Hi! As usual of these days -- I'm late to the thread. $DAYJOB is taking up all the cycles :-(
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote: > Bigtop'ers > > It's already been a year since I took over the role of the Bigtop PMC Chair. I > think it won't be an exaggeration to say It was an exciting and very eventful > year. Indeed! And while you and I know have known each other for quite some time, I honestly mean the following: I was really happy to see how the project grew and progressed in the past year. There's a great deal of your personal sweat in there -- and I think it is something that needs to be recognized and appreciated! > I want to use this occasion and set up of what I hope might become a > tradition: a mix of annual report to the community and a feedback gathering > for the Chair and the PMC. +1 to that! > Here're the highlights of what was great and fun! > > - The number of the contributors to the project have increased significantly; > there's 70+ contributors in the project > - The committer-ship base grew by more than 25% in the last year > - We have rolled a very important 0.8 release with a bunch of updates and > fixes (190+ total) > - The next release is going to be pretty pivotal (no pun intended) as we have > modernized both the development and user experience, and keep on working to > improve how our users can enhance the stack, deploy and test it, and > develop applications for it. So far 200+ commits made it into this version > - we are evidently leaning towards a better and faster ways of data > processing, adding and supporting latest versions of Spark, Tachyon, Ignite > (incubating), Kafka, and other interesting new technologies > - a few meetups and hackathons were organized And we need more. I'm guilty for not pushing for that hard enough on the Pivotal side of things. I promise to change that in the May-August time frame. > - there are a lot of signs that a significant number of commercial companies > in the Big- and Fastdata space have high interest in the Apache Bigtop, as > the ability to quickly and robustly deploy a standard fully open ASF > data-processing stack becomes a critical requirement for many enterprises > - clearly, it becomes more fun to work with the stack as we adding support for > Puppet 3.x and Hiera; latest Groovy runtime, and Gradle build system This is something that makes me personally very excited about the past year! > - Bigtop presentations were accepted to both ApacheCon events in 2014; > - we had a super-successful 4 days appearance at SCALE13x including a full day > workshop. It was incredibly gratifying to see that people who never had any > experience with Hadoop, Docker, or Puppet can get from 'git clone' to a > working custom-built cluster in about 2 hours! > - independent analysts estimate the user base of Apache data stack at over 51% > of total users of any Hadoop derivatives. It might be bold to say, but I > believe there are very few people out there who will try to build a cluster > from scratch using just tarballs and shell scripts. I believe these 51% > means us - Apache Bigtop. A bit self-serving there was also ODP. My hope is that Bigtop is going to serve a fundamental role in there as well. Ok, may be it is something for *next* year ;-) > All of above was possible because of you and your generous contributions of > the time, code, documentation, talent, knowledge and pizzas! > Thank you all very much! > > And to the feedback part. For the benefit of this and all following PMC Chairs > I'd like to ask all to donate a few more minutes of your time and share your > thoughts on what could've been done differently, what and how the project > Chair > can do better, what new things you would like to see happening in the project? Great question. The only thing that comes to mind is perhaps, somehow, more aggressively reaching out to sister projects in ASF (guys like Flink, etc.). At the end of the day, a Chair of a PMC is more of a passive (but not passive-agressive! ;-)) roles. If a Chair also leads by just coding away and providing feedback on JIRAs/MLs that's all I could ask for. Thanks, Roman.
