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Paimon

17 Apr 2024 [Jingsong Lee / Craig]

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20 Mar 2024

Establish the Apache Paimon Project

 Establish the Apache Paimon 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 unified lake storage to build dynamic tables for both
 stream and batch processing with big data compute engines, supporting
 high-speed data ingestion and real-time data query.

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

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Paimon Project be and hereby is responsible
 for the creation and maintenance of software related to a unified lake
 storage to build dynamic tables for both stream and batch processing
 with big data compute engines, supporting high-speed data ingestion and
 real-time data query; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Paimon" 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 Paimon
 Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the
 projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Paimon
 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 Paimon Project:

 * Becket Qin <jqin@apache.org>
 * Caizhi Weng <czweng@apache.org>
 * Fang Yong <zjureel@apache.org>
 * Feng Wang <fengwang@apache.org>
 * Jingsong Lee <lzljs3620320@apache.org>
 * Nicholas Jiang <nicholasjiang@apache.org>
 * Robert Metzger <rmetzger@apache.org>
 * Stephan Ewen <sewen@apache.org>
 * Timo Walther <twalthr@apache.org>
 * Yann Byron (Bi Yan) <biyan@apache.org>
 * Yu Li <liyu@apache.org>
 * Zelin Yu <yuzelin@apache.org>

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jingsong Lee be appointed
 to the office of Vice President, Apache Paimon, 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; and be it
 further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Paimon Project be and hereby is tasked with
 the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Paimon
 podling; and be it further

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

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

16 Aug 2023

Paimon is a unified lake storage to build dynamic tables for both stream and
batch processing with big data compute engines, supporting high-speed data
ingestion and real-time data query.

Paimon has been incubating since 2023-03-12.

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

 1.Paimon Website: release note page, power by page.
 2.Release 0.5-incubating.
 3.More publicity for the English community

### 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?

 - Paimon Website: add community page, security page.

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

 - Prepare release 0.5-incubating
 - Introduce Tag creation on snapshots
 - Paimon Metrics integration to Flink
 - Spark integration to write to Paimon with schema evolution.

### 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:

 2023-06-07

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

 2023-08-01 Chong Zhuang was added as a new committer

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 - Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive.

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

 - The VP, Brand has approved the project name.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (paimon) Becket Qin
    Comments:
 - [ ] (paimon) Robert Metzger
    Comments:
 - [ ] (paimon) Stephan Ewen
    Comments:
 - [X] (paimon) Yu Li
    Comments: The development activities (code contribution, tech
    discussion, etc.) are frequent, new contributor / committer keeps joining,
    and people care about document and website building, all indicate a good
    community development.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

21 Jun 2023

Paimon is a unified lake storage to build dynamic tables for both stream
and batch processing with big data compute engines, supporting high-
speed data ingestion and real-time data query.

Paimon has been incubating since 2023-03-12.

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

 1.Publish our first release
 2.Grow the community
 3.Improve our website to contain security page, committer/ppmc list,
 contributor guide, and etc.

### 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. Committed our LOGO
 2. Several PIPs are in discussion on the dev mailing list, and several
 have agreed to start development:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PAIMON/Paimon+Improvement+Proposals

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

 1. First release under voting in general@incubator.apache.org
 2. Support Kafka CDC data ingestion
 3. Support Consumer-id to consume from the previous progress without
 resuming from the state

### 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:

 XXXX-XX-XX

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

 N/A

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive.

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

 The VP, Brand has approved the project name.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (paimon) Becket Qin
    Comments:
 - [X] (paimon) Robert Metzger
    Comments:  No concerns.
 - [X] (paimon) Stephan Ewen
    Comments: Team seems to operate maturely and to understand community
    processes well (which is not surprising, given they are all committers
in
    other projects).
 - [X] (paimon) Yu Li
    Comments: Team is actively working towards the first apache release
    (after entering incubation) and has addressed several legal issues
found
    during IPMC review. Meantime discussions happen frequently and
adequately
    on the dev mailing list, which indicates a good community build-up.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

17 May 2023

Paimon is a unified lake storage to build dynamic tables for both stream
and batch processing with big data compute engines, supporting high-
speed data ingestion and real-time data query.

Paimon has been incubating since 2023-03-12.

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

 1. Publish our first release
 2. Grow the community
 3. Commit our LOGO

### 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. Resolved the suitable name search for "Apache Paimon"
 2. Improved our website
 3. Created our slack channel in ASF

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

 1. Prepare and start voting for our first apache release
 2. Support Flink CDC data ingestion
 3. Support Lookup Changelog-producer

### 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:

 N/A

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

 * 2023-04-19, Zelin Yu was added as new committer.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 * Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive.

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

 * The VP, Brand has approved the project name.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (paimon) Becket Qin
    Comments:
 - [ ] (paimon) Robert Metzger
    Comments:
 - [ ] (paimon) Stephan Ewen
    Comments:
 - [X] (paimon) Yu Li
    Comments: Glad to see the completion of project setup, as well as the
    active development and preparation for the first apache release. It's
    also great to see new committer joining the team, indicating a healthy
    community growth.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: