Would be good to update the status page with tasks that have been completed - some of those are a pre-requisite to a release
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/mrql.html Niall On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Leonidas Fegaras <[email protected]>wrote: > I have written the first draft. Please review and make corrections. I will > upload it to the site tonight. > Leonidas > > > > MRQL > > MRQL is a query processing and optimization system for large-scale, > distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop and Hama. > > MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Expand the development community to include more diverse committers > 2. Complete the first release > 3. Improve query performance on large clusters > > 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? > > We have posted a project description on the HadoopSphere blog, which > initiated some discussion and interest. Since the last report, there > was little activity in recruiting new users and developers, but we are > very close to completing the first release. We believe that, as soon > as we make the first release available, many users will start using > the system, will request bug fixes, improvements, and additional > functionality, and will become new contributors. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > We are in the process of completing the MRQL codebase to make it ready > for the first release, which we expect to take place in the next few > weeks. The only major component missing that delays this release is > switching to maven as our project management tool. We believe that > using maven is important because it will facilitate contributions by > (and recruitment of) committers and will ease version management. The > reasons for the delay are: 1) no one of the current developers has > prior experience with maven 2) the codebase is non-standard because it > uses non-standard tools to generate Java code. > > Date of last release: > > none yet > > Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for MRQL. > > Signed-off-by: > Alan Cabrera: [ ](mrql) > Anthony Elder: [ ](mrql) > Alex Karasulu: [ ](mrql) > Mohammad Nour El-Din: [ ](mrql) > >
