+1 LGTM Thanks for the report writeup Lewis.
- Henry On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 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 >
