Here's what I just posted on Whimsy. Thanks to all who contributed
to writing this report! I just assembled what y'all gave me ;-)
## Description:
The mission of Apache Ambari is the creation and maintenance of software
related to Hadoop cluster management
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
The project's community and its PMC is active and engaged. New contributors
are reaching out to us on the mailing lists and with PRs. There's currently a
nomination thread for the PMC Chair role with the final vote expected in a few
weeks. We have voted in a new committer Arshad Mohammad. The project currently
stands at 16 PMC members and 20 committers.
## Project Activity:
There's ongoing collaboration between Ambari and Bigtop communities on the
Bigtop stack. The project has achieved a number of goals:
1. Adaption of Hadoop 3.3.5 to the Bigtop stack and integration with
Ambari
2. Support for Ranger 2.4
3. Integration of theAmbari infrastructure
Looking ahead, the community is gearing up for the release of Ambari Bigtop
Stack 3.3. The key focuses for this release include:
1. Upgrading service versions to Bigtop 3.3.0.
2. Ongoing work to support Phoenix integration.
3. Adding YARN TimelineService V2 and Registry DNS support (currently
under review).
4. In-progress efforts to incorporate Logsearch support.
5. Successful merger of Ranger 2.4 support into the Ambari Bigtop stack.
6. Integration of Ambari Infra (already merged).
7. Exploring support for openEuler OS with Ambari.
8. Future plans for adding Knox support.
9. Incorporating a YARN view in Ambari Views.
10. Addressing the continuous increase of WebSocket connections in the
Ambari web UI.
11. Ongoing discussions about upgrading from Python 2 to Python 3.
Active development is happening on py3 and fixing the CVE's. Work is being
done on the ambari-2.8 branch for the next release. At this point the
following releases are considered to be our latest: ambari-2.7.6 ambari-2.6.2
## Community Health:
Our current PMC appears to be fully engaged and actively working on adding
more PMC and committers to the project. An interesting development in the
overall landscape of bigdata tools is that it appears ever since Hortonworks
was acquired, there has been no significant big data distribution other than
the HDP stack. The packaging code and big data components of HDP have become
closed source, though (similar to how we see a lot of Open Source companies
pulling back from community development). While many existing users are still
using the HDP2 and HDP3.0 big data distributions, they no longer have the
corresponding component source code. This is a frightening situation, as the
lack of access to the source code for debugging when a component fails means
we have lost control over the data platform. Jialiang Cai brought to our
attention that there maybe an increasing user demand for the Ambari community
to collaborate with the Apache Bigtop community to release the first fully
open-source big data distribution since HDP.
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