+1 looks great! On May 8, 2012, at 4:42 AM, Lewis John Mcgibbney wrote:
> 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
