Excellent as always. +1
Thanks Lewis, Enis On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Henry Saputra <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
