I wanted to give the community a chance to review the board report I prepared. Please let me know if you would like any edits or additions. This report covers activity in the project since July.
Thanks for taking the time to review this! -- Matt == Issues == There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. == Community == We added a new committer, Patrick Wendell, to the project in August. Patrick contributed a number of patches focused on adding RPC trace capabilities to Java. Mailing list traffic on the developer list since our last board report has averaged about 10 messages/day. There were good discussions around the python HTTP/RPC service, genavro implementation, Pig to Avro translation, Avro MapReduce APIs, enhanced schema parsing, Java RPC tracing, .NET Avro implementation, SASL support and your typical bug reports. Mailing list traffic on the user mailing list remains around 1-2 messages a day. Most questions on this list pertain to Avro best practices, questions around building a schema, etc. == Releases == On September 18th, 2010, we released Apache Avro 1.4.0 which included 16 new features, 33 improvements from 15 different authors. Some of the new features included: a new PHP implementation Avro, Java RPC tracing, Hadoop MapReduce support for Avro files, a Netty-based RPC transceiver and server implementation. Voting for a 1.4.1 release is currently underway and is likely to pass. This release will include the .NET implementation of Avro that was contributed just after 1.4.0 was shipped.
