Incubator PMC report for March 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 5 distinct releases. This month we were missing reports from Nemo, PageSpeed, Spot and Training. There are votes underway to retire PageSpeed and Spot and Marvin-AI has retired. Nemo and Training projects will be asked to report next month. The Training project is discussing how to move forward. Flagon and EventMesh have proposals to the board for graduation. Two new podlings Palimon and OpenDAL have joined the Incubator. There is ongoing discussion around a few new projects and the graduation of DataLab.

Community

New IPMC members:

• Becket Qin
• Yu Xiao

People who left the IPMC:

• Jim Jagielski

New Podlings

• OpenDAL
• Paimon

Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

• Nemo
• PageSpeed
• Spot
• Training

Graduations

• None

The board has motions for the following:

• EventMesh
• Flagon

Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of March:

• HugeGraph 1.0.0
• Kvrocks 2.3.0
• StreamPark 2.0.0
• DevLake 0.15.0
• NLPCraft 1.0.0  

IP Clearance

• [Kylin]Accept donation of Kylin new Modeling System

Legal / Trademarks

N/A

Infrastructure

N/A

Miscellaneous

N/A

Table of Contents

Baremaps KIE NLPCraft OpenDAL Uniffle Wayang

Baremaps

Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for creating, publishing, and operating online maps.

Baremaps has been incubating since 2022-10-10.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Getting the code in compliance with Apache standards
2. Making releases
3. Growing the community

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?

The activity has been low in December and January, but the community has stayed steady.

How has the project developed since the last report?

• We addressed most of the critical licensing issues and identified minor issues with license of the data used in the tests
• We improved the layout and the content of the web site
• We launched a vote for a first release candidate with a DISCLAIMER-WIP file
• Some of us will attend the OGC/OSGeo/ASF code sprint with the intent to work on Baremaps

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?

When the project entered incubation.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, the mentors have been very helpful on several topics (community building, licensing, etc.)

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

Yes

Signed-off-by:

•  (baremaps) Bertrand Delacretaz
  Comments:
•  (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
  Comments:
•  (baremaps) Julian Hyde
  Comments: Reviewing the first release candidate now, and quality looks good for a podling's first RC. Development has been rather narrow (in a few individuals), so I'm hoping to see broadening of community participation around the first release.
•  (baremaps) Calvin Kirs
  Comments:
•  (baremaps) George Percivall
  Comments:
•  (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

KIE

KIE (Knowledge is Everything) is a community of solutions and supporting tooling for knowledge engineering and process automation, focusing on events, rules, and workflows.

KIE has been incubating since 2023-01-13.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Software Grant completion, currently waiting on legal.
2. IP clearance. Question: Can this start before the grant has been finalized?
3. Create a release :)

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

Currently no.

How has the community developed since the last report?

This is our first report. We have a number of people signed up for the PPMC, but seeing as we don't have the code moved over yet, there isn't much else to be done at the moment.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We're working through legal both at IBM and Red Hat. This wasn't as quick as any of us had hoped it would be.

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

•  Initial setup Mailing lists created Initial committers have signed the ICLA
•  Working towards first release We'll get there, need the software grant first
•  Community building Not much we can do on this front until the code has moved over
•  Nearing graduation N/A
•  Other:

Date of last release:

    N/A

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Back in January when we were accepted into the Incubator

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Brian has been very helpful in getting things started, no concerns about any of the mentors.

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

Still working on grants

Signed-off-by:

•  (kie) Brian Proffitt
  Comments:
•  (kie) Claus Ibsen
  Comments:
•  (kie) Andrea Cosentino
  Comments: Looks good.

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

NLPCraft

A Scala library for NLU applications

NLPCraft has been incubating since 2020-02-13.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Community growth.

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?

Community development wasn't grown last months. The main reason is probably due to core committers were engaged in a 1.0 release tests,documentatation and website update. But there were some initial developers requests to join and contribute during last months.

How has the project developed since the last report?

The project tests were extended, examples added, documentation and website updated, release 1.0.0. prepared.

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:

2023-02-30

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 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:

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. The majority of contributions to the OpenDAL project were made by only four committers, with Xuanwo being the most prolific contributor.
2. The adoption rate of OpenDAL has been relatively low, with only a few projects currently using it.

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 of OpenDAL.

Over the past two weeks, the project has successfully attracted four new contributors, one of whom has shown great promise and potential to be considered for committer status in the future.

How has the project developed since the last report?

This is the first report of OpenDAL.

During the past two weeks, OpenDAL has added support for the append function and is currently working on developing Python and Node.js bindings. These updates are expected to be included in the upcoming Apache 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:

NOTE: it's not an Apache release, because our repo trasnfer is not DONE yet.

2023-03-02

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

OpenDAL has been in incubation since February 27th, 2023. As of yet, no committers have been elected for the project.

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes.

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

N/A

Signed-off-by:

•  (opendal) tison
  Comments:
•  (opendal) Willem Ning Jiang
  Comments: Just finished the project setup work
•  (opendal) Sheng Wu
  Comments:
•  (opendal) Ted Liu
  Comments:
•  (opendal) Xiaoqiao He
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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?

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

How has the project developed since the last report?

The community has received a contribution adding support for Scala 2.13 and Apache Spark 3.3 and are discussing how to better handle the support for both versions versus one.

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:

2022-04-11

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:

•  (toree) Luciano Resende
  Comments: With my contributor hat, I am planning to try to move Toree trough graduation on the next couple months
•  (toree) Julien Le Dem
  Comments:
•  (toree) Ryan Blue
  Comments:
•  (toree) Weiwei Yang
  Comments:

Uniffle

Uniffle is an high performance, general purpose remote shuffle service for distributed computing engines.

Uniffle has been incubating since 2022-06-06.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Promote the project and grow the user and dev community

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?

1. 4 new contributors from different affiliations contributed to Uniffle project.
2. 70 issues have been created, among this 75 were discussed and resolved.
3. 2 discussion were occurred

How has the project developed since the last report?

1. 70 issues have been created, among this 75 were discussed and resolved. 234 PRs has been created, among this 144 PRs were merged.
2. We're preparing v0.7.0 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:

2022-12-09

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Xianjing Feng, elected as committer on 2023-02-08

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, they're helpful in guiding the podding project

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

Yes

Signed-off-by:

•  (uniffle) Felix Cheung
  Comments:
•  (uniffle) Junping Du
  Comments:
•  (uniffle) Liu Xun
  Comments:
•  (uniffle) Weiwei Yang
  Comments:
•  (uniffle) Zhankun Tang
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Wayang

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Community building
2. release a new version
3. redo website and documentation to guide interesting developer

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

Nothing

How has the community developed since the last report?

We got new contributors from different companies and Universities.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Better community traction, adding new features

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

Date of last release:

2021-12-13

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?  

2022-01-18: Calvin Kirs

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Nothing to add here.

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

Yes, Wayang got approved by the ™ team, we don't face any trademark related issues.

Signed-off-by:

•  (wayang) Christofer Dutz
  Comments: I can see quite a bit more activity in the podling in this period
•  (wayang) Lars George
  Comments:
•  (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
  Comments:
•  (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
  Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes: