For your reading enjoyment. Here is the Apache HAWQ Incubator April 2017 report (below) from the *Incubator PMC Board Report - April 2017 *(prepared by John D. Ament <[email protected]>)*.* We have a lot of positive momentum behind the project. I am looking forward to watching HAWQ continue to grow.
Cheers, -=e -- *Ed **Espino* --------------------HAWQApache HAWQ is a Hadoop native SQL query engine that combines the keytechnological advantages of MPP database with the scalability and convenienceof Hadoop. HAWQ reads data from and writes data to HDFS natively. HAWQdelivers industry-leading performance and linear scalability. It providesusers the tools to confidently and successfully interact with petabyte rangedata sets. HAWQ provides users with a complete, standards compliant SQLinterface.HAWQ has been incubating since 2015-09-04.Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Continue to improve the project's release cadence. To this end we plan on expanding automation services to support increased developer participation. 2. Continue to expand the community, by adding new contributors and focusing on making sure that there's a much more robust level of conversations and discussions happening around roadmaps and feature development on the public dev mailing list. 3. Expand release artifacts to include the delivery of binary artifacts. We expect the project to significantly refine the binary release process in several key areas.Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to beaware of? 1. Nothing urgent at this time.How has the community developed since the last report? 1. Two Meetups took place in Beijing, China: * HAWQ Meetup (January 12, 2017) - HAWQ2.X New Features - Yanqing Wen, Pivotal HAWQ Senior Engineer - HAWQ Elasticity - Huan Zhang, Pivotal HAWQ Senior Engineer - Data Lake and HAWQ Integration - Wenbin Lu, EMC Big Data Senior Engineer * HAWQ Meetup (March 23, 2017) - Apache HAWQ Exploration Step by Step - Configuration, Build, Deployment and Debug by Xiang Sheng, Pivotal Software Engineer - Transaction Management in Apache HAWQ by Ming Li, Pivotal Senior Software Engineer - Max Compute - A SQL engine based on Apache HAWQ by Chen Xia, Database Expert in Alibaba Cloud 2. A significant push by the dev community has been made to review and merge the project's Pull Requests (PR). As of March 30, 2017, eight of the nine open PRs have been opened in the last ten days. The PR opened on Sep 2016 is targeted to be merged after the Apache 2.2.0.0 release. 3. Community contribution highlight(s): * Leveraging the extensible PXF design, a JDBC PXF plugin was contributed by Devin Jia (github id: jiadexin). This contribution came from the community and not from the company which originally donated HAWQ to the ASF. 4. Recent porting efforts: - Persistent Systems Engineers are actively engaging the dev community on their HAWQ porting efforts to RHEL 7.1 on S390 platform. - Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus) porting notes have been published on dev list. 5. Ruilong Huo has volunteered to be the Release Manager (RM) for the upcoming 2.2.0.0 releaseHow has the project developed since the last report? 1. Apache HAWQ 2.1.0.0 (source code only) has been released. 2. Apache HAWQ 2.2.0.0 release proposed (source code and first binary release). This is the 3rd release as an incubating project. The binaries will be Hadoop vendor agnostic providing support for the Apache Bigtop 1.2.0 distribution. Release page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/Apache+HAWQ+2.2.0.0-incubating+Release Release hightlights: * CentOS 7.x Support * Ranger Integration * PXF ORC Profile * Bug Fixes 3. Paul Guo ([email protected] - committer and recent HAWQ PPMC member) is publishing (to dev email list) a regular HAWQ Graduation update for the project. * HAWQ graduation update (January, 17, 2017) https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cd37e2b48d4bbc9fe4a9cea47f8247a2a614fa9643171937db9568ed@%3Cdev.hawq.apache.org%3E * Apache HAWQ graduation update (Mar 1st, 2017) https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3a1e454f8c706dd71b1690c3ae74a157ef42eefde2185c780e2a57a2@%3Cdev.hawq.apache.org%3E 4. The Apache HAWQ website has been updated: * Provide clearer (more user-friendly) home page with good access to downloadable release artifacts. * The Apache HAWQ doc set is opened sourced and accessible from website's nav bar. 5. Significant updates to the Apache HAWQ wiki: * Add more community activities and recorded videos: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/Community * Add design documents for certain components: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/Tech+DocumentsHow would you assess the podling's maturity?Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [X] Community building [X] Nearing graduation [ ] Other:Date of last release: 2017-02-28When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Podling committers (3) added: Lisa Owen: January 31, 2017 Jane Beckman: February 1, 2017 Kyle Dunn: March 2, 2017 PPMC member (1) added: Paul Guo: March 10, 2017Signed-off-by: [X](hawq) Alan Gates Comments: [X](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik Comments: [ ](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz Comments: [ ](hawq) Thejas Nair Comments: [x](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik Comments: Podling seems to be a few months away from fulfilling all of the graduation requirements.IPMC/Shepherd notes: johndament: The podling is extremely active, I'm not sure there's anything left blocking them from graduation.
