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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.Attract more committers, contributors, and users to grow the community. 2.Release more versions compliant with ASF standards. 3.Cultivate more committers and release managers ### 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? 1. Several new contributors completed PR merges. 2. A native Go SDK effort started and is attracting new contributors. ### How has the project developed since the last report? 1.Merged 21 PRs since the last report. 2. C++ library: new features and bug fixes for builders, and upgraded to Apache Arrow 24.0.0. 3. Rust module: completed the builder layer of the Rust roadmap. 4. Bootstrapped a native Go SDK, with more language support in progress. 5. CI/CD improvements: fixed build issues across C++, Python and Rust workflows, and added PR template checklist. ### 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: 2025-08-29 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2026-04-22 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? 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: Great to see the sharing at CoC Asia! - [ ] (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.Attract more committers, contributors, and users to grow the community. 2. Release more versions compliant with ASF standards. ### 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? 1. A new contributors completed PR merge 2. Add two new Committers ### How has the project developed since the last report? 1. Merged 37 PRs since the last report. 2. Rust module: added GraphInfo support, enabled Rust build on macOS and updated Arrow linking. 3. C++ library code quality improvements: added clang-tidy/clang-format integration, enforced strongly-typed enums (enum class), enabled -Wall -Werror -Wextra compilation flags, removed unused variables and headers, and used std::move to reduce copies. 4. Refactored CMake build system: restructured CMake files into subdirectories, added ccache support for faster builds, added pre-commit hooks and commit message validation. 5. CI/CD improvements: enabled macOS CI, replaced make with ninja, added ccache support, validated PR titles, and switched to ubuntu-slim runners. ### 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: 2025-08-29 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2026-04-22 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? 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: [PJF] Maybe time to start thinking about Graduation (incubating for 2 years). Dev list mail traffic is very low but it does seem like podling is fairly active generally.
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. Attract more committers, contributors, and users to grow the community. 2. Release more versions compliant with ASF standards. ### 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? 1. a new contributors have had their PRs merged. 2. Communicate and cooperate with LEX (LDBC Extended GQL Schema) in the graph YAML scheme ### How has the project developed since the last report? 1. Merged 19 PRs since the last report. 2. Added rust module 3. Improved python 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: 2025-08-29 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2025-07-14 ### 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. The mentors are very helpful and responsive. ### 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? 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:
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 ### 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. Released a new version V0.13.0 2. 5 new contributors completed PR merge ### How has the project developed since the last report? 1. Merged 27 PRs since the last report 2. The java-info module changed user-facing API 3. Improve the ci test and coverage report ### 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: 2025-08-29 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2025-07-14 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? 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:
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:
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:
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:
