+1 Thanks for writing it up, Todd.
Mike On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:17 PM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's a draft. I might update the numbers later this weekend and see > if our commit/mailing list stats look more like January. Otherwise let > me know if there's any edits you think we should make before posting. > > ----- > Kudu > > Kudu is a distributed columnar storage engine built for the Apache Hadoop > ecosystem. > > Kudu has been incubating since 2015-12-03. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Build a more diverse developer and user community > 2. Migrate our web site under apache.org > 3. Continue to make regular Apache releases > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > None. > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > - In February, we only received one patch from a new contributor (3 total > from > non-committers). We're continuing to focus on building a more diverse > developer community. > > Although recruiting new contributors to Kudu itself have been slow, we > had > community members report beginnings of a Presto integration, an Apache > Flume > sink, and Rust language bindings. We are considering whether it makes > sense > to develop these things within the Kudu project or external locations. > > - Overall development velocity continues to be pretty good: 86 patches > committed > since the last report, representing about 3kloc of new code and > 3kloc of changes. > This is slightly down from last month, as we spent a bit more time on > managing > our first release and fixing bugs rather than adding new features. > > Dev list traffic is also slightly reduced from January, likely due > to a similar > reason (898 messages so far vs 1144 in Jan). > > - Community members continue to give public talks about Kudu at various > conferences and meetups. Talks were delivered at conferences or meetups > in > Tokyo (x2), Sunnyvale, Krakow, San Francisco (x2), and Seattle. More are > planned for March. > > We are also encouraged that at least two Kudu meetup talks were delivered > by new members of the community outside the core development team. We > hope > to see the "grassroots community" trend continue. > > - The public Kudu Slack channel continues to be popular. It has grown from > 116 members last month to 144 this month. Discussion between users and > devs is quite active, with daily participation from a global community > (USA, China, Poland, Japan, et al). Many users seem to prefer this method > over the traditional user mailing list. > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Since the last report, we've accomplished the following milestones: > > - We successfully migrated our issue tracking to the Apache JIRA. Special > thanks to Gavin on the infra team and Mike Percy on the Kudu project for > hard > work on this transition. > > - We cleaned up our license documentation and successfully published our > first official release as an incubating project (0.7.0)! > > > Date of last release: > > Feb 25, 2016: Apache Kudu 0.7.0-incubating > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > None since initial incubation. > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Time flies by, and another podling report is due next week. Since this > > is our third report on the monthly cadence, I think we move to a > > quarterly reporting cadence after this one. > > > > I'll write up an initial draft again and post to the list for commentary. > > > > -Todd > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]> > > Date: Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:13 AM > > Subject: March 2016 Report > > To: [email protected] > > > > > > Greetings, {podling} developers! > > > > This is a reminder that your report is due next Wednesday, March > > 2nd. Details below. > > > > Best, > > > > Marvin Humphrey, Report Manager for March, on behalf of the > > Incubator PMC > > > > --------------- > > > > Dear podling, > > > > This email was sent by an automated system on behalf of the Apache > > Incubator PMC. It is an initial reminder to give you plenty of time to > > prepare your quarterly board report. > > > > The board meeting is scheduled for Wed, 16 March 2016, 10:30 am PDT. > > The report for your podling will form a part of the Incubator PMC > > report. The Incubator PMC requires your report to be submitted 2 weeks > > before the board meeting, to allow sufficient time for review and > > submission (Wed, March 2nd). > > > > Please submit your report with sufficient time to allow the Incubator > > PMC, and subsequently board members to review and digest. Again, the > > very latest you should submit your report is 2 weeks prior to the board > > meeting. > > > > Thanks, > > > > The Apache Incubator PMC > > > > Submitting your Report > > > > ---------------------- > > > > Your report should contain the following: > > > > * Your project name > > * A brief description of your project, which assumes no knowledge of > > the project or necessarily of its field > > * A list of the three most important issues to address in the move > > towards graduation. > > * Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be > > aware of > > * How has the community developed since the last report > > * How has the project developed since the last report. > > > > This should be appended to the Incubator Wiki page at: > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/March2016 > > > > Note: This is manually populated. You may need to wait a little before > > this page is created from a template. > > > > Mentors > > ------- > > > > Mentors should review reports for their project(s) and sign them off on > > the Incubator wiki page. Signing off reports shows that you are > > following the project - projects that are not signed may raise alarms > > for the Incubator PMC. > > > > Incubator PMC > > > > -- > > Todd Lipcon > > Software Engineer, Cloudera > > > > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera >
