Hi All, Time of month again, we have monthly reporting for the first three months after graduation so please review and comment accordingly. I'll get it committed as of
Apache Gora The Apache Gora open source framework provides 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 Apache Hadoop MapReduce support. 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). Although there have been some commits to three Gora modules, some remaining issues still need to be addressed before we are ready to roll out a 0.2 release. This is rather frustrating, as the main issue which blocks a 0.2 release is a licensing issue on the gora-sql store. It is widely acknowledged that although gora-sql is the least used module, it is the one which requires attention to rectify this licensing issue. Overall Project Activity since last report Since graduation all documentation, and infrastructure has been successfully migrated over to TLP status. We've witnessed development and committs to three datastores and a number of issues addressed as a result. It is safe to say that the gora-hbase store seems to be attracting the most development, however there are also a number of issues which have recently been opened for the gora-cassandra module. In the last report we stated that there were two new modules in the process of being integrated into the project (namely gora-accumulo and gora-solr), however due to blocking issues with releases for Solr and Accumulo, we are not able to release the gora modules. How has the community developed since the last report? The Gora mailing lists have seen some activity with regards to gora-accumulo, however generally speaking traffic was quite low for the month until this report. We do however have some excellent news that we are submitting an application to Google Summer of Code. The project comprises a gora-dynamodb (Amazon Dynamo DB) module again making best efforts to open up Gora to a wider audience. Changes to PMC & Committers Since VOTE'ing Keither Turner on to the team no new members have been accepted into the Gora development team. Additionally, no new VOTE'ing has taken place. PMC and Committer diversity We currently have committers from a wide variety of projects including, Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr, Accumulo & Hadoop (this is not an exhaustive list). There is work to be done with the Avro implementations, so once we are 100% ready to work on these issues, we will be looking to interest members of the Avro community in Gora. Project Branding or Naming issues We recently sorted out all branding and trademark issues through trademarks@ . As this has been addressed there is no more to add at this stage. 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. The re-write of the gora-sql module building from the JOOQ library has been delayed until after our 0.2 release. -- *Lewis*
