+1 looks great. Cheers, Chris
On 1/31/13 4:05 PM, "Lewis John Mcgibbney" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi All, >We need to report again this month. Please see below for the report >and please add/remove content where you see appropriate. I'll get this >committed when we are done. >Thanks >Lewis > >------------------------------------- > >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. No releases have been made since however a clear staregy >has been established for the 0.3 release. > >Overall Project Activity since last report > >Since last reporting, the PMC has geared the development drive towards >the 0.3 >release. We have addressed and resolved 28 of 33 issues meaning that the >progression towards an RC for 0.3 is well on the way. We currently have >two >blockers which nee to be addressed before we can consider the 0.3 RC. > >How has the community developed since the last report? > >Activity on the user@ list has been very slow since last reporting. It was >invisaged that after ApacheConEU user interest might pick up slightly, >however >this has not materialized as we hoped. >Activity on dev@ has developed in line with our expectations as we move >towards >more regular Gora releases. Generally speaking more work needs to be done >in an >attempt to make it easier for people to use Gora. This is something which >the >PMC need to work on. > >Changes to PMC & Committers > >The Gora PMC were very pleased to invite and have Alfonso Nishikawa >join our ranks in >early December. After working with the PMC to ensure smooth transition >into the Apache >community Alfonso is now contributing to Gora and making a real impact. >Alfonso >also joined the Gora PMC. > >PMC and Committer diversity > >We currently have committers from a wide variety of Apache projects >including, >Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr, Accumulo, Whirr & Hadoop (this is not >an exhaustive >list). We are still actively seeking one or more members to join the team >from >the Avro community so this will be a main target for us in the future >post 0.3 release. > >Project Branding or Naming issues > >NONE > >Legal issues > >NONE > >-- >Lewis
