Thanks Roman - appreciate the feedback and will certainly be happy to get Bigtop to be a foundation of ODP - seems to be a pretty exciting thing to do!
I guess The Chair could play a passive and/or just mediating role or be more pro-active in the project development. And by that I don't mean only coding, but also growing up the connections with the other projects, as you said. Hopefully, in the next a couple of weeks recent dealing and wheeling in this area will bring us some fruits, so stay tuned for new thread popping out on dev@ ;) Regards, Cos On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 08:43PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > 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.
