Looks like a very good summary Stephen. A lot of good progress for sure in 2020. Nice to see more committees (re)engaging.
Cheers, Kelvin Kelvin R. Lawrence http://www.kelvinlawrence.net https://www.linkedin.com/in/krlawrence/ Twitter: @gfxman > On Jan 6, 2021, at 7:20 AM, Stephen Mallette <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here is the attached draft of our board report for this month. Please let > me know if you'd like to see something changed or added. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ## Description: > Apache TinkerPop is a graph computing framework for both graph databases > (OLTP) and graph analytic systems (OLAP). > > ## Activity: > TinkerPop released version 3.4.9 during this reporting period. This version > was the largest release of the year in terms of the number of JIRA issues > completed, almost matching the total number closed in all the previous > releases of 2020 combined. Much of this activity was driven by existing > committers who were re-focused on the project in the last quarter of the > year. We'd alluded to this re-focus in our last report, as well as the > notion of new contributors, but new contributor activity trailed off a bit > as we passed through October. Hopefully, some of those folks will return > with the start of this new year. > > We've decided to put a stake in the ground for release of 3.5.0, which has > been in development for over a year now, and release it in the March/April > timeframe. While it is not everything we had expected it to be, it does > contain a lot of necessary dependency and runtime upgrades. We will > therefore refer to it as a "heavy maintenance release" and push off some > major features to a future version of 3.6.0.[1] > > In our last report, we'd also noted that we had started the process for > bringing gremlint.com[2] into the project as the official Gremlin language > formatter. At this point, the owners of gremlint are still settling > paperwork on their end. The most recent update from the author of gremlint > can be found here[3]. > > In addition to gremlint, a second code contribution proposal has been made > recently to provide an ANTLR grammar for Gremlin along with related > code[4]. This source code would also go through the IP Clearance process. > This proposal is still in an early stage, but would hopefully be completed > in time for release of 3.5.0. > > In the wider TinkerPop ecosystem, we've recognized HugeGraph[5] as a graph > database provider. HugeGraph is high-speed, distributed and scalable OLTP > and OLAP graph database with visualized analytics platform. The addition of > HugeGraph further solidifies TinkerPop and the Gremlin graph query language > as a critical component of the graph processing space, with support for > over two dozen graph systems. > > ## Issues: > There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. > > ## Releases: > - 3.4.9 (December 7, 2020) > > ## PMC/Committer: > - Last PMC addition was Jorge Bay-Gondra - October 2018 > - Last committer addition was Divij Vaidya - November 2019 > > ## Links > [1] https://s.apache.org/rq6y1 > [2] https://gremlint.com/ > [3] https://s.apache.org/cjmw3 > [4] https://s.apache.org/ol56j > [5] https://github.com/hugegraph/hugegraph
