Hi Everyone, It's that time of the month/year so please check out the report and edit/suggest/delete as you see fit. We need to submit for tomorrow so I'll get it done tomorrow morning at latest.
Best 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 0.2.1 on 7th August 2012. More regular Gora releases are certainly having a significant impact downstream within the Apache Nutch community as we witnessed the release of Nutch 2.0 (which relies heavily on Apache Gora). The Gora 0.2.1 release artifacts will be put to good use within the next development drive over in Nutch. Overall Project Activity since last report A community decision was made to make an incremental 0.2.X release as it was deemed that enough ground had been achieved to justify the release. The release includes >10 bug fixes, about the same in improvements. Work has been going well with the google summer of code project and we look forward to reviewing this work and merging it into Gora trunk once the PMC is satisfied with it. Finally we have a significant patch for a complete re-work of the Avro implementations within Gora. This provides an excellent contribution to Gora and will certainly be included in the next release. How has the community developed since the last report? The community spirit has remained positive and can only get better now that we are releasing on a more incremental basis. Our GSoC student Renato Marroquín Mogrovejo and Lewis McGibbney have submitted a joint proposal to the forthcoming ApacheCon EU based entirely on Gora so we hope that this will also enable us to build out the community. A briefly mentioned above, a significant Avro contribution was received from Ed Kohwley which is very positive. Changes to PMC & Committers The Gora OMC were very pleased to invite and have Kazuomi Kashii join the PMC. This was the result from Kaz's significant work within the gora-cassandra module and various discussions with other community members. 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
