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Polaris

19 Feb 2025

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16 Oct 2024

Polaris is a catalog for data lakes. It provides new levels of choice,
flexibility and control over data, with full enterprise security and Apache
Iceberg interoperability across a multitude of engines and infrastructure.

Polaris has been incubating since 2024-08-09.

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

 1. Prepare the first release
 2. Grow the community
 3. Promote the project (blogs, events, ...)

### 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?
 Polaris already promoted new committers this month.
 We see a lot of interest in Polaris, and adoption seems promising.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 Polaris already promoted new committers this month. We see a lot of
 interest in Polaris, and adoption seems promising.
 We had several events (Chill Data Summit London, Big Data London, CoC NA,
 ...), webinar, blog posts and articles promoting Apache Polaris
 (incubating).
 The website has been published, now powered by Hugo to easily manage
 versioned documentation.

### 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:

 N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 New committers have been elected this month:
 * Anna Filippova
 * Eric Maynard
 * Michael Collado
 * Yufei Gu
 * Yuya Ebihara

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Yes

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 All brand usage (or plan to use) is going via the PPMC with support of
 markpub@apache.org and VP trademark.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (polaris) Bertrand Delacretaz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (polaris) Holden Karau
    Comments:
 - [ ] (polaris) Kent Yao
    Comments:
 - [X] (polaris) Ryan Blue
    Comments:  I'm glad to see the list of new committers! That's great
    news given how long the project has been active, but it indicates
    that perhaps there's something to report in the report section "How
    has the project developed since the last report"? Perhaps that's
    an oversight.
 - [X] (polaris) JB Onofre
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: