+1 This sounds very good, I can't come up with anything that you missed.
On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 at 08:00 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > Happy half birthday ;) > > Very good idea Frances !! > > And the numbers are impressive indeed. > > Maybe, we can add kind of teasing about new incoming PRs like: Cassandra > IO (PR submitted), MongDB IO (PR submitted), MQTT IO, JDBC IO, Socket IO > (I'm working on these IOs), XML/JSON DSLs . > > Regards > JB > > On 08/01/2016 04:36 PM, Frances Perry wrote: > > Hi Beamers! > > > > It’s been six months today since Beam was accepted into incubation. It’s > > thrilling how far we’ve come since then! > > > > I’d like to volunteer to put together a post on the Beam blog summarizing > > our progress since February. Here’s a starting point... What am I missing > > that we should include? What makes you proud? > > > > By the numbers: > > > > * 48,238 lines of preexisting code donated by Cloudera, dataArtisans, and > > Google. > > > > * 761 pull requests from 45 contributors. > > > > * 498 Jira issues opened and 245 resolved. > > > > * 1 incubating release (and another 1 in progress). > > > > * 4200 hours of automated tests. > > > > * 161 subscribers / 606 messages on user@. > > > > * 217 subscribers / 1205 messages on dev@. > > > > There’s been a lot of technical progress, including: > > > > * Refactoring of the entire codebase, examples, and tests to be truly > > runner-independent. > > > > * New functionality in the Apache Flink runner for timestamps/windows in > > batch and bounded sources and side inputs in streaming mode. > > > > * Work in progress to upgrade the Apache Spark runner to use Spark 2.0. > > > > * Several new runners from the wider Apache community -- Apache Gearpump > > has its own feature branch, Apache Apex has a PR, and conversations are > > starting on Apache Storm and others. > > > > * New SDKs/DSLs -- the Python SDK from Google is in, and there are plans > to > > add the Scio DSL from Spotify. > > > > * Support for new IO connectors -- Apache Kafka and JMS are in, with > Amazon > > Kinesis in PR. > > > > And community-wise, we’ve: > > > > * Started building a vibrant developer community, with detailed design > > discussions on features like DoFn reuse semantics, serialization > > technology, and an API for accessing state. > > > > * Started building a user community with improvements to the website and > > documentation. > > > > * Had multiple talks on Beam at venues including ApacheCon, Hadoop > Summit, > > Kafka Summit, JBCN Barcelona, QCon, and Strata. > > > > * Presented at multiple existing meetups and are starting to organize > some > > of our own. > > > > This half birthday is also a good chance to take a step back and reflect > on > > our goals for this year -- TLP graduation and the first stable release. > > Where are we on this path? What can we do better to accomplish these > > high-level goals? > > > > Frances > > > > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > [email protected] > http://blog.nanthrax.net > Talend - http://www.talend.com >
