Thanks for the quick feedback on this one Committed @revision 36905 in board agenda
I can commit changes should then be requored Thanks Lewis On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Enis Söztutar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> -- Lewis
