I think having an AUG meeting is a great idea. For the past couple of months most of the committers have really been focusing on getting through the Apache release process. The 1.4 branch is in its final stages of testing, so shortly after the 1.3.5 release goes through we're going to push 1.4.0 out. This means that we're to the point now where we need to define the 1.5 release.
Each of the past releases of Accumulo has been defined by the set of features it includes (rather than time-based release), which are generally set to some theme. This has worked well for us so far, so I would like to continue that approach. 1.4 mostly fits the theme of "improved administrative support", including features like cloning tables, the fault-tolerant execution framework for improved reliability of operations like bulk ingest, a multi-tiered file format to simplify memory management, and a reorganization of some of the iterator api to name a few. We've seen a bunch of new users and developers commenting and contributing since we posted the code on apache, so I think we ought to see what all the new kids want to get out of the project before we firm up a roadmap for 1.5 and beyond. This brings us to the question of what forum or collection of fora is best for discussing the roadmap. An AUG meetup would be a great start. Who wants to organize? Any suggestions for locations? Adam On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Aaron Cordova <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a roadmap for Accumulo? How do things get on the roadmap? Can we > hold like a first ever Accumulo Users Group (AUG!) and perhaps discuss > where Accumulo is headed and find out the latest thinking on direction and > goals? > > Or is this already happening somehow and I just am clueless? > > Aaron
