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Amoro is a Lakehouse management system built on open data lake formats like
Apache Iceberg and Apache Paimon.
Amoro has been incubating since 2024-03-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
 1. Polish our website and document.
 2. Release more versions under ASF.
 3. Build and grow community
### 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?
 * Added 1 new PPMC member
 * Added 4 new contributors
### How has the project developed since the last report?
 * Released Amoro 0.8.0-incubating
 * Merged 40+ PRs
### 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:
 2025-05-08, released Amoro 0.8.0-incubating
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 2025-06-09, PPMC member:Wang Tao(GitHub ID: Aireed)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Yes, Amoro's mentors actively participate in the project, contribute
 insights, and help advance the project towards graduation.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 Yes, everything is fine.
### Signed-off-by:
 - [X] (amoro) Justn Mclean
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Zhongyi Tan
    Comments:
 - [X] (amoro) Yu Li
    Comments:  Good to see new contributor and PPMC member joining, as
    well as new release published.
 - [X] (amoro) Xinyu Zhou
    Comments:
 - [X] (amoro) Kent Yao
    Comments:  Nice to have new PPMC on board
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Amoro is a Lakehouse management system built on open data lake formats like
Apache Iceberg and Apache Paimon.
Amoro has been incubating since 2024-03-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
 1. Polish our website and document.
 2. Release more versions under ASF.
 3. Build and grow community
### 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?
 - Added 1 new PPMC member
 - Added 11 new contributors
 - Hosted an online Amoro meetup, inviting 5 Amoro users to share their best
 practices in using Amoro in 2024-12-21.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
 - Released Amoro 0.7.1-incubatiing
 - Amoro 0.8.0-incubating is currently undergoing a release vote in the
 incubator.
 - Merged 200 PRs
### 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:
 2024-11-20
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 2024-12-02, PPMC member:Congxian Qiu(GitHub ID: Klion26)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Yes, Amoro's mentors actively participate in the project, contribute
 insights, and help advance the project towards graduation.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 Yes, everything is fine.
### Signed-off-by:
 - [X] (amoro) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Zhongyi Tan
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Yu Li
    Comments:
 - [X] (amoro) Xinyu Zhou
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Kent Yao
    Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Amoro is a Lakehouse management system built on open data lake formats like
Apache Iceberg and Apache Paimon.
Amoro has been incubating since 2024-03-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
 1. Polish our website and document.
 2. Release more versions under ASF.
 3. Build and grow community
### 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?
 - Added 1 new PPMC member
 - Added 11 new contributors
 - Hosted an online Amoro meetup, inviting 5 Amoro users to share their best
 practices in using Amoro in 2024-12-21.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
 - Released Amoro 0.7.1-incubatiing
 - Amoro 0.8.0-incubating is currently undergoing a release vote in the
 incubator.
 - Merged 200 PRs
### 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:
 2024-11-20
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 2024-12-02, PPMC member:Congxian Qiu(GitHub ID: Klion26)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Yes, Amoro's mentors actively participate in the project, contribute
 insights, and help advance the project towards graduation.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 Yes, everything is fine.
### Signed-off-by:
 - [X] (amoro) Justin Mclean
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Zhongyi Tan
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Yu Li
    Comments:
 - [X] (amoro) Xinyu Zhou
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Kent Yao
    Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Amoro is a Lakehouse management system built on open data lake formats like
Apache Iceberg and Apache Paimon.
Amoro has been incubating since 2024-03-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
 1. Polish our website and document
 2. Release more versions under ASF
 3. Build and grow 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?
 - Added 3 new committers
 - Added 5 new contributors
 - Merged 150 PRs
### How has the project developed since the last report?
 - Released our first apache version 0.7.0-incubating
### 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:
 2024-07-17
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 - 2024-08-19, committer:Tao Wang(GitHub ID: Aireed)
 - 2024-08-19, committer:Paul Lin(GitHub ID: link3280)
 - 2024-08-19, committer:Mo Zhang(GitHub ID: zhangmo8)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Yes, Amoro's mentors actively participate in the project, contribute
 insights, and help advance the project towards graduation.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 Yes, everything is fine.
### Signed-off-by:
 - [X] (amoro) Justn Mclean
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Zhongyi Tan
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Yu Li
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Xinyu Zhou
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Kent Yao
    Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Amoro is a Lakehouse management system built on open data lake formats like
Apache Iceberg and Apache Paimon.
Amoro has been incubating since 2024-03-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
 1. Release our first Apache release.
 2. Build and grow a diverse community.
### 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?
 * Attend an offline meetup hosted by StarRocks community, one of our PPMC
 Member (id: jinsongzhou) gave a presentation named <<Practice of lakehouse
 based on Apache Amoro and Apache Iceberg>>.
 * 3 new contributors joined the Amoro community.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
 * Started the first Apache release discussion in the dev mailing list and
 the release manager is working towards it.
 * Merged 47 PRs in last month.
### 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?
 2024-03-11, when the project was accepted into the incubator.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Yes, Amoro's mentors actively participate in the project, contribute
 insights, and help advance the project towards graduation.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 Yes, everything is fine.
### Signed-off-by:
 - [ ] (amoro) Justn Mclean
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Zhongyi Tan
    Comments:
 - [X] (amoro) Yu Li
    Comments:  Good to see new contributors joining and look forward to
    the ASF release.
 - [ ] (amoro) Xinyu Zhou
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Kent Yao
    Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Amoro is a Lakehouse management system built on open data lake formats like
Apache Iceberg and Apache Paimon.
Amoro has been incubating since 2024-03-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
 1. Release our first Apache release.
 2. Build and grow a diverse community.
 3. Improve the documentation and website.
### 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?
 - We were selected for OSPP (China's GSoC).
 - 5 new contributors joined the Amoro community.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
 - Updated the website to meet ASF requirements.
 - Change the maven artifact id and package name to apache organization.
 - Merged 54 PRs in last month.
### 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?
 2024-03-11, when the project was accepted into the incubator.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Yes, Amoro's mentors actively participate in the project, contribute
insights, and help advance the project towards graduation.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 Yes, everything is fine.
### Signed-off-by:
 - [X] (amoro) Justn Mclean
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Zhongyi Tan
    Comments:
 - [X] (amoro) Yu Li
    Comments:  The initial setup has been completed and team is working
    actively towards the first ASF release.
 - [X] (amoro) Xinyu Zhou
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Kent Yao
    Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Amoro is a Lakehouse management system built on open data lake formats like
Apache Iceberg and Apache Paimon.
Amoro has been incubating since 2024-03-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
 1. Improve the website and transfer it to Apache.
 2. Release our first Apache release.
 3. Build and grow a diverse 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?
 This is the first report for Amoro.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
 This is the first report for Amoro.
### 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:
 N/A
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 2024-03-11, when the project was accepted into the incubator.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Yes, Amoro's mentors actively participate in the project, contribute
insights, and help advance the project towards graduation.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 Yes, the name "Amoro" has been approved by Mark Thomas, the VP of Brand
 Management.(https://s.apache.org/lyif8)
### Signed-off-by:
 - [X] (amoro) Justn Mclean
    Comments:
 - [ ] (amoro) Zhongyi Tan
    Comments:
 - [X] (amoro) Yu Li
    Comments:  The podling initial setup is in good progress with code
    repository transferred and website built. Look forward to its first apache
    release.
 - [X] (amoro) Xinyu Zhou
    Comments:
 - [X] (amoro) Kent Yao
    Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes: