Thanks Ed for sharing this. Here is the original version for easier reading: https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/April2017
Well done, the whole HAWQ community! On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Ed Espino <esp...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 <johndam...@apache.org>)*.* 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 > (paul...@gmail.com - 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/cd37e2b48d4bbc9fe4a9cea47f8247 > a2a614fa9643171937db9568ed@%3Cdev.hawq.apache.org%3E > * Apache HAWQ graduation update (Mar 1st, 2017) > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3a1e454f8c706dd71b1690c3ae74a1 > 57ef42eefde2185c780e2a57a2@%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. > -- Best Regards, Yandong
