Hi Guys, I've been a tad busy as of late and usually pass on this report prior to sending it off to board but didn't get it produced in quite as much time as I would have liked. Please see below for this months report.
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 Apache Gora team was happy to announce the release of Gora 0.2 on 24th April 2012 (1st since graduation from the Incubator). During the process of this release, the team managed to simplify the release process somewhat so we look forward to the shift towards a more incremental release policy within the project as a whole. As a side note, an experimental branch of Nutch is now very close to a community VOTE further to the recent Gora 0.2 release. Overall Project Activity since last report The majority of work directly concerned the 0.2 release as mentioned above. Since then there have been a few commits, however there has also been some encouraging conversation with respect to our site migration to the Apache CMS. We currently have some 50 odd issues to work on within the 0.3 development drive. How has the community developed since the last report? Encouragingly we have had a number of new issues logged on Jira from new Gora users. On most occasions this has sparked decent conversations however we are lacking patches from these new Gora users. Some excellent news was that our Gora Amazon DynamoDB Google Summer of Code project was succesfully accepted into this years programme. The prospective student, Renato has been on list and we look forward to kicking things off later this month. 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). Within the scope of the 0.3 development drive is an extensive upgrade of the Avro code, so we will be vigilant in attracting new members. We also look forward to the progression of GSoC. Hopefully our student progresses to become part of the Gora team in due course. Project Branding or Naming issues NONE Legal issues NONE -- Lewis
