Great writeup. +1 for the report. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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* >
