+1 from me, Lewis, Looks awesome. RE: gora-sql: what are the next steps there? Is it something the legal committee can help out with? At worst, I'd imagine, we could move gora-sql to a non-released area of SVN and then push forward with an 0.2 that doesn't include it?
Cheers, Chris On Mar 6, 2012, at 7:26 AM, Lewis John Mcgibbney wrote: > 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* ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
