I have just submitted the report to the board. I only made two small changes to add the graph-explorer from Amazon that I only learned about this week and updated the current state of our release process for 3.5.5/3.6.2:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Description: Apache TinkerPop is a graph computing framework for both graph databases (OLTP) and graph analytic systems (OLAP). ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Divij Vaidya on 2022-04-25. - No new committers. Last additions were Rithin Kumar, Valentyn Kahamlyk, and Yang Xia on 2022-09-01. ## Project Activity: We have started the preparations for the release of versions 3.5.5 and 3.6.2. These releases are mostly maintenance releases which include a lot of bug fixes, various improvements, and dependency updates. We have decided that we postpone the next major release, 3.7.0, which we initially wanted to release together with 3.5.5 and 3.6.2. The reasons for postponing the release are mostly that some of the changes that we have planned for this version are not implemented yet and also that most graph providers also have not updated to 3.6 yet. Releasing 3.7.0 early would therefore not provide much benefit to most of our users as they have to wait for their graph provider to update to that version. In the wider TinkerPop ecosystem, we've learned about three new systems that are TinkerPop enabled: - ByteGraph, a graph database developed internally at ByteDance, the company behind e.g., TikTok [1] - GraphScope, a large-scale graph computing system from Alibaba [2] - Graph Explorer, a web application to visualize graph data, created by Amazon Neptune that is also compatible with other TinkerPop-enabled graph databases and Apache 2.0 licensed [3] ### Releases: 3.5.4 was released on 2022-07-18. 3.6.1 was released on 2022-07-18. ## Community Health: Since we had a lot of live events already on Discord, we have decided to create a YouTube channel for TinkerPop where we want to make recordings of such events available in the future so that interested users and contributors can watch them even if they could not attend the live event.[4] (The channel is still empty right now as we did not host any event recently and because we unfortunately did not record past events.) ## Links [1] https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p3306-li.pdf [2] https://graphscope.io/ [3] https://aws.amazon.com/de/about-aws/whats-new/2023/01/neptune-graph-explorer -open-source-visual-exploration-tool-low-code-users/ [4] https://www.youtube.com/@apachetinkerpop -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Florian Hockmann <[email protected]> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2023 11:19 An: [email protected] Betreff: [DISCUSS] Draft ASF Board Report - January 2023 Here is the attached draft of our board report for this quarter - please let me know if there is anything to add or edit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Description: Apache TinkerPop is a graph computing framework for both graph databases (OLTP) and graph analytic systems (OLAP). ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Divij Vaidya on 2022-04-25. - No new committers. Last additions were Rithin Kumar, Valentyn Kahamlyk, and Yang Xia on 2022-09-01. ## Project Activity: We are planning to release versions 3.5.5 and 3.6.2 in the next few weeks. These releases are mostly maintenance releases which include a lot of bug fixes, various improvements, and dependency updates. We have decided that we postpone the next major release, 3.7.0, which we initially wanted to release together with 3.5.5 and 3.6.2. The reasons for postponing the release are mostly that some of the changes that we have planned for this version are not implemented yet and also that most graph providers also have not updated to 3.6 yet. Releasing 3.7.0 early would therefore not provide much benefit to most of our users as they have to wait for their graph provider to update to that version. In the wider TinkerPop ecosystem, we've learned about two new systems that are TinkerPop enabled: - ByteGraph, a graph database developed internally at ByteDance, the company behind e.g., TikTok [1] - GraphScope, a large-scale graph computing system from Alibaba [2] ### Releases: 3.5.4 was released on 2022-07-18. 3.6.1 was released on 2022-07-18. ## Community Health: Since we had a lot of live events already on Discord, we have decided to create a YouTube channel for TinkerPop where we want to make recordings of such events available in the future so that interested users and contributors can watch them even if they could not attend the live event.[3] (The channel is still empty right now as we did not host any event recently and because we unfortunately did not record past events.) ## Links [1] https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p3306-li.pdf [2] https://graphscope.io/ [3] https://www.youtube.com/@apachetinkerpop
