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XTable is an omni-directional converter for table formats that facilitates
interoperability across data processing systems and query engines.
has been incubating since 2024-02-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Strengthening community building by actively engaging with users.
2. Increasing adoption by implementing key features requested in GitHub
issues and discussions.
3. Establishing a consistent ASF release cadence, targeting a well
planned release every 2 months to align with ASF best practices and ensure
stability
### 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. Launched a bi-weekly 45min developer sync to discuss features, ideas
and
issues with growing attendance in each session.
2. Created a slack channel to reduce friction in collaboration.
3. Welcomed four first time contributors last month and two new people
planning to contribute this month.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. ASF release process streamlined and 0.2.0 release published in November
2024.
2. Created an RFC process for working on new features in collaboration
with
the community, with one of them close to completion, one in progress and
one of them in early stage.
3. GH issues are being actively triaged and closed, 34 PR's merged since
Nov 2024.
### 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:
Nov 8, 2024
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Feb 2024
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, our mentors have been really helpful on the release process.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (xtable) Jesús Camacho Rodríguez
Comments:
- [X] (xtable) Stamatis Zampetakis
Comments:
- [X] (xtable) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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XTable is an omni-directional converter for table formats that facilitates
interoperability across data processing systems and query engines.
XTable has been incubating since 2024-02-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Publish a release under ASF.
2. Foster community growth.
3. Modularize code to reduce the binary size and dependencies.
### 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?
We are seeing more people trying to use XTable and submitting issues.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
The community has successfully completed refactoring the code and classes
to better align with the project's. new name and to minimize confusion.
### 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:
There hasn't been any release of XTable yet.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
No new committers or PPMC members have been elected yet.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
To the best of our knowledge, and after searching the web for mentions of
"XTable" it seems there are no violations of the branding/naming policy at
the moment.
The XTable name has been approved by the VP, Brand as part of
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-218
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (xtable) Jesús Camacho Rodríguez
Comments: The project is progressing well. This month, one of the
original mentors, Hitesh Shah, resigned due to other commitments. With
three remaining mentors, we currently see no need to add a new one but will
review as necessary in the future.
- [X] (xtable) Stamatis Zampetakis
Comments:
- [X] (xtable) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
XTable is an omni-directional converter for table formats that facilitates
interoperability across data processing systems and query engines.
XTable has been incubating since 2024-02-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Complete tasks related to code base and website migration to ASF.
2. Publish a release under ASF.
3. Foster community growth.
### 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?
We are seeing more people trying to use XTable and submitting issues
while trying to run the project.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
We are nearing completion of the renaming of classes to reflect the new
project name.
### 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:
There hasn't been any release for XTable yet.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
No new PPMC members or committers have been elected.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No answer.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (xtable) Jesús Camacho Rodríguez
Comments: Good to see the growing community activity and progress
towards the first release.
- [ ] (xtable) Hitesh Shah
Comments:
- [X] (xtable) Stamatis Zampetakis
Comments:
- [X] (xtable) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments: The bootstrap is smooth and moving forward cleanly. I will
help heading to first release and polish.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Apache XTable (incubating) is a cross-table converter for lakehouse table
formats that facilitates interoperability across data processing systems
and query engines.
XTable has been incubating since 2024-02-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Complete tasks related to code base and website migration to ASF.
2. Publish a release under ASF.
3. Foster community growth.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None at present.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
This is the first report for XTable, so there's no history of community
development to report on.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Similarly, as this is the first report, there's no previous project
development to compare with.
### 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:
There hasn't been any release for XTable yet.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
No new PPMC members or committers have been elected.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes.:
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes, the PPMC members have been overseeing the management of the podling's
brand and trademarks, ensuring compliance with ASF conventions, such as
guidelines for project name references on the documentation, website, etc.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (xtable) Jesús Camacho Rodríguez
Comments:
- [X] (xtable) Hitesh Shah
Comments:
- [X] (xtable) Stamatis Zampetakis
Comments:
- [X] (xtable) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments: Good start for xtable, things are moving forward smoothly.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Projects mailing list conversation looks good to me, the project is in a
good sharp.