Edit: "can now handle gracefully handle failures of local disk" lots of handling going on.
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote: > Our board report is due tomorrow. Here's a draft. I'll operate on lazy > consensus -- let me know if you want any changes, otherwise will post as > is. > > > Apache Kudu is a distributed columnar storage engine built for the Apache > Hadoop ecosystem. > > ## Issues: > > No issues requiring the board's attention at this time. > > ## Activity: > > Since the last report, we've made one minor release (1.6.0). > > The 1.6.0 release focused on bug fixes, stability, and performance. > Notably, Kudu can now handle gracefully handle failures of local disk > drives without crashing the process. > > Work over the holiday period has been a bit slower, but we continue > to make progress around similar goals of stability and easier operations > for our next release. > > ## Health report: > > - Subscriptions to the user mailing list are up slightly over last quarter. > In the previous quarter we noted that mailing list traffic was > significantly > down, but in this quarter it has doubled back to previous levels. > It appears that the quiet couple of months was not indicative of any > trend. > > - Website traffic is slightly up (unique users up 4.4%, sessions up 8.6%). > This is within our normal quarterly fluctuation. > > - Development activity as measured by code reviews and JIRA traffic is down > a bit from the previous quarter, probably due to the holiday season. > > - This quarter (Oct-Dec), we committed code authored by 17 distinct > contributors, of whom 3 were new to the project. We added three new > committers and PMC members. > > - Collaboration continues with the Apache Impala project around our shared > RPC library code. This has been beneficial to both projects. > > ## PMC/Committer changes: > > - Currently 19 PMC members and committers (all committers are PMC) > - Last committer/PMC additions: > -- Andrew Wong was added as a committer and PMC on Mon Oct 30 2017 > -- Grant Henke was added as a committer and PMC on Fri Oct 27 2017 > -- Hao Hao was added as a committer and PMC on Wed Dec 13 2017 > > ## Releases: > > - Apache Kudu 1.6.0 was released on December 6th, 2017. >
