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Wayang

18 Jun 2025 ¶

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19 Mar 2025 ¶

Apache Wayang is a layered ML framework that connects your applications to
various data processing platforms,
automatically translating your requests into a common format and optimizing
tasks for each platform.
Its flexible design also makes it easy to add new features or support
additional technologies dynamically.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

 1. Growing the community / attracting more committers and developers
 2. Automate release process
 3. Build FedML further

### 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?

 Slowly growing

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

 - [X] Initial setup
 - [X] Structure setup, voting established
 - [ ] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 2025-09-02

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

 2024-09-16

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 All good.

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

 Yes, and approved.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Lars George
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
    Comments:
 - [X] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:  I don't think Wayang is in initial setup phase. I would say
    more community building.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

19 Feb 2025 ¶

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

 1. Growing the community / attracting more committers and developers
 2. Automate release process
 3. Build FedML further

### 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?
 Stagnate

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

### 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:

 2023-09-20

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

 2024-09-16

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 All good.

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

 Yes, approved.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Lars George
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
    Comments:
 - [X] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

 [PJF] Have been discussing graduation. Some issues with invalid content in
 releases but these are being addressed.

19 Jun 2024 ¶

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

 1. Growing community
 2.
 3.

### 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?
 New PPMC member

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 New PPMC member and many new features, such as Python API, Tensorflow
 integration, and initial support for federated data processing

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

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

### Date of last release:

 2024-02-05

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 2024-05-13

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Everything good.

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

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Lars George
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

20 Mar 2024 ¶

 Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

  1. Growing community
  2.
  3.

### 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 new multiple contributors since last report. We are also in
  process of adding new committers and PPMC members.

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

  We've added new features, re-structured the code and have now released 1.0.
  We also have a new website now.

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

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

### Date of last release:

  2024-02-05

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

  2023-06-05

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, No issues here

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

  Yes, no issues here.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
     Comments:
  - [ ] (wayang) Lars George
     Comments:
  - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
     Comments:
  - [X] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

20 Dec 2023 ¶

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

 1. Growing community
 2. New website (in progress)
 3.

### 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?

 Community has been growing. We received commits from multiple individuals
 and organizations. Also we have a new PPMC member.

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

 We released Wayang 0.7.1. Next release 1.0.0 will have significant
 additions and code base restructuring.

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

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

### Date of last release:

 2023-09-03

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

 2023-06-05

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, no problems.

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

 Yes, no issues here.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Lars George
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
    Comments:
 - [X] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

20 Sep 2023 ¶

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

 1. Grow the community, we really need some help here
 2. Website issues not solved
 3.

### 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?
 Stagnating, see unfinished issues (1)

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 We are in the process to create our next release, fixed bugs and added
 features. We do a 0.71 release before we prepare 1.0 which involves code
 base restructuring.

### 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:

 2021-12-13

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

 2023-06-05

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

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

 Yes, everything good here.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Lars George
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
    Comments:
 - [X] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

21 Jun 2023 ¶

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

 1. Release 1.0 (in progress)
 2. Update Website (we have issues to get the pipeline running, its messed
 a bit and INFRA could not help)
 3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
 No, everything works!

### How has the community developed since the last report?
 We got significant traction, received commits from multiple individuals
and
 organizations.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 Activity increasing, commits and dev activity climbing.

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

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

### Date of last release:
 2021-12-13

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 2023 - 26 - 04

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Only the website pipeline.

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

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Lars George
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:1

22 Mar 2023 ¶

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

 1. Community building
 2. release a new version
 3. redo website and documentation to guide interesting developer

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

 Nothing

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

 We got new contributors from different companies and Universities.

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

 Better community traction, adding new features

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

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

### Date of last release:

 2021-12-13

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 2022-01-18: Calvin Kirs

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Nothing to add here.

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

 Yes, Wayang got approved by the ™ team, we don't face any trademark
 related issues.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:  I can see quite a bit more activity in the podling in this
    period
 - [ ] (wayang) Lars George
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
    Comments:
 - [X] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

21 Dec 2022 ¶

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

1. Simplifying and documenting the release process
  2. Drive growth and community building
3. Slow contribution rate

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

The trademark team solved the Trademark of “Wayang”.

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

Slow adaption, but increasing interest and adoption.

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

Python integration had a delay in development.

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

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

### Date of last release:

2021-12-13

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

2022-01-18: Calvin Kirs

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.

Yes, the mentors are helpful. Nevertheless, two of them have prolonged
inactivity.

### 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?

The trademark names have been solved.

### Signed-off-by:

- [X] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
 Comments: Thing I'm a bit worried of, is that for the last 5-6 months
there
 has been no non-trivial (dependabot or typo) commit to the repo. When
asking
 on slack, the team tells me they are working hard on something, but not
yet
 ready to push it to the ASF repo. I did tell them that code-drops from a
 partition of the project is bad community wise, but there hasn't been any
 change so far.
- [ ] (wayang) Lars George
 Comments:
- [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
 Comments:
- [X] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
 Comments:  the podling is moving forward smoothly.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

21 Sep 2022 ¶

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling the
business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data processing
platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames the
complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data processing
platforms that we currently witness. Wayang has been incubating since
2020-12-16.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1.  Simplifying and documenting the release process
2.  Drive growth and community building
3.  Slow contribution rate

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
™ “Wayang” as ™ is not solved yet, no response so far from the trademark team.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
Slow adaption, but increasing interest and adoption.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
Python integration progressing, SQL support in hibernation

### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your
   own commentary.
- [x] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [x] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:

### Date of last release: 2021-12-13

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2022-01-18: Calvin Kirs

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through
   the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.
Yes, the mentors are helpful, nevertheless, two of them have prolonged
inactivity.

### 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?

The name is under the process of "ASF's trademark counsel.”

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (wayang) Christofer Dutz Comments:  It's been quite quiet on the list
    and on the code repo.
 - [ ] (wayang) Lars George Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann Comments:
 - [X] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments:  I think we are on track for
    graduation.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

--------------------

15 Jun 2022 ¶

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

  1. Simplifying and documenting the release process
  2. Had a significant growth (stars/forks at GitHub), but we want to gain

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

 When establishing whether "Apache Wayang" was a proper name, it was
 rejected because the 'wayang' word was wrong translated by Google
 Translator as 'puppet' but instead of that means 'Imagination' or 'shadow'.
 Because of the confusion and to avoid future problems, the process is under
 "ASF's trademark counsel". The process started in January, and until these
 days, the community did not get any status updates.

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

 The community growth is significant (according to Github); during the
 last month, the main repository had been cloned at least one time per day
 from a unique IP, and two persons outside of the committer registered had
 been contributing to the code.

 In addition to that, the community is presenting some projects for GSOC
 and OSPP.

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

 The community is stabilizing the code for the new release, which will
 include python API to create more options for users to join and use Apache
 Wayang(Incubating)

### 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:

 December 13, 2021

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

 2022-01-18 : Calvin Kirs

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, the mentors are very responsive and helpful, nevertheless, two of
 them have prolonged inactivity

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

 The name is under the process of "ASF's trademark counsel."

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
    Comments: That there's been no update on the Podling Namesearch ist
    not good, I'll try and help find out the current status.
 - [ ] (wayang) Lars George
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
    Comments:
 - [X] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:  Very active and interesting podling. I think the podling is
    close to graduation. The effort is around expanding the community. I will
    help there.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

18 May 2022 ¶

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

 1. Simplifying and documenting the release process
 2. Had a significant growth (stars/forks at GitHub), but we want to gain
 popularity further and grow the community.

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

 When establishing whether "Apache Wayang" was a proper name, it was
 rejected because the 'wayang' word was wrong translated by Google
 Translator as 'puppet' but instead of that means 'Imagination' or 'shadow'.
 Because of the confusion and to avoid future problems, the process is under
 "ASF's trademark counsel". The process started in January, and until these
 days, the community did not get any status updates.

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

 When establishing whether "Apache Wayang" was a proper name, it was
 rejected because the 'wayang' word was wrong translated by Google
 Translator as 'puppet' but instead of that means 'Imagination' or 'shadow'.
 Because of the confusion and to avoid future problems, the process is under
 "ASF's trademark counsel". The process started in January, and until these
 days, the community did not get any status updates.

 In addition to that the community is presenting some project for GSOC and
 OSPP.

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

 The community growth is significant (according to Github); during the last
 month, two persons outside of the committer registered had been
 contributing to the code.

### 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:

 December 13, 2021

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

 2022-01-18 : Calvin Kirs

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, the mentors are very responsive and helpful, nevertheless, two of them
 have prolonged inactivity

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

 The name is under the process of "ASF's trademark counsel."

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Lars George
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
    Comments:
 - [X] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:  great podling, we are still working on growing the
    community. However, we are pretty close to graduation imho.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

15 Dec 2021 ¶

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

 1. Make sure that every PPMC is able to manage a release
 2. Release the first version of Apache Wayang under the umbrella of the
 Apache Software Foundation
 3. We have significant growth (stars / forks at GitHub), but we want to
 gain more popularity and growth the community further

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

 Apache Wayang is doing the first release, and it has many iterations;
 almost all the -1 votes comes from license issues or related. Many members
 of the community comment about the lack of documentation and examples in
 the incubator page in a case like:
 - set up well the license when you bring pieces of code from another
 project.
 - what happens when you bring code from another source.
 - How need to be the headers if you bring the code from the repository
 that it said is apache but does not contain headers licenses.
 - How to need to be the license when you bring a code snippet or similar.
 - and some another cornet cases that could happen.

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

 The community growth is significant (according to Github), the team
 around Apache Wayang was present at the BOSS conference ’21 and the Apache
 @home conference. We also signed an LOI with the TU of Berlin to cooperate
 with “AGORA-EO: Indexing and Querying Earth from Federated Big Data
 Archives”. The TU Berlin will add federated image processing to Apache
 Wayang.

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

 As we had to import and rebrand a running project we needed some time to
 rework the code base for fitting the ASF standards, which resulted in 8
 release candidates. The incubator community spottet the issues we weren’t
 aware of, which allows us now to present the first release of Apache Wayang
 without a WIP disclaimer. We have chosen this route to make sure that the
 project will always fit the standards, even when we had different views. At
 the end all concerns and issues were solved, thanks to the Sheppards.

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

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

 Technology wise the Podling is a productive state, which is also
 reflected by cooperating with the TU Berlin. We see growing adaption in the
 market, especially from companies with large data processing pipelines.

### Date of last release:

 No Release yet. At the moment of this report, the RC9 is under votes.

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

 2021-03-05 : Committer

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, the mentors are very responsive and helpful

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

 No Answer

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (cdutz) Christofer Dutz
    Comments: The team has done a great amount of work ruling out all
    issues before the first release. They didn't want to go with the WIP and
    wanted to get things right ... I liked that.
 - [ ] (wayang) Lars George
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

15 Sep 2021 ¶

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

 1. Educate the new PPMCs to be able to do Apache releases
 2. Do our first Apache release
 3. Grow the community

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

 Until the moment of this report it was created and didn't have any issue,
 because all the important issues got solved.

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

 The community of Apache Wayang presented at one conference and is
 preparing another presentation this month.

 - Apache Wayang participated in the BOSS@VLDB 2021 to present the
 functionalities; you can find the presentation on
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgD_1tPn9sc.
 - Apache Wayang will present at the ApacheCon@HOME on September 22 at
 18:00 UTC.

 The community is also expecting new contributors soon because one
 collaboration will start during the following months.

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

 During the last months, the community was fixing some errors, which
 created a bottleneck, but it finally got solved. After solving the
 blockage, the focus was cleaning the licenses in the code because some
 libraries used by Apache Wayang were not license compatible with Apache
 License. At the moment of this report, We are currently discussing
 starting our first release.

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

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

### Date of last release:

 No Release yet. At the moment of this report, We are currently discussing
 starting our first release..

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

 2021-03-05 : Committer

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, the mentors are very responsive and helpful

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

 No answer.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
    Comments: Admittedly, I was a bit worried about the extremely low
    volume of communication and commits for some time, but it seems that
    the project has started moving again after that conference they mentioned.
 - [ ] (wayang) Lars George
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

16 Jun 2021 ¶

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

 1. Educate the new PPMCs to be able to do Apache releases
 2. Do our first Apache release
 3. Grow the community

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

 Until the moment of this report it was created and didn't have any issue,
 because all the important issues got solved.

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

 The community members are in the applying process to present in a few
 conferences to show Apache Wayang to the Processing Platform Community and
 other communities that could be interested in the project.

 Also, different members of the community had meetings with possible
 contributors, however, nothing is concrete until the writing point of the
 report.

 Additional to that the community is searching for more developers that
 can be part of it.

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

 The main focus is the first release. The team is focusing on cleaning the
 code, refactoring some parts and preparing the documentation. However, it
 is taking more time than the estimated one, but the community members are
 pushing to have it done as soon as possible.

### 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:

 No Release yet.

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

 2021-03-05 : Committer

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
 open issues that need to be addressed.

 Yes, the mentors and champions are very responsive and helpful

### 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?

 No answer.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Lars George
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
    Comments:
 - [X] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

 Drew Farris (shepherd): Two mentors active on the mailing lists, working
 towards first release.

17 Mar 2021 ¶

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

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

 1. Educate the new PPMCs to be able to do Apache releases
 2. Do our first Apache release
 3. Grow the community

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

 Until the moment of this report it was created and didn't have any issue,
 because all the important issues got solved.

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

 In the last month the community did a meeting where they created the most
 important point to be focused on. The main focus points are the creation of
 a Python API, SQL API and maintenance on the Core to be enabled to support
 the new API's. The protocol of that meeting can be found it on dev@ list

 Additional to that the community is searching for more developers that
 can be part of it.

 Also during the last month the issue with the software grant got solved
 and we are waiting for the document to get signed.

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

 The project has moved the codebase to Apache's Git repos as well as
 successfully setup the CI jobs. Also the Website is now up and running.

 The team is finishing the process of renaming the project from Rheem to
 Wayang, and is important to review that everything is placed in the right
 spot.

### 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:

 No Release yet.

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

 2021-03-02 Gabor Gevay (PPMC & Committer)
 2021-03-05 Yasser Idris (Committer)

 The votes have passed and the invites have been sent, however the accept
 emails are still missing at the time the report was written.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, the mentors and champion are very responsive and helpful Is the PPMC
 managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 No answer.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Lars George
    Comments:
 - [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
    Comments:
 - [X] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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20 Jan 2021 ¶

Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.

Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address:

 1. Finishing the Software Grant paperwork
 2. Onboarding of the existing team at Apache
 3. Getting Wayang setup on Apache infrastructure

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

 There are no issues present at the moment

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

 We are in the onboarding process, but got new developer requests which we
 process when the project is fully onboarded

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

 We are in process to sort the software grant, getting the team on board and
 started code rebranding to fit the ASF regulatory framework

### 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 yet

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

 None yet

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, the mentors are very responsive and helpful

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

 We are managing the brand, to avoid conflict we renamed rheem into Wayang,
 the process is still ongoing

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
    Comments:  Seems getting the paperwork done takes a bit longer for
    universities and institues than for "normal" companies, but I'm hopeful
    that we'll sort out the remaining issues till the next report.
 - [X] (wayang) Lars George
    Comments:
 - [X] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
    Comments:  cdutz signed off the report as Bernd had problems logging
    in (signoff on file in dev-list mail archive)
 - [X] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:  Initial phase, but it moves forward anyway.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: