Thanks for the suggestions, folks! Incorporated them and posted the blog: http://beam.incubator.apache.org/blog/2016/08/03/six-months.html
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:42 AM, Ismaël Mejía <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Nice reminder of the work done, I feel quite proud of what this community > has > accomplished in this short time (and of course of been a recent member of > it). > > One missing statistic that it is probably hard to measure is how some Beam > ideas > have helped to improve other Apache projects. I know this is the case for > Flink > for example, but it is easy to imagine that this continues to happen as > well > with other Apache projects. > > Other statistic that surprised me is the number of members of the mailing > lists, > probably it is normal at this time of the project to have more users in the > dev > list than in the user one, and this clearly reflects a healthy dev > community, > but we have to continue with the good work, so we can have thriving user > community too. > > Congratulations and Happy Half Birthday Beamers. > Ismaël > > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 2:20 AM, Ahmet Altay <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Happy half-birthday! > > > > As one of the new comers of the Python SDK, it would be great to have it > in > > the main branch. We are getting closer to that goal everyday. > > > > Thanks, > > Ahmet > > > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Fully agree with Dan. > > > > > > Regards > > > JB > > > > > > > > > On 08/01/2016 06:56 PM, Dan Halperin wrote: > > > > > >> +1 (binding? ;) > > >> > > >> On this part of the email: > > >> > > >> 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? > > >>>> > > >>> > > >> I think we really want to finish as many backwards-incompatible > changes > > as > > >> possible. Here's a seed for that list. > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> - DoFn setup/teardown > > >> - new DoFn proposal > > >> - Continuing to move google-specific IO from SDK into > > >> google-cloud-platform IO module > > >> - Any changes to fundamental style (PTransform.apply rename? > Removing > > >> the .Bound wrappers in various transforms?) > > >> > > >> I'd also really like to see Gearpump runner (maybe also Apex) and > Python > > >> SDK in the main branch. > > >> > > >> Thanks, > > >> Dan > > >> > > >> > > >> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Aljoscha Krettek <[email protected] > > > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >> +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 > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>> > > >> > > > -- > > > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > > > [email protected] > > > http://blog.nanthrax.net > > > Talend - http://www.talend.com > > > > > >
