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Timeline

Wed August 03	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun August 07	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun August 07	Summary due by end of day
Tue August 09	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed August 10	Report submitted to Board
Wed August 17	Board meeting

Incubator PMC report for August 2022

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 34 podlings incubating. Podlings made 5 distinct releases. ShenYu graduated last month, Crail has retired, and HiveMall is still deciding on retirement. This month we were missing reports from Annotator, DataLab, EventMesh, Flagon, Livy, Marvin-AI, Milagro, PageSpeed, Pegasus, PonyMail, Sedona, Spot, Teaclave, Toree and Training. All will be asked to report next month.

We are currently having an issue with podlings submitting reports and getting mentor signoff, even when podlings have been reminded or noted as needed to report in previous reports. This points to a lack of PPMC and mentor engagement. Some podlings are having issues finalising retiring, and some have very low activity. The IPMC will discuss what to do.

There was one IP clearance in July.

Some Podlings shared their stories and the Apache experience at ApacheCon Asia.

Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases.

Community

New IPMC members:

None

People who left the IPMC:

None

New Podlings

None

Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

Annotator
DataLab
EventMesh
Flagon
Livy
Marvin-AI
Milagro
PageSpeed
Pegasus
PonyMail
Sedona
Spot
Teaclave
Toree
Training

Graduations

ShenYu

Releases

Linkis 1.1.2
EventMesh 1.5.0
DevLake 0.11.0
Brpc 1.2.0
Linkis 1.1.3

IP Clearance

Arrow Flight SQL JDBC Driver

Legal / Trademarks

N/A

Infrastructure

N/A

Miscellaneous

None

Credits

Calvin Kirs help put the report together.

DevLake

DevLake is an open-source dev data platform that ingests, analyzes, and visualizes the fragmented data from DevOps tools to distill insights for engineering productivity.

DevLake has been incubating since 2022-04-29

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Grow the community, add committers and PPMC members
Grow the ecosystem, support more data sources and use cases

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?

3 new contributors joined the community
2 new committers (Yanghui Lin and Yumeng Wang) were elected
Hosted three community meetups
Two community members (Maxim Wheatley and Warren Chen) will be presenting at ApacheCon Asia 2022 this week.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Made DevLake`s first WIP release v0.11.0
Added a new plugin for team configuration
Refactored to support multi-connection for plugins

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:

2022-07-18

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2022-07-25

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, the mentors helped tremendously throughout the first WIP release. Many thanks to the mentors!

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

There are no known brand and naming issues.

Signed-off-by:

(devlake) Felix Cheung
Comments: Good progress. Community has been active.
(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:

Heron

A real-time, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine. Heron has been incubating since 2017-06-23.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Growing the community, make Heron easier to use
Python compatibility issues
Improving our release process

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 current community has stayed consistent and stable.

How has the project developed since the last report?

There has been lots of work in addressing issues of running Heron in k8s (move “cloud native”).

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:

2021-05-26. A new release candidate is being voted on now.

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Saad Ur Rahman, 2021/11/29

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes. Some times it can be challenging to get ennough Mentor sign-offs though.

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

Yes.

Signed-off-by:

(heron) Jake Farrell
Comments:
(heron) Julien Le Dem
Comments:
(heron) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments:
(heron) Dave Fisher
Comments: I think it's time for Heron to push for graduation in the next months.
(heron) Ming Wen
Comments:
(heron) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Linkis

Apache Linkis is a computation middleware project, which decouples the upper applications and the underlying data engines, provides standardized interfaces (REST, JDBC, WebSocket etc.) to easily connect to various underlying engines (Spark, Presto, Flink, etc.).

Linkis has been incubating since 2021-08-02.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Improve project infrastructure(CI, CD, test automation, etc.) and structure to facilitate community collaboration
Make Apache releases regularly and keep the quality for all releases
Gain 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?

5 committers and 11 contributors increased. There are currently 101 contributors and 21 committers.
185 issues and 246 pull requests since last report (2022/04/28). (issues:total/closed/open 1296/1181/115, pr: total/closed/open 1169/1159/10)
Since the last report, we have held 5 bi-weekly meetings to discuss the progress and needs of the developing versions of Apache Linkis, and conducted two Apache Linkis community meetups to invite community partners to share the use cases of Apache Linkis.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Apache Linkis 1.1.2 released on 2022-07-04. Support simplified deployment in environments without HDFS; new Sqoop engine for data migration; other optimizations and bug fixes, etc.
Apache Linkis 1.1.1 released on 2022-05-13. Support UDF multi-version management and UDF storage to BML; Yarn queue statistics for submitted tasks; new OpenLooKeng engine; other optimizations and bug fixes, etc.