
= Incubator PMC report for November 2016 =

=== Timeline ===
||Wed November 02 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
||Sun November 06 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
||Sun November 06 ||Summary due by end of day ||
||Tue November 08 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
||Wed November 09 ||Report submitted to Board ||
||Wed November 16 ||Board meeting ||


=== Shepherd Assignments ===
||Drew Farris ||PredictionIO ||
||Drew Farris ||Toree ||
||John Ament ||DataFu ||
||John Ament ||Fluo ||
||Justin Mclean ||Unomi ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||AriaTosca ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Beam ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Fineract ||
||Timothy Chen ||Eagle ||
||Timothy Chen ||Slider ||
||Timothy Chen ||iota ||
||[none] ||Annotator ||
||[none] ||Blur ||
||[none] ||CarbonData ||
||[none] ||Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer ||
||[none] ||DistributedLog ||
||[none] ||Edgent ||
||[none] ||Guacamole ||
||[none] ||Hivemall ||
||[none] ||Impala ||
||[none] ||Joshua ||
||[none] ||NetBeans ||
||[none] ||S2Graph ||
||[none] ||Sirona ||
||[none] ||Spot ||
||[none] ||SystemML ||
||[none] ||Tamaya ||

=== Report content ===
{{{
Incubator PMC report for November 2016

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

< narrative >

* Community

  New IPMC members:


  People who left the IPMC:


* New Podlings


* Graduations

  The board has motions for the following:


* Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  October:


* IP Clearance


* Legal / Trademarks


* Infrastructure


* Miscellaneous


* Credits

  - Report Manager:

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator


* Not yet ready to graduate

  No release:


  Community growth:


* Ready to graduate

  The Board has motions for the following:


* Did not report, expected next month


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                       Table of Contents
Annotator
AriaTosca
Beam
Blur
CarbonData
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
DataFu
DistributedLog
Eagle
Edgent
Fineract
Fluo
Guacamole
Hivemall
Impala
iota
Joshua
NetBeans
PredictionIO
S2Graph
Sirona
Slider
Spot
SystemML
Tamaya
Toree
Unomi

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Annotator

Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and humans.

Annotator has been incubating since 2016-08-30.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](annotator) Nick Kew
  [ ](annotator) Brian McCallister
  [ ](annotator) Daniel Gruno
  [ ](annotator) Jim Jagielski

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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AriaTosca

ARIA TOSCA project offers an easily consumable Software Development Kit(SDK)
and a Command Line Interface(CLI) to implement TOSCA(Topology and
Orchestration Specification of Cloud Applications) based solutions.

AriaTosca has been incubating since 2016-08-27.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](ariatosca) Suneel Marthi
  [ ](ariatosca) John D. Ament
  [ ](ariatosca) Jakob Homan

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Beam

Apache Beam is an open source, unified model and set of language-specific SDKs
for defining and executing data processing workflows, and also data ingestion
and integration flows, supporting Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIPs) and
Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). Dataflow pipelines simplify the mechanics of
large-scale batch and streaming data processing and can run on a number of
runtimes like Apache Flink, Apache Spark, and Google Cloud Dataflow (a cloud
service). Beam also brings DSL in different languages, allowing users to
easily implement their data integration processes.

Beam has been incubating since 2016-02-01.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](beam) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
  [ ](beam) Jim Jagielski
  [ ](beam) Venkatesh Seetharam
  [ ](beam) Bertrand Delacretaz
  [ ](beam) Ted Dunning

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Blur

Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data
in a cloud computing environment.

Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](blur) Doug Cutting
  [ ](blur) Patrick Hunt
  [ ](blur) Tim Williams

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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CarbonData

Apache CarbonData is a new Apache Hadoop native file format for faster
interactive query using advanced columnar storage, index, compression and
encoding techniques to improve computing efficiency, in turn it will help
speedup queries an order of magnitude faster over PetaBytes of data.

CarbonData has been incubating since 2016-06-02.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](carbondata) Henry Saputra
  [ ](carbondata) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
  [ ](carbondata) Uma Maheswara Rao G

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer

CMDA provides web services for multi-aspect physics-based and phenomenon-
oriented climate model performance evaluation and diagnosis through the
comprehensive and synergistic use of multiple observational data, reanalysis
data, and model outputs.

Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer has been incubating since 2015-05-08.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman
  [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann
  [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce
  [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall
  [ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Gregory D. Reddin

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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DataFu

DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in higher
level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides functions
for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream
sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop jobs
for incremental data processing in MapReduce.

DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
  [ ](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
  [ ](datafu) Ted Dunning

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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DistributedLog

DistributedLog is a high-performance replicated log service. It offers
durability, replication and strong consistency, which provides a fundamental
building block for building reliable distributed systems.

DistributedLog has been incubating since 2016-06-24.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](distributedlog) Flavio Junqueira
  [ ](distributedlog) Chris Nauroth
  [ ](distributedlog) Henry Saputra

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Eagle

Eagle is a Monitoring solution for Hadoop to instantly identify access to
sensitive data, recognize attacks, malicious activities and take actions in
real time.

Eagle has been incubating since 2015-10-26.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](eagle) Owen O'Malley
  [ ](eagle) Henry Saputra
  [ ](eagle) Julian Hyde
  [ ](eagle) P. Taylor Goetz
  [ ](eagle) Amareshwari Sriramdasu

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Edgent

Edgent is a stream processing programming model and lightweight runtime to
execute analytics at devices on the edge or at the gateway.

Edgent has been incubating since 2016-02-29.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](edgent) Daniel Debrunner
  [ ](edgent) Luciano Resende
  [ ](edgent) Katherine Marsden
  [ ](edgent) Justin Mclean

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Fineract

Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.

Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
  [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
  [ ](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Fluo

Fluo is a distributed system for incrementally processing large data sets
stored in Accumulo.

Fluo has been incubating since 2016-05-17.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](fluo) Billie Rinaldi
  [ ](fluo) Drew Farris
  [ ](fluo) Josh Elser

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Guacamole

Guacamole is an enterprise-grade, protocol-agnostic, remote desktop gateway.
Combined with cloud hosting, Guacamole provides an excellent alternative to
traditional desktops. Guacamole aims to make cloud-hosted desktop access
preferable to traditional, local access.

Guacamole has been incubating since 2016-02-10.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](guacamole) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
  [ ](guacamole) Daniel Gruno
  [ ](guacamole) Olivier Lamy
  [ ](guacamole) Jim Jagielski
  [ ](guacamole) Greg Trasuk

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Hivemall

Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive
UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.

Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](hivemall) Reynold Xin
  [ ](hivemall) Markus Weimer
  [ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Impala

Impala is a high-performance C++ and Java SQL query engine for data stored in
Apache Hadoop-based clusters.

Impala has been incubating since 2015-12-03.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](impala) Tom White
  [ ](impala) Todd Lipcon
  [ ](impala) Carl Steinbach
  [ ](impala) Brock Noland

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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iota

Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.

iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
  [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
  [ ](iota) Justin Mclean
  [ ](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Joshua

Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit

Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
  [ ](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
  [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
  [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
  [ ](joshua) Henri Yandell

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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NetBeans

NetBeans is a development environment, tooling platform and application
framework.

NetBeans has been incubating since 2016-10-01.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](netbeans) Ate Douma
  [ ](netbeans) Bertrand Delacretaz
  [ ](netbeans) Emmanuel Lecharny
  [ ](netbeans) Daniel Gruno
  [ ](netbeans) Jim Jagielski
  [ ](netbeans) Mark Struberg

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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PredictionIO

PredictionIO is an open source Machine Learning Server built on top of state-
of-the-art open source stack, that enables developers to manage and deploy
production-ready predictive services for various kinds of machine learning
tasks.

PredictionIO has been incubating since 2016-05-26.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](predictionio) Andrew Purtell
  [ ](predictionio) James Taylor
  [ ](predictionio) Lars Hofhansl
  [ ](predictionio) Luciano Resende
  [ ](predictionio) Xiangrui Meng
  [ ](predictionio) Suneel Marthi

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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S2Graph

S2Graph is a distributed and scalable OLTP graph database built on Apache
HBase to support fast traversal of extremely large graphs.

S2Graph has been incubating since 2015-11-29.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](s2graph) Andrew Purtell
  [ ](s2graph) Seetharam Venkatesh
  [ ](s2graph) Sergio Fernández

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Sirona

Monitoring Solution.

Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](sirona) Olivier Lamy
  [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
  [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
  [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
  [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Slider

Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and
manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters.

Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](slider) Arun C Murthy
  [ ](slider) Devaraj Das
  [ ](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
  [ ](slider) Mahadev Konar

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Spot

Apache Spot is a platform for network telemetry built on an open data model
and Apache Hadoop.

Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](spot) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
  [ ](spot) Brock Noland
  [ ](spot) Andrei Savu
  [ ](spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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SystemML

SystemML provides declarative large-scale machine learning (ML) that aims at
flexible specification of ML algorithms and automatic generation of hybrid
runtime plans ranging from single node, in-memory computations, to distributed
computations such as Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Spark.

SystemML has been incubating since 2015-11-02.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](systemml) Luciano Resende
  [ ](systemml) Patrick Wendell
  [ ](systemml) Reynold Xin
  [ ](systemml) Rich Bowen

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Tamaya

Tamaya is a highly flexible configuration solution based on an modular,
extensible and injectable key/value based design, which should provide a
minimal but extendible modern and functional API leveraging SE, ME and EE
environments.

Tamaya has been incubating since 2014-11-14.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](tamaya) John D. Ament
  [ ](tamaya) David Blevins

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Toree

Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely
access Apache Spark.

Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](toree) Luciano Resende
  [ ](toree) Reynold Xin
  [ ](toree) Hitesh Shah
  [ ](toree) Julien Le Dem

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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Unomi

Unomi is a reference implementation of the OASIS Context Server specification
currently being worked on by the OASIS Context Server Technical Committee. It
provides a high-performance user profile and event tracking server.

Unomi has been incubating since 2015-10-05.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1.
  2.
  3.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?


How has the community developed since the last report?


How has the project developed since the last report?


Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?


Signed-off-by:

  [ ](unomi) Bertrand Delacretaz
  [ ](unomi) Chris Mattmann

Shepherd/Mentor notes:


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