Thanks Julian! Good to know. Cheers, Jignesh
> On Jun 7, 2016, at 11:17 AM, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some background on formatting. The Board uses plain text for its agenda and > minutes. The Wiki is just a convenient tool that allows several podlings to > edit their reports, which are then combined into an Incubator report and > incorporated in the agenda. The minutes of the last meeting are online[1] and > you can see the various podlings’ reports if you search for “Attachment Y”. > > Sorry it wasn’t clear what the format & content of the report should be. No > one is upset that you didn’t know — we’re just giving feedback. I don’t > expect we'll be changing the wiki interface, because other content in the > wiki does allow markup and links, but my best suggestion is to take a look at > other podling reports, and also look through the board minutes. > > Julian > > [1] > https://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2016/board_minutes_2016_04_20.txt > > <https://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2016/board_minutes_2016_04_20.txt> > >> On Jun 7, 2016, at 6:15 AM, Jignesh Patel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Julian and Marvin: Changes made to >> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/June2016 >> <https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/June2016>. Thanks for the feedback! >> >> Good to know about not using wiki markup. The wiki edit page is confusing as >> it shows in the bottom pane the markup syntax. That seems to encourage >> writers to consider using makeup to make it easier to read the report. If it >> is not too hard, may be worth mentioning that writers should not use markup >> perhaps right upfront in the wiki (and that can be taken out just before the >> final report is filed), or simply not showing the hints for markup. Just a >> thought in case it helps other incubators. >> >> Cheers, >> Jignesh >> >>> On Jun 6, 2016, at 9:01 PM, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> For those of you not on general@incubator, forwarding Marvin Humphrey’s >>> comments on Quickstep’s report. >>> >>> (I recommend that PPMC members join general@incubator… you will learn a lot >>> about incubation & the Apache way.) >>> >>> Julian >>> >>> >>>> On Jun 6, 2016, at 6:40 PM, Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> -------------------- >>>>> Quickstep >>>>> >>>>> Modern servers pack enough storage and computing power that just a decade >>>>> ago was spread across a modest-sized cluster. Given that we are on a >>>>> technological path to continue to increase the storage and compute >>>>> densities >>>>> of individual server nodes, we must complement methods that focus on >>>>> '''scaling-out''' by also developing methods to '''scale-in''' to fully >>>>> exploit the hardware capabilities that is packed in each server node. The >>>>> initial phase of the Quickstep project focuses on this scaling-in aspect. >>>>> Quickstep uses novel methods for organizing data (including columnar and >>>>> hybrid storage organization), template metaprogramming for vectorized >>>>> query >>>>> execution, and a query execution paradigm that separate control-flow from >>>>> data-flow. Collectively, these methods achieve high performance on >>>>> contemporary servers with multi-socket, multi-core processors and large >>>>> main >>>>> memory configurations. To keep the project focused, the project’s initial >>>>> target is interactive in-memory data warehousing workloads in single-node >>>>> settings. In the near future we plan to expand from this initial >>>>> single-node >>>>> focus to a distributed setting. Early results indicate that Quickstep is >>>>> over an order-of-magnitude faster than existing platforms including Spark >>>>> 2.0 and PostgreSQL 9.6 Beta1 (that now has parallel query processing). >>>> >>>> The description of Quickstep is longer than it needs to be and shouldn't >>>> contain wiki markup. Please edit podlings.xml. >>>> >>>>> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >>>>> >>>>> 1. Acquire early adopters >>>>> 2. Acquire early adopters >>>>> 3. Acquire early adopters >>>>> (We know it is that important!) >>>> >>>>> Roman Shaposhnik (rvs): >>>>> >>>>> Really, at least goal #2 should be "make a first ASF release". Hopefully >>>>> we can work with the community to get a sense how important it is in >>>>> addition to growing a community (all 3 goals in this report). >>>> >>>> +1 to this excellent comment of Roman's on the Quickstep report. "Release >>>> early, release often" is a technique for acquiring early adopters! >>> >>> >> >
