The board report has been posted. On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 9:28 AM (null) (null) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >
