Looks good Todd. I don't think that having the HTTP redirect working is required in order to report progress on the site migration. We can easily mirror the current site to kudu.i.a.o and talk about how we are in the process of winding down the old domain with a redirect.
Additionally, since May 4 is two weeks prior to the board mtg, we may be able to sneak in updates after May 4, if that helps. We could ask our mentors to hold off on signing off on the report for a couple days. Also, one typo nit: s/proceeding months/preceding months/ Mike On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey folks, > > Our quarterly report is due on Wednesday. Here's a draft below. LMK if > anyone has suggestions on things to change or add. > > If we manage to get the mailing list change done or the website moved by > Wednesday, I'll update accordingly. > > -Todd > > -------------------- > Kudu > > Kudu is a distributed columnar storage engine built for the Apache Hadoop > ecosystem. > > Kudu has been incubating since 2015-12-03. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Build a more diverse developer and user community > 2. Migrate our web site under apache.org > 3. Continue to make regular Apache releases > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > None. > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > - The PPMC invited Binglin Chang as a new committer and PPMC member. > Binglin > has continued to increase his involvement and some of his colleagues are > now > becoming more involved as well. > > - Since the last report, we had contributions from several new > contributors, > including five new contributors from outside Cloudera (the initial code > grantor). Of those, two were substantial pieces of new functionality: a > new > sink to ingest data from Apache Flume, and an improved integration with > Apache Spark. We hope that the authors of these contributions will > continue > to be involved in the community and grow into committers. > > - In March, one of our mentors approached the development community with > some > ideas to make the project more approachable for developers. As a result > of this, we've been working on a few action items: > > 1) We started a project blog and have been posting weekly updates on > development > progress as well as more detailed posts on new features or project news. > We've heard from community members that this is an easy way to track > the project without subscribing to high-volume dev lists. > > 2) Our dev@ list is currently very noisy with a lot of code review > comments. > For more casual contributors this can be overwhelming as code review > is intermingled with higher level project discussions. The community > discussed the issue and decided to split the code review traffic to a new > mailing list (INFRA-11797) > > 3) We've started an informal policy of emailing the dev list with a > heads-up > whenever any new larger feature first shows up on gerrit or JIRA, to make > it > easier for people to give input on large items without having to see > every > bug fix or small improvement. For example, whenever design discussion > starts > on a new feature, the contributor sends a 'heads-up' email to dev@. > > - Development activity continues to be healthy. Mailing list traffic for > the > dev list in April and May was similar to the proceeding months. Patch > contribution level is also fairly stable (50-80 commits/month) with lulls > around releases as people focus on release testing, documentation, etc. > > - User mailing list traffic is steadily increasing in quantity and > diversity: > 108 messages in April vs 51 in March, 40 in Feb. April saw 26 distinct > people > contribute to the user list discussion vs 15 in Feb. Website traffic also > indicates growing interest, with April having 30% more traffic than Feb. > > - In the last two months, Kudu-related talks were delivered in San > Francisco, > San Jose, Beijing, Boston, DC, Detroit, London, and Dublin. More talks > are scheduled for the upcoming months at ApacheCon Big Data, > Strata/Hadoop World, > Berlin Buzzwords, and various local meetups. > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Since the last report, we've accomplished the following milestones: > > - We released Apache Kudu 0.7.1-incubating on 3/9/2016 to fix a few issues > found in the 0.7.0 release. > - We released Apache Kudu 0.8.0-incubating on 4/10/2016 with various new > features and improvements. > > > Date of last release: > > April 10, 2016: Apache Kudu 0.8.0-incubating > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > - Binglin Chang was added as a committer and PPMC member on April 4, > 2016. >
