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| Date | Decision | Item | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-15 | Established, Rich Bowen as VP | special order | approved, minutes pending approval |
# Apache Pony Mail — Board Report, August 2026 ## Description Apache Pony Mail provides mail-archiving, archive browsing, and mailing list interaction services. ## Project Status Current project status: New (recently graduated) Issues for the board: None. ## Graduation Summary Apache Pony Mail entered the Apache Incubator in May 2016 and graduated to a Top-Level Project by Board resolution on July 15, 2026 — just over ten years in incubation. The community vote on dev@ponymail.apache.org (July 6–10) passed with 7 +1 (binding), 1 +0, and 0 -1. The IPMC vote was subsequently held on general@incubator.apache.org and also passed. The Board approved the establishment resolution at the July 15 meeting. ## Post-Graduation Progress The project has been working through the standard post-graduation checklist since July 16. Completed items include: - Updated committee-info.txt and foundation/officers/affiliations.txt - Updated podlings.xml (status=graduated) - Removed "Incubating" disclaimers from website and source - Filed INFRA request for Git repository rename (incubator-ponymail-* → ponymail-*): INFRA-28133 (Now resolved) ## Membership Data Apache Pony Mail was established 2026-07-15 (5 weeks ago). There are currently 11 committers and 6 PMC members in this project. No new committers or PMC members have been added since graduation. ## Project Activity Development activity has been healthy during and after the graduation period. 54 commits were made between June and July 2026. Notable development work in this period: - **Database schema documentation** — Complete architecture.md documenting the full database schema (#320) - **API token authentication** — Long-term API tokens for programmatic authentication (#312), contributed by Jarek Potiuk - **UI improvements** — Encode query/header values in pushState URLs (#315), filter stopwords from word cloud results (#318), make author names clickable as search items (#322) - **Bug fixes** — Partial fixes for issue #323 (lao-refs), scope fix for dedup+dry mode - **Dependency updates** — certifi, multipart, google-auth, aiosmtplib all updated to current versions - **Branch protection** — Default protection rulesets set up for default and release branches (#311) - **Post-graduation cleanup** — Removed incubation disclaimers from website and code, updated site build instructions, enabled GitHub Issues for website, documented how to raise website issues ## Releases No releases have been made since graduation. The most recent release was 0.10-incubating. The PMC plans to make the first TLP release once the repository rename is complete and remaining graduation housekeeping is finished. ## Community Health The dev@ mailing list saw 70 messages across 22 threads in June–July 2026, with active participation from 10+ individuals including both PMC members and external contributors (notably Jarek Potiuk contributing the API token feature). The users@ list has been quiet — this is expected given the project's niche audience (mailing list administrators and the ASF infrastructure itself). The project acknowledges that it will likely never have a large contributor community given its specialized domain. However, the existing PMC has sufficient depth — multiple active committers from different organizations — to sustain and develop the software. ## Plans Near-term priorities: 1. Complete remaining graduation housekeeping (repo rename, security contacts, graduation announcement) 2. Prepare first TLP release under the new project identity 3. Continue improving documentation and contributor onboarding ## Reporting Schedule This is the first of three required monthly reports following graduation (August, September, October 2026). After October, the project will move to its assigned quarterly rotation.
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Make a release of Pony Mail Foal 2. Decide on the future direction of the project. PMC or retirement. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? Nothing at this time. ### How has the community developed since the last report? The community is slowly discussing their exit strategy. ### How has the project developed since the last report? Responding to some concerns ### 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: 2019-04-05 Pony Mail 0.11 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2021-04-02 Sean B Palmer ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? See above. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? Yes ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: - [X] (ponymail) Dave Fisher Comments: Doing my best slowly move the podling one way or another. ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Attracting a larger development community 2. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? No issues for the board or IPMC at present. ### How has the community developed since the last report? We've seen a small uptick in engagement, hopefully that will stick. ### How has the project developed since the last report? As mentioned above, there has been a small uptick in development activity lately. This is nothing huge, but for a project with a very small core dev team, this is always welcome news. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? last committer was sbp on 2021-04-02 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? No answer ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? No answer ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Growing the community, in particular the user interactions 2. Growing the co.... 3. Gro.... ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? None of note ### How has the community developed since the last report? No material development since last report. ### How has the project developed since the last report? No new developments. Stalled by lack of user engagement. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sean Palmer was elected committer on 2021-04-02 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? No mentor engagement this quarter, though it has been very quiet, so no need. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? No issues here. ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Growing the community 2. Growing the community 3. Growing the community... ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? No issues other than the perennial lack of new contributors. ### How has the community developed since the last report? No development of note here. ### How has the project developed since the last report? No noteworthy development. Couple of bugfixes. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sean Palmer was elected committer on 2021-04-02 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? No answer. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? No answer. ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Growing community 2. Finalizing graduation, getting discussions going again 3. Roll call? ### 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? No material changes since last report. The community has been rather quiet, albeit present. ### How has the project developed since the last report? No noteworthy development since last report. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sean Palmer was elected committer on 2021-04-02 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? No answer. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? No answer. ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Growing community 2. Finalizing graduation, getting discussions going again 3. Roll call? ### 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? No material changes since last report. The community has been rather quiet, albeit present. ### How has the project developed since the last report? No noteworthy development since last report. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sean Palmer was elected committer on 2021-04-02 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? No answer. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? No answer. ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Growing community 2. Finalizing graduation discussion 3. ### 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? No material development since last month. Community is discussing graduation. ### How has the project developed since the last report? No material development since last month. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sean Palmer was elected committer on 2021-04-02 ### 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. Mentors have been absent, but are not really required at this stage. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? No answer. ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Growing community 2. 3. ### 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? No material change. ### How has the project developed since the last report? No change of note. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sean Palmer was added as committer on 2021-04-02 ### 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? ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Growing the community 2. 3. ### 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? No material development has occurred. Pony Mail has a stable group of contributors and are dealing with any important issues as they arise. ### How has the project developed since the last report? No noteworthy change. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sean Palmer was elected committer on 2021-02-04 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? No answer. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? No answer. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: With the departure of Sharan, the podling needs extra hands to help out. ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service,
that can be integrated with many email platforms.
Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Growing the community
2. Cutting a Foal release
3.
### 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?
No development since last.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Work continues on Foal at a good pace.
### 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:
2019-04-20
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Sean Palmer was voted in as committer on 2021-04-02
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
No answer.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No answer.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (ponymail) John D. Ament
Comments: I think its time we just call it - the podling is stable,
has some contributors, but wouldn't ever be a big project. Time to
graduate already!
- [X] (ponymail) Sharan Foga
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Grow the community 2. Work towards a release of Foal 3. Ensure there are proper unit tests 4. Add tests for API compatibility 5. ### 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? Making great progress on the next gen suite (Foal), with input from the usual suspects and more than 20 issues/PRs resolved this quarter, as well as lots of traffic on the dev@ list. We hope to engage more of the community as well as grow it, in order to receive more valuable feedback from especially UI testing. We have begun discussing graduation, though we feel we could use a few more people for better project oversight. ### How has the project developed since the last report? No noteworthy developments on the community front, but activity in the project as noted above. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sean Palmer was elected committer on April 2nd, 2021. ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? No answer ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? No answer ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: - [X] (ponymail) Sharan Foga Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Growing community size and software adoption rate 2. Getting Foal to a production-/release-ready state 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? Our latest committer has helped revitalize the development, and we are seeing decent levels of commitment from our committer base. ### How has the project developed since the last report? Work continues on the Foal edition of Pony Mail, with levels of engagement slightly up in the community. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? The last committer to be invited was Sean Palmer at 2021-04-02. ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? No answer. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? No answer. ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: - [X] (ponymail) Sharan Foga Comments: A discussion around possible graduation has just been started and although the community remains is relatively small, work continues to happen. ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Further grow community 2. Work towards foal 1.0 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? The community welcomes Sean Palmer to the committers roster, and appreciates his work on DKIM parsing for Pony Mail and Foal. ### How has the project developed since the last report? Work is underway for a release-worthy edition of Foal. ### 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: 2019-04-02 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sean Palmer was elected committer on April 2nd, 2021. ### 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? ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: - [X] (ponymail) Sharan Foga Comments: Great to see a new committer added to the project. Community size is still small so hope that the work around the Foal release may help attract new users or contributors. ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Grow the community and attract more committers 2. Make a release of the next generation suite 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 have attracted some new users. One has also shown an interest in contributing code around docker packaging for Ponymail. ### How has the project developed since the last report? We have also made some fixes to the code to help another user with their migration from Pipermail. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sebb was added as a committer on 2016-10-10 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? No answer. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? No answer. ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: - [X] (ponymail) Sharan Foga Comments: Good to see that we have attracted some new users including a migration from an alternative mailing list software. Our small community size means responding to specific requests can take time so building community numbers is still important. Getting another committer on board could really help. ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: Justin Mclean: Please answer all questions in the report.
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Grow the community, get more committers 2. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? Nope ### How has the community developed since the last report? We have gotten some very good activity from a new contributor working on ID generators and email parsing. The community briefly discussed graduating earlier this year, something we should pick up on again. ### How has the project developed since the last report? Work has begun on a next generation suite of tools for the project, as well as significant work being done on the email generators front and unit testing frameworks. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sebb was added as committer on 2016-10-10 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? No answer. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? No answer. ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: - [X] (ponymail) Sharan Foga Comments: Good to see some significant activity happening in the last quarter. Community building has always been the challenge so to see a new contributor participating is great. ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: JM: Please answer all of the question in the report next time.
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Grow the community (that's about it) 2. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? None at present. ### How has the community developed since the last report? Discussion about graduation has been ongoing, but stagnated in the summer months. Something to pick up later, no rush on graduation. ### How has the project developed since the last report? A new Web UI is being proposed donated to the project. As things are slow during summer, this might take a while to sort out. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sebb was added to the roster in July of 2017. ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? No answer. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? No answer. ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: - [X] (ponymail) Sharan Foga Comments: Work did start on the graduation process but this has now slowed. Community building is key and the proposal for the new UI might help bring in some new volunteers ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Annotator has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Grow community 2. Work on release scheduled 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? No Answer ### How has the community developed since the last report? The project is discussing graduating from the incubator. Feedback is positive, and we are drafting a resolution to the fact. ### How has the project developed since the last report? See above. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sebastian Bazley was added as committer on 2017-06-10 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? No Answer ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? All good here. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (ponymail) Sharan Foga Comments: Good to see the project starting the graduation process. Increasing the community especially additional developers is challenging, but as a key tool within the ASF, there is a standard user base that may simply need communication and engagement to become involved. - [ ] (ponymail) John D Ament Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Growing contributor base 2. Getting release processes nailed to a tee 3. Expanding unit tests ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? No answer. ### How has the community developed since the last report? Not much progress although we did get a question on the user list which was responded to quickly. Progress is slow paced as usual although any reports of issues is dealt with in a timely manner. ### How has the project developed since the last report? We have had a couple bug reports that have been worked on since the last report. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2017-06-01 (Sebb). We should be looking for and encouraging more candidates :) ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? No answer. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? No answer. ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: - [x] (ponymail) Sharan Foga Comments: Good to see that responding to user queries has now improved. Still need to formulate a more concrete engagement strategy for building the community. ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: Dave Fisher: Given the movement to lists.apache.org planned by Infrastructure does it make sense to graduate this podling a PMC like Whimsy? One that does not do releases?
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Growing contributor base 2. Getting release processes nailed to a tee 3. Expanding unit tests ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? ### How has the community developed since the last report? Not much to report, progress is slow-paced as usual. This isn't to say that the project is dormant or in danger of retirement, just that the pace is to be considered more casual. There is oversight, and important issues are being addressed in a timely manner. ### How has the project developed since the last report? No noteworthy change, we are operating at a pretty stable level. ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sebb, 2017-06-01. Perhaps we should be looking for more candidates :) ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? No answer ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: - [X] (ponymail) Sharan Foga Comments: At least one request from a user has not yet been responded to. Think it would be good to work on more engagement to ensure timely responses to user queries. ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Grow the community 2. Lower the bar to participation 3. Get more releases out ### Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No answer. ### How has the community developed since the last report? - A new release was be made on 20-04-2019 ### How has the project developed since the last report? - Security fix done and CVE issued - New release made ### 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: 2019-04-20 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? No answer. ### Have your mentors been helpful? No answer. ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: - [X] (ponymail) Sharan Foga Comments: Good to see there has been some activity this quarter with a new release out and a security fix in place. ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow community 2. Lower bar for participation 3. Get some more releases out 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? - No noteworthy development. How has the project developed since the last report? - Nothing noteworthy here either 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: 2018-02-5 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. Signed-off-by: [X](ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: Project is looking to start picking up traction again which is good. Hopefully it can sustain. [ ](ponymail) Sharan Foga Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Growing Community 2. Working on release processes 3. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Nothing of note How has the community developed since the last report? It's been very quiet. We have sufficient oversight, but the project has not seen much new development. There are outstanding bug reports, but to the best of my knowledge, no vulnerabilities exist. How has the project developed since the last report? No noteworthy development since last report. 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: 2018-02-05 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? No new committers since last report. Sharan Foga has joined as a mentor in August 2018. Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. Signed-off-by: [ ](ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: [x](ponymail) Sharan Foga Comments: Some work really needs to be done on community building to get more people involved with the project. I suspect that there are a few users within several ASF projects so reaching out to them for feedback could be good way to get some interest started. IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Growing community and interest around the project 2. Step up pace of branch development 3. Fine-tune release process Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Pony Mail is in a bit of a slumber at the moment, with the principal people being busy elsewhere. This is not to say that oversight isn't happening, but that the development pace has slowed significantly. We hope this picks up in the foreseeable future. How has the community developed since the last report? Sharan Foga has joined as a new mentor. We are assessing whether there is need for more people to help out. How has the project developed since the last report? Not much to report here, a few bug fixes and issues filed. 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: 2018-02-19 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sebastian Bazley was elected committer in Oct, 2016. Signed-off-by: [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer Comments: [X](ponymail) John D. Ament Comments: [x](ponymail) Sharan Foga Comments:Good to see community building being highlighted as something to work on. IPMC/Shepherd notes: wave (Dave Fisher): I would ask what this project that has become core to ASF infra with lists.apache.org needs to do before graduating?
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that
can be integrated with many email platforms.
Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow participation in community
2. Get releases out properly
3. Evangelize
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None that I can think of.
How has the community developed since the last report?
There has been external interest in the project, however this has not yet
formed into a formal relationship.
How has the project developed since the last report?
A release, 0.10, was voted on and approved. Due to time constraints, the
release has not been fully completed yet.
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:
2018-04-04-ish (WIP!)
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Sebastian Bazley, April 2017
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
Comments:
[X](ponymail) John D. Ament
Comments: Report not discussed on list,
extremely low volume and continues to look like a one person project.
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that
can be integrated with many email platforms.
Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community 2. Get the 0.10 release out 3. Address issues
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
There's been a bit of a lull as of late in the project. I'm hopeful that it
will pick up some speed soon.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No noticeable change since last report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
N/A. Working on it!
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:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
Comments:
[X](ponymail) John D. Ament
Comments: Would be good to get this podling
moving. Needs more committers to be truly viable.
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that
can be integrated with many email platforms.
Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Work on the next release (0.10)
2. Work on expanding the community, be more open to newcomers
3. Resolve design strategies
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None that I am aware of.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No major development. A few more bug reports from outside contributors
have been filed.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Work continues towards the next release, 0.10, which should be
ready for a vote soon.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
The podling is somewhat mature, but it is my assessment that
more people are needed for it to be a fully viable community.
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:
2016-08-02
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
sebb as PMC, 2017-04-17.
No new committers as of late.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
Comments:
[X](ponymail) John D. Ament
Comments:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that
can be integrated with many email platforms.
Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finding and recognizing new contributors to the project
2. Explore options to better increase visibility and welcomeness of the
project
3. Get the next release out
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?
The committer list has not changed. We have received some contributions
from new people, however, and will evaluate and explore further means of
growing the community.
How has the project developed since the last report?
A new release has been discussed, and should be under way shortly.
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:
2016-08-20
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Sebastian Bazley was elected PPMC on 2016-09-10. No new committers since last
report.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer
Comments:
[X](ponymail) John D. Ament
Comments:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Growing the community, especially contributors 2. Grow awareness within Apache, we are eating our own dog food 3. Start getting more releases out. 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? Not much to report here. Community remains the same size. We are discussing releasing a new version soon(ish). How has the project developed since the last report? Many bug fixes, but no new release yet. TBD. 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: 2016-08-02 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sebb, 2016-09-10. Signed-off-by: [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer Comments: [X](ponymail) John D. Ament Comments:
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community 2. Grow awareness of the project 3. Master releases and project management Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None that we know of. How has the community developed since the last report? One new committer (Sebastian Bazley) was invited to the project. How has the project developed since the last report? Email traffic has been roughly the same, 75-ish mails per month to the lists. Quite a few bugs have been worked on. Date of last release: 2016-08-02 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - Sebastian Bazley was elected committer on October 9th, 2016. Signed-off-by: [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer [X](ponymail) John D. Ament
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community 2. Make contributions easier (lower the bar for hacking on code/docs/UI) 3. Increase awareness of the project Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? Slight uptick in active members of the community, we now count roughly 10 active people participating either on the mailing list or IRC. How has the project developed since the last report? Work has begun on a redesign of the UI, allowing for contributions more easily. This is codenamed 'coffee and cake', and is expected to reach a usable phase in a month or two. Date of last release: 2016-08-02 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? None since inception. See graduation info point 1. The codebase needs to be more accessible before contributions can occur. Signed-off-by: [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer [X](ponymail) John D. Ament
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community base 2. Ensure that releases and processes adhere to ASF standards 3. Spread the word, get more developers onboard. 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? The community is growing, albeit at a very slow pace, possibly due to summer vacations (and some newborns). We intend to ramp up our recruitment drive in the coming months. How has the project developed since the last report? We have managed to vote on and release Pony Mail 0.9. Trademark issues have been discussed, mostly done but perhaps with a few lose ends to tie up. Date of last release: 2016-08-02 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2016-05-27 Signed-off-by: [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer [X](ponymail) John D. Ament
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community and diversity 2. Work towards the first ASF release 3. Get people interested in providing patches (work on the code) Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? Many people have stepped up with issues/bug reports and other suggestions, which suggests an interest in the project. We are trying to get people interested in also providing patches for said issues, so as to grow the developer community. How has the project developed since the last report? A few bug fixes, repositories have been set up, mailing lists created, web site deployed. We are also seeing moderate activity on the IRC channel. Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX When were the last committers or PMC members elected? No new committers have been elected since incubation started. Signed-off-by: [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer [X](ponymail) John D. Ament
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service, that can be integrated with many email platforms. Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community 2. Teach newcomers the Apache Way 3. Build towards the first release Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None at present. How has the community developed since the last report? Just getting started with bootstrapping the podling. Mailing lists have been set up, temporary web site and code repositories ditto. We are working on onboarding the new non-Apache committers in the community and having people familiarize themselves with the project. How has the project developed since the last report? N/A Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX When were the last committers or PMC members elected? No new committers have been elected just yet, as we just got started. Signed-off-by: [ ](ponymail) Andrew Bayer [X](ponymail) John D Ament