading issues have been fixed.
5. The distributed storage system HugeGraph-PD & HugeGraph-Store is coming soon

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

•  Initial setup
•  Working towards first release
•  Community building
•  Nearing graduation
•  Other:

Date of last release:

2024-04-01

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2024-02-24

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Thanks for the mentor, no issues to address now

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

None

Signed-off-by:

•  (hugegraph) Lidong Dai
  Comments:
•  (hugegraph) Trista Pan
  Comments:
•  (hugegraph) Xiangdong Huang
  Comments:
•  (hugegraph) Yu Li
  Comments: Good to see the community growing at a steady pace.
•  (hugegraph) Willem Ning Jiang
  Comments: It's good to see the project community keeps growning.

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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. Revitalization of the Community
2. Dependable Release Cadence
3. Focus on Contributors rather than primarily on Users (Docs for processes)

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?

There have been a number of PRs from the community and some activity on the mailing lists. The overall activity is still rather low as to be expected with a mature project even if a podling. Activity should pick up again as we begin to plan our next release.

How has the project developed since the last report?

There have been minor improvements and bug fixes. Most activity would be considered maintenance during this period. Again, once we start the plan for the next release, I believe activity will pick up.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

•  Initial setup
•  Working towards first release
•  Community building
•  Nearing graduation
•  Other:

Date of last release:

2023-10-10

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

October 2023

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

No answer.

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

No answer.

Signed-off-by:

•  (livy) Bikas Saha
  Comments:

•  (livy) Luciano Resende
  Comments:

•  (livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
  Comments: Great to see new potential contributors joining the Slack channel and mailing list :)

•  (livy) Madhawa Kasun Gunasekara
  Comments:

•  (livy) Larry McCay
  Comments:

  IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Pegasus

Pegasus is a distributed key-value storage system which is designed to be simple, horizontally scalable, strongly consistent and high-performance.

Pegasus has been incubating since 2020-06-28.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Grow the community(attracting more committers, contributors, users).
2. Make more releases in ASF policy regularly.
3. Improve the Pegasus project performance, stability, and usage scenarios.

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?

2.5.0 is released on Dec 12, 2023

How has the project developed since the last report?

2.6.0 is being prepared for 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
•  Nearing graduation
•  Other:

Date of last release:

2023-12-12

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

None

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, our mentors gave us a lot of help, including version release, holding meetup, prepare the graduation and etc.

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

No Issues that we are aware of.

Signed-off-by:

•  (pegasus) Duo Zhang
  Comments: Let's make the 2.6.0 release soon, and also make some progresses towards graduation.
•  (pegasus) Liang Chen
  Comments:
•  (pegasus) Von Gosling
  Comments:
•  (pegasus) Liu Xun
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

ResilientDB

ResilientDB is a distributed blockchain framework that is open-source, lightweight, modular, and highly performant.

ResilientDB has been incubating since 2023-10-21.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Transfer related websites to Apache domain.
2. Grow the community by facilitating more applications being built on ResDB.
3. Improve and extend documentation.

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?

Regular meeting continues every week.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We launched an ResView Application.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

•  Initial setup
•  Working towards first release
•  Community building
•  Nearing graduation
•  Other:

Date of last release:    

None

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

November of 2023

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

The mentors helped tremendously throughout the project build-up and transfer.

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

There are no known brand and naming issues as reported here.

Signed-off-by:

•  (resilientdb) Junping Du
  Comments:
•  (resilientdb) Calvin Kirs
  Comments:
•  (resilientdb) Kevin Ratnasekera
  Comments:
•  (resilientdb) Roman Shaposhnik
  Comments:
•  (resilientdb) Christian Grobmeier
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

StormCrawler

StormCrawler is a collection of resources for building low-latency, customisable and scalable web crawlers on Apache Storm.

StormCrawler has been incubating since 2024-03-19.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Set up Git Repos and Builds
2. Community building
3. Work towards a new release

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

Nothing yet.

How has the community developed since the last report?

First Report.

How has the project developed since the last report?

N/A

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

•  Initial setup
•  Working towards first release
•  Community building
•  Nearing graduation
•  Other:

Date of last release:

None.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

No new committers yet.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Nothing to note.

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

No answer.

Signed-off-by:

•  (stormcrawler) Dave Fisher
  Comments:
•  (stormcrawler) Lewis John McGibbney
  Comments:
•  (stormcrawler) Ayush Saxena
  Comments:
•  (stormcrawler) PJ Fanning
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

The project is finished the setup. It's using wiki to hold the project information.

XTable

XTable is an omni-directional converter for table formats that facilitates interoperability across data processing systems and query engines.

XTable has been incubating since 2024-02-11.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Complete tasks related to code base and website migration to ASF.
2. Publish a release under ASF.
3. Foster community growth.

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 are seeing more people trying to use XTable and submitting issues while trying to run the project.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We are nearing completion of the renaming of classes to reflect the new project name.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

•  Initial setup
•  Working towards first release
•  Community building
•  Nearing graduation
•  Other:

Date of last release:

There hasn't been any release for XTable yet.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?  

No new PPMC members or committers have been elected.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes

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

No answer.

Signed-off-by:

•  (xtable) Jesús Camacho Rodríguez
  Comments: Good to see the growing community activity and progress towards the first release.
•  (xtable) Hitesh Shah
  Comments:
•  (xtable) Stamatis Zampetakis
  Comments:
•  (xtable) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
  Comments: The bootstrap is smooth and moving forward cleanly. I will help heading to first release and polish.

IPMC/Shepherd notes: