Super +1. Great report dude.
Cheers, Chris On Apr 4, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Lewis John Mcgibbney wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Please see below for a draft report. I'll send this in tomorrow unless > there are objections or anything to add. > > Thanks > > Lewis > > 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). Since last > reporting there have been few commits but the ones we've seen > have been fairly significant, but still 4 issues to > be addressed before we can progress to a 0.2 release candidate. > Major issues to be addressed include implementing tests for the > gora-cassandra > module, an upgrade to Hadoop 1.0.0. > > Overall Project Activity since last report > > Activity roughly shadows last months average, with nothing exceptional > taking place. > A blocker issue with our usage of a particular sql library has been dealt > with, > additionally Keith Turner was able to commit his gora-accumulo module, as > the > distribution of Accumulo was released and available for us to use. Ferdy > committed a nice piece of work which now provides users with the ability to > properly support multiple data store implementations in parallel. We've also > seen keen interest for our proposed GSoC project which is to add a > gora-Amazon > DyanmoDB module to the project and look forward to picking up traction with > this in the near future. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > We recently received (rather encouragingly) that someone struggled to join > the user@ list. This was because this list did not exist, it has however > now been > created. We've had some questions coming into the project regarding the > hbase > module, and whether or not we were going to support certain features within > Gora, > however unfortunately none of these issues lead to any commits from outside > the > existing community. > > Changes to PMC & Committers > > NONE > > 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. It would also be nice to attract > members of the Hector and Cassandra community so we will work towards this > goal. > > Project Branding or Naming issues > > NONE > > Legal issues > > NONE > > -- > *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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
