Hi Guys, OK so a couple of things here. 1) Please use svn switch http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/gora/trunk/ to switch your trunk workspace to the new TLP svn repos. 2) I've added ALL existing PMC members and committers to the PMC and Unix group on people.apache.org except the following Keith - Waiting to hear back from Board@ as this is a fundamental change to the PMC, I need to comply with the specified rules [1]. Hopefully this won't be too long so please nudge me if i don't get back to you shortly. In addition can you provide your ASF UID as well please. [1] http://apache.org/dev/pmc.html#newpmc
OK now on with the report. The Board are meeting on 15th Feb, so we've got to have it submitted some weeks before hand, therefore I'll leave this thread open for a week or so before committing and sending it off through the official channels. Please comment accordingly. Thanks guys. Apache Gora Project Description Apache Gora is an open source framework providing an in memory data model and persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with extensive Hadoop MapReduce support. (This new project description comes from Enis' comments on gora-dev@, how does it sound? No-one ever got back to him) Project Releases The last official project release was made on 24/09/2011 which was the 0.1.1-incubating release (2nd whilst in the Incubator). Discussion has surfaced on the project development strategy for spinning a 0.2 RC within the next month or so. In addition to the numerous improvements made between 0.1.1-incubating and 0.2 we plan to implement two additional data store modules, namely gora-solr and gora-accumulo. The addition of these modules not only drives the project towards its extended project description and aspirations, but will also ensure that Apache Gora is extended to two diverse and active communities with the ASF. Overall Project Activity since last report Since reporting we have identified several improvements to be made to the codebase. These issues are actively being worked on, however the task of migrating all Gora infrastructure to TLP status is currently taking precedence. In terms of project activity, over the last month, our mailing lists have witnessed sustainable levels of activity with noticeably higher volumes of traffic. Daniel Sharaf has done an excellent job of migrating the overwhelming majority of the incubator infrastructure over to TLP configuration. How has the community developed since the last report? Having just been accepted into the ASF as a TLP, the Gora PMC is pleased to announce that having VOTE'd we have successfully attracted one new committer and PMC member, Keith Turner. In addition we've become aware of some other more discrete members of the community chipping in. This is promising, as members from communities as far afield as Apache James are actively monitoring the Gora development lists. Additionally we have connected with members of the JOOQ community regarding a possible re-write of the gora-sql module as well as members of the Hector Developers community, a formal announcement was made on 15/01/2012 (cross posted to the Hector user lists) which states continued and committed support for the Hector client API within the gora-cassandra module. This was followed by members of the Hector development team formally stating on the Gora dev lists that they are happy to work collaboratively to make both Hector and Gora better projects. Changes to PMC & Committers The Gora PMC is pleased to announce that Keith Turner was VOTE'd in as PMC member and Committer. Hopefully by the time this report is presented to the Board, Keith will be on board and able to actively maintain and improve the gora-accumulo module, also opening Gora up to the Accumulo community. PMC and Committer diversity We currently have committers from a wide variety of projects including, Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr to name a few. Once Keith's credentials are processed we can add Accumulo to this list. This list is not exhaustive. Project Branding or Naming issues As we migrate the website to the TLP infrastructure we have created an issue on the Gora Jira to ensure that all ASF branding and naming guidelines are implemented fully and that Apache Gora is in compliance. Legal issues We currently have an issue with one particular library being used within the gora-sql store. It is the communities intention to remove this LGPL licensed library from the codebase replacing it with implementations from JOOQ an ASL 2.0 licensed library. -- *Lewis*
