A lot of stuff seems to have happened since our last report - did I miss anything?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ## Description: Apache TinkerPop is a graph computing framework for both graph databases (OLTP) and graph analytic systems (OLAP). ## Activity: TinkerPop has added a new member to the PMC in Jason Plurad and a new committer in David Brown. TinkerPop released 3.1.4 and 3.2.2. 3.2.2 contains gremlin-python[1], which officially opens TinkerPop up to the Python community. We tend to think of Python as the most used language for TinkerPop outside of the JVM so having native support for it should help expand usage. October will see releases 3.1.5 and 3.2.3. These two releases are mostly bug fixes and minor usability improvements. We expect to continue to maintain both of these lines of code (bug fixes for 3.1.4 and ongoing development of 3.2.2), but intend to begin work on a new major line in 3.3.0 in the coming weeks. In an effort to share the technical knowledge of "releasing TinkerPop", we've started to share the work of that process. While we've always had our release process documented[2] and a single release manager can handle releases, we've determined it better (when possible) to have one release manager per release line. Our initial trial with one release manager per version, on the previous release, worked well. We hope to continue with this approach for future releases. Promotionally speaking, there have been a number of talks at conferences on, or related, to TinkerPop. As a sample, here are the talks given by PMC members: Graph Computing with Apache TinkerPop - Dr. Marko Rodriguez [3] Graph Processing with Titan and Scylla - Jason Plurad [4] On the brand management front, it was noted by a PMC member (Jason Plurad had just been voted in almost to the day he made the report) that there was an individual selling products (baby clothes, mugs, t-shirts, etc.) on Amazon with TinkerPop graphics on them. Soon after, a second company was also noted selling similar products on an independent site. Neither, had permission from Apache to do that. After some discussion with Trademarks, the PMC chair sent notice to both sites requesting that they acknowledge the marks in their product description. No response was received from the seller on Amazon, but all products were quickly removed. No response was received from the second seller, but on greater inspection of the site, it doesn't really appear to be terribly active or maintained. Next steps with respect to this seller have yet to be discussed. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Releases: - 3.1.4 (September 6, 2016) - 3.2.2 (September 6, 2016) ## PMC/Committer: - Last PMC addition was Jason Plurad - August 2016 - Last committer addition was David Brown - August 2016 ## Links [1] http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#gremlin-python [2] http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/dev/developer/#_release_process [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLR-I53Gl9g [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RllAy9OjzIo
