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OpenDAL

16 Aug 2023

Open Data Access Layer: Access data freely, painlessly, and efficiently.

OpenDAL has been incubating since 2023-02-27.

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

 1. Higher Quality Release Workflow
 2. Grow the community.
 3. Collect more use cases.

### 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?

 According to incomplete statistics from GitHub, Opendal currently has 114
 contributors and is being used by 205 projects.

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

 Added support for storage services such as tikv, persy and dropbox, as
 well as  language bindings for haskell, zig, lua, etc. In addition, we have
 also implemented  the sink API for cloud storage services.

### 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:

### Date of last release:

 2023-07-21 v0.38.1

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

 2023-07-21

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes.

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

 Yes.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (opendal) tison
    Comments:
 - [ ] (opendal) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments:
 - [ ] (opendal) Sheng Wu
    Comments:
 - [ ] (opendal) Ted Liu
    Comments:
 - [ ] (opendal) Xiaoqiao He
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

21 Jun 2023

Open Data Access Layer: Access data freely, painlessly, and efficiently.

OpenDAL has been incubating since 2023-02-27.

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

 1. Making the first release.
 2. Grow the community.
 3. Collect more use cases.

### 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?

 In the past month, we have welcomed 5 new contributors, bringing the total
 number to 91.

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

 In the past month, we added new services integrations like sftp, supabase,
 vercel artifacts and cos.

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

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

### Date of last release:

 2023-05-23

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

 2023-05-29

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes.

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

 Yes.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (opendal) tison
    Comments:
 - [X] (opendal) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments: Good to see OpenDAL made a big step to cut the first Apache
    release.
 - [ ] (opendal) Sheng Wu
    Comments:
 - [ ] (opendal) Ted Liu
    Comments:
 - [ ] (opendal) Xiaoqiao He
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

17 May 2023

Open Data Access Layer: Access data freely, painlessly, and efficiently.
OpenDAL has been incubating since 2023-02-27.

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

 1. Grow the community(attracting more committers, contributors, and users)
 2. Publish Apache releases(resolving logistics on Apache releases)
 3. Improve project structure and documentation

### 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 added support for Supabase, SFTP, OneDrive, Google Drive, and
 Vercel Artifacts (Vercel Remote Caching), providing more choices to our
 users.
 We have noticed that some new projects have adopted OpenDAL, and there
 are also new users for our bindings who have achieved great results.
 We have launched a new project called Oay (OpenDAL Gateway). By providing
 a native gateway, we empower users to access different storage through the
 same API.
 We have also participated in open-source community activities. We are
 excited to be part of the Open Source Promotion Plan (OSPP) 2023, a summer
 program that encourages students to contribute to open-source projects.

 We have improved our documentation for new users and developers and set
 up a fast development environment to make it easier for them to use and
 contribute.

 In the past month, we have welcomed 26 new contributors, bringing the
 total number to 86.

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

 - Core:  We have added support for several new services and made
 improvements to performance and usability.
 - Cli: There have been no changes from the last report.
 - Bindings: We made some improvements to the existing bindings, adding
 new Java and C bindings with basic functions.
 - Gateway: We are still developing the MVP.

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

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

### Date of last release:

 2023-04-27

 NOTE: v0.33.2 - 2023-04-27 is not yet an official ASF release. We are
 still in the process of learning how to create a formal one.

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

 April 24th, 2023. In the last month, we selected one PPMC member who was
 involved in the implementation of several features and reviewed most of the
 PRs.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes

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

 N/A

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (opendal) tison
    Comments:
 - [X] (opendal) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments: The podling is in a good track.
 - [ ] (opendal) Sheng Wu
    Comments:
 - [ ] (opendal) Ted Liu
    Comments:
 - [ ] (opendal) Xiaoqiao He
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

19 Apr 2023

Open Data Access Layer: Access data freely, painlessly, and efficiently.

OpenDAL has been incubating since 2023-02-27.

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

 1. Grow the community (attracting more committers, contributors, users)
 2. Publish Apache releases (resolving logistics on Apache release)
 3. Improve project structure and documentation

### 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?

 OpenDAL has now been adopted by llama-hub to provide support for cloud
object storage services. Additionally, we have noticed that a command-line
tool called dilu has been using OpenDAL. We are also planning to provide
webhdfs support for object store in the near future.

 In the past month, we have had close to 20 new contributors and elected
two new committers.

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

 - Core: We are now pushing for support for copy/rename.
 - Cli: The implementation of the oli command-line tool is still ongoing,
and we support configuration files and some common operations such as `ls`
and `cat`.
 - Bindings: We now have a basic Ruby binding implementation, and further
improvements have been made to Python and Node.js bindings.

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

 Please feel free to add your own commentary.

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

### Date of last release:

 2023-03-31

 NOTE: v0.30.5 - 2023-03-31 is not yet an official ASF release. We are
still in the process of learning how to create a formal one.

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

 March 24th, 2023. In the last month, we selected two committers who are
maintainers of python bindings and nodejs bindings, respectively.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 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?

 N/A

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (opendal) tison
    Comments:
 - [X] (opendal) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments: Good to see OpenDAL made it's first release.
 - [ ] (opendal) Sheng Wu
    Comments:
 - [ ] (opendal) Ted Liu
    Comments:
 - [ ] (opendal) Xiaoqiao He
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

22 Mar 2023

Open Data Access Layer: Access data freely, painlessly, and efficiently.

OpenDAL has been incubating since 2023-02-27.

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

 1. The majority of contributions to the OpenDAL project were made by only
 four committers, with Xuanwo being the most prolific contributor.
 2. The adoption rate of OpenDAL has been relatively low, with only a few
 projects currently using it.

### 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?

 This is the first report of OpenDAL.

 Over the past two weeks, the project has successfully attracted four new
 contributors, one of whom has shown great promise and potential to be
 considered for committer status in the future.

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

 This is the first report of OpenDAL.

 During the past two weeks, OpenDAL has added support for the append
 function and is currently working on developing Python and Node.js
 bindings. These updates are expected to be included in the upcoming 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:

 NOTE: it's not an Apache release, because our repo trasnfer is not DONE
 yet.

 2023-03-02

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

 OpenDAL has been in incubation since February 27th, 2023. As of yet, no
 committers have been elected for the project.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes.

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

 N/A

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (opendal) tison
    Comments:
 - [X] (opendal) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments: Just finished the project setup work
 - [ ] (opendal) Sheng Wu
    Comments:
 - [ ] (opendal) Ted Liu
    Comments:
 - [X] (opendal) Xiaoqiao He
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: