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HugeGraph

19 Jul 2023

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:

 1. Release distributed storage module (include PD/store) & make graph
 computer easy to use
 2. Overall easier to use, more stable and reliable & more communication
 with other Graph Community(Like Tinkerpop/JanusGraph etc)
 3. 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?

 1. We take part in 2 activities to let more students know the project &
 the open source culture (working in the next Q3)
 2. We take part in GOTC(Global Open-source Technology Conference) & share
 our roadmap of next version (about distributed raft-based storage)
 3. 10+ new contributors with 60+ PR (although most of the PR is tiny or
 doc improvement, it helped a lot for normal users)

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

 1. Finish i18n translation task in all pages & enhance/update a string of
 docs
 2. Add more user friendly improvement case & update the experience of
 docker usage
 3. Support multi tasks scheduled by server & fix some bugs in
 Spark-Loading mode in toolchain

### 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:

 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:
 - [X] (hugegraph) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

19 Apr 2023

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:

 1. Release distributed storage module (include PD/store) & make graph
computer easy to use
 2. At least 2 new PPMC & 5 committers take deep part in the community
 3. Overall easier to use, more stable and reliable

### 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 committers elected, 2 new contributors submit PR,
 we have cooperation with G6VP & GraphAR (open source) community

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

 Release 1.0.0 for the first ASF release, then we have a roadmap to plan
for the next release.
 We expect to provide a native distributed storage feature, which will be
the biggest change,
 and currently we're discussing the details of the integration.

### 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:

 2023-02-22

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

 2023-03-12 (last committer)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yep, thanks for their help during the first release stage.

### 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:
 - [X] (hugegraph) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments: It's good to see Hugergraph made a first release and
    invited new PPMC members.

### 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. Revitalization of the Community
 2. Dependable Release Cadence
 3. Focus on Contributors rather than primarily on Users (Docs for
processes)

### 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?

 New PPMC, committers and contributors have been working towards the 0.8.0
release goals.
 Focus on security fixes and CI processes in github as well as reviews and
merges of contributions from other contributors have been most active.

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

 log4j remediation is underway and nearly complete
 Numerous dependency related CVEs have been addressed.
 A number of bug and improvements patches have been merged.
 0.8.0 release will be ready in coming weeks.

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

 - [X] Initial setup
 - [X] Working towards first release (with revitalized community)
 - [X] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [X] Other: Nearing graduation in code stability but with a re-emerging
a dev community supporting it and working toward 0.8.0 release

### Date of last release:
 2021-02-02

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 December 2022

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 No issues with mentors to report.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 No issues to report.

 Signed-off-by:
 - [ ] (livy) Bikas Saha
    Comments:
 - [ ] (livy) Luciano Resende
    Comments:
 - [X] (livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments: The activity has restarted, mostly maintenance. I think we
can have new features and improvements soon, helping to extend the
community.
 - [ ] (livy) Madhawa Kasun Gunasekara
    Comments:
 - [X] (livy) Larry McCay
    Comments:
 - [ ] (livy) Sunil Govindan
    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:

 Improve the community participation (other Apache projects should
actively be linked to this project, since they "have the content")
 (Re)define the short-, mid-, and long-term goals of the project.
 Select an approach to handle non coding / non document related tasks
(e.g., community related activities on events)
 Create a strategy how this projects contributes to or is supported by
other Apache projects
 Create a tutorial on how the tools provided by this project can be used
to create own content
 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?

 The Training Project needs more contribution from other Apache projects.

 It also needs feedback from other Apache projects on the presentations
and trainings developed till now.

 In order to improve this collaboration we suggest to investigate the
status of other project’s documentation in a systematic approach,
especially with an eye on available training related material.

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

 Activity has remained low since the last report.

 We have to work on strategies to increase the participation and the
visibility of the project and its goals.

 Besides requests for contributions from individual contributors from
other Apache projects we want to show what the Apache Training project can
offer to those projects.

 We should build on the assumption that synergy and network effects can
help us to increase the community around training and skill management
topics.

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

 Some new training material has been provided, for details, please look at
the project repo commit comments.

 PR activity continuous on a low level since the last report.

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

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

 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 of the project’s structure: Goals and strategy needs
refinement.
 Working towards first release: What type of artifacts to release is not
clear, due to unclear goals and strategy.
 Community building: The community exists of a very small number of people
but is more or less invisible, as of today (April 2023).
 Nearing graduation: Currently, we are far away from graduation.

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

 November 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:

 - [X] (training) Craig Russell
    Comments:
 - [X] (training) Christofer Dutz
    Comments: Admittedly I have been thinking of stepping back from being
a mentor of this project as there was literally no activity at all. In the
last few days this has changed a bit, so I'll postpone my resignation for
now.
 - [X] (training) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
 - [ ] (training) Lars Francke
    Comments:

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## 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:

 1. Introduce policies for correct corporate involvement (see
 https://github.com/orgs/apache/projects/171/views/1)
 2. 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.
 3. Improve automated quality pipelines, improve existing releases and
 demonstrate improved compliance with the Apache Way.

### 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?

 - There was activity by several new contributors on new issues
 - The roadmap for the most important component (MPC) has been updated

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

 - The path to graduation map has been updated [in a GitHub
 project](https://github.com/orgs/apache/projects/171/views/1)

### 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:

 2022-11-11

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

 December 2022

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 No third party are using the brand's name incorrectly

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (milagro) Nick Kew
    Comments:
 - [X] (milagro) Jean-Frederic Clere
    Comments:

18 Jan 2023

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:

 1. Increase diversity contributors
 2. Enhance core product functionality as mentioned in the initial goals
 3. Stable release and planning

### 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?

 13 new contributors since the last report

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

 1. Prepare and start voting for the first apache version 1.0.0
 2. Support graph computing in stand-alone & k8s mode (OLAP)
 3. Support a string of graph algorithms in OLTP mode
 4. Using github projects & WIKI to manage and show the schedule

### 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:

 2022-12-31 (start voting), 2023-01-xx (the final release)

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

 None, but soon (after the release)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yep, they remind us the release progress and we'll communicate more in
 the 2023

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

 None

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (hugegraph) Lidong Dai
    Comments:
 - [X] (hugegraph) Trista Pan
    Comments:  Look forward to our first Apache release. It sounds great
    that we invovled more contributors.
 - [X] (hugegraph) Xiangdong Huang
    Comments:  22.12.31 should be the vote date of releasing the first
    version, not the final date.
 - [X] (hugegraph) Yu Li
    Comments:  Suggest to have more public discussions in the mailing
    lists, and hopefully voting of the first apache release is a good start.
 - [X] (hugegraph) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments: Podling is working on the first release.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

20 Jul 2022

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:

 1. Increase diversity contributors.
 2. Publish spec-compliant release version.
 3. Enhance core product functionality as mentioned in the initial goals.

### 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?

 There are 1 new active contributors since the last report.

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

 1. The hugegraph.apache.org official website has been built and is online.
 2. Added some features, like: Java 11 support, Cypher language support,
 Flink CDC data-load support, Spark data-load support, raft stability
 improvement, code style checking tool integration.
 3. Working towards first Apache 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:

 Not yet.

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

 Not yet.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, the hugegraph mentors are very helpful.

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

 No answer.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (hugegraph) Lidong Dai
    Comments:
 - [ ] (hugegraph) Trista Pan
    Comments:
 - [ ] (hugegraph) Xiangdong Huang
    Comments:
 - [ ] (hugegraph) Yu Li
    Comments:
 - [X] (hugegraph) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

18 May 2022

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:

 1. Increase diversity contributors.
 2. Publish spec-compliant release version.
 3. Enhance core product functionality as mentioned in the initial goals.

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

 No issues so far.

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

 This is the first report.

 All HugeGraph sub-projects have more than 50 contributors, and we are
 attracting more contributors to the development.

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

 This is the first report.

 We have completed the SGA signing, now we are discussing the trademark
 donation, and are going through the approval process.

 The donated 5 repositories have been migrated from hugegraph org to apache
 org, 7 committers have completed the github account association, they are
 granted codebase write permissions, 5 of them have been initialized as PPMC
 members.

 We solved a series of ci workflow problems for repositories migration. The
 official website is currently under construction.

 The next step is to make an official announcement, and prepare for the
 release version.

### 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 (This is the first report)

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

 We have just initialized committers or PPMC members on April 28th.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, the hugegraph mentors are very helpful.
 They guided us through the incubation process, helped solve problems we
 encountered, and taught us the apache way.

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

 Yes, 3rd parties are respecting and correctly using the podlings name and
 brand.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (hugegraph) Lidong Dai
    Comments:
 - [X] (hugegraph) Trista Pan
    Comments:  Good start for the community!
 - [ ] (hugegraph) Xiangdong Huang
    Comments:
 - [ ] (hugegraph) Yu Li
    Comments:
 - [X] (hugegraph) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments: bootstrap the project.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: