Great work Lewis, +1 from me and saw it fly by on board@. Cheers, Chris
On Feb 2, 2012, at 3:58 AM, Lewis John Mcgibbney wrote: > Ok I'm committing this in the next half hour . > > Thanks for feedback. > > Lewis > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Enis Söztutar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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* >>> >> > > > > -- > *Lewis* ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
