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## Description: Apache Gravitino is a high-performance, geo-distributed, and federated metadata lake. It manages metadata directly in different sources, types, and regions, providing users with unified metadata access for data and AI assets. ## Project Status: Current project status: New Issues for the board: No ## Membership Data: Apache Gravitino was founded 2025-05-20 (15 days ago) There are currently 26 committers and 13 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members (project graduated recently). - Eric Chang was added as committer on 2025-05-29 ## Project Activity: - Gravitino 0.9.0 was released on 2025-05-07. Recent developments on Gravitino: - Metadata authentication features are actively developed on the dev branch. - Cache mechanism, the development is smoothly ongoing. - Policy system, the API interface is merged, the following PRs are ongoing. - Statistics system, the API interface is ongoing. - Various good first issues have been resolved. - Documents, websites, and other sources have been updated to reflect the TLP. - Adjust the PMC roster. ## Community Health: The Gravitino community continues to be healthy, with a large number of commits and individual contributors over the last month. 85 PRs got merged, 106 issues were created, and 49 issues were resolved in the last month. The activities of commits compared to the previous month are slightly decreased, this is mainly because a new version has just been released, most of the contributors are working on designing the next version's features. The activities of issues and discussion are still quite healthy. The PMC roster has been adjusted, however, there is still a minor issue with a couple of non-PMC members subscribed to the private mailing list. Several Gravitino talks have been accepted for upcoming conferences, including the Open Source Summit and Community over Code NA and Community over Code Asia.
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 managing your data and AI assets seamlessly with a flexible, unified governance framework, including lakehouse federation capabilities. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Gravitino Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Gravitino be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to managing your data and AI assets seamlessly with a flexible, unified governance framework, including lakehouse federation capabilities; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Gravitino" 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 Gravitino Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Gravitino 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 Gravitino Project: * Daniel Dai <daijy@apache.org> * Junping Du <junping_du@apache.org> * Nicholas Jiang <nicholasjiang@apache.org> * Larry McCay <lmccay@apache.org> * Justin Mclean <jmclean@apache.org> * Jean-Baptiste Onofré <jbonofre@apache.org> * Yu Qi <yuqi4733@apache.org> * Jerry Shao <jshao@apache.org> * Shao Feng Shi <shaofengshi@apache.org> * Ashish Singh <asingh@apache.org> * Liu Xun <liuxun@apache.org> * Xing Yong <yxac@apache.org> * Kang Zhou <zhoukang@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jerry Shao be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Gravitino, 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. Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache Gravitino Project, unanimous with Justin Mclean recusal
Gravitino is a high-performance, geo-distributed, and federated metadata
lake designed to manage metadata seamlessly across diverse data sources,
vendors, and regions. Its primary goal is to provide users with unified
metadata access for both data and AI assets.
Gravitino has been incubating since 2024-06-04.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Fix all the potential license issues.
2. Release a version with non-WIP disclaimer.
3. Fill out the maturity model.
### 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. The Gravitino community added two new committers: Can Cai, Qian Xia.
2. The Gravitino community added two PPMC members: He Qi, Hui Yu.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. A new version 0.8.0-incubating has released.
2. Reaching to 153 commmitters and with 5+ commits per day.
### 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:
2025-01-24
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-03-13
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
The mentors are helpful, and there are no special issues that need to be
addressed.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes, there's no branding issue, and 3rd parties use the name and brand
correctly.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (gravitino) Daniel Dai
Comments:
- [ ] (gravitino) Junping Du
Comments:
- [X] (gravitino) Justin McLean
Comments:
- [ ] (gravitino) Shaofeng Shi
Comments:
- [ ] (gravitino) Larry McCay
Comments:
- [X] (gravitino) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes: