Hi Igor & Charles,
Just my two cents. In years past we tried to do a release every three months
using the "train model": those features that are ready are shipped, others wait
for the next release. Not so bad if the delay is 3 months. Once the delay gets
to be 6 months, everyone (rightly) wants their features in, and the release
becomes hard to manage.
Seems good to set a goal of a release per quarter. If we can't do it for
whatever reason, we can deal with that as an exception.
The key risk is that we do need a cluster to run the full test suite. MapR has
kindly provided that cluster, and continues to do so. We will need to do
something different if things change.
Thanks,
- Paul
On Friday, February 7, 2020, 8:15:55 AM PST, Igor Guzenko
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Charles,
Thank you very much for gathering all the information necessary for the
report. Everything looks good for me except one thing I'm not sure about. I
have some doubts about the new planned release date, seems not very
realistic to me at the moment. I'm not a manager but I think it could be
useful to have a clear documented release strategy and define an
approximate list of features&fixes to be included. Sorry if it is not
purely related to the board report topic, I just shared my thoughts.
Thanks,
Igor
On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 4:54 PM Charles Givre <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> Here is the draft Apache Board report which is due on Wednesday. Could
> everyone please take a look and send me comments by Tuesday?
> Thanks!
> -- C
>
>
>
> ## Description:
> The mission of Drill is the creation and maintenance of software related
> to
> Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Apache Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage
>
> ## Issues:
> Nothing significant to report.
>
> ## Membership Data:
> Apache Drill was founded 2014-11-18 (5 years ago)
> There are currently 56 committers and 26 PMC members in this project.
> The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.
>
> Community changes, past quarter:
> - Bohdan Kazydub was added to the PMC on 2020-01-28
> - Igor Guzenko was added to the PMC on 2019-12-12
> - Denys Ordynskiy was added as committer on 2019-12-26
>
> ## Project Activity:
> Drill 1.17 was released on 2019-12-26 which contains a significant number
> of
> bugfixes and improvements.
> (https://drill.apache.org/docs/apache-drill-1-17-0-release-notes/).
>
> The Drill Community had a Hangout meeting and will be working towards a
> number
> of strategic goals:
> 1. Increase the size of community
> 2. Reduce obstacles to use, such as improving documentation and website.
> 3. Work on publicity
>
> We have averaged about two releases per year. Going forward, we will try
> for
> smaller releases more frequently. Our next release is targeted for end of
> March.
>
> Interesting work underway:
> - Storage plugins for Apache Druid, Apache Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and
> general HTTP/REST.
> - Significant code improvements to facilitate storage and format plugin
> development.
> - Integrations with Docker and K8s.
> - Documentation improvements to include website re-work.
>
>
>
> ## Community Health:
> - [email protected] had a 35% increase in traffic in the past quarter
> (2169
> emails compared to 1606)
> - [email protected] had a 97% increase in traffic in the past quarter
> (231
> emails compared to 117)
> - 129 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (28% increase)
> - 99 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (15% increase)
> - 100 commits in the past quarter (78% increase)
> - 16 code contributors in the past quarter (6% increase)
> - 74 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (29% increase)
> - 75 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (15% increase)
>
>
>
