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Appointments

Date Action Decided by
2025-05-21 Appointed Jerry Shao the board, by resolution

Decisions

Date Decision Item Outcome
2025-05-21 Establish the Apache Gravitino Project special order no outcome recorded

Reports

2026-06-17 — Jerry Shao

## Description:
The mission of Apache Gravitino is the creation and maintenance of software
related to managing your data and AI assets seamlessly with a flexible, unified
governance framework, including lakehouse federation capabilities

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with high activity
Issues for the board: No

## Membership Data:
Apache Gravitino was founded 2025-05-20 (a year ago)
There are currently 30 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 2:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Minghuang Li was added to the PMC on 2026-03-26
- He Qi was added to the PMC on 2026-03-26
- Bharath Krishna was added as committer on 2026-03-27

## Project Activity:

Software Development Progress in this period:
1. Apache Gravitino 1.2.1 released at May 11, 2026.
2. Apache Gravitino 1.3.0 is in RC vote phase.

Community Activity:
1. Monthly Data & AI meetup in Bay Area to have Gravitino talk.
2. Held a China-local Gravitino user meeting at May.

## Community Health:

1. dev@gravitino.apache.org had a 19% increase in traffic in the past quarter
   (142 emails compared to 119)
2. 432 issues were created last quarter, which had a 6% slight decrease (438
   compared to 464).
3. 710 PRs were created last quarter, which had a 20% increase (710 compared to
   592).

2026-04-15 — Jerry Shao

## Description:
The mission of Apache Gravitino is the creation and maintenance of software
related to managing your data and AI assets seamlessly with a flexible,
unified governance framework, including lakehouse federation capabilities

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with high activity Issues for the board: None.

## Membership Data:
Apache Gravitino was founded 2025-05-21 (a year ago) There are currently 30
committers and 15 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
2:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Minghuang Li was added to the PMC on 2026-03-27
- He Qi was added to the PMC on 2026-03-27
- Bharath Krishna was added as a committer on 2026-03-28

## Project Activity:

Software Development Progress in this period:
1. Apache Gravitino 1.1.0 released at Dec 16, 2025.
2. Apache Gravitino 1.2.0 released at Mar 13, 2026.
3. Apache Gravitino 1.1.1 released at Apr 1, 2026.
4. Actively develop on the 1.3 targeted features.

Community Activity:

1. Monthly Data & AI meetup in China & Bay Area to have Gravitino talk.
2. Share Gravitino at Iceberg Summit 2026.

## Community Health:
1. dev@gravitino.apache.org had a 67% increase in traffic in the past quarter
   (164 emails compared to 98).
2. 464 issues were created last quarter, which had a 33% increase (464
   compared to 348).
3. 592 PRs were created last quarter, which had a 8% increase (592 compared to
   544).

2026-03-18 — Jerry Shao

No report was submitted.

2025-12-17 — Jerry Shao

## Description:
The mission of Apache Gravitino is the creation and maintenance of software
related to managing your data and AI assets seamlessly with a flexible,
unified governance framework, including lakehouse federation capabilities

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing - high Issues for the board: No

## Membership Data:
Apache Gravitino was founded 2025-05-21 (7 months ago) There are currently 27
committers and 13 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ashish Singh on 2025-05-21.
- No new committers. Last addition was Abyss-lord on 2025-07-07.

## Project Activity:

Software Development Progress:

1. Apache Gravitino 1.0.0 released on Sep 30, 2025.
2. Apache Gravitino 1.0.1 released on Nov 19, 2025.
3. We're under the release of the Apache Gravitino 1.1.0.
4. Next release milestone has settled.

Community activities:

1. QCon Shanghai Apache Gravitino.
2. Data for AI meetup (Bay Area) Apache Gravitino talk.
3. COSCon Beijing Apache Gravitino talk.
4. Data for AI meetup (Shanghai) Apache Gravitino talk.

## Community Health:

1. dev@gravitino.apache.org had a 5% increase in traffic in the past quarter
   (139 emails compared to 132)
2. 348 issues were created in the last 90 days. 355 issues have closed in the
   last 90 days. 544 PRs have been created in the last 90 days. 539 PR has
   been merged in the last 90 days. Both the issues and PRs show the high
   activity of the community.
3. 2 committer candidates nomination process is undergoing.

2025-09-24 — Jerry Shao

## Description:
The mission of Apache Gravitino is the creation and maintenance of software
related to managing your data and AI assets seamlessly with a flexible,
unified governance framework, including lakehouse federation capabilities

## Project Status:
Current project status: New Issues for the board: No

## Membership Data:
Apache Gravitino was founded 2025-05-21 (4 months ago) There are currently 27
committers and 13 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ashish Singh on 2025-05-21.
- Abyss-lord was added as committer on 2025-07-07

## Project Activity:

Software Development Progress:

1. We're under the release of the Apache Gravitino 1.0.0.
2. Next release milestone has settled.
3. Next release targeted features are under development.

Community activities:

1. Community Over Code NA Apache Gravitino talk.
2. QCon Shanghai Apache Gravitino talk has been accepted.

## Community Health:

1. dev@gravitino.apache.org had a 36% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
   (142 emails compared to 221)
2. 186 issues were created in the last 30 days. 292 issues have closed in the
   last 30 days.
3. 285 PRs have been created in the last 30 days. 209 PR has been merged in
   the last 30 days.

2025-08-20 — Jerry Shao

## Description:
The mission of Apache Gravitino is the creation and maintenance of software
related to managing your data and AI assets seamlessly with a flexible,
unified governance framework, including lakehouse federation capabilities

## Project Status:
Current project status: New Issues for the board: No

## Membership Data:
Apache Gravitino was founded 2025-05-21 (3 months ago) There are currently 27
committers and 13 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members (project graduated recently).
- Abyss-lord was added as committer on 2025-07-07
- Eric Chang was added as committer on 2025-05-30

## Project Activity:
1. A new maintenance release (0.9.1) is released on July 21.
2. The next major release (1.0.0) is feature freezed, under testing and
   release preparation.

Recent developments on Gravitino:

- Metadata authentication, features are actively developed on dev branch
  (90%).
- Cache system is almost done (95%).
- Policy system, the dev works are done, under reviewing.
- Statistics system, the dev works are done, under reviewing.
- Job system, the dev workd are done, under reviewing.

## Community Health:

1. 65 issues were resolved in last 30 days; 163 issues were created in last 30
   days.
2. 112 PRs were merged in last 30 days, 158 PRs were created in last 30 days.
3. dev@gravitino.apache.org had a 13% increase in traffic in the past quarter
   (181 emails compared to 160)
4. Several talks related to Gravitino were presented in CoC Asia 2025.

2025-07-16 — Jerry Shao

## Description:
The mission of Apache Gravitino is the creation and maintenance of software
related to managing your data and AI assets seamlessly with a flexible,
unified governance framework, including lakehouse federation capabilities

## Project Status:
Current project status: New Issues for the board: none.

## Membership Data:
Apache Gravitino was founded 2025-05-21 (2 months ago) There are currently 27
committers and 13 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members (project graduated recently).
- Chenxi Pan was added as committer on 2025-07-07
- Eric Chang was added as committer on 2025-05-30

## Project Activity:
1. A new maintenance release (0.9.1) is onging.
2. The next major release (1.0.0) will be code-frozen by the end of July, and
   ship in August.

Recent developments on Gravitino:

- Metadata authentication, features are actively developed on dev branch
  (80%).
- Cache system is almost done (90%).
- Policy system, the API interface is merged, the following PRs are ongoing.
- Statistics system, the API interface is merged, other parts are onging.
- Job system, the API interface is proposed and get reviewed.

## Community Health:
1. A new maintenance release (0.9.1) is onging.
2. 72 issues were resolved in last 30 days; 109 issues were created in last 30
   days.
3. 124 PRs were merged in last 30 days, 130 PRs were created in last 30 days.
4. dev@gravitino.apache.org had a 335% increase in traffic in the past quarter
   (231 emails compared to 53)

2025-06-18 — Jerry Shao

## Description:

Apache Gravitino is a high-performance, geo-distributed, and federated
metadata lake. It manages metadata directly in different sources, types, and
regions, providing users with unified metadata access for data and AI assets.

## Project Status:
Current project status: New Issues for the board: No

## Membership Data:
Apache Gravitino was founded 2025-05-20 (15 days ago) There are currently 26
committers and 13 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
2:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members (project graduated recently).
- Eric Chang was added as committer on 2025-05-29

## Project Activity:

- Gravitino 0.9.0 was released on 2025-05-07.

Recent developments on Gravitino:

- Metadata authentication features are actively developed on the dev branch.
- Cache mechanism, the development is smoothly ongoing.
- Policy system, the API interface is merged, the following PRs are ongoing.
- Statistics system, the API interface is ongoing.
- Various good first issues have been resolved.
- Documents, websites, and other sources have been updated to reflect the TLP.
- Adjust the PMC roster.

## Community Health:

The Gravitino community continues to be healthy, with a large number of
commits and individual contributors over the last month. 85 PRs got merged,
106 issues were created, and 49 issues were resolved in the last month.

The activities of commits compared to the previous month are slightly
decreased, this is mainly because a new version has just been released, most
of the contributors are working on designing the next version's features. The
activities of issues and discussion are still quite healthy.

The PMC roster has been adjusted, however, there is still a minor issue with a
couple of non-PMC members subscribed to the private mailing list.

Several Gravitino talks have been accepted for upcoming conferences, including
the Open Source Summit and Community over Code NA and Community over Code
Asia.

2025-03-19 — in the Incubator's report

Gravitino is a high-performance, geo-distributed, and federated metadata
lake designed to manage metadata seamlessly across diverse data sources,
vendors, and regions. Its primary goal is to provide users with unified
metadata access for both data and AI assets.

Gravitino has been incubating since 2024-06-04.

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

1. Fix all the potential license issues.
2. Release a version with non-WIP disclaimer.
3. Fill out the 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 Gravitino community added two new committers: Can Cai, Qian Xia.
2. The Gravitino community added two PPMC members: He Qi, Hui Yu.

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

1. A new version 0.8.0-incubating has released.
2. Reaching to 153 commmitters and with 5+ commits per day.

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

### Date of last release:

2025-01-24

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

2025-03-13

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

The mentors are helpful, and there are no special issues that need to be
addressed.

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

Yes, there's no branding issue, and 3rd parties use the name and brand
correctly.

### Signed-off-by:

- [ ] (gravitino) Daniel Dai
   Comments:
- [ ] (gravitino) Junping Du
   Comments:
- [X] (gravitino) Justin McLean
   Comments:
- [ ] (gravitino) Shaofeng Shi
   Comments:
- [ ] (gravitino) Larry McCay
   Comments:
- [X] (gravitino) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
   Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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