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EventMesh

21 May 2025 [Eason Chen / Justin] ¶

Report was filed, but display is awaiting the approval of the Board minutes.

19 Feb 2025 [Eason Chen / Sander] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Apache EventMesh is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a fully serverless platform used to build distributed event-driven
applications

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing: With moderate activity
Issues for the board: none

## Membership Data:
Apache EventMesh was founded 2023-03-22 (2 years ago)
There are currently 54 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jianbo Liu on 2024-01-05.
- Zikang Chen was added as committer on 2025-01-28
- Karson To was added as committer on 2025-01-28
- Ruimin Fang was added as committer on 2025-01-28

## Project Activity:
Apache EventMesh v1.11.0 release
New Feature EventMesh Dashboard is ready for review

## Community Health:
The new features were under designing or developing,
so the commits and PR activity seems decrease.
The community plans to bring the dashboard feature into the next version.

20 Nov 2024 [Eason Chen / JB] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Apache EventMesh is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a fully serverless platform used to build distributed event-driven
applications

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing: With moderate activity
Issues for the board: none

## Membership Data:
Apache EventMesh was founded 2023-03-22 (2 years ago)
There are currently 51 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jianbo Liu on 2024-01-05.
- No new committers. Last addition was Fabian Bao on 2024-01-25.

## Project Activity:
New Feature EventMesh Dashboard is ready for review
New Feature EventMesh Function runtime has been merged
New Feature EventMesh Connector runtime has been merged
Enhancement for http source/sink connector


## Community Health:
The new features were under designing or developing,
so the commits and PR activity seems decrease.
The community will release the version within a month,
so there is no need to worry about community activity.

21 Aug 2024 [Eason Chen / Justin] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Apache EventMesh is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a fully serverless platform used to build distributed event-driven
applications

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing: With moderate activity
Issues for the board: none

## Membership Data:
Apache EventMesh was founded 2023-03-22 (a year ago)
There are currently 51 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jianbo Liu on 2024-01-05.
- No new committers. Last addition was Fabian Bao on 2024-01-25.

## Project Activity:
New Feature EventMesh Dashboard under the developing
New Feature EventMesh Function runtime under the developing
New Feature add canal connector for sync data with mysql
New Feature Support gtid mode for sync data with mysql
New Feature support full sync of mysql
Enhancement for http source/sink connector
Enhancement for admin server and canal source/sink connector
Participated in CommunityOverCode Asia 2024

## Community Health:
4 new contributors
The new features were under designing or developing,
so the commits and PR activity seems a slight increase.
Contributors increased slightly compared to the previous quarter.
Overall community health is good.

15 May 2024 [Eason Chen / Sander] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Apache EventMesh is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a fully serverless platform used to build distributed event-driven
applications

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing: With moderate activity
Issues for the board: none

## Membership Data:
Apache EventMesh was founded 2023-03-22 (a year ago)
There are currently 51 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jianbo Liu on 2024-01-05.
- No new committers. Last addition was Fabian Bao on 2024-01-25.

## Project Activity:
New Feature EventMesh Dashboard under the developing
New Feature EventMesh Function runtime under the developing
New Feature Support MQTT protocol under the developing
New Feature Support disruptor as memory queue
New Feature Support Jraft algorithm as meta storage
Participated in OSPP 2024 activities and submitted 2 project topics

## Community Health:
12 new contributors
The new features were under designing or developing,
so the commits and PR activity seems a slight increase.
Contributors increased slightly compared to the previous quarter.
Overall community health is good.

@Sander: follow up about including releases in board reports

21 Feb 2024 [Eason Chen / Sharan] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Apache EventMesh is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a fully serverless platform used to build distributed event-driven
applications

## Project Status:
Current project status: With high activity.
Issues for the board: none

## Membership Data:
Apache EventMesh was founded 2023-03-22 (a year ago)
There are currently 51 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Jianbo Liu was added to the PMC on 2024-01-05
- Mingjun Liu was added as committer on 2024-01-06
- Fabian Bao was added as committer on 2024-01-25
- Tian Xia was added as committer on 2024-01-08
- Rongzhen Yan was added as committer on 2024-01-06

## Project Activity:
- 1.10.0 was released on 2023-12-24.
- participate in GSOC 2024(Google summer of code):
 Enhance the serverless ability for EventMesh
- New Feature EventMesh Dashboard under the developing

## Community Health:
14 new contributors
The new features were under designing or developing,
so the commits and PR activity seems a slight increase.
Contributors increased slightly compared to the previous quarter.
Overall community health is good.

15 Nov 2023 [Eason Chen / Rich] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Apache EventMesh is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a fully serverless platform used to build distributed event-driven
applications

## Project Status:
Current project status: With high activity.
Issues for the board: none.

## Membership Data:
Apache EventMesh was founded 2023-03-22 (8 months ago)
There are currently 47 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members.
- No new committers.

## Project Activity:
participate Community Over Code North America 2023.

The 2023 Fintech 1024 event held in Beijing, participate in the event and
share EventMesh practice.

Apache EventMesh docker image repository application completed.

New Features:
1.eventmesh-sdk-c merged
2.connector plugins for jdbc, file, prometheus, spring merged
3.rust sdk support cloudevents protocol

## Community Health:
7 new contributors.
The new features were under designing or developing, so the commits
and PR activity seems a slight decrease.
Overall community health is good.

16 Aug 2023 [Eason Chen / Shane] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Apache EventMesh is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a fully serverless platform used to build distributed event-driven
applications

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing: With high activity.
Issues for the board: Issues for the board: none.

## Membership Data:
Apache EventMesh was founded 2023-03-22 (5 months ago)
There are currently 47 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Ronghua Liang was added to the PMC on 2023-07-18
- Harshitha Sudhakar was added as committer on 2023-07-20
- Emmanuel Sombugma was added as committer on 2023-07-20
- Jianbo Liu was added as committer on 2023-07-20
- Daifu Wu was added as committer on 2023-07-20
- Feifei Wang was added as committer on 2023-07-20

## Project Activity:
New Features:
1. openConnect architecture merged.
2. connector plugins for openFunction, kafka, pulsar, redis merged.
GSOC(Google summer of code):
1. docs by version updated.
2. k8s integration under developing.
GLCC(Gitlink code camp):
1. filter and transform.
2. admin and cli.
Community Over Code Asia and Europe.


## Community Health:
The big features were under designing or developing, so the commits
and PR activity seems a slight decrease.
Overall community health is good.

21 Jun 2023 [Eason Chen / Sander] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Apache EventMesh is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a fully serverless platform used to build distributed event-driven
applications

## Project Status:
Current project status: New
Issues for the board: none

## Membership Data:
Apache EventMesh was founded 2023-03-22 (3 months ago)
There are currently 42 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 3:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members (project graduated recently).
- No new committers were added.

## Project Activity:
Software development activity:
 - openconnect merged.
 - rocketmq source/sink connector merged.
 - cloudevents grpc protocol optimization merged.
ready to release v1.9.0

Meetups and Conferences:
 - GLCC tasks created.
 - Community Over Code Asia topics created.

## Community Health:
More than 5 new contributors have been added, and 21 authors
have pushed 76 commits to master and 93 commits to all branches.

The development mailing list had a 67% decrease in traffic,
because we redirect some git-related emails into the issues
mailing list, so the issues mailing list had a big increase
in traffic. We adopt the suggestion given by
cdutz and tried to set up the .asf.yaml follow
https://github.com/apache/plc4x/blob/develop/.asf.yaml#L62
(hope to see the change next month).

17 May 2023 [Eason Chen / Sander] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Apache EventMesh is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a fully serverless platform used to build distributed event-driven
applications

## Issues:
The project is blocked by Infra on an issue.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-24475

## Membership Data:
Apache EventMesh was founded 2023-03-22 (2 months ago)
There are currently 42 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 3:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members (project graduated recently).
- No new committers were added.

## Project Activity:
Software development activity:
 - workflow new feature discussion, integration with dashboard.
 - dashboard new feature demoshow.
 - source/sink connector api merged.
 - docker deployment update.
 - java sdk cloudevents protocol optimization.

Meetups and Conferences:
 - We gave a online meetup with the 4paradigm on 27th April.
 - GSOC tasks confirm.

## Community Health:
More than 12 new contributors added, 20 authors have pushed 86
commits to master and 112 commits to all branches.

The development mailing list had a 30% decrease in traffic,
beacuase we redirect some git-related mails into issues
mailing list, so issues mailing list had a big increase in traffic.

19 Apr 2023 [Eason Chen / Rich] ¶

## Description:
EventMesh is a new generation serverless event middleware for building
distributed event-driven applications.
## Issues:
here are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache EventMesh was founded 2023-03-22 (21 days ago) There are currently 42
committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
3:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members (project graduated recently).
- No new committers were added.

## Project Activity:
1. Storage layer and interconnect layer spliting.
2. GSoC preparing, 5 tasks opened.
3. ALC Shenzhen offline meetup.
4. connector design and v1.9 is developing.
5. project resources transfer out of incubator.
## Community Health:
Someone from the community requested a proposal[1], and then PMC created
issues@eventmesh.apache.org and send Git-related information to it.

[1]https://lists.apache.org/thread/0npn2l46ok6dh0680xdb2vtwlb3zb9dy

22 Mar 2023 ¶

Establish the Apache EventMesh Project

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of
 the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to
 establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and
 maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to
 the public, related to a fully serverless
 platform used to build distributed event-driven applications;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
 (PMC), to be known as the "Apache EventMesh Project", be and hereby is
 established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache EventMesh be and hereby is responsible for
 the creation and maintenance of software related to a fully serverless
 platform used to build distributed event-driven applications; and be it
 further

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache EventMesh" be and
 hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the
 direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache
 EventMesh Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of
 the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache EventMesh
 Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are
 appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache EventMesh
 Project:

 * Eason Chen <chenguangsheng@apache.org>
 * Junping Du <junping_du@apache.org>
 * Von Gosling <vongosling@apache.org>
 * Du Heng <duhengforever@apache.org>
 * XiaoShuang Li <lixiaoshuang@apache.org>
 * Weiqiang Liang <wqliang@apache.org>
 * Alex Luo <alexluo@apache.org>
 * Justin Mclean <jmclean@apache.org>
 * Jean-Baptiste Onofré <jbonofre@apache.org>
 * Francois Papon <fpapon@apache.org>
 * Wenjun Ruan <wenjun@apache.org>
 * ShannonDing <dinglei@apache.org>
 * Xue Weiming <mikexue@apache.org>
 * Yuwei Zhu <walterzywei@apache.org>

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Eason Chen be appointed to
 the office of Vice President, Apache EventMesh, to serve in accordance
 with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the
 Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal
 or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

 RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator
 EventMesh podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are
 hereafter discharged.

 Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache EventMesh Project, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

18 Jan 2023 ¶

EventMesh is a dynamic cloud-native basic service runtime used to decouple
the application and middleware layer.

EventMesh has been incubating since 2021-02-18.

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

 1. More frequent code contributions
 2. A steady release proces
 3. Growing the community: more committers, more use cases

### 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?
 more than 120 new contributors joined.
 10 new committers and 2 new PPMC member were added.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 apache-eventmesh(incubating)-1.7.0 released

### 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:

 2022-12-5

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 2022-12-4

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Mentors were all very nice and helpful.

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

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (eventmesh) Francois Papon
    Comments:
 - [ ] (eventmesh) Junping Du
    Comments:
 - [X] (eventmesh) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:  I think eventmesh is close to graduation. The focus should
    be on the community build, so far so good.
 - [X] (eventmesh) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
 - [ ] (eventmesh) Von Gosling
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

 Yeah, I agree with JB, let's have maturity model evaluation first.

19 Oct 2022 ¶

EventMesh is a dynamic cloud-native basic service runtime used to decouple
the application and middleware layer.

EventMesh has been incubating since 2021-02-18.

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

  1.More frequent code contributions
  2.A steady release process
  3.Growing the community: more committers, more use cases

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  Apache id of committer(Jie) were not created.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  More than 100 contributors involved.
  Add 3 new committers.
  Two-weekly meeting are on schedule.

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

  Kafka-connector, Redis-connector, Pravega-connector,
  Knative-connector, workflow, server-go were merged.
  storage-jdbc-connector, dashboard are developing.

### 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:
  2022-08-31

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  2022-09-13

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Mentors were all very nice and helpful.

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

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (eventmesh) Francois Papon
     Comments:
  - [ ] (eventmesh) Junping Du
     Comments:
  - [X] (eventmesh) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
     Comments:
  - [X] (eventmesh) Justin Mclean
     Comments:
  - [ ] (eventmesh) Von Gosling
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
 JM:Was the correct process followed for the missing committer?

21 Sep 2022 ¶

EventMesh is a dynamic cloud-native basic service runtime used to decouple
the application and middleware layer.

EventMesh has been incubating since 2021-02-18.

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

 1.More frequent code contributions

 2.A steady release process

 3.Growing the community: more committers, more use cases


### 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?
About 90 contributors involved till now

GSoc,OSPP,and 8 SIG are in progressing

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

### 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:

 2022-08-31

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2022-09-05

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Mentors were all very nice and helpful.

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

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (eventmesh) Francois Papon
    Comments:
 - [X] (eventmesh) Junping Du
    Comments:
 - [X] (eventmesh) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:
 - [ ] (eventmesh) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
 - [X] (eventmesh) Von Gosling
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

18 May 2022 ¶

EventMesh is a dynamic cloud-native basic service runtime used to decouple
the application and middleware layer.

EventMesh has been incubating since 2021-02-18.

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

 1. More frequent code contributions
 2. A steady release process
 3. Growing the community: more committers, more use cases

### 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?
 we have two more use cases in production

 we have 20 more contributors,2 new committers and 1 new ppmc member

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 we have 2 version released(cloudevents and grpc support)

 we have several new features under developing such as
 gosdk/workflow/webhook/dashboard/kafka/dledger

### 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:

 2022-3-31

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

 2022-4-15

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Mentors were all very nice and helpful.

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

 Yes.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (eventmesh) Francois Papon
    Comments:
 - [ ] (eventmesh) Junping Du
    Comments:
 - [X] (eventmesh) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:
 - [ ] (eventmesh) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
 - [ ] (eventmesh) Von Gosling
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

17 Nov 2021 ¶

EventMesh is a dynamic cloud-native basic service runtime used to decouple
the application and middleware layer.

EventMesh has been incubating since 2021-02-18.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
 1. Gain more active contributors/committers to build a diverse community
 2. Make Apache releases regularly and keep the quality for all releases
 3. Improve project structure and documentation

### 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?
 1. Serveral new contributors added
 2. Participated in several online and offline conferences to share
 eventmesh
 3. One-week meeting is scheduled for serveral months by tencent meeting
 4. Serveral blogs were delivered on wechat public
 account、infoq、思否、csdn、开源中国等

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 v1.3.0 is nearing 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
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:
 2021-08-11

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 2021-02

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 yes

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

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (eventmesh) Francois Papon
    Comments:
 - [ ] (eventmesh) Junping Du
    Comments:
 - [X] (eventmesh) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:
 - [X] (eventmesh) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
 - [X] (eventmesh) Von Gosling
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

18 Aug 2021 ¶

EventMesh is a dynamic cloud-native basic service runtime used to decouple
the application and middleware layer.

EventMesh has been incubating since 2021-02-18.

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

 1. Growing the community.
 2. N/A
 3. N/A

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

### How has the community developed since the last report?
 1. The first release of v1.2.0 has been successful to vote in IPMC.
 2. We did 3 promotions on The Stack、ITPUB、and ApacheCon Asia 2021, 5
 students of SOC is on going and seems good. A meetup is on schedule.
 3. We have 12 new contributors.
 4. Two-weeks meeting is scheduled.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 1. Enhanced Plugin and make it singleton and will not be a dependency of
 runtime, only use config to enable plugin.
 2. Security Plugin is abstracted, Registry Plugin and ProtocolServer
 Plugin is developing.
 3. Kafka-connector plugin and redis-connector plugin is developing.
 4. Switch properties to ymal format is developing.
 5. CloudEvents and EventStreaming integration is desgining.
 6. OpenSchema integration is developing.

### 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:

 2021-8-6

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

 The last committer was elected on Feb 18, 2021.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, our mentors are very helpful and responsive.

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

 There are no known brand and naming issues.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (eventmesh) Francois Papon
    Comments:
 - [ ] (eventmesh) Junping Du
    Comments:
 - [X] (eventmesh) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments: First release on the way, good one. We still have work to do
    for community building and podling guidance.
 - [X] (eventmesh) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
 - [X] (eventmesh) Von Gosling
    Comments: Good shape, very close to the first release. Community
building will be the next direction.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

21 Apr 2021 ¶

EventMesh is a dynamic cloud-native basic service runtime used to decouple
the application and middleware layer.

EventMesh has been incubating since 2021-02-18.

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

 1. Make more releases in ASF policy regularly.
 2. Building 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?
 Preparing for some open talks, such as EDASubbmit and ApacheCon Asia.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 Waiting for code migration to apache, and ready for first release of 1.2.2.

### 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

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Yes, Our mentors are very helpful and responsive.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 The VP, Brand has approved the project name.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (eventmesh) Francois Papon
    Comments:
 - [ ] (eventmesh) Junping Du
    Comments:
 - [X] (eventmesh) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
    Comments:
 - [X] (eventmesh) Justin Mclean
    Comments: Already working towards first release, well done!
 - [ ] (eventmesh) Von Gosling
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: