Looks good. On Wed, Apr 8, 2026 at 4:35 PM Christopher <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Accumulo Devs, > > As per our agreed-upon practice of drafting our quarterly board report > on the dev list, I present the following to you for your review. > Normally, our PMC Chair, Ed, would draft this, but I texted him and > offered to help draft it again this month, due to his time > constraints. Because this is due today, it won't be here long before > I'll need to submit it. I'll leave it here for at least an hour before > I submit, in case anybody has any suggested changes. > > **** > > ## Description: > The mission of Apache Accumulo is the creation and maintenance of software > related to a robust, scalable, distributed key/value store with cell-based > access control and customizable server-side processing. > > ## Project Status: > Current project status: Ongoing with moderate to high activity. > Issues for the board: None. > > ## Membership Data: > Apache Accumulo was founded 2012-03-20 (14 years ago) > There are currently 43 committers and 39 PMC members in this project. > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 6:5. It is our practice to > invite committers to be PMC members at the same time. The difference > between > committers and PMC members is because some PMC members have elected to go > emeritus. > > Community changes, past quarter: > - No new PMC members. Last addition was Kevin Rathbun on 2024-07-24. > - No new committers. Last addition was John Kucera on 2025-06-04. > > ## Project Activity: > Accumulo wrapped up the previously reported development effort to develop a > new context classloader factory for use with Accumulo deployments, to > facilitate user plugins being deployed to a remote location that is > accessible > to a running system. This resulted in the release of > accumulo-classloader-extras-1.0.0 on 2026-03-02. > > The effort to improve the separate access control library was released as > accumulo-access-1.0.0-beta2 on 2026-04-01. > > Ongoing works includes: > - Continuing to improve the stability of 2.1 and preparing for another 2.1 > release (the last one was 2.1.4 on 2025-08-20). > - Continuing work towards supporting more dynamic scaling in a future 4.0 > version. > - Adding support for multiple manager processes for a future 4.0 version. > - Improve test code and quality control for both active development > branches > (2.1 and 4.0/main) > > ### Recent releases: > - accumulo-access-1.0.0-beta2 was released on 2026-04-01. > - accumulo-classloader-extras-1.0.0 was released on 2026-03-02. > - accumulo-2.1.4 was released on 2025-08-20. > > ## Community Health: > Overall community health is good and GitHub activity remains consistent. > The > low email traffic on the dev list reflects the community preference of > using > GitHub projects and issues for planning and PRs for code discussions, but > this > activity is also reflected in the notifications list, for anybody who > prefers > not to engage on GitHub (this is rare for our community). >
