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# Incubator PMC report for August 2020

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 46 podlings incubating. In July, podlings executed 11 
distinct releases. We added 1 IPMC members and none retired. There were no 
IP clearances in June. A couple of new podlings are still being discussed 
and proposals prepared. One projects APISIX graduated last month.

This month we were missing reports from BlueMarlin, Liminal, NLPCraft, 
S2Graph, SDAP and Warble. Two podlings that failed to report are new which 
is concerning. Weex was unable to get sign off by its mentors. All will be 
asked to report next month. This is the third time that Warble has failed 
to report. As with last month, it's uncertain why a large number of 
podlings where unable to submit reports, but it's likely to be related to 
current external events. We've also seen more podlings needing to ask 
mentors and IPMC members to vote on releases and fewer mentors voting on 
releases.

MXNet is slowing working on its issues with ASF release and distribution 
policy. But as with last month report, more issues have been found. The 
project has taken steps to correct items in both sets of issues, but there 
are still some outstanding concerns. There has been a constructive 
conversation with NVIDIA about changing the licensing terms to be 
compatible with the Apache license, and another 3rd party (DJL / Amazon) 
has MXNet corrected branding and trademark issues. But despite this 
progress, the MXNet PPMC seems reluctant to fix these issues promptly and 
not is not following advice given.

An objection to guidelines on distributing releases on various platforms 
was brought up at the last minute (despite multiple conversations spanning 
over a year being held on these guidelines). This initiative has stalled. 
Technically the vote to approve these guidelines passed, but until the 
person clarifies or removes their objection, it's unclear how to proceed. 
The person did not respond to requests to clarify their objections. If this 
can't be resolved, it may require the board to step in.

The Incubator has organised a track for the upcoming Apache@home conference.
.
Most discussions on the mailing list were around releases and on 
graduations and new proposals.

SDAP sorted out its subscription/roster issues, but Spot still needs to do 
so despite multiple reminders.

## Community

### New IPMC members:

### People who left the IPMC:
  - None

## New Podlings
  - Sedona

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - BlueMarlin
  - Liminal
  - NLPCraft
  - S2Graph
  - SDAP
  - Warble
  - Weex (failed to get mentor sign off)

## Graduations
  - APISIX

  The board has motions for the following:
  - None

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  July:
  - Annotator 0.1.0
  - Daffodil 2.7.0
  - DataSketches Hive 1.1.0
  - DolphinScheduler 1.3.1
  - NLPCraft 0.6.2
  - NuttX 9.1.0
  - Ratis 1.0.0
  - Ratis third party 0.5.0
  - Toree 0.4.0
  - Tuweni 1.1.0
  - Tvm v0.6.1

## IP Clearance
  - none

## Legal / Trademarks
  - Onging issues with MXNet (see INCUBATOR-253)

## Infrastructure
  - None

## Miscellaneous
  - None

## Table of Contents  
[AGE](#age)  
[Annotator](#annotator)   
[DataSketches](#datasketches)  
[DolphinScheduler](#dolphinscheduler)  
[Doris](#doris)  
[ECharts](#echarts)  
[Heron](#heron)  
[Livy](#livy)  
[PageSpeed](#pagespeed)  
[Pegasus](#pegasus)  
[Pinot](#pinot)  
[Ratis](#ratis)    
[Sedona](#sedona)  
[Toree](#toree)  
[Training](#training)  
[Tuweni](#tuweni)  
[Weex](#weex)  

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## AGE

AGE is a multi-model database that enables graph and relational models built
on PostgreSQL.

AGE has been incubating since 2020-04-29.

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

  1. Complete the Apache AGE Website development and infrastructure setup.
  2. First Apache based release.
  3. Build Healthy community around project.

### 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?
  Current focus is to complete the rest of few tasks of Podling 
  bootstrapping
  process
  and move working on our first Apache based release.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  We submitted ICLAs/CCLA/SGA for the project and completed the Repo
  migration to Apache.
  Worked on an internal release.

### 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:
  We are currently working on our first Apache release.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  None.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes, they have been helpful and responsive.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  PPMC is not managing the podling's brand / trademarks yet.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (age) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (age) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (age) Raphael Bircher  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (age) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Dave Fisher: AGE is just starting up. I do think that someone from the
    project needs to be answering the subscription email questions that
    re on the dev@ list. All the best!

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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. Communicate a clear roadmap
  2. Add active contributors
  3. Demonstrate good governance through voting on process improvements.

### 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 calls continue. A few new developers and projects have reached
  out with interest in using the project. Developing this community is the
  highest priority of the project right now.

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

  The project has made its first release. In the month since, the community
  has converted the project to TypeScript, added a DOM/HTML text 
  highlighting
  capability to the public API, and expanded the automated test suite.

### 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:

  July 11, 2020

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

  June 6, 1028

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (annotator) Nick Kew  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (annotator) Steve Blackmon  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (annotator) Tommaso Teofili  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## DataSketches

DataSketches is an open source, high-performance library of stochastic
streaming algorithms commonly called "sketches" in the data sciences.
Sketches are small, stateful programs that process massive data as a stream
and can provide approximate answers, with mathematical guarantees, to
computationally difficult queries orders-of-magnitude faster than
traditional, exact methods.

DataSketches has been incubating since 2019-03-30.

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

  1. Adding more committers. We have just added our first new committer
     since incubation! We have a few more individuals that have been
     consistent contributors to the project that we will soon want to
     go through the new committer election process. This is a big change
     from our last report where we had no candidates at all. 
  2. Fill out the Maturity Model
  3. Prepare for Graduation.

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

  We could use some help in finding people who would find working in 
  the sketching algorithms area really interesting and would want 
  to work with us to become committers.

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

  The word is getting out! We presented talks at the USPTO 2020 tech 
  conference and the Spark & AI 2020 conference, mentioned in the last 
  report, with lots of good feedback. 

  We will be co-authors in a tutorial on sketching technology at the 
  upcoming ACM-KDD conference in August with one of the world's 
  leading scientists in streaming algorithms and sketching.

  We have been invited to give a keynote talk at the upcoming 
  DataCon2020 in Taiwan in early September.

  We have been accepted for a talk at ApacheCon again this year.

  We also are seeing a big increase in the number of single PRs coming 
  from a number of different people, especially for our C++ components, 
  which is very good news. This proves that there is growing 
  interest in the project and there are folks out there that want to 
  contribute to the project. 

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

  See the releases since the last report below. 

  In addition we have made significant improvements to our website 
  thanks to some external contributors! 

  To the best of our knowledge all of our licensing and website issues 
  have been addressed and have been implemented in formal releases or 
  are in master-branch staging, awaiting the next release.  

### 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
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  - 2020-07-06 incubating-datasketches-hive 1.1.0 
  - 2020-06-19 incubating-datasketches-cpp  2.0.0 
  - 2020-05-07 incubating-datasketches-java 1.3.0 

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

  August, 2020 

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, in general. However, we do have to prod them with reminders 
  to check-off our releases. Our releases have been taking 
  longer and longer to get through the voting process especially 
  when it is in the 2nd IPMC phase. A little help here would 
  be appreciated. 

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

  To the best of our knowledge, yes. 

  * Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
    name and brand? 

    As far as we know, yes. 

  * If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? 

    We have not had to face this issue yet. 

  * Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

    Yes, and it is clearly stated as such on 
    http://incubator.apache.org/projects/datasketches.html

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (datasketches) Liang Chen  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (datasketches) Kenneth Knowles  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (datasketches) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (datasketches) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (datasketches) Evans Ye  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## DolphinScheduler

DolphinScheduler is a distributed ETL scheduling engine with powerful DAG
visualization interface..

DolphinScheduler has been incubating since 2019-08-29.

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

  1.Guide community to commit code and code review using Apache way.
  2.Develop more committers and 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. GitHub code contributors grew from 100 to 116. 
  2. Hold a co-meetup with Apache Doris and 1900 people join the on-line 
  meetup on July, 25.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. Apache Dolphin Schedule1.3.1 has released and 1.3.2 is ready for 
  voting.
  2. Maven Plugin 1.0.0 is in voting progress.

### 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:

  2020-7-13

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

  2019-5-28

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors were very helpful,  help us to refine release process and how
  to release a plug-in.

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

  Yes. We keep tracking podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (dolphinscheduler) Sheng Wu  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (dolphinscheduler) ShaoFeng Shi  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (dolphinscheduler) Liang Chen  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (dolphinscheduler) Furkan KAMACI  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (dolphinscheduler) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Doris

Doris is a MPP-based interactive SQL data warehousing for reporting and
analysis.

Doris has been incubating since 2018-07-18.

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

  1. We have not released a release version without WIP, we are preparing 
  it.

  2. We need a more stringent code access and testing environment to ensure 
  code quality and project stability.

### 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. Since the last report, we have added 16 contributors and 2 committers.
   There are currently 100 contributors and 19 committers. 

  2. We upgraded our website. Now we can understand the characteristics of
  Doris more intuitively on the website.

  3. We joined a co-meetup with Apache DolphineScheduler and 1900 people 
  join
  the on-line.

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

  Since last report(2020-06-01), a total of 262 commits were merged.
  The community contributed a lot of new features and helped Doris fix many
  bugs.
  We are working hard to prepare the next release version(0.13)

### 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:

  2020-04-24: Apache Doris (incubating) 0.12.0-rc03

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

  Zhengguo Yang: New Committer, 2020-06-22

  Yunfeng Wu: New Committer, 2020-08-05

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  All mentors are helpful.

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

  Yes. 3rd parties are using the podlings name and brand correctly. And the
  project name is approved.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (doris) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (doris) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  It's good to see the meetup across with the ASF incubating 
     projects.
  - [ ] (doris) Shao Feng Shi  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## ECharts

ECharts is a charting and data visualization library written in JavaScript.

ECharts has been incubating since 2018-01-18.

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

  1. Ensure Mentors and IPMC have no remaining issues for graduating
       We are currently discussing graduation related topics under podling's
       dev mailing list and make sure PPMC and mentors have no remaining 
  issues
       before we start discussing under general@incubator.
  2. Prepare a resolution
  3. Propose votes in incubator and general mailing list

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  We have solved the CDN issue in China by providing a Cloud Service account
  that can be accessed by PPMCs and found the donor for the CDN fees. The 
  donor
  Ming Zu is a senior manager of Baidu and fan of ECharts.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  The community has grown fast and more people are contributing to the
  project.
  73 people have contributed to the project during incubation.
  Committers work for more than 6 different companies and from 3 different
  countries.
  We elected two committers to be PPMC members since last report.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  We have released a new version 4.8.0 and an alpha version 5.0.0-alpha.1 
  and
  we are working
  toward the official release of 5.0.0.

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

  We have made the maturity assessment [1] and are currently discussing in 
  the
  project's dev mailing list about it.

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

  [1]


  https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ECHARTS/Apache+Maturity+Model+As
  sessment+for+ECharts

### Date of last release:

  2020-05-28

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

  2020-07-27

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes. Mentors have been very helpful and responsive.

  Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
  open issues that need to be addressed.
  No.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
  name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
  correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?
  The PPMC is managing the brand and trademarks. No problems found
  about this.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (echarts) Kevin A. McGrail  
     Comments:  ECharts is doing well.
  - [X] (echarts) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  I expect that ECharts will graduate in the next month or 
     two.
  - [ ] (echarts) Ted Liu  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (echarts) Sheng Wu  
     Comments:  Expect the echarts will be ready for TLP soon.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## 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:

  1. Community building
  2. Improving the release process
  3. Improving 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?
  Two new committers were elected.  Discussions are increasing across slack.
  Need to work on reporting the conversations in slack to the mailing list.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  There have been bug fixes and feature improvements. Some to note are:
  - Python 3 upgrade
  - Bazel upgrade

### 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:

  2019-11-14 0.20.2-incubating.
  Community is currently working on a new release.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  Two new committers where voted in:
  - Oliver Bristow (July 22, 2020)
  - Windham Wong (July 3, 2020)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
  open issues that need to be addressed.
  Our mentors have been responsive when needed.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
  name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
  correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?
  Yes

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (heron) Jake Farrell  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (heron) Julien Le Dem  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (heron) P. Taylor Goetz  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (heron) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  The podling seems to be working as a team better.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## 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. Start preparing towards graduation
  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?

  Moderate activity on mailing lists and code as well

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

  Currently the community is working on HA 
  feature and support for Spark on Kubernetes.
  Spark 3.0 support was added recently and a new release
  will be started once it has been more thought tested

### 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:

  2020-01-07

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

  2019-01-22

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes

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

  Yes

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (livy) Bikas Saha  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Brock Noland  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (livy) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofre  
     Comments:  Still planning to contribute what I proposed on the mailing 
     list while ago. I think we are pretty close to graduation. Maybe worth
     to start a discussion.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## PageSpeed

PageSpeed represents a series of open source technologies to
help make the web faster by rewriting web pages to reduce
latency and bandwidth.

PageSpeed has been incubating since 2017-09-30.

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

  1. Grow the number of active developers
  2. Enhance the release process: switch to github tagged release to
  simplify.
  3.

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

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

  Mailing lists and git issues are active. The number of active developers
  is unchanged.

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

  The first incubator release has been announced after field-testing.
  Furthermore, small enhancements are being contributed from people outside 
  of
  the initial committer group. Major changes have landed on master: the 
  build
  system has been refreshed to leverage bazel, c++17, abseil and Envoy. All
  dependencies have been refreshed and sanitized where possible.
  As a side-effect, some of the remaining issues from the WIP-DISCLAIMER 
  have
  been addressed.

  - MPL licensed source code for http date parsing replaced with our own
  version
  which leans on abseil. That part is all Apache licensed now. 
  - The no longer contains compiled code pulled in from dependencies.

  A simple PoC port to Envoy has landed, as a first step towards running
  PageSpeed
  as a stand-alone sidecar service (where traffic of arbitrary servers can 
  be
  routed
  through it via transparent proxying or L7 routing).

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

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

### Date of last release:

  The week of May 11th, 2020

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

  May 27 2019 (Longinos Ferrando, elected as both committer and PMC member)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
  open issues that need to be addressed.

  Yes.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
  name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
  correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

  - As far as we know the brand is respected by third parties. We-Amp
  mirrors the incubator site over at modpagespeed.com - but will work
  on transferring the domain name to the ASF this quarter.
  - It's not known if the VP, brand has explicitly approved, so that is
  something we need to make sure about and resolve.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (pagespeed) Jukka Zitting  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pagespeed) Leif Hedstrom  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (pagespeed) Nick Kew  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## 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. Project code donation
  2. First release
  3. Building 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?

  N/A.

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

  ICLA/SGA are all submitted. Accounts created. JIRA/DNS/LDAP/mail-lists
  created.
  The website repo has been migrated to Apache Github.

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

  - [X] 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?

  None yet.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
  open issues that need to be addressed.

  Yes, they are very nice and helpful.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
  name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
  correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

  Yes, We keep tracking podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (pegasus) Kevin A. McGrail  
     Comments: I am just getting involved with this podling and look 
     forward to guiding them more.
  - [ ] (pegasus) Duo zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pegasus) Liang Chen  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (pegasus) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Pinot

Pinot is a distributed columnar storage engine that can ingest data in real-
time and serve analytical queries at low latency.

Pinot has been incubating since 2019-03-01.

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

  1. None
  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 470+ users on slack - all slack discussions are forwarded to the
  project mailing list.

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

  - Released 0.4.0
  - Voted Ting Chen and Kartik Khare as a new committer.
  - Voted Jackie and Xiang Fu to PPMC

### 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:

  2020-07-14

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

  July 2020

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
  open issues that need to be addressed.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
  name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
  correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (pinot) Kishore Gopalakrishna  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (pinot) Jim Jagielski  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pinot) Olivier Lamy  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (pinot) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  What's the next step towards graduation?

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Ratis

Ratis is a java implementation for RAFT consensus protocol

Ratis has been incubating since 2017-01-03.

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

  1. Work on the graduation template.
  2. Expand the community, committers and PPMC.
  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?
   - 4 new contributors. 47 total contributors.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
   - ~60 commits. 
   - Apache Ratis 1.0.0 (GA) released in July. 
   - Apache Ratis Thirdparty 0.5.0 released.
   - Ratis is now using GitHub pull requests and GitHub Actions for 
  pre-commit checks for a better contributor experience.
   - Jakob Homan stepped down as podling mentor
   - Arpit Agarwal volunteered to be a mentor 

### 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:

    The community has grown since inception and more importantly we have 
  more diversity of committer affiliations. The recent GA release indicates
  that the project has reached a level of stability and it is very close to
  graduation.

### Date of last release:

   - 2020-07-20 - Apache Ratis 1.0.0
   - 2020-06-26 - Apache Ratis Thirdparty 0.5.0

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
   - 2020-02-21 - Siddharth Wagle added as committer.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

   - Mentors are helpful

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

  Name is approved.
  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-160

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (ratis) Uma Maheswara Rao G  
     Comments: Active community and development. 
  - [X] (ratis) Arpit Agarwal  
     Comments: Active development and regular releases. Nearing graduation.
  - [ ] (ratis) Devaraj Das  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Sedona

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to
use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process
geospatial data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

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

  1. Podling bootstrap: initial code import, name search
  2. New website and branding
  3. Community growth

### 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?

  N/A

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

  Good progress on bootstrap, LDAP and DNS created, JIRA created, git repo
  created, mailing lists created.
  5 PPMC CLA submitted, account created and added to the roster of Sedona.
  We have removed all incompatible 3rd party library dependencies in the 
  old codebase.
  Now we are waiting for another committer to submit the CLA and then the 
  code will be imported to ASF Git repo.

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

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

### Date of last release:

  We are still bootstrapping.

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

  N/A

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
  open issues that need to be addressed.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
  name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
  correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

  Not yet, we are still doing the initial setup.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (sedona) Von Gosling  
     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:

  In my opinion, I believe Toree is one of those small but useful projects
  that,
  except for being very active, would be ready to graduate. Having said 
  that,
  where there is an important issue or for voting new members and releases
  the
  PPMC show up and participate (see example of last committer/release 
  thread).

  I have started updating the podling related artifacts such as project 
  page,
  etc
  and will try to start graduation discussions before the next report.

  1.Increase active contributors
  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?

  Similar pattern with a few Q&A on both Gitter and mailing list.
  We also saw increased flow of questions related to Spark 3.0.

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

  The project has worked on the 0.4.0-incubating release, and
  is adding support for Spark 3.0 which will be available on the
  0.5.0-incubating 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
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2020-07-31

### 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?
  Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
  open issues that need to be addressed.

  There was nothing requiring mentor intervention on the last quarter.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
  name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
  correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

  No Trademark issues

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (toree) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (toree) Julien Le Dem  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (toree) Ryan Blue  
     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.

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

  1. Promote the information about Apache Training Project with increased 
     participation from community
  2. Create a tutorial on how the tools provided by this project can be 
     used to create own content
  3. 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?
  Due to recent changes in work being done remote has led to change of 
  format
  for many conferences and trainings.
  The Training project can be very valuable in dissemination of knowledge
  in this situation. We hope to adapt to new format of learning in this
  situation.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  Activity has increased since the last report.
  There were 71 posts in last 3 months.
  We have received contributions from other Apache projects like COMDEV and
  other individual contributors.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  New training slides were added on three topics:

  * Apache Hadoop
  * Apache Hive
  * Apache COMDEV

  PR activity has picked up momentum since the last report.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  There are currently some issues with this podling that we are working to
  address,
  we believe that the issues are not yet critical and can be turned around
  from within the community but want to make the board aware of this early 
  on.

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

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

  - [ ] (training) Craig Russell  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (training) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (training) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (training) Lars Francke  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Tuweni

Tuweni is a set of libraries and other tools to aid development of
blockchain and other decentralized software in Java and other JVM languages.

Tuweni has been incubating since 2019-03-25.

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

  1. Finish export notice for cryptographic elements 
  2. Vote in a few more committers
  3. Keep release pace and adoption

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  No issues to report at this time.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  We are seeing a few contributions in the bug reports and pull
  requests offered on the repository. The project is starting to
  gain good traction.

  We have seen adoption of the project downstream and a couple
  of fixes contributed as direct result.

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

  We voted 1.1.0, with a set of new features.
  The roadmap is on Github and more accessible.
  The project is also using Github actions
  to help kick faster CI for pull requests.

### 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
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2020-07-11

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  Danno Ferrin as committer on 2020-06-08.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Absolutely.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Yes. At present, there are no issues nor concerns with the Tuweni mark.
  We do not anticipate any issues with the mark regarding graduation.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (tuweni) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (tuweni) Michael Wall  
     Comments:  Good work this month
  - [X] (tuweni) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Weex

Weex is a framework for building Mobile cross-platform high performance UI.

Weex has been incubating since 2016-11-30.

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

  1. [Branding
  issues](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WEEX/Branding+issues).
  There are about 10 git repos violating the trademark of Apache Weex,
  together with their NPM/Maven artifact.
  2. [Community


  diversity](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WEEX/Communtiy+divers
  ity). Apache Weex needs more PPMCs and committers from community, no
  employees from a single company shall have majority vote in PPMC and
  committer.

### 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?

  - Working towards releasing new version

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

  - We have 8 incoming pull request, and 7 of them are merged.
  - We have 1 threads in Weex mailing list .
  - We have solved 10 Github issues.

### 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:

  2019-10-23

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

  2019-12-05

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, they are very helpful.

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

#### Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and 
  brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this?

  No.

  We are collecting a list of [branding
  issues](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WEEX/Branding+issues),
  and we shall fix the problem one by one.

#### Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

  No yet. We have not done Podling name search.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (weex) Willem Ning Jiang  
     * Comments:
  - [ ] (weex) Myrle Krantz  
     * Comments:
  - [ ] (weex) Jan Piotrowski  
     * Comments: 
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  Dave Fisher: I see no relevant email from the dev team on dev@ or private@
    since March. There is activity on commits@ from git activity which means
    work is being done. I think that there should be discussion about the
    trademark issues on private@ along with a Podling Suitable Name Search.