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18 Jun 2025 [Jerry Shao / Shane]

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21 May 2025

Establish the Apache Gravitino 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 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

19 Mar 2025

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: