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Sedona

21 Feb 2024 [Jia Yu / Sander] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use
APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing: with high activities and several active
contributors Issues for the board: all good

## Membership Data:
Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (a year ago)
There are currently 19 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Kristin Cowalcijk on 2023-04-04.
- Furqaan Khan was added as committer on 2024-02-09

## Project Activity:
The project is very active. We made a new release in January 2024 with the
help of several contributors. We currently keep the 3-month release cadence.
The overall downloads of this project have exceeded 24 millions.

## Community Health:

The community is healthy. Several people actively contribute to the project
and new contributors also joined. We also added a new committer to this
project. Recently we have been focusing on the improvement of raster data
management capability.

15 Nov 2023 [Jia Yu / Shane] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use
APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:
Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (a year ago)
There are currently 18 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Kristin Cowalcijk on 2023-04-04.
- Nilesh Gajwani was added as committer on 2023-09-11

## Project Activity:
We recently made the 1.5.0 release on Oct 12. This is a major release
consisting of many new raster processing functions and new geospatial
visualization plugins.

## Community Health:
The community is pretty active and the project received quite a lot PRs. One
thing to note is that the number of code contributors is less than before. We
need to think about how to engage more people to contribute.

16 Aug 2023 [Jia Yu / Craig] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use
APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: No issues so far

## Membership Data:
Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (8 months ago)
There are currently 17 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Kristin Cowalcijk on 2023-04-04.
- No new committers. Last addition was Kristin Cowalcijk on 2023-04-05.

## Project Activity:
We release Sedona 1.4.1 on June 24 2023. Our current release cadence is about
1 release per 3 month and a major release (with potential API changes) every 6
month. In terms of project development, in the past quarter, Sedona received
over 200 PRs which is 60% increase.

## Community Health:

Our community is pretty healthy. In terms of adoption, our monthly downloads
have exceed 1M and overall downloads have exceed 18M. In terms of
contributors, our total number of contributors is now 107.

17 May 2023 [Jia Yu / Rich] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use
APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention

## Membership Data:
Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (5 months ago)
There are currently 17 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Kristin Cowalcijk was added to the PMC on 2023-04-04
- Kristin Cowalcijk was added as committer on 2023-04-05

## Project Activity:
We released Sedona 1.4.0 on 03/19. 1.4.0 is the first release since Sedona
became a top level project and includes many existing features such as native
GeoParquet support and fast serializer.

We are now working towards the next maintenance release 1.4.1 and the major
release 1.5.0. Our goal in the next few releases is to refactor Sedona to a
unified structure which adds comprehensive geospatial analytics support to
many big data engines including Snowflake, BigQueries and so on.


## Community Health:
The community is pretty healthy in general. But we do observed a significant
decrease on new JIRA tickets. This is mainly because the infra team has
disabled the self-signup of JIRAs. We also need to attract more contributors
to Sedona.

22 Mar 2023 [Jia Yu / Bertrand] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use
APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data

## Issues:

Currently, we don't have any issues. We are aware of the discussion of
potential naming and branding issues of Apache Sedona.

## Membership Data:
Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (3 months ago)
There are currently 16 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members (project graduated recently).
- No new committers were added.

## Project Activity:

1. We plan to release Sedona 1.4.0 in one week.
2. Since the last report, the community spent lots of efforts on Sedona R
 binding improvement. The previous main contributor of Sedona R is no longer
 active and a new community member takes over and puts lots of efforts here.
3. The community also spent efforts on fixing the styling and doc errors. This
 will make the entire source code easy to read and maintain.

## Community Health:

I cannot see the community health metrics due to some unknown reasons.

Anyway, I collected the statistics myself. We have 8 active contributors
made 37 commits to the Sedona repo.

We have lots of activities on our mailing list, JIRA tickets and GitHub
issues. In total, we had around 150 messages over all these channels.

15 Feb 2023 [Jia Yu / Willem] ¶

## Description:

Apache Sedona is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial
data. Sedona extends existing cluster computing systems, such as Apache Spark
and Apache Flink, with a set of out-of-the-box distributed Spatial Datasets
and Spatial SQL that efficiently load, process, and analyze large-scale
spatial data across machines.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention

## Membership Data:
Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (a month ago)
There are currently 16 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members (project graduated recently).
- No new committers were added.

## Project Activity:

The community recently implemented or is implementing a few important features
that will significantly improve the performance and adoption of Sedona.

1. Full GeoParquet format support. Sedona now can read / write GeoParquet
 files in GeoParquet Standard 1.0.0. It also supports the important filter
 pushdown function for GeoParquet.

2. H3 and S2 indexing support. With this implementation, Sedona might have
 better spatial join performance in some cases. This will also make it
 possible to support spatial join in streaming environments.

## Community Health:

Overall the community is healthy. The mailing list is active and commits and
PRs are normal. However, since ASF JIRA no longer allows self-signup, we
observed a significant decline on issue reporting. Lots of new users of Sedona
usually create tickets on JIRA but now they have to ask Sedona PMC to create
an account first, which might discourage them to participate. Therefore,
Sedona recently re-enabled the GitHub issue function. Let's see if this can
help.

18 Jan 2023 [Jia Yu / Willem] ¶

No report was submitted.

21 Dec 2022 ¶

Establish the Apache Sedona Project

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests
 of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to
 establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and
 maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to
 the public, related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It
 provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage,
 wrangle, and process geospatial data.

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
 (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Sedona Project", be and hereby is
 established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Sedona Project be and hereby is responsible
 for the creation and maintenance of software related to a big
 geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for
 spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial
 data; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Sedona" be and
 hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the
 direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Sedona
 Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the
 projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Sedona
 Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are
 appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Sedona
 Project:

 * Adam Binford         <kimahriman@apache.org>
 * Felix Cheung         <felixcheung@apache.org>
 * George Percivall     <percivall@apache.org>
 * Jean-Baptiste Onofré <jbonofre@apache.org>
 * Jia Yu               <jiayu@apache.org>
 * Jinxuan Wu           <jinxuanw@apache.org>
 * Kanchan Chowdhury    <kanchanchy@apache.org>
 * Kengo Seki           <sekikn@apache.org>
 * Mo Sarwat            <mosarwat@apache.org>
 * Netanel Malka        <malka@apache.org>
 * Paweł Kociński       <imbruced@apache.org>
 * Sachio Wakai         <swakai@apache.org>
 * Sunil G              <sunilg@apache.org>
 * Von Gosling          <vongosling@apache.org>
 * Yitao Li             <yitaoli@apache.org>
 * Zongsi Zhang         <zongsizhang@apache.org>

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jia Yu be appointed to
 the office of Vice President, Apache Sedona, to serve in accordance
 with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the
 Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal
 or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it
 further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Sedona Project be and hereby is tasked with
 the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Sedona
 podling; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator
 Sedona podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter
 discharged.

 Special Order 7F, Establish the Apache Sedona Project, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

16 Nov 2022 ¶

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to
use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process
geospatial data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

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

 1. Make sure all PPMC vote the next release with detailed items
 2. Make sure all PPMC have their GitHub account connected to ASF ID>
 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?

 We continue to receive lots of traction from users and we keep answering
 questions in Gitter chat and mailing list

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

 We made a release in August and have added lots of new features since
 then. We plan to release the next version this month.

### 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:

 2022-08-30

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

 2022-08-31

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 All good here

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

 All good here

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung
    Comments:  Community has gone through two rounds of graduation votes -
    it will be a good idea to set out the plan on getting to graduation,
    laying out the items to be resolved etc.
 - [X] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:
 - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [X] (sedona) Von Gosling
    Comments: near to graudation, come on.
 - [ ] (sedona) Sunil G
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

21 Sep 2022 ¶

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to
use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process
geospatial data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

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

 1. All issues are fixed.
 2.
 3.

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

Our last release in general@incubator took 3 weeks to pass. Not many people are casting their votes.

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

Our monthly downloads have reached over 800K. We now have 82 contributors and 10 PPMC members.

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

We had 1 more release (1.2.1) and 1 more release manager.

### 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:

 2022-08-30

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

2022-08-16

### 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.

Our mentors Jean-Baptiste Onofré and Von Gosling are little too busy and hence are not very responsive. But since we will graduate soon, this is not an issue.

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

Yes, the VP has approved the project name.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung
    Comments:
 - [X] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:  I was busy during summer vacation time. I will be more active in this podling in the future.
 - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [x] (sedona) Von Gosling
    Comments:  It's lucky to cast the last vote in the latest release

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

18 May 2022 ¶

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to
use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process
geospatial data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

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

 1. Self-assessment for graduation
 2. More contributors
 3. More release managers

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

 All good

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

 The monthly downloads have reached record high, around 500K downloads per
 month

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

 All good here. We received lots of PRs from new contributors.

### 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
 - [X] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 2022-04-16

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 2022-03-04

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 All good here

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

 All good here

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung
    Comments:
 - [ ] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:
 - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [ ] (sedona) Von Gosling
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

17 Nov 2021 ¶

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to
use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process
geospatial data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

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

 1. Inviting new committers and PMC members
 2. Find alternative release manager
 3.

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

 All good here

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

 The community is growing fast. Our releases under the ASF brand now have
 reached 400k downloads per month.

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

 We published one more release 1.1.0-incubating in October.

### 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
 - [X] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 2021-10-06

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

 N/A

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 All good here.

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

 All good here.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung
    Comments:
 - [X] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:
 - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [X] (sedona) Von Gosling
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

18 Aug 2021 ¶

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to
use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process
geospatial data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

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

 1. Find alternative release manager
 2. Fix the data copyright issue occurred in test data
 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?

 All good here. We have active users on Gitter and mailing list

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

 We successfully published our second release Apache Sedona
 1.0.1-incubating

### 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:

 2021-05-25

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

 N/A

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 All good here

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

 No answer.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung
    Comments:
 - [X] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:
 - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [X] (sedona) Von Gosling
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

19 May 2021 ¶

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use
APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial
data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

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

 1. Need several release managers.
 2. Currently, Jia is the release manager Complete IP clearance is not done
 yet.
 3. Website may not be fully compliant with Apache guidelines

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

 N/A

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

 All good here. We are interacting with our users through dev@s.a.o and
 Gitter

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

 1. We published our first release Sedona 1.0.0.
 2. We added several patches after the first release according to the
 community feedback

### 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:

 2021-02-06

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

### 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.

 All good here

### 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?

 All good here

### Signed-off-by:

 - [x] (sedona) Felix Cheung Comments:
 - [ ] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments:
 - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall Comments:
 - [ ] (sedona) Von Gosling Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

17 Feb 2021 ¶

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to
use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process
geospatial data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

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

 1. Need several release managers. Currently, Jia is the release manager
 2. Complete IP clearance is not done yet.
 3. Website, documentations and the release process may not be fully
 compliant with Apache guidelines.

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

 N/A

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

 All good here. We are interacting with our users through dev@s.a.o and
 Gitter

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

 We have added a number of new functions to Sedona (see Sedona JIRA:
 https://s.apache.org/yz865)

 We have changed the Sedona project structure, file headers and class names
 to make sure it follows the guidelines.

 The first release (Apache Sedona 1.0.0-incubating RC1) has passed the
 community vote and is now being voted by IPMC.

### 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:

 N/A

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

 N/A

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 All good here

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

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung
    Comments:  very close on the first release. community growth will be a
    good focus next.
 - [ ] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:
 - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [X] (sedona) Von Gosling
    Comments: Keep moving, very close to the first release after podling.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

18 Nov 2020 ¶

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to
use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process
geospatial data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

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

 1. We are still working on the first release
 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?

 We are doing good here. We received many questions via emails and on
 Gitter chat.

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

 We have made several PR to prepare the first release. This includes the
 name change in the paths and classes, update dependencies in core, sql,
 viz
 and python. We are also working on the documentation updates.

### 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:

 N/A

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

 The last time when we added committers or PPMC is July 2020. It is when
 we submitted our proposal.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, all good here.

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

 We haven't seen any ongoing issues regarding this matter.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung
    Comments:  Good progress on the first release. Looking forward to it.
 - [ ] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:
 - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [ ] (sedona) Von Gosling
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

21 Oct 2020 ¶

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to
use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process
geospatial data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

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

 1.The name change in the source code
 2.The first release
 3.

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

 N/A

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

 The community has been active in the past month. We have received emails
 and Gitter chats from many users. The GitHub repo also received more
 stars.
 However, we notice that, since we close the "Issues" function on GitHub,
 many users seem not to post questions to JIRA and mailing list. Some of
 them chose to send emails directly to the committers. We would like to
 figure out a way to guide the users to the right channel.

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

 Since the last report, we have published our new project website under the
 Apache domain: http://sedona.apache.org/

 We have almost finished our first big PR under the new name, Sedona:
 https://github.com/apache/incubator-sedona/pull/484

 The development progress was kind of blocked by this PR. We believe once
 this PR is accepted, we will move much faster.

### 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:

 N/A

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

 The last time when we added committers or PPMC is July 2020. It is when
 we submitted our proposal.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, all good here.

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

 We haven't seen any ongoing issues regarding this matter.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung
    Comments:  New website looks great
 - [X] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:  Good progress on the bootstrapping and community build.
 - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [X] (sedona) Von Gosling
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

16 Sep 2020 ¶

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to
use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process
geospatial data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

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

 1. We are still working on the initial setup.
 2.
 3.

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

 N/A

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

 The community has been active since the last report. We have started to
 use the mailing list to exchange ideas of different development issues in
 Sedona. Several contributors, users and committers have joined the
 discussion on the mailing list dev@

 It is also worth noting that we are still working on importing the code
 into the incubator ASF GitHub repo. It took us several weeks to collect
 CLAs and SGAs from the major participating parties. I believe we have
 collected sufficient evidence to prove that the artifact is ready to be
 imported and the secretary has confirmed the CLA and SGA. We just created
 a JIRA ticket for the infra team and are waiting for them to import our
 codebase into ASF GitHub:
 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-20786

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

 The project made a good progress. In the past month, we accepted several
 patches from Kengo Seki and Sachio Wakai. In the meantime, Committer
 Netanel is working on a large PR to replace a 3rd party dependency
 JTSplus with JTS in order to improve the performance. Committer Pawel is
 working on another large PR to carry out the Sedona Python support for
 Spark 3.0.

### 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?

 The last time when we added committers or PPMC is July 2020. It is when
 we submitted our proposal.

### 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, mentors are very helpful throughout the process. We exchanged many
 emails recently to solve the CLA and SGA issues.

### 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?

 We haven't seen any ongoing issues regarding this matter.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung
    Comments: good to see the progress in the community. I see source is
    imported
 - [ ] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:
 - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [X] (sedona) Von Gosling
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

19 Aug 2020 ¶

Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to
use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process
geospatial data.

Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.

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

 1. Podling bootstrap: initial code import, name search
 2. New website and branding
 3. Community growth

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

 N/A

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

 N/A

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

 Good progress on bootstrap, LDAP and DNS created, JIRA created, git repo
 created, mailing lists created.
 5 PPMC CLA submitted, account created and added to the roster of Sedona.
 We have removed all incompatible 3rd party library dependencies in the
 old codebase.
 Now we are waiting for another committer to submit the CLA and then the
 code will be imported to ASF Git repo.

### 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 are still bootstrapping.

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

 N/A

### 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.

### 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?

 Not yet, we are still doing the initial setup.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung
    Comments:
 - [ ] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
    Comments:
 - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [X] (sedona) Von Gosling
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: