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Timeline

Wed October 04	Podling reports due by end of day
Sun October 08	Shepherd reviews due by end of day
Sun October 08	Summary due by end of day
Tue October 10	Mentor signoff due by end of day
Wed October 11	Report submitted to Board
Wed October 18	Board meeting

Shepherd Assignments

Calvin Kirs	Liminal
Dave Fisher	Milagro
Drew Farris	HugeGraph
Drew Farris	Teaclave
Justin Mclean	Annotator
P. Taylor Goetz	Pegasus
PJ Fanning	Livy
Timothy Chen	DataLab
Willem Jiang	Pekko
Willem Jiang	Pony Mail

Incubator PMC report for October 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. In September, podlings executed 6 distinct releases.

Datalab is retiring, and Liminal is discussing retirement. Two new podlings have joined the incubator Answer and ResilientDB.

There has been discussion on several incubating proposals. A proposed project Seata has been proposed; it may not be a good fit for the ASF, but the project is responsive to address any IPMC concerns. A proposed project OzHera may be too soon to join the Incubator as they don't have a community.

There was some minor cleanup of outstanding Jira issues.

Community

New IPMC members:

Huxing Zhang
Sammi Chen

People who left the IPMC:

none

New Podlings

Answer
ResilientDB

Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

Livy
Pony Mail
Teaclave

Graduations

none

The board has motions for the following:

none

Releases

The following releases entered distribution during the month of September:

Devlake 0.18.0
Opendal v0.40.0
Paimon 0.5.0
Pekko persistence JDBC 1.0.0
Pekko connectors 1.0.0
Wayang 0.7.1

IP Clearance

kvrocks controller

Legal / Trademarks

NA

Infrastructure

NA

Miscellaneous

NA

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:

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

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

The project and community has remained quiet through 2023. We are attempting again to revitalize the community by... a) simplifying build tooling--both for making releases and for use within other projects b) communicating and coordinating future planning on the mailing list with other contributors (who we hope will "reactivate") c) working to move the project closer to the needs of higher level Web developers who need "drop-in" annotation help (vs. our current low level "advanced" library only)

How has the community developed since the last report?

Minimal activity on the mailing list.

How has the project developed since the last report?

No code since last board report.

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:

2022-05-05

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:

DataLab

DataLab is a platform for creating self-service, exploratory data science environments in the cloud using best-of-breed data science tools.

DataLab has been incubating since 2018-08-20.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

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

How has the community developed since the last report?

How has the project developed since the last report?

in the process of retirement

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: in the process of retirement

Date of last release:

2022-11-30

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

The last committer was added on April 10, 2023

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, our mentors are helpful and responsive

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

Brand and naming issues are absent.

Signed-off-by:

(datalab) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments:
(datalab) Henry Saputra
Comments:
(datalab) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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:

Release distributed storage module (include PD/store) & make graph computer easy to use
Overall easier to use, more stable and reliable & more communication with other Graph Community(Like Tinkerpop/JanusGraph etc)
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

How has the community developed since the last report?

We have taken part in 2 activities to let more students participate in the construction of HugeGraph.
We took part in CommunityOverCode Asia 2023, and shared experiences and insights from building the open source community, as well as the use of HugeGraph in enterprises and its optimizations.
10+ new contributors with 80+ Pull Requests

How has the project developed since the last report?

hugegraph-toolchain has introduced Kafka source and hugegraph-spark-connector.
A new HTTP client solution has been introduced to resolve the dependency issues in hugegraph-common and improve compatibility with Spring Boot 2.
Dockerfile and CI processes for all hugegraph sub projects have been optimized.
The hugegraph-computer module has added a snapshot feature.
A distributed development version of hugegraph-server is under development.
Documents have been improved and some bugs have been fixed.

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:

2023-02-22

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2023-03-12 (last committer)

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

No issues to report 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:
(hugegraph) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: It's good to see HugeGraph keep building the community.

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Liminal

Apache Liminal is an end-to-end platform for data engineers and scientists, allowing them to build, train and deploy machine learning models in a robust and agile way.

Liminal has been incubating since 2020-05-23.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Grow developers community.
Adoption of the project by a few companies.
Integrations with eco-system projects.

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

NA

How has the community developed since the last report?

NA

How has the project developed since the last report?

NA

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:

2022-03-10

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2022-04-06

Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

They have been very responsive and helpful.

Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any

open issues that need to be addressed. NA

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

NA

Signed-off-by:

(liminal) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
(liminal) Henry Saputra
Comments:
(liminal) Uma Maheswara Rao G
Comments:
(liminal) Davor Bonaci
Comments:
(liminal) Liang Chen
Comments:

IPMC/Shepherd notes:

Milagro

Milagro is core security infrastructure and crypto libraries for decentralized networks and distributed systems.

Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

Introduce policies for correct corporate involvement (see https://github.com/orgs/apache/projects/171/views/1)
Continue to build relevant and useful crypto libraries and applications for decentralized networks in order to grow the ecosystem of users and contributors to the project.
Improve automated quality pipelines, improve existing releases and demonstrate improved compliance with the Apache Way.
Correct the use of branding on our own website, updating the technical documentation to match.

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

No issues are known as of now.

How has the community developed since the last report?

Several employees were laid off by their sponsoring employer and and are now contributing as individuals, increasing the community diversity.

How has the project developed since the last report?

CVE-2023-33241 affected the experimental MPC code, thanks to responsible disclosure a fix was committed and released about a month before public disclosure.
The path to graduation map has been updated in a GitHub project. This map keeps being our north start to lead us to graduation.