Thanks Nate, this is great to see this get some visibility on a wider distribution list like dev!
On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 at 13:33 Nate McCall <zznat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since it's going to take the board a little bit to publish, attached > inline is the report I submitted for this quarter. > > The feedback was all positive and appreciative of our willingness to > remain constructive. > > Thanks again folks! It's the participation like we've had recently > that will keep moving us forward. > > -Nate > > -------- > Attachment G: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Nate McCall] > > ## Description: > The past couple of months have been difficult for us. For posterity, the > August [0] and September[1] board agendas provide details of changes > affecting the project and subsequent PMC efforts to address board requested > action items. We will continue to work constructively with the board on the > points therein. > > With that said, we would like to express not only our optimism (more below) > but our thanks to those within the ASF who have spent substantial amounts > of > time to help us get moving in the right direction. Of particular note have > been the ongoing efforts Mark Thomas and Jake Farrell. Without them, it > would > have been much more difficult to deduce what to do next and how to go about > doing it. For everyone else, a large thank you as well. If nothing else, > it's > clear we all care very deeply about having successful open source software > projects. > > ## Issues: > > A long-time vendor who has been a large benefactor of the project through > contribution of resources, has re-focused said resources to more internal > efforts[2]. While many of their staff are still involved in day-to-day > activities, it has left something of a hole for the PMC to fill in terms of > handling day-to-day resourcing of issues. > > Discussions are ongoing on how best to do this, but we remain optimistic > that > the size, diversity and skill of the community are enough that we will find > solutions. > > ## Release Activity: > Apache Cassandra has had the following releases: > - 2.1.16 was released on Mon Oct 10 2016 > - 2.2.8 was released on Wed Sep 28 2016 > - 3.8 was released on Thu Sep 29 2016 > - 3.9 was released on Thu Sep 29 2016 > > We have recently moved trunk up to 4.0 and are currently discussing a > roadmap > for such on the development mailing list. > > Note: 3.10 and 3.0.10 were scheduled to be released, but were voted down > due > to a regression bug discovered by the community. > > ## Health report: > > From the past several weeks of mailing list and social media activity, one > can draw the following conclusions regarding the health of Cassandra: > - our large, diverse community of users care deeply about the project and > are > not afraid to very publicly ask hard questions > - the board cares deeply about our project as can be seen by amount of > effort > expended in handling not only Cassandra but the larger issues brought > about > by the point above > - the PMC wants very much to do the right thing and is doing its best to > constructively move forward > > In short, we do not lack for passion at any level of the project. It is > therefore our game to lose and we intend to put our best efforts in over > the > next quarter. > > ## PMC changes: > > - Currently 21 PMC members. > - There are two new PMC members: > - Sankalp Kohli was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 24 2016 > - Michael Shuler was added to the PMC on Thu Sep 22 2016 > > ## Committer base changes: > > - Currently 38 committers. > - There are three new commmitters: > - Dikang Gu was added as a committer on Fri Nov 04 2016 > - Sankalp Kohli was added as a committer on Tue Oct 25 2016 > - Branimir Lambov was voted in and accepted, we are awaiting ICLA > submission > > ## Mailing list activity: > > Activity on both dev and user mail lists have increased substantially over > last quarter. We have no direct quantitative information as to why, but > anecdotally it appears that we have knowledgeable users appearing more > often to answer other users's questions. > > - dev@cassandra.apache.org: > - 1582 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months): > - 709 emails sent to list (452 in previous quarter) > - Though not as high and some is resulting to larger political > discussions, we still have over 60% growth in traffic. > > - u...@cassandra.apache.org: > - 3109 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months): > - 1597 emails sent to list (901 in previous quarter) > - Mail list activity has increased over 50% from the last quarter. > > ## JIRA activity: > > As discussed above in Issues we would like the number of resolved issues > to be higher, but over 75% is not a bad place to be and we are actively > working on getting more community involvement. > > - 480 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months > - 372 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months > > ## Trademark Enforcement > > Three requests were sent out regarding our trademarks, all of which were > immediately complied with by the recipients: > - Clarified appropriate use of trademark and guidelines for a third party > vendor providing backports of Apache Cassandra patches to a custom long > term release version [3] > - Use of trademark in project name [4] > - Use of trademark in project name [5] > > ## 'dtest' Project Contribution > > DataStax recently offered to donate the dtest distributed testing suite to > the project [6],[7]. This was voted on in the dev mailing list and passed > [8]. Filing the appropriate forms with the Incubator folks for review will > be > done shortly. > > ## References > > [0] > > https://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2016/board_minutes_2016_08_17.txt > [1] > > https://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2016/board_minutes_2016_09_21.txt > [2] > http://www.datastax.com/2016/11/serving-customers-serving-the-community > [3] > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/69d87a0d59a23a4ee7578563785581d5daa5cb248987d67a70c44b86@%3Cprivate.cassandra.apache.org%3E > [4] > > https://lists.apache.org/list.html?priv...@cassandra.apache.org:lte=1M:Apache%20trademark%20and%20Spring%20project%20names > [5] https://mesosphere.github.io/cassandra-mesos/ > [6] https://github.com/riptano/cassandra-dtest > [7] > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d43300016d3871587c43eea8cd4223221904fddc7916d9d6d858bd29@%3Cprivate.cassandra.apache.org%3E > [8] > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d9e694ba8eaac8e8c70cbfd3f6ee249d43f8c67279882ffc65e56cac@%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E > -- Ben Bromhead CTO | Instaclustr <https://www.instaclustr.com/> +1 650 284 9692 Managed Cassandra / Spark on AWS, Azure and Softlayer
