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Fesod is a high-performance and memory-efficient Java library for reading and writing Excel files, designed to simplify development and ensure reliability. Fesod has been incubating since 2025-09-17. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Ensure that the website and codebase are fully compliant with ASF policies. 2. Add more core contributors. 3. Get more focused on building community. ### 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. We have voted and approved two new committers. 2. There five new contributors joined project and contribute some good features. 3. Shuxin Pan will represent Fesod in one accepted session at Community Over code Asia 2026. 4. We actively communicate with relevant security reporters, striving to ensure the reliable and security. ### How has the project developed since the last report? 1. We released a fix version (2.0.2-incubating) in May to address CVE-2026-49328. 2. Overall project development is proceeding smoothly, with no obstacles hindering our progress. 3. We are currently finalizing details for the second official release, scheduled for mid-August. 4. Regarding the vulnerability, we have confirmed the remediation details with the reporter and the ASF security team via the private mailing list. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [X] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: 2026-05-28 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2026-04-22 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Yes, we truly thanks our mentors' helpful suggestions. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Not aware of any issues. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (fesod) tison Comments: - [X] (fesod) Dave Fisher Comments: - [X] (fesod) Huajie Wang Comments: - [X] (fesod) PJ Fanning Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Fesod is a high-performance and memory-efficient Java library for reading and writing Excel files, designed to simplify development and ensure reliability. Fesod has been incubating since 2025-09-17. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Ensure that the website and codebase are fully compliant with ASF policies, 2. Add more core contributors. 3. Get more focused on building community. ### 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? 1. We discussed and voted to approve two new committers. 2. As the community has begun to become more organized, the number of contributors is growing steadily. ### How has the project developed since the last report? 1. we discussed some future core roadmap plans on the mailing list; 2. We plan to release the second version of the incubator around June; 3. In addition to developing new features, we are also working on enhancing the project's foundational tools. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [X] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: 2026-02-11 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2026-04-22 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Yes. We truly thanks our mentors' help in daily guidance and reminders. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Yes. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-246 ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (fesod) tison Comments: - [ ] (fesod) Dave Fisher Comments: - [ ] (fesod) Huajie Wang Comments: - [X] (fesod) PJ Fanning Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Fesod is a high-performance and memory-efficient Java library for reading and writing Excel files, designed to simplify development and ensure reliability. Fesod has been incubating since 2025-09-17. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Ensure that the website and codebase are fully compliant with ASF policies. 2. Add more core contributors. 3. Get more focused on building community. ### 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? 1. We have a discussion on private mail list about voting first committer. 2. The project now has several active contributors. ### How has the project developed since the last report? 1. We have already released our first version(2.0.0-incubating). 2. Since some error in 2.0.0-incubating, we are now voting for 2.0.1-incubating. 3. The new contributors still contribute for project. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [X] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: 2026-01-21 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? N/A ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Yes. We truly thanks our mentors' help in voting process. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Yes. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-246 ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (fesod) tison Comments: - [ ] (fesod) Dave Fisher Comments: - [ ] (fesod) Huajie Wang Comments: - [X] (fesod) PJ Fanning Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Fesod is a high-performance and memory-efficient Java library for reading and writing Excel files, designed to simplify development and ensure reliability. Fesod has been incubating since 2025-09-17. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Ensure that the website and codebase are fully compliant with ASF policies. 2. Release First version(2.0.0) under the Apache Incubator. 3. Continue to grow the community and word towards the ASF maturity Model. ### 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. The project now has already has several regular contributors. 2. Some contributors have begun proactively designing new features for project. ### How has the project developed since the last report? 1. Development of new features for the project is still ongoing. 2. We attempted to release 2.0.0-RC1 at the end of Dec, 2025 (many issues needed improvement). 3. We will begin the release attempt for 2.0.0-RC2 this week. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? We are currently addressing issues in RC1 that do not comply with ASF specifications. We plan to initiate the release process for 2.0.0-RC2 this week. - [ ] 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? We extend our special thanks to our mentors for their assistance. Particular gratitude goes to @PJ Fanning for the questions raised during the release. @tison and @Huajie Wang also provided substantial support as we worked toward releasing RC1. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Yes. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-246 ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (fesod) tison Comments: - [ ] (fesod) Dave Fisher Comments: - [ ] (fesod) Huajie Wang Comments: - [X] (fesod) PJ Fanning Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Fesod is a high-performance and memory-efficient Java library for reading and writing Excel files, designed to simplify development and ensure reliability. Fesod has been incubating since 2025-09-17. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Ensure that the website and codebase are fully compliant with ASF policies. 2. Publish the first release under the Apache Incubator. 3. Continue to grow the community and word towards the ASF maturity Model. ### 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. The project now has several active new contributors. 2. We have created a Slack channel (under ASF) to facilitate communication. ### How has the project developed since the last report? We will initiate the community vote for the first release within the next two weeks, 1. We refactored several core classes to ensure full compliance with licensing requirements. 2. Formal preparation for the project's first official release has commenced. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] 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? Yes. They are very nice and helpful. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Yes. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-246 ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (fesod) tison Comments: - [X] (fesod) Dave Fisher Comments: - [X] (fesod) Huajie Wang Comments: - [X] (fesod) PJ Fanning Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Fesod is a high-performance and memory-efficient Java library for reading and writing Excel files, designed to simplify development and ensure reliability. Fesod has been incubating since 2025-09-17. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Ensure that the website and codebase are fully compliant with ASF policies. 2. Publish the first release under the Apache Incubator. 3. Continue to grow the community and word towards the ASF maturity Model. ### 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. We have update project's website, now you can see details in [Apache Analytics](https://s.apache.org/2w3sw). 2. We have 5 new contributors. ### How has the project developed since the last report? The community is actively working on the first release under the Apache Incubator, which is currently planned for December. 1. Developement of new features is in progressing. 2. The project executed the Fuzz chaos test and fix bugs at the suggestion of the mentor. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? - [ ] 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? Yes.They are very nice and actively. 1. Dave Fisher pointed some wrong process about the election of committer(fixed). 2. PJ Fanning give suggestions about project-module and jdk-version. 3. Huajie Wang help community on how to design logo. 4. tison tells many of the small but important copyright details. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Yes, everything is fine. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (fesod) tison Comments: - [X] (fesod) Dave Fisher Comments: - [X] (fesod) Huajie Wang Comments: - [X] (fesod) PJ Fanning Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Fesod is a high-performance and memory-efficient Java library for reading
and writing Excel files, designed to simplify development and ensure
reliability.
Fesod has been incubating since 2025-09-17.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Ensure that the website and codebase are fully compliant with ASF
policies.
2. Publish the first release under the Apache Incubator.
3. Continue to grow the community and work towards the ASF Maturity
Model.
### 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?
The project is still in the preparation phase, but we have welcomed
several new code contributors.
In addition to the required code migration and compliance work,
development of new features is also progressing.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
The community is actively working on the first release (v2.0.0) under the
Apache Incubator, which is currently planned for December.
### 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:
We are still in the process of initial setup. The GitHub repository and
project website have been migrated to the Apache organization.
The community is also planning to set up CI/CD pipelines to streamline
future development and deployment.
### Date of last release:
N/A
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
N/A
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes.
They remain actively engaged with the project and continue to provide
valuable input to guide its progress.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes, everything is fine.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (fesod) tison
Comments:
- [ ] (fesod) Dave Fisher
Comments:
- [X] (fesod) Huajie Wang
Comments:
- [X] (fesod) PJ Fanning
Comments: Rapid progress with initial tasks
### IPMC/Shepherd notes: