looks good -Jake
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 8:13 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. >
