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Hamilton is a lightweight in-process framework to define, execute, and
observe directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that express data transformations. In
Hamilton, one can express complex DAGs of transformations, e.g. from
dataframe transformations (using pandas, polars, PySpark), machine learning
pipelines, through to regular software engineering API request and LLM API
based workflows. Observability hooks are built into the framework. The
Hamilton UI is a self-hostable service to capture observability output from
workflow runs.
Hamilton has been incubating since 2025-04-12.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Finish check list to be able to make a release
2. Start releasing
3. Enable more contributors
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Flat. Slack continues to trickle in.
Non PPMC users contributed some code.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. We have many merged features that haven't been released.
2. Some PRs were merged for licensing etc. Docs were updated.
3. But still more work needed for first release.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release <== here
- [ ] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
N/A
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
April 2025
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Time for the committers has been an issue this summer to get through
the checklist required to release under Apache.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
I think so. No issues thus far.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (hamilton) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
- [X] (hamilton) Ayush Saxena
Comments:
- [X] (hamilton) PJ Fanning
Comments: Podling name is approved. We got it approved before setting
up ASF resources.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Hamilton is a lightweight in-process framework to define, execute, and
observe directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that express data transformations. In
Hamilton, one can express complex DAGs of transformations, e.g. from
dataframe transformations (using pandas, polars, PySpark), machine learning
pipelines, through to regular software engineering API request and LLM API
based workflows. Observability hooks are built into the framework. The
Hamilton UI is a self-hostable service to capture observability output from
workflow runs.
Hamilton has been incubating since 2025-04-12.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Finally publish a release
2. Publish releases of all other components
3.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Organizing a meet-up in July.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Gotten some docs out -- still missing a few ASF things.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release -- currently here.
- [ ] 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?
No answer
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (hamilton) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
- [X] (hamilton) Ayush Saxena
Comments:
- [X] (hamilton) PJ Fanning
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Hamilton is a lightweight in-process framework to define,
execute, and observe directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that express
data transformations. In Hamilton one can express complex DAGs
of transformations, e.g. from dataframe transformations (using
pandas, polars, PySpark), machine learning pipelines, through to regular
software engineering API request and LLM API based workflows. Observability
hooks are built into the framework. The Hamilton UI is a self-
hostable service to captureobservability output from workflow
runs. Apache Software Foundation incubation will establish
Hamilton as a community-driven standard.
Hamilton has been incubating since 2025-04-12.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Finish repo setup.
2. Go through first release process.
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?
N/A
### How has the project developed since the last report?
N/A
### 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 apache release yet.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-04-12
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
No answer.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Name is approved:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-235
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (hamilton) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
- [X] (hamilton) Ayush Saxena
Comments: In the initial stage: setting up resource & gearing up for
the first ASF release
- [X] (hamilton) PJ Fanning
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes: