Looks good to me. Thx for the writeup Lewis
- Henry On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
