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GraphAr is an open-source and language-independent data file format designed
for efficient graph data storage and retrieval.
GraphAr has been incubating since 2024-03-25.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Growing the community(attracting more committers, contributors and
users)
2. Release more ASF-compliant versions
3. Extend the GraphAr format to support more systems
### 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?
1. Voted and accepted 1 new committer.
2. Attend the OSPP 2025 activity with two projects.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Merged 14 PRs since the last report
2. Support WriterOption in SDK to allow users to configure writer options
3. Support multi-property in GraphAr format and C++ SDK
### 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:
2024-07-02
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-07-14
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, the mentors are very helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There are no known brand and naming issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (graphar) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
- [ ] (graphar) tison
Comments:
- [ ] (graphar) Xiaoqiao He
Comments:
- [ ] (graphar) Yu Li
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
GraphAr is an open-source and language-independent data file format designed
for efficient graph data storage and retrieval.
GraphAr has been incubating since 2024-03-25.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Growing the community(attracting more committers, contributors and
users).
2. Release more ASF-compliant versions.
3. Implementing key features requested in GitHub issues and discussions.
### 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?
1. Voted and accepted one new committer.
2. Attracted one new contributor.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Merged 9 PRs since the last report.
2. Remove Hadoop dependency and shade protobuf dependency in Java SDK.
### 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:
2024-07-02
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-02-17
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, the mentors are very helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There are no known brand and naming issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (graphar) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
- [X] (graphar) tison
Comments:
- [ ] (graphar) Xiaoqiao He
Comments:
- [ ] (graphar) Yu Li
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Hamilton
Hamilton is a lightweight declarative python DAG framework with an optional
observability solution.
Hamilton has been incubating since 2025-05-01.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Get podling resources set up
2. Expand community
3.
### 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?
### How has the project developed since the last report?
### 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:
N/A
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
N/A
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
N/A
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
N?A
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (hamilton) PJ Fanning
Comments: Still setting up
- [ ] (hamilton) Ayush Saxena
Comments:
- [ ] (hamilton) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
GraphAr is an open-source and language-independent data file format designed
for efficient graph data storage and retrieval.
GraphAr has been incubating since 2024-03-25.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Growing the community(attracting more committers, contributors and
users).
2. Release more ASF-compliant versions.
3. Implementing key features requested in GitHub issues and discussions.
### 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?
1. Voted and accepted one new committer.
2. Attracted one new contributor.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Merged 9 PRs since the last report.
2. Remove Hadoop dependency and shade protobuf dependency in Java SDK.
### 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:
2024-07-02
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-02-17
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, the mentors are very helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There are no known brand and naming issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (graphar) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
- [X] (graphar) tison
Comments:
- [ ] (graphar) Xiaoqiao He
Comments:
- [ ] (graphar) Yu Li
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
## Hamilton
Hamilton is a lightweight declarative python DAG framework with an optional
observability solution.
Hamilton has been incubating since 2025-05-01.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Get podling resources set up
2. Expand community
3.
### 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?
### How has the project developed since the last report?
### 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:
N/A
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
N/A
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
N/A
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
N?A
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (hamilton) PJ Fanning
Comments: Still setting up
- [ ] (hamilton) Ayush Saxena
Comments:
- [ ] (hamilton) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
GraphAr is an open-source and language-independent data file format designed
for efficient graph data storage and retrieval.
GraphAr has been incubating since 2024-03-25.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1.Growing the community(attracting more committers, contributors and
users).
2.Release more ASF-compliant versions.
3.Improve the robustness of GraphAr's submodules.
### 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?
1. Voted and accepted 1 new committer.
2. Attracted 1 contributor from the OSPP 2024 and we plan to
make him as our new committer.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Merged 50 PRs since the last report.
2. Initialized the CLI submodule of GraphAr library.
### 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:
2024-07-02
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2024-08-15
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, the mentors are very helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
We don't find any 3rd parties incorrectly using the podling's name and
brand. The VP, Brand has approved the project name.
(PODLINGNAMESEARCH-221)
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (graphar) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
- [ ] (graphar) tison
Comments:
- [ ] (graphar) Xiaoqiao He
Comments:
- [ ] (graphar) Yu Li
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
GraphAr is an open-source and language-independent data file format designed
for efficient graph data storage and retrieval.
GraphAr has been incubating since 2024-03-25.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Release our first Apache release.
2. Growing the community(attracting more committers, contributors and
users)
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
Currently no
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. We were selected for OSPP (China's GSoC) 2024.
2. 2 new contributors joined the GraphAr community.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Create 26 PRs in last month.
2. Discuss and draw up road map.
3. Implement the definition of format with Protobuf.
4. Improve the release and verify document.
### 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:
We are working towards our first release
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
GraphAr has been in incubation since March 25th, 2024. As of yet, no new
committers have been elected for the project.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
We don't find any 3rd parties incorrectly using the podling's name and
brand. The VP, Brand has approved the project name.
(PODLINGNAMESEARCH-221)
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (graphar) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
- [X] (graphar) tison
Comments:
- [X] (graphar) Xiaoqiao He
Comments: LGTM. +1 for looking forward to seeing the first release.
- [X] (graphar) Yu Li
Comments: Good to see new contributor joining the community and look
forward to the first ASF release.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
GraphAr is an open-source and language-independent data file format designed
for efficient graph data storage and retrieval.
GraphAr has been incubating since 2024-03-25.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1.Grow the community (attracting more committers, contributors and users).
2.Releasing the first Apache release of GraphAr.
3.Improve the documentation and website, align the implementation with of
C++/Java/Python/Scala libraries.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
Currently no.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
This is the first report and after entering the Apache incubator, the
regular meeting continues every week.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
This is the first report and after entering the Apache incubator, we have
finished the initial setup and website setup.
### 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:
We haven't make a release since GraphAr joined Apache incubator.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
We haven't elected new committers or PPMC members. Currently all the
committers and PPMC members are the initial committers.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, GraphAr's mentors have been helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (graphar) Calvin Kirs
Comments: The project has gotten off to a great start. Good positive
energy on the dev list.
- [X] (graphar) tison
Comments:
- [X] (graphar) Xiaoqiao He
Comments:
- [X] (graphar) Yu Li
Comments: The polding initial setup is completed and look forward to
the first ASF release.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes: